| Fat Bottomed Queen 08.01.2016 14:09 |
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| Oscar J 08.01.2016 14:27 |
I don't think Roger was a very good lyricist, so most of his, really. Some are fun, but many mainly unimaginative. |
| Sebastian 08.01.2016 15:00 |
'Sweet Lady' is absolutely dreadful. Very good piece musically, but the lyrics are just utterly stupid. |
| matt z 08.01.2016 16:55 |
^funny. Another exampleof disagreement. .. always thought Roger did some greats. .. notably SHA and DROWSE Anyways. . Play the game "the game of love has just begun. ..." that whole middle bit disrupts the song badly until just before the solo And "Princes of the Universe" "Born to be kings. ... Princes .... I'm here for your love and I'll make my stand" ... always felt disappointed when I first heard the REAL song instead of the Highlander bits from the film and Tv Show. It's really tacked on! |
| mooghead 08.01.2016 17:36 |
'In Only Seven Days'.. write a story about each day of the week, everything every school kid in the world has done, only better. Freddie's version of it, Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon, is how it should be done. |
| matt z 08.01.2016 21:04 |
Yep^ dull and uninspired delivery and/or lyrics. And then. ... ... then. .. next. .. And then. ... |
| Saint Jiub 08.01.2016 21:22 |
Cringeworthy Sweet Lady is "like some kind of cheese" ... probably gouda ... On the other hand, In Only Seven Days is a guilty pleasure for me ... |
| master marathon runner 08.01.2016 21:49 |
/ \. Yeah, it's a guilty pleasure for me too! - always thought of 'Grease' when listening to it, it fits perfectly! |
| stevelondon20 09.01.2016 04:28 |
I might get slated for it, but I never really liked Drowse. LOASA is one of my faves though. In only seven Days is ok I guess. |
| *goodco* 09.01.2016 07:00 |
wrote:Yeah, 'The Invisible Man' lyrics aren't the greatest. Couldn't have said it better. |
| rhapsody8 09.01.2016 07:21 |
Body Language is on top of my list. Musically it's fun, but lyrics are boring... Repeat again, again and again... Only listenable parts are John's bass I think... |
| mooghead 09.01.2016 17:08 |
John's bass isn't there though is it.. the lyrics for Body Language are just "Put your willy in my bum bum...' but as a euphemism, or the other way round, or something... |
| stevelondon20 09.01.2016 17:28 |
mooghead wrote: John's bass isn't there though is it.. the lyrics for Body Language are just "Put your willy in my bum bum...' but as a euphemism, or the other way round, or something...Lol. Hilarious reading! |
| matt z 10.01.2016 04:14 |
I get how some people wouldn't like Roger's *(band) lyrics. He takes on an acerbic and sometimes unsentimental tone in quite a bit of his QUEEN songs. But for their brevity and wit, I tend to like them. Hardly considered romantic. I think the closest he got to sentimental with the band were TATDOOL, and Radio GaGa. |
| Bike It 80 10.01.2016 07:27 |
Roger wasn't the best lyricist in Queen but I have to say that in I'm In Love With My Car, the line "string back gloves in my automolove" is downright cringeworthy, probably the line I hate the most in all of their songs. |
| Sebastian 10.01.2016 08:38 |
rhapsody8 wrote: Only listenable parts are John's bass I think...That's not John's bass, that's Freddie playing the bass line on a synthesiser. |
| cmsdrums 10.01.2016 11:39 |
Khashoggi's Ship is pretty awful in places: "We got love, and we got style, and we got sex...." "We had a food fight in somebody's face" My Baby Does Me: pretty poor lyrics but strangely actually fit the laid back feel of the song, and I reckon the repetitive lines are a homage to that style of repetition in blues songs. I can't believe no one has flagged Delilah yet!!! :-) |
| Stelios 10.01.2016 11:53 |
"string back gloves in my automolove"...What does that even mean ? |
| Martin Packer 10.01.2016 11:58 |
String-backed gloves were (are)? driving gloves. "Automolove" is, I've always thought, a love of cars. Maybe the object of the protagonist's love, namely a car. |
| Stelios 10.01.2016 12:32 |
