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Bad terrible horrible 80s lyrics...

 
  

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bitchiekittie
16:04 / 30.12.02
...are always dancing through my head.

purge yourself of those asskickingly bad songs that you just cant seem to rid yourself of, maybe youll get lucky and give them to someone you dont like.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:13 / 30.12.02
Never gonna give you up
Argggh!
Never gonna put you down
*Kicks wastepaper basket across room*
Never gonna run around
*Slams head in cupboard repeatedly*
And hurt you
*Falls writhing to floor*
Never gonna make you cry
*Gnaws through chairleg*
Never gonna say goodbye
*Rubs face into carpet*
Never gonna tell a lie
*Huddles weeping in corner*
And hurt you...

MAKE IT STOP! MAKE! IT! STOP!
 
 
Linus Dunce
17:17 / 30.12.02
"In a tree by a river near a hole in the ground/Where the Old Man of Arran goes around and around ..."

Had completely forgotten this stupid, irritating, whining, brain-maggot of a song until I drunkenly stayed up to watch "I Love 1984"(?) on Christmas Day. And now it's back there in my head. Help me.
 
 
w1rebaby
17:32 / 30.12.02
I'll swap you for Papa Don't Preach, or, rather, four lines of it. Papa don't preach, i'm in trouble deep, papa don't preach, something something sleep, but i've made up my miiiih hiiiiiind, i'm keeping my baybee OOO-OOOH i'm gonna KEEP my baybee. Papa don't preach etc etc.
 
 
mixmage
17:49 / 30.12.02
I've been losing...

How sad is that? Shoulda just let you Homer it.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
17:53 / 30.12.02
I've...

had...

the time of my life...

and I never felt this way before...

yes, I swear...

it's the truuuuuth...

and I owe it all to you



I hate that song. So, so, so much.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
18:41 / 30.12.02
Mustn't complain, mustn't grumble
Have another piece of apple crumble


ABC's message during the Thatcher years.
 
 
Ganesh
19:00 / 30.12.02
For I am your lay-deee
And you are my ma-uh-ah-uh-ahhhn.
Whenever you reeeach for me
I'll do all that I ca-uh-ah-uh-ahhhn...


Bleh.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
19:31 / 30.12.02
I used to think I was tied to a heartache
that was the heartbreaker - now that I've found you:
Even the nights are be-eh-tter,
Now that we're here to-ge-eh-ther
Even the nights are better, since I fou-oond you-ooo...


Kill me now.
 
 
bitchiekittie
19:52 / 30.12.02
many thanks to the newest geico commercials:

[creepy whiny looooove voice]
sometimes when we touch
the honesty's too much
and I have to close my eyes
aaaand hide

I wanna hold you til I die
til we both break down and crry
I wanna hold you
til the fear in me

[semi-whisper]subsides[creepy whiny looooove voice]
 
 
Brigade du jour
20:40 / 30.12.02
Has nobody mentioned any poodle-rockers yet? Motley Crue, Whitesnake, and of course the mighty Poison!

Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings a sad sad song
Every rose has its thorn
Yeah it does

(One-note guitar solo)

A veritable mine of lyrical poo.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
00:44 / 31.12.02
One look from you and I would fall from grace.
And that would wipe the smile right off my face.
 
 
gravitybitch
05:42 / 31.12.02
And I thought it was bad that songs from Saturday Night Fever were stuck in my head today. I hearby take back all the nasty things I thought about the BeeGees.

(disco still sucks...)
 
 
Charles Darwin
06:06 / 31.12.02
My crap song lyrics is :

You can sing a song
I can sing along
You can pull ding dong
that's what I'll do
........
Maybe sometime love just ain't enough


and also


I know I ought to find somebody else
But I'm finding myslef always thinking of you
Wherever the star shines bright
from the heaven
Wherever the river runs
to the sea
I'll never get over you
get it over me......

