worst lyrics by a major artist/band

[diamondsgirl]

"Its About Time" has got some suck ass lyrics, but what about others?

[bueno bob]

"Up for Breakfast" and "Spanked" - Van Halen...

Anything by Nasty Savage...

The new Chris Caffery album "Faces" has some of the worst lyricism ever put to tape, so far as I'm concerned...

Grim Reaper - the song in specific is "Final Scream", although pretty much all of their lyrics were poop...

Sammy Hagar - "In the Room", "One Way to Rock", "I Cant Drive 55", the list goes on...

Iron Maiden - "Virus"...in addition to a lot of the Blaze Bayley stuff, also reaching out to the last 2 albums with Bruce...

Judas Priest - "United", "Take On the World"

Fu Manchu and The Melvins get honorable mention for simply nonsensical lyrics...

More as I think of them...

[scottydabodi]

Denim and Leather by Saxon.
Lyrics are pretty lame.

[nosuchluck]

when i saw the title of the thread , all i thought was "It's About Time"!

and also "Source of Infection".

[diamondsgirl]

I love Kravitz, but the lyrics to "Fly Away" are very 3rd grade:

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

Lenny...please...

[DaveIsKing]

1- Spammy & Van Hagar have some sorry ass lame lyrics.

2- "Winners Take All" by Quiet Riot...gimme a fucking break!

3- KISS

[bueno bob]

Some of the early Styx stuff...Styx I, Styx II, Serpent is Rising and Man of Miracles (even Equinox) all have some crappy wording back and forth. Styx never really hit their stride until Tommy Shaw came aboard so far as I was concerned.

[Lou]

Dave Matthews:

"I did it, do you think I went too far / I did it, guilty as charged / I did it do you think I went too far / I did it...yeahhhhh"

That's some brilliance there. You know I didn't know that "far" and "charged" actually rhymed with each other until hearing this song. Also the "yeah" part is great.

[FORD]

Pretty much anything that come out in the 80's except Van HALEN, The Police, U2, The Clash, and a few others.

Anybody remember a song called "A-E-I-O-U (and sometimes Y)"??

"Safety Dance"?? -

About 90% of the Euro-synth bands with funny haircuts had lyrics just as fucked as their hair

And then there's the hair "metal" cheese ballad brigade

"Fly to the Angels"???

"Up All Night, Sleep All Day"?? uh, excuse me, guys, I realize you were the second band that had to ditch Vinnie Vincent because of his drunken bullshit, but that doesn't mean you can make a half assed ripoff of a Kiss song that Vinnie had nothing to do with.

Oh yeah... how did a band of FLAMING PUSSIES ever get the name "Slaughter" anyway???? How many Satanists bought that record thinking it was speed metal and how many innocent neighbors cats were sacrificed in anger as a result?

[LoungeMachine]

" you bend your words, like Yuri Geller's spoons"

Toad the Wet Sprocket


Love the band, but fuckin-a

[LoungeMachine]

"you fit your mind, into smaller and smaller jars"

The Posies


Love Jon Auer

Hate Ken Stringfellow

[Nickdfresh]

Loverboy

I saw an interview with the lead singer where he seemed to take himself very seriously, so serious in fact that I began to think he was being ironic. Nope, he went on to say that Pearl Jam or Nirvana destroyed our career. I guess the junior high school style headbands and the totally unselfconscious, uncool preening of Spinal Tap proportions had nothing to do with it. These fags make Billy Squier look cool in comparison.

"If you want a piece of my heart, you better start from start.
You wanna be in the show, c'mon baby lets go!"

Please.

[Don Corleone]

Originally posted by DaveIsKing
1- Spammy & Van Hagar have some sorry ass lame lyrics.

Exhibit 1

Wham Bham I'm in Amsterdam

Exhibit 2

Only time will tell if we stand the test of time

[LoungeMachine]

Quoting lame Spammy lyrics isnt even a sport.

[Mr Badguy]

"In the mood" by Rush

It`s lucky Neil Peart could write lyrics as well as play the drums.