Can you name the song titles from a truly awful lyric contained within? by hscer

Can you name the song titles from a truly awful lyric contained within?

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I'm sorry if I dissed your faves, (actually, there are perhaps 2-3 good songs on this list). Also, this quiz is clearly far from comprehensive.
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Lyric	Song	Why so bad?
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day (x12)
We know the game and we're gonna play it
We're heading for Venus and still we stand tall
I love you like a fat kid loves cake
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night		ENUNCIATION, MANN!
Someone left the cake out in the rain
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
My lovely lady lumps
I like big butts and I cannot lie		Fairly self-explanatory, I think...
And no one heard at all/not even the chair
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in

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Really Terrible Song Lyrics Quiz

by hscer

Created May 11, 2010 in Music
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	jgrangers2:	May 11th, 2010 at 18:56 GMT	6 points
	"So neither Americans and Brits listen to their English teachers then." Before you question Paul McCartney's grammar, maybe you should take a look at your own. I'm not one to point out grammar issues, but in this istance, i feel it's warranted.

	hscer:	May 11th, 2010 at 19:04 GMT	2 points
	Sorry for the neither...nor lapse. It's fixed now though so it's ok!

	kthxbai:	May 11th, 2010 at 19:18 GMT	0 points
	Fun. Truly awful writing. Would have liked it to be longer...there's so much bad writing out there. I find it scary that MacArthur Park was covered a couple of times!?!

	hscer:	May 11th, 2010 at 19:35 GMT	-1 points
	There is some really bad writing, but I wanted to stay at 12 (to keep it at one column) because of the wordiness of the quiz. If you want more, I got a lot of these from links like http://www.spinner.com/2007/03/27/the-worst-lyrics-ever-no-20/

	dylz:	May 11th, 2010 at 22:26 GMT	2 points
	hah, i never really noticed how awkward ending the line with 'serengeti' in the toto song sounded compared to the previous line (which i think ended in 'company')

	dxman:	May 11th, 2010 at 23:23 GMT	5 points
	Some are really bad, but some others are okay (Rock & Roll All Nite is fine, it's just repetitive). And if you're wondering, the worst lyrics ever in my opinion are "I did it all for the nookie (come on) the nookie (come on) so you can take that cookie" courtesy of Limp Bizkit.

	jonTK:	May 12th, 2010 at 00:41 GMT	1 point
	Firstly, the lyric is "cut loose like a deuce", unless the cover is sung wrong. Secondly, though it's easy to mishear, McCartney's lyric is "if this ever-changing world in which we're livin'", which IS grammatically sound.

	dxman:	May 12th, 2010 at 04:43 GMT	0 points
	@jonTK: Manfred Mann's Earth Band changed the lyric for their version.

	dxman:	May 12th, 2010 at 04:44 GMT	0 points
	And BTW, hscer, America (the band) was from the UK.

	Rifsun:	May 12th, 2010 at 06:26 GMT	0 points
	I love America, but honestly a good deal of their songs have pretty awkward lyrics. My favorite is "I understand you've been running from the man who goes by the name of the sand man."

	rockgolf:	May 12th, 2010 at 13:08 GMT	6 points
	As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti I thought the problem with this lyric was that Kilimanjaro rises about 200 km (160 miles) west of the Serengeti. It's like saying Niagara Falls can be heard from Manhattan.

	dylz:	May 12th, 2010 at 13:58 GMT	1 point
	haha rockgolf, perhaps toto was expressing uncertainty in that lyric, then? :P

	JimmyJames:	May 12th, 2010 at 14:26 GMT	5 points
	"Horse With No Name" also contains the gem of a line, "There were plants and birds and rocks and things." Just imagine them writing it. "Hey, what is there in the desert?" "Plants, birds, rocks..." "Anything else?" "I don't know. I'm sure we'll come up with something before we record it."

	exackerly:	May 12th, 2010 at 18:32 GMT	1 point
	Fun, but it could have been a lot longer...

	penguinman95:	May 12th, 2010 at 19:15 GMT	10 points
	@exackerly, That's what she said.

