Times you've just gone "Mate" - music edition

[Clownbaby]

The new Taylor Swift/Panic At The Disco lad song. Fucking mate

[Ornlu]

The new Slipknot, which seemingly features a choir of schoolgirls. Ah saying that the heavy bits are alright actually.

[Clownbaby]

Choirs of children singing in a song always make me toll my eyes

Do not respond by posting endless links to children-choir songs that might change my mind, not interested

[Icehaven]

I heard a song on the radio called 'You Can't Change That' by Ray Parker Jr's 70s group Raydio:

"You can change your telephone number
And you can change your address too
But you can't stop me from loving you
No, you can't change that, no, no"

I'm sure Ray was simply alluding to mere ephemera making no impact on the depth of his feelings for his special lay-dee, but it does sound a tad stalkerish.

See also;

Even when you're home
you won't pick up your phone
and take my call
When I see you on the street
You stare down at your feet
you won't talk at all
If only you would see me
one more time and maybe
some day you will find
that you could really love me
you could really need me
Maybe you could change your mind
But you'll never stop me from loving you
It doesn't really matter what you put me through
You'll never stop me from loving you
When I know that you're alone
I wander to your home
and catch a glimpse or two
It seems that all the time
the thought is on my mind
of being with you
The times I've tried to see you
you know I would meet you
any time, night or day
But still you just refuse
and no matter what you do
I'll never let you get away
But you'll never stop me from loving you
It doesn't really matter what you put me through
You'll never stop me from loving you
Are You'll never stop me from loving you
Wherever you can go I will follow you
You'll never stop me from loving you
Never stop 2x
Never stop me
If only you would see me
one more time and maybe
some day you will find
that you could really love me
you could really need me
Maybe you could change your mind

Fucking psycho.

[flotemysost]

Not exactly rapey, but any 60s pop song which ostensibly seems to be moaning about how some girl is taking her time in letting the singer chuck one up her - Tired of Waiting for You by The Kinks and Wouldn't It Be Nice by the Beach Boys come to mind. Whenever the latter comes on my iPod I always find myself thinking I BET YOU'D FIND IT NICE YOU DIRTY OLD BOLLOCKS, I BET YOU WOULD.

[chveik]

Gary Puckett innit

Young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

With all the charms of a woman
You've kept the secret of your youth
You led me to believe you're old enough
To give me Love
And now it hurts to know the truth

Whoa, oh, oh, young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Beneath your perfume and make-up
You're just a baby in disguise
And though you know that it's wrong to be
Alone with me
That come on look is in your eyes

Whoa, oh, oh, young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

So hurry home to your mama
I'm sure she wonders where you are
Get out of here before I have the time
To change my mind
Cause I'm afraid we'll go too far

Whoa, oh, oh, young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for you is way out of line
Better run, girl
You're much too young, girl

Young girl
Get out of my mind
My love for

MATE

[purlieu]

The lyrics to She's Electric by Oasis.


"She's got a cousin, in fact she's got 'bout a dozen, well she's got one in the oven but it's nothing to do with me"


Just get real fucked Noel mate

Oh, I like that one. It's one of about five line's Noel's written that I actually enjoy. He really was just being totally daft. His worst song, lyrically, is 'Don't Go Away', which is almost completely just a string of cliches

A cold and frosty morning there's not a lot to say
About the things caught in my mind
As the day was dawning my plane flew away
With all the things caught in my mind
And I want to be there when you're
Coming down
And I want to be there when you hit the ground
So don't go away, say what you say
But say that you'll stay
Forever and a day in the time of my life
'Cause I need more time, yes, I need more time
Just to make things right
Damn my situation and the games I have to play
With all the things caught in my mind
Damn my education I can't find the words to say
About all the things caught in my mind
And I want to be there when you're
Coming down
And I want to be there when you hit the ground
So don't go away, say what you say
But say that you'll stay
Forever and a day in the time of my life
'Cause I need more time, yes, I need more time
Just to make things right
Me and you, what's going on?
All we seem to know is how to show
The feelings that are wrong
So don't go away, say what you say
But say that you'll stay
Forever and a day in the time of my life
'Cause I need more time, yes, I need more time
Just to make things right
So don't go away, say what you say
But say that you'll stay
Forever and a day in the time of my life
'Cause I need more time, yes, I need more time
Just to make things right
Yes, I need more time
Just to make things right
Yes, I need more time
Just to make things right
So don't go away

He must have spent about three minutes on it, and two of those working out which line would be the title.