^^^Thanks Martin ! ( now i get a fist fucking vibe but thats just me...) |
| k-m 10.01.2016 12:58 |
"Friends" must be one of my favourites. "The other half ran away, Taking all the cash and leaving you with the lumber, Got a pain in the chest, Doctors on strike what you need is a rest. It's not easy love, but you've got friends you can trust". The word "uninspired" comes to mind. |
| Sheer Brass Neck 10.01.2016 13:31 |
"Is it raining in heaven/do you want us to cry?" "Why don't you take another little piece of my heart Why don't you take it and break it And tear it all apart All I do is give All you do is take Baby why don't you give me A brand new start" Sweet Lady is Shakespeareian compared to these. |
| raucousmonster 10.01.2016 13:57 |
HEADLONG - "Then it ain't so groovy when you're screaming in the night Let me out of this cheap 'B' movie" Terrible lyrics here. It's usually only a few Roger's lyrics that make cringe but this stank the place out the first time I heard it and I find myself mentally preparing for it every time it comes on my stereo. The line about the rat race in Ride The Wild Wind is pretty naff too. |
| The King Of Rhye 10.01.2016 19:54 |
It's not Queen, but Brian's On May Way Up....."I've got positivism to give em"???? Always hated that one....lol |
| Oscar J 10.01.2016 19:57 |
^Yup. It's funny how Brian was once a great lyricist in the 70's. By the 90's it was a total cheese fest. |
| tomchristie22 11.01.2016 02:39 |
'Why don't you twist it, and turn it and cut it like a knife?' It just doesn't work - those words, arranged in that way, suggest that the knife is being cut, not doing the cutting. Plus, even if the line was 'Cut it with a knife', it would still be a pretty bad metaphor and lyric. |
| Holly2003 11.01.2016 03:57 |
I loved The Call (the Mandela 46664 song) until someone here pointed out the absolutely awful lyrics, especially this line: "They got no weapons so they just bug us for the crack now" :( I still think it;s a good song -- maybe the last time 'Queen' tried anything complicated or ambitious, but must admit the lyrics are a turn-off. |
| waunakonor 11.01.2016 21:31 |
"Give me your mind baby give me your body
Give me some time baby let's have a party
It ain't no time for sleepin' baby
Soon it's round your street I'm creeping"
Makes me cringe pretty hard.
rhapsody8 wrote: Body Language is on top of my list. Musically it's fun, but lyrics are boring... Repeat again, again and again... Only listenable parts are John's bass I think...Nah, don't give it any credit, it's not even fun at all musically. And like other's have said, that's not John, and regardless the bass sucks just as bad as anything else. It's kind of fun live with somewhat more stripped down instrumentation that actually has some semblance of energy, but on the record it's just awful. stevelondon20 wrote: I might get slated for it, but I never really liked Drowse. LOASA is one of my faves though. In only seven Days is ok I guess.Okay, I'm really curious, what exactly do you not like about the lyrics? Roger's got some doozies, but that particular song is easily his best, and quite possibly the best of any Queen song. cmsdrums wrote: Khashoggi's Ship is pretty awful in places: "We got love, and we got style, and we got sex...." "We had a food fight in somebody's face"That would be Party you're talking about and those lyrics are great. The King Of Rhye wrote: It's not Queen, but Brian's On May Way Up....."I've got positivism to give em"???? Always hated that one....lolI really hate the lyrics to Let Your Heart Rule Your Head. At least On My Way Up is pretty legitimately fun musically; LYHRYH is just a lame '39 rip-off with pretty much no energy. |
| Invisible Woman 19.06.2017 03:58 |
I'm in love with my car and My babe does me,maybe. |
| AMusicalProstitute 19.06.2017 06:31 |
Definitely I'm in love with my Car... "Told my girl I just had to forget her, Rather buy me a new cartburettor, So she made tracks sayin' ths is the end now, Cars don't talk back they're just four wheeled friends now" I'm not some kind of crazy feminist but this verse is sexist. |
