― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
but the wailers' "can't you see" is one of the greatest singles evah. and, if memory serves, the marshall tucker band's "can't you see" isn't so bad either.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Every year, at least one Eurovision entry contains this rhyme; it's the law. Probably some sort of EC directive. This year, they upped the quota to THREE. (Netherlands/Denmark/Greece.)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
My least favoite lyrical cliche is 'poetic license' syntax awkwardness bullshit - when niggaz be talkin' like Yoda and shit
and I can't stand folksingers of the post-Palace age who intentionally throw something profane into an otherwise pretty song for apparently no reason whatsoever.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
or, as my grandmother used to say, "if my daddy was a choo-choo train, i'd be an engine." i think she was the original MC.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
"woke up this morning". URGH. the next line should really be "decided to write a song".
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
-boston, "more than a feeling"-bruce springsteen, "empty sky"-that band that does that "sopranos" theme song
what else? there must be scores of others.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Didoismus (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Alabama 3. From, er, Brixton.
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost: Alabama 3 was truncated to just "A3" for American consumption.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Any more contenders to songs with them in every line, I'd like to hear it>
― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
(when trying to think of an alternative my friend Jefferson recommended that I ask where we getting retardy at)
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
So don't write a song then.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
not to be picky or anything, but that's one of the best reasons to write a song. to express what you can't otherwise articulate.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
And I REALLY hate that "hands in the air/just don't care" rhyme too, not just 'cause it's a cliche, but also because it makes no sense: If I truly "don't care" for the music, why the hell should I demonstrate any enthusiasm for chrissakes? Ridiculous.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
paul weller, on the other hand, has you eating "a piece of toast / from the one you love most."
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
it came from their body/isn't that kinda odd-y
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Shit man, there was even a Russian pop song that did it: "San Frantsisko / Gorod v stile disko"
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― wickerbocker please (hammy), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in montreal, Friday, 1 October 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
model/bottle couplets have really become the modern moon/june/spoon. really never a time that it doesn't annoy me.
― some dude, Monday, 17 August 2009 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"Self" rhyming with "shelf." Aargh.
Wait, when does THIS happen?
― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
when taking your one off the other
blindness is preferable to having to look at someone's butt
― musically, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:51 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark
my god, what a terrible joke
― thomp, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
admittedly the guy who made it seems to have not posted since 2005, so i'm not sure why i'm so bothered
― thomp, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
•rain falling down•tears falling down like rain
Never saw it fall up, nope.
"waiting/anticipating" OTM.
cliche in EVERY line has to be Des'Ree's goddawful "Life (Oh Life)".Any more contenders to songs with them in every line, I'd like to hear itIIRC, Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do, I Do It For You" might be a contendah.
― staggerlee, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Lines/songs beginning with "sitting here" or "standing here" or some other such iteration
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i would love to hear a song begin with "squatting here"
― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
...or even "crouching here"
'Down on my knees' or some variation on that. Though, to be fair, I don't have a problem with it. I was listening to music on shuffle the other day and four songs in a row included it. One was
Prince - Dinner With Delores'Damn, Delores, pick another subject pleaseIntroduce the carpet 2 something other than your knees'
Another was, Steely Dan - Do It Again'Then you love a little wild oneAnd she brings you only sorrowAll the time you know she's smilin'You'll be on your knees tomorrow '
Both of which gave a unique spin to things. I'm sure there's half a billion examples of abuse.
― Popture, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 04:09 (fifteen years ago) link
along the same lines as 'shivers/spine' upthread, there's also 'chill/bone', in which 'bone' usually rhymes with 'alone'.
The ubiquitous 'lovelight' was mentioned earlier as well, my favourite example of which must be "You didn't have to turn on the lovelight, whoa, it was on."
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 07:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Any song about human flight - "I believe I can fly", "I want to Fly away" etc...
Just ends up sounding like Orville.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Not sure that's such a bad thing
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
xp that would take out the absolutely wonderful "Tonight We Fly" by the Divine Comedy.
― anagram, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
the objective/selective/collective rhyme in that Soul II Soul track strikes me as very hackneyed
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Popture, those excerpts strick me as good uses of a cliche!
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"like a thief in the night"
:-(
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
"up against the wall"
― musically, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Full or weird names used for purposes of crappy rhyme
"Jimmy Mack, when are you coming back?"
and ... others that escape me
― ledge, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Sheena in "Funky Cold Medina"?
― less attractive women need to make up for it in "garage" (clotpoll), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
cliche in EVERY line has to be Des'Ree's goddawful "Life (Oh Life)".Any more contenders to songs with them in every line, I'd like to hear it
How about Amazed by Lonestar;
Every time our eyes meetThis feeling inside meIs almost more than I can takeBaby when you touch meI can feel how much you love meAnd it just blows me awayI've never been this close to anyone or anythingI can hear your thoughtsI can see your dreams
I don't know how you do what you doI'm so in love with youIt just keeps getting betterI want to spend the rest of my lifeWith you by my sideForever and everEvery little thing that you doBaby, I'm amazed by you
The smell of your skinThe taste of your kissThe way you whisper in the darkYour hair all around meBaby you surround meYou touch every place in my heartOh, it feels like the first time, every timeI want to spend the whole night in your eyes
― Hey mighty brontosaurus! (Boxing Kangaroo), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Songs I really like despite containing lyrical cliches I can't stand:
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (fire/desire)Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin (myself/shelf) (Oddly, it bothers in many other versions of the song)Get Up Morning - Eddy Current Suppression Ring (songs about getting up in the morning).
― bendy, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Realized today that "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles is composed almost entirely of cliches. Yet somehow the fantastic melody redeems it (and despite the incredibly awful singing, yet!) - I can't summon anything like the contempt it would seem to deserve.
― staggerlee, Friday, 21 August 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
this stupid fucking Cage The Elephant song that's been a hit the last few months has a chorus that's pretty much back to back cliches:
There ain't no rest for the wicked, money don't grow on trees, I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, there ain't nothing in this world for free.I know I can't slow down, I can't hold back though you know I wish I could, oh no there ain't no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes for good.
― best of the madmen slog (some dude), Friday, 21 August 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
reggae lyric cliches could have a thread of their own, but the one that always comes up is the school/rule rhyme, e.g. when I was a youth in school, me never take in the golden rule
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Use of "till the early morn" really really bugs me.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"till the early morn" is a classic imo, esp if rhymed w/ "break of dawn"
― you might be a goole, but what's a goole to a goblin? (The Reverend), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Another one that always pisses me off is describing something/someone as being "sweeter than wine".
― Hey mighty brontosaurus! (Boxing Kangaroo), Friday, 28 August 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
there's a "lies / eyes" in the little boots single that is only annoying me because it's the bit that spotify are playing me all the time
the cage the elephant ones aren't lyrical cliches, they're just truisms really - nb. i can't imagine that being a good song, though
― thomp, Friday, 28 August 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
"…color tv"
― naus, Friday, 11 September 2009 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
They've definitely had their moments, but I could never hear Gucci and Louis Vuitton in another rap or r&b song and be perfectly happy.
― send a hilarious message or make a "wild" statement (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 11 September 2009 06:29 (fifteen years ago) link