The Song Title Game

[GGJaguar]

"Alvison Park" - The Mockers

 

[Nuuska]

Mac Arthur Park - Donna Summer

 

[GGJaguar]

"My Heart" - Menlo Park

 

[dwasifar]

"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" - Tom Lehrer




This is one of those songs that would today be a lightning rod for internet outrage junkies and vigilante cancel mobs. To them I offer a big wet raspberry and an extended finger, along with a sincere wish for them to go get a life, and I'm posting it anyway. People who don't find this funny probably spend their lives searching for things to self-righteously find not funny.

 

[Rocky]

F.U. - Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

 

[dwasifar]

"Jonny Quest / Stop That Pigeon" - The Reverend Horton Heat




This is from the album Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, which is a 1990s collection of bespoke covers of kids' cartoon show themes from the '60s and '70s performed by punk and alternative bands. It was great nostalgic fun, although like an actual 1960s Saturday morning of cartoon viewing, it leads with its strongest material and gradually deteriorates to the weaker material as it progresses. This song is a two-fer, incorporating the themes from both Jonny Quest and Dastardly & Muttley. Worth checking out if you want to hear the Ramones sing the Spider-Man Theme, or Matthew Sweet's excellent cover of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?

 

[GGJaguar]

"A Way With Birds" - Michael Manring

 

[dwasifar]

"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" - Napoleon XIV (Jerry Samuels)




A truly weird classic of tape tricks and black humor. This is the audio equivalent of what would have happened if The Chipmunks had been produced by John Kricfalusi.

The B-side of this novelty single was "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT" credited to VIX NOELOPAN, and was simply the A-side played in reverse. It's listed as one of the worst records of all time and was said to have once cleared out an entire diner in less than its 2:10 running time when played on the jukebox.

 

[GGJaguar]

"Wasted Away" - Dum Dum Girls

 

[Rocky]

Dumb - Nirvana

 

[Westerly Wood]

Dumb - Nirvana

for a guy in such turmoil, he sure had a good sense of humor.

 

[dwasifar]

"Dumb Head" - Ginny Arnell




Another song that couldn't be recorded today. Imagine the social media outrage. She'd be pilloried for mocking the mentally challenged.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I'm Straight - The Modern Lovers



one of the greatest bands/albums of all time. They didn't last long till Jonathan saw this band in Bermuda play way chiller music and he had to jet lol

 

[Rocky]

"Dumb Head" - Ginny Arnell




Another song that couldn't be recorded today. Imagine the social media outrage. She'd be pilloried for mocking the mentally challenged.

They don't make 'em like they used to.

"Born in New Haven, Connecticut, she attended East Haven High School." [Insert regional joke here]

Ginny Arnell - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[dwasifar]

I'm Straight - The Modern Lovers

one of the greatest bands/albums of all time. They didn't last long till Jonathan saw this band in Bermuda play way chiller music and he had to jet lol

What's the connection, though? Not seeing it.

 

[Westerly Wood]

What's the connection, though? Not seeing it.

the lyrics are more in line with smart/positive outlook vs Dumb.

 

[Rocky]

Straight On - Heart


(Decorum prevented me from putting Josie Cotton's Johnny Are You Queer into the sequence)

 

[GGJaguar]

"Cannot See Straight" - Yppah

 

[walrus]

"Can't You See" - The Marshall Tucker Band



walrus

 

[Nuuska]

I Can See For Miles - The Who