best/worst uses of the deadly "Walking/Talking" lyric combo??

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While recently listening to A Flock of Seagulls' album Listen I realized they used this horrible rhyme in at LEAST 5 songs on the album. ("If I see you walking, if I see you talking, what am I supposed to do?") That's the most outrageous lyrical offense I can think of. I could probably name a hundred more songs that use it if I thought for a while. It's even on the album I bought today by Altered Images. Any more?

― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the obvious worst: Aerosmith"s "Walk this way, talk this way"

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 6 November 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

VU: 'you better walk it, and talk it less you lose that beat' -- thanks uncle lou!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 6 November 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
Serge Gainsbourg - Walkie Talkie

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 6 November 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

'It's just the way she's walkin' / It's just the way she's talkin' - JAMC, Some Candy Talking.
Fills the bridge to the next chorus, I suppose.

― bham, Thursday, 6 November 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I see you walkin', I see you talkin' oo with all of my friends - T.Rex, "Baby Strange"
That's one of Mr. Bolan's more straightforward lines, and it's never made me cringe anyway.

Dale Hawkins' "Suzie Q" (as recorded by CCR) has a whole verse devoted to this walk/talk rhyme.

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm walkin, yes indeed and I'm talkin bout you and me
I'm hopin that you'll come back to me, uh uh

Not too bad from Fats.

― David Gates of Delirium, Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Walk Like a Man" by the Four Seasons features a fine example of this couplet, which I wouldn't be quick to condemn, given that we're talking about pop music and "walk/talk" are useful words that rhyme perfectly. I'll grant that after years of overuse, I'd be reluctant to use the pairing--same with "feet/street," and the archetypal "moon/june/spoon." I think "lovin'/turtledovin'" might be due for a revival. "Walk Like a Man" by Grand Funk Railroad, though a different from the Four Seasons' tune, has the same "Walk Like a Man/Talk Like a Man" chorus.

― Dylan, Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

dylan so OTM it hurts.

but this hurts more:

"she'll see this time i wasn't just talking/then i'm gonna go out walking."

- bruce springsteen, "meeting across the river"

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

OTM? You have me at a disadvantage. Oily, Tired, and Macho?

― Dylan, Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Wilco is worst:
"I know you don't talk much but you're such a good talker/
I know we should take a walk, but you're such a fast walker"

― BrianB, Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

dylan:
on the money.
overtly true, man.

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one song on the ween country album That I'm thinging of that uses theses together pretty well.

is it: "walking down a one way street, talking with the friends you meet"? or something has that I think?

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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