What's the worst line in a prog song?
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Topic: What's the worst line in a prog song?
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Subject: What's the worst line in a prog song?
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 04:12
| 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 By: Synchestra
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 05:50
grab Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet album and take your pick  ------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
Posted By: EnderEd
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 05:53
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someone get me a ladder
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 06:07
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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  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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Posted By: JD
Date 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. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:12
Who? Pete Sinfield? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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JD wrote:Posted By: EnderEd
Date 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. ------------- --EnderEd |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:14
SW has writen plenty of them, but these are among his most memorable:
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:14
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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Roland113
Date 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? ------------- -------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. |
Posted By: Luca Pacchiarini
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:40
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...anzth sthrikes zhem wizh didhaster!
(Atlantis Agony, Eloy)
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:42
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"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 By: Dean
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:50
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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" ------------- What? |
Posted By: VanVanVan
Date 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. ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: EnderEd
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 07:53
I eat at Chez Nous 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date 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 By: Tapfret
Date 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. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 08:26
Perhaps nitrogen mustard, which kills you. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 09:06
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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). ------------- 
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Posted By: lazland
Date 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. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 11:09
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Oh, this one's easy. I am a def con of angora goats / Warning you all who pass this mote. (Cavalettas, The Mars Volta). I tell ya, that Ouiji board of theirs was a crap songwriter. ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 11:25
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Lavenders green dilly dilly etc..
"The season of the button" "I need a shower, take a nap, meet you in the bar we must have a rap" ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 13:48
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RUSH Alien Shore "You and I, we are strangers by one chromosome/Slave to the hormone, body and soul.." I Think I'm Going Bald "I think I'm going bald..." YES Arriving UFO - "Put your feet on the earth it is green" KING CRIMSON Two Hands - "They fit together like two hands" |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 13:53
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Flower Kings: "Here she comes again, smiling like a horse"
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 14:27
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto. . .
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Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 14:36
Thats one of my fav lines in prog!  Close to the Edge (title track) have amazing lyrics! ------------- 
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 14:43
That's not nearly as bad as "I am a kiosk in the temporal lobe of Rosalyn Carter", which is one of the dumbest things anybody has ever said. It also pisses me off when he mispronounces sepulcher. I absolutely cannot believe nobody said anything to him about that before the album was pressed.
I've always hated "I'm so far out I'm too far in" on Lighthouse Keepers and "fishes can't fly, neither can I" on Killer. Also, Childlike Faith in Childhood's End is a bit silly. Peter Hammill is a pretty good lyricist, but he really bombed on a couple of them. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 15:00
Gah. I forgot about that monstrosity. Heap on some Braille liquor and some Toltec bones, and we have the undisputed masters of terrible prog rock lyricism. ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 15:04
Give that "Lavender blue" is originally a 17th Century children's song, those lyrics fit perfectly with the concept. Some lyrics I dislike: "Just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer" (Pink Floyd - Dogs) "Naminanu, naminanu, naminanu, naminanu..." (Genesis - Naminanu. Makes "Whodunnit?" almost seem like a work of genius.) "Focus yourself on the love you own mankind. Communication again" (Focus - Focus (Vocal). No wonder they became an instrumental band). ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 15:29
I always hated that one........arghhhhhh! ------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 15:33
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How about, Can you believe God makes you breath How did he lose 6 million Jews. Arggghhhhhhhh bloomin' Lake............. ------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 15:43
There can be few worse than this........ ------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: cronholm
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 16:16
HEY! I actually like those lyrics! They were like, very significant for me when I first heard them. Mind you, I was twelve and english is my second language, but even so. Lumping them with Jon Andersons gibberish and Love Beach's offensively stupid content is very unfair to poor mr Fish. ------------- Open your eyes, it's full of surprise, everyone lies, like the fox on the rocks, and the musical box. |
Posted By: JemJem714
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 16:55
Agreed. I love the song but the lyrics make me cringe... |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 16:55
I think they're great. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 17:44
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Zappa probably takes the cake: "Give me your dirty love like a pink donation to the dragon in your dreams" "No one could ever understand our bizarre relationship because that was your intellectual frigid housekeeper" "The cheese I have for you, my dear is real and very new" et cetera... ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Terry
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 17:48
| I believe 'eating mustard' might have the same meaning as 'eating humble pie' |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 22:18
Oh, but what about the Focus song "I Need a Bathroom", from Mother Focus; all allong the song it just repeats that very line. I seriously can't think of something worse. By the way, even though I do like Dream Theater's "Black Clouds and Silver Linings", they got some really terribles lines in "A Nightmare to Remember" and "Count of Tuscany" (which are, by the way, my favourite songs from the album). |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 22:21
Hey, but elsewhere in the same song it says something like "I'm going up, going up like a Monkey", which is by far worse. What the hell were they thinking about. (I won't ask the same about Focus's song, because I think it was very obvious what they were thinking about). |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 22:23
Really? You pick that over the plethora of atrocious lyrics present on the Fear Of A Blank Planet album?
