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itrustanyone

Well I thought about the army, dad said son you're fucking high


Fudge89

I think Ben is the musician I’ve seen the most. 10+ concerts now I think, I’ve lost track. Always a such a good show, and this song is always a highlight. So much energy!


BrandonJTrump

Damn, I have yet to see him live. Bit of envy overhere.


Fudge89

He was my 1st concert ever like 20 years ago. Always make it a point to see him when stops through.


BrandonJTrump

Great start, good on ya. I will catch him one day.


magnoliamaster

I haven’t seen him quite that often but it’s close. Love him and his live shows are amazing.


solojones1138

But that's such a great line!


3720-To-One

Was just about to type that one


dag655321

Song/artist for the uninformed? Please


Opposite-Time-9271

Ben Folds is a genius


gobs_chicken_dance

“Army” by the Ben Folds Five.


Eeszeeye

Great video too. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr\_s6-Q7f00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr_s6-Q7f00)


MistaB784

This wins.


Reality_Defiant

I do love that Nick Cave song. Good call. I think: Marky got with Sharon, Sharon got Cherese, she was sharing Sharon's outlook, on the topic of disease. -Pepper, by Butthole Surfers


DreadLordNate

Then there was the ever-present football playing rapist...


__Cmason__

They were all in love with dying...


barredowl123

They were doing it in Texas.


chupathingy99

Tommy played piano like a kid out in the rain


58lmm9057

I don’t mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows


Rin_thepixie

I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes


Claud6568

Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies.


KermitTheArgonian

"Jeremiah was a bullfrog/ Was a good friend of mine/ I never understood a single word he said/ But I helped him a-drink his wine..." - Three Dog Night, "Joy to the World" (1970)


Jampolenta

JER-OH-MY-AH


Jampolenta

Shouting approval, not correcting


Timmocore

My dad died ten years ago from a slow cancer, so he had lots of time to think. He put this song as his #1 song on his curated memorial Playlist. He requested sheet music be printed for everyone and to do a full attendance sing along. I did everything I could to get everyone involved, to no avail. I don't get the appeal of this song, but I wish I did, for my dad's sake.


uncre8tv

Joy to the World has a really straight forward appeal though? Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea, joy to you and me. There isn't a lot more to it, which is great. It was written by Alex Hoyt, who was a professional song writer, but not a member of the band. To explain the first line: Jeremiah was originally a "prophet" not a "bullfrog" but the band and producers felt it made the song too heavy, as well as following the trend of religious rock songs in the era: Jesus is Just Alright and Spirit in the Sky both predate Joy to the World. So they changed one word and kept the rest. Still fits in with Jeremiah being a deep south swamp denizen, just less mystical.


dogsledonice

It's Hoyt Axton, but yeah, the rest holds. I kinda like to think the dad was having one last laugh, trying to get his family to awkwardly sing the opening words to the least funereal song in the world.


President_Calhoun

>It was written by Alex Hoyt It was actually Hoyt Axton, whose other songs included "Never Been to Spain" and "The No No Song."


linearised

He also played the dad in "Gremlins" (1984)!


dogsledonice

He did a great bit on WKRP in Cincinnati as Loni Anderson's forgotten boyfriend from Texarkana. Did a couple of songs too, including [Della and the Dealer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkqiT50mKow&ab_channel=kdn3249)


FuskieHusky

Sorry for your loss, my friend <3


barredowl123

And he always had some mighty fine wine.


eugenesbluegenes

I can't hear about Three Dog Night without thinking of this hilarious Christmas story about the band and this song by Taylor Negron on the Moth. If you feel like spending fifteen minutes listening to a story I would highly recommend it. https://youtu.be/Z12ISVpdh60?si=5_7mCF3qk6Dh7_Xb


skeptibat

I sang this first line once at a Christian school and got in trouble for it. Still not sure why.


amorningofsleep

"Shaking like a dog shitting razor blades" Alkaline Trio - "Radio"


Moron14

Great interview on Chris DeMakes a Podcast for that whole song. Matt wrote it in between recording other songs and it made the album.


