Pompous speaky bits in otherwise ok tracks

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"America is pregnant with promise and anticipation... but is murdered by the hand... of the inevitable" - America, The Nice

I can't get enough. Your turn.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"We're rats, in a cage.
Suicide........or go-go!"

― mzui, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if this counts, but IT'S THE MAYOR!

Ernold same awoke from the same dream in the same bed at the same time
Looked in the same mirror made the same frown
And felt the same way as he did every day
Then ernold same caught the same train at the same station
Sat in the same seat with the same nasty stain next to same old what's his name
On his way to the same place to do the same thing again and again and again
Poor old ernold same

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

[insert sarky congestion charge comment here]

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I would love to say Baz Luhrman (sp) and his "Sunscream" thing, but in fact it was all pompous speaky bit and crap.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M LOSING MY EDGE

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"... and look... into the arms... of America..." Yes, thanks Bono, NOW FUCK OFF.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

A good 2/3 of the Doors' output, to whatever degree you consider them "otherwise OK." And "The End" is not even the worst example -- I'd give that honor to the bit about the car accident with the Indians in "Peace Frog."

― phil d., Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The second half of Are You Lonesome Tonight, but I'm not sure I rate the first half that highly either.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate the bit in "Hellnation" by the Dead Kennedys where Jello says "it's the only world we got, so let's protect it while we can" etc, the rest of the song's good but that bit just ruins it for me.

― poopy, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

that bit at the end of Buller the Blue Sky, which if i recall correctly, is spoken/whispered.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"I used to dream about this as a little boy. Never thought it would end up this way."

Though it's cool when he says "Drums."

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

oops im sorry, i forgot about the "otherwise ok" part. Bullet the blue sky is not otherwise ok.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus I already mentioned it!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Any and all lyrics on the new Plastikman album.

― bohford, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There's something about the spoken part in Darlene Love's "White Xmas" that really irks me. I guess it's too cheesy, talking about Xmas in LA, yada yada. Otherwise, it's a STUPENDOUS track.
(xpost, yes Nick, but admittedly you didn't quote the most pompous parts)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've blacked them out!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand all the hate for the lyrics on the Plastikman album. I think they add a lot to the record.
(xpost)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

justin IS NOT POMPOUS!
don't you see? he used to *dream* about this as a little boy, he never thought it would end up this way!!! where's the pomposity here?!!!!!

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've also never really gotten into the spoken verses in Pulp's "Acrylic Afternoons". The words themselves are excellent, but I don't like the delivery, it sounds a bit too forced.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Just a Man" by Faith No More, which, apart from the ridiculous spoken wordy bit breakdown before the big climactic outro, is actually a friggin' MONSTROUS song.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the spoken word bit on "Just a Man":

Man was born to love
Though often he has sought, like Icarus
To fly TOO high, and FAR too lonely than he aught.
To KISS the sun of East and West
And hold the TERRIBLE power to whom only GODS are blessed.
But me...
I am just a man.

Genius.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

On Pulp's "I Spy," I could do without the bit where he's riding his bicycle around dog turds and providing color commentary. Fab song otherwise, though.

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, I think they're good lyrics and all, it just kinda offsets the vibe of the song for me. It probably has more to do with the transposing-the-key thing than the spoken wordiness, it's just...that part has never sat well with me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how the bassline is all sinister in that bit, then it builds up to a massive, gospelly chorus. I think it works incredibly well.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe not pompous, but the 'nervous phone call' bit in You Don't Know My Name by Alicia Keys is positively toe-curling!

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone have The Wipers box?
That live bit where Greg Sage goes,
"If Orwell was right, we're all gonna be targets. We're all gonna be targets."

Off to the glue factory with you, buddy.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe not pompous, but the 'nervous phone call' bit in You Don't Know My Name by Alicia Keys is positively toe-curling!

-- M Carty (mcarty...), August 4th, 2004.

Yes yes yes. She was on Top of the Pops and I had to change channel when that bit came on.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Never Ever by All Saints - I do kinda like it, except the bit at the beginning.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Partridge Family - "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted." "I'm like any other guy / I start each day, and end each night." Very pompous of Keither Partridge not to transcend the time-space continuum.

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Are You Receiving" by Killing Joke - "WE HAVE ORDERS FROM THE NEW GOVERNMENT THAT MEMBERS OF THE SO-CALLED 'BEAT GENERATION' MUST BE DETAINED" etc. etc. etc. Ugh.

"Power in the Darkness" by the Tom Robinson Band...which is fucking excellent.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know if it's pompous but it's certainly plummy: the attack's "neville thumbcatch".

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 5 August 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Not one but two pompous spoken word bits for yer money...

"This song's dedicated to some of the best bands in the country
Some of the bands we never got to hear
Bands who never got any records out
Never got played on the radio
Never got written about in the press
{Still spoken}
This song's dedicated to Open Up
This song's dedicated to Said Liquidator
This song's dedicated to Supersaurus
This song's dedicated to :
Aaga, Kicks, The Interrogated, Seize The Infidels
Chance and Laverne & Shirley

and at the endish..

Well that's my story and I'm sticking to that
I remember standing under Byker Bridge
In Newcastle with Michael Bradshaw
And Mickey turned to me and saying
'Shirley - don't worry.
As long as you stick to what you believe in
Everything you want will come to you'

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 August 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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