Are there songs that have great music but crappy lyrics in your opinion? A perfect example for me is Tom Petty and the Heart Breaker's Honey Bee. It sounds like a creepy uncle getting too friendly with kids.
"Every Move You Make" by Sting....superficially seems romantic, but read the actual words on youtube... (type the word "lyrics" after any song title or singer name). Crazed scary Stalker stuff. UGH!!!!!!!
@5082gregory thanks...duhhhhh
Many beatles songs. Today's pop. I can continue but...
@5082gregory Do not like rap, hip-hop either... let me hit you with maxwell silver hammer! My big beef with beatles at the beginning was the poor musicians they were. Later money and acid took over and too late to improve but if you like them... nothing wrong with that. They were at the right place at the right time and drove the girls crazy. We all enjoyed that ride of the beatles growing up.
'Goodnight Girl' by Wet Wet Wet. I hate the song anyway, but the lyrics sound like a pedophile who is warning their victim to keep quiet.
Oh, yeah. It's an innocent nursery rhyme compared to the 1972 song, "Clair," by Gilbert O'Sullivan.
The girl he was singing about was the three-year-old daughter of his manager, for whom he had babysat when he was sixteen.
Creepy as fork.
The giggles of a toddler can be heard on the video.
Clair
The moment I met you, I swear.
I felt as if something, somewhere,
Had happened to me, which I couldn't see.
And then, the moment I met you, again.
I knew in my heart that we were friends.
It had to be so, it couldn't be no.
But try as hard as I might do, I don't know why.
You get to me in a way I can't describe.
Words mean so little when you look up and smile.
I don't care what people say, to me you're more than a child.
Oh Clair. Clair ...
Clair
If ever a moment so rare
Was captured for all to compare.
That moment is you in all that you do.
But why in spite of our age difference do I cry.
Each time I leave you I feel I could die.
Nothing means more to me than hearing you say,
"I'm going to marry you. Will you marry me? Oh hurray!"
Oh Clair Clair ...
Clair
I've told you before "Don't you dare!"
"Get back into bed."
"Can't you see that it's late."
"No you can't have a drink."
"Oh allright then, but wait just a minute."
While I, in an effort to babysit, catch up on my breath,
What there is left of it.
You can be murder at this hour of the day.
But in the morning the sun will see my lifetime away.
Oh Clair Clair ...
Oh Clair
Ewwww.
Mambo #5. There are others, I am certain, but they are escaping me at the moment...
Most Foo Fighter songs have that effect on me
The line 'you're a dedicated swallower of fascism' in Billy Bragg's Accident Waiting To Happen is so cringingly bad that it almost spoils an otherwise excellent song.
There was a British band in the 90s called Silver Sun who made a career out of singing nonsense lyrics over rollicking good rock music.
Kings of Leon are good for that.
Kings of Leon... The band that makes me unreasonably angry.
Two awesome albums of shit-kickin', hairy, hillbilly rock, then someone tells them to shave and lose the glasses and suddenly they're mainstream, commercial pretty boys with barely a decent song left in them.