What's the strangest subject for a song?
I've currently got my iTunes collection playing on random as background listening. Eclectic (oh OK, then - cheesy) library that it is, it's just thrown up the Sweet song Alexander Graham Bell.
Now what an oddity that is - 1970s glam-rock band sings the praises of the man who invented the telephone.
Got me thinking, what's the strangest subject (person, thing, or place) that's been immortalised in song? Any other gems out there?
David Bowie: The Laughing Gnome. In no way influenced by the spirit of the times. Oh no.
I never understood what the hell Beck was talking about in "Loser"...
More on the subject of the post though (well slightly), when I was younger, I always thought A-ha's "The Sun Always Shines on TV" was about the glare when you were watching television and how annoying it was!!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm naive me, but happy.
First thing that springs to mind is Warren Zevon's 'Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner'
A story on the grand scale, of an Norwegian mercenary who goes to fight in Biafra and has his head blown off by goons in the employ of the CIA. Roland's headless corpse then walks the Earth to wreak revenge on 'the man who done him in'. The song ends with Patty Hearst buying Roland's Thompson gun.
He was a moralist, was Warren. A hedonist, but a moralist too.
See also large quantities of The Beatles White Album. Take your pick - Savoy Truffle; Bungalow Bill; Piggies...
Or...
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - 'Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket'
Title says it all, really.
Tribe of Toffs' John Kettley Is A Weatherman
Jocky Wilson by Dexy's?
(according to TOTP, anyway)
Always good to sing about dart players.
See also large quantities of The Beatles White Album. Take your pick - Savoy Truffle; Bungalow Bill; Piggies...
Happiness is a warm gun.
Rocky Racoon
See also large quantities of The Beatles White Album. Take your pick - Savoy Truffle; Bungalow Bill; Piggies...
Had to put the first disc on to listen to. Brilliant stuff. Not been on for sometime so its all nice and fresh again.
Sorry for drifting off topic
Um...Err...Norman Greenbaum - The Eggplant that ate Cincinatti
every track from Back in the D.H.S.S. by Half Man Half Biscuit.
1. "God Gave Us Life"
2. "F*****' 'Ell,It's Fred Titmus"
3. "Sealclubbing"
4. "99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd"
5. "Time Flies By (When You're The Driver Of A Train)"
6. "I Hate Nerys Hughes-From the Heart"
7. "The Len Ganley Stance"
8. "Venus In Flares"
9. "I Love You Because (You Look Like Jim Reeves)"
10. "Reflections In A Flat"
Might just give it a spin just now.
Arnold Layne by Pink Floyd. All about a knicker stealing transvestite - not as wierd as some of the mentioneed songs on here but still pretty nutty.
Panama - Van Halen.
Chemical Warfare: Dead Kennedys. Always seemed a distinctive choice to me.
I'm sure Mr Lucas will bring many, many more to the party once he spots this thread.
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