i prefer Bush over Silverchair just due to Rossdale's lyrics sounding better in context than Johns'. i always felt the worst lyrics i heard from the grunge-rot era belonged to Candlebox though.
― omar little, Monday, 6 November 2023 18:29 (seven months ago) link
There are many contenders, really.
Too heavy, too lightToo black or too whiteToo wrong or too rightToday or tonightCumbersome
Here's something that is automaticIt's wax ecstatic (prounced 'uh-static')When life is nothing less than tragicIt's wax ecstaticWhen life has lost all its magicIt's wax ecstaticWhen life can't promise the fantasticIt's wax ecstatic
― Material Wetness (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 November 2023 18:35 (seven months ago) link
i wondered if i should include the candlebox guy
― ivy., Monday, 6 November 2023 18:37 (seven months ago) link
may-yay-be you meant to include the candlebox guy/but you didn't anyway
― omar little, Monday, 6 November 2023 18:39 (seven months ago) link
lmao
― ivy., Monday, 6 November 2023 18:41 (seven months ago) link
Wonder is Rossdale high-fived himself after the opening couplet here:
Do you feel the way you hateDo you hate the way you feelAlways closest to the flameEver closer to the bladeI am poison crazy lushBuilt these hands to lift me upWe are servants of our formulaic waysI'm screaming daisiesFrom fourteen miles awayI've got my own timeGot it all today
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 November 2023 18:43 (seven months ago) link
WE ARE THE YOUTH SO TAKE YOUR FASCISM AWAY
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:53 (seven months ago) link
we are the problem childwe spend our lives on trialwe walk an endless milewe are the youth gone wild
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:43 (seven months ago) link
oops *they call us problem child*
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 00:01 (seven months ago) link
no more maybesyour baby's got rabiessitting on a ballin the middle of the andes― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:07 (two weeks ago) link\
― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:07 (two weeks ago) link\
just wanted to make sure you all remember this amazing insight before voting
― Tim F, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 00:47 (seven months ago) link
Always wondered if David Bowie cared about Rossdale swiping lyrics from “Life on Mars?”
― beamish13, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 08:03 (seven months ago) link
songfacts.com on the significance of "Everything Zen":
This song helped bring the word "asshole" into the mainstream. The first verse contains the line "Should I fly Los Angeles, find my asshole brother," which most radio stations left as is. This type of profanity would have been removed just a few years earlier, but standards of acceptable profanity were being lowered. The TV show NYPD Blue was using it on primetime US TV, something that had never been done before.
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:50 (seven months ago) link
Should have censored "Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:52 (seven months ago) link
Amazing how much more regressive American radio got. I heard a ridiculously censored “You Oughta Know” a while back that eliminated the “go down on you in a theatre” with a comical echo effect. No matter. Terrestrial radio is dying
― beamish13, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:53 (seven months ago) link
actually that part was routinely censored back when the song first came out on American radio too. I had no idea what she was saying there until someone played me the unedited track much later
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:55 (seven months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:01 (seven months ago) link
The funniest was when they censored “45” in “Santeria”
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:31 (seven months ago) link
maybe it was a columbine thing
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:33 (seven months ago) link
It was really 9/11 that sent FM radio into conservative meltdown mode. I remember that “COP” got blocked from Sublime’s “April 29, 1992”
― beamish13, Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:02 (seven months ago) link
Pure Massey car
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:18 (seven months ago) link
VERY HARD TO DRINK
― ivy., Thursday, 23 November 2023 02:51 (seven months ago) link