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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: worst song ever
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 11:53:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 11:53:33 1985
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This will make me lots of friends, but the worst song I've heard in
recent memory, Emmys, Oscars and whatever-the-music-award-is-called
bedamned, is Purple Rain.  I mean to say, what stimulating lyrics:

	    Purple Rain, Purple Rain, Purple Rain, Purple Rain.
	    AUUGHGGH    AUUAAAUUUGGHGH   AUUUGHGHGHGHHH          (sp?)

Which is not to say that "Push, push in the bush" was poetry, but at
least it wasn't pretentious.

And I rather liked "Drop-kick me, Jesus, though the goal-posts of life",
"I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart" and "I've got tears
in my ears from crying in the night over you."  They create such an
immediate image, which is the function of poetry.