rkp@drutx.UUCP (10/05/84)
There's a couple of songs have some really bad lyrics, and unfortunately, they are both by bands that I really like. Here they are: 1) Da do do do, da da da da,.....by the Police. 2) All we hear is radio ga, ga, radio goo, goo......by Queen. Those guys must have really been hurting for words. Yech!!! -- Russell Pierce AT&T Consumer Products (303) 538-2023 1200 W. 120th Ave. ...!drutx!rkp Denver, CO 80234
gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (10/06/84)
There was a song out in the summer of '76 which I forgot the title of, but it
was done by a group called Silver I think. The words were
"We gotta wham, bam, shang-a-lang, and a sha-na-na-na-na all day ..."
However, the song "Oh Julie" by Barry Manilow (perhaps originally done by some-
one else) has some pretty stupid lyrics.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey!
Greg Skinner (gregbo)
{allegra,cbosgd,harvard,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbolo@harvard.ARPA (Bert Lo) (10/09/84)
> > There's a couple of songs have some really bad lyrics, and > unfortunately, they are both by bands that I really like. Here > they are: > > 1) Da do do do, da da da da,.....by the Police. > > 2) All we hear is radio ga, ga, radio goo, goo......by Queen. In case you didn't notice, the lyrics to "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" specifically say that words and talk and rhetoric are meaningless and dangerous and that only actions really count. That's why the chorus might seem so stupid to you. As for "Radio GaGa", "GaGa" and "GooGoo" are "synonyms" for "good". The song is about looking over the outer appearance of music and seeing what it's really about. In this case, they mean, don't just stare at the visuals and make the obvious connections between the music and the message, but instead, put the music into your own perspective and take it in the framework of your own life. The reason the song's title is so "silly" is that it's meant to partly ridicule the current turn that radio has taken.
fritzz@sdcc3.UUCP (fritzz the Zebra) (10/10/84)
One of my favorite songs, perhaps because the lyrics are so intentionally bad, is "I may not have had enough of me, but I have had enogh of you" by Robert Fripp on _Exposure_. It consists of about four minutes of variations on "It's that way because that's the way it is" being screamed at you alternatingly by a male and female voice, with the title line juxtaposed in a slow lyrical manner right in the middle of the song. The worst it gets (as far as I've been able to decipher) is " In the way that that is the way it is, it is that way in that it is that way." No kidding. -- ihnp4--\ fritzz the Zebra decvax--\ "Red sand between my toes, akgua----\ a vacation in outer space" dcdwest---\ - Martian Haiku kgbvax-----\ ucbvax-------- sdcsvax -- sdcc3 -- fritzz
adler@aecom.UUCP (Elliott Adler) (10/22/84)
> > There's a couple of songs have some really bad lyrics, and > unfortunately, they are both by bands that I really like. Here > they are: > > 1) Da do do do, da da da da,.....by the Police. > > 2) All we hear is radio ga, ga, radio goo, goo......by Queen. > > Those guys must have really been hurting for words. Yech!!! > > -- > Russell Pierce AT&T Consumer Products > (303) 538-2023 1200 W. 120th Ave. > ...!drutx!rkp Denver, CO 80234 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I seem to remember hearing something to the effect that the Police song (Da do, and all that) was written to prove exactly what we are talking about... that a song can make it big and have ABSOLUTELY no meaning what so ever! Has anyone else out there heard anything similar, or have I been hallucinating again (damned electrodes, they never work right)!!! Elliott