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1-> ''I'm on a boat, motherfucker! Take a look at me! \
2Straight flowing on a boat on the deep blue sea \
3Busting five knots, wind whipping out my coat \
4You can't stop me motherfucker, cause I'm on a boat!''
5-->--'''Music/TheLonelyIsland''', "I'm On A Boat"
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7* OlderThanSteam: [[Music/JohannSebastianBach J. S. Bach]], of all people. He wrote an operette about coffee! [[MustHaveCaffeine Coffee addiction]] was the [[TheNewRockAndRoll moral panic du jour]] in 18th century Leipzig, so Bach wrote a musical piece in favor of the drink: ''Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht'' ("Be still, stop chattering") (BWV 211), better known as the "Coffee cantata." The story concerns a young woman who is in love with coffee. Her father attempts to bribe her out of the habit by promising to find her a husband if she gives it up, to which she agrees. She ends up getting her way after all, by secretly telling her suitors that [[LysistrataGambit she will only marry them if they allow her to drink coffee]].
8* ''Music/TheAquabats'' seem to love writing epic songs about relatively mundane things:
9** "CD Repo Man!" is a song about a ruthless mercenary... whose job it is to break into people's houses and steal back borrowed music [=CDs=].
10--->''With CD Repo Man, that guy is on a roll\
11He'll jump through windows to get back what those suckers stole\
12He looks tame, but you know he will attack\
13He does his job to get your [=CDs=] back!''
14** "Dear Spike!" is a comically enthusiastic thank-you note, based on a real letter written by an Aquacadet, to the delivery-man who brought him his fan-club package.
15** "I Fell Asleep On My Arm!" is a NuMetal parody about a guy freaking out when his arm falls asleep in class.
16** "The Baker!" makes being a baker sound downright epic.
17--->''Up in the morning to start my work\
18I cannot help wanting to bake a dessert\
19Like a gladiator about to meet his fate\
20I enter the arena, bow my head, and start to bake''
21** "Poppin' A Wheelie!" is a song about a guy who is really enthusiastic about the simple pleasure of doing wheelies on his bicycle.
22--->''When you see me outside with my wind-swept hair\
23Riding by with my wheel in the air\
24You'll never see me happier, you'll never see me happier\
25Than when I pull those handlebars and get 'em in the air!''
26* [[Music/TheBeachBoys The Beach Boys']] "Busy Doing Nothing" is a poppy, catchy, mellow tune about a man puttering around his house on a slow Saturday morning.
27* [[Music/{{Queen}} "Just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme FRIED CHICKEN!!!!!"]]
28** "'''BI-CYCLE! BI-CYCLE! BI-CYCLE!'''" "I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike..."
29* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s song "Sliver" from ''Music/{{Incesticide}}'' details...a young boy begging his grandmother to take him home.
30* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers make use of this trope at the end of "Under the Bridge" from ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'', wherein the mostly chill SurprisinglyGentleSong suddenly culminates in an epic climax, complete with a choir.
31** And in the video, singer Anthony Kiedis running in slow motion while an atomic bomb detonates in the background for no reason at all.
32* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014 Leningrad]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHcpdrx7r38&feature=related Cowboys]] and The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2kxmuXgf0U&feature=related Russian Red]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hrdBSzdN1w&feature=related Army]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maOtX4tXyb4&feature=related Choir]]. To put it succinctly, it's [[ThePowerOfRock a Finnish Rock Band]] meets [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Russian Chanting]]. Also, [[ImprobableHairstyle Hair of Awesome!]]
33* Music/TheJonasBrothers with their rock song using [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH9Od8yGZKQ Triangles]]
34* All heavy metal automatically falls under this trope. With an entire genre defined by being more [[HotBlooded over-the-top]] and [[LargeHam larger-than-life]], there is no middle ground: it's either freaking epic or it's not.
35** Music/DragonForce is prime example of this, but hey, it's [[ThePowerOfRock metal]].
36* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parodies live on this trope, changing the lyrics of "epic" rock songs or "heartfelt" pop songs to be about riding the bus or buying crap on eBay or eating ice cream. How do you parody that which already borders on self-parody? You out-MundaneMadeAwesome it, of course!
