Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!twitch!hocad!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxm!marno From: marno@ihuxm.UUCP (Marilyn Ashley) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: The Worst Lyrics You've Ever Heard Message-ID: <1070@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 18:36:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxm.1070 Posted: Tue Oct 9 18:36:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 07:22:05 EDT References: <1069@ihuxm.UUCP> <931@houxm.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 35 In reply to Greg Skinner's remark that "Let 'Em In" by Wings was probably not meant to be taken seriously; I have to say that he is probably right. In the case of "Abracadabra" I agree that it is not his best work. Why is it that an artist's most popular work is rarely his best? I didn't mean to make you feel old. I agree that the songs I mentioned are not that aged. How's this for an oldie moldie: She wore an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini That she wore for the first time today... So in the water she decided to stay I think that definitely beats out "I am the Walrus" for the title of the World's Worst Lyrics. I would like to introduce a new category: "The Wildest Lyrics You've Ever Heard". My first nomination would be "The Eleventh Earl of Mar" by Genesis. Anybody know it? Sorry I came off so sarcastic, Greg, it's just that I've been feeling my age ever since this last summer. Even though I finished college only four years ago, the students I've met this year looked at me like I was a martian when I told them I attended the Chicago Beatlefest this summer. For a moment I thought I had made a mistake and told them I had attended a Lawrence Welk concert. I felt like I had committed the ultimate faux pas, admitting that I had done something that uncouth. That must have been the way I reacted to my sister (12 years older than I) when she told me some years ago that she wanted to see Elvis Presley in Las Vegas. What a weird feeling! Is 25 really the age one turns into an old fogie or did I just have a bad encounter? Yours in oldness, Marilyn Ashley