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nuisance:

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--- Quote from: nuisance ---Not a lot of fun in the favourite lyrics so far.  I guess (judging by nonsense like Skyclad) people primarily rate lyrics that they think express right-on sentiments?
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Or maybe different people have different ideas of what constitutes good lyrics and you should stop being an elitist jackass.
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Hang on, you quoted me suggesting one way in which people might have different ideas from mine re: what constitutes good lyrics ... and then you told me off for not thinking that people have different ideas?

Nitpicking aside, fair enough on the elitism call and sorry for being so dismissive, Khar and other fans of Skyclad.  

To be completely honest, I looked up Skyclad to check they weren't some kind of lesser-known Spinal Tap after that first post.  I thought the lyrics were that bad... but from the second batch of lyrics I can see that the guy's at least erudite, just completely at odds with my tastes and (lyrical) interests.

Thrillho:

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9. Eminem (again, I mean it)

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Everyone will take the piss for this choice, but I stand by it. Especially for the second example, if only for probably being the first rapper to use 'ignoramus' in a rhyme.
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Nah, FWIW I remember a tune on Del Tha Funkee Homosapien's album back in the day (the one with 'Mr Dobalina') where he rhymes "entertain us" and "ignoramus".  Eminem may have a crazy amount of talent, but he's not exactly revolutionary.

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I wasn't implying he was revolutionary. I just thought it was hilarious to use 'ignoramus' in a rhyme.

KharBevNor:
Spinal Tap? Okay, Skyclad writes songs about sex, and I've quoted two of them (though they're not exactly about sex, per se, they're about paganism), but what's the link between some of the stuff I quoted first, ie:


"What did we learn in history lessons?
How to sit quiet at the back of a class
with so many things open to questions,
it's too late to cry - there's no one to ask.

Life's an education - a multiple equation,
everybody finds their own solution in the end.
"To be or not to be" is a very lengthy question,
has somebody please got a sharpened pencil they can lend?

Marching in time down a production line,
what did that teach you about life in the dole queue?

The Law of Relativity - (life's relative misery).
The Law of Probability - (it's probably contrived).
Newton's Law of Gravity - (we face a grave reality).
The Law that runs the jungle - (only the strong survive)."

and

"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo

Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?"

nuisance:
Sorry, I didn't mean something stylistically identical to Spinal Tap, just a similarly well-crafted parody of a slightly different flavour of rock music - sneering, cynical, and political - more like, say, Roger Waters on his solo albums.  I do find those puns just achingly bad... did no one else make lame jokes about Hamlet and 2B pencils when you were a kid?  Wasn't it on the Muppets or something?

Thrillho:
I think that Spinal Tap should be included here for the comedy genius of their lyrics.

"Working on a sex farm...bothering your livestock."

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