37** The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHnTocdD7sk&feature=relmfu Trapped In The Drive-Thru]]" acts as if getting dinner at UsefulNotes/McDonalds has the same impact as breaking up with a girlfriend.
38*** The song is a parody of Music/RKelly's "''Music/TrappedInTheCloset''", which is an epic-length "Hip-Hopera" (22 separate chapters and counting...) about the inhabitants of an apartment complex doing little worthy of the drama. It features Kelly throwing his full vocal might into lines like "And then he said, 'I'ma heat this chicken!'"
39** Perhaps his most pure use of this trope is not in a spoof but in an original song, "Hardware Store", an ecstatic paean to the grand opening of a new hardware store. Also interestingly, his song "Franchise/JurassicPark" ''inverts'' this -- taking an overblown epic about love, loss and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking soggy cake]] and making it about fleeing giant killer dinosaurs.
40** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsIQk7o-p0 Albuquerque]]" made ''ordering donuts'' epic!
41** You do NOT mess with CNR... ever! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnapb-30hA Watch]]. It's a parody of the Website/ChuckNorrisFacts, but it's actually ''about'' actor '''C'''harles '''N'''elson '''R'''eilly.
42** "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" takes a normal family vacation to a tacky tourist trap and turns it into what could be described as the holy pilgrimage of a group of aficionados of American culture to one of life's greatest mysteries.
43* The Shy Child song "Drop the Phone" features fast-paced, anguished, barely intelligible yelling over an EPIC electro track -- until you listen closely to the lyrics and realise it's about a guy checking his voicemail: "Then I just used a landline, to call my phone and check on my voicemail. The message is wiped!". Even worse, the chorus is an angry RageAgainstTheHeavens... about the fact that everyone else's cellphone can get a signal and his can't!
44* Music/JamesBlunt's music video for "You're Beautiful", as parodied on ''Series/MadTV''. "Now I'm putting a bunch of stuff on a line on the floor, have you ever seen such a kickass video before?"
45* ''Grunt: Pigorian Chant'' sounds exactly like something from a ''Pure Moods'' compilation... until you read the liner notes and realize it's {{nursery rhyme}}s about barnyard animals being sung in PigLatin.
46* Parts of ''[[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul [=McCartney=]]]'s Liverpool Oratorio.'' There actually is some important drama of some sort going on in that sequence where the female lead is singing "Cancel my appointment to the squash club"--but it proved hard to get past that line. And if you don't already know [[ViewersAreGeniuses the true implications]] of "making an appointment with the Minister of Love"--a section that really is meant to be climactic--you might get baffled.
47** Also by Paul [=McCartney=], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUI4Ty5CGMQ "Monkberry Moon Delight"]]. Only he can make utter WordSaladLyrics sound so dramatic.
48* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew9YQVRSlHE music video to the AnJ song "Gorbachov"]]. Hot Russian women are [[DamselInDistress under attack]] by Communist zombies, who get their asses kicked by a Conanized UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev wielding everything from his shield and axe to machine guns to laser eyes.
49* Eileen Ivers, who dares to ask the question, "Would you like your traditional Irish fiddling with ''a freakin' wah-wah pedal??''" (The answer: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELav0ow-Quk Yes.]])
50* Music/MileyCyrus [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4TMbCu8KcU has stated]] that her song "Bottom of the Ocean" is about her mother flushing her fish. However, you would never guess that by the lyrics of the song, which treat the death of the fish as if it had the impact of a sad breakup.
51* Music/MichaelJackson's "Ben" is a passionate song about his love for a pet rat.
52* Music/{{Manowar}}, when they're not touching on [[HeavyMithril traditionally epic fantasy subject matter]], are giving similar treatment to the fact that they play HeavyMetal music—of which the heaviness and metallicness of such they are more than happy to [[BadassBoast boast]]—and how awesome the listener is for listening to their very heavy and very metallic HeavyMetal music.
53* You will never find a more heart-rendingly anguished song about hockey goal-tending than The Tragically Hip's "Lonely End of the Rink".
54* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQZLduEEEsU "Goin’ Through Your Purse"]] by Material Issue. A song about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin snooping in a new love interest's belongings]] behind her back -- featuring breakneck drum work, a [[LargeHam gloriously hammy]] vocal performance with soaring backup, and a wild, manic guitar solo courtesy of Music/CheapTrick's Rick Nielsen.
55* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7sHLjI1sQE Alestorm]] and Swashbuckle are {{pirate}} metal bands.
56** And before them, there was Music/RunningWild and Zed Yago.
57** ''NanowarOfSteel'', being a parody of ''Manowar'', obviously runs entirely on this trope. And ON STEEL! (An example is the song "King", which makes a huge deal of eating a Happy Meal.)
58* Igor Keller brings you "Mackris vs. [[Series/TheOReillyFactor O'Reilly]]", a sexual harassment lawsuit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxc8ZY0plM4 in opera form]].
59* Music/JonathanCoulton's song "Mandelbrot Set" is an epic rock ballad with an insanely catchy riff about one man's world-changing battle against the forces of chaos. The man? Benoit Mandelbrot. The forces? Abstract mathematics. The means of his victory? Well... You take a point called Z in the complex plane / Let Z1 be Z squared plus C / And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C / And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on... Gets better with the chorus. "Day-glo pterodactyl" indeed.
60* Behold the epic tournament of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9mlqbG5CU Hammerfall vs. The Swedish Womens Olympic Curling Team]]! Guess who wins.
61** The Swedes seem to be a target for this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZjpnXcGZ9w P.O.D's music video for their song, 'Boom',]] depicts a ping pong match between the band and the blue and orange dressed "Sweden" team. Played in an empty stadium, the match features an epic dive to save a point, a wrist injury resulting from that dive, baseball-style arguing a ref's decision, a Bobby Knight parody flipping his lid when the call is overturned in favor of the Swedes, complete with ripping up the decorative plants next to the competition area, 'another' epic dive to save a point, this time in slow motion, and culminates in a line brawl. All this was over a winner's check for $35,000, that presumably had to be split evenly between the members of a platinum selling band.
62* ''Shower'' by Music/{{Psychostick}} makes it to an impressive length of five and a half minutes.
63--> ''It's shower time, you bitches!!!''
64** Also ''The Root of All Evil'':
65---> ''"Sitting in the waiting room. Waiting for my turn to sit on the Throne of Pain! While filling out various legal documents. All starting to look the same. My insurance information and my medical history. I dont know if they want me to -"''
66---> Receptionist: ''"Excuse me did you have any questions about the form?"''
67---> ''[[BigYes "YEEES!]] As a matter of fact I do!!! Do I fill out this field here, too???"''
68* Sisqo's "Thong Song". And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wtt8yRxYU HOW.]] A song about [[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks butts]] and the [[PantyShot scanty garments that cover them]] that just keeps escalating in urgency.
69* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvnYIxv_364 Canvas Bags]]" by Music/TimMinchin embodies this trope. An environmental ballad about taking canvas bags to the supermarket instead of plastic bags. It devolves into a rap-interlude by Minchin, the song becoming a massive CrowdSong with the audience waving canvas bags around, and then he brings on a fan, unbuttons his shirt, and lets it [[DramaticWind flap in the wind]], finishing off with a TruckDriversGearChange to end the set. At some gigs, he even sets off the pyrotechnics.
70* Music/JohnCage's ''4:33'' consists of a pianist sitting down before a piano and spending the title time making ''no sound whatsoever''.
71** Not quite. The piece is made up of the sound of someone ''not playing the piano'', which is entirely different to someone making no sound whatsoever. Cage effectively wrote a duet for the awkward fidget and nervous cough.
72* Paul and Storm, formerly of Da Vincis Notebook, present: [[http://www.paulandstorm.com/lyrics/eddie-praeger/ The Ballad of Eddie Praeger]].
73* Music/BonJovi -- "It's My Life" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8I7DVjb8TM music video]] A guy takes out the trash and uses LeParkour to do so.
74* The Music/MeatLoaf songs "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" and "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)," among other Music/JimSteinman-penned hits about teenage flings, are so deliberately overstated in length, arrangement and [[LargeHam vocal delivery]] that they make ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' look like a light SitCom about two FriendsWithBenefits by comparison.
