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posted by
davidt
on Monday April 17 2006, @11:00AM
GenderNectar sends the link:
It's number 'One' on the list of top lyrics - CNN / AP It's number 'One' on the list of top lyrics U2 line beats out bits from Smiths, Nirvana Monday, April 17, 2006 Posted: 1237 GMT (2037 HKT) LONDON, England (AP) -- The Irish band U2 has given Britain its favorite song lyric, according to a survey released Monday. The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" from the 1992 song "One" topped a poll conducted by music channel VH1. Runner-up was the downbeat "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" from The Smiths' "How Soon is Now." A line from Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" -- "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us" -- came third. Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" and Coldplay's "Yellow" took fourth and fifth places. The top 10 was a mix of the affirmative and the acerbic, ranging from Robbie Williams' uplifting "Angels" -- "And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection, whether I'm right or wrong" -- to Radiohead's sour "Creep." More than 13,000 people participated in the poll on the station's Web site, choosing from a list of 100 lyrics selected by music industry figures. --- Torr also sends the link: Top pop lyric is from U2 - The Times Online --- An anonymous person writes: HSIN narrowly beaten to the top of "The Nation's Favourite Lyric" on MTV UK, as voted by viewers of their website. Winner was "One" by U2. Nirvana, Bob Marley & Coldplay are 3rd, 4th & 5th respectively.
Link: U2 line tops favourite lyric poll - BBC News
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Pardon? (Score:1)
Yeah, that's the finest lyric to come out of Britain ever.
I p*ke.
(User #1342 Info)
Bono himself... (Score:0)
As glad as I am to see The Smiths so high (Score:1)
And I know they had to pick songs for which they had footage, but what strange choices, especially for U2; The Fly or With or Without You or Where The Streets Have No Name, are much more lyrically challenging than One. One is to U2 what Imagine is to John Lennon. Sincerely expressed sentiment married to a beautiful tune, but lyrically like teenage poetry.
The best Smiths lyric? It's a toughie, but I'd go for 'She was left behind and sour and she wrote to me equally dour, she said in the days when you were hopelessly poor, I just liked you more.' I'm sure it differs for everyone though.
(User #14229 Info)
A festering pile of 'Number Two's (Score:1)
Well it's hardly Behan, Betjeman or Auden is it? For goodness sake, it's like something Steeleye Span would have intoned before going on about 'All around my hat, I will wear the green willow'. It's half-baked hippy tosh that would have got laughed at in the 1960s.
Whither "Why pander life's complexities, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat"? Or even "Gasping- but somehow still alive, this is the fierce last stand of all I am"(my own personal favourite)?
How embarrasing for you Bono...THIS is how they'll remember you.
(User #10687 Info)
Wow... (Score:1)
(User #2312 Info)
unimpressive company. (Score:0)
U2 Lyrics (Score:0)
If you read the lyric to "A Sort of Homecoming" there are several gorgeous and majestic couplets and passages.... some of the best I have ever read in poetry and/or song lyrics.
I'm sure most here will slag them off.
-Redhill
U2 are vile! (Score:1)
Wow- profound!
U2- the worst band EVER!
(User #15031 Info | http://www.facebook.com/struttingrooster)
A plucky Christian (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, frankly, I took one look at his mullet back in 1982 when I was a discerning child of six, and formed an instant loathing for him which time and experience have done nothing to diminish.
("We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry/And talk about precious things" is a better line than the HSIN one, I think, especially when you know the origin in Billy Liar.)
(User #16108 Info)
bono (Score:0)
This is... (Score:1)
Where's the artistic judgement in all of this?
(User #15320 Info)
ahem! (Score:1)
I actually believe Bono is a gnome. I mean that with all sincerity.
(User #13027 Info)
When you say it's gonna happen now ... (Score:1)
I think someone at VH1 just went over the lyrics and copy-pasted the first line he or she managed to highlight with the cursor.
(User #8448 Info)
Waxing Lyrical (Score:2, Funny)
"I see the world, it makes me puke
but then I look at you and know
that somewhere there's a someone
who can soothe me…"
Even though there are better examples of Morrissey's lyrics, I say bravo to "How Soon is Now?", and its memorable opening line, "I am the fun and the fair of a Mozsite for the criminally insane…"
Or something like that.
(User #11277 Info)
best lyric (Score:0)
Just rope, throw, and brand 'em
Soon we'll be living high and wide.
A philosophy for a single man.
'Rawhide' works for me.
R Yates
thank god (Score:0)
Laughable and Deserving Of Derision (Score:0)
So 'Yellow' by Coldplay and 'Angels' by Robbie Williams contain lyrics that are better than any written by Dylan, Bowie, Joni Mitchell, John Lydon, Elvis Costello, Shane McGowan, Bjork or...well just in your own name. Lord knows, there's probably about 200 or so you can think of before you even approach Messrs. Martin and Williams.
Utterly predictable, I guess. But totally laughable all the same.
there's no point of comparison (Score:1)
(User #14730 Info)