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What songs do you like to make fun of? Here's a couple of my all-time favorites.

1. That stupid song Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. I think that the chorus, when Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder are trading the following lyrics, is one of the most unintentionally funny moments in all of pop music:

I don't mind stealing bread -(I don't mind stealing bread!)
From the mouves of decadence!
I'm going hungry! I'm going hungry!

Do you really think that Eddie Vedder has ever stolen bread from the mouves of decadence? I'm thinking not. What a couple of clowns.

Oh, yeah, and what the heck is a mouve of decadence anyway?

2. That song Closing Time. That has to be one of the funniest songs ever to sing along to when it comes on the radio and you're on a long road trip and a bit wired. I just love it during the chorus when the singer gets all dramatic and is singing really high:

I know who I want to take me home!
I know who I want to take me home!
I know who I want to take me home!
I know who I want to take me home!

It never fails to crack me up.

Two lines:

Everybody have fun tonight...

Everybody Wang Chung tonight.

Lord help us all.

Almost any boy band music is great for making fun of.... special faves are Right Stuff by New Kids on the Block and.....well pretty much anything ever recorded by Color Me Bad.

Uh...isn't that Color Me BADD.

See! Even better to make fun of....they can't even SPELL!!!!! Jackasses!

I forgot to mention Jewel and Matchbox 20. Throw a dart at any of their songs (or poems, in Jewels case), and let the hilarity ensue.

That stupid 'Isn't it ironic' song by is it Alanis Morisette? Imagine writing a song and getting it all so COMPLETELY wrong that you've wrongly defined a word for a whole generation!!!???

I start laughing uncontrollably when I hear James Hetfield trying to sound menacing. Hands down, the most unintentionally funny song ever is Selloutica's cover of "Turn The Page".

Stonemaybe you are so very very right!!!!

I love Peter Gabriel but I always sing "In your eyes" as "in your thighs" cuz it makes the song HIGH-larious! "In your thighs, the light, the heat, in your thighs I am complete...."

Cail wrote:I start laughing uncontrollably when I hear James Hetfield trying to sound menacing. Hands down, the most unintentionally funny song ever is Selloutica's cover of "Turn The Page".

That song is hilarious. Heck, I think the Seger version is funny, too, but the cover is even better. It's like, oh, boo-hoo, you famous rock-and-roller, you have to spend your entire life travelling on the road partying and banging groupies. Here's a kleenex.

Stonemaybe wrote:That stupid 'Isn't it ironic' song by is it Alanis Morisette? Imagine writing a song and getting it all so COMPLETELY wrong that you've wrongly defined a word for a whole generation!!!???

Yeah..she is singing not about irony, but like BUMMERS.

Exactly. But 'Isn't it a bummer' or 'Isn't it just bad luck' wouldn't have the same catchiness would it?

I really love making fun of You're so vain. I just can't get over the chorus of the song:

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you.

I mean, come on, of course he thinks the damn song is about him! Some of the verses are so specific, that it's gotta be totally obvious to the guy that it's about him. I just don't understand the chorus at all. Seriously, the damn song is about him, so why is it so bad that he thinks it's about him? AAAAGGGH! That song drives me nuts. It would make a lot more sense if it went this way:

You're so dumb
You probably don't think this song is about you.

Farm Ur-Ted wrote:I really love making fun of You're so vain. I just can't get over the chorus of the song:

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you.

I mean, come on, of course he thinks the damn song is about him! Some of the verses are so specific, that it's gotta be totally obvious to the guy that it's about him. I just don't understand the chorus at all. Seriously, the damn song is about him, so why is it so bad that he thinks it's about him? AAAAGGGH! That song drives me nuts. It would make a lot more sense if it went this way:

You're so dumb
You probably don't think this song is about you.

I always think of a grinning Vain when I hear it. Mick Jagger sings background on that track, doncha know?

"I want to take you to a gay baaaar!"

Farm Ur-Ted wrote:I really love making fun of You're so vain. I just can't get over the chorus of the song:

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you.

I mean, come on, of course he thinks the damn song is about him! Some of the verses are so specific, that it's gotta be totally obvious to the guy that it's about him. I just don't understand the chorus at all. Seriously, the damn song is about him, so why is it so bad that he thinks it's about him? AAAAGGGH! That song drives me nuts. It would make a lot more sense if it went this way:

You're so dumb
You probably don't think this song is about you.

I always take that chorus to be sarcasm. It's still a crap song though, and your version is far superior.

A Gunslinger wrote:

Stonemaybe wrote:That stupid 'Isn't it ironic' song by is it Alanis Morisette? Imagine writing a song and getting it all so COMPLETELY wrong that you've wrongly defined a word for a whole generation!!!???

Yeah..she is singing not about irony, but like BUMMERS.

Indeed, which makes the song itself an example of irony.

Hey, y'all leave Alanis alone. She was the queen of my teenage angst years and I still know what irony really is. Plus she taught me how to hate uncle Joey, and anyone who does that gets props from me.

I actually quite like Alanis, or her music at least. But I'm a pedant.

That's fair enough I suppose.

I loved Jagged Little Pill, but her stuff after that was crap, with the exception maybe of Uninvited.