Driving into work today, I heard Ben Folds' Rockin' the Suburbs. I think now I'm going to call my next OLJ "All alone in my white-boy pain"

What songs make you smile, laugh, or sing along at the top of your lungs, even you're stuck in traffic?

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Answers

Bring Back That Leroy Brown, by Queen. And I car dance while I sing. It's really quite a performance.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Even still, "Bootylicious."

A few months ago Mo and I were in her car and the beginning strains of the song came on the radio and we turned it up really loud and started dancing, only to suddenly realize that it wasn't "Bootylicious" at all. It was the actual Stevie Nicks song. We've never laughed so hard.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

The one that makes me giggle right now is that Alien Ant Farm remake of "Smooth Criminal". Not because the song is funny, but because the video makes me shriek with laughter, and I always get a mental image when I hear it now, of the lead singer fiiiiiiinally stepping on the sidewalk and making it light up.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Whoever those white boys are doing that folk rendition of "Boyz in the Hood." No one plays that anymore is it's really frickin' funny.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

The Bloodhound Gang, for all your musical comedy needs.

Mike, when Ben sings "sham-on" I crack up every time.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Oh, yeah. Well, really, I'm already cracking up at that point. And once I hear "Some producer with computers fixes all my shitty tracks", I'm gone.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

hee! "Exactly Like Me" by Bran Van 3000 is a song that cracks me up...when it gets to 'two times two is chicken' ...heh heh. anyone hear it?

oh yeah, I also get down to Destiny's Child. I still hold on to zee "Independent Woman" love. eh.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Last night, Chris and I saw Wilco - who were not funny, but in fact, totally amazing.

Their opening band was this married couple, he on the track machine and guitar, she on the auto-harp, playing songs like "And if my life lasted just one day, I'd still be drunk by noon."

They are my new favorite band: The Handsome Family. I really must insist you go and look at their site and read their lyrics: http:// handsomefamily.home.mindspring.com/

Then you will understand.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

You will especially understand when you find out that the above- referenced song begins with the line: "There once was a poodle who thought he was a cowboy."

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

"Who's gonna jump when you say 'Frog!'?"

Buck Owens, y'all. Buck Owens.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Anything and everything by Roger Miller.

And that Old Apartment song by the Barenaked Ladies. I mean, they broke into their old apartment! It's funny!

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

"Make a prank call pretending I'm a mime..." Bloodhound Gang!!!

My sister and I's favorite pastime at work was annoying the general public with "The Vagina Song." (Gotta love being in Traffic Control.)

Also, White Lighning by...oh this is sacreligious as hell that I can't remember who sang that! Anyway, White Lightning always makes me sing and dance and have other drivers look at me crazy for having old country all cranked on my stereo. :)

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

Are the Bloodhound Gang the guys who did that doin' it like on the Discovery channel song? Because I hate that f'in song and those f'in guys.

Re-discovered my love for the all too funny Otto Titsling song on the Beaches soundtrack this morning.

SHUT up. I love Bette Midler and want to have 10,000 of her babies.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

Shae! Otto Titsling is one of my favorite, and most very funnily quotable songs! So don't you feel bad now, you hear?

...Ohhh, every night he'd sweat and snort, searching for the right support...He tried some string and paper clips...Hey, he even tried his own two lips!

Love that song.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

Bette Midler is just a funny, funny lady. I recently got a copy of her Live album from the 70's and she's just so bawdy and funny. I totally love her.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

Oh, Bette is the best. Otto Titsling... one of my faves. And she does a great version of Miss Otis Regrets.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

B elconnen Mall, by P. Harness (Belconnen Mall really exists - it's where I do my grocery shopping).

Also, I can never sing Birdhouse in your Soul (TMBG) all the way through, because I keep laughing.

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001

Not to put too fine a point on it Cal, but I totally agree with you on that song, and ANY song by TMBG.

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001

Oh, how could I forget "Stuart"?

You know what, Stuart? I LIKE you! You're not like the other people, here in the trailer park. Oh no, don't get me wrong, they're good fine people! But they don't know what the queers are doing to our soil."

