Here on the Contrast Podcast we like nothing more than standing quite a long way out from the crowd, and this episode brings us one step closer to our dream of total out and out oddness by looking at those rhymes that are so bad that they are so good.

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Playlist:

(00:00) Morrissey - King leer

Tim from The face of today

(03:39) Ronnie Hilton - A windmill in old Amsterdam

Chris from Phosphorous.net

(07:25) Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny shiny

Tricia

(12:01) The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

FiL from Pogoagogo

(18:26) The Bloodhound Gang - Three point one four

James from Appetite For Distraction

(23:12) Animal Liberation Orchestra - Girl, I wanna lay you down

Marcy from Lost in your inbox

(28:51) Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne

Robert Todd

(33:59) Half Man Half Biscuit - Reflections in A flat

Adam from Pretending life is like a song

(37:20) Mystery Jets - You can’t fool me Dennis

Eiron from Old fridges can kill

(42:39) Frank Zappa - Flakes

Natalie from Mini-Obs

(50:18) ABC - That was then, this is now

Linda from Speed of Dark

(54:38) Wicked - Popular

Kevin from Let Me Educate You

(59:26) Elton John - Madman across the water

Jeremy from Fingertips

(01:07:55) Ride - Birdman

John Q.

(01:14:23) Wally Pleasant - If I were

The In Crowd from I’m learning to share!

Thanks to all of you for contributing and listening. Next week, inspired by the demise of my lovely glasses, the theme will be Broken. If you need help to take part you’ll find it over here.

I’d also like to invite all of you to vote for the Festive 50:

1. Choose up to 50 (yes fifty) songs that were released in 2009 that you like. If you can only think of 10 .. don’t worry .. I’d still like to know what they are.

2. Send the list to me at contrast.podcast@gmail.com starting with your favourite track at number 1.

3. Do this by Sunday 15th November at the latest .. and try to get other people to vote too .. please!!

4. I will compile a short list of the top 100 songs which we will vote on to be in the top 50 and then start inviting people to record introductions.

5. Any questions? …. good … get thinking!!!

Thanks to SAS for picking the poem from here.

8 Comments so far

Oh Jeremy, you do not know how many times I scratched me head over Taupin’s lyrics. Often, I’d give up and say to myself, “He’s smoking something!”

Nat- Maybe Bernie’s problem was that he wasn’t smoking *enough*

“Sid, you’re a bloody genius”.
No FiL, you are. I have tears in my eyes.

Phew that was a tough shift this week. Never mind egregious rhymes, there were a few egregious songs in there!

Ok, I really liked all of these. From Wicked to Frank to the Sex Pistols. I even found myself tapping my toes to the Ronnie Hilton song!

I also liked the Dylan impression in the Zappa song. Quite fun.

Also, Eiron, your intro was among your finest, I thought.

And FiL, I honestly hope that Sid Vicious talked like that all the time. It adds a dimension to him that I quite like.

I said to FiL that I didn’t know that Dick Van Dyke and E.L. Wisty were in the Sex Pistols.

;)

Ouch!

That’d explain that one old Pistols EP; ‘Up Your Chimney / Beyond The Veil’ (or was it Vile?).

Some stellar intros this time - - Though Kevin, I managed to misunderstand your pop-ular warning re D.F. Duran & G.F. Kings, and so was anticipating F-Bombs in that spritely Broadway number, despite the prospect seeming so very unlikely.

It added to the fun, actually…

i have to say that i didn’t love many of the songs, however, i think that’s because songwriters who resort to such crummy rhymes in their lyrics are probably not the best of songwriters to begin with!

that said, always love me some zappa, i truly enjoyed the wally pleasant, and i really liked the mystery jets song.

tim, some of your rhymes were really cheesy, and that certainly can’t have been easy!

(sorry, i had to do it!)

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