Best Lyrics ever!

[Mrs Trellis]

Anyone else see this in the papers today? (wot no Dylan? )

arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1755768,00.html


1 One "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers"
U2

2 How Soon Is Now "So you go, and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die"
The Smiths

3 Smells Like Teen Spirit "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us"
Nirvana

4 Redemption Song "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds, have no fear for atomic energy, cause none of them can stop the time"
Bob Marley

5 Yellow "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you"
Coldplay

6 Lose Yourself "Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?"
Eminem

7 Angels "And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection, whether I'm right or wrong"
Robbie Williams

8 My Generation "Hope I die before I get old"
The Who

9 Creep "I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here"
Radiohead

10 What's Going On "Father, father, we don't need to escalate, you see, war is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate"
Marvin Gaye

[ekki]

Here's a better working link:
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Can't be good when Bono is No. 1 ;D

[zapatoo]

Thanks for that, Ian

I thought the lyrics to the Upsetters' "Live Injection" were absolutely supreme and unparallelled!!! ;D ;D

Or Stitt's "Look how you're sad and blue, I, King Stitt's got a new discovery for you, the one called() Vigorton 2 - Lord have mercy!!!"

Seriously though, another populist poll, probably pollsters were asked to choose from a closed list of song lyrics. Thus, many songs with more meaningful lyrics won't have appeared.

Putting any JA conscious lyrics to one side, I wonder if any Curtis Mayfield lyrics were included - or Gil Scott-Heron - assuming this was a closed list.

No surprise to see a Marley line in there - after all, no populist poll is complete without Bob Marley in it, is it? (and I'm not criticising RNM here, either!) ...similar comment for Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" too...

I'd say (assuming a closed list again) that this was a lost opportunity to find out what folk (or Grauniad readers) really think...

...and "No", I'm not going to start a "Top 100 JA Lyrics" poll ;D

[I]

'Positively Fourth Street' by Bob Dylan is the best lyric.

Observer

[consciouspilot]

Surely Black Lace's Agadoo should be right up there amongst the gongs!!
I demand a retrial, and a little dance to boot....
Pilot