Music Trivia -> Lighter Side of Serious Bands -> B
Some bands don't wait around for Weird Al to parody one of their songs, and take a pre-emptive strike and write a silly song of their own.
"The Ballad of the Decomposing Man," Steve Hackett
"A campy yet cool number that bundles together the fate of the English working class, and some potential "Darwin Award" material. It's cheeky and dark, and not something you would expect to be presented along-side Tigermoth, and Spectral Morning's
princejellyfish
"Be My Yoko Ono," Bareneked Ladies
On their 1992 debut album "Gordon", The Barenaked Ladies made a lot of songs with witty humor in it. One of the songs 'Be My Yoko Ono' has the humor spoof of John Lennon's wife, Yoko.
Paul Warren
"Beans," Nirvana
Found on the With The Lights Out box set. It is actually Kurt Cobain getting goofy with his home tape recorder, sounding like a demented chipmunk.
Agrimorfee
"Benny the Bouncer," Emerson Lake and Palmer
An obvious "B-side" to Jeremy Bender, this song functions as the calm before the storm (that is Karn Evil 9), but still turns into a great cut thanks to the up-right piano playing in one of the great English Music Hall performances this side of the last world war.
princejellyfish
"Berkshire Poppies," Traffic
This song is about drugs and you even hear the band laughing throughout!
Paul Warren
"Bugs," Pearl Jam
Imagine a couple of drunk guys grabbing pots, pans, kazoos and making up lyrics like this at around 5am in the morning: "all these... i got bugs i got bugs in my room bugs in my bed bugs in my ears their eggs in my head bugs in my pockets bugs in my shoes bugs in the way i feel about you bugs on my window trying to get in they don't go nowhere waiting, waiting... bugs on my ceiling crowded the floor standing, sitting, kneeling... a few block the door and now the question's: do i kill them? become their friend? do i eat them? raw or well done? do i trick them? i don't think they're that dumb do i join them? looks like that's the one i got bugs on my skin tickle my nausea i let it happen again they're always takin' over i see they surround me, i see... see them deciding my fate oh, that which was once...was once up to me... now it's too late i got bugs in my room...one on one that's when i had a chance i'll just stop now i'll become naked and with the...i'll become one!" That's "Bugs" by Pearl Jam. (And you thought Eddie Vedder didn't have a sense of humor!)
Agrimorfee
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