Oooh, what Falcon said about Christine Lavin. “Regretting What I Said” is great! “You thought I didn’t have a temper. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.”
Someone else did a song called “Christine Lavin Could Do It”. Lavin fans must get it, I think it’s on Napster. Kinda mean, but very funny.
Not really music, but Brak from Space Ghost amuses me to no end. You can get on Napster a very weird…thing…of him and Freddie Prinze Jr. (?!) singing “I’m Driving Down Highway 40 In My Big Old Pickup Truck”. It’s strange, pointless, and yet oddly bizarre.
All the Forbidden Broadway/Forbidden Hollywood parodies are just priceless. Gerard Alessandrini has been writing these for 20 years, and does it better than anyone else.
My all-time opera favorites (so horrible they are wonderful) by Florence Foster Jenkins - “The World’s Worst Soprano” singing (off-key and off-rhythm) ‘The Bell Song’ from Lakme and ‘The Queen of the Night Aria’ from Mozart’s The Magic Flute. She sang these seriously, not as a parody.
:pleasant shudder:
P.D.Q. Bach’s “The Seasonings”, “Missa Hilarious” and “Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice”
“Uneasy Rider,” by The Charlie Daniels Band. A hippie on his way to LA is forced to stop off at a “redneck-looking joint called the Do Drop Inn,” and ends up dealing with the local good’ol boys. Hilarious.
These are histerical! Damn near fell off the cutting table (don’t ask) when I heard the “Cats”/“Chorus Line” audition sequence!
I want more of them! How many are there?
Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger
“Fingertips have memories, mine can’t forget the curves of your body, and when I feel a bit naughty, I run it up the flagpole and see who salutes, but no one ever does.”
“Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding, and I don’t even own a TV.”
anything by They Might be Giants. My current favourite is “Alienation’s for the Rich”
I got to get a job
Got to get some pay
My son’s gotta go to art school
He’s leaving in three days
And the TV’s in Esperanto
You know that that’s a bitch
But alienation’s for the rich
And I’m feeling poorer everyday
Well I ain’t feeling happy
About the state of things in my life
But I’m working to make it better
With a six of Miller High Life
Just drinking and a-driving
Making sure my dues get paid
Because alienations for the rich
And I’m feeling poorer everyday.
And maybe y’all can help me get the titles & artists of a few other songs. One I know is called Merry Freaking Chistmas, part of the chorus goes “There ain’t enough Jim Beam in this world / To fill me with holiday cheer / And that poor excuse for a sweater you got me / It’ll have to go back to Sears / Where I’ll wait in line / Until the end of time / What do you mean, I can’t return this here?” I could probably transcribe more of the lyrics if need be. I’d really like to know who wrote/performed it.
The other song(s) are kinda strange. There were about a dozen or so of them (a full album’s worth, I suppose) and musically they all sounded exactly the same. Each one was about a different music celebrity, and the “lyrics” consists of some kinda angry sounding guy addressing said music celebrity and proclaiming his love and admiration for them, usually using phrases like “You kick the donkey’s ass” The chorus was some other guy chanting the celebrity’s name 4 times (the only one I can remember for sure now was Courtney Love.) The last few lines of the song were always (I think) a couple of city names, followed by some advertising slogan (“Budweiser, proud to be your bud”) The songs were really bizarre. I haven’t heard then for 4 or 5 years. It might have just been some local (central Wisconsin) band…
“My Name Is Mud”, Primus
“Bobby Brown Goes Down”, Frank Zappa
“We’re A Happy Family”, The Ramones
“Shrivel Up”, Devo
“I Wanna Be A Flintstone”, The Screaming Blue Messiahs
And numerous songs that I heard on Dr. Demento years ago, especially anything by Tom Lehrer.
Two of my favorites are “The Drunken Scotsman” (which I sang for my fortuitously distracted fellow DFW Dopers at Hawkwood Faire) and “Donal, Where’s Your Trousers”.
Most TMBG and Weird Al songs amuse me. “Dark and Stormy Night” from the Mercedes Lackey “Heralds, Harpers, and Havoc” CD is funny, too.
“Alberquerque” and “You don’t Love Me Anymore” by Weird Al are pretty damn funny. A less obscure choice wold be “Honky Tonk Women” by The Rolling Stones" mainly because of the line “She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.” Also “My ding a ling” by Chuck Berry. I probably don’t have the correct title, though, but there’s got to be an MP3 of it somewhere.
FAT-violent femmes
GOVT CENTER- jonathon richman
WEEN have a way with a phrase. “Piss up a Rope” was mentioned already but I howl just picturing his ‘big-bootied b-’ friend.
VOICE FARM walk away/king of the rat race
ALL NIGHT LONG AC/DC those American Thighs
Every Breath You Take STING “every shower you take/every bra you change” What a mopey creepy song: a howler.
Wind Beneath My Wings: I can’t keep a straight face.
Years ago during the NAFTA thing there was a song “Proud to Be an American” gawd the drivel. That song cracks me up. I read somewhere that at the end of Desert Storm they wanted to play that song for a press junket but all they could find was James Brown “I Feeel Good” and that rocked the house.
imho
“Take a look at the soil around any U.S. city with a large homosexual population. Des Moines, Iowa. Perfect example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart: You can’t build
on it, you can’t grow anything in it. The government says it’s due to poor farming. But I know what’s really going on! I know it’s the queers. They’re in it with the aliens. They’re building landing strips for Gay Martians. I swear to God!”
“You know what, Stuart, I like you. You’re not like the other people here, in the trailer park. Oh, don’t get me wrong. They’re good, fine people. But they’re content to just watch a little Mork & Mindy on channel 63, and kick back a cold Coors 16-ouncer. Do you think people like that are going to know what the queers are doing to our soil?”
I thought I was the only person who knew that one.