what would yr ideal rock singer NEVER SING ABOUT AGAIN?

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answer #1: 'love'

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 28 October 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Fair enough!

(1) "my baby"
(2) his/her inalienable right to rock
(3) How shitty one's personal life is and how emotionally tortured they are.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

insects, there are no good rock songs about insects. (cue ILM, "jel you mentalist, what about...?" "oh yeah, forgot about that one")

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

trying to work out whether getting over heroin is harder than getting over a broken heart

― blueski, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They should only sing about that Geeta.

My answer: "the blues". Anything spiritual. Anything "surreal". Anything which sounds like it could have appeared in Chicken Soup For The Soul (this goes for all genres).

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

if Alex in NYC's point B is allowed to stand, AC/DC can never be played again :(

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Already existing songs that cover the above subject matter okay, but no more can be written. Thus, AC/DC's career is safe (it's not like anyone goes to hear their new stuff anyway).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

How they feel. Or how they "feel".

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

tax laws

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Bands should quit writing about love, or sex, or how work sucks, or how their parents suck, or about what sluts their girlfriends are, or their inalienable right to rock/party, or drinking/drugging, or the open road, or life in a small town (or a big city), or robots, or mythical creatures, or giant lizards, or violence, or suicide, or depression, or happiness...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The music business.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i love when people say that bands should stop singing about "love". it's so mid/late-80s michael stipe of them. my my, aren't we just hyper-advanced cyborg beings?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

The pain of being rich, famous, and constantly on the road. Especially anything having to do with "being on the road."

― Aaron W, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i love when people say that bands should stop singing about "love". it's so mid/late-80s michael stipe of them. my my, aren't we just hyper-advanced cyborg beings? THERE IS STILL ONE THE FLESH BEINGS LEFT. SEIZE HIM!

― DP-14213 (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Models.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

go back to yr way better hiphop thread then jess you bitter cyborg

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

cornhusks

― gage-o, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought of an insect song that isn't very good..."the black widow" by alice cooper (even though I think most of his stuff is great)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

THERE IS STILL ONE THE FLESH BEINGS LEFT. SEIZE HIM!

PERVERTS! SUBVERSIVES! ALL PERVERTS SUBVERSIVES AND TRESPASSERS ARE TO BE SHOT!

I'm still surprised no industrial act has sampled that as a killer intro, to be honest.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

geeta do you have some sort of switch thrown on yr cyborg brane to "not getting it"?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

DOES NOT COMPUTE

― blueski, Monday, 28 October 2002 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom's answer is great -- self-help pamphlets disguised as rock lyrics are unstomachable. No more magical-world-for-my-shroom-addled-brain jam-rock lyrics either, please!

I think the "love" naysayers are protesting the overuse of the word itself rather than songs whose subject matter is such.

― Clarke B., Monday, 28 October 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

bingo clarke!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"miles away" by winger has never really been bettered in the love stakes.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, everyone should use the word "cuddling" in place of "love." also, the words "and" and "the" should be excised.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"If you don't cuddle yourself, you can't cuddle anybody else."

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

*hugz*

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Mom, that whore.

― Humanary Stew (Arthur), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"It must have been cuddling, but it's over now"

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I really don't have a problem with songs that mention "love" a lot, but I have to be honest: I tend to like songs that make me *feel* love rather than those that tell me all about it (though those can be great, too).

Jess, songs can address or evoke love in much more nuanced ways than mentioning the word a lot; case in point, I'm listening to "I Know" by Bark Psychosis right now (which "I Know" you know har har): the entire lyrics of the song consist of two very short lines, no mention of the word "love" at all. But I'm certain it's about love.

― Clarke B., Monday, 28 October 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Silly boy, it's about his knowledge of obscure quatrains. (Utterly wonderful song, yes.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Aliens.

― Callum (Callum), Monday, 28 October 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

what i'd like, is i'd like to hug and kiss you

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Yah I am with the pro-lovesongs contingent: I find the quest for novelty completely boring. Give me writers whose obsession with one single ancient-as-time subject possesses them entirely, and I'll give you great books/records/pamphlets. The three best subjects for songs: love, dancing, and getting high.

Cuddle Is A Battlefield, by the way

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

teh interweb!!!!11

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 29 October 2002 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Cuddle Is A Battlefield, by the way

"Cuddle Will Tear Us Apart"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Take the C out of Cuddler and it's Uddler"

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Cuddle to Cuddle You Baby"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 01:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Would Do Anything for Cuddling, But I Won't Do That"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, upon reviewing this thread all I can say is "Cuddling Stinks."

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Songs about popularity or food - oh except Wendy McDonald. That one can stay.

erm... Cuddling Hurts?

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:12 (twenty-three years ago)

BTW, I posted that before reading various pro-food song comments on the ideal MC thread. Proof positive that I'm not ALWAYS contrary just for the sake of it.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

"tinctures of ghost"

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew L

― david h (david h), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"Can You Feel The Cuddle Tonight?"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

space, spacemen, spaceboys

(I agree with Ned btw about that line from Fit the Whatever-it-was, 9th?, 10th?)

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I second the food nomination and send many thought-voodoo skewers into the soft fleshy parts of whoever told me to listen to Shonen Knife.

Singing about space is fine by me as long as not accompanied by Bowiesque costume. (Plastic rayguns are, however, acceptable.)

Anyone want to form a rubbish basement Casio group called Cuddling Like Anthrax? Inept twee covers of Bring The Noise are called for.

― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Ned btw about that line from Fit the Whatever-it-was, 9th?, 10th?

*scratches head* But what was the line?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Give me writers whose obsession with one single ancient-as-time subject possesses them entirely, and I'll give you great books/records/pamphlets.

*door bursts open*

'John, there are some Jehovah's Witnesses and weather-mentalists here to see you.'

The trouble with love songs: inbuilt tendencies to leery ooze-alicious 'lurve' songs or self-inflated power-ballad barrage-balloons.

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

So... what's left for them to sing about?

Manifest destiny, baby.

― David Allen, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

david do you like the dictators?

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

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