75** Though for the mundane aspect it is hard to get a clearer example than ''Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are''
76* Music/TheBeatles:
77** "Helter Skelter" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' is often cited by music historians as one of the first metal songs. The basic purpose of the song was to be as loud, raucous, and heavy as possible - believed to be in response to a music journalist describing Music/TheWho's "I Can See for Miles" as such. This is the song that caused Ringo Starr to throw his drumsticks across the room and shout "I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!" Yet the lyrics are about a slide at an amusement park.
78** The most epic song by Music/TheBeatles is "A DayInTheLife". It's about [[BreadEggsMilkSquick reading the news, getting up in the morning, and the death of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Browne a friend]] of the band in a car crash...
79** Not only the songs: the cover of the album ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' made the act of walking through a crosswalk/zebra crossing one of the most iconic images of pop culture, [[AbbeyRoadCrossing being referenced/copied/parodied countless times]].
80** "Martha My Dear" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', an endearing love song that was actually written for Paul's sheepdog.
81** "Savoy Truffle" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', a song about the dangers of candy and tooth decay.
82** "I'm So Tired" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', never did a song about tiredness sound so epic!
83** "Fixing a Hole" from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'', about fixing a hole in the ceiling against the rain.
84** "Taxman" from ''Music/{{Revolver|Beatles Album}}'', about the irritation of paying taxes.
85** "I'm Only Sleeping" from ''Music/{{Revolver|Beatles Album}}'', about sleeping.
86** "Drive My Car" from ''Music/RubberSoul'', about a girl who wants to become a "star on the screen" and searches for someone to be her driver, despite the fact that she hasn't even got a car yet.
87** ''Nowhere Man'', about writer's block.
88* Music/JAMProject can make ''anything'' awesome. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xqskiIehfk This video demonstrates]].
89* Rock concerts are not what one would call "mundane", but then there is [[http://eien-strife.com/ Eien Strife]], a cosplaying rock band that performs for anime conventions that mixes their music with storytelling that is equal parts epic and entertaining.
90* An ordinary band, playing a rather ordinary rock song at a rather ordinary gig? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO7xWMi0lR8 This calls for some epic drumming]].
91* Music/LadyGaga would like to inform you that she [[IntercourseWithYou wants to take a ride on your]] [[UnusualEuphemism disco stick]].
92** The mini-movie for "Telephone" is chock-full of this trope.
93-->'''LET'S MAKE A SANDWICH'''
94* Music/KatyPerry would like to inform you that she kissed a girl and she liked it. (Partly due to the taste of her [[ProductPlacement cherry chapstick]], of course.)
95* Music/OZone's "Dragostea din tei" (aka the Numa Numa song), covered by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B6ktMC60Lc opera singers]] (which has been done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bN7dqAvGX0 a few times]], and it sounds great both [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c3oB600Jx4 with]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2m7YcsyLnA without vocals]]), with backing orchestra. The finishing touch is the camera {{pan}} over the crowd, a good number of whom are doing the dance, which also happens [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stAVBi4Pyr4 here]].
96* The Presidents of the United States of America' song "Peaches" is a fast-paced rock song about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin eating peaches.]] Particularly so that the most hard-rocking riff is set to such lyrics as "Peaches come from a can! They were put there by a man! In a factory downtown!". Also, in the music video, the band gets attacked by ninjas.
97** The Presidents more or less made a living off of this trope. Other songs of theirs cover topics like toy dune buggies and kittens.
98* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOKuSQIJlog It's the dad life!]], a hip-hop parody made by ''Church on the Move'' for Father's Day.
99** I got DOZENS of dollars!
100* Music/{{Annihilator}}'s "Kraft Dinner" is a ThrashMetal homage.... to a microwave macaroni dinner?
101* Music/IronMaiden's "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner," which is about a competitive runner.
102** The very first song in their debut, "Prowler", makes a flasher sound like an epic VillainProtagonist.
