Now that they're giving out Nobel Literature awards for songwriters... what's the greatest / best / most creative rhyme in the history of rock / pop music? Post your favorite(s). I've got one picked out, but don't want to pre-empt the thread. Go.
Now that they're giving out Nobel Literature awards for songwriters... what's the greatest / best / most creative rhyme in the history of rock / pop music? Post your favorite(s). I've got one picked out, but don't want to pre-empt the thread. Go.
i look forward to a great thread.
"Since my fling with you I've gone from
Popping off three times a day
To popping off three times a week,
And it takes me a long time to come
To a memory of us"
- "Fling" by Built to Spill
In terms of sheer bizarreness of rhyme:
"...the porcelain
mannequin
with shattered skin..."
- Genesis, "The Carpet Crawlers"
Rock 'n' Roll, Hoochie Koo
Lawdy mama light my fuse
"...On the radio, the stereo
The way you move ain't fair, you know?"
I've got to keep on keepin' on
You know the big wheel keeps on spinnin' around
-Steve Miller
Jet Airliner
Darkness
Imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man,
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man,
And so is Lola!
Lo lo lo lo Lola. Lo lo lo lo Lola.
They asked me how I knew
Raccoon sh!t is blue.
So I calmly said "You have been misled.
Raccoon sh!t is red."
Yes, raccoon dung is red -
That can't be denied -
But it's truly said 'though it comes out red,
It turns blue when fried.
c Jack Masten
Real eyes realize real lies is a corny but pretty cool line imo
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
You know I feel so dirty when they start talking cute
I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot
So many have paid to see
What you think
You're gettin' for free
The woman is wild
A she-cat tamed
By the purr of a Jaguar
Money's the matter
If you're in it for love
You ain't gonna get too far
I'm currently listening to Doo Wop Radio on Pandora
Lots of those songs have lyrics that would fit on this thread.
My name is Sue, how do you do?
Now you gonna DIE
I ride my slant eyed slope
Like a brand new Kawasaki
Oh my chinky she's so kinky
Got me hot like Nagasaki
By the light of the silvery moon,
I want to spoon, to my honey I'll croon love's tune,
Honeymoon keep a-shining in June,
Your silvery beams will bring love dreams, we'll be cuddling soon,
By the silvery moon.
by Gus Edwards/Edward Madden
Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse is the GOAT lyricist:
(not a rhyme but an excellent line)
We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
Woke up this morning seemed to me
That every day turns out to be
A little but more like Bukowski