Abolish one word from pop music, pick its replacement!

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One of my friends once proposed that all of Meatloaf's songs would be a whole lot better if you replaced every instance of the word "love" with "lunch". I think I'd take that further and do that for every musical artist, and not just Meatloaf. More recently I was thinking that pop music would be a whole lot better if you replaced every isntance of "money" with "monkeys":

I don't care too much for monkeys
Monkeys can't buy me love

etc. What would would YOU banish from pop music, and what word would you replace it with?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

how dare you speak badly about monkeys...

http://www.audiodregs.com/monkey/dancingmonkey02.html

― insectifly (insectifly), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

conversation btw my gf and me:

gf: "Fucking 'postpunk.' If I hear some fucker say 'postpunk' one more time, I'm gonna shoot myself. 'Postpunk eighties newwave postpunk postpunk blah blah blah' Fuck off."

me: Well, it's the thing right now, I guess.

gf: Then just call it the Thing. 'Here's another one of those fucking Thing bands; hey dude, you like that Thing shit? Great.' See? Much better."

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Just for kicks, I'd like music to embrace Perec's La Disparition modus operandi.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

just for kicks, like.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

g.cannon -

I can't believe you talk to your grandfather that way! Rock on!

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

so what should The Higsons change 'I Don't Want To Live With Monkeys' to?

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

'I Don't Want To Live With Syphillis'

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not even goin' to make the Sisyphus joke.

― david h (david h), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

At first, I was going to say I'd love to never hear the word "DIVA" again, personally, and replace it with: "overrated, over-indulged, ill-behaved, shrill-voiced harpee",.....then I re-read the question. You mean LYRICALLY, don't you. Ah yes.

In that case, how about striking the word "TIME" and replacing it with "PINEAPPLE" or the plural "PINEAPPLES."

"It's the Pineapple of the Season", "Precious Pineapple," "Pineapple after Pineapple," "It's the Right Pineapple of the Night," "Makin' Pineapples", "Pineapples Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay," etc. etc.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

No band formed after 1979 should ever be allowed to use the word "punk" to describe themselves under any circumstances without immediately being faced with howls of derision.

The following terms should also no longer be in use:
"Alternative" (ceased to be in any way meaningful sometime around 1990);
"Indie" (ceased to be in any way meaningful sometime around 1985);
"New Wave" (never actually meant anything to begin with).

All prefixes (e.g. "post-", "pre-", "new-") should be banned.

The word "Revival" should be recognised have precisely the same connotation as the word "twat".

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

dave225:

A couple of nurses at his home were talking too loudly about Turn on the Bright Lights and, boy I'll tellya, Irene had to hold him back from braining them with his O2 tank...

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Replace "nu-metal" with "mallcore"

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

"New York City" or "New York" with "Leamington Spa".

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

replace "baby" with "mother"...

"be my mother", "mother, one more time", "mother be mine", "mother can i hold you", "mother got back".

cheers, oedipus.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Baby to be replaced by John Thaw going SLAG!

"Sugar SLAG! love, sugar SLAG! love..."
"Bye, bye SLAG!, SLAG! bye bye..."
"You're just a SLAG!, SLAG! girl, so kiss me on the cheek and then go off to sleep..."

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually can we just trade these straight across? Because if "money" became "monkey" and "monkey" became "money" then John D. Mountain Goat would suddenly have this much more mysterious song that goes:

There's some money in the basement
How did the money get there?

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I was thinking lyrics. But by all means continue with all of these lines of discussion, as long as it's interesting.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

if monkey = money, then john lennon sang: "everybody's got something to hide, except me and my money". which shows him as a proud millionaire instead of a working class hero.

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

ringo starr's 'drumming is my madness' to thread !
change it to 'drinking is...' - instant hilarity.

'drumming is my pleasuuuuure
drumming makes me happy...
drumming is my business'
etc.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"I want a cow,
I want a cow,
I want a cow,
and I want it now!"
-Queen

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Replace curse words with nice words, please. F*ck => hug, etc

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Slim Shady; Dick Cheney

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 27 September 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

roots = cave
that way when a band says in an interview that they are "going back to our roots" then it will be "going back to our cave".

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 27 September 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

replace "yeah" with "boink"

"she loves you boink boink boink"

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 27 September 2002 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Survivor, to be replaced with "deep-throater"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 27 September 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The things I do for monkeys, I 'll never understand.

the word seminal should forever be banned from press releases and changed with 'falv O de month'.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 28 September 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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