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i had three stars for the longest time, some how i went to four. just like fungus i grow on people
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Is that a quote from Private Parts?
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if it is, i didnt get it from there, it just came to me so i wrote it down
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Cool, it's just that I watched it the other day and he said it.
It's a good movie. Howard Stern is one funny dude.
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The whole song just has the worst lyrics I have ever heard. Just terrible.
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Just read an article about Jefferson Starship-Starship and they said that people have always misunderstood the "We Build This City" lyrics.
I think that it was a good band, especially the Love Among the Cannibals cd but it was more a Mickey Thomas solo album anyway.
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I think it may just be there attempt at trying to defend their ultra lame song.
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I have always like their song Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now but I suspect like most people it's because it reminds me of Mannequin.
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I´ve had this love/hate relationship with Mannequin. Liked it in the 80s, hated it during the 90s and now i like it again. Maybe i just watched it too many times back in the day...
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I love Andrew McCarthy and James Spader is awesome too in this movie. Kim is good back in the day before she got all pretentious in Sex and the City. She was great in Big Trouble also.
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Oh boy, Captain Harr.. i mean G.W. Bailey and his dog. What a perfect pair Posts: 7054 | From: Finland | Registered: Feb 2008 | Site Updates: 7
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we bulit this city is one of those tunes i like but i never paid much attention to the lyrics,
its kinda like bay city rollers, saturday night, i turn up the volume on the radio whenever it plays, i get really cranked, singing along with the song, and they really aint saying much except how much they like saturday night
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since watching the movie manaquin, i would be really open to a manaquin coming to life, before i imagine it would be creepy, but if she looks as good as catrall who cares
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I thought to myself this guys cool and how could nobody have rated him in 6 years.
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Bernie, well thank you kind sir. In return I have rated you back! Ya I was starting to worry I smelled funny or something.
New Kids on the Block - Hangin Tough.....
Listen up everybody if you wanna take a chance Just get on the floor and do the New Kids dance Don't worry about nothing cause it won't take long We're gonna put you in a trance with the funky song
Why I hate Men At Work’s Down Under so very very much.
Let’s start with a reproduction of the lyrics, copyright whoever first wrote them (disclaimer: they ripped off the tune, so I’m leaving nothing to chance….)
Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said,
“Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.”
Buying bread from a man in Brussels He was six-foot-four and full of muscles I said, “Do you speak-a my language?” He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich And he said,
“I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.”
Lyin’ in a den in Bombay With a slack jaw, and not much to say I said to the man, “Are you trying to tempt me Because I come from the land of plenty?” And he said,
“Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.” Yeah!
Living in a land down under Where women glow and men plunder Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover!
Living in a land down under Where women glow and men plunder Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover!
There you have it. I’ll allow you a moment to pause and regain your strength, before I expound my theories on the pitiful words you’ve just read…. right, that’s all done. So OK – here’s the plot. Let’s start with verse 1:
The male lead is…. somewhere unspecified, but he’s driving down a road in a clapped out VW Type 2 van, and he’s out of his skull on skunk (which would explain why he has forgotten which country he’s in, I guess). Suddenly, some weird woman appears, and rather than report him for driving under the influence, or running, she offers him a fry-up. Then she starts on about sweaty girls and criminals, so you KNOW she’s talking about Australia. She finishes off with a quick weather report before telling him, a little too politely, to bugger off….
So verse 2, and our hero pops over to Belgium, and (like true non-stereotypical Aussie blokes) buys bread. Not beer, which would be easier, more readily available, and in character, but bread. And from a baker built like Dolph Lundgren in Rocky 4. Personally, I’ve always believed that Brussels would offer a different kind of muscles, but possibly his experience with the weird female fry-cook has influenced him strangely….. Anyway, this big butch baker turns out to be a more typical Aussie bloke, interested mainly in lager and vomiting. But still interested in the weather forecast, for some reason….
Finally, in verse 3, we end up in India. Actually in Mumbai - which would cause them problems with rhyming the next line these days – in some kind of den (probably something like The Snug from Coronation Street’s Rovers Return). With something called a Slack Jaw. Urban Dictionary describes a ‘slack jaw’ as an extremely ignorant, possibly inbred, person usually of rural heritage. So strange women, burly breadmakers, and redneck idiots. These days, we’d probably just say “Big Brother” and leave it at that….
Anyway, someone tries to tempt our man (presumably with half a pint of Mild and a pickled egg) only to be reminded that there is lots of beer and some impressively large eggs back home. Then we hear again about the sweaty girls, the criminals, the weather, etc. etc.
OK – here’s the tune.
Think ‘Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree’. That’s the tune. Apparently, when the song was written (or shortly after at a rehearsal, when they were all high as… well, as Kookaburras) they just started playing this tune. And in the THIRTY YEARS that follows, nobody in the band thought to say “that’s not the tune we wrote, that’s that other song”. It’s a bit like Status Quo suddenly stopping and realising that they’ve been singing the words to Rocking All Over The World, but the tune to Captain Pugwash. Cue repayment of much wrongly-earned royalties.
But I want to gloss over these points. Yes the lyrics are dire, and the tune was plagiarised. But that’s not the main point. The main point is that it’s a dire, dreary dirge of a song, with meaningless, pointless, soul-less lyrics, which was clearly released to cash in on the UK’s inexplicable mid-80s mania for all things Aussie brought on by Neighbours, Crocodile Dundee, and the Ernest movies. If you’re unfamiliar with Ernest, think of a cross between Joe Pasquale and Albert Steptoe, then remove all the intellect and machismo.
This song reminds me of all that was bad about the decade I love. It’s a flickering neon sign highlighting that the 1980s wasn’t an unqualified success story style-wise. And it remains the only song I’ve ever interrupted by lifting the record from the turntable and snapping it in half.
A thing I’d gladly do again, if you askedme nicely enough...
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quote: which was clearly released to cash in on the UK’s inexplicable mid-80s mania for all things Aussie brought on by Neighbours, Crocodile Dundee, and the Ernest movies. If you’re unfamiliar with Ernest, think of a cross between Joe Pasquale and Albert Steptoe, then remove all the intellect and machismo.
This song predates the 80's Aussie mad boom by at least three years. 'Neighbours' wasn't on TV yet, 'Crocodile Dundee' was nearly 4 years away. This song was a # 1 hit on both sides of the Atlantic because it was a catchy pop song, even if - and I agree with you on this - it was a little dreary.
As for Ernest... too lazy to Google it but I'm pretty sure he was American.
To me, the worst lyrics of the 80's come from short-lived boyband 'Bros':
1) "Most of my friends were strangers when I met them"
2) "I'll watch you crumble... like a very old wall"
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i dont know if its bad lyrics or if i just hate the song but hanging tough comes to mind. i dont know how that band ever got popular, with acutal great musicians out there as competition
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Taking Care Of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - " It's as easy as fishing to be a musician." Definately one of the worst lyrics I've heard.
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