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Posted By: Mushroom Sword
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 22:40
No, no way. Siberian Khatru's lyrics are amazing. That and Sound Chaser... god I love that song. |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 22:44
| "Health food fa****" comes to mind, just makes me laugh. Good song though. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 22:44
| Cha cha cha? |
Posted By: axeman
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 23:20
Why do people hate that line so much? It's a song about the inevitability of death. Sinking into sadness, sinking into madness, someone get me a ladder ... to climb out of the hole. I'm no fan of Lake's grim fatalism, but he expresses it well in both Father Christmas and Still. I was actually thinking of starting a thread on the appreciation of Lake's Still. It's about the urge to seek transcendence in romance. The first verse is about a sort of transfiguration in music the second about some sort of iconic lover--or even groupie--to lose yourself in the lure of fame. But Lake collapses everything back into a sort of nihilism and death: You see it really doesn't matter(I mean he even strikingly brings forth the image of a decaying corpse, hidden under ground.) And yet as animated flesh, he has needs and "she" turns him on, regardless of bothersome romantic notions. Just as a disclaimer: There are probably about a dozen prog bands I like better than ELP, and I don't share practically any of Lake's points of view. I just think that Lake can write some great lyrics at times (better than the showy Sinfield) and that Still is one case with both compelling imagery and complex concepts told simply. Lake taunts us (or me) by taking a beautiful and haunting melody with some lovely arpeggios and telling us that its nothing but perhaps something that gets him laid before he takes a dirt nap. ------------- -John |
Posted By: rpe9p
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 23:23
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TMV doesnt actually try to write lyrics, they just say words that they think sound cool (imo, ive never heard an actual source one this) so I wouldnt really count any of theirs. For me its got to be something from neal morse like "I am the church and the steeple, open the doors and see all the people"
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Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 23:30
Or later, in the same song, "I am Senor Velasco, I drink my milk with tabasco." The Light has some questionable lyrical moments, but it's the song that got me into modern prog so I tend to give it some slack.  ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 23:33
Haha to each his own I suppose. I really couldn't disagree more though.  ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 02:51
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There's a Dream Theater lyric in a song on Scenes From a Memory that involves the phrase "ever-deadly suicide", which might be the most redundant, asinine thought ever released from a human mouth. ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 02:53
CHYUH CHYUH CHYUH, CHYUH CHYUH CHYUH CHYUH CHYUH, CHYUH CHYUH ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 04:15
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I can't believe no one's got this old classic.