103* Music/TheRaconteurs' song "The Switch and the Spur" is an ''epic'' song about a man in the Old West dying of a rattlesnake bite. The snake is compared to ''{{God}}''; Brendan Benson even included bits of [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Lord's Prayer]] (including a paraphrase of the doxology, "Thine is the power..."; yet another indication that the Catholic [[Music/TheWhiteStripes Jack White]] had little to do with the writing of the song).
104* Japanese musician No.305's music, almost all of it, takes this stance toward anime shows, driven home by his LargeHam persona.
105* Duelling Cellos playing Music/MichaelJackson's "Smooth Criminal." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlVbEclPj4c Seriously]]
106* The video for Owl City's single Fireflies features shaking cameras of doom.... on various toys that have started functioning on their own from the music being played.
107* Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie's chorus covers a woman elegantly practicing her morning routine. The music video, however, is actually an awesome stop-motion sequence.
108* [[Music/{{Friday}} It's Friday!]]
109* Music/TheyMightBeGiants:
110** In "We Want a Rock", the act of wanting "a rock to wind a piece of string around" or "a prosthetic forehead on your real head" is apparently an act of radical rebellion against those who "want to burn the playhouse down".
111** "Thermostat" is a energetic, jazzy song about... adjusting the thermostat.
112** "Dinner Bell", a bouncy and energetic song about waiting for dinner (and/or classical conditioning).
113** "John Lee, Supertaster" is an epic funk song about a man with an unusually sensitive sense of taste that makes it sound like a outright super-power.
114* Music/NeilYoung's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hY2SFH4Y9c A Man Needs a Maid]]'', complete with dramatic crescendos and an orchestra.
115* The video for Brantley Gilbert's "Country Must Be Country Wide" arguably invokes this, turning a song about country having a surprisingly widespread and diverse fan base into.... something else. Tell me, does ''anyone'' buy country music as a subversively-cool underground culture?
116* The Filipino song "The Ordertaker" is a heavy metal riff about not finding anything good to eat at a restaurant, a SuspiciouslySimilarSong mashup of two System of a Down songs, and the music video even features poorly-disguised pastiches of Wrestling/{{WWE}} wrestlers going at it.
117* Music/NineInchNails' video for "Head Like A Hole" shows, amongst other things, Trent Reznor ''washing his hair and shaking his head in slow motion.'' The result is surprisingly epic.
118* Music/TheDivineComedy play with this trope a few times, largely through their use of an Orchestra making everything sound more epic by default. Sweden, from the album Fin de Siecle, takes it to it's logical conclusion however, featuring a full chorus of enthusiastic opera singers, sinister sounding brass stabs to rival John Williams and a creepy xylophone riff to demonstrate ... the singers wish to retire to Sweden when he's older, because they have such a high standard of living, lovely fresh air and they all seem to be such nice people.
119* The Music/ThePillows song "Hello, Welcome to Bubbletown's Happy Zoo" is an explosive, massive, powerful song about...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin animals. In a zoo.]]
120* In the song "Pistola", Music/{{Incubus}} singer Brandon Boyd apparently owns the most epic pen ever.
121* "She Don't Use Jelly" by The Music/FlamingLips IS this trope. It's about a girl who puts vaseline on her toasts, a guy who blows his nose with magazines and a girl who uses tangerines to dye her hair. Clearly this calls for Steven Drozd's massive drumfills, exaggerated quiet-verse-loud-chorus dynamics, Wayne Coyne and Ronald Jones crunching on the distortion pedals in the chorus, and an oddly happy slide guitar melody on top of everything.
122* The Voice Australia has already fallen into this with it's advert featuring Seal, [[Music/GoodCharlotte Joel Madden]], and Music/DeltaGoodrem, all in slow motion, with some epic music behind them. It's a talent show.
123* Affiance's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=4fNciuYKXDM music video]] for "Call to the Warrior" takes every stereotypical heavy metal performance video trope... and applies it to the group playing the song on ''VideoGame/RockBand''.
124* Danish heavy-metal group Volbeat wrote a song dedicated to the boxer Mikkel Kessler, which Kessler would go on to use for his entrances. Aside from explicitly describing how he's going to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown knock you into oblivion]], the build-up of the introduction sounds less like a sportsmanlike competition and more like some sort of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Uruk-hai army]] marching to WAR. Complete with echoing war-horns.
