50 worst pop lyrics of all time

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Razorlight peform at the fourth Vodaphone TBA gig in Brighton

“I met a girl. She asked me my name. I told her what it was.” (Razorlight, ‘Somewhere Else’). Oh come on, you can do better than that. Pic: PA Photos

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Music – Nirvana Feature

“What else could I say? Everyone is gay.” (Nirvana, ‘All Apologies’). If this were true, we’d have a bit of a problem on our hands as a species. Pic: PA Photos

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The Killers

“I’m down on my knees, searching for the answer… Are we human or are we dancer?” (The Killers, ‘Human’). Whatever the answer is, I doubt you’ll find it on the floor, as if it was a contact lens. Pic: PA Photos

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MTV TRL KISS

“Oh babe, I wanna put my log in your fireplace.” (Kiss, ‘Burn Bitch Burn’). That’s fine, as long as you put it in gently – you don’t want your ‘log’ spitting everywhere. Pic: PA Photos

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REPORTERS Jon Bon Jovi concert in Amsterdam

“I’m a devil on the run, a six-gun lover.” (Jon Bon Jovi, ‘Blaze Of Glory’). A six-gun lover? You mean you’ve got six penises? Pic: PA Photos

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missy elliott

“Take my thong off and my ass go boom!” (Missy Elliott, ‘Work It’). I’d rather not get too close when that happens. Pic: PA Photos

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Music – The Cranberries – London

“With their tanks and their bombs, and their bombs and their guns.” (The Cranberries, ‘Zombie’). Not quite Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have A Dream’, is it? Pic: PA Photos

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“Sexuality! Your laws do not apply to me! A nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of Sweden…” (Billy Bragg, ‘Sexuality’). Ouch, what a passion killer. Pic: Ellis Parrinder

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feeder

“Get a house in Devon, drink cider from a lemon.” (Feeder, ‘Buck Rogers’). You might as well drink wine from a fax machine. Pic: PA Photos. The words in this gallery are all taken from ‘Crap Lyrics’ by Johnny Sharp, published by Portico.

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CELEB Q&A NICKELBACK

“I love your pants around your feet… You’re like my favourite damn disease.” (Nickelback, ‘Figure You Out’). Well let’s hope it’s life-threatening, you horrible, horrible man. Pic: PA Photo

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Oasis Concert

“Caught beneath the landslide in a champagne supernova in the sky.” (Oasis, ‘Champagne Supernova’). If you were stuck in space with Liam Gallagher for company, you’d want to bury him too. Pic: PA Photos

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VARIOUS – 1975

“Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town.” (Thin Lizzy, ‘Jailbreak’). Er… the jail, perhaps? Rex Features

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STAND ALONE PHOTO

“Young, black and famous – with money hanging out the anus.” (Puff Daddy feat. Mase, ‘Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down’). A startling boast from the artist soon to be known as ‘Oh God, not him again’. Pic: PA Photos

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Music – The Faces – Kilburn

“I fell in love with a slit-eyed lady, by the light of an eastern moon.” (Rod Stewart, ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’). How she must have loved that pet name. Pic: PA Photos

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“I’ll fuck you til your dick is blue.” (Liz Phair, ‘Flower’). That might take some time. Pic: PA Photos

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“I’ll slink in when you boys are in a French knot.” (Peaches, ‘Two Guys For Every Girl’). Isn’t that some kind of sewing technique? That sounds painful.

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Shockwaves NME Awards 2005 – Hammersmith Palais

“The sea was very rough, it made me feel sick. But I like that kind of stuff, it beats arithmetic.” (New Order, ‘Slow Jam’). Will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever been faced with the dilemma of whether to throw up or do some sums. Pic: PA Photos

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America in concert – Birmingam

“In the desert you can remember your name, for there ain’t no-one for to give you no pain.” (America, ‘Horse With No Name’). A horse with no name, and a song that makes no sense. Pic: PA Photos

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Glastonbury Arthur Lee

“I feel real phoney when my name is Bill… or was that Phil?” (Love, ‘The Red Telephone’). Arthur Lee later admitted to being stoned when he penned this. Say it ain’t so! Pic: PA Photos

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COLDPLAY

“Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones.” (Coldplay, ‘Fix You’). Thanks for the thought Chris, but I’m not sure setting light to my bones will actually do me much good in the long run. Pic: PA Photos

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R KELLY

“Girl you look just like my car, I wanna wax it.” (R Kelly, ‘You Remind Me Of Something’). Does she really look like a car? Is she 12 feet long with alloy wheels? Pic: PA Photos

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“Let me put my love into you babe, let me cut my cake with your knife.” (AC/DC, ‘Let Me Put My Love Into You’). There’s a strict rule: never use the word ‘knife’ in a seductive context. Pic: PA Photos

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“Can’t forget to stay real. To me it’s like breathing.” (Jennifer Lopez, ‘Jenny From The Block’). Breathing? Surely you could get an assistant to do that for you. Pic: PA Photos

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Kasabian

“John was a scientist, he was hooked on LSD, interested in mind control, and how the monkey held the key.” (Kasabian, ‘Cutt Off’). Brilliant! You’ve got a high-concept pitch for a prime-time TV thriller right there. Pic: Andy Whitton

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BRITAIN OBIT BARRETT

“I know a mouse and he hasn’t got a house. I don’t know why, I call him Gerald.” (Pink Floyd, ‘Bike’). Mister drug dealer, sir, I’ll have what he’s having. Pic: PA Photos

