Mona by James Taylor - he has a pet pig, he kills her, he’s going to eat her, but then he can’t. Awwww, isn’t that sweet!
Alan’s Psychedlic Breakfast by Pink FLoyd.
( … corn flakes … I like corn flakes … )
Anything by “The Presidents of The United States of America”
I am especially fond of ** Puffy Little Shoes** about, well, puffy shoes. Also. Naked and Famous , Bug City, Kitty… Every single one of their songs crack me up. I love them for the silly songs.
Frank Zappa also comes to mind. Least we forget Domino Hum, she bet him 50 dollars he couldn’t make her cum. That one about Don’t you eat that yellow snow. Frank is just strange. period.
I too am a fan of the Detachable Penis song.
(Tabeitha, who is a long time lurker. First post on new board. You think I like the colors?
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Hi Tabeitha! I think you might mean “Dinah-moe Humm.” You can imagine why I take an interest:D
“Horizon” by the Arrogant Worms. A ballad about love, hate, revenge, and the trials of a Plymouth Horizon. on Highway 401 east of Toronto…
“Phanta” and “Slideshow At Free University” by Le Tigre. Girl punk from New York. “Phanta” is about a bunch of hippies living in a bunker in Colorado, and “Slideshow…” is about art theory. This whole CD is great for blasting roomies out of bed or waking oneself up after a project-management meeting.
I knew I wasn’t spelling that right, but I no longer own that album so I couldn’t go check, and I was to lazy to research the net.
“Where’s Jerry Lewis?” by the Frogs. Actually, everything by the Frogs is pretty weird. “Know Your Chicken” and “Birthday Cake” by Cibo Matto are also odd-- the latter is from the POV of some mother screaming at her son to eat the moldy birthday cake she made him.
Yep.
“Turning Japanese” – The Vapors. Not necessarily a “weird” subject (who doesn’t do it?), but not one common in R&R…
Presidents of the United States of America has some strange songs.
“Peaches” is odd. “Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown”
Also by the same band, who can forget the lovely song called simply “Kitty” “Kitty reeowww, scratching at the screen door, little bag of bones been out all night”
Beautifully incorperated into the song is the band members going “RREEEEEEEEEEEOOWWWWWW” like thru the whole song.
Dead skunk in the middle of the road I can’t remember who sang it.
Junk food junkie Larry Groce
Wildwood weed Jim Stafford
Don’t eat the yellow snow Frank Zappa
“I f@#k dogs” by D.A.A.S. I think you get the general idea…
Apparently "…the Great Dane is too tall, Chihuahua’s are too small… but the Dachshund is best of all "
Disturbing…
Loudon Wainwright III
Genesis, in the early Peter Gabriel days, had a number of them:
The Return of the Giant Hogweed was about a murderous plant which accidentally gets imported into English gardens and starts wiping out all the people.
Get 'Em Out By Friday takes place in the future, when the people in charge of the government’s genetic engineering program also happen to be heavily into land speculation… they start breeding people smaller so that they can get more of them into the same building site and make more money.
Harold the Barrel was a sad-funny song about a man about to jump off a window ledge (he does).
None of this even vaguely resembles the Phil Collins-dominated Genesis of the 90’s, which all sounded like a Michelob ad.
Other Stuff:
DOA by Bloodrock is the last thoughts of an airplane crash victim who is missing at least his arm. Truly a lovely tune.
:rolleyes:
The Last Rhino by Adrian Belew is a first, er, person account of a rhino’s life in a zoo and his longing for home.
And, as has been noted, it would be hard to find a Frank Zappa song, having lyrics, which doesn’t qualify for this thread. Certainly our family favorite (really) is Evelyn, a Modified Dog, a 90 second poem about not much more than a dog’s reaction to seeing a doily’s fringe move a little in a light puff of wind.
I’ll bet as I flip through my bizarre music collection, I could add pages and pages more. I’ll spare you.:o
There’s a band I listen to a lot called Bal-Sagoth. Their lyricist has created this entire fantasy world, and each album is an “episode” of the story of the world. The song lyrics are all dialogue between characters in their world, or narration for the story. I know some bands will release concept albums once in awhile, but Bal-Sagoth does only that, and they take it further than anyone I’ve seen.
Plus they have the best song titles ever, like “The Splendor of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire.” 
"Marie Provost ", by Nick Lowe: “She was a winner/Who became a doggie’s dinner”. He got the name wrong – the song is about silent film star Marie Prevost.
“Meet James Ensor”, by They Might Be Giants: “Meet James Ensor/Belgium’s famous painter”.
Not to mention any number of Jonathan Richman numbers, like “Ice Cream Man”, “Roller Coaster by the Sea”, “Dodge Veg-o-matic” – hell, nearly everything on Rock 'N’Roll With the Modern Lovers.
Wow, somebody else has heard of Rasputina!
Placebo~
Bubblegun All I can say is…It’s a fun song. 
Leni He’s a fly and she’s a sci-fi lullaby.
Brick Shithouse The ghost of a lover is talking to his adulterous love.
Burger Queen Song about an arousal-challenged guy.
Evil Dildo Um…It’s scary.
Mars Landing Party A lovely sentiment.
Swallow While I can’t quite understand it, it is quite amusing.
Miss Moneypenny Bond, James Bond.
“Some of you tonight are going to go home with your boyfriend or girlfriend.
Some of you who are lucky and good looking may just go home with a Rock Star.
But those of you who go home alone should remember that there is always an 8 inch object made of plastic
and with a motor that will never let you down. This is Bionic.”
Okay…I’m tired. If I think of any more artists or songs, I will post them.
There is ever so much more to King Missile than “Detachable Penis.” Why not try out “The Little Sandwich That Got a Guilt Complex” or “The Bunny Who Wanted to Be a Rat” or “Martin Scorsese?” All about …well, what they say they’re about, and all pretty damned amusing.
Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might Be Giants is about a little bird nite-lite. Of course, they have a lot of songs about weird subjects. Another one is about how someone died and came back as a bag of groceries.
Turning Japanese - The Vapors Nothing to do with the Japanese, more to do with masturbation…odd.