125* The "Drumming Song" by ''Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine'' is a epic song about an earworm.
126* And continuing with the general thread of MundaneMadeAwesome Via Metal, Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "Wake Up Dead" is a nice bit of classic thrash...of which the subject matter can be literally summed up as "Ohgod, if I wake my wife by stumbling in stinking drunk at 4am she is going to ''kill'' me in my ''sleep''...especially when she finds out I've been ''cheating'' on her to boot..."
127* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnctq_rmZ0 "Mi equilibrio espiritual" ("My spiritual balance")]] by ''Series/TreintaYUnMinutos'' is the result of asking rock band ''Chancho en Piedra'' to write a song about a kid finally learning to ride a bike without training wheels.
128* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ElIXnmw5-U music video]] to Daughtry's "Outta My Head". It looks like a borderline-StalkerWithACrush CarChase (well, Chris is in a [[CoolCar Dodge Charger]] and she's a BadassBiker), practically out of an action movie...and why?[[spoiler: Because [[NiceGuy the girl forgot her cell phone and Chris wanted to give it back to her]].]]
129* Music/TheWho's "Pinball Wizard" is about the most epic song about pinball you will ever hear.
130* The theme song for ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', "Brian's Song", is musically a grandiose, bombastic anthem fit for a Biblical epic, with a ''very'' dramatic singer. In fitting with the overall parody of Biblical epics, however, [[LyricalDissonance lyrically]] it describes the average life of a perfectly mundane young boy as he matures into a perfectly mundane man.
131-->''Brian''\
132''The babe they called Brian.''\
133''He grew...''\
134''Grew, grew and grew...''\
135''Grew up to be...''\
136''[[LargeHam GREW UP TO BEEEEEEEE]]...''\
137''A boy called Brian.''
138** In a mainly spoken intent, "The Adventures of Ralph Mellish, Hot Dogs And Knickers" from the Monty Python album ''Matching Tie And Handkerchief,'' opens thusly and dramatically:
139-->June the fourth, 1973, was much like any other day on Dalzell Street, Peterborough. And Ralph Mellish, a file clerk for an insurance company, was on his way to work, when...(''dramatic sting'') nothing happened. Scarcely able to believe his eyes, Ralph Mellish looked down. But one glance confirmed his suspicions. Behind the bush by the side of the road, there was no severed arm. No dismembered trunk of a man in his 50s. No head in a bag. Nothing. Not a sausage.
140** On the same album is live coverage of Thomas Hardy writing his novel "The Return of the Native" with commentary and crowd reaction as if it were a sports event.
141* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin We give you...]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qngi_jSaXlI Master Singers' ''The Highway Code'']]
142* ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolutionMarioMix'' has a ton of awesine musical pieces and remixes already, but the game somehow takes the most basic song, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", and remixes it into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1lmrietcSw&list=PL4BC7F7536279B47D awesomeness]]. To top it off, the song is used as the game's tutorial!
143* [[Music/{{Macklemore}} I'M GONNA POP SOME TAGS ONLY GOT 20 DOLLAS IN MY POCKET I'M IMA IMA HUNTIN' LOOKIN FOR A COME UP]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!]]
144* The Music/SigurRos song "Hoppípolla" is quite possibly one of the most epic songs ever. And it's about hopping into puddles.
145* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3f7PMESCQU "Power User"]] by MC Frontalot. Upgrading your computer has never sounded so pimp.
146* The Japanese band Music/{{Sakanaction}} in "Ame(B)", a bouncy song with overdubbed vocals, epic synth arpeggios and a flashy rhythm guitar. The lyrics, when translated, talk about the singer opening an umbrella in the rain, and soaking his left shoulder when the wind starts blowing.
147* German Main/AlternativeRock band Music/{{Tocotronic}} love playing with this.
148** Most ridiculously overdone in their 1996 song ''Ich wünschte, ich würde mich für Tennis interessieren''. Frontman Dirk von Lowtzow delivers an [[TearJerker absurdly emotional vocal performance]], to the point of almost breaking his voice. The song is about how [[SeriousBusiness he would like to have an interest for tennis]].
