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erforce Since: Mar, 2011
#51: Jul 29th 2012 at 3:31:24 AM

https://www.youtube.com/embed/UZ5RfluIdXE

Any song with Double Entendre-laden lyrics falls into this for me.

edited 29th Jul '12 3:31:45 AM by erforce

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#52: Jul 31st 2012 at 12:00:33 AM

Going through the Music section of So Bad, It's Good introduced me to the bizarrely catchy "Hot In The Airport" - there's something about the bass line that makes me want to hear it covered In the Style of early Public Image Ltd.

Another thing I just discovered the same way is OINK OINK SUEY YIPPEE YO KAY AY, PIG POWER IN DA HOUSE!.

edited 1st Aug '12 12:06:19 AM by MikeK

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#53: Jul 31st 2012 at 1:58:42 PM

Last night, my friend introduced me to this amazing gem, from the same person who sung the equally amazing "Swagger Jagger":

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Gamebreaking Ten seconds before from Inside an Australian. Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#54: Aug 6th 2012 at 1:15:38 PM

Oppan Gangnam Style surprisingly, as I usually don't really enjoy that type of music.

And Ruber's Song from Quest for Camelot. It's terrible, but entertaining as hell IMO.

Deep into that darkness, peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
slowriot Since: Nov, 2010
#55: Sep 8th 2012 at 2:56:51 PM

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Anal Cunt, a band that attempted to make the worst music ever and perhaps succeeded. They usually played grindcore with racist, homophobic, misogynistic, etc. lyrics, but I think they're at their funniest when they're just screwing around. For example, here is their entire Howard is Bald EP (which was never officially released because even they thought it was too bad) where every song is about their friend's lack of hair.

edited 8th Sep '12 2:59:20 PM by slowriot

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#56: Sep 8th 2012 at 5:14:25 PM

[up] I've heard that before. I like it because it has that "kids messing around with a tape recorder" vibe, but the "kids" are (probably drunk) grown men. I also was surprised at a Shudder To Think reference in the Wesley Willis-parodying section - This will give you an idea of what they mean by "he looks like that guy from Shudder Tuh Think".

Something I enjoy of theirs that's in a similar vein is their side of a Black Sabbath tribute split 7" with Eyehategod - they do a serious cover of "Killing Yourself To Live", followed by a decidedly sillier medley of sorts.

edited 8th Sep '12 5:14:56 PM by MikeK

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#57: Sep 9th 2012 at 2:16:32 AM

GRR I CALLING THE MODS YOU GUYS R BASHING AND OPINIONS R BANNED HERE

But on a different note, Break Up is a song that invokes gruesome fascination, for me.

If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.
slowriot Since: Nov, 2010
#58: Sep 9th 2012 at 3:50:27 AM

While I'm still thinking of Anal Cunt, their acoustic album, Picnic of Love, was a comedy goldmine if only because of how over-the-top it is.

The song itself isn't bad, but "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead Milkmen has the most intentionally bad and out of key guitar solo I have ever heard and I can't help but smile every time I hear it.

And who could forget the legendary "Hoogie Boogie Land?"

edited 9th Sep '12 3:52:36 AM by slowriot

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#59: Sep 9th 2012 at 10:48:52 AM

[up]To be fair about "Punk Rock Girl", if anyone takes that song seriously, they've got problems.

And (listening to it again), that solo sounds like the kind of solos I play... :(

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Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
#60: Sep 9th 2012 at 12:29:29 PM

[up][up]All right, dying of laughter. I was actually thinking of “Hoogie Boogie Land” earlier this week (I have no idea of the context, or what reminded me of it).

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#61: Sep 9th 2012 at 1:31:11 PM

I was introduced to this song from one of Mark Prindle's video reviews:

Sort of makes me think of what I've heard of Jandek, although the difference is that Jandek meant for his songs to sound like that. I don't think I could sit through the whole album, but this particular song ends up being weirdly hypnotic and even catchy because of how incredibly repetitive it is. "No heavy truckin', do it on your own time / no heavy truckin', no heavy porcupine".

