"Pablo Picasso" by David Bowie. I love to see how people use rhyme in songs. Sometimes it's easy - "I love you baby and I don't mean maybe" or whatever, but sometimes it's tricky, and I love to see how musicians get around the problem. Occasionally they'll just give up and say the same word twice; basically rhyming a word with itself. I love that. But sometimes great and unexpected rhymes come up, and this is one of my favorites of all time. It's from the song "Pablo Picasso" from the "Reality" CD. Bowie manages to rhyme "asshole" with "Picasso," and that's inspired. Plus "asshole" is a great word anyway. The song says:
Well some people try to pick up girls
They get called assholes
They get called assholes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
Amazing. Just amazing. Fantastic song too. Studio version (no link function):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xWOK9K0_I
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