149* Music/DavidWilcox knows how to make a Chevrolet Camaro look like a bigger deal than it actually is. "[[LargeHam You see, it actually takes! TWO PARKING SPACES!]] For Johnny's Camaro, Johnny's [[IncrediblyLongNote Camaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaroooooooooo]]..."
150* "Tupelo" by Music/NickCaveAndTheBadSeeds is so full of this trope that it makes the birth of Music/ElvisPresley sound like the coming of a god.
151* Music/CaptainBeefheart's song "Telephone" from ''Music/DocAtTheRadarStation'' is a number about someone who doesn't like telephones.
152* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} has a song named ''Music/{{Autobahn}}'' about driving your car on the highway and it sounds epic!
153** Music/{{Kraftwerk}} largely subvert this trope with "Trans-Europe Express". A cross continental train journey to go hang out with Music/IggyPop and Music/DavidBowie in Dusseldorf is arguably pretty badass, but ''Music/TransEuropeExpress'' makes it sound about as exciting as taking a bus to the shop for some bread.
154* Music/FrankZappa was also an expert at this. He wrote songs about the dangers of going to your kitchen at night ("The Dangerous Kitchen", from ''Music/TheManFromUtopia''), dental floss ("Montana" from ''Music/OverNiteSensation''), sex dolls ("Mrs. Pinky" from ''Music/ZootAllures''), smelly feet ("Stink Foot" from ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}''), wet t-shirt contests and working in a muffin factory ("Wet T-shirt Nite" and "A Little Green Rosetta" from ''Music/JoesGarage''),... Even his instrumental music often received mundane titles: "None Of The Above", "A Pound For A Brown On The Bus" (about a bet who would ''moon'' his behind the fastest on the bus), "Twenty Small Cigars",...
155* The song "Everything Is Awesome", performed by Music/TeganAndSara in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', takes this trope about as literally as it possibly can, particularly in the rap verses (which are performed by Music/TheLonelyIsland, who frequently use the trope in far less kid-friendly circumstances):
156--> Trees, frogs, clogs
157--> THEY'RE AWESOME!!!
158--> Rocks, clocks, and socks
159--> THEY'RE AWESOME!!!
160--> Figs, and jigs, and twigs
161--> THAT'S AWESOME!!!
162--> Everything you see, or think, or say
163--> IS AWESOME!!!
164* The common belief is that the Music/TaylorSwift song "Long Live" is about winning album of the year at [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward The Grammys]], which is awesome, but not as awesome as the song would suggest.
165* As mentioned above, this is something of a speciality for Music/TheLonelyIsland, who tend to combine bombastic R&B/Hip-Hip styles with rather mundane subject matter:
166** "Like A Boss" is about a boss who does everything... well, like a boss. It starts off fairly routine, but then goes to some rather strange places.
167** "[[https://youtu.be/lQlIhraqL7o I Just Had Sex]]" involves two guys giving the full power-ballad treatment to what appear to have been some rather underwhelming sexual encounters.
168---> [[UnfocusedDuringIntimacy She kept lookin' at her watch!]] ''(Doesn't matter, had sex!)''\
169But I cried the whole time! ''(Doesn't matter, had sex!)''\
170I think she might've been a racist![[note]]A Klan hood is sitting next to the bed[[/note]] ''(Doesn't matter, had sex!)''\
171She put a bag on my head! ''(Still counts!)''
172** "I'm On A Boat", a truly epic set of beats about a guy who is... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin see the title]].
173** "Lazy Sunday" treats two guys going to see ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' as if it were a hardcore gangster rap about planning a heist and indulging in conspicuous over-consumption with the proceeds.
174** Inverted with "Space Olympics", which is a 1980s-style power ballad about competing in the Space Olympics of 3022, but which focusses more on the various logistical headaches and budgetary problems that hosting a large-scale sporting event in the vacuum of space would result in -- essentially, making the awesome utterly mundane. On the other hand, played straight when the narrator explains that drug tests are mandatory and declares atheletes winners just for passing them as if drug testing itself was a sport.
175--->''SPACE DISKS! Is totally cancelled''\
176''SPACE SWORDS! Is totally cancelled''\
177''SPACE LUGE! Is also cancelled''\
178''And all other events are pending...''
