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grotty
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Really Bad Lyrics May 21, 2005 at 04:22 PM UTC #
I just had the misfortune of hearing this on XM:

Dream Girl by DMB

"I'd dig a hole to China, unless of course, I was already there."

Can you better (worser) it?
walkonby
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 21, 2005 at 06:54 PM UTC #
how about the fact that d(u)mb has a new album. that's pretty worser.
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 21, 2005 at 07:29 PM UTC #
I think I'm dumb. Maybe just happy?
distance
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 21, 2005 at 07:46 PM UTC #
(insert any random trent reznor lyrics here)
Yank
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 22, 2005 at 08:49 AM UTC #
You obviously didn't have the misfortune of watching the Eurovision Song Contest!
lwoxley
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 22, 2005 at 07:45 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Mr Dodgy Slapper:
You obviously didn't have the misfortune of watching the Eurovision Song Contest!
We were able to avoid it…there are other channels you know. Although I can understand the "car accident" factor kicking in.
JonParker
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 22, 2005 at 09:46 PM UTC #
"I thought that they were angels, but much to my surprise, they climbed aboard a starship and heaeded for the skies"

Ugh. Styx should have been shot.
Yank
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 23, 2005 at 05:44 AM UTC #
Originally posted by O'Mankie:
Originally posted by Mr Dodgy Slapper:
You obviously didn't have the misfortune of watching the Eurovision Song Contest!
We were able to avoid it…there are other channels you know. Although I can understand the "car accident" factor kicking in.
Hey, I'm only the husband…I don't get much of a say on what to watch on the television. :D We only watched the first hour and then switched to CSI:NY. Now that's entertainment!
buddha
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 23, 2005 at 03:11 PM UTC #
Interpol - Obstacle 1 :
"Her stories are boring and stuff"

Though I love the song, that line makes me cringe everytime
Sir HC
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics May 24, 2005 at 02:20 AM UTC #
And I usually find Dismemberment Plan lyrics pretty good but:

"And later that week it was friday once again"

I still don't get this one.
Sidehatch
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 01:24 PM UTC #
^queued up
4 TS songs!

no we built this city? 
grateful
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 01:28 PM UTC #
NoMoreMr.Nice-Hatch wrote:
^queued up
4 TS songs!

no we built this city? 


Maybe they held off on judging this harshly, as we’re collectively coming to the realization that we are, in fact, knee deep in the hoopla.
Space Freely
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 01:30 PM UTC #
I remember grotty. Nice guy. From Pittsburgh. I met him at the Club once. I think he bought me a beer.

Hey grotty, if you're out there, let me buy you a beer sometime.
grateful
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 01:41 PM UTC #
NoMoreMr.Nice-Hatch wrote:
^queued up
4 TS songs!

no we built this city? 


TIL WBTC was written by Bernie Taupin.
Space Freely
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 02:18 PM UTC #
grateful wrote:
NoMoreMr.Nice-Hatch wrote:
^queued up
4 TS songs!

no we built this city? 


TIL WBTC was written by Bernie Taupin.


A guy called Peter Wolf (among others) is also to blame.

Song co-writers Martin Page and Bernie Taupin have stated that the song is about the decline of live-performance clubs in Los Angeles during the 1980s.In 2013, Taupin told Rolling Stone that the "original song was a very dark kind of mid-tempo song … about how club life in L.A. was being killed off and live acts had no place to go … A guy called Peter Wolf [the album's producer] … got ahold of the demo and totally changed it. He jerry-rigged it into the pop hit it was". In an interview with Songfacts, Page added that the "demo was quite high-energy techno, because that was the sound of the band I was in … it was a little more edgy. And I'm very pleased with what Starship did with it, because they made it a universally appealing song".
Sidehatch
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 02:25 PM UTC #
grateful wrote:
NoMoreMr.Nice-Hatch wrote:
^queued up
4 TS songs!

no we built this city? 


TIL WBTC was written by Bernie Taupin.
Hutch
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 02:42 PM UTC #
Well, one of four songwriters for the song. I think Peter Wolf (not THE Wolf) had a lot to do with the horribly cheesy music. Taupin more so on the lyrics…. I would be interested in reading more about the genesis of the song. Apparently there is a 2016 GQ article about it.
Hutch
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 03:22 PM UTC #
I see space beat me to it.

Hutch
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Re: Really Bad Lyrics August 13, 2025 at 03:24 PM UTC #
“Marconi plays the mamba”


That has always seemed laughably bad to me.
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