Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: A new category of lyrics Message-ID: <172@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 20:36:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.172 Posted: Thu Oct 25 20:36:04 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 09:32:24 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 27 *** YOUR MESSAGE *** While we're analyzing lyrics, I'd like to try to open up a new field: the Most Unintelligible Lyrics in a song. Now, there are a few simple examples, such as the recent "Carribean Queen", which sounds exactly like "Caribou Queen," or ELO's "Evil Woman," which I still insist is actually "Medieval Woman." Did you know that Boy George's song "It's A Miracle" was actually written as "It's America"? If you listen to it, you can hardly tell which he is saying, but the two verses of the song are about his initial impressions of New York and LA, in that order. The problem with this cataegory is that we've got a "Nadia Comenici" (sp?) (okay, a Greg Louganis if you're being more up to date) in the group. Now, tell the truth: did you understand more than 20% of the lyrics to "Chuck E's In Love" before you read them? As a matter of fact, have you ever been able to understand a thing that Ricki Lee Jones sings? Can anyone else give a word like "and" 3 syllables like she can? Any other nominees out there for Most Unintelligible Lyrics? -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "Computers are like preppies: they just boil around in their own way and you have to do things their way or they blow you off." "Everything that was different was a different thing..."