[madhair60]

It's not supposed to be about rapey lyrics you absolute mischiefs.  Get educated:

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=49283.120

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=59696.0

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=67033.0

[Rizla]

Patto's "Hold Me Back". For fuck's sake lads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJTEjhZyZOw

Hold me back
You're much to young to understand the game
Your mother never heard you scream like that in pain
The way you scratch and fight is all in vain
Your schoolgirl eyes are driving me insane
Thirteen summers passed by your door
You think its time to score
Alright but don't tell all the neighbour boys
Your mamas out of town
Thirteen summers got left behind
The minute you found out
Indeed that your blues eyes could hypnotise
Drive a man insane
Hold me back
The look that's on your face just makes me pale
You keep on licking your lips I'm gonna land in jail
You're sighing moaning telling me I can't fail
You keep on braggin what you got ain't for sale

[jobotic]

1,2,3 Red Light by 1910 Fruitgum Company, covered by The Pooh Sticks

Everytime I try to prove I love you
1, 2, 3 red light stops me
Baby you ain't right to stop me
1, 2, 3 red light stops me

Everytime I try to love you
1, 2, 3 red light stops me
Baby every night you stop me
1, 2, 3 red light

Stop the game (stop the game)
You got too much to lose (too much to lose)
If you stop me again
That's when we might end

So please don't refuse (please don't refuse)
Everytime I make a move to love you
1, 2, 3 red light don't stop me
Baby you ain't right to stop me

1, 2, 3 red light don't stop me
Everytime I try to prove I love you
1, 2, 3 red light don't stop me
When I know I'm right don't stop me

1, 2, 3 red light
Everytime I make a move to love you
1, 2, 3 red light don't stop me
Baby you ain't right to stop me

[Wet Blanket]

In threads of this nature someone always has to quote the lyrics of Run for Your Life by John Lennon and his Beatles, so it may as well be me this time.

Well, I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or you won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end, little girl

Well, you know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you toe the line

Let this be a sermon
I mean everything I've said
Baby, I'm determined
And I'd rather see you dead

To be fair to the man, he later expressed regret about writing that. Lennon was a cock, but at least he had the sensitivity and self-awareness to cringe and think "mate" about himself.

Lennon always gets it in the neck for this but it seems he was better prepared to hold up his hands to its misogyny than admit that he'd ripped off the Elvis song Baby Let's Play House, even stealing that most contentious opening couplet wholesale, like he would later do on Come Together

[pupshaw]

Not sure these lyrics are accurate, but they are true to the spirit

"One Of Those People" by The Nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS5O7tClxnE

I'm one of those people
My father tells my sister not to go out with
If I get you in a corner, you can guarantee
I want more than a goodnight kiss

Can you tell by looking that you get a damned good hugging
And you'll soon find out
In the meantime while I'm looking
Buy a Kamasutra book
And work the whole thing out, the whole thing out

I'm one of those people
My father tells my sister not to go out with
If you do look immature, you can provide a cure
Let the whole thing drift

If you have a reservation, or inclined to hesitation
Better miss me out
In the meantime while I'm looking
Buy a Kamasutra book
And work the whole thing out, the whole thing out

I like my sister but I'd rather not have her
And if I gag her,
you can kiss my sister, you can kiss my sister

I'm one of those people
A certain Sunday paper likes to write about
The double banner headlines in a frank-revealing all-about
They love to shout

