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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Worst lyrics
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Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 16:07:17 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 30 16:07:17 1984
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[Anacreon in Heaven :  worst tune!]

Well, surely the words for "MacArthur Park" are in the running,
all that junk about "it took so long to bake it/And I'll never
have that recipe again!".  (For those who have never heard the
song's lyrics, it has something to do with a cake, which I 
believe represents her romance, and the rain, and baking, etc.
The whole thing comes off rather like a particularly bad
interpretation of the Song of Solomon, where everything
stands for something else.)  This one is particularly obnoxious
as it seems to have lived on long past its deserved lifetime   
in the repertoire of bar bands.
	Then again, let us not forget "I am Woman".  Rumor has it
that Mary Travers tried to record it once, but could never
get past those lyrics about "I am strong/I am invincible/I am 
Woman" without breaking out in hysterical laughter.  National
Lampoon's record "Good-bye Rock" has a particularly vicious send
up of this song.

-- 

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							-- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

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