"It is chicken, it is eggs
It is in between your legs"
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Posted By: Majikthise
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 04:51
Pretty sure this thread is about the worst prog lyrics, not the best. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 05:08
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A Bad Day at the Office for the Sabs Generals gathered in their masses Hey Geezer man, what rhymes with 'masses? ' Oh I know.... Just like witches at black masses ...Finished! (War Pigs by Black Sabbath) -------------
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 09:18
I think that that was Mr. Fish's intention. There are a lot of Fish songs that play around with Clichés. ------------- |
Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 09:19
I'm fairly certain the line is "evidently suicide." I think he just enunciates it sort of strangely. ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 11:13
Thank..ahem...God, I'm not the only one who cringes at that line. The slightly out of tune vocals don't help the delivery either. Far from their finest hour imo. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: cemego
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 11:23
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Supper's Ready! "Mum to Mad to Dad! Dad in the office dad in the office... Yer all full of ball..." ... or something like that. Matter of fact, most of Suppers Ready is just WAAAAAAAAY OUT THERE! I kinda get the allusions to the book of Revelations, but sheeeez Peter. Over the top! Sad thing is, I think Peter Gabriel's lyrics have never been better after 1974. But this one just comes to mind. Always seemed awkward. ------------- listen to streaming stuff! no commercials! http://wmom.servemp3.com:8000/listen.pls |
Posted By: Kojak
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 12:08
No, it makes me cringe too, can't listen to it, and I love ELP right. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 12:16
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1.- ARRIVING UFO I could not take it oh so seriously really 2.- CIRCUS OF HEAVEN.- beautiful?" "Oh! It was OK!! But there were no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears, cand-floss, toffee apples, no clowns." Both are simply horrendous. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 12:22
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I personally don't think of Tool as a Prog band, and would not describe Tool's "Bottom" as a Prog song, but I find the lyrics terrible. To choose one line: "Sh** adds up, sh** adds up, sh** adds up, sh** adds up at the bottom." No sh**, Sherlock. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 12:42
The first time I heard Circus of Heaven, I thought it was hilarious. 25 years later I still think it's hilarious...and yes, it's awful. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 19:20
Ahh, that actually makes a bit of sense, thanks. (Thanks to the mustard gas guy as well, but I'm going with humble pie) ------------- -------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. |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 19:27
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Can you believe god makes you breathe
How did he lose six million jews
I know it's already been discussed but it almost made me cry with laughter the first time I heard it, I had to stop the music and recover.
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 20:18
Check the lyrics book or get another source before you submit an answer. The line is "evidently suicide".
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: October 06 2010 at 06:26
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The Colony of Slippermen included:
"We've been cured on the couch
Now you're sick with your grouch. I'll not risk my honey pouch Which my slouch will wear slung very low" I'm a big fan of Genesis' lyrics generally, but sometimes they didn't quite work.
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Posted By: idoownu
Date Posted: October 09 2010 at 17:06
| Anybody mention early Van Der Graaf? |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: October 09 2010 at 17:16
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"There she comes again, Smiling like a horse..." Really? ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: October 09 2010 at 17:32
How could I forget?! "Just one breath and it's instant death/ Its the areosol grey machine!" Makes me smile every time....
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Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: October 09 2010 at 17:41
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"Well listen to me you ungrateful fool DT goes emo. And one must add the fact that this line is part of LaBrie's rapping on this song. My god, how I hate the "silly childish angry DT phase" , ToT, and particularly this song.
Also, lyrics aren't one of DT's strong points. But it amazes me that no one has mentioned any line of The Count Of Tuscany yet.