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MICK JAGGER AT KNEBWORTH

“I can see that you’re fifteen years old. No I don’t want your ID.” (The Rolling Stones, ‘Stray Cat Blues’). Weren’t the 60s wonderful? Such a gloriously innocent time. Pic: PA Photos

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Southside Festival 2008 – Germany

“You work in a shirt with your name tag on it, drifting apart like a plate tectonic.” (Kaiser Chiefs, ‘Oh My God’). Does a tectonic plate drift apart, or do tectonic plates drift apart from each other? Pic: PA Photos

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Music – The Fall

“Horseshoes splacking swallows hay-cart, cart-horse of the peasant blocking his path.” (The Fall, ‘Dktr Faustus’). Splacking? Is that a word? Pic: PA Photos

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alice cooper

“We got no principles. We ain’t got no innocence. We can’t even think of a word that rhymes.” (Alice Cooper, ‘School’s Out’). If you can’t think of a word to rhyme with ‘principles’, I’d argue you’d struggle in life once school has been ‘blown to pieces’. Pic: PA Photos

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Music – Monsters of Rock 1994 – Donington Park

“I’ll show you I’m every inch the man – measure all that you think you can.” (Extreme, ‘Naked’). He’s suggesting the appendage is of a size beyond all human understanding. Some kind of four-dimensional space penis, perhaps? Pic: PA Photos

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PRINCE

“Keep the blood flowing down to your feet, Brother Lois will be around in a minute, with a bucket filled with squirreled meat.” (Prince, ‘Superfunkycalifragisexy’). Is this some ancient tribal ritual? Pic: PA Photos

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Solid Gold TV Show

“War, was is stupid. And people are stupid.” (Culture Club, ‘The War Song’). All the thousands of years that people have fought to defend their land from invaders, they were just being ‘stupid’. Pic: PA Photos

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THE CLASH

“Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double.” (The Clash, ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go?’) So go then. Doh! Pic: Rex Features

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BOB DYLAN

“Give me some milk – or else go home.” (Bob Dylan, ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’). Inspiring stuff. Pic: PA Photos

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Busted – Maid in Manhattan

“Not much has changed but they live underwater.” (Busted, ‘The Year 3000’). Who are we to argue, without access to their boyband tardis? Pic: PA Photos

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Music – Suede – Blackpool

“Give me head, give me head, give me head music instead.” (Suede, ‘Head Music’). Make your mind up, lover boy! Pic: PA Photos

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Music – Deep Purple – 1969

“She’s got everything – like a moving mouth, body control and everything.” (Deep Purple, ‘Highway Star’). As opposed to a body that just flaps about uncontrollably. Pic: PA Photos

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‘THE HERE AND NOW 80’S CONCERT’ HELD AT WEMBLEY ARENA IN LONDON

“All fall down, can’t complain, mustn’t grumble – help yourself to another piece of apple crumble.” (ABC, ‘That Was Then, This Is Now’). ‘Crap Lyrics’ by Johnny Sharp is out now via Portico books. Pic: PA Photos

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Gosport Music Festival

“It’s a man’s, a man’s, a man’s world. But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl.” (James Brown, ‘It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World’). Thanks for that, James, but doesn’t half the world’s population get a slightly raw deal from that appraisal? Pic: PA Photos

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KIPA/WORLD MUSIC AWARDS

“I don’t want to see a ghost, it’s the sight that I fear most. I’d rather eat a piece of toast, and watch the evening news.” (Des’Ree, ‘Life’). Come on, there must be a better rhyme for ‘ghost’ than that. Pic: PA Photos

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Music – Color Me Badd Feature

“Girl you make me feel real good, we can do it til we both wake up.” (Color Me Badd, I Wanna Sex You Up’). Sleep-shagging? Crivens, is there a Channel 5 producer in the house? Pic: PA Photos

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Music – Duran Duran – 1981

“Fiery demons all dance when you walk through that door. Don’t say you’re easy on me, you’re about as easy as a nuclear war.” (Duran Duran, ‘Is There Something I Should Know?’). Pic: PA Photos

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Spandau Ballet Comeback – London

“I bought a ticket to the world but now I’ve come back again.” (Spandau Ballet, ‘True’). That’s nice. Do carry on. Pic: PA Photos

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Nokia Isle Of Wight Festival – Seaclose Park

“Late spring and you’re drifting off to sleep, with your teeth in your mouth.” (REM, ‘You Are The Everything’). You don’t say? Next you’ll be telling us you’re ‘Sitting in a chair, with my hands on the end of my arms’. Pic: PA Photos

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British Pop Music – Queen – London – 1985

“You say ‘black’ I say ‘white’. You say ‘bark’ I say ‘bite’. You say ‘shark’ I say ‘hey man ‘Jaws’ was never my scene!'” (Queen, ‘Bicycle Race’) What is this, some sort of bad-tempered word association game? Pic: PA Photos

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Music – The Jam – Brighton Centre

“You’re just another red balloon with a lot of hot gas. Why don’t you fuck off?” (The Jam, ‘Time For Truth’). No point beating around the bush, I guess. Pic: PA Photos

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“I’m serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer!” (SNAP, ‘Rhythm Is A Dancer’). These words will one day be inscribed on rapper Turbo B’s tombstone. Pic: Redferns

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SWITZERLAND MUSIC RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

“Bonafide ride, step aside my johnson. Yes I could in the woods of Wisconsin.” (Red Hot Chili Peppers, ‘Around The World’). For many more woeful couplets, pick up ‘Crap Lyrics’ by Johnny Sharp, out now via Portico. Pic: PA Photos.

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