179* ''Music/SesameStreetPlatinumAllTimeFavorites'', a GreatestHitsAlbum with Series/SesameStreet songs. All of it are just children's songs, sometimes about really mundane topics, like Prairie Dawn's "Little Things", about respecting little things in life and Ernie's "Rubber Duckie", about his love for taking a bath with his plastic toy duck. But they are all so catchy that you sing them along easily.
180* "Spoonman" by Music/{{Soundgarden}}, a late '60s-style RockAndRoll song updated with HeavyMetal guitars and Music/ChrisCornell's {{Metal Scream}}s, whose WordSaladLyrics are based on an actual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artis_the_Spoonman Seattle street busker]] who played the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_(musical_instrument) spoons]].
181* Swedish cult band Torsson (proudly billing themselves as "The fourth best band in the city of Lund") have made a career of this. Some of their more well-known songs deal with things like a boring bush-league football game where the narrator's team loses, taking the train to a small town in southern Sweden, two kids trying to sell ice cream on a rainy day, and how to start a 1961 DKW on a damp morning.
182* Music/DanielAmos's "Travelog" (from ''Music/VoxHumana'') is a song about watching TV for hours on end--set to driving, ear-worm-y new wave music, and with lyrics to make it sound like a globetrotting adventure. It's almost certainly meant to be satire of the sort of person who would watch TV for hours on end.
183* Music/DeepPurple's "Smoke on the Water" can be summarised as follows: "We travelled to a city in Switzerland to make a recording using a mobile studio. While we were there, a fire broke out in a neighbouring and more desirable venue. Thanks to the swift action of venue personnel, there were no casualties and our recording schedule was not materially affected."
184* The guy singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRuwR2JSXI "I'm Reading A Book"]] takes his reading a lot more seriously than he should.
185* Music/TheDoors are made of this. Songs like "Break on Through (to the Other Side)", "The End", "People Are Strange", and "When the Music's Over" are only a few of the many examples from all the songs they wrote.
186* Music/TearsForFears somehow managed to make the word "shout" sound infinitely more awesome than it is in their appropriately song, "Shout".
187* Partner's song "[[https://soundcloud.com/youve-changed-records/partner-everybody-knows-1 Everybody Knows]]" may be the most awesome song about being visibly stoned ever written.
188* Comedy duo Creator/OnkelFisch made "Wir bringen den Müll runter", a hip-hop-style song about how taking out the trash is a man's job.
189* "French Letter" by UsefulNotes/NewZealand reggae band Herbs features an old-fashioned accordion, to underline the band's [[ProtestSong protests]] against French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean during the 1980s.
190* "Wired for Sound" by Music/CliffRichard has the protagonist getting far too excited about music hardware.
191* The music video for the ''Music/PanicAtTheDisco'' song "Victorious" could nicely be described as taking your victories where you find them. More accurately, it could be described as a man reacting with slack jawed amazement as he helps an old lady across the street in slow motion or awarding himself a million dollar check for not calling his ex after a bad breakup. And of course, pouring champagne all over himself in triumph.
192* Richard Strauss, known for writing heroic symphonic poems like ''StandardSnippet/AlsoSprachZarathustra'', wrote two compositions where he used the same bombastic, heroic style and applied it, with tongue firmly in cheek to his own life: ''Ein Heldenleben'' (A Hero's Life) portrays a war between Strauss and the critics who gave his music bad reviews, while the SpiritualSuccessor, ''Symphonia Domestica'', uses a huge orchestra to illustrate events like Strauss's baby getting a bath.
193* Music/WarrenZevon's song "[[https://youtu.be/0-xau9j5tOI?si=VadEe7WexKKHRBY9 The Envoy]]" sings about a diplomat in a style that makes him sound like the hero of an action movie. (The inspiration for the song was a real person, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_C._Habib Philip C. Habib]].)
194* Music/AndyPrieboy's song "[[https://andyprieboy.com/single/88454/putting-the-laundry-away Putting The Laundry Away]]" is just under four minutes of unnecessarily grandiose singing and playing about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin putting the laundry away]].

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