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These are exempt because they are examples of "word painting"--so they work together with the music to get the point across--even if everyone and their uncle has used them:
--on and on and on and on (xtc, steven bishop, the replacements)
--round and round and round and round (neil young, ratt, b-52s)
--stop (and the music stops) (janes addiction, marvin gaye, the fawns)
and the "shelf" thing.
Shelf is so often just used to rhyme with "self". Does anyone say "on the shelf" in real life ? Maybe they do in other parts of the country.
One of the only good uses is Gram Parson's "Juanita" where he sings
"....I found myself/ with a bottle of wine and some pills off the shelf"
se, there's a real shelf (medicine cabinet) there.
2 comments:
First time I heard the "Stop" phenomena was in Elvis Costello's "Alison".
Don't forget "over and over and over and over".
Don't forget my own song "Glum-Go-Round," which not only repeates "round and round and round and round" approximately 23 times in a row but does so atop the same repeating dissonant chord. Then the next line is "Once you're STUCK on this carousel/You don't stand a sno-cone's chance in hell." It might be the best 30 seconds of words and music I've ever written in my entire life.
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