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Most ridiculous song ever written?

#51
ack said:
I'm not going to win any popularity contest with my answer(s), but it's time I let out my secret:

Lyrically? Tom Sawyer
Musically? Abracadabra

Before the Rush freaks go nuts, I like some of Rush's stuff, but that song has hit a nerve for the past 30 years. I hate very few things in this world, but those songs are two of them.
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The lyrics in Tom Sawyer are nowhere near as ridiculous as the average Red Hot Chili Peppers song, which is nowhere near as ridiculous as the average White Zombie song.
 
#57
Long long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the prairies and I had a band that was fairly popular around Dallas/Ft Worth, we mainly got requests for three of our originals. Not at all coincidentally, they were the three originals we had that I was least proud of were two that I'd written mostly as a joke, and one I wrote trying hard to be like Frank Zappa. I was unsuccessful.

The two I wrote just to prove that my guitar player was wrong with his assertion that an average song by me was 'six minutes long and someone dies at the end' were so very, very lame. But I wasn't trying for meaningful. I was just going for light.

The third was just weird. And it was perfect for this thread. It was about gliding across cornfields on surfboards while being chased by an angry penguin with a chainsaw...Okay. That might not make sense.

I'll quote some of the last verse to illustrate my point:

"A man-eating hot dog in a green limousine
Threw me a baseball bat and said just one thing:
Play heiroglyphic hopscotch with both feet tied behind your head...
until you pass out in a blues bar.
At least I think that's what he said."

Several parts in the middle changed nearly every time we did the song, based on my surroundings at the time.
 
#60
What were the Nickelback songs that they played simultaneously and all the changes were the same?

I just remember people talking about how it wasn't enough for all their crap to sound pretty much the same. They had to record two that were exactly the same.
 

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