RowBearToe
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I love Kanye but 100% agree with you haha
August 2020 Challenge Thread - The Dog Days of Vinyl Playing
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I love Kanye but 100% agree with you haha
imtheocean
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Day 13 - Scary (Catch Up)
Good variety of songs on this album but some are decidedly creepy. The intro of Hi Diddle Dee Dee, and Tom Waits doing Heigh-Ho in particular. Bonus in getting to listen to the Replacements version of Cruella De Ville.
Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films - RSD 2018 Black Friday edition
Good variety of songs on this album but some are decidedly creepy. The intro of Hi Diddle Dee Dee, and Tom Waits doing Heigh-Ho in particular. Bonus in getting to listen to the Replacements version of Cruella De Ville.
Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films - RSD 2018 Black Friday edition
TenderLovingKiller®
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Day 18: Bad Poetry Day - Play an album with terrible lyrics. Bonus points for posting your favorite cringe-worthy lyric.
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.
Specifically “Glory Days”
I had a friend was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Bruce supposedly is a big Yankees fan, I say supposedly because anyone who is a baseball fan or player would never refer to any type of pitch as a “speedball”. Fastball, Curveball, Change Up, Slider, etc.. any 2 syllabic pitch would have worked fine there but he went with Speedball? A speedball to the best of my knowledge is a Heroin-Cocaine combo that kill John Beluchi. A speedball seems more like a descriptor used by someone unfamiliar with the sport that heard someone reference a Fastball but didn’t remember the wording precisely. Bruce is typically such a great wordsmith that such an off word choice really stick out like a sore thumb.
...It’s still a good song though.
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.
Specifically “Glory Days”
I had a friend was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Bruce supposedly is a big Yankees fan, I say supposedly because anyone who is a baseball fan or player would never refer to any type of pitch as a “speedball”. Fastball, Curveball, Change Up, Slider, etc.. any 2 syllabic pitch would have worked fine there but he went with Speedball? A speedball to the best of my knowledge is a Heroin-Cocaine combo that kill John Beluchi. A speedball seems more like a descriptor used by someone unfamiliar with the sport that heard someone reference a Fastball but didn’t remember the wording precisely. Bruce is typically such a great wordsmith that such an off word choice really stick out like a sore thumb.
...It’s still a good song though.
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Gavaxeman
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No no no
This is a work of staggering genius ..
Who wants to watch biased news on Fox ...
Who wants to read the Daily Mail ....
Who wants to read the Mirror ..
Stop watching the news and make your own mind up ...that’s the point
And who doesn’t dream of no bus, no boss, no rain, no train ...
Simple lyrics but lots of layers
imtheocean
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Day 14: Play a Long Album (Catch Up)
The amount of unreleased tracks on this makes it bootleg series before there was a bootleg series IMO
Bob Dylan ~ Biograph
The amount of unreleased tracks on this makes it bootleg series before there was a bootleg series IMO
Bob Dylan ~ Biograph
D Jilla
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Reminds me of the Cymbals Eat Guitars song where he says "Notre Dame's playing" but pronounces it like the cathedral. I'm pretty sure he just googled "sports teams of Indiana" when writing the lyrics
TenderLovingKiller®
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But they are FROM Indy aren’t they? Everyone in Indiana has surely heard Notre Dame referenced thousands of times growing up, right? Even if sports aren’t your thing.Reminds me of the Cymbals Eat Guitars song where he says "Notre Dame's playing" but pronounces it like the cathedral. I'm pretty sure he just googled "sports teams of Indiana" when writing the lyrics
D Jilla
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Yeah, you would certainly think so - it's just so confusing. Maybe he just insisted on pronouncing it the French way? Like the papier mache woman on Seinfeld?
TenderLovingKiller®
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LOL I was wrong. CEG are a New Jersey Band (which makes a lot of sense thinking back about it) I guess I always assumed that if they had a track titled “Indiana” that they were likely from the Hoosier State. I guess I should have known better Sufjan did make a whole album dedicated to Illinois.Reminds me of the Cymbals Eat Guitars song where he says "Notre Dame's playing" but pronounces it like the cathedral. I'm pretty sure he just googled "sports teams of Indiana" when writing the lyrics
Wicked Dreamer
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Day 18: Bad Poetry Day
J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only
Most of this album’s lyrics are good/decent, with the exception of a lyric in “She’s Mine Pt. 1”, a song where he’s expressing love and tenderness towards his girlfriend (whether from his or his friend’s perspective I can’t tell):
“Every time you go to sleep you look like you in heaven
Plus the head game is stronger than a few Excedrin”
Way to kill the mood, bro.
