Lyrics are great, eh? They provide the average listener with something to shout along to while stuck in a mile-long tailback on the M4, and enable record labels to make little CD booklets that read like bad senior-school poetry. Viewers of popular music channel VH1 have been voting for their favourite lyric lately, and the results are in.
"One life, with each other, sisters, brothers."
How many ways can one articulate for fucks sake? U2's championing of not-at-all-ambiguous lyrics about something-but-probably-nothing has seen them top VH1's Nation's Favourite Lyric Poll. 'One', which is currently being slaughtered by some R&B 'diva' on radio stations about the land, is top of the lexical pops.
The Smiths' line "So you go, and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die", from 'How Soon Is Now?', was voted second. What a cheery bunch o'fucks these viewers are. Nirvana romped to third with the nonsensical "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us", from that song about deodorant.
John Lennon's 'Imagine' missed out on a top-20 position, even though it topped a similar poll conducted only a few years back. Proof, if ever it was needed, that today's regular folk give not one fuck for some dead hippie with impossible ideals...
DiScuss: I only ever get out of one side of my bed. How come today it proved to be the wrong side?
One
is a great song.
word.
but that line is naff as shit. it's like a bennetton advert.
I don't have a problem with idealism and stuff.
I'd have gone for something idealistic maybe.
Or all of the verses from Love Will Tear Us Apart.
So much of whether lyrics are good or not is in the delivery...
.
I'd have picked
'with your bicycle bells, and your rembrandt swells
your children alive and still...'
From Duchess by Scott Walker...awesome song.
General Public tasteless, stupid, shock!
Too fucking right!
<i>Nirvana romped to third with the <b>nonsensical</b> "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us"</i>
How is that piece of jibberish that means precisely nothing to anyone the 3rd favourite lyric of all time?!
I'd have picked
"Love you so much it makes me sick" from Aneurysm, but what do I know?
Bah!
I thought html worked on here?
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In the old days
Where have you been?
Besides, everyone knows...
...the best Smiths line is
"...and if you ever need self-validation,
then meet me in the alley by the railway station."
they did have some good songs on it.
but without a Saul Williams track, the list was worthless.
Jordan*
some RnB 'diva'
hardly just *some" RnB diva, it's mary j blige!
I just can't stand...
...this modern day obsession with lists, especially ones that proclaim something as 'The best...' or 'The nation's favourite...'
I like U2 as well but this is silly. Something that has sold millions of copies is statistically more likely to get selected because more people have heard it. Ben Folds has written a hundred better lyrics than that but... to get into things like that is to feed the whole process.
list after list
I too am sick of lists.
Whenever I turn on VH2 I'm faced with a programme titled "your favourie this" or "your favourite that".
Thing is they aren't my favourite anything, most times it's quite the opposite.
To sum up, if VH2 tell me the kaiser cheifs are one of my favourite bands one more time i'll hurt someone. probably myself.
That would be ace!
Imagine switching on VH1 and finding that "Officer Friendly's little boy's got a mohawk / And he knows just where we're coming from" was at #1.
pfft
of all the Smiths lyrics to choose...
stupid public
Fake Plastic Trees
for me
!
Nothing to do with the fact that the single has just been rereleased then has it?
Personally, I discovered my new favourite line ever last night whilst stoned; "Be not afraid of humans, us humans will die out soon...we can all start again."
From YMSS' Recovery Speak.
Leeriks r harrd doodz
The Nirvana lyric is not gibberish. It is a comment on teenage culture and alienation-like the rest of the song. Get a clue.
oh dear
If someone compliments Bono in the woods and no one is around to hear it, will his ego still swell?
Bono
...is a wanker.
And Billy Bragg wrote better lyrics in his day than Bono could ever dream of. But where was he in the list of 100 songs that VH1 viewers had to choose from?
And that Nirvana line is just dumb. Well, not "Dumb", obviously. There are, like, a billion better Nirvana lyrics than that one.
VH1 are wankers, too.
the problem
with this is taking a single line from a song out of context and proclaiming it a "lyric".
These are excerpts from lyrics which aren't even long enough to have any meaning.
Obviously the twunts who voted are just voting for their favourite songs/bands.
no offence
to U2 or anything, but I think they're shit and those lyrics are just bad and make me feel ill.
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Of all the Nirvana lyrics in all the world.