100 Stupid proclamations that sound good in songs! (If you don't think about them)

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1. Gil Scott Heron "The revolution will not be televised".
D'uh! It soooo will be televised. There'll be more newscrews than you can poke a sickle of the peoples' righteous freedom at. It'll be on every channel. Gil wrote this years ago, but still, he just wasn't thinking was he?

mei (mei), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

2. Patti Smith "Piss Factory"

What's that then? A factory that makes piss? Is she talking about someone's bladder?

mei (mei), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

3. "Lights go out, walls come tumbling down!"

what bloody cowboys built this then?

dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

4. Bruce Springsteen "Dancing in the Dark"

Great idea, Bruce. I guess you didn't get to the verse where you trip over the couch and sprain your ankle.

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

5. So "Dancing on the Ceiling" is out of the question then?

6. "Do ya Think I'm Sexy?"

well...do ya?

dr lulu (dr lulu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

"welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends"...

that don't seem to be any kind of show I'd be interested in...

hank (hank s), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I was trying to figure out what I didn't like about Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA." Turns out it wasn't the jingoism, but the grammar:

"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free."

Ah yes, American, where I can be free.

O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

SPRAY!
PAINT!
THE!
WALLS!

Runner up is Pussy Galore's "Kill Yourself", a passionate exhortation to do the deed.

sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

ummm... Maybe this is a tangent at this point, but I think if there were a revolution in any major Western country it would probably/necessarily start with the violent overthrow of the popular media. ??? I mean, that's how the gov't maintains hegemony, isn't it? That seems to be the discourse among "revolutionaries". Did you think he was talking about a friendly democratic revolution? Gil knew what the fuck he was talking about. You don't.

imjustkiddingdontputmeonterroristlistpatriotact (Sonny A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

The revolutionaries would seize control of all the network and cable stations? OK, supposing they somehow could do that, are they going to just let those stations air a test signal during the fight, or are they going to get their minister of propaganda on there to spread the word? One way or another, that revolution's gettin' the shit televised out of it. Bitch.

O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

"we need something or someone new...something else to get us through...yeah!"

maybe something like a big bottle of booze, eh mr jim 'mystical' morrison?

nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

"D'uh! It soooo will be televised. There'll be more newscrews than you can poke a sickle of the peoples' righteous freedom at. It'll be on every channel. Gil wrote this years ago, but still, he just wasn't thinking was he?"

Way to miss the point, chief.
Compare and contrast the song with Niggers are Scared of Revolution.

js (honestengine), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

"Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air"

Why not just go ahead and do it? What's stopping you?

Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- "Gold Lion"

"Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is."

No, a gold lion would probably eat you.

M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

The word "go!" Um, basically in every 80's hardcore song, and yet ... that would leave no audience. Would it? Go where?

Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

"I wanna ____ you, all night long"

*all night long*?!...let's say "night" is from 10 PM until 6 AM...that's eight straight hours!...with no breaks!...not one!...not inb the contract!...can anybody reasonably do anything for eight straight hours?...(and don't EVEN mention Sting)...

none of you have ever done it "all night long", have you?...(please say no)...

hank (hank s), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

the revolution will not be televised because black people will be in the street fighting for a better tomorrow.

i think what gil was talking about was that the revolution will not be experienced by his audience on the sofa with a beer but at closer hand.

i'd go for "I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving - England is mine, and it owes me a living." f*cking pikey morrissey.

Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

hank - i have been known to sleep all night long on occasion. ask my lady, she'll tell ya.

Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

How DO you feel???

Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

What about every stupid love song that professes a desire to do shit that no one actually wants to do?

This one always sticks in my head but you could insert any pop ballad.

Savage Garden:
"I want to stand with you on a mountain / I want to bathe with you in the sea"

Do you.
Do you really?

Ron E. Mexico, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

"...on this day which began as an execution day and soon enough became execution day" - new pornographers - wtf? so nothing's really changed..
one in many hooks by them that make no sense but sounds great..

pull me out, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Everybody's rapping like it's a commercial, acting like life is a big commercial.

Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:23 (twenty years ago)

On loan from the "Stupidest Lyrical Clichés" thread:

"Throw your hands in the air/And wave 'em like you just don't care!"
Yep, best way to demonstrate extreme disinterest that I know of. Whereas if you're really enjoyinng a show, stand perfectly still, arms folded.

Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:38 (twenty years ago)

"Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose"

Now, there's been plenty gigs where chickens have been thrown onstage, (stories passim), but how many have also had participants have access to a deckchair at the same time?

To say nothing of a dog large enough to enclose a participant.

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:05 (twenty years ago)

"If I stay there will be trouble/If I go it will be double"

So STAY already, moron! Unless you're looking for trouble, in which case you should GO. Either way, it's hardly a difficult choice, is it, Hamlet?

Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:17 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Holy shit, Mark - what the hell's THAT?!

Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:19 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) the trouble will be double if he stays.

At least, if he goes the trouble will be somewhere else.

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:31 (twenty years ago)

The entirety of "Split" by Liliput.

Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

You know that song "Ironic"? None of the things in that song are ironic! How ironic!

Punt & Dennis (noodle vague), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Tum ti tum, one of the situations described is Ironic. So ner.

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

This thread is ironic.

Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

"If I stay there will be trouble/If I go it will be double"

I always assumed Stevie Ray Vaughan was waiting for him outside.

O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

"when the levee breaks / where'll have no place to roam"

unless of course you just roam somewhere that is'nt flooded by water - try the next town

grapple (grapple), Thursday, 30 March 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

"I ain't no glamour boy---
I'm fierce!"

Great chorus, but what the heck? It sounds so "West Side Story".

Euler (Euler), Thursday, 30 March 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

It sounds so Tyra Banks!

musically (musically), Thursday, 30 March 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

"big bottom girls, they make the rockin' world go 'round"

Now, they are pretty great, but if we're being totally honest, they don't actually make the rocking world go 'round.
I'll even concede that they contribute to making the rocking world go 'round, but they're not the only contributing factor, or even the major one, there are so many other things involved in making the rocking world go 'round.....

m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

"I'd bleed myself dry for you" (Coldplay)

Quite apart from the fact that's a pretty stupid thing to do, the extreme logistical complexities of actually removing every single drop of blood from one's body would probably be beyond the organisational skills of someone who, every gig, has to write the name of the charity he supports on his hand so he doesn't forget it.

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

i have scaled these city walls, only to be with you

the doorbell was broken, or what?

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

The humor in this thread reminds me of one of those VH1 nostalgia shows.

jason. (jason.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Stone Roses: This is the One

"I’d like to leave the country
For a month of sundays
Burn the town where I was born"

Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

cut the midrange drop the bass
cut the midrange drop the bass
cut the midrange drop the bass

geeta (geeta), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sparksfan.com/80s/cap004_200.jpg

...i mean, does a lover's voice really "fire the mountainside"? how do you fire a mountain? is this donald trump we're talking about?

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

i want to fuck you like an animal.

also, i want to be your dog.

Emily B (Emily B), Sunday, 2 April 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)


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