Song lyrics that have always bothered / annoyed you
I was making myself the usual cup of tea / When the doorbell strangely rang
Does this mean it was strange that the doorbell was ringing or that the door bell rang in a strange way? Can a doorbell ring in a strange way? Maybe if the batteries are running low I guess. I demand answers.
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That's always been a terrible bit of sentence structure
(great song though)
I like that line...
...it has a pleasant air of whimsy to it.
would be even better if it rhymed
with strangely all drawn out like strange-eh-lyyyyy
Is this one of those threads where everybody quotes that Thin Lizzy lyric?
And by everybody I mean one or two people
aw man let's not explain that again
IT MAKES SENSE ARGHTHGHTGH
And what about that Mystery Jets song?
Don't forget Live And Let Die
Eye canon shallow bay
ALL MY RAGE BEEN GONE
Is the reason I will never listen to or buy a Laura Marling record.
how do you know about that lyric then, hmmmmm
queen
I've fallen in love for the first time
And this time I know it's for real
what do you mean & this time?
you've said it's the first time
It's a bit clunky but it makes sense.
He thought he was in love other times, but now he realises he wasn't really in love all those times.
that one by that band
that talks about somone being very much in love & going & getting a job & they'llbe able to pay for stuff with their guitar
& then it says the object of their desire is still at school
bit jimmy savile
Veronica Falls - Teenage
From the new album.
Driving late at night, I let you listen to the music you like
Wow, that's fucking big of you. Spoils the whole album for me. Reminds me of that Chris Rock routine about people expecting credit for doing stuff they should be doing anyway.
i don't even know where to start with this
but i'm amazed that you've managed to get angry about something so inane
keep wetting the bed
Spoils the whole album for me
lol
The bit about "Cosine waves" in Mathletics always annoys me.
It's like Yannis is trying to be clever, but as any fule kno a cosine wave is the same as a sine wave.
you hav a face like a squished tomato
Eh?
Molesworth, no?
he is uterly wet and a weed
^actually an accurate assessment of most DiSers
(inc me of course)
No?
That Josh T Pearson song
`And my return in your lifetime is more likely than that of king jesus christ`
Surely he means LESS likely??
I think he does say 'more UNlikely'
But he does say it quite fast.
What the fuck does doop doop doop doop doop doop doop even mean?
Democratic Order of Planets
*Democratic Order of Planets Democratic Order of Planets Democratic Order of Planets Democratic Order of Planets Democratic Order of Planets Democratic Order of Planets Democratic Order of Planets
All I know is my gut says, maybe.
this one from Jamie T has always left me confused
''If you've got the money
I think it would be funny
To take your girl and spend a bit of your cash for me
Cos' then she might be happy
No longer lonely
And I could take her out the next day for pretty much free''
Like, if the boyfriend makes his girl happy and looks after her then ... why would she go for Jamie? Silly boy
Yeah a lot of his are a bit odd.
I do love Jamie T.
she's a fat bitch but I'd still give her ... one
in wake up by arcade fire
where it goes
i guess we'll just have to adj-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
obviously it's meant to be adjust, but do they just expect you to have forgotten that?
Would be good if they sang
I guess we'll just have to adjoooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaah
wooooooooooooooooooah ooooooooooooooh ooooh oh
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooah ah
wooooooooooooooooooah wooooooooooooooooooooooooooah
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooah ah
wooooooooooah woooooooooooooah ah
ust
probably
Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah?
No, not particularly.
TBF There's a lot of ill-advised nostalgia on DIS for the Vengaboys
Worst song ever written!!
can't let this thread pass without a bit of interpol
Her stories are boring and stuff, she's always calling my bluff.
and that's off their best record.
MY BEST FRIEND'S FROM POLAND AND, UM, HE HAS A BEARD
how anyone can think that lyric's anything less than amazing bemuses me
It would be more awesome if it weren't so out of fucking nowhere!
What do you mean out of fucking nowhere?
The whole song is about his best friend from Poland who, um, has a beard.
If anything, the out of fucking nowhere bit is
oh look it's stopped snowing
And furthermore
HOW ARE THINGS ON THE WEST COAST
I HEAR YOU'RE MOVING REAL FINE
YOU WEAR THOSE SHOES LIKE A DOVE
I barely understand what Banks is talking about half the time
its CHRIIIIIISTMAS!!!
fuck off. I can not remember a time when I did not hate this song.
I TURN THE MUSIC UP
I GOT MY RECORDS ON
"I'd rather be a comma than a full stop" is far more reprehensible
I AM THE TERRORIST
tee ee arr arr IST
*tee ee arr arr oh arr IST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD2gAjFtZ1A
Maybe now baby, I'll do what I should've did
Deacon Blue not quite mastering English grammar.
"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Friday, Saturday, Saturday and Sunday"
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
Grates so hard on me, and wouldn't have been difficult to fix.
Still love Alicia, obviously.
she's singing "oh"
not "of"
Sounds like furious backpedalling to me
how does it feel like?
ctrl + f "French champagne"
Oh? was kinda expecting that to be in there...
*in here.
Band Of Horses
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
...was not is FFS!!!
that Nickelback one that is something like:
you look better with your panties around your ankles
he didn't think that through
practically, wearing underwear around her ankles is going to hinder her ability to walk, thus making her look ridiculous.
I don't think there is grammatically anything wrong with it
but it always annoys me anyway... Silver by Hundred Reasons.
"Say what you wanted to ask me."
That's not right, is it? You wouldn't possibly say that sentence to anyone, would you? It just sounds... weird.
