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Billy Pilgrim 
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 04:12 |
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So, what's the worst line in a prog song you can think of? I'll get it out of the way and say that "everyday a little sadder, a little madder, someone get me a ladder!" is pretty bad. Also I've also thought that the "Nothing hes got he really needs" in schizoid man was rushed.
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 05:50 |
grab Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet album and take your pick 
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'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 05:53 |
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someone get me a ladder
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 06:07 |
The following are both from ELP's Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman on Love BeachYes it's great now you're a full time nurse
but do be careful with the air-raids getting worse  When I finally marched from Sandhurst
I'd learned to put my fellow man first  It gets worse, this is from Taste of My Love from the same album and could be a Spinal Tap song?
I'm gonna love you like nobody ever loved you
climb on my rocket and we'll fly.
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JD
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 06:54 |
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Your assumption being that Love Beach is prog. It ain't.
But them's are some BAD lyrics by any means. It's like at 13 he wrote Lucky Man and he's been de-evolving ever since.
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:12 |
 JD wrote:
Your assumption being that Love Beach is prog. It ain't.
But them's are some BAD lyrics by any means. It's like at 13 he wrote Lucky Man and he's been de-evolving ever since.
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Who? Pete Sinfield?
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:12 |
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Worth keeping in mind that Peter Sinfield was at the lyrical helm for much of King Crimson/ELP's work. Not to say he's categorically bad (methinks Pirates is a good word paiting). But when he went bad, he really went bad.
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:14 |
SW has writen plenty of them, but these are among his most memorable:
Russia On Ice wrote:
You think I deserve this You said I was stupid |
Edited by The Sleepwalker - October 04 2010 at 07:15
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:14 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
The following are both from ELP's Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman on Love Beach
Yes it's great now you're a full time nurse
but do be careful with the air-raids getting worse
When I finally marched from Sandhurst
I'd learned to put my fellow man first
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They are not very good I admit, but there are extenuating circumstances. Because the band wanted to record the album and get out of there quick, Sinfield had to come up with lyrics very quickly. Even he knows they are not that good.
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:29 |
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I love Spock's Beard's "Snow" but possible the worst line in a prog song that I can think of is in the otherwise great "I'm Dying".
Hear the shots in the night,
And I don't care what for,
I had mustard today,
I can't eat it no more.
Seriously, am I missing some vague mustard reference?
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-------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob-------
I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms.
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Luca Pacchiarini
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:40 |
...anzth sthrikes zhem wizh didhaster!
(Atlantis Agony, Eloy)
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Moogtron III
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:42 |
"Tonight tonight tonight, we're gonna make it right" (Tonight, Tonight, Tonight by Genesis)
Musically, it is quite a nice song, I must say, but those horrible lyrics  . |
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:50 |
And the winner of the 'how many clichés can you get into one verse?' competition goes to...
"So if you want my address it's number one at the end of the bar
Where I sit with the broken angels clutching at straws and nursing our scars.
Blame it on me, blame it on me
Sugar mice in the rain
Your daddy took a raincheck"
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What?
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:51 |
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"A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace/ and rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace." I realize that Yes always went for the sound more than the meaning, but that's just horrible sounding.
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:53 |
I eat at Chez Nous 
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 08:10 |
It can happen to you, it can happen to me, it can happen to everyone eventually. 
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 08:23 |
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I am camera....camera camera.
No use to complain, when your caught in the rain, your mothers quite insane....catfood x3 again.
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 08:26 |
Roland113 wrote:
I love Spock's Beard's "Snow" but possible the worst line in a prog song that I can think of is in the otherwise great "I'm Dying".
Hear the shots in the night,
And I don't care what for,
I had mustard today,
I can't eat it no more.
Seriously, am I missing some vague mustard reference?
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Perhaps nitrogen mustard, which kills you.
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 09:06 |
Any lyrics by Jon Anderson; it takes too much time to decide which are the worst in this huge pile of crap.
(Nevertheless he has played a key role in making some of the best prog albums).
Edited by someone_else - October 04 2010 at 09:08
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Posted: October 04 2010 at 10:12 |
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So, was it you, or was it me? Was it x or z? Was it you or was it me? or was it x or z? Whodunnit?
Seriously bad.
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