Most pompous song ever ?

[olddots]

"Hot Blooded "

" I did it My Way"

[Sheldon Cooper]

1. Havin' My Baby?

[texanwitch]

2. I hate that song.

Having his baby, not hers.

[Sweet Freedom]

3. Ugh, thanks for the earworn :(

[olddots]

4. Yup thats the winner

who did that --- If memories could be erased that song would be one of them .

[solara]

6. Paul Anka

I think..

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[Tab]

17. That's exactly the one I was going to post, et voila - it was the first answer!

Well done.

And a shitty song too (musically).

[OrwellwasRight]

22. Agree. Have always hated that song!

Where's the puking smiley? I thought we had a puking smiley but I can't find him.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

35. Here you go:

Just type the word puke and surround it with colons. One in front and one in back.

[OrwellwasRight]

40. Thanks Peggy!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. You got it!

[sarge43]

24. Second that. "Who's baby, jerk?!" n/t

[RebelOne]

38. Third that. That song always made me want to vomit. n/t

[olddots]

5. Ooh Ooh

" I Am I Said " Neal Diamond

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Short People.

[kwassa]

10. but that was satire on pompous songs, not pompous itself.

[applegrove]

8. "I'm Too Sexy...."

[MADem]

9. Hands down, no contest, this ditty sung by the composer himself....

[kwassa]

11. Born to Run

I like Bruce, but he is full of pompous.

[olddots]

12. Whole Lotta Love

let the flaming begin

[jmowreader]

13. There are too many Ted Nugent songs to list them all

[Danmel]

14. tie between anything by Billy Joel&

I write the songs by Barry Manilow

[Arctic Dave]

15. None more then this.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=itb6uNL_3ag&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Ditb6uNL_3ag

[dimbear]

16. Duke of Earl.

Have to actually listen to its very strange lyrics to see it.

[olddots]

27. you're right thats really strange

I did it my way on steroids .

[JVS]

30. My father told me that Duke of Earl was tongue in cheek.

The construction of a title featuring two ranks of nobility but no region was an elaborate way of saying no rank at all. Kind of like Twelfth of Never.

[undeterred]

42. And it took 3 people to come up with it.

Songwriters: E. EDWARDS, B. WILLIAMS, E. DIXON

Duke, duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl

Duke, duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl

As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop the duke of earl
And you, you are my girl
No one can hurt you, oh, no

Yes, i, oh, i¡¯m gonna love you, oh, oh
Come on let me hold you, darlin¡¯
¡®cause i¡¯m the duke of earl
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

And when I hold you
You¡¯ll be my duchess, duchess of earl
We¡¯ll walk through my dukedom
And a paradise we will share

Yes, i, oh, i¡¯m gonna love you, oh, oh
Nothing can stop me now
¡®cause i¡¯m the duke of earl
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke of earl

Duke, duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl

Duke, duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl

Yes, i, oh, i¡¯m gonna love you, oh, oh
Come on let me hold you, darlin¡¯
¡®cause i¡¯m the duke of earl
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Duke (nothing can stop me now), duke of earl
Duke, duke of earl

Duke, duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl
Duke, duke, duke of earl

[lastlib]

18. "God Bless the USA"

[In_The_Wind]

19. This one:

[lame54]

20. here are a few...

You got lucky - Tom Petty

Everybody loves me baby - Don McClean

I can't get my hands on you - Jeff Healey

Your sychophant other - NOFX

[OriginalGeek]

23. You got Lucky

is kind of our song. My wife and I sing it to each other. We used to skip out of Vo-tech school and go down to this seedy bar with friends and shoot pool and we'd always play that on the jukebox.

But we are huge Tom Petty fans so maybe its pomposity is overlooked and we both feel pretty lucky.

[lame54]

36. tom petty is great...

and I love the audacity of that song

[lunatica]

21. How do you like me now by that pompous ass Toby Keith

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. The Major General's Song

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;a
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, (bothered for a rhyme)
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, (bothered for a rhyme)b
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:c
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin,d
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery –
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy – (bothered for a rhyme)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.e

For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

[Helen Reddy]

26. "You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine."

Ringo Starr

Not only pompous, but kinda pervy.

[Art_from_Ark]

48. A far worse song about 16-year-olds is

"Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen" by Neil Sedaka

[winter is coming]

50. Actually, I think "This Girl Is a Woman Now" is more offensive than either of those. n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

52. Ah, Gary Puckett and the Union Jerk, er, Jack

also known for such classics as "Young Girl" and "Lady Willpower". It's not too hard to tell what was on their minds

[winter is coming]

53. Gotta admit, every time I heard, "It's now or never, give your love to me"

I always thought, "I'm good with 'never.' "

[Art_from_Ark]

54. Interestingly enough, both "Young Girl" and "Lady Willpower"

bring back some fond memories for me. Not because of the lyrics, because I was a little too young at the time to understand exactly what they meant, but because of where I was when I first heard them.

