Which line in the Barenaked Ladies #1 hit "One Week" bothers you the most?

Why did you have to even make me recall this dross?

and not to forget:TS: Most Retarded-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover

(btw, the pic has got lost again, it seems)

the Aquaman line because of the way he says "ack-waman"

Chickity China the Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin

I'm going to vote for this but what a memorable line in a track that was totally unavoidable.

kind of guy who laughs @ a funeral

skip, I voted the same

Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing

just for the sheer wrong-ness of both delivery and message

You're missing a lot of even more terrible lines!

where's the popacatapetal one?

xp which ones?

I like the sushi 'cause it's never touched a frying pan

the hell does this even mean?

it means that he doesn't like to eat things that touch frying pans

where's the popacatapetal one?

i really do not remember this one

this part always made me irrationally angry for some reason:

like kurosawa I make mad films

I have a history of taking off my shirt

"Gotta get a set of better clubs gotta find the kind with tiny nubs just so my irons aren't always flying off the backswing."

"Like Kurosawa I make made films, 'kay I don't make films, but if I did they'd have a samurai."

"Watching X-Files with no lights on, we're dans la maison, I hope the Smoking Man's in this one."

in the context of all the other stuff though I think those three are okay

That first one is 30 syllables in 8 beats/2 bars. That's like some DAS EFX level bullshit right there.

'I make mad films' is inexcusable imo xpost

Voted "like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic...", though surely the entire X-Files line is in fact one of the worst things to happen ever

where's the popacatapetal one?

i really do not remember this one

― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:03 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It seems I have false memory syndrome...

I don't know who Kurosawa is so I guess I didn't feel it was so bad

there was nothing bullshit about das efx! smdh

I worded that wrong -- it approaches the fleetness of DAS EFX's delivery, but it's complete bullshit.

I don't know who Kurosawa

I should SB you for that.

The opening where the guy goes "YIT'S BEEEEEN" is the worst

worst part of the kurosawa thing is that i can still hear how he SAYS "kay i dont make films" ughughgghgghhhhh

if you'll notice I also fucked up the ending date of the poll as I thought today was the 4th

YITZ BEAN

i am still trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with america when it thought it nedded a rapping tmbg/four freshmen hybrid in its life

not gonna vote on this bullshit poll that has shitty lines not included for no good reason, frogbs should be suggest banned again imo

GRUNGE HAS FAILED. LET'S JUST KEEP THROWING SHIT AT THE WALL UNTIL THE DECADE'S OVER.

you know I pretty much had this from memory but you can always just vote "Home of the Robbie"

not gonna vote
on this bullshit poll
that has shitty lines
not included for no good reason

i dont wanna be one of those guys who posts 20-option polls, that's why

i feel like the options up there leave something for everyone

and if you don't think so y'all can kiss a dick

YITZ. BEAN.

Do you want to be the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral? xp

i can totally hear the bn guy singing andifyoudontthinksoyallcankissadick

but you'll have to sign a wavier

Sailor Moon, easy

the line that ends "all about value" makes me sick.

I... I honestly had no idea about some of the lines to this song, mostly because I turn it off when it comes on

yeah I'm starting to think I should have just copied and pasted the entire lyrics instead of trying to do this from memory

YITZ. BEAN. ONE WEEK SINCE Y'ALL KISSED A DICK.

Chickity China the Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin

who the fuck says things like this

millions and millions of people that summer

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=one+week+lyrics

And even some Canadians xp

Any sentence that starts "I'm the kind of guy who..." is sorta categorically the worst.

― ንፁህ አበበ (nabisco), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Like I think I speak for everyone ever when I say nobody wants to hear what kind of guy you are.

― ንፁህ አበበ (nabisco), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:39 PM (2 hours ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlxvn_jWgM

Bargainville is probably indefensible, or at least no more or less defensible than Gordon is, but as Gordon is the only BNL album I've ever heard all the way through aside from their Xmas one (holidays spent working retail...ugh), I can easily cop to a clear preference of one over the other. Even some of Bargainville's more novelty-ish songs (My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors, Video Bargainville) had some inventive musical and vocal quirks that BNL never bothered with.

And at least neither of them were the Arrogant Worms.

Gordon had a bunch of neat vocal stuff going on it too, and to be honest most of those "quirks" were some of my least favorite parts of Bargainville

I was not aware of the Ben and Jerry's BNL themed "If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours" ice cream until just now.