J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only
Most of this album’s lyrics are good/decent, with the exception of a lyric in “She’s Mine Pt. 1”, a song where he’s expressing love and tenderness towards his girlfriend (whether from his or his friend’s perspective I can’t tell):
“Every time you go to sleep you look like you in heaven
Plus the head game is stronger than a few Excedrin”
Way to kill the mood, bro.
BjorgenFjorgen
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Ahahahaha this is hilarious.
ranbalam
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That does seem odd to choose the word speedball. Sometimes when in the studio and a word just isn't sounding quite right, or the singer is tripping on it, it's changed for ease of annunciation. I obviously don't know, but maybe that's it?
MadLucas
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Catch-up
DAY 17 - WORRRRK
If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life.
DAY 18 - CRINGE POETRY
Here's an excerpt from "Walnut House":
My leather daddy dancing very near
Like a sweetheart would
Hurting my butthole
Like a sweetheart would
I wonder how many different ways he tried to say that third line before he landed on that couplet. I mean really? "Butthole" is the best he could come up with?
EDUT FOR CLARIFICATION: I don't know any adults who would use the word butthole when they could say asshole or any other number of different terminology. Children or teenagers, yes, but not adults. Because of this, it leads me to wonder if the narrator is underage and being taken advantage of.
DAY 17 - WORRRRK
If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life.
DAY 18 - CRINGE POETRY
Here's an excerpt from "Walnut House":
My leather daddy dancing very near
Like a sweetheart would
Hurting my butthole
Like a sweetheart would
I wonder how many different ways he tried to say that third line before he landed on that couplet. I mean really? "Butthole" is the best he could come up with?
EDUT FOR CLARIFICATION: I don't know any adults who would use the word butthole when they could say asshole or any other number of different terminology. Children or teenagers, yes, but not adults. Because of this, it leads me to wonder if the narrator is underage and being taken advantage of.
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dhodo
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Day 18 - Bad Poetry Day
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
I think if you like them, the campy lyrics are part of the fun, but this album especially.
I am bereft of two human things
Two things that a cyborg can never do
Two things that I strive for
Two things between myself and mankind
Death
And
To vomit
I want the perspiration
I want the nausea
I want to be sick
I want to feel the hot piquant nuggets
I want it to find passage through my cold figure
I want to make a mess
I want the odour
I want the spectacle
And I want it again
I want it all
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
I think if you like them, the campy lyrics are part of the fun, but this album especially.
I am bereft of two human things
Two things that a cyborg can never do
Two things that I strive for
Two things between myself and mankind
Death
And
To vomit
I want the perspiration
I want the nausea
I want to be sick
I want to feel the hot piquant nuggets
I want it to find passage through my cold figure
I want to make a mess
I want the odour
I want the spectacle
And I want it again
I want it all
gaporter
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DAY 18
BAD LYRICS
Weezer - Weezer (The Red Album)
This day was always going to be Weezer, the only question was which album to go with. I heavily considered Hurley due to "Where's My Sex?" and "Smart Girls" alone, but I think the bad lyrics on here are more entertainingly awful and bewildering. This album is weird as hell but I have a strange affinity for it, it's probably the most ambitious Weezer album even if a great deal of that ambition falls flat on its face. That said, there's no defending some of the lyricism on here. I'm just gonna throw out some highlights, but there's plenty more where this came from.
Pretty much the entirety of "Troublemaker" but special mention goes to "Movies are as bad as eating chocolate ice-cream" and "Marrying a beeyotch, having seven keeyods"
"You try to play cool like you just don’t care
But soon I’ll be playin’ in your underwear"
I actually like "Heart Songs" in a cheesy kind of way but the name drops are pretty clumsy. This is the first verse (and yes nearly the entire song is written like this)
"Gordon Lightfoot sang a song about a boat that sank
In the lake at the break of the morning
A cat named Stevens found a faith he could believe in
And Joan Baez, I never listened to too much jazz
But hippie songs could be heard in our pad
Eddie Rabbitt sang about how much he loved a rainy night
Abba, Devo, Benatar were there the day John Lennon died
Mr. Springsteen said he had a hungry heart
Grover Washington was happy on the day he topped the charts"
Again, "Cold Dark World" is basically a black hole of bad lyrics but have to give a special shout-out to
"I'm not like the others, I'll be like a brother
I will protect you, never disrespect you
But if you need love then I'll be here to sex you"
And saving the best for last, I present the best opening lines to any song ever, from "Everybody Get Dangerous"
"When I was younger
I used to go and tip cows for fun, yeah
Actually I didn't do that
Because I didn't want the cow to be sad"
Incredible.
(The album cover also kind of sucks.)