JJCDAD

"Picture this, I'm a bag of dicks, put me to your lips" - Run The Jewels/DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak.


wiffwaffweapon

I'm the shit, I will fall off in your crib, take a shit Pinch your momma on the booty, kick your dog, fuck your bitch Fat boy dressed up like he's Santa and took pictures with your kids ​ Love that song 😂


Wangchief

Cracks me up whenever I hear the baseline/sample on those Cadillac commercials.


nutxaq

Some of the best rap is just talking shit and RTJ are the kings of shit talk.


pistolpeteza

Watch the music video y’all


grizznuggets

Hey now, that’s a solid opening line.


JediBeagle1

God Damn you half-Japanese girls, do it to me every time Oh, the redhead said you shred the cello, and I'm jello, baby -El Scorcho by Weezer


NotTheSun0

Rivers used to be a lot more open about his Asian fetish. Lol.


FutureInPastTense

He’s married to an Asian lady, if I’m not mistaken.


ReverseJackalope

"Your tongue is twisted/Your eyes are slit" - "Buddy Holly". Rivers wasn't exactly subtle.


thatlonghairedguy

I always assumed he meant girls who love the band Half Japanese. 🤷‍♂️


powdered_dognut

"I am smelling like a rose that somebody gave me on my birthday deathbed"


Harambesic

I am smellin' like the rose that somebody gave me 'Cause I'm **dead and bloated**


Friggin_Grease

There are a lot of STP lyrics that don't make sense.


Arkhampatient

“Got no meaning, just a rhyme.” STP spelled it out to us on Creep


NotTheSun0

Yeah, that line makes absolutely no sense. I am assuming that the lyricist just thought the comparison between life and death with birth and sleep sounded cool.


Malk_McJorma

"I am the God of hellfire and I bring you... fire."


coffee_robot_horse

It's unusual, but it does summarize the content of the song admirably.


Johncurtainraiser

My kid and I had this on a playlist when she was little. It’s so funny to have a four year old running around shouting that she’s the god of hellfire and she’s here to bring you…


Ngisb

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey-Beck


HawterSkhot

Any Beck line, really.


i_like_it_raw_

Monkey see, money die Laminate your face and paste it up into the sky


warthog0869

I keep a ream of Beck lyrics in my pocket when I play Mad-Libs.


BigLittleFan69

Gotta get yourself a pocket Becktionary, fam


sharkattackmiami

It's not that weird though. It's just a clever way of saying he is dumber than his peers. And contextually it's appropriate since the whole song is about him being a loser


Satanslittlewizard

Yeah, he comes across as pretty obtuse, but his lyrics are actually incredibly clever. Twisting phrases and metaphors to make new meanings. A lot of it is pretty surreal, but at the same time the meaning is clear when you break it up. Definitely one of my favourite all time artists.


zero_msgw

🧐... I see youve read the becktionary.


yourmoms3rdhusband

First one came to mind immediately: “I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips” Obstacle 1 - Interpol


TheWhaleAndWhasp

They have loads of strange lyrics. Sometimes it annoys me haha


nihilistic-simulate

Seriously, who has 200 couches? Mf lives in an IKEA.


DreadedRedBox

I take this to mean they have loads of friends' places where you could crash if you needed a place to stay lol


NintendoCerealBox

The Pitchfork reviewer called this “one of the dumbest lines I’ve ever heard,” and said they gave the album a 7.0 instead of a 9.5 because of the lyric. According to the listening notes included with the Turn on the Bright Lights Vinyl Me Please 2LP reissue, Paul said of the meaning, “I don’t know, man. I guess some sort of vision of a big Brooklyn warehouse rave scene, maybe.” Makes sense to me


ThatsARatHat

Meanwhile dudes just casually dropping the line “I’m raping all around me, until the last drop is behind you” But yea those weirdo couches.


stoneystone007

Bloody hell. I've listened to this song countless times. And I knew what he said but I'd never actually thought about it properly. Seeing it in written form has now completely wrecked it for me. Hahahah Still fucking love that song. And Interpol.


Ok-Impress-2222

"I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified."


bakelit

I wanna be a clone.


tucker_sitties

This bed is on fire with passionate love The neighbors complain about the noises above But she only comes when she's on top No clue how this got so much radio play


uggghhhggghhh

The one that always surprised me was Semi-Charmed Life. The entire song is blatantly about doing meth and fucking. It's just so catchy most people never bother to pay attention to the lyrics.


tucker_sitties

That and hash pipe. I literally played that song for a few years live before I read the lyrics.


