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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