BAD LYRICS
Weezer - Weezer (The Red Album)
This day was always going to be Weezer, the only question was which album to go with. I heavily considered Hurley due to "Where's My Sex?" and "Smart Girls" alone, but I think the bad lyrics on here are more entertainingly awful and bewildering. This album is weird as hell but I have a strange affinity for it, it's probably the most ambitious Weezer album even if a great deal of that ambition falls flat on its face. That said, there's no defending some of the lyricism on here. I'm just gonna throw out some highlights, but there's plenty more where this came from.
Pretty much the entirety of "Troublemaker" but special mention goes to "Movies are as bad as eating chocolate ice-cream" and "Marrying a beeyotch, having seven keeyods"
"You try to play cool like you just don’t care
But soon I’ll be playin’ in your underwear"
I actually like "Heart Songs" in a cheesy kind of way but the name drops are pretty clumsy. This is the first verse (and yes nearly the entire song is written like this)
"Gordon Lightfoot sang a song about a boat that sank
In the lake at the break of the morning
A cat named Stevens found a faith he could believe in
And Joan Baez, I never listened to too much jazz
But hippie songs could be heard in our pad
Eddie Rabbitt sang about how much he loved a rainy night
Abba, Devo, Benatar were there the day John Lennon died
Mr. Springsteen said he had a hungry heart
Grover Washington was happy on the day he topped the charts"
Again, "Cold Dark World" is basically a black hole of bad lyrics but have to give a special shout-out to
"I'm not like the others, I'll be like a brother
I will protect you, never disrespect you
But if you need love then I'll be here to sex you"
And saving the best for last, I present the best opening lines to any song ever, from "Everybody Get Dangerous"
"When I was younger
I used to go and tip cows for fun, yeah
Actually I didn't do that
Because I didn't want the cow to be sad"
Incredible.
(The album cover also kind of sucks.)
imtheocean
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Day 15: Water
Susto - Self Titled
Figured the picture disc fit the theme, and hadn't listened to this in awhile.
Susto - Self Titled
Figured the picture disc fit the theme, and hadn't listened to this in awhile.
ranbalam
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Day 13 - Scary
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Honestly, I was stumped on this for awhile. I don't have any horror movie soundtracks (thought about using There Will Be Blood) and nothing all that scary. But I remember as a kid, listening to this record (it was my older sister's, this is the actual copy) and being scared of the opening couple of minutes of this. The title was scary, Funeral for a Friend, and the howling wind and other effects were chilling to me. And yet I'd always play it, to get to the music right after because it was/is so great.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Honestly, I was stumped on this for awhile. I don't have any horror movie soundtracks (thought about using There Will Be Blood) and nothing all that scary. But I remember as a kid, listening to this record (it was my older sister's, this is the actual copy) and being scared of the opening couple of minutes of this. The title was scary, Funeral for a Friend, and the howling wind and other effects were chilling to me. And yet I'd always play it, to get to the music right after because it was/is so great.
Nee Lewman
बैस्टर्ड
Day 18
Bad lyrics
if I had madman across the water I’d be playing that today because levon with its cartoon balloons selling bullshit.
Anyhow, this is pretty dumb. My wife came in at the start of side two (the title track) and said is he just singing about dogs?
This is how side one starts:
C'mon, baby,
Do the dog.
Do the dog.
Do the dog.
Do the dog.
Do the dog.
Everybody's doin' the dog.
C'mon, baby, c'mon chil',
Do the hound dog.
Do the hound dog.
Do the hound dog, baby.
Do the hound dog.
Do the dog.
Everybody's doin' the dog.
C'mon, baby, c'mon chil',
Do the bull dog.
Do the bull dog, yeah-yeah.
Do the bull dog, baby.
Do the bull dog, yeah.
Do the dog.
Everybody's doin' the dog.
Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog
Bad lyrics
if I had madman across the water I’d be playing that today because levon with its cartoon balloons selling bullshit.
Anyhow, this is pretty dumb. My wife came in at the start of side two (the title track) and said is he just singing about dogs?
This is how side one starts:
C'mon, baby,
Do the dog.
Do the dog.
Do the dog.
Do the dog.
Do the dog.
Everybody's doin' the dog.
C'mon, baby, c'mon chil',
Do the hound dog.
Do the hound dog.
Do the hound dog, baby.
Do the hound dog.
Do the dog.
Everybody's doin' the dog.
C'mon, baby, c'mon chil',
Do the bull dog.
Do the bull dog, yeah-yeah.
Do the bull dog, baby.
Do the bull dog, yeah.
Do the dog.
Everybody's doin' the dog.
Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog
