I have the song (I keep it around to laugh at how bad it is, same as I do for Battlefield Earth), but not a clip. Here's a quick description.Malecoda wrote:Dunno it. Who's it by? Gotta sound clip?Sonnenburg wrote:I still stand behind Macarthur Park for worst song.
It opens with some snythezier music that sounds like a the music for an old Nintendo game. There's a little subdued horn bit, then the singer begins. He has the timbre of Dylan, but if Dylan was a mediocre opera singer with a slight lisp. He then sings the following with absolute sincerity, as if he were Jack Palance reciting Langston Hughs and every word expressed some inner nuance. Here's what he sings (I swear I am not making this up).
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
Then it sounds just like the theme song to Love Boat, and we enter the refrain, which mere words cannot do justice. Here's the words, which he again sings as if it was perhaps the most profound things ever written by man:
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
And then he gives an "Oh noooooooo" that sounds like he actually ejected a testicle from his body.
Then it repeats the same pattern with a second verse. More sane than the previous, but after the refrain Lewis Carrol seems normal.
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees
Then the refrain again. After that there's this really long intrumental which sounds just like the music from William Shatner's album between pieces. After a while he gets back into it, backed up by the flowing music the romance music from Top Secret, he sings as if he was standing on the roof of the world seranading mankind in the most over-the-top way I've heard. Flutes join in so that it sounds like Satyr porn music.
Then, just when you think it can't get any worse, it cuts into this upbeat piece that sounds just like those "visit our concession" songs the theater plays after the trailers but before the movie starts. Then it wanders back into the reed for a second before going into gameshow themes and then a bit of the Bionic Man. After that you get the sounds of what I think is Final Fantasy characters defeating a multi-tentacled thing, building up to a crescendo for the return to the refrain. He sings this even more high-pitched than before and takes it to new heights of self-indulgence. It ends with him saying "Oh noooo" so high that it sounds exactly like a soprano's voice.
Although, the organ (yes organ) solo is a little annoying. Love the drum solo though.