[winter is coming]

55. I think that happens a lot, especially if the music is easy on the ear

and you don't really think much about the words. Assuming you've even heard the real words and not a mondegreen.

[Helen Reddy]

58. That is certainly barf material. Agreed! n/t

[undeterred]

28. Under my Thumb

Songwriters: JAGGER, MICK / RICHARDS, KEITH

Under my thumb
The girl who once had me down
Under my thumb
The girl who once pushed me around

It's down to me
The difference in the clothes she wears
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb

Ain't it the truth, babe?

Under my thumb
The squirmin' dog who's just had her day
Under my thumb
A girl who has just changed her ways

It's down to me, yes it is
The way she does just what she's told
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
Ah, ah, say it's alright

Under my thumb
A siamese cat of a girl
Under my thumb
She's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world

It's down to me
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb
Ah, take it easy babe
Yeah

It's down to me, oh yeah
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb
Yeah, it feels alright

Under my thumb
Her eyes are just kept to herself
Under my thumb, well I
I can still look at someone else

It's down to me, oh that's what I said
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come,
She's under my thumb
Say, it's alright.

Say it's all...
Say it's all...

Take it easy babe
Take it easy babe
Feels alright
Take it, take it easy babe

(If you can even call these lyrics )

[olddots]

32. yikes when you see the lyrics that is offensive.

" Play with Fire " really pompous --

[Kingofalldems]

29. Convoy

[RebelOne]

39. I love that song. n/t

[JVS]

31. I'm the magnificent

[talkingmime]

33. "Nation wide"

[Lionel Mandrake]

34. Mac Davis - It's Hard To Be Humble

[alphafemale]

37. "That's Why the Darkies Were Born"

You think I am kidding?

Google It!

[LeftInTX]

43. I Didn't Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer

[kwassa]

46. Palmer was covering a song first performed by Cherrelle

1984

2011

[LeftInTX]

47. I like Cherelle's version, but she's a woman

It sounds horrible when a guy is saying to a woman, "I didn't mean to turn you on". To add to this, he's got those stone faced, overly made up women in his videos.

[libodem]

44. I'm music and I write the songs

[Dash87]

45. "Have You Forgotten?" by Darryl Worely.

This song is so disgustingly assholish and disrespectful that all instances of it should be burned, including hard drives that contain this dreck. That is a hyperbole, but this song is so pompous and annoying.

It's basically a hyper-macho "'Merica!" piece of trash that whines about a supposed group of people claiming that 9/11 wasn't that bad or should be forgotten about. This group of people didn't exist - ever... It was a Neo-con strawman.

Also, Worely telling us how we should react to 9/11? Telling us that we're all misguided, and he's showing us the way? Not wanting to support a war in Afghanistan didn't mean that 9/11 didn't affect us or that we didn't care. Only a pompous ass would argue such a thing or write a song about it.

I'll also leave you with this:

"I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember
Just what they're fighting for"

Really? When were you there with the soldiers, and how do you know they share your vision? You didn't even talk to them, and you never served, so just shut up.

[Art_from_Ark]

49. It might not be the most pompous song, but

"We Built This City" certainly ranks among the worst

[kudzu22]

51. Short People

I still want to hurt Randy Newman.....

[wickerwoman]

56. "Do they know it's Christmas?"

OK, it's for charity, but the answer which was obvious even in 1985 is "Why should they, they live in a Muslim country."

You can disagree with the pick, but if you've nominated a song that doesn't involve Sting, Bono or Bob Geldof, you're simply wrong. And this one has all three.

Best bit is at 3:28 when the chorus member gets bored of singing and starts talking to the guy next to him.

[HughBeaumont]

57. The American answer "We Are the World" . . .

. . . was so bad, some of the people singing the song didn't even like it. Critics thought it sounded like a soda commercial.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

59. When I was a kid...

there was a quiz show on Italian TV called "Il pranzo è servito" (Lunch is served). Every time a contestant spun the big wheel o' dishes (they had to collect a whole meal) they played the theme music so it really got stuck in your head. The melody was very similar to the melody in background of the chorus of "Do They Know It's Christmas". So whenever I hear Band-Aid it makes me think of watching TV at my granparents' place.

Now the TV show started in 1982 and Band-Aid is from 1984. So, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, j'accuse!

Exhibit A:

[wickerwoman]

61. But in their defence,

"Do they know it's Christmas" doesn't actually have a melody.

[TrogL]

60. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

(It's actually called Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 2)

The group folded a few years later.

The song is actually about an apocalyptic circus and they're my favourite rock group.

[olddots]

62. I am I said Neal Diamond

again "Don't you love me baby ?"

[opiate69]

63. Just about any rap song whose title is, refers to, or includes the artist's name...

Also, honorable mention for Clarence Carter