Comedy pop

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I was going to post the mp3 of Radio Free Vestibule's I Don't Want To Go To Toronto here, but I couldn't find it, and don't have time to search Slsk right now. Anyway, comedy songs. They shouldn't be Any Good At All, right? I'd like Tom Lehrer if he wasn't so smug. I'd like Python if it was a completely different record altogether. But this amused me. It sounds like a more grown up version of the Happy Flowers, where they abandoned punk tantrums for barfunk tantrums. The line 'I don't want a tax on my wicker goods!' amuses me more than it ought. Perhaps because the 'singer' sounds like Fozzie Bear. When I was younger and less wary I told an evil student journo editor that the White Stripes' Jolene (the only record I'd heard by them at the time) sounded like Korean businessmen in a late night karaoke bar gearing up for pinching the waitress's bottom in between rounds of sake and incidental singing. He laughed, but that was why I liked it. I was disappointed that the rest of their records were marginally more sensible.