Well, it’s technically still about a girl. Sort of.
The large majority of songs by Jonathan Coulton. Love songs from Charon to Pluto, suicidal vampires, the secret rave life of Soterios Johnson, fractals…
Maybe, but suspended animation is more plausible. For it to be time dilation, the ship would have to be pulling 800 gees. Yes, I actually worked it out once.
Either way, though, it’s a kick-ass song by Queen. But I repeat myself.
I love songs about unusual things. A couple that spring to mind -
“Pi” by Kate Bush - She sings about someone who loves numbers, then she just starts singing the digits of Pi. More people should sing Pi, I think.
“The Rich are All Perverted” by Diorama - Half of this song seems to be about drug use, but I’m including it anyway, because the other half is the title repeated over and over again.
“The Man Who Stole a Leopard” by Duran Duran - based on a news story they heard about a man who illegally trapped and kept a leopard.
Also Be My Yoko by The Bobs, and I Won’t Be Your Yoko Ono by Dar Williams. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, or if the writers of the latter two songs were aware of the previous. I believe the order was Bobs, BNL, Williams.
I have a wild desire to write a song about being Yoko Ono.
Another nominee for this thread, God Monkey Robot by The Apparitions. It’s about, well, I’m not sure really; a repeating cycle of man’s place in the drudgery of society to be freed or replaced by mechanization, or something. (The sound quality of that link is somewhat lacking, some of the melody is lost in the fuzz.)
Billie Holiday’s *Strange Fruit *was about lynching. So was Irving Berlin’s Supper Time.
Arlo Guthrie…1913 Massacre and his Hobo’s Lullaby.
Also…Something Tells Me it’s All Happening at the Zoo—Simon & Garfunkel.
“Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict” by Pink Floyd
I remember waaay back when I first hear Michael Jackson sing the title song to the movie “Ben” I thought it was a nice song about friendship. Then I realized he was singing to a rat!
Yes, We Have No Bananas! Roaring Twenties: Sam Lanin - Yes! We Have No Bananas, 1923 - YouTube
Did I Get Stinkin’ at the Club Savoy - YouTube
Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancin’ in a Hurry - YouTube
I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (The Happiness Boys) - I've Never Seen a Straight Banana (1927) - YouTube
and my favorite, Fido Is a Hot Dog Now - YouTube
Tom Russell’s Gallo Del Cielo. Yeah, it’s a cockfighting anthem. And actually a pretty good song.
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The Martian Boogie, Brownsville Station. It’s about grabbing a burger at a local diner. Hey partner, how about passing the ketchup over?
I have it on 45, and my friend and I used to call the local radio station and get them to play it.
Well, if we’re going to go bananas, here, how about “Come, Mr. Tally Man, and Tally Me Bananas”.
Wait, that’s it! The reason the shopowner yes, had no bananas is because the tally man was so slow doing his job on the banana boat that he held up the shipment!
Or perhaps the Bananaman has already distributed them all. (Video to “Bananaman” by Tally Hall.)
PapSett, it is in Spanish, but this link to Laika, a song by Spanish pop group Mecano, is about Laika, the Russian cosmonaut dog. It has the translation of the lyrics underneath the video. Just thought about it when you mentioned the animal songs.
I always thought it was Kate’s answer to all those people who claimed they would listen to her sing the phone book.
My nominee for her strangest topic is the Guy Fawkes Day appropriate Rocket’s Tale, which she says was inspired by her cat Rocket, but the lyrics are about a person strapping rockets onto their body and launching off Waterloo bridge.
Neil Young’s Long May You Run is about his first vehicle, a hearse.
Half Man Half Biscuit have a surfeit of songs on bizarre topics, here’s Dickie Davies Eyes.
Here I thought I was probably the only person or DD fan on this board who had even heard of this song.