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Jeff Truzzi · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: The bad rhyme thread

Do 'same' and 'again' rhyme in the UK?
They don't in the US, but that hasn't stopped songwriters from trying.

Mr Tein · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

wow I loved your hair was orange
but ouch your voice creaked like a doorhinge

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spidermage · Nonsuch Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1670

This is from Hoagy Carmichael's The Old Music Master - it's so awful that it achieves genius:

"He hit a chord that rocked the spinet
and disappeared into the infinite"

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Jeff Truzzi · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:48 am Post subject:

spidermage wrote:

This is from Hoagy Carmichael's The Old Music Master - it's so awful that it achieves genius:

"He hit a chord that rocked the spinet
and disappeared into the infinite"

But see, in American English, that rhymes!

spidermage · Nonsuch Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1670

Jeff Truzzi wrote:

spidermage wrote:

This is from Hoagy Carmichael's The Old Music Master - it's so awful that it achieves genius:

"He hit a chord that rocked the spinet
and disappeared into the infinite"

But see, in American English, that rhymes!

I never said that it didn't rhyme.

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Jeff Truzzi · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:09 am Post subject:

spidermage wrote:

Jeff Truzzi wrote:

spidermage wrote:

This is from Hoagy Carmichael's The Old Music Master - it's so awful that it achieves genius:

"He hit a chord that rocked the spinet
and disappeared into the infinite"

But see, in American English, that rhymes!

I never said that it didn't rhyme.

LOL!

Terra Incognita · Apple Venus Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1858

Season cycle and Umbilical

do they rhyme? yes. is it a bad rhyme? double yes. is it playful and grin-inducing? triple yes.

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spidermage · Nonsuch Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1670

Terra Incognita wrote:

Season cycle and Umbilical

do they rhyme? yes. is it a bad rhyme? double yes. is it playful and grin-inducing? triple yes.

In a similar vein, Joanna Newsom (creator of some fantastically intricate wordscapes) manages to rhyme 'monkey' with 'spelunking'. That's good shit.

And in Mad Mad Moonlight Steve Harley rhymes 'orange' with 'syringe'.

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Terra Incognita · Apple Venus Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1858

spidermage wrote:

In a similar vein, [...] in Mad Mad Moonlight Steve Harley rhymes 'orange' with 'syringe'.

heh heh heh

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Spastic Minnow · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:40 am Post subject:

....you're going to have yourself a scooby snack!
That's a fact!

Yeah, you know what stations I channel surf.

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Terra Incognita · Apple Venus Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1858

Spastic Minnow wrote:

....you're going to have yourself a scooby snack!
That's a fact!

Yeah, you know what stations I channel surf.

sounds like the history channel or a&e to me

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Jeff Truzzi · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:37 am Post subject:

God save the Queen
She ain't no human being

Fellinifiend · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:22 am Post subject:

Poor-poise
noise

Across this Antheap

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spidermage · Nonsuch Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1670

Here's rhyming for you:

I want to tell you,
I might as well do
About a girl I met back in May
Her name is Rita
And you should see her
When she goes
Ooh wakka doo wakka day

She's got a brother
like any other
Who got his nose caught
Inside a gate
And when they freed him
It so relieved him
He just went
Ooh wakka doo wakka day

You wouldn't think to look at me
That I was strong but underneath
It all I really am
And just prove it why only the other
Day I picked a needle up with one hand

Now up in Bradford
A chap named Radford
While taking part in a local play
Was intercepted and then suspected
of going Ooh wakka doo wakka day

ay ay ay
Who's that lady I saw you with?
It was not your wife
It looked to me suspiciously like
Someone I have never seen before
In my life
...Do..do...do

It's not surprising when
You come to think of it
Just what it is that makes
people swear
You only have to sing the wrong bleepin' thing
And there'll be bleeping every bleeping where.

Now if you love me
You're not above me
And if you don't well
What can I say
Except will see when
You come to tea then
you can go
Ooh wakka doo wakka day

(Gilbert O'simpleton)

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Terra Incognita · Apple Venus Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1858

KANYE WEST

“Don't try to treat me like I ain’t famous,
My apologies, are you into astrology?
Cause I'm, I'm tryin to make it to Uranus.”

I googled 'songs' and 'bad rhymes', and this was one of the worst offenders.

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