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Started by Eddie Teach, October 15, 2009, 04:54:39 PM

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Eddie Teach

October 15, 2009, 04:54:39 PM
What funny songs do you like best?


My short list:
Fats Waller- Your Feet's Too Big
Johnny Cash- A Boy Named Sue
David Allen Coe- You Don't Have to Call Me Darling
Bloodhound Gang?- The Bad Touch
Parliament- Dr. Funkenstein
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Capetan Mihali

#1
October 15, 2009, 05:06:03 PM
Nothing by that goddamned Ray Stevens, that's for sure.   :mad:
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Savonarola

#2
October 15, 2009, 05:07:40 PM
"Dare to be Stupid" by Weird Al; I find the assumption that his target audience would have a chainsaw in hand hilarious.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Capetan Mihali

#3
October 15, 2009, 05:08:42 PM
Most of the B-52's songs are funny at some level, and I do like pretty much all of their first two albums and some later songs.

So I submit "Rock Lobster."  I know I can count on BarristerBoy for support on this.  :Canuck:
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Eddie Teach

#4
October 15, 2009, 05:13:19 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on October 15, 2009, 05:08:42 PM
Most of the B-52's songs are funny at some level, and I do like pretty much all of their first two albums and some later songs.

So I submit "Rock Lobster."  I know I can count on BarristerBoy for support on this.  :Canuck:

Agreed. They'd get honorable mentions from me, as well as Presidents of the United States of America.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Slargos

#5
October 15, 2009, 05:13:37 PM
Boy named Sue is a very good suggestion.

I'm a big fan of Tenacious D, and one of my favourites is "Master Exploder" but for greatest effect their songs generally require the video rather than just the song.

Capetan Mihali

#6
October 15, 2009, 05:15:35 PM
Also, I personally think about half of the Ramones catalog qualifes as both great and funny, but of course not really novelty songs.

But "Beat On The Brat," for instance, is pretty funny no matter how you look at it.
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

PDH

#7
October 15, 2009, 05:18:49 PM
Don't forget the Ramones love song "Chainsaw"
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Barrister

#8
October 15, 2009, 05:20:59 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on October 15, 2009, 05:08:42 PM
So I submit "Rock Lobster."  I know I can count on BarristerBoy for support on this.  :Canuck:

Rock Lobster is not a mere comedy song however - it is a work of sublime genius. :angry:

Devo falls in the same category - some amusing lyrics, but not just a novelty act.
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Capetan Mihali

#9
October 15, 2009, 05:21:27 PM
Quote from: PDH on October 15, 2009, 05:18:49 PM
Don't forget the Ramones love song "Chainsaw"

Texas chainsaw massa-cree
They took my baby away from me

:D
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Savonarola

#10
October 15, 2009, 05:22:56 PM
Gilbert and Sullivan provided some marvelously funny songs; my favorites are Private Willis's song from Iolanthe and Sir Joseph Porter's Song from HMS Pinafore.

Sir Joseph:

I grew so rich that I was sent
By a pocket borough into Parliament.
I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
I thought so little, they rewarded me
By making me the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

Private Willis:

When in that House M.P.'s divide,
If they've a brain and cerebellum, too,
They've got to leave that brain outside,
And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
But then the prospect of a lot
Of dull M. P.'s in close proximity,
All thinking for themselves, is what
No man can face with equanimity.
Then let's rejoice with loud Fal la--Fal la la!
That Nature always does contrive--Fal lal la!
That every boy and every gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Capetan Mihali

#11
October 15, 2009, 05:23:20 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 15, 2009, 05:20:59 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on October 15, 2009, 05:08:42 PM
So I submit "Rock Lobster."  I know I can count on BarristerBoy for support on this.  :Canuck:

Rock Lobster is not a mere comedy song however - it is a work of sublime genius. :angry:

Devo falls in the same category - some amusing lyrics, but not just a novelty act.

With all due respect to the agent of the Crown, the post requested "funny" songs, not novelty songs.  I can't think of any purely novelty songs that I really like at all, except some non-funny instrumental songs like "Telstar" (Margaret Thatcher's favorite rock song!  :bowler:) or "The Happy Organ."
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Barrister

#12
October 15, 2009, 05:25:40 PM Last Edit: October 15, 2009, 05:33:43 PM by Barrister
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on October 15, 2009, 05:23:20 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 15, 2009, 05:20:59 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on October 15, 2009, 05:08:42 PM
So I submit "Rock Lobster."  I know I can count on BarristerBoy for support on this.  :Canuck:

Rock Lobster is not a mere comedy song however - it is a work of sublime genius. :angry:

Devo falls in the same category - some amusing lyrics, but not just a novelty act.

With all due respect to the agent of the Crown, the post requested "funny" songs, not novelty songs.  I can't think of any purely novelty songs that I really like at all, except some non-funny instrumental songs like "Telstar" (Margaret Thatcher's favorite rock song!  :bowler:) or "The Happy Organ."

Fair enough.  The OP mentioned a novelty song like "The Bad Touch", but then included geniunely good songs like A Boy Named Sue and Dr. Funkenstein (I don't honestly recognize the other two songs).

I just want to make sure that Rock Loberts gets the attention it is due, is all. :mad:


Edit: Rock Loberts? :blink:
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Viking

#13
October 15, 2009, 05:31:57 PM
Always look the bright side of life.

I declare this thread ended.
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

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October 15, 2009, 05:59:01 PM Last Edit: October 15, 2009, 06:02:26 PM by MadImmortalMan
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