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#62: Sep 13th 2012 at 12:49:04 PM

Oh, and for some reason I just remembered Gary Young's "Plant Man". The defining moment is when Gary announces the "guitar solo" by muttering "shirts":

That's apparently Thurston Moore making a cameo as a dancing tree. Which is a little less bizarre than it seems because this is the same Gary Young who got kicked out of Pavement for being The Alcoholic. I used to have the album this is from, Hospital. It's... weird. This is the only other song that seems to be out there on youtube, and I remember it being one of the only tracks that sounded like an actual finished song.

edited 23rd Oct '12 11:58:24 PM by MikeK

NewGeekPhilosopher Wizard Basement from Sydney, Australia Since: Jul, 2009
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#63: Oct 22nd 2012 at 7:55:34 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhEQnkfn3g

Ninjasonik's Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant.

I can't believe nobody referenced this song while making fun of Twilight Breaking Dawn.

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#64: Oct 23rd 2012 at 11:45:57 PM

This was a Quincy, MA teen garage band's myspace demo that apparently got spread around Boston music discussion boards a few years ago due to being so comically inept, yet almost catchy. I think it later came out that the lyrics were a joke, but the music was still presumably an earnest attempt to sound good.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#65: Oct 24th 2012 at 12:17:40 PM

[up]The singer sounds like a drunk, tone-deaf Roger Daltrey. Why would they put the vocals so far in the front of the mix when a) they're so bad, and b) it's punk, the guitar is more important! The drumming...what the hell, I've never drummed in my life and I could do better than that.

From the video's description:

alternative punk jam band by the baddest keds in quincy
They certainly are the baddest keds around.

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BrainSewage from that one place Since: Jan, 2001
#66: Oct 24th 2012 at 9:05:13 PM

There are probably a million bands out there called Illusion, huh? I have only a vague memory of how I discovered these guys, but anyway... this very obscure album contains a few decent songs, but most fall into this category, IMHO.

I'll include "The Lake" so everyone can laugh at the Cliché Storm and sheer volume of Narm.

On the other hand, if you want Camp and Narm Charm, check out "Honor Among Thieves."

edited 24th Oct '12 9:08:42 PM by BrainSewage

How dare you disrupt the sanctity of my soliloquy?
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#67: Oct 24th 2012 at 11:17:55 PM

So, there's a really obscure band called Leila and the Snakes*

had a song called "Natasha" about how, as the song puts it, men aren't the only ones who brag about their sexual prowess, why, I know this one woman who loves to talk about how great she is at giving head! It's sung in such an over-the-top, theatrical way that you can't take it seriously at all (though, to be fair, I'm not sure it was meant that way). It is also the very pinnacle of both punk rock and feminism.

Anyway, that song I can't find streaming online, so I'll give you their most awesome song instead:

Side note: I completely unironically love this song.

edited 24th Oct '12 11:21:10 PM by 0dd1

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#68: Nov 28th 2012 at 7:53:03 AM

Here's an amazing one. Anyone remember the extremely mediocre mid-to-late-2000s show Krypto the Superdog, very loosely based on Superman's dog Krypto (and the similarities pretty much end there)? Well, whether you do or not, check out its theme song. These lyrics are pure poetry.

edited 28th Nov '12 7:54:52 AM by 0dd1

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KingOfNerds Prone Crew from Hip-Hop Heaven Since: Nov, 2012
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#69: Nov 28th 2012 at 8:03:38 AM

If life gives you lemons, sell the on ebay for 20 bucks.
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#70: Nov 28th 2012 at 11:32:02 AM

Wait, did he seriously sample the Requiem For A Dream score for this crap song?

The sad thing is, some of his rhymes ain't too bad, but he's so inept at delivering them and the song is mastered so horribly that they just don't work.

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KingOfNerds Prone Crew from Hip-Hop Heaven Since: Nov, 2012
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#71: Nov 29th 2012 at 11:36:17 AM

[up] He's actually gotten worse if you can believe it.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#72: Nov 29th 2012 at 11:38:51 AM

Yeah, I can believe that.

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#73: Nov 29th 2012 at 2:31:58 PM

I was just reminded of this - you really can't make fun of these songs too much, as they're original songs written and performed by middle schoolers for a music class, but they're generally pretty cacophonic and silly. My favorites are the Word Salad Lyrics of "Spin Jo Mama" and "Simpsons", where the kids somehow got away with the line "Smithers is really queer".

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#74: Nov 29th 2012 at 8:03:14 PM

Nevermind, wrong thread.

edited 29th Nov '12 8:04:24 PM by Willbyr

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
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#75: Dec 2nd 2012 at 4:59:16 AM

Y'know, I'm surprised no one's mentioned "Thrift Shop" yet. It sounds like something "Weird Al" Yankovic would make if he swore (not that that's a bad thing).

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