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The nation's favourite lyric

penitentvandal

12:17 / 02.03.06

So yeah, VH1 are doing some kind 'Nation's Favourite Lyric' thing. The link to find this poll is submitted for your approval here:

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Now, is it me, or is that a rubbish selection of lyrics?

For the record, I voted for Nirvana.

matthew.

13:44 / 02.03.06

The Arctic Monkeys are on there? Good Lord? How long have they been around for, ten minutes?

I voted for the Beach Boys, God Only Knows.

The Clash are only on there once? WTF, as some people say.

_Boboss

14:17 / 02.03.06

weird list. they've got evertime we say goodbye, but i thought the best line in that was 'i can hear a lark somewhere' - lyrics don't get much clearer crispier or damn prettier than that.

but they kind of redeem the whole list just by having 'son im thirty, i only went with your mother cos she's dirty' in there. (in the song it's the way he does 'went' as WEY-ent)

haus of fraser

16:13 / 02.03.06

Very weird list- absolutely no point in voting on it is there?

We can pretty much bet that Bobsi Williams wins with angels (the nations favourite tune)

I'm very suprised that there ain't a single Pulp tune in there- Jarvis being the king of wry english one liners and all that.

I actually hate that someone has made this shortlist as somekind of 'official' thing, because for every vaguely reasonable lyric in there, there's a million better ones that they've forgotten...

Gah and they almost seem to have confused Lyric with song- watcha think?

matthew.

17:24 / 02.03.06

Agreed. It seems that they are evaluating the entire song based on the lyric. I'm sure people (myself included) will vote for a song based on the overall "quality" of the song, as opposed to the "quality" of the specific lyric.

iconoplast

14:29 / 03.03.06

Don’t leave it to the anoraks that haunt the MTV cafeteria into the wee small hours arguing semantics, make it your list and your choice.

I thought an anorak was like a parka?

Jack Fear

14:46 / 03.03.06

It is. It is also the notional garment of choice for obsessive, nerdy types (so-called because they were often worn by trainspotters, who perforce often had to be outside in rough weather. By extension, "anorak" is often applied to the obsessive, nerdy types themselves.

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