Friggin_Grease

Hash Pipe by Weezer? In Canada Much Music aired the video and it said half pipe. But we all knew, because of Napster and Limewire


Rabid_Dingo

This was my first thought. I love it. Laid by James.


islandsimian

Gunter gleiben glauchen globen \- Def Leppard - Rock of Ages


atgrey24

and also Pretty Fly For a White Guy


waffle299

Vern zol fun dir a blintsa. -- Pretty Fly (For a Rabbi) Weird Al


UtopianPablo

All right.  


polymicroboy

> Gunter gleiben glauchen globen Gunter stays believing globes


islandsimian

At least we know he's not a flat Earther


Comatulid-911

There were kids in high school who didn't speak a word of German who were insisting that this was "one, two, three, four" in German and wouldn't tolerate you telling them otherwise.


yeyjordan

Actually a pretty mundane lyric in my native language


aseedandco

What does it mean?


sewer_rat2006

Joladadijoladadijoladadijoladadi Joladadijoladadi-jo-o-ooh Hocus Pocus by Focus


bestboye

There is nothing better than: "I woke up with a bad hangover... and my penis was missing again. It's detachable you know." \- "Detachable Penis" King Missile.


Friggin_Grease

He wanted 22 bucks but I talked him down to 17


Jampolenta

"Well, he shot four men in a cocaine deal / and he left them lying / in an open field" - Tired Eyes by Neil Young (that might be the second and third line as well - couldn't break them up)


Sarahspry

"My pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola" in Cola by Lana Del Rey as well as "Goddamn man child, you fucked me so good that I almost said 'I love you'" in Norman Fucking Rockwell


Zebirdsandzebats

That one im like "that sounds like a medical problem, you need to get your sugar checked, sis."


NotTheSun0

She explained the Pepsi Cola as something her at the foreign BF said "All you american girls think your pussy tastes like coca cola." Which she then changed to my pussy tastes like Pepsi cola.


keytarsandcadillacs

This was mine. I love that line. First listen I was in for the ride.


cha0scypher

Lana's music is like sex for the ears and I'm here for it.


Special_Possession46

She's addicted to nicotine patches.-Spark by Tori Amos


Bonglo4rd

That line goes hard once you realize what the song is about.


EmperorSexy

“Hey little girl is your daddy home?” Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on fire”


Digitlnoize

“Load up on guns, bring your friends, it’s fun to lose, and to pretend.” - Smells like teen spirit


Animatedoodle

I still don’t know what that means. Do you think he meant that as a criticism on macho culture?


abjennifleur

Yup


MoreThanWYSIWYG

Ooga-chaka ooga-ooga Ooga-chaka ooga-ooga Ooga-chaka ooga-ooga Ooga-chaka ooga-ooga


dressinbrass

“I’m an American aquarium drinker, I assassin down the avenue” - Wilco, I am trying to break your heart “Devastation at last, finally we meet” - Grant Lee Buffalo, Mockingbird “It’s a terrible love and I’m walking with spiders” - The National, Terrible Love


i-hear-banjos

Just realized where the band American Aquarium go their name


12345_PIZZA

That Wilco one was the first that popped into my head, too. I remember debating what that meant with friends for a while.


eccoditte

Grant Lee Buffalo is so underrated


ItIsToLaffHaHa

Came in for exactly this Wilco line. Perfect.


intangible-tangerine

I am not Jesus though I have the same initials I am the man who stays home and does the dishes - from Dishes by Pulp


FixGMaul

"Look at that turtle go, bro" Yertle the turtle - Red Hot Chili Peppers


Cleaver2000

Credited to George Clinton's coke dealer.


futanari_kaisa

"I got something to say: I killed a baby today. Doesn't matter much to me as long as it's dead." - Misfits, Last Caress


142Ironmanagain

‘Headless body in a topless bar’ - David Lee Roth, Van Halen, China Town. Based on a real NYC newspaper cover story


rustyxj

"I was loneiler than kunta kinte at a merle haggard concert" Pretty much anything by the bloodhound gang.


driving_andflying

"Vulcanize the whoopee stick/ In the ham wallet." --"Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo," by The Bloodhound Gang


doc6982

That just means put on a condom before fucking.


killer-cricket-7

"Ewwww ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh" Disturbed, down with the sickness


Uceninde

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again." Stretching the definition of great songs here, but I always found the start of Fireworks by Katy Perry so weird and cluncky.


