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Poll Question: Vote For All Your Favorite Funny Prog and Prog Related Songs
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
1 [0.49%]
11 [5.37%]
16 [7.80%]
2 [0.98%]
7 [3.41%]
13 [6.34%]
22 [10.73%]
0 [0.00%]
6 [2.93%]
1 [0.49%]
4 [1.95%]
20 [9.76%]
4 [1.95%]
26 [12.68%]
4 [1.95%]
0 [0.00%]
6 [2.93%]
5 [2.44%]
6 [2.93%]
7 [3.41%]
26 [12.68%]
4 [1.95%]
4 [1.95%]
4 [1.95%]
6 [2.93%]
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Tempted to vote for the Split Enz because I love Split Enz, but this one is about the worst thing the band every wrote
 
You do realise that this track was written specifically for vinyl, and that its brilliance doesn't translate to CD or digital formats?
 
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Really?? You've never heard that expression?
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Battle of Epping Forest, to me is just a one big dad joke. Not really that funny IMHO.

curious comment 'Dad joke' Confused . The song was about a story that made the papers at the time , 2 London gangs fighting over protection rights. 'East End Heroes' , I don't find it that funny either but people like to think its quintessential British humour.
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Tempted to vote for the Split Enz because I love Split Enz, but this one is about the worst thing the band every wrote, so I'll give it to Bike.

I love Split Enz, too - and some of their material is definitely crazy, quirky and humorous, and would easily fit the criteria of this poll. The song here seems to have been chosen more for its title than its content. I like it, and I would never call it even close to being “the worst thing the band ever wrote”, but there are definitely far better songs, that would be far better contenders for this poll. Nevertheless, out of patriotic solidarity, I have voted for the Enz anyway.

This wouldn’t be a great song for the poll either, so I’m not sharing for that reason, so much as because I love this particular performance. 🥰❤️
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Battle of Epping Forest, to me is just a one big dad joke. Not really that funny IMHO.
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Tempted to vote for the Split Enz because I love Split Enz, but this one is about the worst thing the band every wrote, so I'll give it to Bike.


My Mistake is one of Split Enz's funniest; especially the video. Cracks me up every time!
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There seems to be no lack of twisted humor in Prog, that much one can state with conviction. Primus’s “Tales from the Punchbowl” is about as twisted as one can get, but it is not so funny getting that “Southbound Pachyderm” song stuck in your head for days on end. It really is that catchy.

Ron Jarzombek’s 4/4 + 1/64 time signature in “A Headache and a 64th” is also humorous and twisted. Attempting that is like when Evil Knievel jumped 19 cars.

“Corporal Clegg” exudes humor, but it is really twisted humor when you think about the history of a certain band member.

There is quite a bit of quirky Prog out there too. Maybe it isn’t “ha ha” funny, but it can be amusing in an esoteric way.
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Tempted to vote for the Split Enz because I love Split Enz, but this one is about the worst thing the band every wrote, so I'll give it to Bike.
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I don't really like my prog, or music in general, to have funny elements... I don't find them funny, but I do find them annoying. However, if there is one arguably funny song that I do like, even for it's funny elements, is Hocus Pocus, by Focus, which is sadly missing from this list. From the list, I actually like Queen's "I'm going slightly mad", though I never thought it was a particularly funny song.
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voted for King Crimson, ELP, Zappa, and Jethro Tull.
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Cat Food (because of Keith Tippet's piano, more than anything else). My favorite funny prog song is Arnold Layne. And the track in Ummagumma with noises of "furry animals" too.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Epping Forest is Untouchable!!

Ditto!

It certainly is untouchable. I haven't touched it for decades.
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Epping Forest is Untouchable!!

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Epping Forest is Untouchable!!
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Bump with votes to Pink Floyd and Queen.  
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

 
The piece mentioned by JT is not a funny piece and is a part of an album that is NOT FUNNY, and in fact, is downright serious and even mean at times. And the comment at the end of the song, is pretty much saying ... how stupid we look ... it's not our story, but the hare's, and for all intents and purposes, the point was/is that we were intruding on it! How very rock'n'roll that really is, and we don't get it?

Actually, no. In fact, from a literary standpoint, you are completely wrong. The original late-medieval "Passion Plays" or "Mystery (ie., Miracle) Plays" were indeed serious in part, a precursor to the Elizabethan stage plays. However, within Passion or Mystery Plays, they often inserted a comic interlude between the first and second act to break up the heavy moralizing and keep the "groundlings" interested. These comedic intermissions were often slap-stick, satiric or downright vulgar and had nothing to do whatsoever with the content of the Passion Play itself. 

So, "The Hare That Lost Its Spectacles" is an absurdist fable that is indeed just such a comedic interlude, and based on Tull's love of Monty Python, there is an accompanying film of "The Hare" with bassist Jeffrey Hammond as the Pythonesque narrator (complete with wacky Lancashire accent). 

And I don't think Ian Anderson got enough credit for how truly "progressive" this album was. The man did his research, as the whole plot resembles an allegorical Passion Play, except in true Ian anti-Anglican fashion, the newly-dead protagonist Ronnie Pilgrim is resurrected at the end, rather than Christ.

And "A Passion Play" is quite hilarious throughout, really. I am not sure where you think the satire involved is so deadly serious. Any lyricist who rattles off the line "And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulder of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision," is not being terribly serious. 






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Originally posted by Cosmiclawnmower Cosmiclawnmower wrote:

Listen to the Viv Stanshall narrated version of the Sailors Hornpipe on (the more recent versions of) Tubular Bells.. in fact any of the Bonzo's stuff and anything to do with Viv Stanshall.. smart and humorous!
Stackridge.. Syracuse the Elephant or any of their songs.. Daevid Allen had a great sense of humour and the beauty of the absurd.. Richard Sinclair's lyrics whether with Caravan or Hatfield again show that warm absurdist humour..

I am not sure that most of this music was designed to be "funny", although one should probably state that satirical and pointed is way more like it.

Gilly's thing in GONG, was more about the feminist side than it was funny, or satirical ... it teased just enough to get the attention, but not enough to be outright above and beyond the GONG material itself, which suggests that it was very well thought out and done. Later, she developed it further, in ROBOT WOMAN, and I can tell you that the album IS NOT FUNNY at all! But it is a serious request for more equality.

Vivian Stanshall, is probably the real humorist in the midst of all this, but considering the BONZO DOG BAND progressive is a bit weird and out in left fields towards the poop tundras for the rhinos and elephants! But his satirical, and INTELLIGENT edge is quite obvious ... it's almost scary how he can take a line from MARAT/SADE and come up with ... something else that is not only scary, but also very funny and makes you wish that Peter Brook had included it in his own show! 

All in all, none of the pieces mentioned are "funny". Even FOCUS' famous hit is not really funny, but an exercise in making fun of the seriousness in rock music, with explosive riffs.

The piece mentioned by JT is not a funny piece and is a part of an album that is NOT FUNNY, and in fact, is downright serious and even mean at times. And the comment at the end of the song, is pretty much saying ... how stupid we look ... it's not our story, but the hare's, and for all intents and purposes, the point was/is that we were intruding on it! How very rock'n'roll that really is, and we don't get it?
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