name songs which are funny which AREN'T comedy songs

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

.... responding to the lex on FT, who sez ALL comedy songs make him scowl (a not-unusual response to enforced jollity)

(and i guess i'm talking "laugh-with" funny rather than "laugh-at" funny)

to kick things off: i think Qb's OOCHIE WALLY is funny ---:0

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[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

The Reverend Elder Beck's "Rock 'n' Roll Sermon" which is an old sermon about R&R being the devil's music and a great evil facing today's youth. It's backed with an electric guitar which gradually gets wilder and wilder until it is playing thrilling R&R.

Willie Tee's "Walking Up A One-Way Street", for two reasons:
1. "I'm all alone and blue as can be and I'm walking, walking, walking up a one-way street." There is no difference between a one-way street and any other kind if you are walking.
2. It's a sad heartbreak song, with a horn backing that bounces along exactly as cheerily (yes I've measured it) as the Archers theme.

MUSIC which is funny

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

with the exception of my very muffled point on bosh and jel-style dragonforce metal, martin's the first to raise the issue of humour in the non-vocal part of the music (as opposed to the lyric writing or vocal delivery or use of performance)

Re: MUSIC which is funny

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

sorry i mean "use of persona"

Re: MUSIC which is funny

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest some house & techno actually - where a particularly cutesy or wobbly sound/riff comes in to rupture the straight 4/4 line; often in clubs I'll be bobbing around and this utterly ridiculous crazy sound will come in, and it'll make everyone present grin and giggle.