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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.
Entries Beginning with T
"Tender Lumplings," Oingo Boingo
This band was wackiest in its earliest days, but this barely audible tune on their last studio album sounds like a bunch of goblins whispering in an old Victrola record player. It was referenced later in Danny Elfman's score for The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Lyric: Oh listen Tender Lumplings let me take you by the hands./I'll take you from this hell-hole to the Promised Land. /But don't blame me, oh children, if those promises don't keep/'Cause promises like lives, can be bought so very cheap.
Lyric: Oh listen Tender Lumplings let me take you by the hands./I'll take you from this hell-hole to the Promised Land. /But don't blame me, oh children, if those promises don't keep/'Cause promises like lives, can be bought so very cheap.
Agrimorfee
"Todo Los Dolores," Devendra Banhart
Begins a verse, flubs...and then starts over again, intentionally kept the "out-take"
Ra'akone
"Tommy's Holiday Camp," The Who
The Who actually have fun with this short song by having a carnival-like atmosphere throughout the whole song.
Paul Warren
"Touch Me," The Doors
at the end of the song, Jim sings "stronger than dirt," something he did because the very end of the song sounded like the jingle used in Ajax commercials from that time period.
rachel
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