[ale] [OT] Re: car audio mp3 player (how to make disks)

[jlightner at water.com (Jeff Lightner)]

I'd prefer nonsensical lyrics to bad poetry in music.  The one that
always grated on me like fingernails on rust was by Depeche Mode:

"People are people, so why should it be?
You and I get along so awful-LY"

As I once told someone I can forgive atonal singing and disharmonious
sounds masquerading as music but bad poetry is where I draw the line.

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Subject: [ale] [OT] Re: car audio mp3 player (how to make disks)

That's not even the worst line!!

The 1978 Donna Summer single version - which in my mind should be
considered definitive - smartly *left out* the last half of the first
verse, which reads, and I'm not making this up:

    Between the parted pages and were pressed
    In love's hot, fevered iron
    Like a striped pair of pants

I challenge anyone to sing this in front of people with a straight face.

The prior "famous" recording of this was by Richard Harris - yes,
"Dumbledore."

What Jimmy Webb was thinking, I have no idea.  He also wrote the
lyrically superior "Wichita Lineman."

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:43, BBBB wrote:
>   
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com>
>>
>>     
>>> When I was in NC I found Debbie Reynolds' Greatest Hits which has
the
>>> song "Tammy" on it.  Whenever I want to drive the younger folks
crazy I
>>> play that song at full volume.
>>>       
>> Wow, that actually made my skin crawl.
>>     
>
> This brings to mind a classic Dave Barry piece on the worst songs ever

> recorded. His all-time winner was "MacArthur Park" recorded by Richard

> Harris.
>
> "I don't think that I can take it,
> 'cause it took so long to bake it
> and I'll never have that recipe again."
>
> Barry said that when he read the lyrics aloud to his five year old,
the 
> response was: "You're kidding. Right?"
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