Pendants Playlist

My pet peeve is pedantic pendants

Were they on a John Peel session?

Don't leave us hanging...

Anything to say about them? 👆😂

An all time classic of the genre has to go to Alanis Morissette and ‘Ironic’.

"I remember when 'she' was just plain old Allam Morris". Ed Byrne had a routine where he finished off each line so that it was actually an irony - a No Smoking Sign one your cigarette break when you work in a tobacco factory. A traffic jam when you're already late for the presentation you have to give on improving transport infrastructure.

I've always thought the Weather Girl's 'Its raining men' is a very cheerfully sung account of what seems to an absolutely gruesome tragedy. I mean thats proper old testament stuff.

I'm sure this is what you were after.

Edit: sorry not sorry

Not Ironic as such:

But a very concise (millennial) critique of quite a few ironic features of the modern age... (IMO)

Any song where they sing "You and I" to get the rhyme when grammatically it should be "You and me".

"this world in which we live in" - tell me Macca was joking.

Dancing on the ceiling, Lionel Ritchie?

Keep the light on for me, Belinda Carlisle.

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey.

I went for a walk, on a winters day

- if the leaves are brown, isn't that still technically autumn?

Not quite the same thing, but I hate it when a song refers to the song itself in the song. It completely takes you out of the moment... I can only think of one that make me cringe if I don't turn it off in time (although the whole song is pretty cringe anyway) -
"Why do I find it hard to write the next line?" I mean, well you just wrote the line, but it was shit. Have another think Mr Kemp.
I know there are others.

Echo Beach used to wind me up so much I Googled to check their nationality - I have to let them off, being Canadian.

The one that still winds me up is John Lennon's 'Merry Christmas (War is Over)'...

So this is Christmas
And what have you done?
Another year over
And a new one just begun

Err, no. Christmas is at the end of the year, the new year is still a week away.

Ah, but the 12 Days of Christmas are still going at New Year.

I don't think deserts do miss the rain- I think their whole existence relies on there not being any.

"Moët et Chandon" as sung by Freddy.

"All I ever wanted, all I ever needed" pissed off a generation of English teachers trying to teach "ed" ending pronunciation.

Bruce Springsteen gets "deuce" right but Manfred Man has a shower.

A misheard lyrics thread might be more amusing.

Ah, but the 12 Days of Christmas are still going at New Year.

I don't buy that 😉

Not quite the same but

spirit in the sky.

All good singing along then "I got a friend in jeeez..." Nope not singing that bullshit.

Pedants' Playlist.

And isn't it ironic?
Don't you think?

Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

Something from Swing Out Sister?

– if the leaves are brown, isn’t that still technically autumn?

No, meteorological winter starts on 1st Dec and oaks could still have leaves, as well as beech and hornbeam which would hold some leaves all through winter.

Do you think he's noticed yet?

As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

Neither Kilimanjro nor Olympus is visible from the Serengeti.

Also...

Whom do you think you are kidding Mr Hiltler...

If you are the champions then surely you've won, ergo you've already kept on fighting to the end.

No, meteorological winter starts on 1st Dec and oaks could still have leaves, as well as beech and hornbeam which would hold some leaves all through winter.

Could have avoided a lot of angst if they'd been clearer which system they were working to.

Also where in the world were they when they started singing? There's a lot of seasonal drift across the US.

I think you'll find it's "pedant's" playlist.

Nailed it.

@BigJohn -

“this world in which we live in” – tell me Macca was joking.

Not that I'd ever defend him, but isn't it "this world in which we're living"?

Freddie again...

"She's a Killer Queen, gun powder, gelatine."

Gunpowder and gelatine.

"Blasting Gelatine" I think? Which I think is gelignite but I might be wrong.

Either way I am pretty sure gelatine is used in explosives at a pretty useful medium for keeping stuff suspended and dispersed like silver nitrate in camera films.

Infact. Just listening.

I think it's

Gunpowder, (blasting) Gelatine , dynamite, with a laser beam.

It's a list of dangerous things in the wrong hands.

I Can't Get No Satisfaction ... do I need to explain a double negative to young Michael Jagger?

If you are the champions then surely you’ve won, ergo you’ve already kept on fighting to the end.

A champion can mean 'the winner', but it also be someone who you put forward to compete on your behalf. So "we'll keep on fighting (for you) to the end". The song has always been a bit of a sing-along but perhaps the 'We' isn't all of us, 'We' is the band and they the world's nominated champions. Maybe

"in trial by battle, a procedure in which guilt or innocence was decided by a test of arms. Clergy, children, women, and persons disabled by age or infirmity had the right to nominate champions to fight by proxy."

Your championship also persists for the following season, so currently Manchester City are the de facto Champions of English football.

So they are absolutely right to continue 'fighting' under that banner until it becomes mathematically impossible for them to retain their title.

But that would be hard to make it scan, so substitute 'mathematically impossible.....etc.' for 'the end' and you'll see that it's a perfectly reasonable lyric.

– if the leaves are brown, isn’t that still technically autumn?<br />No, meteorological winter starts on 1st Dec and oaks could still have leaves, as well as beech and hornbeam which would hold some leaves all through winter.<br /><br />

They’re in California…

They’re in California

Surely they are dreaming of going to California?

"I'd be safe and warm (I'd be safe and warm)
If I was in L.A. (if I was in L.A.)"

They’re in California…

Near Great Yarmouth then 🙂