Worst album lyrics wise

Bohemian Rhapsody may very well be nonsense.  But "Nothing really matters" may be the key to the mystery of what life is all about, and more meaningful and knowledgeable than all of Dylan and Lennon's greatest lyrics combined.

I don't know about that... Dylan has written some f**king phenomenal stuff...

Sheer Brass Neck wrote: Bohemian Rhapsody may very well be nonsense.  But "Nothing really matters" may be the key to the mystery of what life is all about, and more meaningful and knowledgeable than all of Dylan and Lennon's greatest lyrics combined. I think it´s fair to say that even Fred would have laughed himself almost beyond bladder control at your post.

The Works. Tear It Up, I Want To Break Free, Man On The Prowl & Is This The World We Created (beautiful, but the lyrics make me cringe). Hard to beat that one!

Yup - The Works not great but still miles ahead of The Game. More narrative, more proper nouns.

Bigfish wrote: Sheer Brass Neck wrote: Bohemian Rhapsody may very well be nonsense.  But "Nothing really matters" may be the key to the mystery of what life is all about, and more meaningful and knowledgeable than all of Dylan and Lennon's greatest lyrics combined. I think it´s fair to say that even Fred would have laughed himself almost beyond bladder control at your post.

I said (sorry for the caps as my underline doesn't work) MAY BE.  I don't think it is, but I do recall the show on Bohemian Rhapsody where scholars and historians tried to contemplate and figure out what it was all about, so it has some depth.  Not the opera part.  But, is the sentiment of "nothing really matters" or "anyway the wind blows" that different than "the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind?"  Not making a case for BR as deep lyrics but it's more than toss away fluff.

Even with maybe he would have pissed himself. Having said that the pathos of "Mama - life had just begun but now I´ve gone and thrown it all away" is not lost on me. The one thing Bo Rap has loads of is Pathos..

Well I can't be the judge of what his urinary tract would or wouldn't have done, and I don't think it's among my favourite lyrics, but obviously there is a lot of deep meaning in the non-opera bits.  Is it a person who is at a crossroads in life questioning everything or someone who had bet the band $100 he would get the names Scaramouche and Bismillah into a song by the fourth album?  Nobody knows his thoughts and trying to interpret them would be folly.  I just think that in reply to the previous poster that the lyrics aren't nonsense or awful.

jpf wrote: "Hot Space"

Totally agree.A waste of an album.

still lyrically better than The Game though..

I was only thinking out loud, as I hadn't worked out which album had the biggest number of poorly written songs, which is how I would decide it.

I think The Game is pretty good lyrically. Sail Away Sweet Sister and Don't Try Suicide come to mind for being inferior lyrically, but are both pretty good songs regardless, SASS especially still shines. I do see what you mean however by too many love songs, I'd never really noticed before but 5/10 songs on there have love as a fairly blatant subject matter.

I'll have to agree that The Works is the least impressive lyrically.

The Works.. hmm dunno. You´ve got strident anti-war Hammer to Fall, Indictment of the video age Radio Ga Ga, Poverty and injustice commentary with Is this the world.. Sorry still more interesting than anything on The Game even with the odd cringeworthy moment..

worst = "Flash Gordon" No lyrics at all & the 2 songs that do have lyrics!!!! well!!! "Flash-ahh... saviour of the universe" isn't Brian at his best, is it.

And Talking of "The Game" to be honest that album has one of my favoite lyrics in a Queen song of all time. Coming Soon:- "Like some Mother-in-law, in her Nylon tights" & "The Neighbours screaming when the noise annoys, somebody nagging you when you're out with the boys" Roger penning a song, at his absolute, tong-in-cheek best.

Kind of not really counting flash gordon as it was a predominantly music only soundtrack but no I didn´t like "Flash - ah ah" much either. Coming soon is probably one of the better lyrics on the Game though not a great song at all.

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