Lyrics To Go

This one's a head scratcher... but is it with good reason? The guys dig deep into the half-assed lyrics for the first Foo Fighters' single This Is A Call looking for some meaning.

A song that's been sitting on The List for a while, Seth and Marc get into the good and the bad of All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor. A song that is championed by the songwriters as a banner for body positivity, The Guys take a look at why it's positive and what's left over.

Marc and Seth cleanse themselves of the grossness of last week by talking through the lyrics to Goodbye Earl by the (Dixie) Chicks! The guys have a discussion about country music, how good The Chicks are, and ask the question... did Earl HAVE to die?

The guys talk about Garry Glitter's single Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!) Already creepy on its own, when you read about the laundry list of awful things he did it feels even worse. How high will this one rate on the Creep Factor? Pretty damn high.

Seth and Marc go through the daunting task of reading through all three verses of MiMS' breakout hit This Is Why I'm Hot. SPOILER ALERT: Why is he hot? Simple.... because he is.

Davis Ford take on the troublesome lyrics of Bell Biv DeVoe's Do Me! (replete with exclamation mark) A "song about sex" according to Billboard, the ex-New Edition members Trojan-Horsed a very troubling bit in the second verse allegedly written by a very famous rapper.

Seth and Marc battle head-on against James and Dash (better known as Seals & Crofts) as they discuss the song Unborn Child. Based off of a poem written by a producers wife, the easy rock duo sing to a fetus that can't hear them and be really fucking shitty.

Marc and Seth have a little too much fun talking about the lyrics to Steely Dan's non-single but single-esque Dirty Work. This one was an editing nightmare and it's still over an hour. What is this dirty work they're speaking of?

Marc and Seth dig into what it means to be Turning Japanese as sung by The Vapors. Rife with stereotypes in both music AND music video, the guys talk about the creepy lyrics and the line between paying homage to a culture and shitting all over it.

Seth and Marc throw on some white t-shirts, slick their pompadours up with some pomade, and look under the hood of the musical-turned-hit-single Greased Lightning. Watch out if the kids are in the car as these lyrics contain some pretty strange sexual terms and complete lack of knowledge about cars.

Seth basks in the glory of country music and Marc sits idly by as they dissect the lyrics to the predatory That Summer by Garth Brooks. Listen to the tale of Ol' Leatherhands and what she does to a teenage boy.

Seth and Marc need 10cc's of medical knowledge given to Bon Jovi STAT! The guys try to figure out what makes medicine "bad," why no one else is able to help the narrator, and discuss fake endings.

Marc and Seth invite guest and dear friend Mike to look through the unrecommended-history-laden lyrics of High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco. What's worse: Making people who never made it feel like absolute trash or bringing up Manifest Destiny? Special Guest: Mike Cosden.

The guys dismantle a song that was described as "unintelligible" by one critic; Hanson's breakaway single Mmmbop. A mixture of "did you know" and "these lyrics were written by teenagers," we discuss how good they sound now and the possibilities of knowing which flowers you're planting.

Marc and Seth work through Kelly Clarkson's single "My Life Would Suck Without You," her self-professed "anti-boy-bashing song." The thing is if there was ever a time for her to bash a guy, it would be now. Don't sell yourself out, Kelly!

The guys dig deep into the high school poetry that makes up the lyrics of 7 Mary 3's hit Cumbersome. Overflowing with self-reference and Eddie Vedder's impressions, this song will make it so you don't know if you're coming or going. Oh yeah, no. Yeah yeah, no no. Yeah. No.

Seth and Marc talk Hall & Oates with their cover of the Mike Oldfield-penned Family Man. A sex worker propositions a man who rebuffs her advances while also telling her that if she keeps asking, he might say yes. Who is in the wrong here and does he give in?

Seth and Marc revisit a band they haven't talked about since episode 3... Starship's "We Built This City." Highly regarded as one of the worst songs of the 80's by some publications and one of the worst songs ever by others, where do the guys think it stack

Marc and Seth read off the litany of prerequisites to be Bonnie Tyler's titular hero in Holding Out For A Hero and feel bad about themselves. Also, why does she need someone who is fresh from a fight? What is she not telling us? And what does this have to do with Footloose?!

The dudes look at the lyrics to King Harvest's twinkly version of Dancing In The Moonlight. However, it's the story behind the song that is the much bigger reveal here.

Seth and Marc unfurl the lyrics to The Crickets' (by the way of Buddy Holly) hit That'll Be The Day. Does it surprise us that this song is filled with a litany of different kinds of mental manipulation? No, not at all. Are we going to still cover it? Absolutely.

Seth and Marc invite past guest Jamie on to discuss the lyrics to Shaggy's reggae-ish gaslighting anthem "It Wasn't Me." Lots of questions on this one.... about how him getting busted went down, whether or not he truly wanted to be caught, or if Shaggy really exists at all.... Special Guest: Jamie Carmichael.

This week, the dudes go through the koRn hit A.D.I.D.A.S. (All Day I Dream About Sex). This song is so bad that it pushed guitarist "Head" to quit the band to find Christ.

Marc and Seth dig into the dark story behind the Sarah McLaughlin's breakout hit Possession. One of those cases of a song that people use in their wedding but the truth behind it has much sadder, and creepier, roots.

Seth and Marc look into the history of the Toby Keith song Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue and, of course, the lyrics themselves. Written like a 14-year-old horny for America, Toby calls for the assistance of the Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam, and an Eagle to name a few while also referring to America as a mean dog. I feel more patriotic already.