Really? I am sure I have said that very sentence to people.
when the doorbell strangely rang
no this is completely fine. the doorbell does not usually ring at that time. the protagonist is aware of this because this is the time she usually has her cup of tea. the phrasing is a bit odd but given the state she is in when writing the song, that's not such a shock.
anyway, all saints (again, but not the ay to zee/zed thing for once which still aaargh fuckoff fuckoff fuckoff) - "a few questions that i need to know" - it's not the questions you need, is it, shit-for-brains? it's the answers. fuck OFF all saints. oh, you did. brilliant, thanks.
The tanks and the whole marines to blow me away
always bugs me. I don't know if its grammatically incorrect, but "the whole marines" sounds weird.
Oh, the snot has caked against my pants/It has turned into crystal.
JFC...
But that's amazing.
It's one of my favourite lyrics ever...
Those Bloc Party lyrics
about Foie Gras and Disdain.
I've only ever encountered them on threads like these but are bad enough to still bother me.
I feel a bit sorry for Bloc Party
They might go down in history for writing things like "I am trying to be heroic in an age of modernity" rather than their genuinely innovative work..
Don't let Kele be your lead singer then
tbh they're probably only remembered by DiSers
and NME readers of a certain vintage. I'll always remember them as also-rans in a scene that was pretty mediocre anyway.
.
Most important 'indie' band of the last few years, and also one of the best. Cheers.
Bollocks on count one.
Absolute bollocks beyond all comprehension on Count Two.
Franz Ferdinand had already done the 'popularlising 80s-influenced danceable indie' thing much better. Radiohead and countless others had done the 'introspective vague political allusions' much, much better.
If Bloc Party hadn't existed literally nothing would've changed whatsoever. They were ridiculously derivative and, usually, incredibly bland. Except when they did the much more electronic stuff like Flux which was at least entertaining.
Derivative of what?
Post some songs from the 80s which sound like Bloc Party.
They're great. There's a real mood and atmosphere to a lot of the early-ish stuff which just isn't there in any of the other bands they came up with, who're all about sending it to the chorus (and I love Franz Ferdinand, don't get me wrong). 'Silent Alarm' is a spectacularly weird record given the musical climate it appeared in. 'Intimacy' is a beautiful, flawed masterpiece, and couldn't have less to do with 'popularising danceable indie' or with politics. It's about the death of Kele's partner and it's icy cold and really emotional at the same time. 'Four' was a decent enough rock album. None of them were bland. The Holloways were bland, as were Kaiser Chiefs. Totally different ends of the spectrum, if you bothered to listen to them.
But yeah, 'A Weekend In the City' was shit.
Silent Alarm was the album which really stopped me paying attention to record reviews.
Boring record, And definitely, definitely bland. Admittedly not listened to the others to they may have got more interesting after that.
(I admit that whether or not they're good is subjective but I still can't see any grounds whatsoever that they were the most 'important' indie band of the last few years.)
Didn't really influence much, didn't make that much of a wider impact outside of, as Comaboy says, NME readers of a certain vintage and a few people who use specialist music sites. I can't see any way that they were important.
well Russell Lissack played with Ash for a while I guess.
Yeah, I suppose not. I do think Kele's sexuality was important to gay indie kids (of which there are many, unsurprisingly), as was his race for different reasons, and I certainly felt like they were 'my' band for a long time growing up, and not just in the usual favourite band way.
I suppose those things are extra-musical though. Still love them.
in other words
I was 14/15 at the time, and the whole thing seemed to attract either LADs (Kaisers) or arty wankers (Libs, Franz Ferdinand). I wasn't either, but I still liked the music and wanted to fit into a group. Bloc Party were the only band for weird kids who didn't really slot in anywhere, and whilst that doesn't feel like an impact, it is one. What else was I going to listen to, Patrick Wolf? I'd've been beaten up.
'Impact'' is about more than 'how many bands sound like them today
My argument'd be that bands have always existed who do that
but admittedly I don't know what other bands were around teenagers might have listened to around 2005.
oh aye, there's always one per 'movement'
I can only speak from my own (white, rural) experience, but there was mostly the Pete Doherty worshippers whom nobody liked, the LAD types who liked The Pigeon Detectives and Kasabian, people who didn't really care about music, and people who wanted to fit in and to have a favourite band but weren't in any of the above categories.
Weirdly, my school had a very large number of classic rock fans, but I think that was because everyone's dad was a trucker more than anything. My best mate and I used to have an AC/DC covers band- I played one drum like Mo Tucker, cause I couldn't afford a full kit. Thinking back, that was probably the most challenging music I've ever made.
I guess the difference is if it's the band you grow up with.
If I'd have been a few years younger when BP came out then I might have felt completely differently. I'm probably too old for them rather than anything else!
Haha, probably!
Just realised I've been arguing a moot point- I'm the very 'NME reader of a certain vintage' Comaboy was talking about. oh well.
:D
Post some songs from the 80s which sound like Bloc Party.
[insert link to basically any Gang of Four song]
[insert link to So Here We Are]
:)
a lot of their early lyrics still hold up very well
but yeah, that song was the most disappointing start to an album that I've ever heard
i like that line
(bearing in mind that i've only ever seen it written down on dis, in a thread similar to this)
it's funny
I'll just leave this here...
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/bloc-partys-kele-okereke-to-release-lyric-book-117695
Slowly walking down the hall
faster than a cannonball.
Eh??
So many people hate that line
I always loved it - it seemed to me like offering of options in a question:
Slowly walking down the hall?
Faster than a cannonball?
Where were you while we were getting high?
Of course I was a 15 year old Oasis fan at the time.
I WILL BAKE
PHALLIC CAKE
I could fill this whole thread with lines from New Order songs
But I won't.