Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site yale.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!yale!folta From: folta@yale.ARPA (Stephen Folta) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard Message-ID: <5349@yale.ARPA> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 23:11:59 EDT Article-I.D.: yale.5349 Posted: Tue Oct 9 23:11:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 04:21:31 EDT References: <208@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <705@ihuxj.UUCP> <842@aecom.UUCP>, <4387@fortune.UUCP> <215@hopd3.UUCP> Organization: Yale University CS Dept., New Haven CT Lines: 13 Well, I don't know if these are the worst, but I think some of the lyrics on the Police's Synchronicity album are pretty bad. Example: Mephistopheles is not your name I know what you're up to just the same A good example of just how far some people will go in forcing a rhyme just to show off how well-read they are. At least he avoided trying to rhyme something with "Mephistopheles". (Did I spell that right?) Stephen Folta decvax!yale!folta