| matt z 19.06.2017 12:10 |
who cares. It's showing his disdain for the girls in his life, how it's all frustrating and he'd prefer the company of his car. Hence the song. Of course it's probably not all that serious Bad Lyrics: "Mama just killed a man" I mean. ..c'mon. ... his mother killed a man? Then right the very next line the possessive changes "Pulled MY trigger now he's dead" Inexplicabilly pour grammir. ....but really. ... All that middle bit of POTU "I know that people talk about me I hear it everyday but i can prove them WRONG cause I'm right. ..FIRST TIME" Really shaky stuff....shouldn't have gotten past a group review. |
| Saint Jiub 19.06.2017 20:30 |
As an agnostic and/or atheist, All God's People really gets on my tits, as Freddie's "I''ll get what's coming to me religious tripe" is very annoying: "I'm dying so I will bamboozle myself into believing I will go to that mythical place in the sky." One set of lyrics is particularly atrocious: "yes there was this magic light. I said to myself. I'd better go to bed and have an early night. Then I then I then I then I went into a dream." Most cringe-worthy lyrics by Queen ever ... worse than "some kind of cheese". |
| NickiP 20.06.2017 01:50 |
Can't believe no one has mentioned "breastfeeding myself" yet ?????? |
| dysan 20.06.2017 02:56 |
I guess on the evidence here, we all draw different things from Queen. Which is a good thing. |
| dudeofqueen 20.06.2017 03:28 |
"When you pee all over my Chippendale suite." "Yeah - trouble in the East troubled in the West Struggle with the beast - what a thief what a pest Come back mother Nuke that sucker Yeah yeah yeah" "Give me, body - give me - body - body - give me your body Don't talk, don't talk, don't talk, don't talk, don't talk Baby don't talk Body language Body language Body language Give me your body Just give me - yeah - your body Give me - yeah - your body Don't talk Body language ha ha Body language Body language You got red lips Snakes in your eyes Long legs, great thighs You've got the cutest ass I've ever seen Knock me down for a six anytime anytime Mmm ha Look at me - I gotta case of body language Look at me - I gotta case of body language ha ha haa Look at me - I gotta case of body language Look at me - I gotta case of body language Of body language - of body language - ha - yeah Sexy body, sexy, sexy body I want your body Baby you're hot Body language hah Body language huh Body language aah Body language yeah Body language aah Body language huh Body language hah Body language hah Body language" |
| scallyuk 20.06.2017 04:29 |
tomchristie22 wrote: 'Why don't you twist it, and turn it and cut it like a knife?' It just doesn't work - those words, arranged in that way, suggest that the knife is being cut, not doing the cutting. Plus, even if the line was 'Cut it with a knife', it would still be a pretty bad metaphor and lyric.It does it you read it as 'Why don't you twist it, and (you) turn it and (you)cut it like a knife (would)?' |
| dysan 20.06.2017 09:16 |
If I'm going to strut and check out the ladies, like today, I listen to Body Language. |
| Killer_queenIII 20.06.2017 09:54 |
I'm just gonna count how many times people mentioned Body Language here. |
| dysan 20.06.2017 10:03 |
^^ doesn't strut |
| Killer_queenIII 21.06.2017 01:44 |
^^^ *struts, and checks out ladies.....and truckers who look like members of Foo Fighters* |
| dysan 21.06.2017 03:23 |
FIT |
| Seed_Of_Rhy 23.06.2017 06:21 |
cmsdrums wrote: My Baby Does Me: pretty poor lyrics but strangely actually fit the laid back feel of the song, and I reckon the repetitive lines are a homage to that style of repetition in blues songs.Almost like Sleepin' on a Sidewalk which was my personal dislike, when i heard Queen first in age of 14. Not really dislike, in fact, but left with feeling of kinda perplexity. In years i got more warm to it. As many has wrote, awful lyrics are in "Love with my Car", "Sweet Lady", "Khassogi's Ship", "Delilah"...all the Roger's songs in fact. "Breakthrough" and "Headlong" also lack of ingenious wordplay, portraiture things etc |