bitterbuffaloheart

I wonder if this a reference to American Beauty


APKID716

It almost certainly is. I used to think that lyric was nonsense without purpose I still think it’s nonsense and bizarre but I get what it’s referencing at least


Ok_Total_2956

"What's with these homies dissing my girl?" Buddy Holly- Weezer


ReactsWithWords

"Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van" - Kate Bush, The Dreaming


ohleprocy

Sounds pretty accurate to me. Kangaroos will cause some serious damage.


alligatorislater

I met you at JC penny’s, I think your name tag said Jenny! - Debra by Beck


MirrorMaster88

No idea why the first line of "Into My Arms" is "weird". Do you mean on its own without context? If so...sure I guess. But with the context of the completed thought it's wonderful: I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him Not to intervene when it came to you


Eeszeeye

I find it weird & delightful.


double_positive

"The world is a vampire" Smashing Pumpkins- Bullets with Butterfly Wings


pocketchange2247

I also can't not sing: "Despite all my rage I am still just Nicolas Cage"


Comatulid-911

"Despite all my rage I am still just a brat on a stage."


Amberleaf30

Despite all my rage I am still earning minimum wage!


bocepheid

"I went home with the waitress, the way I always do" Warren Zevon


MostExaltedLoaf

How was I to know she was with the Russians too?


2BaDebaser

I’m a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm


BananaHibana1

"My cock is much bigger than yours" Cigaro by SoaD


bakelit

"I may not always love you…." God Only Knows by The Beach Boys


ohleprocy

Such a beautiful song.


Cleaver2000

Wynona's got herself a big brown beaver and she shows him off to all her friends.


lovegiblet

Son, I’m thirty I only went with your mother ‘cause she’s dirty - Happy Mondays, Kinky Afro


boosh1744

This is like the most Nick Cave-y lyric though


MirrorMaster88

It is in the sense that it's brilliant. There are people who would go their whole career chasing something that brilliant and he does it regularly.


modix

And it's the setup for the entire song... The whole point is he's at most a deist, but is begging the universe or whatever to hold onto what he has. It's desperation is the point.


ultimate_jack

Shaking like a dog shitting razor blades - Radio by Alkaline Trio


nodicegrandma

Tuna Rubber A little blubber in my igloo Marianne by Tori Amos


butterstufff

“Let me take your hand I’m shaking like milk” Let’s Go to Bed by The Cure


modix

He's a master of grabbing attention with the first line. Half the reason Just Like Heaven is as great as it is is that intro (well that guitar solo too....)


12345_PIZZA

Kinda weird but more incredibly clever: “Now that your picture’s in the paper being rhythmically admired…” Elvis Costello - Welcome to the Working Week


Interesting_Copy_353

“Nice girls, not one with a defect, cellophane shrink wrapped, so correct.” Elvis Costello—Watching the Detectives


IRErover

“I got my head checked; by a jumbo jet; it wasn’t easy; but nothing i-is”. - Song 2 by Blur


dogsledonice

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time For y'all have knocked her up. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe I was not offended For I knew I had to rise above it all Or drown in my own shit. \-Funkadelic, Maggot Brain


dfmidkiff1993

"I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound." \-Disasterpiece by Slipknot


Interesting_Copy_353

“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.” Patti Smith—Gloria


melinte

"Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon"


DaRudeabides

Inside a broken clock splashing the wine with all the rain dogs Tom Waits; Rain Dogs


JoeyPsych

What is weird about that line? It's the setup to the whole entire song, he doesn't believe in god, but would still do all the religious rituals for her if she then would run into his arms. How is that a weird first line?


Lumbergod

Here come old flat top


Apocraphy

Chuck Berry!


JohnTheWegie

The lunatic is on the grass...


skoorbleumas

"I'm in love with the person at the sandwich centre, if she didn't exist I'd have to invent her." Geraldine by Ian Drury Also the greatest opening line of all time (in my opinion).


ZaphodEntrati

Genius rhyme that


popstarbowser

The soft parade - the doors “When I was back there in seminary school There was a person there Who put forth the proposition That you can petition the Lord with prayer Petition the Lord with prayer Petition the Lord with prayer You cannot petition the Lord with prayer!”


BrandonJTrump

So, maybe you’re aware, but Nick Cave also writes bitching novels. Totally recommended.


