The Worst Music Lyrics Of All Time Revealed! (Sort Of)
A wince-inducing list of the worst lyrics in music history has just been compiled by Johnny Sharp (né Johnny Cigarettes), an ex-NME journo.
Guess who’s No.1?
Mötley Crüe? Nope! Venom? Uh-uh! Poison? Not even close! Dio? Get outta here!
Unbelievably, The Steve Miller Band top the chart for the following:
‘Really love your peaches wanna shake your tree. Lovey dovey lovey dovey lovey dovey all the time. Ooh yeah baby I’ll sure show you a good time.’
Yes, we’ll agree the above words (from the song The Joker) are pretty goddamn awful.
But what Mr Sharp probably doesn’t realise is that Miller appropriated them from Lovey Dovey, a 1953 song from R&B group The Clovers. So stuff that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr ex-Cigarettes!
Also in Sharp’s list are Def Leppard for ‘You got the peaches, I got the cream’ (Pour Some Sugar On Me).
Plus America for the line from Horse With No Name that goes: ‘After nine days, I let the horse run free ‘cos the desert had turned to sea. There were plants and birds and rocks and things…’
(Hmm, dunno about you, but we’ve always found those words extremely evocative, not to say moving.)
C’mon – surely everyone here at www.classicrockmagazine.com can do better than that!
Post YOUR comments – along with YOUR choice of the worst music lyrics of all time – below!
We’ll start the ball rolling with:
We’re leather boyz with electric toyz.
We’re making noise tonight.
We’re leather boyz with electric toyz.
We’re making noise tonight.
We’re leather boyz with electric toyz.
We’re making noise tonight.
We’re leather boyz with electric toyz.
We’re making noise tonight.
We’re making noise. Making noise.
Make some noise.
Tonite. Tonite. Tonite.
Well all fucking right. Yeah.
(Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz by Pretty Boy Floyd)
Now… over to YOU!
*Crap Lyrics by Johnny Sharp will be published by Anova Books on June 1 at £7.99.
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There’s nowt wrong with Pretty Boy Floyd! Probably the greatest glam rock album of all time.
How about the mighty Maiden
“In an age when Dinosaurs walked the earth…..”
or anything by AC/DC post 1981!
Gotta be ‘Hot n Heavy’ by Pantera
‘Take a look at
my ice cream cone baby
go ahead take a lick
can’t wait
to take you home
beat you with my stick’
how about ‘Are we human? Or are we dancers? by the awful Killers?
how about a song by my favourite band, oasis:
“shes got a sister
and god only knows how i missed her
and on the palm of her hand is a blister…”
haha
trollin’ from the stooges last album ‘the weirdness’. iggy sings about his dick turning into a tree. http://www.lyricstime.com/the-stooges-trollin-lyrics.html
I’m a cowboy
On a steel horse I ride
I’m wanted
Dead or alive.
lick it up – whats that all about
how bout the stones cock sucker blues
pretty funny lyrics
Here’s a classic…Spinal Tap
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin
That’s what I said.
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read.
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo.
I love to sink her with my pink torpedo.
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about bum cakes,
My gal’s got ‘em.
Every rose has it’s thorn
Every night has it’s dawn
Like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song
Every rose has it’s thorn
God they may even bring out another album!!!!!!
Lets get together and serenade
cos you’ve pulled the pin on my love grenade
Vinnie Vincent Invasion
(don’t remember which song)
Gotta be Heart’s ‘I am the flower you are the seed
We walked in the garden
We planted a tree’. I think I actually wept with shame as an early fan.
They don’t get any better than this…….
“cos Manowar’s made of steel not clay…!”
Genius!
Anything by The Smiths.
hmmmm…. how about Kiss’ Bang Bang You or Uh! All Night — both feature mind numbingly bad lyrics….
Killers “I got soul but I’m not a soldier” eh wtf???
That’s like saying “I got toes but I’m not a toaster!”
I usually like Sammy Hagar’s lyrics, but how about this one: “only time will tell if we stand the test of time”…oh, really???
Surely Saxon are in with a shout with these pearls of wisdom
“The preacher beat his chest and cried suck my feet for free”
from solid ball of rock, or Status Quo for
“I’m just runny, runny,runny,runny nosing”
from Just Supposing.
Judas Priest – Loch Ness
Iron Maiden – Alexander The Great
Saxon – Crusader
3 puke inducing sets of lyrics from bands that really should know better.
Anything by Poison/Bon Jovi/Def Leppard and their ilk.
Actually Bester Langs, the song is Are we human or are we dancer? … I hate the Killers. Especially that lead singer with his ridiculous mustache.
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Starship troopers
How about Rammstein – Amerika. Only the Germans could get away with lines like:
nach Afrika kommt Santa Claus,
und vor Paris steht Mickey Maus.
(From Africa comes Santa Clause
And in Paris stays Mickey Mouse)
OR
We’re all living in Amerika
Amerika ist wunderbar
We’re all living in Amerika
Coca cola, wonder bra
Heaven & Hell – Bible Black:
…”Who are you, and who are me”…
…now, it may not be the worst lyric ever, but that doesn’t make sense!
How about Kurt No-brain’s incoherent rambling…
“what else can I say, everyone is gay”
As much as I love em…..
“I’m a rocker, roller, right out of controller”
Without a doubt the dumbest lyrics ever written
Lita Ford
I went to a party last Saturday night
I didn’t get laid, I got in a fight,
Uh, huh
It ain’t no big thing
Late for my job and the traffic was bad
Had to borrow ten bucks from my old man,
Uh, huh
It ain’t no big thing
I went to a party last Saturday night
I told you that story, I’d be alright
Uh, huh
It ain’t no big thing
Had a few beers, gettin’ high
Sittin’, watchin’ the time go by,
Uh, huh
It ain’t no big thing
Nothin’ to eat and no TV
Lookin’ in the mirror don’t get it for me
Uh, huh
It ain’t no big thing
Joe Lynn Turner,
When you’re closer to losing your dreams, than losing a friend. eh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
most def leppard lyrics get in there…
do i wanna get rocked? no joe elliot i do not.
make love like a man, im a man and thats what i am…what’s the need to reitterate that he is a man? couldv had:
make love like a man, im a man, or am i?
How about this from the godawful April Wine?
I like to rock
Some like it hot
I like it – you like it
I like to rock
I always thought that Thin Lizzy’s jail break was pretty crap” theres gonna be a jailbreak somewhere in this town tonight” Somehwre in this town…how about the jail house!
The wife always crack up at the opening lines to C’mon & Love Me by KISS:
She’s a dancer
A romancer
I’m a Capricorn
And she’s a Cancer.
Can’t think why, it’s a classic!
Black & Blue for me
We’re from the school of hard knocks
We’ve com to rock your socks off….
priceless.Mind you they were about 12 when ythey wrote it
“Hooks in you, Hooks in me,
Hooks in the ceiling for that well hung feeling”
Reading those lyrics might bring to mind a plethora of 80’s Hair Metal types…then you realize they belong to Maiden!!
I know we’re gonna discover, whose sleeping in our-souls- Acquiesce by OASIS
This is a rubbish lyric because ’sleeping in our-souls’ could mean two things couldn’t it!
These may actally be the BEST lyrics ever-
Plaster Caster by KISS
‘Plaster caster, grab a hold of me faster
And if you wanna see my love, just ask her
And my love is the plaster
And yeah, she’s the collector
She wants me all the time to inject her’
This gets you ready for-
‘Plaster caster, plaster caster
She wants my love to last her, last her, last her
And she calls me by the name of master, master’
YOU DECIDE!
From Twisted Sister “I Believe In Rock N Roll” :
“Do you take this music to be your lawfully wedded rock
To have and hold in sickness and in health
For richer or for poorer, for better or for worse
Together until death comes to yourself? ”
Eh…..?
Motley Crue’s lyrics, as intimated, are appallingly terrible and outrageously useless. One knows this, not through having listened to their songs, but through Nikki ‘creative artist’ Sixx’ predictable insistence on quoting them pre-release. He always says something along the lines of: “Fuck yeah, we got the new Stairway to Heaven on the new album, with great lyrics, and Vince, like, sings ‘em with so much fuckin’ soul, man. One part goes – ‘Chunderin’ an’ thunderin’, Fightin’ and layin’, Killin’ all straight fuckers, That’s me on a Sa(turd)ay night.’ You won’t believe how awesome we sound, man.”
duz any1 else think that guy has something against peaches?
ac\dc from fly on the wall lp…some like it hot, some like it not so hot…classic
Anything from Sweet Pain (80’s)
Strangely, some of the silliest tend to be the most memorable and indeed, fun!
How about the Scorpions…..”Padded Bra, Blonde viig, not much left for me!”
Or Anvil…”out in the yard, little peaches play. Rubbin’ their beaves, got a lot to say”
Gold I tell you…absolute gold.
Whilst I love them as much as any right-minded rocker should, Maiden have come up with some duff lyrics.
From ‘The Prisoner’
I’m on the run,
I kill to eat
I’m starving now
I’m feeling dead on my feet.
Not that great at killing to eat then…..
My personal fave comes from a song (can’t remember which) on the Kings Of The Sun’s album Full Frontal Attack. (ahem)…….and I quote –
“She took me to her room, it was cold and damp,
She licked me all over like a postage stamp>”
Sheer poetry!!
Read through again today, and Andy’s this morning from Kings of the Sun, was the only one to get me laughing. Priceless
Sitting in a cornfield
Looking at a cob
Thinking of a long line
Waiting for a job
A bit of culture from The Quo
It has be from Europe – The final Countdown ;
There heading for venus,
And maybe they’ve seen us
Plus the rest of it is totally cringeworthy nonsense.
The named Steve Miller lyrics weren’t even his; they were in tribute to a 50’s r&b tune by a group called The Clovers.
Always loved Terrorvisions’
“The Dogio and the Catio are fighting on the Patio”
Can’t remember which song now…..
Def Leppard
“don’t call me gigolo don’t call me casonova, just call me on the phone and baby come on over”
terrible! but my mate g@y DJ loves em
Kiss – Christine Sixteen
Even the title!!
Line: “When I saw you coming out of school that day I knew I had to have you…”
One for the Los Angeles Social Services perhaps?!
Not a rock song but something by Janet Jackson & some bloke, don’t know what it’s called –
I know you are my baby
My one & only baby
You say it twice
I’ll say it thrice
My baby baby baby
It was just on the radio. Awful.
Even it´s a classic and one of my favourites songs of all times, Dire Straits’ Money For Nothing:
We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV’s
“on the street, where you live, girls talk about their social lives”
runaway, bon jovi
Any bleedin’ Coldplay song. Just any Coldplay song.
thin lizzy jailbreak, final lyric at the end of the song.
hey you good lookin femail, get over here!
RAP!
It’s got to have some of the worst lyrics of all time, pick anybody from any decade, it all sucks.
if “you got the peaches, I got the cream” is a bad lyric, then how come that’s the song their most famous for? whoever made this worst music lyrics thing doesn’t know what their talking about
- “Human” by the Killers
- “Wonderwall” by Oasis
- “We Bult This City” by Starship
- anything by Jethro Tull or Lily Allen
- “We are Golden” by Mika
See Lita Ford lyrics listed above. Really, there is no competition. These are truly “I could write these lyrics falling out of bed” quality.
But the audacity required to actually put out a song – and video – with these lyrics is unparalleled.
Lita, you are really cool.
and it is no big thing for me to say that to you.
Uh huh.