Old mate Bernard is a truly appalling lyricist. Utterly asinine.
You’ve mentioned this before. I don’t mind the lyrics but then again I am challenged in that respect. I am a sciencey guy.
I’m a fan of New Order. Honestly. But his lyrics are banal - basic rhyming couplets that a grade 6 would come up with.
It’s well known that Paul McCartney’s initial guide vocal for Yesterday was “Scrambled eggs”.
Sumner’s lyrics sound similarly like an improvised guide vocal done while the engineer set levels, but then somehow made it through to the final recording.
I’ve said it before, but I’ll happily say it again.
New Order are right up there with the worst live bands I ever saw. Boring doesn’t even get close to describing it.
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I’m really intrigued by your comments. Unfortunatley I’m great at maths n stuff but was almost illiterate at school and only just managed to scrape through English. Sumner sounds fine to me but that’s probably my focus on tone and sound rather than words.
- Hilltop Hoods
- Girlschool
- Ratm
- Tripping Daisy
- The skids
I’m with @BAAKKEERRRR here. “Whenever I get this way, I just don’t know what to say, why can’t we be ourselves, like we were yesterday.” But as I’ve said before, the music comes first. And I’m not sure Bernie wanted the job, everybody else probably just took a step backwards after Ian departed.
I saw them once and never fought to see them again. But boy oh boy could they work a studio.
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Little Miss Baakkeerrrr (at 7) could’ve come up with:
When I walked through the door
My wife she lay upon the floor
And with tears her eyes were sore
Or even:
We’re strong, we do our thing
Let the world cry, watch the birds sing
The dooziest doozy of them all though is still…
Your country is a wonderful place
It pales my England into disgrace
To buy a drink that is so much more reasonable
I think I’ll go there when it gets seasonable
So, so clunky.
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Here comes love
It’s like honey
You can’t buy it with money
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I saw them at festival hall about 10 years ago and they were great.
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You know you’re in trouble when you get John Barnes to rap on your only number 1
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Brittney
Bombay
The Skids
Dead Kennedys
Morello and Smith
I love Hilltop Hoods and RATM but the two tracks posted are nearly their worst tracks respectively!
Are those legit votes?
Great run of albums/singles up to the Substance compilation though…
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I guess? My thought into them went as much as it did in picking my first song choice!
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Blasphemy, on both counts.
This is unprecedented.
Get around the back
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