BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Des’ree takes bad lyric top spot
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Des’ree takes bad lyric top spot
OK for the most part I kinda agree with this list. Snap’s song is dumb as fu*k and as much as I liked the Duran’s when i was a kid, Is There something I should know… well DUH.
What bugs me is the entry at number 10. War Pigs by Black Sabbath. Generals Gathered in their Masses/ Like Witches at Black Masses. Pure class on a stick mate. As a spotty 15 year old that line ran through my head and reverberated through my writing. I used to think to myself
“If only i could write one line that people could scream out and be instantly remembered, I could die a Happy death there and then”
It’s not a dumb line that could be classed as such in the parameters set out by Marc Riley it’s obviously be misrepresented. It is after all from one of the greatest Heavy Metal Bands of all time. Next thing you know they will be ripping seven shades out of Spinal Tap’s classic Big Bottom… The bigger the cushion/The sweeter the pushin’/That’s what I am saying…yeah.
I mean that is just a genius streak of lyrical word play that deserves an Ivor Novello award.
OK sarcasm aside, I am shocked that War Pigs is on the list when there are so many other worthy candidates out there.
Until Next Time…
May 7th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Yea the Sabbath thing doesn’t make any sense I don’t think they ought have put them there for that.
And clearly we are divided on the Duran Duran issue. Dammit those lyrics were, er, um….
Look John was gorgeous. Nothing else mattered at the time. And it’s still catchy. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.