It's All Coming Back To Me Now - It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)

TELL ME WHY... anyone ever thinks it's a good idea to bleach your hair and trim your goatee like that?

It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)

by Jo Michelmore

Let’s be clear about this from the beginning. I’m not saying some of these songs aren’t great. I’m not saying they’re not pop or rock or dance or hip hop or (insert genre here) amazing, I’m just saying they’re a bit silly. Sometimes, they make no sense and/or they’re just plain annoying. Even though I am aware that music is not just about the lyrics, it’s also about the melody, you should know, I do like lyrics. So, this Vintage Thursday, I present part one of what I suspect will become a semi-regular feature of Vintage Thursdays; questionable songs with questionable lyrics, possibly about questionable things and often containing questionable grammar, pronunciation or other silly things. That’s a long title, so rather than try and name this myself, I’ll take suggestions on the itsmykindofscene facebook page as to what it should be called. Right now, I’m too exhausted from trying to make sense of all these questionable songs….

Light My Fire – The Doors, 1967

We’re going to start with something simple. Anyone who has read anything I’ve written will know I’m not a professor of the English language, I’m not an English teacher, I don’t know all, but I do like words. I’m a little, tiny bit of a word nerd and there are some basics which should be met. Those basics include correct use of plurals, correct spelling and correct use of tense. Jim Morrison had a lot of things to fit into his short but impressive life and apparently the correct use of past and present tense wasn’t one of the things he had time for. “If I WAS to say to you, come on baby light my fire.” Jim, that’s incorrect and kind of annoying. Your sexy rock god type persona didn’t make up for your lack of English skills. If I WERE to say to you; that wouldn’t have made that much difference to your lyric, would it? Couldn’t someone have just fixed that one mistake? Apparently not.

10 and 1 - Best Girl Groups

Spice Girls: I can't wait for their Behind The Music episode.

Question... are there actually any girl groups out there in the music world right now? Destiny's Child will be out of the game for at least another ten years, when the allure of an instant money-making comeback tour will see the girls asking you to say their names once more. The Pussycat Dolls, with the exception of Nicole Scherzinger, all quit when they realised they were just Scherzinger's back-up dancers. Sugababes (version 4.0) don't even deserve to use the name anymore now that the three original members have been kicked out. Girls Aloud may never team-up again if Cheryl Cole lands that U.S. X-Factor judging gig (shame?). The Saturdays aren't even worth talking about. Girls Can't Catch failed miserably, but who didn't see that coming. Girls. Can't. Catch. If you thought a girl group with a name that puts down girls would take off, you're dense. I like that. So, question the second... when will we see the return of the girl group?


Now, it's time to start the week with a '10 and 1!' For those in the audience that fit into that 'dense' category of people I like so much, we're looking at girl groups. Duh. We're moving out of 'worst' territory for the 10, as we'll be looking at some awesome girl groups before finishing with one really, really (really) crappy one. Let's get to it!