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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: laziest lyrics ever? |
| Date | Wed, 30 May 2007 19:49:04 -0400 |
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It IS funny and it IS obvious. It was a poke at all the inane "girl" songs
from the time period with the lame-assed "moon" and "June" rhyming couplets
that existed (even the great Lennon-McCartney never came up with as clever a
punchline as this one).
My favourite was always Alice Cooper's "School's Out" with the
brilliant....'we can't even think of a word that rhymes.
Jaimie Vernon,
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>From: synthhtnys@comcast.net
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: laziest lyrics ever?
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 22:50:34 +0000
>
>*You might want to watch their DVD.... They mention that line and also
>mention how genuinely surprised they are whenever someone comments on it as
>they meant it to be funny and thought it was obvious.
>
>Great band, actually... I just re-aquainted myself with their stuff, they
>wrote several excellent pop tunes... current favorite: She's my girl, their
>attempt at psychedlia...
>
>
>-------------- Original message --------------
>From: <drewmacdonald@ca.rr.com>
>
> > I've talked here before about how hackneyed lyrics can ruin an
>otherwise-good
> > song for me (there's still no faster way for a songwriter to lose my
>respect
> > than to rhyme "change" with "rearrange") but I still have to smile when
>this
> > Turtles song comes on:
> >
> > "Eleanor, gee, I think you're swell/
> > And you really do me well/
> > You're my pride and joy, et cetera."
> >
> > Not that Kaylan and Volman ever took their work too seriously, but "et
>cetera?"
> > That's the best they could come up with?
> >
> > Whenever I hear that, it puts me in mind of Martin Short's elderly Tin
>Pan Alley
> > songwriter character, who would claim to be able to write a song on the
>spot,
> > but failed miserably whenever challenged to do so.
> >
> > Gimme a G, a bouncy G,
> > Drew
> > np: William Pears - BIG BANG
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---- Ellen Giloy wrote:
> >
> > =============
> > I'll pick up the thread on the new Ike Reilly. I've been a fan since
> > > "Salesmen and Racists," and there's nothing better than a live Ike
> > > Reilly performance (his Thanksgiving Eve shows here in Minneapolis
> > have
> > > long since become another holiday tradition). However, that said, I
> > > really wasn't a fan of his last release.
> > >
> > > Now, I'm happy to say that I'm back on the bus with the release of
> > "We
> > > belong to the Staggering Evening." He found the rawk again (as my
> > > friends and I like to say) and I think songs like "Valentine's Day in
> > > Juarez" and "Fish Plant Uprising" are among the best work he's put
> > out
> > > so far.
> > >
> > > OK. I'll go back to lurking now. Take care!
> > > ~Ellen
> >
> >
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