[a duncandisorderly]

Patto's "Hold Me Back". For fuck's sake lads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJTEjhZyZOw

Not sure these lyrics are accurate, but they are true to the spirit

"One Of Those People" by The Nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS5O7tClxnE

further proof if it were needed, that 'those were different times'.... this king crimson number, if you (now) look up the lyrics with the intention of posting them in a "mate, ffs" type thread, now seem to have the slightly dodgy stanza excised. here, it is intact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_gzyaafZd8

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Lennon always gets it in the neck for this but it seems he was better prepared to hold up his hands to its misogyny than admit that he'd ripped off the Elvis song Baby Let's Play House, even stealing that most contentious opening couplet wholesale, like he would later do on Come Together

True, but the Elvis song - originally recorded by the blues musician Arthur Gunter - isn't actually that dodgy apart from the offending "I'd rather see you dead" line. It mostly consists of Elvis going "B-b-b-b-b-b-baby, baby, baby" while pleading with the woman in question to move in with him. Lennon nicked that nasty lyric and ran with its misogyny for an entire song. I think he was right to hold his hands up.

Also, he did admit that he stole the line from Elvis, didn't he?

[Captain Z]

It's not supposed to be about rapey lyrics you absolute mischiefs.

[a duncandisorderly]

well, then, post some dodgy lyrics that aren't rapey. or some music where you went 'mate...'

[Clatty McCutcheon]

Oh, I like that one. It's one of about five line's Noel's written that I actually enjoy. He really was just being totally daft. His worst song, lyrically, is 'Don't Go Away', which is almost completely just a string of cliches

He must have spent about three minutes on it, and two of those working out which line would be the title.

The scary thing is that even the chorus from this was plagiarised from a song by The Real People, a band who gave Oasis a leg-up in their early days

Chorus from 1.33 in video below -

https://youtu.be/YH1FBmWL0V8

[Bennett Brauer]

Gary Puckett innit

MATE

I know that gets cited a lot, but at the risk of getting #cancelled I don't think it's quite as problematical as some people claim. The protagonist isn't a groomer or a creep (probably), but someone who's found out the girl he's fallen for is younger than he thought.  Arguably a distasteful theme with a hint of female-shaming that doesn't sit well today, but at least there's some sort of moral compass there, and it's still a valid subject for a song.

[a duncandisorderly]

well, then, post some dodgy lyrics that aren't rapey. or some music where you went 'mate...'

ok, I'll go first. this is about a place in this song where, had I been in this band, I'd've gone "no, lads... that's fucking lame. let's change it...."

the mighty massive cooper temple clause & their song about being a bad drunk, which has a fucking dreadful bridge that completely emasculates it, at 4'00.

it's only a bar, but if they were drinking in a bar as shit as this one, it's no wonder they're fed up with being booze-hounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Dc2natDLs

[kngen]

I'm sure we're all aware of Vinnie Vincent Invasion's opus Boyz Are Gonna Rock, but have you ever taken the time to really analyse the lyrics? They are quite extraordinary in the amount of rock cliches contained therein, while introducing entirely new ones to the rock lexicon. Everyone knows the timeworn idiom: We take our stand/ We raise our fist/ We hail to the rock brigade! But this is where it first originated. Crazy, eh?


Enjoy (and if you need a refresher, here's the video).