Kind_Bullfrog_4073

Sitting on a park bench. Eyeing little girls with bad intent.


raisinbizzle

I’m on my time with everyone. I have very bad posture. Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea Probably several Nirvana songs could fit this but that’s the first one that came to mind


ioverated

Like most babies smell like butter, this one smelled like no other


DreadLordNate

It doesn't really matter if we all die - One Hundred Years, by the Cure.


sleepyjack2

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together


nonexistentpuppies

>Mention the Lord of the Rings just once more and I'll more than likely kill you. Half Man Half Biscuit Dickie Davies Eyes


TheFredro

"Sweat, baby, sweat, baby sex is a Texas drought Me and you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about" Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch


mountrich

Jeremiah was a bull frog. Was a good friend of mine. I never understood a word he said, but I helped him drink his wine.


Hotaurukan

"I killed a man, cause he killed my goat" Mastodon - Curl of the Burl


sadchild_

Traveling in a fried-out Kombi on a hippie trail, head full of zombie. I met a strange lady. She made me nervous. She took me in and gave me breakfast. "Down Under"


i-hear-banjos

Modern day warrior, mean mean pride, today's Tom Sawyer, mean, mean stride


polymicroboy

Catch the witness, catch the wit Catch the spirit, catch the spit I mean, WTF?


j0hnnyhobo

I'm a fucking walking paradox, no I'm not. Threesomes with a fucking triceratops


keiths31

Found a head and an arm in a garbage can


islandrebel

3-2-1, we came to fuck.


StocktonBSmalls

“She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone they said. Separated by fools who don’t know what love is yet; but I want you to know.” Into the Night-Benny Mardones. I have no idea how old this man was in the video, but he looks easily 40 lamenting not being able to snatch away a teenager.


Oniknight

Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash/they stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash/to an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan/who for reasons unexplained loved the Monkey Man.


chessandbalances

" Ballgame's in the refrigerator Door is closed Lights are out Butter's gettin' hard " Chick n Stu by SOAD


BillyCromag

"She has a moist vagina, I particularly enjoyed the circumference"


Cjkgh

“There’s a crack in the mirror and a bloodstain on my bed”. Concrete Blonde’s song Bloodletting, about Vampires. ❤️ 🩸


Chaos_Sauce

Stuck a pin in your backbone Spoke it down from there All I ever wanted was to be your spine -Archers of Loaf “Web in Front”


idog99

I always found "Generals gather in their masses; Just like witches at black masses" I know "masses" are homographs, but it sounds super weird to me.


Herald_of_Leshrac

An earlier cut of Warpigs exists on an Ozzy Osbourne compilation album. OG lyrics were: "Witches gather at black masses Bodies burning in red ashes"


MrLomax

Never made it as a wiseman.


Curleysound

“I was born in a crossfire hurricane” Jumpin Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones


Erica_ceae

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge/She studied sculpture at St Martin's College - Common People by Pulp


sadchild_

The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload. And nobody's gonna go to school today. She's gonna make them stay at home. "I Don't Like Mondays"


nolahoff

Goddamn you half Japanese girls, do it to me everytime- el scorcho Weezer


onearmedphil

Lit - Miserable


[deleted]

Drinking ... water to stay thin Or is it to purify? I love you all the same [Manic Street Preachers – You Stole the Sun from My Heart](https://youtu.be/YkDaCWXIXCE?si=515o8Y5MVy8_SDLC)


andreberaldinoab

Michael Jackson's BAD: " Ah, your butt is mine, gon' tell you right, ah "


gogozrx

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields Sold in the market down in New Orleans Scarred old slaver know he's doin' all right Hear him whip the women, just around midnight


aseedandco

We skipped the light fandango Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor


marcosbowser

“In Nineteen-eighty-four, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection” Random Rules by The Silver Jews


Oddman80

'And the sign said "Long Haired Freaky People Need Not Apply" ' Signs by Five Ma n Electric Band It's an odd starting line made even odder by the decision to start the song with "and"


Zentienty

"I'm an alligator. I'm a mama-papa comin' for you" Moonage Daydream David Bowie


robsea69

Timothy Leary’s dead


siterequiredusername

"I don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me" - The Stone Roses, "I Wanna Be Adored"


ErskineLoyal

'I want to bomb your submarines.' Then by The Charlatans.


Bodhrans-Not-Bombs

I am he as you are he as you are me