It reached number one in 31 countries, with lovely harmonies wallpapering over questionable lyrics. They scored numerous UK number ones, but ‘Back For Good’ was their biggest hit. This unexpectedly dark simile is jarring in an otherwise light-hearted dance number.īefore he went solo, Robbie Williams was a member of British vocal pop band Take That. I’m serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer! But the final line of the final verse is delivered in Joel’s heartiest bellow, and it cheapens Joel’s succinct summation of American history. I could have chosen his labelling of his wife as an “instant pleasuredome” in early album track ‘You’re My Home’ or numerous forced lines in his Vietnam saga ‘Goodnight Saigon’.įrom 1989’s Storm Front, ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ is a clever concept – starting in Joel’s birth year of 1949, it chronologically lists the major events impacting the US baby boomer generation. Rock and roller cola wars, I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMOREīilly Joel is an expert tune-smith, but has written many awkward lyrics. Hypodermics on the shores, China’s under martial law Only time will tell if we stand the test of time There’s honesty when we touch? There’s too much honesty when we touch? This entire record by Canadian songwriter Dan Hill is soft-rock hell, but the chorus lyrics are particularly awful. I want to hold you till the fear in me subsides But the vague lyrics were often misconstrued as drug references Randy Newman dismissed ‘A Horse With No Name’ as sounding like it’s “about a kid who thinks he’s taken acid.” The line “there were plants and birds and rocks and things” is particularly egregious, and later provided an album title for Scott Miller’s The Loud Family. The song was intended to literally depict the desert, inspired by artworks and by writer Dewey Bunnell’s travels through the desert as a child. ‘A Horse With No Name’ was the first single from folk-rock trio America. There were plants and birds and rocks and things He gave the green light to generations of pseuds.” Craig Finn of The Hold Steady later told The Guardian that “that’s surely the worst line in rock’n’roll history. ‘Riders On The Storm’ was the last Doors’ single to feature front-man Jim Morrison – it entered the US charts the same week that Morrison died. But the opening couplet, rhyming “masses” with “masses”, could have used some more work. Unlike most of the tracks to come on this list, Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’ is a great song.
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