Lyricosis
Word of the day. Lyricosis (n):
- singing so poorly that nobody can understand what you've sung;
- not knowing the actual lyrics, but singing anyway.
Usually type one causes type two in the listeners, therefore the condition is considered contagious.
We have a lot of lyrics on this site and there are plenty of misheard lyrics. Every now and then the singer gets so much into a song that he or she blows a line, or it is just written in such a way that is impossible to sing a line clearly. It happens all the time. And usually it is a line or two that can produce such hilarity.
Top Twenty Anti War Song Lyrics
Wars still rage around the world -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Sudan and a dozen other places. It seems that the news is nothing but stories of war. So much for the sixties anthem War is Over If You Want It. During the Vietnam War any artist worth their salt was writing anti war songs and getting air time for them. Today, even with so many wars raging, you have to hunt and search the web to find anything approaching an anti-war song and good luck finding anything on the radio. Apathy or corporate control? PlayOnLyrics.com presents the Top 20 Anti War lyrics in order of the song’s release.
PlayOnLyrics top 20 worst lyrics
At PlayOnLyrics we like to play around with misheard lyrics. Occasionally, however, you wish you had misheard a lyric, or can’t believe what you just heard.
Back in the day, one time Tonight Show host and hack musician Steve Allen used to read out lyrics from popular songs just to make fun of young musicians. That used to bug us. Taking lyrics out of context can be a distasteful and irrelevant exercise by the smug and untalented. After all, “The Doo Ron Ron” is a great song about nothing.
But, sometimes lyrics are just so bad you just have to stop and ask the question “what were they on when they wrote that?”
David Bowie
This month David Bowie
Long gone are the days of Cole Porter and the eloquent singers who could make you actually hear the subtle difference in the song title Begin the Beguine. Belting out rock songs and trying to get lyrics to fit into loud and complex rhythms isn’t easy. Add to that some weird poetry or some substance influence wording and you have the makings of a misheard lyric bonanza.
C-C-Cliché. Yes we all know David Bowie is a chameleon--yawn. From the mod days of the young Davie Jones in 1967 to the modern experimental jazzy rocker of today Bowie has remained reverent and vibrant. Famous albums include Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Young Americans, Heroes, Low, Ashes to Ashes and Let’s Dance. He might not hit the charts as often as he did in the 70s and 80s he is still making great music.
