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Favourite detail in a pop lyric

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What's your favourite use of detail in a pop lyric?

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 15 November 2002 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is she walked in through the out door in Raspberry Beret. Says more about the girl than her choice of headwear...

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 15 November 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The false start in I Saw Her Again Last Night

― jm, Friday, 15 November 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The Mamas & The Papas? What false start?

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 15 November 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

In Joga by Bjork, when she appears to get the start of the word wrong in one verse, and goes "me-you".

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

oddly enuff, mine is from "raspberry beret" too: "now overcast days never turned me on."

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 November 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"then run off with the bog roll for a laugh"

AHEM!

― mc pitman (starry), Friday, 15 November 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

At the last chorus they jump the gun on the cue and it hitches...

"I saw her -- I saw her agaaaaaaaiiiinnnnn last night...*

― jm, Friday, 15 November 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

was that really pitman ?
of course not surely ?

it's the way he *says* for a laugh that's funny isn't it ?
i also like the rhetorical -
'..shag vera duckworth on y' day off ' ?

― piscesboy, Friday, 15 November 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I always liked how Prince actually mentioned the name of his supervisor (Mr. McGee) at the "Raspberry Beret" five-and-dime.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 15 November 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

leather soles stick on cobblestones

also sleepy john estes asides eg:
i got to do some recording
i ought to be recording right now

― jones (actual), Friday, 15 November 2002 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)


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