I was hoping the hurt won't show
Tellin everybody
I'm glad to see you go
But the tears just won't go away
won't go away

and also

Don't play with my toot-toot
don't play with my toot-toot
.......
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:52 / 31.12.02
Wasn't it "Don't MESS with my toot-toot"? (Or so someone told me, anyway. Of course I wouldn't know.)

Ahem. Biting political commentary ahoy:

"And where there used to be some shops
Is where the snipers sometimes hide
And who will have won when the soldiers are gone
From the Lebanon (ooh- the Lebanon)"

Ladies and gentlemen, the Human League, doing their bit for world peace. (Apparently world peace responded with "well, thanks, mate, but if it's all the same with you...")
 
 
Sax
10:47 / 31.12.02
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody
Who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry and you want to die


Uurgh. Stupid big soft Mancunian girl's blouse. Give me some Marillion any day.
 
 
William Sack
10:58 / 31.12.02
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

Er, I have a few ideas Mr Kemp, but you're not going to like them...
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
12:15 / 31.12.02
Duran Duran's "Is There Something I Should Know"

"You're about as easy as a nuclear war..."

Masters of understatement, me thinks...and then there was:

"Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand..."

God, Duran Duran songs just work on sooooooo many levels.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
12:36 / 31.12.02
There's also the brilliance of Van Halen:

Only time will tell if we'll stand the test of time!
 
 
Linus Dunce
12:39 / 31.12.02
Never mind the bollocks, here's ULTRAVOX. I particularly like the line, "Mr. X (Repeat 14 times and fade)."

But pretentious synth-tosh aside, this was bad on so many levels.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
13:44 / 31.12.02
I've said it before and I am quite happy to keep on saying it, but no one is worse than Martin Gore:

Photograph of You
What good is a photograph of you?
Every time I look at it
It makes me feel blue

What use is a souvenir of something
We once had
When all it ever does is
Make me feel bad?

I wish I could tear it up
But then again I haven't the guts
I wish I could throw it on the fire
I wish I could
But to say I would
I'd be a liar

What good is a color print of a little baby doll
When just one little glance is enough to make me feel dull?

I wish I would misplace it
But then I take such good care of it
I wish it would disappear
I say I wish
But then I relish it being here


...and of course there's the notorious 'People are People':

[excerpt]
People are people so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully

So we're different colours
And we're different creeds
And different people have different needs
It's obvious you hate me
Though I've done nothing wrong
I never even met you
So what could I have done

I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand


Lots more joy to be had here.
 
 
mixmage
15:15 / 31.12.02
No!
I will not do it again.

You are All misquoting on purpose, just to expose my dark secret. Yes I know all the words... now please, let me forget.
 
 
Brigade du jour
18:34 / 31.12.02
David Lee Roth at his understated, breathy-voiced finest ...

Reach down between my legs 'n' ...
Ease the seat back ...

And the best part is, he doesn't continue! He just, like, lets you work out the rest of the sordid details for yourself! How cool is that?

Happy New Year all, by the way.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:34 / 31.12.02
And so we DANCE! Into the fi-ire!

That's quite enough of that.

But, from last night in the Judgement Bar on Oxford Street, Sydney, I give you one of George Harrison's lesser moments:

And this time, I know it's real
The feelings that I feel
I know if I put my mind to it
I know that I really could do it


From "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" to that? Dang. At least the singing mounted heads make up for it.
 
 
Rev. Orr
06:28 / 01.01.03
'While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
For the price of a hospital wing'


Ah, the humanity. Whereas our Caledonian brethren are making no profit from this record...

