danieljones Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 hy what you want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Girls of fifteen Sexually knowing The ushers are sniffing Eau-de-coloning Great song, but c’mon, Pete. You’re better than that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merton Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Name the band and song: Everybody's here Puke stinks like beer This could be a city This could be a graveyard You stole my idea You stole my idea Everybody's anxious For the coming of the crisis The collapse of the justice I can smell your armpits You stole my idea You stole my idea You stole my idea! This puke stinks like beer Come on come on come on Let's lay waste to this century Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Merton said: Name the band and song: Everybody's here Puke stinks like beer This could be a city This could be a graveyard You stole my idea You stole my idea Everybody's anxious For the coming of the crisis The collapse of the justice I can smell your armpits You stole my idea You stole my idea You stole my idea! This puke stinks like beer Come on come on come on Let's lay waste to this century It rings a bell; I've certainly heard someone singing that live recently, probably as recent as this century. Susan Boyle, maybe..? Edited April 11, 2021 by Dad3353 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merton Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Dad3353 said: It rings a bell; I've certainly heard someone singing that live recently, probably as recent as this century. Susan Boyle, maybe..? Close. Or not 🧐😆 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicko Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Shotgun by George Ezra is a lesson in forcing rhymes into lyrics. The first line is "Homegrown alligator, see you later" and it doesn't get any better from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicko Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 (edited) And from possibly the greatest English lyricist of the 80s, our Billy gives us: All my friends from school, Introduce me to their spouses While I'm left standing here, with my hands down the front of my trousers Edited April 12, 2021 by Nicko 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendall Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Half Man Half Biscuit could rock the ant-rhyme with the best of them, Reflections in A Flat Oh darling sugar honey When it was nice and sunny And when I had some money We would go and see Echo And The Bunny …men Since I was eight I’ve loved you Through garden gates I’ve shoved you Then there’s the time I slashed you And you had to go to hospital Now you are gone forever Shot by your Uncle Trevor My story seems so tragic Ali Bongo’s good at contortionism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 New Order rhyming too much with... too much on True Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Not a rhyme but a scansion issue. Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Child Star" - to make the lines "Debussy and Mendelssohn, Handel and Dvorak of old" fit, Marc Bolan sings "Dvorak" as "devorack". In "Ballrooms of Mars", he just gives up completely, apart from a desultory "stars/Mars" rhyme halfway through. "Telegram Sam" has "Sam/man" and "Slim/been" (in mitigation, he sings "been" as "bin"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Hughes Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 As much as I love them, this one always sticks out - a Paul Stanley lyric from 'C'Mon and Love Me' by KISS - 'You were distant Now you're nearer I can feel you face Inside the mirror.' Oy vey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 29 minutes ago, tauzero said: Not a rhyme but a scansion issue. Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Child Star" - to make the lines "Debussy and Mendelssohn, Handel and Dvorak of old" fit, Marc Bolan sings "Dvorak" as "devorack". In "Ballrooms of Mars", he just gives up completely, apart from a desultory "stars/Mars" rhyme halfway through. "Telegram Sam" has "Sam/man" and "Slim/been" (in mitigation, he sings "been" as "bin"). Marc Bolan turned crimes against rhymes into an art form, the list is endless "I've got a Rolls Royce because it's good for my voice" for some reason they seemed to work though or maybe we just got used to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCrane Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 (edited) On 06/04/2021 at 17:04, MrCrane said: Tom Lehrer always managed to rhyme with a certain amount of style. "I say a bygone should be a bygone Let's make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon" And he's got a few more examples in this one. https://youtu.be/YN0qvNhtGhM?t=13 The rhyming of "Te Deum" with "ICBM" is a particularly wonderful work of genius. Edited April 12, 2021 by MrCrane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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