Serious music that makes you howl with laughter?

[xoxos]

if there is anyone who gets me to howl, it has to be Jim Steinman, songwriter and uberproducer, and the creator of Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell opuses.

oh yes, the andrew lloyd weber approach to radio play.

the theory is that is we can jam the memetics with enough overwrought histrionics, whatever's on next is going to seem profoundly ingenious.

you hit the nail on the head there.

[rpc9943]

I'd have to say I laugh at musicians who are trying to write serious music but are completely unaware that they are just a product used by mainstream media to get as much money as they can out of them. I also laugh at all bands who try to mimic Pearl Jam, theres only one pearl jam... It's funny because they do that "Cow Singing" sounds like they have three cigars in their mouth as they sing or like theyre in the middle of eating dinner as they sing, then when they're interviewed they sound like they've "finally finished their meal"

RonC

[Cordelia]

Ha ha. I've never been able to pin down that effect exactly, but "cow singing" is it. I curse Eddie for all of the braying imitators he has spawned.

[tetraplan]

Frank Zappa, of course

of course

dont eat that yellow snow...

frank was supposed to be serious?

Does humor belong in music?

Groet, Erik

[clueless]

Frank Zappa, of course

of course

dont eat that yellow snow...

frank was supposed to be serious?

Does humor belong in music?

Groet, Erik

I think humour is in music whether or not it's actually put there. i.e. music which takes itself too seriously results in a thread like this

[Whoomph]

Frank Zappa, of course

of course

dont eat that yellow snow...

frank was supposed to be serious?

Does humor belong in music?

Groet, Erik

I think humour is in music whether or not it's actually put there. i.e. music which takes itself too seriously results in a thread like this

Music is/can be it all, I think,
which reminds me of a Beck concert I went to , my eyes were red and my face was sore from the tears of laughter that were
streaming down my face.
I've just listened to Lunch Moneys song 'chug cock'
and the same there , myself and the other half were pissing ourselves. Ok it's been one of those evenings here, 8:30 southpark , 9:30 the office series 1( they're repeating it) and then when I thought it was all over - chug cock If you haven't heard this already and your up for a laugh check it out . It's at wusik.com in the metal section (no offence meant to the people with no sense of humour who don't find this song at least amusing)

[splattabreakz]

fwiw i think frank took himself and life less serious than most people.

the guy was a comedy genius

[vurt]

fwiw i think frank took himself and life less serious than most people.

the guy was a comedy genius

sinatra?too damn right

[Meffy]

fwiw i think frank took himself and life less serious than most people.

the guy was a comedy genius

Absolutely. As Pogo Possum said, "Don't take life serious. It ain't nohow permanent."

Meffy

[donkey tugger]

80s hair metal, like bon jovi, def leppard, kiss, whitesnake, iron maiden et al.

Iron Maiden is hair metal?? You either don't know a lot about metal, or you're on something.

My thoughts exactly. I'd suggest that the he go A/B Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast with Whitesnake's Is this Love?
and then get back to us

Up the Irons!

Didn't Iron Maiden actually walk out of the premiere of 'Spinal Tap', accusing the film-makers of directly parodying them? Humourless gits, yet intensely funny.

That Ronnie James Dio took the biscuit though, with his 80ft dragon, or whatever it was. Nice.

[Meffy]

Heh, good one, tugger. Reminds me of Eminem getting enraged by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Used to be I couldn't stand Triumph. Now I admire his skill at trolling. :-D I mean, really -- how much brain does it take to keep from being goaded into a fury by a hand puppet, for cryin' out loud?! What a little, little man Eminem is. *shakes head*

Meffy
hee hee hee, you go, dog

[shamann]

Didn't Iron Maiden actually walk out of the premiere of 'Spinal Tap', accusing the film-makers of directly parodying them? Humourless gits, yet intensely funny.

That Ronnie James Dio took the biscuit though, with his 80ft dragon, or whatever it was. Nice.

Legend does have it that it was Iron Maiden. What's strange about that is that in any interview I've seen with them, they all seem like funny guys.

Now Dio, I suspect is a humourless git. Anyone see this news item from a few months ago?

[Meffy]

*snerk!*

As per the name change, the band had this to say on its website: "It doesn't mean what you think because it doesn't really mean anything. It's a shame we had to do it, but as J.P. said, 'We're up against rainbows and magic,' and when it comes to casting spells we're barely level 3 musicians with nothing but cheap magic missiles and plate mail armor to protect us from the wrath of eight-headed hydra law firms with unlimited mana and 100-sided dice."

:-D !

I'm emailing you a complete steak supper for that one. Check your inbox; be sure it doesn't get thrown in with the spam!

Meffy

[ew]

Now Dio, I suspect is a humourless git. Anyone see this news item from a few months ago?

Not sure about the humorless part,Steve...somebody had posted a link to the Dio for President website back before the election.Now THAT was funny
ew

[Meffy]

I wonder how Dio's lawsuit against God is doing? The latter's Italian P.R. agency have been calling him "Dio" for quite some time now.

I'm also concerned that the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday, Dia de los Muertos, might be confused with "Dio," so there's another potentially lucrative lawsuit just waiting to be brought to (rotten) fruition.

mmmm, choco-skull!

Meffy