Tongue-Twisters

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Songs that are notoriously hard to sing properly on the first try.

Absolutely Bill's Mood - "Don't you try to tag along"
Ana Ng - "Ana Ng and I are getting old and we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence"
Asbury Park - Especially "Me got kicked in the head backstage at the Stone Pony/Where I swore to the guy/That the guy who took his beer/Was a guy dressed just like me"
Birdhouse In Your Soul - The chorus
Cowtown - The phrases running into one another is intensely confusing to master.
Damn Good Times - "When my friend got amnesia she can't remember the show she saw"
Dead - The chorus
Dinner Bell - The bridge starting with "I don't know whether I'd rather be having..."
Don't Let's Start - The scatting.
Everything Right Is Wrong Again - The portion where the tempo is slowed half down is especially hard to understand.
Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal - Mainly the verses
Hide Away Folk Family - The bridge "This is Leslie Down..." and the "backwards" vocals during the coda.
I Palindrome I - "Son, I am able," she said, "though you scare me."/"Watch," said I/"Beloved," I said, "watch me scare you, though."/Said she, "Able am I, Son."
It's Not My Birthday -
Letterbox - Especially difficult is the line, "And I'll never never know what you never never never want to know when you know what you are, O."
The Mesopotamians - The foriegn names of The Mesopotamians are hard to pronounce, especially all at once.
Mr. Me - The verses
Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - The verses
Outboard Part Of Man - "outboard bread boy," and "night light, sleep tight"
Purple Toupee - Alliteration in the line "...crowned the king of Cuba..."
Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - The verses
Rat Patrol - "Wilderness of mirrors shine/Floorboards creak or footsteps heard/Headlights turn into the drive/Then disappear into the night"
Rhythm Section Want Ad - "So if you like a band with a chick singer/ Say your cup of tea is a wall of trombones/ If you dig Menudo, or MDC we salute you the way we know"
Santa Cruz - All three verses.
She's An Angel - The chorus
Spine - "And I believe I'll be leaving it behind"
They'll Need A Crane - "Lad's gal is all he has, gal's gladness hangs upon the love of lad"
Weep Day
West Virginia - "There's another deep inside you and inside the other one there is another in the other"
Which Describes How You're Feeling
Whistling In The Dark - The chorus.

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