Well, I'm a sex-shooter
Hot teaser
Love pleaser
Got a lust that kills

Got a reputation
From town to town
We fight to win
We'll take you to a higher ground

We stand united, nobody falls
No more backs against the wall

The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We're never gonna stop
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We'll take it to the top "Gonna rock"
Until the day we drop
The boyz are gonna rock

Well, we burn our cages
We're outrageous
Runnin' rabid
We're the hounds of hell
Been raped and branded
Left stranded
In the back alleys
Where the street dogs dwell

Like an animal
We break the jungle rules
Fight fire with fire
And die before we lose

We stand united, nobody falls
No more backs against the wall

The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We're never gonna stop
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We'll take it to the top "Gonna rock"
Until the day we drop
The boyz are gonna rock

We take our stand
We raise our fist
We hail to the rock brigade
The street boys on a rampage
Got a fire burnin' in my veins
The winds howlin' out my name

The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We're never gonna stop
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We'll take it to the top "Gonna rock"
Until the day we drop
The boyz are gonna rock

[SteveDave]

I've been listening to all the Lou Reed LPs I've been blessed to not have heard before and there's too much choice for this thread in them but I'd go for:

[Verse 1]
I love women, I think they're great
They're a solace to the world in a terrible state
They're a blessing to the eyes, a balm to soul
What a nightmare to have no women in the world

[Chorus]
I love women
I love women
I love women
We all love women

[Verse 2]
I used to look at women in the magazines
I know that it was sexist, but I was in my teens
I was very bitter, all my sex was on the sly
I couldn't keep my hands off women, and I won't till I die

[Chorus]
I love women
Ah, I love women
We love women
We all love women

[Verse 3]
A woman's love can lift you up, and women can inspire
I feel like buying flowers and hiring a celestial choir
A choir of castratis to serenade my love
They'd sing a little Bach for us and then we'd make love

[Chorus]
I love women
I love women
We all love women
We love women

[Panbaams]

As the accidentally #cancelled broadcaster Danny Baker once said, Sweat by Inner Circle sounds like "a rapist's charter".

Girl I want to make you sweat
Sweat 'til you can't sweat no more
And if you cry out I'm gonna push it some more
Girl I want to make you sweat
Sweat 'til you can't sweat no more
And if you cry out I'm gonna push it
Push it push it some more

Worse still if you hear "I'm looking in your big brown eye", rather than "eyes".

[non capisco]

Worse still if you hear "I'm looking in your big brown eye"

Your 'inner circle'.

[SteveDave]

And when your body's had enough of me
And I'm layin' flat out on the floor
When you think I've loved you all I can
I'm gonna love you a little bit more

Whether you want it or not.

[Flouncer]

Since we've moved firmy back into rape territory, I present the astoundingly creepy 'Don't Let Your Daddy Know' by Dr. Feelgood.

I get nervous when we meet
You look so young and sweet
You're taking time off school
Oh angel keep it cool

He worries about you so
Don't let your daddy know

I think the time is right
To take you out tonight
I can't call at your door
What if the neighbour saw

One thing just before i go
Don't let your daddy know

Before I knew your name
I loved you just the same
I love you still i do
It's a secret between us two

He might not dig it so
Don't let your daddy know

Wilko... Mate... Different times and all, but fuck me that's dodgy. Good tune though.

[Bennett Brauer]

Isn't that just another riff on the old theme of the boy from the wrong side of tracks, who quit school the first chance he had, going out with a sixth-former whose father wouldn't approve of him?

You might not risk writing it in today's climate, but that doesn't make it dodgy in itself.

[Flouncer]

Why does the narrator draw attention to her being young, and howcome he gets nervous when they meet?

CAUSE HE'S A FUCKING NONCE MATE

[kngen]

I've been listening to all the Lou Reed LPs I've been blessed to not have heard before and there's too much choice for this thread in them but I'd go for:

Having never heard that song, I'm imaging the chorus as sounding like the NTNOCN classic 'I Like Trucking'

[Ferris]

Choirs of children singing in a song always make me toll my eyes

Do not respond by posting endless links to children-choir songs that might change my mind, not interested

You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Stones always makes me cringe during the intro.

Mate

[Ferris]

I've been listening to all the Lou Reed LPs I've been blessed to not have heard before and there's too much choice for this thread in them but I'd go for:

[Chorus]
I love women
I love women
I love women
We all love women

This made me laugh out loud. I'm sure it's better in context with music and that, but written down it looks sub-"My Lovely Horse"