Worst album lyrics wise

Sheer Brass Neck wrote: matt z wrote:

probably some of Brian's Greatest are on that one:

"One foolish world,
so many songs, senslessly hurled to the never ending cause
And all for fear,
and all for greed,
Speak any tongue, but for God's sake we need..."

Pretty much sums up a lot.
Or as my ears and most others hear it, "so many souls, senslessly hurled through the never ending cold."

Wow.... you're EFFING RIGHT!!

and all this time i thought it was a deep meditation on the fact that purely and simply "the song remains the same"

i think  Brian should go back and rewrite that one. ;)

Sounds better that way (at least to me)

senselessly hurled through the never ending cold?

was he referring to Russians or the Polish,... while singing in partial Spanish??

the man was clearly spreading himself thin!

BTW: WAS IT ALL WORTH IT ... the lyrics are deliberately playful.... The guys prob wanted to have some fun.... Blew his own trumpet... probably true. Fred stopped just a little short of eschewing his own damn self... ala Little Richard or Prince... but consider this from a man who renamed himself after a MESSENGER OF THE GODS

i think it's all very fitting.

Don´t think the yrics to Worth it are deliberately playful or even deliberately bad. They just didn´t spend enough time on them - I´m really surprised it got through the quality control.

Regarding In Only Seven Days, I don't know why people dislike it. Yes, it's simple, but so what? The simplicity is part of the beauty.  IOSD tells a story, and I think the lyrics are quite beautiful. As a matter of fact, its lyrics play a huge role in it being IMO Queen's greatest ever love song.

Yep covered this already. Fine narrative on IOSD. Underrated song.

Generally songs which use the days of the week bug me (Craig David anyone?) though he's not solely responsible. So I don't particularly like In only seven days (it does what it says on the tin).

In terms of albums with poor lyrics it is difficult to identify the worst. Songs like Coming Soon, Rock it have words with little emotional content but they're fine for the type entertaining rock 'n' roll songs they were written as.

Perhaps Hot space for me. Pretty much every song has meaningless lyrics (again as they were probably not written to have any meaning). Put out the fire bugs me too as it's a preaching sort of song telling us how to live our lives. Life is real I don't feel any connection to (though buried under the many phrases there are some of Freddie's feelings peeking out). The same goes for Brian in Las palabras de amor.

I'm not bashing Hot space as an album here, just maybe the "worst lyrics".

Bigfish wrote: Yep covered this already. Fine narrative on IOSD. Underrated song.
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Narrative of what though?  It's not really credible as fleeting passion (there is none),  and it's not particularly compelling or plausible as a love song.  You get the sense that whatever happened is going to be reluctantly left there in the past, so maybe it works as an abstraction of sorts of a kind of low grade loneliness that runs through many lives that we only become aware of when it's interrupted. Or maybe it works as a metaphor for the way time unfolds.  It's all kind of front loaded and sometimes it gets to be late in the grand scheme of things.  Or maybe not.  Either way, this song doesn't really move me as a narrative. Really, as a narrative it's kind of silly.

drmurph wrote: Generally songs which use thedays of the week bug me (Craig David anyone?) though he's not solely responsible. So I don't particularly like In only seven days (it does what it says on the tin). 
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I liked 'it does what it says on the tin'.  Well expressed and true.  I kind of like The Cure's 'Friday I'm in Love'.  That works pretty well as a days of the week song, probably because unlike either 7 days version it's not trying impart something fluid in an onerous appointment book format.  

Anyway, it made me think of songs with days in their titles.

I Don't Like Mondays
Rainy Days and Mondays
Tuesday Afternoon
Friday I'm in Love
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
Saturday Night
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Wednesday and Thursday get no love.  :( At least as far as I can summon off the top of my head.

