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Poll Question: Vote For All Your Favorite Funny Prog and Prog Related Songs
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26 [12.68%]
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6 [2.93%]
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6 [2.93%]
7 [3.41%]
26 [12.68%]
4 [1.95%]
4 [1.95%]
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6 [2.93%]
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Battle of Epping Forest.... funny?  Unless you count its sobriquet as the Bataan Death March of Prog as being funny.. which of course I do.. since I cointed it.. but again.. I don't think the band.. nor its fans would see the humor.

Micky - you're American.

This is a British song with British humour and it's extremely funny if you understand the place, the time and other events going on there. It's actually based on true events: two gangs fighting over protection rights in the East End of London.
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I always thought that King Crimson's Elephant Talk was hilarious
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I wouldn't call it "funny", per say, but Epping Forest is by far the most entertaining for me!

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While obviously a number of these tunes have humorous lyrics, and some of these are great songs, what I find particularly intriguing is the idea of instrumental music that is funny all on its own. For this, I think Zappa is king. I love the way Zappa can write a long instrumental piece that makes one laugh, without even having any lyrics (interestingly, however, I don't find Bobby Brown to be that funny - it is more his mean-spirited side of lyrical humour, as is much of the Sheik Yerbouti album). 

The other main band that produces music that I think is funny on its own is Gong of the Daevid Allen eras. 
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Epping Forest---love the song---powerful and funny---Peters word play is very funny and the characters he creates is very creative--and the meaning of the song is very powerful yet understated and ironic.  "No one left alive---must be a draw---so the black cap barons toss a coin to settle the score."
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Are we voting for which one is funnier, we like better, or is a better song? These is a collection of great songs, makes for a great playlist.
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^ Neither do I. I just don't find it funny, but I do find it annoying.
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I don't come to prog for funny
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Sloche is quite hilarious indeed.



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Zappa.

Also, "We Are Sane" is whimsical, but not funny, i.e. silly. 
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^ you're better than me... I dish out comments and don't vote. Hard to... Gong is like a 20 something red head there in a line up with 80 year old Gilf's.... too easy a vote. urrggg..  bad mental images there Mick...

I agree that Gong is probably the most funny.. straight up humorous of the whole genre but perhaps it is just me.. but humor never was a strong suit for prog IMO. Too busy being serious and trying show how smart a bunch of semi educated muso's thought they were...


Edited by micky - March 20 2018 at 19:40
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I decided to actually vote before I commented. Wink Floyd. Queen. Tull. Genesis. No order of favorites.
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Gong is def the funniest (teapot trilogy/esp.live) for me..still makes me laugh after all these years.

Hammill's out there singing style often cracks me up.

and Zappa's overall attitude, of course.

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Battle of Epping Forest.... funny?  Unless you count its sobriquet as the Bataan Death March of Prog as being funny.. which of course I do.. since I cointed it.. but again.. I don't think the band.. nor its fans would see the humor.
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oh about half of Rush's output before Peart got the memo to ditch the sophormoric intellectualism in his lyrics ... though I suppose they.. nor their fans would see the humor...
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We've had threads lately for sad prog and bad prog, so why not a poll for funny prog?  I was listening to Defector the other day and thinking how I like those quirky things Steve Hackett loves to put on his albums, so I started listing similar songs and here it is.

This is a multiple choice poll so vote for all your funny prog and prog related songs.  I kept my list to 1 song per band otherwise the poll would have been 25 Zappa/Beefheart songs Wink  

Be sure to tell us any of your favorites that aren't on the list...

Have fun Clown


Edited by The.Crimson.King - March 21 2018 at 08:21
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