ANIME BABES

i have to admit i totally enjoy this song and i think my only excuse is that most novelty white rap songs have really slow plainspoken flows and this one just kind of flies by and keeps giving you new stupid lyrics to think about before the last one sinks in

It's far better than the Crash Test Dummies attempts at hip hop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEOknFCXom4

"I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavours"

this line is infuriating and i am surprised it does not seem to be more people's choice

chinese chicken was my first thought. i can't hate on "Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits," i just can't.

http://rapgenius.com/Barenaked-ladies-one-week-lyrics

a match made in heaven

"Witty comparison between dangerous actions, vertigo and waivers"

love that the subhuman "tropers" who update RapGenius.com explain the phrase "wear my heart on my sleeve" but don't know Leaders Of The New School, which would maybe be the one useful piece of information. Someone kill that fucking site with fire

What do Leaders of the New School have to do with One Week, WGW?

The line about golf balls flying off the backswing was the only one I ever related to

ANIME BABES

― fennel cartwright, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

"if i had a million dollars" is equally as shitty as this song

The way they go from "I'd buy you a fur coat (but not a real fur coat that's cruel)" to "I'd buy you a green dress (but not a real green dress that's cruel)"--I love that.

as much as i detest almost every barenaked ladies song i have heard i actually like "pinch me"

I've been genuinely thinking about which of these to tick for a while now. Tough call, they're all so bad. Ultimately, though, I went with "I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral"

"Box Set" is actually a pretty pointed song about a 70's one-hit wonder, maybe some of the best lyrics they ever did. And then the next song is "I Love You" which is just puke.

"You think you're so smart, well I've seen you naked"

i think that "what a good boy" is a pretty great song about gender roles

What do Leaders of the New School have to do with One Week, WGW?

― piper at the goats of j0hn (rustic italian flatbread), Thursday, October 6, 2011 4:47 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

3:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZLq6R-ZtM

haha whiney that was remarkably patient and even tempered of you -- i almost blew a gasket at rustic for that this morning but i was in a rush to get to work

hmmm I think I shall do another one of these polls for "If I had $1000000"

::throws box of mac & cheese at frogbs, but not playfully, like hard enough to actually hurt::

i'm actually thinking that song bothers me more since it's not really meant to be stupid, not like this

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I don't know anyone who likes this song and yet we all seem to know it. It's like we were all survivors of the same bizarre & horrifying CIA audible waterboarding horror. You think it would be easy to avoid, but then some series of unfortunate events occurs and you somehow end up at Applebees at 11:30 with other people who don't know how they got there and you hear that 'YEEEITS BEEN...' 'Oh Fuck, again?'; and you can just see everyone in a 20 foot radius get that morbid look on there face, like they were all told simultaneously to think about some of the reasons their lives suck. I have no verifiable data but I'm confident a thorough peer reviewed study would reveal that this song produces the exact opposite of the one people get when they listen to Brahms while eating dinner or whatever.

Hardy har har, I'm not even one of those people that spends time creatively explaining why music I don't like is objectively awful and worse than war crimes or whatever. I find it as tired and unamusing as what I'm sure you'll find what I wrote above is. But seriously, fuck this song.

i loved it when i was a kid

kind of guy who laughs @ a funeral

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 10:54 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

yes

inverting the name of swiss chalet to make it fit the crappy rhyme scheme seems like some kind of apotheosis so i voted for that

I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of taking off my shirt

this is always where my despair peaks w/ this song, I voted for the first but they deserve to be together

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I still stand with my "I'm the kinda guy who laughs at a funeral" vote, but it makes sense that the line that won won. It's certainly the lyric I heard quoted the most by fans back during the song's brief, obnoxious stranglehold on the radio.

how many of these could be beastie boys lyrics?

all of them tbh

man i dont think even the beasties would have stooped to that sailor moon line

\(^o^)/

what is a "stinking, aching shake"

like the last thing I want when I order a milkshake is for it to smell

So, the chorus is basically alright?

Absolutely it isn't

YITZ BEAN

when I was a kid I always heard the chorus as "it's two weeks two days before I say I'm sorry". which in my head made sense because one week + 5 days + 3 days + yesterday = 16 days = 2 weeks 2 days. I thought that was really clever, but that's not what the line actually is!

"I have a history of taking off my shirt" pisses me off more than the ones that I know are objectively worse, only because it seems geared at "wacky" people with "zany" senses of humor but it never goes above PG-13

like Chickety China the chinese chicken is objectively the worst, no question there....

if you hate the lyrics, man do I have a version for you!

https://soundcloud.com/edes421/barenaked-ladies-one-week-but-all-of-the-instruments-are-replaced-with-its-been

someone shared that in another thread a few years ago and I couldn't stop laughing for about a half hour after playing that

I don't know anyone who likes this song

I like it *ducks*

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