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Posted By: idoownu
Date Posted: October 10 2010 at 01:29
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Hah! forgot about that song, it is excellent musically, but the lyrics are simply laughable! |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 10 2010 at 01:37
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Posted By: JonteJH
Date Posted: October 11 2010 at 19:30
I'll mention TCoT Let me introduce My brother A bearded gentleman Historian Sucking on his pipe Distinguished accent Making me uptight No accident .... And The Dark Eternal Knight? -------------  
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Posted By: progger7
Date Posted: October 11 2010 at 22:03
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LOL the part about the wine improving with age. ------------- 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: October 11 2010 at 22:07
I think those lines would be a lot less lolworthy if Portnoy didn't growl them like he did. |
Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: October 11 2010 at 22:43
I feel like a lot of BCaSL would have been better if Portnoy had actually Death-growled instead of talking angrily under LaBrie's vocals... A Nightmare to Remember has a lot of examples of this. (And some equally questionable lyrics) ------------- "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen |
Posted By: DAVE M
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:14
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'Shake for me girl I wanna be your back door mat!' (Whole lotta love - Led Zepplin) is a classic! |
Posted By: Lopolik
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:24
| There was a man, he leapt to and fro: "Hello, hello" from Caravan. Very funny. |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:26
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"What am I, a speck of lint on the penis of an alien?" King Crimson's The ConstruKction of Light |
Posted By: turtle
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:33
| "Gone are the days of the knights" - Rick Wakeman. |
Posted By: b4usleep
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 02:57
Do you think this is an excuse? ------------- Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. |
Posted By: b4usleep
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 03:01
"back door man" ------------- Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. |
Posted By: b4usleep
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 03:04
agree ------------- Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 17:55
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I finally came up with one: The scratching of a mellotron it always seemed to make her cry - Steven Wilson What in the hell does that mean? I'll be really embarrassed if someone actually knows the answer to this question. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 18:01
^ I think it's the mechanical sound the tape makes when the key is released (as the tape strip rewinds)
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 18:07
 The emoticon works really well with the diagram.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 18:24
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These lyrics always creep the hell out of me. I understand that the song was supposedly written to raise awareness of missing children, but it's always felt sort of pornographically gratuitous: "Daddy" by ELP: It was a cold night in December The snow lay on the ground She was coming home from school one night From the other side of town It was getting late, there was something wrong Then I heard the news A TV Flash and by 9 o'clock They'd found her socks and shoes ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 18:54
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Ok, I didn't see this one yet: "We don't need no education." Really? Some grammar lessons might be helpful. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 19:24
What I heard is that Mellotron Scratch is about a girl SW knew who cried at the sound of mellotrons. Thats just what I heard though.
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 19:27
Oh wow, Walter actually said something negative about KC.
 But yes, that is an incredibly terrible line. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 23:03
Please no, I hate growling, the singing was just OK the way they were. Even the stronger "Growls" on Nightmare were acceptable, any more "Growlish" would have made them too annoying for me. However, I do try not to listen to the lyrics, for they are completley embarassing even more for what he was saying. |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: October 13 2010 at 01:25
I think it's a language thing. Had they sung the same in Swedish of Finnish for that matter, the idiom would not have been wasted. Nevertheless, it's pretty awful. |
Posted By: Mr Greeen Genes
Date Posted: October 13 2010 at 01:38
| "No life lies in the quicksand" from vdgg. This line always kindof annoyed me... I find it to be the weakest moment of Pawn Hearts |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: October 13 2010 at 12:55
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Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: October 19 2010 at 21:14
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"She is a warm fart at Christmas." Ian Anderson
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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: October 19 2010 at 21:21
I blame the poor reception of Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! on this single line. ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 19 2010 at 21:23
I just found that out a week or so ago looking through a piano songbook. Mind = blown. Song = makes more sense. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 20 2010 at 15:11
bloody hell that made me laugh
 the 'someone get me a ladder' lyric was actually an injoke. ELP did a World tour in 1973/1974 entitled 'someone get me a ladder' .Here's a link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Back_My_Friends_to_the_Show_That_Never_Ends..._Ladies_and_Gentlemen - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Back_My_Friends_to_the_Show_That_Never_Ends..._Ladies_and_Gentlemen
(also a funny bit about Johnny Rotten wearing a t-shirt with 'weclome back bellends' . Quite funny that
 )How about this one courtesy of Pete Sinfield:
'ties a rope to a tree and hangs the universe till the wind of laughter goes cold''
Can't imagine why anyone thought prog was pretentious
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 20 2010 at 17:44
How about the girlfriend doesn't like it when someone scratches her Mellotron? I'm actually having a hard time coming up with anything else because I basically like all the songs in my collection. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Agentorange
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 17:38
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There's a line from rhythm of love by Yes that ( i think ) goes:
" climbing up your ladder I keep falling down "
I always thought that was pretty awful
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 18:22
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Frank Zappa:
"John's got a sausage that'll break ya heart
John's got a sausage that'll make ya fart
Don't bend over if you are smart"
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Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: October 22 2010 at 18:42
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Wow, I thought my topic had been deleted, but I just found it and read the whole list! I am cracking up right now Here she comes smiling like a horse. Words fail me.
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