I like The Man Behind The Slaughter by The Living Tombstone. I don’t tend to enjoy fan-made music, but this one was too groovy to pass up.
It’s not quite what you’re asking, but I have had my perspective on a lot of songs changed once I actually looked up their lyrics.
My listening comprehension for music lyrics is piss poor. For any given pop or rock song I’d hear on the radio, maybe 70% of the time I find lyrics unintelligible. Clearly it’s skill issue on my part, as the body of music listeners at large seem to have no problems understanding what they’re hearing. I don’t know how people do it.
Sometimes I’ll catch enough words to throw into a search engine and get the song’s title and lyrics, and maybe even a short blurb of context. That knowledge alone can make a song go from irritating noise to something I find rather pleasant.
I believe the most recent song I looked up and learned something about was Even Flow by Pearl Jam. It’s a song about homelessness. Who knew? Fucking everyone, probably! But not me. For fifteen years all I heard was “FREEEEE-ZIIIIIN’…” and the rest just goes to mush. I also learned Even Flow is a completely different song from Plush by Stone Temple Pilots. The damn radio kept bamboozling me with that similar vocal progression they both have!
Ah well. Better on the bus fifteen years late than never on the bus at all. They say ignorance is bliss, but it’s also the source of a lot of undue hatred. I find I hate far fewer songs when I actually understand what they’re trying to say (if anything).
Of course, knowing doesn’t magically fix all stinkers. I Love It by Icona Pop didn’t get any better in my eyes when I found the lyrics for it. I find most pop country songs (which I am unavoidably subject to, living in the American midwest) don’t have much novel or interesting to say, either. The closer I look, the more accurate Bo Burnham’s Pandering becomes, and I hate it.
I guess the silver lining here is I get to lucky 10,000 my way through many of history’s greatest hits. I’m sure many people would give a lot to experience something they like again for the first time. By virtue of my being absurdly late to the party, I get to do it every day.
I’m the same way, most song lyricsare incomprehensible gibberish. So you’ll probably recognize this catchy line: “wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night”
Return of the Mac by Mark Morrison
Probably Agenda Suicide by The Faint, because the music belies the dark hopelessness of people working office jobs hoping to achieve the American dream
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I dunno, I don’t really listen to things I don’t enjoy genuinely, unless I’m being polite in someone else’s domain
However! There is one specific song that I initially liked because it was so over the top, absurdly silly, but came to enjoy because I like the beat. Muck Sticky, thingy thing
Absolutely absurd song, but the track thumps hard in the car, and I’ve never lost my love for feeling my organs liquify from bass lol.
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Ever heard of a meme?
What does the fox say?
(Uhee ahee ahee)
I will still champion “That’s Not My Name” by Ting Tings. It’s a well-crafted pop song that most people miss the “subtlety” (for lack of a better word) of the message. It’s about a woman wanting to be social, but hating all of the poor flirtation in the pick-up scene.
And I never knew it until I had it on an exercise mix and was able to hyper focus on it while trying to zone out in my cadence run. It usually just glossed by as a chippy beat.
I wanna be a cowboy, baby by CMAT. “Always the cowboy, never the cow”
I want to say Clown Core but the insane talent is obvious almost immediately. you might click on it ironically but you’ll never listen that way twice.
I guess Baby Metal fits the bill better.
This sounds like the soundtrack to an action-cyberpunk reinterpretation of Ed Edd n Eddy that still maintains the slapstick element
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Never say never
My roommate showed me and said the same thing. Then I showed my boss and he started listening to it unironically.
I do still go and listen to some of them sometimes, myself.
My music instructor suggested them for me to listen once. I could tell by his tone, that this suggestion was ironic at least on some level (he was only half-expecting me to like it), but after I gave it a listen and we started discussing it, it became obvious that both of us like this music pretty intensely and unironically.
I personally view Clown Core as a conceptual musical comedy. They utilize the clown aesthetic as a framing context, in which they use MAD SKILLS to inspect and subvert all expectations about music structure, direction, tone and sound.
Power Francers - Pompo nelle Casse
It’s a very stupid song with lyrics that make no sense and are kinda hedonistic, and I hated it when it came out in 2010 because I felt that it somehow “promoted” that lifestyle, but it eventually grew on me and it brings me back to simpler times, now I get the irony of that song.
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This song from Space Dandy. I just call it “Japanese Earth Wind & Fire”.
At first, I was listening to it somewhat ironically. But when I first heard it I already knew it’s a banger.
When I first heard Money Machine by 100 gecs I thought that the intro was funny, but the song was ultimately unlistenable. I’m now a die-hard hyperpop fan.
Kept as an example of unenjoyable music, came to enjoy it.
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This sounds like early puscifer. Like Vagina Mine vibes.
Jinjer - Pisces
Although it’s not a comedic song in itself, when the chorus kicks in, the cognitive dissonance of that mismatching voice is funny. But then after 5 listens you are just impressed because it sounds good. And that made me unironically listen to it more and I put it in my playlist, recognizing the depth of the lyrics and that unique feeling of the song.
That’s btw 1 of 2 songs from jinjer that are considered outliers and those are the only two that I like by jinjer which is very weird.
Pirate Metal!
‘Ex Deo is a Canadian death metal band formed in Montreal, Quebec in 2008. The band is a side project of Kataklysm frontman Maurizio Iacono, and is based on the history of the Roman Empire.’
I somehow switched to them while listening to Behemoth yesterday. Not exactly my flavour, but they weren’t bad.
Just a heads up, the word you’re looking for is piqued.
I honestly can’t remember any band or song names, I just know it’s fun as to listen to after a few drinks.
