now THEY were funny 
Serious music that makes you howl with laughter?
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- KVRAF
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- 1981 posts since 26 Oct, 2003 from Toronto
Oh no Grasshopper! You Bones friend NO MORE!
Neverwhere201 - you're so right! Them and 'boy bands' like Take That and Nsync and all -
Music quiets down...
"Come on girl, don't play me like that. I just want to hang out with you sweetness. Girl, I could rock your world, and show you some tenderness..."
Neverwhere201 - you're so right!
Them and 'boy bands' like Take That and Nsync and all - Music quiets down...
"Come on girl, don't play me like that. I just want to hang out with you sweetness. Girl, I could rock your world, and show you some tenderness..."
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
General principle, almost everywhere observable:
The more serious and deep and profound it tries to be, the more comical and absurd the result.
This applies not just to songs, but also to posts in online forums, letters to the editor, and overheard discussions.
Meffy
and I'm serious about this, really really really I am
The more serious and deep and profound it tries to be, the more comical and absurd the result.
This applies not just to songs, but also to posts in online forums, letters to the editor, and overheard discussions.
Meffy
and I'm serious about this, really really really I am
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- KVRAF
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- 1981 posts since 26 Oct, 2003 from Toronto
I hear you on that Meffy. 
But that's usually a 'general consensus' is it not? When someone gets so isolated and convinces themselves they are coming out 'serious' - usually 2 or more people start to snicker, and others clue in shortly.
See, if I play The Fall to my friends - they do anything but laugh? They like the music, think the words are weird, fault the production... And I'm the idiot snickering away in the corner saying 'Oh Mark, you priceless son of a bitch!' And my friends don't get it? I'm sure Lady J must get the same when a refined friend puts on Satie for some mood music.
....teeheeheeheehee
Reggae, and Dance Hall do this to me as well. Great fun music indeed, and not to be taken too seriously. BUT - some of the patwa words and synth effects, I'm howling like it's a Spike Jones record.
And that ain't good in Kingston!
But that's usually a 'general consensus' is it not? When someone gets so isolated and convinces themselves they are coming out 'serious' - usually 2 or more people start to snicker, and others clue in shortly.
See, if I play The Fall to my friends - they do anything but laugh? They like the music, think the words are weird, fault the production... And I'm the idiot snickering away in the corner saying 'Oh Mark, you priceless son of a bitch!' And my friends don't get it? I'm sure Lady J must get the same when a refined friend puts on Satie for some mood music.
....teeheeheeheehee
Reggae, and Dance Hall do this to me as well. Great fun music indeed, and not to be taken too seriously. BUT - some of the patwa words and synth effects, I'm howling like it's a Spike Jones record.
And that ain't good in Kingston!
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
id have to disagree. i'd say yes maybe in the mainstream market, but underground or more artsy indie bands really really really can be profound, and even silence the cynical listener. Take for example Red House Painters....
RonC
RonC
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- KVRAF
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- 1981 posts since 26 Oct, 2003 from Toronto
Not faulting commercial or indie bands here... It's just the way a singer says a phrase or even a word, or even the timing of a rest in the music - and I'll think something stupid like 'there should be a fart there'... Daaaa-Daa-da - pphphphpht! Da-dum-dee-dee.
And I'll hear it again on the radio, or at a party et al - and that little voice comes in my head 'Don't forget to add the fart sound.'
I scream out CHISS-LAR! even before the damn song gets into 4 measures, and wipe away tears of laughter from my eyes.
And I'll hear it again on the radio, or at a party et al - and that little voice comes in my head 'Don't forget to add the fart sound.'
I scream out CHISS-LAR! even before the damn song gets into 4 measures, and wipe away tears of laughter from my eyes.
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Ron, IMO it's a matter of how hard the artist strains to sound self-important and deep. The more frantically they try to convince me of their profundity, the wider my grin gets.
What's truly deep doesn't need to work at impressing anyone. It just works. :-)
Meffy
What's truly deep doesn't need to work at impressing anyone. It just works. :-)
Meffy
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- KVRAF
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- 1981 posts since 26 Oct, 2003 from Toronto
Okay, how SERIOUS was Shabba Ranks anyways? 
Strutting around like he was Jah's gift to women, and SERIOUS about it! Now that was 'general consensus' FUNNY!
And that voice Shaggy uses... Again, it sounds to me like he sucked some hellium before the song started.
Interesting and indentifiable voices - but FUNNY!
Strutting around like he was Jah's gift to women, and SERIOUS about it! Now that was 'general consensus' FUNNY!
And that voice Shaggy uses... Again, it sounds to me like he sucked some hellium before the song started.
Interesting and indentifiable voices - but FUNNY!
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
ahh meffy i see what you mean. youre right, the harder they try the funnier it is. The thing is, in my music i try really hard, but try not to sound cliche... oh well
RonC
RonC
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- KVRist
- 141 posts since 13 Oct, 2003
Anything by Danzig. Especially the vocal intro to “Heart of the Devil”
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- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
I'm a SINGER-SONGWRITER! =^_^= I sing deeply meaningful lyrics that I wrote myself. I'm filled with angst, weltschmerz, and an unending existential aching for purity.
Meffy
feel my pain
eep! no, not there, over here
Meffy
feel my pain
eep! no, not there, over here
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
Well, there's music trying to take itself seriously and just ending up completely stupid; and then there's serious music that is humorous at the same time.
In the former's case, I usually can't find it too funny. But then I remember, in keeping with the Holiday season and all, The Manheim Steamroller . . . what's THAT all about?
In the latter case, well Frank's been mentioned (Zappa, not the other one). But Yellow Snow ain't the one to point to. Try anything from We're Only In It For The Money. Like, Who Needs The Peace Corp or The Idiot Bastard Son. Good stuff. And when Jimmy Carl Black comes in and says, "Hi, I'm the Indian in the group." Well, I'd just lose it.
And then there's The Residents:
Walter Westinghouse went to town
He found a friend today
His friend was peeling ceiling wax as
He heard Walter say:
"Love me tender, love me sweet
Love me like I love my feet
Sit me down with Ezra Pound
But don't forget to eat.
Or cause a country boy to cook
A carrot or a cake
But don't forget the feelings
Of a friend are hard to fake."
In the former's case, I usually can't find it too funny. But then I remember, in keeping with the Holiday season and all, The Manheim Steamroller . . . what's THAT all about?
In the latter case, well Frank's been mentioned (Zappa, not the other one). But Yellow Snow ain't the one to point to. Try anything from We're Only In It For The Money. Like, Who Needs The Peace Corp or The Idiot Bastard Son. Good stuff. And when Jimmy Carl Black comes in and says, "Hi, I'm the Indian in the group." Well, I'd just lose it.
And then there's The Residents:
Walter Westinghouse went to town
He found a friend today
His friend was peeling ceiling wax as
He heard Walter say:
"Love me tender, love me sweet
Love me like I love my feet
Sit me down with Ezra Pound
But don't forget to eat.
Or cause a country boy to cook
A carrot or a cake
But don't forget the feelings
Of a friend are hard to fake."
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- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
that's a nice one! ought to fetch a few bobMeffy wrote: feel my pain
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.