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| What are the most surreal rhyming couplets in music? | What are the most surreal rhyming couplets in music? |
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| The latest album from kraut-tronic pop act Fujiya & Miyagi is riddled with bamboozling rhyming couplets. While their previous releases have contained some pleasingly odd parings (Dishwasher's "When you're pre-menstrual/I will play chill out compilation instrumentals" being a prime example) Artificial Sweeteners, their fifth album, is packed with unpredictable riddles. | The latest album from kraut-tronic pop act Fujiya & Miyagi is riddled with bamboozling rhyming couplets. While their previous releases have contained some pleasingly odd parings (Dishwasher's "When you're pre-menstrual/I will play chill out compilation instrumentals" being a prime example) Artificial Sweeteners, their fifth album, is packed with unpredictable riddles. |
| Take Acid To My Alkaline's scientific surrealism - "When two magnets push together, they repel one another once the negative sides are aligned/You can't mix water with spirit of turpentine" - or Flaws' evocative metaphors -"Insecurities absorbed/Dispersed like reproductive spores". | Take Acid To My Alkaline's scientific surrealism - "When two magnets push together, they repel one another once the negative sides are aligned/You can't mix water with spirit of turpentine" - or Flaws' evocative metaphors -"Insecurities absorbed/Dispersed like reproductive spores". |
| In fact, F&M's David Best is such a fan of the curious couplings, that he's given us a rundown of some of the most unusual rhyming couplets in music: | In fact, F&M's David Best is such a fan of the curious couplings, that he's given us a rundown of some of the most unusual rhyming couplets in music: |
| 1 Jake Thackray – The Bantam Cock "He jumped my giggling guinea fowl and forced his attentions upon/My twenty hysterical turkeys and a visiting migrant swan"2 David Bowie – Breaking Glass "Don't look at the carpet/I drew something awful on it" 3 MF DOOM ft. MF Grimm– Tick Tick... | 1 Jake Thackray – The Bantam Cock "He jumped my giggling guinea fowl and forced his attentions upon/My twenty hysterical turkeys and a visiting migrant swan"2 David Bowie – Breaking Glass "Don't look at the carpet/I drew something awful on it" 3 MF DOOM ft. MF Grimm– Tick Tick... |
| "Dynasties destroyed like Carringtons and Colbys/Noise, reduced, MF thinks in Dolby" 4 Brian Eno – Dead Finks Don’t Talk "Oh, you headless chicken/Can those poor teeth take so much kicking?" 5 Vivian Stanshall - Strange Tongues "Fear follows in the wake of sleepless days/Foul yellow fright as thick as mayonnaise" 6 Lou Reed – Stupid Man "Stupid man/Hitch-hiking out of a good life in Saskatchewan" 7 Neil Young – Stupid Girl "I saw you in Mercedes Benz/Practicing self-defence"8 Electra – Feels Good "Jogging in the morning running on my feet/Eating only vegetables carrots and beets" 9 Slapp Happy – Everybody’s Slimmin’ "Stroke the air like you're buttering toast/Shake you yomma yamma like you're humping a ghost" 10 Captain Beefheart - Electricity "Midnight cowboy stained in black/Reads dark roads without a map" | |
| Has he missed any other classics? What are your favourites? Let us know in the comments below | Has he missed any other classics? What are your favourites? Let us know in the comments below |
| • Fujiya & Miyagi will tour the UK in June | • Fujiya & Miyagi will tour the UK in June |