I still maintain that, 80s or no, there is nothing worse than:

'Love me for a reason
Let the reason be love'


However, the inestimable Jon Bon Jovi did give us:

'My momma thinks I'm crazy
My Dad says I'm insane
I got this boogie-woogie fever
That's burning in my veins

It feels so good that it ought to be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle
I'll never grow up and I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock and roll

My teachers didn't like me they always
Tried to put me down
'Cause I wore my hair to long
I played my music way too loud

Every little boy wants to learn to play guitar
So he can pick up all the chicks
And be a rock and roll star

They said it won't last, but they misunderstood
If people think it's bad then I'll be bad for good

It feels so good... e.t.c.'


Poodle to the max, baby.
 
 
A
12:49 / 01.01.03
Words to live by:

Everybody have fun tonight

Everybody Wang Chung tonight
.
 
 
dj kali_ma
18:29 / 01.01.03
SOLID!!!

*cue thunder crash*

SOLID AS A ROCK!!!

:::aphonia:::
 
 
Papess
20:20 / 01.01.03
Touch me! Touch me!
I wanna feel your body,
Your heartbeat close to mine!


oh yes, can't forget...

Oh!
I'm facsinated by your love boy,
I'm fascinated by your love toy,
I'm fascinated by the way you make me feel!



and my personal favourite...

I heat up, I can't cool down
You got me spinning, round and round

Round and round, and round she goes
Where she'll stop, nobody knows

Abra-abra-cadabra, I wanna reach out and grab ya!
Abra-abra-cadabra......Abracadabra!


I am sure Crowley rolled over in his grave.
 
 
Papess
14:15 / 02.01.03
Love is a battlefield

Just about enough to make ya wannna detonate.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
14:49 / 02.01.03
Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again, from Bros' I Quit

Most of my friends were strange-e-e-rs... when I met them
Familiarity breeds contempt
Well I'm better alone than in company
So get out and stay out of my life.
I'm at the point
I'm at the point where I quit.
I've had enough


Yeah, so've we, mate.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
14:50 / 02.01.03
or from Cat Among the Pigeons:

Gasping for breath in the cold of the night

patiently waiting for love at first sight.
Yes is the answer
but as the wind takes her hair

a piston thrust
a moment shared
no time
no time to despair.

There's a cat among the pigeons
there's a pain in her chest

while the cat's among the pigeons he'll take the best.

And the world keeps turning
and the boy keeps learning

who will be the one to put the cat among the pigeons now ?


Deep.
 
 
Ganesh
19:51 / 02.01.03
And let's not forget Womack & Womack's somewhat idiosyncratic approach to getting over someone:

Footsteps on the dancefloor remind me baby of you.
 
 
Charles Darwin
19:56 / 02.01.03
If I don't know you by now.........I will never never know you........
 
 
A
08:27 / 04.01.03
Boom boom boom!
Let's go back to my room!
So we can do it all night!
And you can make me feel right!
Aah aah oh!
Boom boom boom!
Let's go back to my room!
So we can do it all night!
And you can make me feel right!
 
 
mixmage
13:34 / 06.01.03
"Eighties songs, suck," said Karen, looking up from a book.
"Songs from the eighties, suck."
"*This* don't suck."
"It could. It did."


The power of love is a curious thing
make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
more than a feeling that's the power of love

Tougher than diamonds, bricks like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream
make a bad one good make a wrong one right
power of love that keeps you home at night

You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
but it might just save your life
That's the power of love
That's the power of love

First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Next time you feel it it might make you mad
But you'll be glad baby when you've found
that's the power makes the world go'round

And it don't take money, don't take fame
don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden it can be cruel sometimes
but it might just save your life

They say that all in love is fair
yeah, but you don't care
But you know what to do
when it gets hold of you
and with a little help from above
you feel the power of love
you feel the power of love
Can you feel it ?
Hmmm

It don't take money and it don't take fame
don't need no credit card to ride this train
Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel
you won't feel nothin' till you feel
you feel the power, just the power of love
That's the power, that's the power of love
You feel the power of love
you feel the power of love
feel the power of love

"It's a pretty song, but you know, it's much funnier if you
replace every 'Love' with 'Lith'."
 
  

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