Is this not the most ridiculous song? Look at the lyrics

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The dead milkmen 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 fine people, good
Americans. But they're content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and
Mindy on channel 57. Maybe kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer. They're
good fine people, Stuart. But they don't know what the queers are doing
to the soil.

You know that Johnny Werzner kid - the kid who delivers papers in the
neighborhood? He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes
crack, but I don't believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he
wanted was a burrow owl, just like his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow
owl. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live". So the guy
breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway at 10:30 the other night I
go out into my yard and there's the Werzner kid looking up in the tree. I
said, "What are you looking for?" He said, "I'm looking for my burrow
owl." I say, "Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a
burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they
call it a burrow owl, anyway?!" Now Stuart, do you think a kid like that
is gonna know what the queers are doing to the soil?

I first became aware of this, about 10 years ago, the summer my oldest boy
Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival that comes to town every year?
Well this year it came with a ride called the Mixer. The man said "Keep
your head and arms inside the mixer at all times." But Bill Jr., he was a
daredevil, just like his old man. He was leaning out saying, "Hey
everybody! Look at me, look at me!" POW! He was decapitated. They found
his head over by the snowcone concession. A few days after that, I open
up the mail and there's a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And
it's addressed to Bill Jr. And it's entitled, "Do you know what the
queers are doing to our soil?"

Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big
underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example.
Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can't build on it, you
can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming.
But I know what's really going on, Stuart. I know it's the queers.
They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay
Martians. I swear to God.

You know what Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other people, here
in the trailer park.

I don't understand any of this....
 
The song really must have made no sense to you then...

Actually it made more sense. I thought it was about a band pointing out injustices in the media. All I could really understand was "Little old lady got mutilated late last night". Now I am just lost.
 
According to Zevon's biography, written by his former wife, who was with him at the time the song was written:
1) The lyrics were written by Warren, Waddy Wachtel, and I believe a couple of other guys under the influence of some high-grade sinsemilla and booze
2) The lyrics aren't SUPPOSED to necessarily make sense. It's a goofy song written as a joke. Zevon had no intention of recording it until Jackson Browne convinced him to.

Now, if you want to talk about stupid lyrics, I suggest you go no further than, "Do do do do, do da da da, is all I want to say to you...."
 
maybe i wish i wrote a song about nonsense and lived off of it for the rest of my life.
Joe Walsh once said (right before he played Rocky Mountain Way); "If I knew I was gonna have to play this song for the rest of my life...I'd have written something else."
 
If that song angers you then how do you feel about Captain Beefheart??!?!

 
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This thread has just made me laugh for the past half hour. I feel like Charlie Sheen has the 'Friday' song in his head all the time. That may explain why he is 'partyin partyin yea!' so epically...
 
This right here is what happens when you have ten grand to spend on making a video and you spend nine of it on blow.
 
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I don't know if it is all that bad. I think people take lyrics too seriously some times.

One of my favorite songs is about a Krazy Kat that is peeking through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire and a diamond-eye Jack.

No I don't know what it means. Yes I love the freaking song.
 
I can drive my wife insane by playing an "Agile Like This" song.

"Lets put this cat in a bucket
They look so cute in a bucket
Let's put this cat in a bucket
If you don't want to just say f*ck it."

Doesn't get much more ridiculous than that.
 
One of my favorite 'WTF' music videos... This video made me love MGMT.

 
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I think any Wesley Willis would be a good fit in this thread especially the chicken cow or suck a caribous ass.
 
According to Zevon's biography, written by his former wife, who was with him at the time the song was written:
1) The lyrics were written by Warren, Waddy Wachtel, and I believe a couple of other guys under the influence of some high-grade sinsemilla and booze
2) The lyrics aren't SUPPOSED to necessarily make sense. It's a goofy song written as a joke. Zevon had no intention of recording it until Jackson Browne convinced him to.

Now, if you want to talk about stupid lyrics, I suggest you go no further than, "Do do do do, do da da da, is all I want to say to you...."

as stupid as it is, the sting song makes more logical sense to me
 
If that song angers you then how do you feel about Captain Beefheart??!?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRHr5pEIFU

i don't really have a problem with songs i've never heard of and are not popular. there's a reason they're not popular. And i may have used strong words if i said i "hate" the song. I guess i have a love/hate relationship with it. If i'm po'd, it's like, not this freaking nonsense, but if it's a happy friday, i'm ok
 
Oh you want popular.

I quote;

"Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll"
 
Oh, and if this thread has evolved into "most ridiculous video," I hereby nominate "Total Eclipse of the Heart"



Seriously. Watch this, if you haven't already.
 
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Here's one that really gets me po'd, the whole "jimmy dean" part; what the hell does jimmy dean have to do with anything? He's talking about a girl, then he just says "Jimmy dean, james dean." I know who james dean is, but i don't see his relevance to anything. So read up, and i'll wait for people to attack me about this one as well. yes, ik songs don't have to make sense, but do they have to be terrible as well?

Blue Jean Baby Queen

Hey kid, rock and roll
Rock on, ooh, my soul
Hey kid, boogey too, did ya

Hey shout, summertime blues
Jump up and down in my blue suede shoes
Hey kid, rock and roll, rock on

And where do we go from here
Which is the way that's clear

Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen
Prettiest girl I ever seen
See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean
 
ow, if you want to talk about stupid lyrics, I suggest you go no further than, "Do do do do, do da da da, is all I want to say to you...."

In fact, they're very good lyrics. Sitng's own defense:

"'De Do Do Do', for example, was grossly misunderstood: the lyrics are about banality, about the abuse of words. Almost everyone who reviewed it said, Oh, this is baby talk. They were just listening to the chorus alone, obviously."

Obviously.
 
In fact, they're very good lyrics. Sitng's own defense:

"'De Do Do Do', for example, was grossly misunderstood: the lyrics are about banality, about the abuse of words. Almost everyone who reviewed it said, Oh, this is baby talk. They were just listening to the chorus alone, obviously."

Obviously.

i agree. i like that song and it actually makes sense to me
 
is no one going to address this "Jimmy Dean" issue, i brought up? No one else is bothered by that song?
 
I'm guessing it's just that James Dean is an icon of cool. The song isn't just about a girl, it refers to rock and roll, Summertime Blues, blue suede shoes, hot babes in blue jeans. It's a tribute to old school cool, which Jimmy Dean was once the king of.
 
At the Filmore... Had to post.

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