GF, there's also 'Friday on My Mind' by the Aussie group The Easybeats. :D

Yes a simple song done well. A pleasant uncomplicated narrative sure and I think it´s at least indicative of Jazz being more lyrically interesting than ´the album that followed it. Someone mentioned ´The Miracle´ earlier and Was it all worth it and how playful the lyrics were...if you want playful it doesn´t get much better than Bicycle Race.

I also don't agree that The Game was Queen's worst album lyrically. While there were a few duds (Don't Try Suicide, the two Taylor tracks), the lyrics to Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Play the Game, AOBTD, and the three May tracks were IMO superb. The lyrics fit the songs perfectly, and were often extremely cool and (in a couple of cases) very beautiful, such as with Save Me.

Play the Game- fantastic lyrics. Mysterious, cool, sexy in a futuristic way.

Dragon Attack- terrific lyrics. What does it mean? Who knows? Also, who cares? I don't think that great lyrics always need to have meaning. Sometimes they simply need toenhance the mood.

Another One Bites the Dust- I think the lyrics are outstanding; extremely cool, I love that it introduces a character as the protagonist of the song, and the lyrics themselves fit the music like coke and vodka. 'Steve walks warily down the street, With the brim pulled way down low, Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet, Machine guns ready to go'. I think that is extremely impressive.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love- great lyrics. There are a few things about the lyrics to CLTCL which jump out at me. First, it comes across as a classic Elvis Presley song or of that era, however it is no facsimile. Second, that it was written in such a short period of time is extraordinary and indicative of Freddie's genius. Third, the 'Ready Freddie' line remains one of my all-time favourite Queen moments. :D Every time I listen to CLTCL, I await that line with anticipation. :D

Sail Away Little Sister- enigmatic, sexy, a little twisted. I love the lyrics, and reading them now, I can't help but hear Brian's voice. Which is a great thing.

Save Me- devastating. Incredibly sad and beautiful lyrics. 'I clothed myself in your glory and your love' is a beautiful line.

Sorry, BF, but I don't agree with you that The Game was Queen's worst album lyrically. Although, considering that it is all relative, even if it were, I don't think it would matter. The lyrics are superb IMO. :D

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[b]Bigfish wrote:[/b] if you want playful it doesn´t get much better than Bicycle Race. [/QUOTE]
That I definitely agree with. :D

Wow - an impassioned and quite complete response !! Save Me ? devastating ? hmm I´ll have to think abiout that one. Of course Queen lyrics are, generally, very good and as you and others have pointed out usually very well suited to the music. The whole point of this thread is to say that compared to other Queen albums it´s probably the bottom of an albiet very impressive pile.

[QUOTE] [b]Amazon wrote: [/b] GF, there's also 'Friday on My Mind' by the Aussie group The Easybeats. :D[/QUOTE] ============================ Thanks. :)  I've got a local one too. :)  Sudbury Saturday Night.  It's a 40+ year old Canadian country/folk yee haw about my home town.  It's an iconic song by an iconic old time musician that puts the hard working, hard partying and camaraderie of hard rock miners for The International Nickel Company (INCO)  (and their partners ) to music.  It's unlikely to be appealing to anyone outside of Canada who gets the reference and the culture, but one thing that might be interesting to somebody is the song's juxtaposition with another song - the same song essentially at it's core - that was written just a couple of years ago.  The second song was written by a local guy, filmed here (the exteriors are about 5 minutes from my house) and really tells the very same story about the job and about a working class that takes care of it's own, works hard and parties hard.  I just think it's interesting to see the same story, about the same city, in the same genre of music - but 40 years apart.   The evolution of the storytelling and the format is really interesting in it's way. Sudbury Saturday Night Rock Town

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the A Kind of Magic album. Some of the lyrics are laughably bad, albeit they had the excuse that some of it was written for Highlander. But that doesn't that explain either "fried chicken" or Friends Will Be Friends!? lol

I was wondering when someone would mention AKOM. Yes some bad lyrics here FRIENDS is a good example and quite possibly my least favourite Queen track ever. Sorry though, I think the fried chicken line is quite funny.