Yes another pointless opinion poll results.

 

Worst lyrics of all time revealed!

Des'ree, Razorlight and Snap are main offenders

 

Des'ree's 1990s hit 'Life' contains the worst pop lyrics of all time, according to a listener poll held by BBC 6 Music.

 

Thanks to music fans voting in the station's Taxing Lyrical survey, Des'ree won the unflattering honour over Razorlight's 'Somewhere Else' and Snap's 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' - the latter artists both collecting 30 per cent of the votes respectively.

 

The offending Des'ree lyrics are: "I don't want to see a ghost/It's the sight that I fear most/I'd rather have a piece of toast

/Watch the evening news".

 

6 Music presenter Marc Riley, who counts down the Taxing Lyrical Top Ten tonight (May 4) says, "Bad lyrics can come in all forms - some acceptable, some less so. Dumb is sometimes OK, but pious and pretentious and pompous are obviously never to be encouraged nor tolerated."

 

ABC singer Martin Fry, who is at number 4 for his lyrics to 'That Was Then But This Is Now', told Riley, "I have been waiting for this kind of accolade for years. The most memorable lyrics are often the stupidest."

 

The BBC 6 Music Taxing Lyrical Top 10 is as follows:

 

1. Des'ree - 'Life'

"I don't want to see a ghost/It's the sight that I fear most/I'd rather have a piece of toast/Watch the evening news"

 

2. Snap - 'Rhythm Is A Dancer'

"I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"

 

3. Razorlight - 'Somewhere Else'

"And I met a girl/She asked me my name/I told her what it was"

 

4. ABC - 'That Was Then But This Is Now'

"More sacrifices than an Aztec priest/Standing here straining at that leash/All fall down/Can't complain, mustn't grumble/Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble!"

 

5. U2 - 'Elevation'

"I've got no self control/Been living like a mole now/Going down, excavation/High and high in the sky/You make me feel like I can fly/So high/Elevation"

 

6. Toto - 'Africa'

"The wild dogs cry out in the night/As they grow restless longing for some solitary company/I know that I must do what's right/Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti"

 

7. Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova'

"Slowly walking down the hall/Faster than a cannonball/Where were you when we were getting high?"

 

8. Duran Duran - 'Is There Something I Should Know?'

"And fiery demons all dance when you walk through that door

Don't say you're easy on me you're about as easy as a nuclear war"

 

9. Human League - 'The Lebanon'

"Before he leaves the camp he stops/He scans the world outside/And where there used to be some shops/Is where the snipers sometimes hide"

 

10. Black Sabbath - 'War Pigs'

"Generals gathered in their masses/Just like witches at black masses"

I love the Ratorlight and Oasis one. :lol:

forgetting 2 songs

1. lips of an angel- hinder

2. breakfast at tiffany's- deep blue something

a friend of mine mentioned how rubbish the U2 'elevation' lyric was this very week...

And I met a girl/She asked me my name/I told her what it was

hahaha I love this one :laugh3:

^ Yeah, that actually makes me want ot listen to the song.

I remember a song with kinda idiotic lyrics. But there were two lines making a point :

 

"I feel stupid

And contagious"...

 

Can't remember the title... something like... "Young Mind Sucks"

its nirvana's smells like teen spirit genius

I know, it's irony...

Lmfao!! :rolleyes: The number one song, I cant believe someone actually wrote that!

2 and 3 are the worst by far

what were these people possibly thinknig when htye wrote these

I love that Razorlight song! Cheesey line I know, but still a good song.

I have to fight against this one:

 

7. Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova'

"Slowly walking down the hall/Faster than a cannonball/Where were you when we were getting high?"

 

I always figured (and amongst loose conversations over the meaning of this song)...I figured it was a song about the effects of drugs or it mentioned that a bit. I mean, I thought it was like... first they start off walking slow and THEN faster than a cannonball. If you split them up sorta. Like the ups and downs of getting high. Prolly wrong, but that is what I thought.

 

 

Anyway, most of them seemed to be horrible in that the writers don't know shit about creating a metaphor or a simile , for that matter.

 

I remember in high school, some kids were just horrible at it and i never understood what was so difficult about making one. :wacko:

Number 3 is kind of cool, not really stupid... It's just a normal everyday sort of thing... it's just kind of a cool lyric in its own way...

 

o_0

 

 

7 isn't stupid at all.

Yeah, like what else are you supposed to tell a girl when she asks you your name? Tell her your birthday? I don't think so!

yeah yeah...the whole name thing.. it's like...save it for some other public appearance. OR a fuckin blog if he wants that line to be seen. But not a song. I mean, a song should show class and timelessness. But that, it's just shit empty lines.

The Des'ree one is my favorite... sounds like something I'd write in 3rd grade. Why didn't I get big for my "insightful" lyrics?!

No Coldplay for a change :dozey: