Making rock/pop songs grammatically correct
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I heard Come Together recently and thought of this thread that song is litered with incorrect grammer.. 'he HAS joo joo eyeballs' for instance
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audi:
Of course -- this thread is intended to be absurd. Grammatically correct rock and roll? That would be like "artsy punk." Self-defeating.
well, rock and roll has got only one rule 1. There is no rule
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This thread is hilarious! Nice one Audi.
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What kids go around using gramatically correct English anyway? Street talking has been the way most people talk for ages. Rock was made to appeal to teenagers, not some upper class university students and teachers. Ya hip to the jive daddy-o? Then the music became popular and cool all over the world to all ages, made people everywhere dance to the English language, improper grammar or not. It did more to popularize the language that anything ever. Then Sgt. Pepper came out with printed lyrics on the sleeve for the first time. I don't think you can say anything bad about the grammar on Pepper, though there is some I'm sure. But it's Art and it's Poetry, and grammar has nothing to do with it. Even the name Rock 'n' Roll is slang. They may have titled it "I Want To Hold Your Hand", but John sings " I wanna hold your hand." You can call it Rock and Roll if you wanna, but it's still rock 'n' roll to me!
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The Russians learned to speak English from Beatles records
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SusyLuvsPaul:
The Russians learned to speak English from Beatles records
and somehow the world, I think. what about? "hold me tight", tightly, loudly and such are virtually never used
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Furlow47:
This thread is hilarious! Nice one Audi.
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yes great thread. although i have to stick up for 'live and let die'. i think the lyrics are okay however paul does have one glaring offender........ We talkin' about Freedom Talkin' bout Freedom I will fight, for the right To live in Freedom disgusting grammar!
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lazydynamite88:
...i think the lyrics are okay however paul does have one glaring offender........ We talkin' about Freedom Talkin' bout Freedom I will fight, for the right To live in Freedom disgusting grammar!
Now, now, LazyD: Are you using that as another -- albeit, thinly veiled -- slam on us Americans?
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lazydynamite88:
...although i have to stick up for 'live and let die'...
You're defending "...IN WHICH WE LIVE IN"??????????? Now, I'm a card-carrying member of the Paul-Can-Do-No-Wrong-Club, but there is NO excusing that one. I still think (hope) it's "...in which we're living." Please, God -- let it be!
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Well, guys... ...I'm wondering if we've reached the point in our curriculum when we can start identifying dangling participles and misplaced modifyers. Too nerdy? OK. We'll stick to the basics.
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"Stuck inside these four walls...sent inside forever...never seeing NO ONE nice, again, like you, Mama...you" (from "Band on the Run"). Paul darling, how could you???!!!! :-- also--"like you"--is that truly proper, or yet another big No No (should be "like someone like you"? Or, "such as you, Mama")? Ummmm...these don't sound quite right, either? How should this be phrased? Grammar Cop audi? What say you? I mean, "what do you say?" in today's parlance.
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"Never seeing no one...," you ask? No one? WRONG!!!!!!!!! A double-negative of the most offensive order! Oh, Paulie -- and with the re-issue coming out, too!
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Surely he knows better :
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Surely he knows better :
Of course he could re-record it for the reissue."Never seeing ANYONE nice again..."
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Man we was lonely. We was hard pressed to find a smile. We was only hidin', sittin' in the back seat of my car. I ain't never, no no never, heard you callin' me. When I thought you was my friend. Your dog he got none.
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beatlesfanrandy:
SusyLuvsPaul:
Surely he knows better :
Of course he could re-record it for the reissue."Never seeing ANYONE nice again..."
If only that would not spoil the melody... What about.... "Never seeing SOMEONE nice again"... well... if he re-recorded the Live Aid vocals...
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Just thought of one... He AIN'T heavy....He's My Brother
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BarbB:
Man we was lonely. We was hard pressed to find a smile. We was only hidin', sittin' in the back seat of my car. I ain't never, no no never, heard you callin' me. When I thought you was my friend. Your dog he got none.
(Head...hurt...) (Grammar...hell...over....load...)