Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!lo From: lo@harvard.ARPA (Bert Lo) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard Message-ID: <78@harvard.ARPA> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 13:06:33 EDT Article-I.D.: harvard.78 Posted: Fri Oct 5 13:06:33 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 04:44:28 EDT References: <208@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>, <1169@pyuxn.UUCP> <213@hopd3.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 50 > Oh, and let's add that current pop-chart favorite (?) Wham!'s "Wake Me Up > Before You Go Go" (has to be the title of the year), and the wonderful line: > "You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day" > Lovely. These guys weren't that bad before. See what happens when you sell > your soul for a top-10 record? > > Diane Wilkerson > ..!hopd3!dvw I hate to tell you this but Wham! never had a soul to sell. Listen to their first songs. Youngs Guns (Go For It!) "Tell that jerk to take a hike There's something about that boy I don't like Well sugar, he don't mean the things he said Just get him out of my way 'cause I'm seein' red" Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do) "Give a Wham Give a Bam But don't give a damn" "If you're a pub man Or a club man Or a jet black guy With a hip hi fi" Bad Boys "We can't help but worry You're in such a hurry Mixing with the wrong boys Playing with the wrong toys Easy girls and late nights Cigarettes and love bites Why do you have to be so cruel You're such a fool" Now, it's not that I don't like these guys (because I do) but they never had any ambition but to be fun and rich anyway, so how could they have sold their souls ? By the way, why are we attacking lyrics only ? Why not production of songs also ? For example, what about that retarded "sexy" intro to "Swept Away" by Diana Ross where she tries to seduce the listener by doing her imitation of an asthmatic ? Or the ridiculous way Tina Turner barks "Better Be Good To Me" like someone stripped her of her vocal cords ? Also, how come no one posts any reviews of recent product like they do on net.movies ?