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.
Not necessarily a song but a whole sub-genre: Eurobeat. It started with Running in the 90s and I just went from there to listening and thoroughly enjoying pretty much the whole Initial D soundtrack.
Rasputin by Boney M
That shit slaps
Edit: Seagulls! Stop It Now by Bad Lip Reading
I’m not exactly sure why, but I thought Abba was the artist
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”
Started listening to Buddy Holly by Weezer ironically for the meme edits some months ago, now Weezer is my favourite band.
The theme song from Enterprise (“Where my heart will take me” by Russel Watson). So many Trekkies seem to hate this song but I genuinely love it. I normally skip through the intro songs to most Trek shows but this one I sit through every time (and I have the song in a number of my playlists).
Also Blood and Glitter by Lord of the Lost. Every year I listen to a playlist of Eurovision songs for fun. LOTL have stuck with me (and I’m going to see them live soon!!)
I love the original intro to Enterprise. Is that the one you meant? They changed it to be more “upbeat” or something at some point and I didn’t like that version.
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.
“Listening to a song ironically”? Who is doing that? And why?
People who like to poke fun at things. To make fun of: the music video, the music, the lyrics, how overplayed it is, the fans, the band, etc. Especially when a song bubbles up in the zeitgeist either from lots of radio play or by featuring in some clade of meme.
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
I’m listening to “Hell” and I must admit I am not only impressed but also deeply afraid. I will never listen to this again. Thanks for sharing!
Never say never
Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2qsC-PuJQ
It’s a nonsense song and when I first came across it, I took it for the joke it was. But I realized I genuinely enjoy listening to it. It’s relaxing.
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I have none that I listened to ironically, I think that’s a next generation thing… but I have plenty that were unavoidably on the radio that I can listen to now with warm nostalgia at the distinct lack of twerking, large asses, and shallow(er) lyrics.
Return of the Mac by Mark Morrison
Shawty’s Halation by Dayman is such a banger
I wanna be a cowboy, baby by CMAT. “Always the cowboy, never the cow”
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.