	hscer:	May 12th, 2010 at 20:36 GMT	3 points
	There's a lot wrong with Africa and A Horse With No Name lyrically. In addition to everything else said, Olympus is about 10,000 feet shorter than Kilimanjaro. Ironically, I consider those the two best songs on this list. @dxman While it is true I just assumed they were Americans, upon further research 2 of the 3 original members were born in the U.S.

	kagomeshuko:	May 13th, 2010 at 03:11 GMT	-1 points
	By lyric, sure. By AWFUL lyric, not really. Musicians are using something called poetic license. Guess you've never heard of it. Only "bad" lyric here is the one from baby got back and that's probably the BEST LYRIC of that whole song.

	Kyusil:	May 13th, 2010 at 06:39 GMT	3 points
	5 stars because this made me laugh. :)

	watson3001:	May 15th, 2010 at 13:21 GMT	1 point
	Bad Grammar isnt necessarily bad lyrics, some of these songs are awesome. The worst lyrics are ones that are pretentious and lack irony (for example ironic by Alanis Morissette) - if were gonna name n shame bad lyrics it should be the pretentious ones not the joke ones (eg baby got back)

	midnightdj:	May 15th, 2010 at 17:19 GMT	6 points
	I also love "the heat was hot" from Horse With No Name (gee, you think???)

	did:	May 18th, 2010 at 20:34 GMT	0 points
	I love McCartney as much as the next guy, but if you're going to pick on his lyrics, I'd go with "Someone's knockin' at the door, somebody's ringin' the bell, Someone's knockin' at the door, somebody's ringin' the bell, Do me a favor, open the door, and let 'em in" or any of the lyrics from "Hello Goodbye!" Also agree with all of you that Horse With No Name is idiotic, not to mention that it only has 2 chords in the entire song.

	midlifecrisis:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 20:33 GMT	0 points
	Africa, musically, is an awesome song. That is all.

	waterjoe:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 20:36 GMT	1 point
	I always though that the Turtles' Elenor had the stupidest lyrics. ("You're my pride and joy etcetera.") It turns out that they were trying to write awful lyrics as dig at their record label.

	CoolerKing:	Sep 3rd, 2010 at 19:22 GMT	2 points
	These lyrics really arent't that bad. This quiz mostly consists of anal retentive/grammer nazi-type picking apart of average lyrics. You could've done a lot better.

	ManlyStump:	Sep 4th, 2010 at 22:49 GMT	2 points
	I loved seeing the Tom Lehrer reference :)

	Panther:	Sep 5th, 2010 at 22:06 GMT	-1 points
	Okay, I get sir mixalot, i get 50 cent, i get black eyed peas. But what's your beaf with sir paul mccartney, or with macarthur park, or with toto? Lay off the classics, hunt down the real awful lyrics. This quiz could consist entirely out of 50cent/snoop dogg/sean paul lyrics.. indaclub my ass... next time, think better bout the subject.

	ManlyStump:	Sep 6th, 2010 at 15:12 GMT	2 points
	I love Africa but a lot of people think the lyrics (particularly the second verse) are crap. Don't have a go at the quiz-maker just because you disagree with it.

	maracopland:	Sep 7th, 2010 at 08:16 GMT	0 points
	Before you have a go at the quizmaker, Panther, perhaps try spelling "beef" correctly.

	Catherine_F:	Sep 7th, 2010 at 14:16 GMT	2 points
	@hscer; Even further research shows that all three founding members of America were born to American fathers and British mothers. While two of them were born in the USA, the one who actually wrote A Horse With No Name was the one born in England, and all three attended the same school in London which presumably suffered a shortage of good English teachers in the 1960s.

	BombaySapphire:	May 7th, 2011 at 16:27 GMT	1 point
	It's a shame, really, that @hscer contributed this quiz before Rebecca Black's Friday was foisted upon the world.

	discostu65:	Aug 2nd, 2011 at 04:17 GMT	1 point
	Kiss Rules!