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001

Man I'm going to get burned at the stake for this, but "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood. Man when he sings "I'll proudly STAND UP!!!" and the cymbals crash, I'm laughing like a first grader whose teacher farted.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Current song that cracks me up has GOT to be "Shaniqua," by Little T.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Al, and Cal,

oh yes on some TMBG. Specifically also, after Birdhouse, for cracking one up would be the Triangle Man and also (get ready to be singing it all day long now)...

"Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople...
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks."

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

Triangle Man *rocks*. Half of my software test cases end up involving Triangle Man in some form (he works for Triangle Corporation, which is based in Triangleville - you get the idea)

Now I'm annoyed because he never had a fight with Universe Man. I want to know who wins.

-- Anonymous, October 04, 2001

They have a fight, Triangle wins, Triangle man. He always wins!

Man, I feel sorry for Person Man, though. Especially when they say "who came up with Person Man?"

I love that damn song. It made it's way onto a MATH cd, actually.

That whole albumb is great. Minimum Waaaaaaage! He-yah!

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2001

HA! Allison, when I was in college, I put a slide show together for sophomore family weekend (when we got our rings), I played that song to accompany pictures of people in our class working at their student jobs.

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2001

Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.

Have you all ever listened to Bad Livers? I swear, the first time I heard them, I asked if it was TMBG. It lacks the humor (sort of), but the voice is identical.

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2001

And nobody's mentioning "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair"? Would you mind if we balanced this glass of milk / Where your visiting friend accidentally was killed?

I'm also very fond of "Dirt Bike," off of John Henry.

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2001

Y'all, Wally Pleasant. I used to listen to him all the time in high school, and then plumb forgot about him. My best friend just sent me a mix CD that she burned with all our old favorites rediscovered. The Boycott song alone:

Well I boycott all music approved by Tipper Gore/ And I boycott the president because he doesn't boycott war/ and I boycott Gilette, but I forgot what for/ and I boycott hosptials when their medical waste shows up on the shore...

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

I LOVE Wally Pleasant!

Stupid day job! Stupid day-ee-ay-ee-ay job!

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

I have a friend who KNOWS him. They used to be lifeguards together in Michigan.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

I used to date a guy who knew him, and played Wally's music on his radio show all the time. Funny funny stuff.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

I hate it that it took some other tool to bring it back to my attention, but "Piece of Shit Car" by Adam Sandler is just so much more than the title. It really takes owning a POS to appreciate it - but if you have, then you just do.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001

PG, the first time I heard that song, I was tooling around in my fly- ass Ford Festiva (with the Optional Fun Rally Pack). I was all, "Damn, Adam, welcome to my world, bitch."

(As that's how one should talk when one is driving a Ford Festiva.)

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

The song that is currently cracking me up is "You's a Ho" by Ludicris. Some tidbits.....

"Why you bring a ho to a hotel? Ho tell everybody, even the mayor"

"Can't turn a ho into a housewife, hos don't act right"

"You got a run in your panty-ho, even yo daddy know"

This for some reason is the funniest song I've ever heard.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

I guess it went without saying (till now), but Raheem the Dream's "Hell to Tha Naw" is the biz-est. We like to make up "white boy pain" words for them.

"Can I gank yo' blow?" "Hell Naw."

"Can I drive yo' Lexus?" "Hell Naw."

"Can I stay at yo' ranch?" "Hell Naw...

Hell to tha Naw."

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

I know this is OT, but...

T, what is a Fun Rally Pack?

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

My local radio station is playing "A Bizarre Christmas Incident" by Ben Folds a lot right now, and it's hilarious.

-- Anonymous, December 21, 2001

hope

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2002

Revive, old topic, come back to life!

If y'all haven't heard of King Missile, you should have. "Detatchable Penis" and "Jesus was way cool" and oh so many others.

I mean, really. It's funny funny shizzle, my nizzles.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

I love the "Detachable Penis" song. The part where he has to buy it back from the guy on the sidewalk cracks me up.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

From the Lessons We've Learned the Hard Way Dept.:

When you are trying to get to know a boy and he tells that "Detachable Penis" by King Missile is his favorite song...

...there is a message there, and one should listen to it.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

Hahahahahahahaaaaaaaa! Oh, you make me wipe tears of mirth from my eyes. Hee.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

pineapple, I love you so very very much. That's too funny.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

...there is a message there, and one should listen to it.

The message being that PG has apparently dated my high school sweetheart.

(Don't laugh, y'all. He lives in Austin.)

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002