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From: jon@qusavx.UUCP (Jon Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: More lyrics, good and bad
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Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 15:50:23 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  4 15:50:23 1984
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	Well, as long as folks are sending in contributions for best
lyrics, you have to include virtually everything by the Buffalo Spring-
field.  That stuff still holds up, rings true, or however you want to
put it.

	As a subcategory of most unintelligible lyrics, how about most
mixed metaphors?  I dearly love Mark Knopfler but "Tunnel of Love" is
overladen with them, e.g.
	
	I put my hand upon the lever
		Said let it rock and let it roll
	I had the one-armed bandit fever
		There was an arrow through my heart and my soul.
	And the big wheel keeps on turnin' . . . 

'Course, no one can touch him when it comes to one-armed bandit playing
(not of the Las Vegas variety; I suppose the slang is different in
Scotland), especially when there's an arrow through his heart and soul,
nonetheless . . .

	And as long as I'm at it, I remember a radio station in Oregon
holding a Greatest-Song-Of-All-Time call-in poll several years back.
The winner?  Nothing by Beethoven, or Lennon, but, get this, "You Make
Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer.  I mean, I don't even consider that
music!