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Simon and Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball Lyrics 8 years ago
@[super_dave:10314] Paul Simon wrote it and Simon & Garfunkel performed it after The Cyrkle had already made it a hit. S&G's version can be found on their box set Old Friends.

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Social Distortion – Ball and Chain Lyrics 8 years ago
@[pijuyo:8666] Who the h*ck thought this song was written by Elton John?

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Dr. Dre – I Need A Doctor Lyrics 8 years ago
You're thinking of "Doctor! Doctor!" by the Thompson Twins.

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Primus – Shake Hands With Beef Lyrics 9 years ago
@[Pedro:6496] Martins Then he isn't really a vegetarian, is he?

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The Dickies – Manny, Moe And Jack Lyrics 9 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep_Boys

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The Beach Boys – Kokomo Lyrics 9 years ago
The only appeal this song has for me is nostalgia for the Muppets.

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Dead Kennedys – Funland At The Beach Lyrics 9 years ago
@[labtech2659:3330] Both songs were written for the sake of satire as well as shock value. I don't think Jello has anything against little kids at all.

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The Ziggens – Fat Charlie Lyrics 9 years ago
"[Fat Charlie is] referencing the guys we knew growing up. Desperately wanted to be cops but had no social skills and were ultimately turned away to a life of bitterness, vehicles painted like cop cars and low paying security jobs." -Bert Ziggen

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Queen – We Are The Champions Lyrics 9 years ago
@[manic4manics:2329] People assume that about every Queen song, regardless of whether Freddie wrote it or not.

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Sir Mix-A-Lot – Bremelo Lyrics 9 years ago
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bremelo

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Green Day – Shoplifter Lyrics 10 years ago
@[orang55:522] The melody of the song in general sounds like The Clash's "Bankrobber."

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They Might Be Giants – Dig My Grave Lyrics 10 years ago
Musically this song sounds like an homage to 1960s garage rock bands like the ones on the Back from the Grave compilation albums, which may explain the song's title and lyrics.

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Dead Kennedys – One-Way Ticket To Pluto Lyrics 10 years ago
The solo in this song is highly reminiscient of the early "space rock" instrumental "Telstar."

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MC Frontalot – You Got Asperger's Lyrics 10 years ago
I have Asperger's and this hits home all too well.

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Sublime – We're Only Gonna Die For Our Own Arrogance Lyrics 10 years ago
Contrary to popular belief, Hitler had no Jewish ancestry. The line "slaughtered his own kind" refers to humankind, not a specific ethnicity. While many of the lyrics seem to refer to Hitler specifically, the song's lyrics can easily be applied to every corrupt empire from Rome to America.

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Simon and Garfunkel – The Boxer Lyrics 10 years ago
This is true in terms of the song being about a lonely boy in New York City who visits prostitutes, but the first line of the song alone, "I am just a poor boy," marks a strong difference between the lives of Holden Caulfield and "the Boxer." Though he experienced tragedy in the form of the early death of his brother Allie, Holden was a privileged young man from a wealthy family who had the luxury of attending multiple preparatory schools. Furthermore, Holden possesses none of the skills of endurance which form the metaphor of the Boxer, which leads to his constant failure in school (he even admits he lacks the ability to "apply himself") and his ultimate commitment to a psychiatric hospital.

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The Ziggens – Pistol Pete Lyrics 10 years ago
This song is about the life of professional basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich (1947-1988).

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They Might Be Giants – Token Back To Brooklyn Lyrics 10 years ago
This song's message is very similar to the Kingston Trio's 1960s protest song "M.T.A." about a man who can't afford the city's expensive subway system and is forced to remain boarding it for all eternity as a consequence.

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The Smiths – Meat Is Murder Lyrics 10 years ago
Who are you, Angelica Pickles? Are you going to sue your parents for serving you broccoli for dinner?

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Weezer – Holiday Lyrics 10 years ago
It sounds like he's saying "we don't understand ennui" instead of "we don't understand anyway."

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Weird Al Yankovic – Jerry Springer Lyrics 10 years ago
Her name is Tress MacNeille. She also voiced Lucy Ricardo in Weird Al's song "Ricky" (parody of Toni Basil's "Mickey") from his first album.

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Tom Waits – Eyeball Kid Lyrics 10 years ago
I thought it was an allusion to Ralph Waldo Emerson's concept of the "transparent eyeball."

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Nirvana – Lounge Act Lyrics 10 years ago
I've been trying to convince Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine to cover this for a very long time. It would be so perfect.

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Ben Folds – You Don't Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor) Lyrics 10 years ago
"The couple in the coma" is the narrator and his girlfriend. They have reached the epiphany that they do not even really know who each other are after all this time, rendering them both emotionally paralyzed.

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Green Day – Walking Contradiction Lyrics 10 years ago
There are very few correct examples of contradictions in this song, but still more than examples of irony in Alanis' "Ironic."

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Weird Al Yankovic – My Baby's In Love With Eddie Vedder Lyrics 10 years ago
It's in the style of zydeco.

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Green Day – Sassafras Roots Lyrics 10 years ago
Yes, it's the same girl who he wrote "She" about. She left him to go to Ecuador for the Peace Corps and wrote him a feminist poem also entitled "She" when she broke up with him. The song "Chump" is written about the guy she left him for.

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The Rolling Stones – Bitch Lyrics 10 years ago
One of the best songs to mention Pavlov's dogs, along with "Brian Wilson" by the Barenaked Ladies.

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Plumtree – Hey! Whiskers! Lyrics 10 years ago
"Yes, Amanda’s singing to a cat in 'Hey Whiskers.'" -Carla Gillis from Plumtree

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Plumtree – Depp Lyrics 10 years ago
"'Depp' is about Johnny Depp." -Carla Gillis from Plumtree

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Mac DeMarco – Young Blood Lyrics 10 years ago
According to DeMarco, this song is based on Youngblood, a 1986 film about hockey starring Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe.

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Mccarthy Trenching – Mormon Girl Blues Lyrics 11 years ago
"Let me be your little god until your big God comes" is a play on the lyric "Let me be your little dog until your big dog comes" from Carl Perkins' song "Matchbox."

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The Presidents of the United States of America – Fuck California Lyrics 11 years ago
It's spelled "Eureka" and pronounced "you-REE-kuh."

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Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense and Peppermints Lyrics 11 years ago
The song's writers were John S. Carter, Tim Gilbert, Mark Weitz, and Ed King. Strawberry Alarm Clock were a typical psychedelic pop band who were much more interested in promoting the "higher consciousness/psychedelic movement" than satirizing it, and this song's lyrics should be taken as straight psychedelia.

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The Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter And The Monkey Man Lyrics 11 years ago
Besides all the Springsteen references, I've noticed that chorus is remarkably similar to that of "Crumblin' Down" by John Cougar Mellencamp.

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Dead Kennedys – I Am The Owl Lyrics 11 years ago
The live version of this song on the Rat Music for Rat People compilation begins with a spoken intro from Jello: "Remember Watergate? Watergate is legal now! President Reagan said so when he signed on the dotted line!"
Therefore this song is not just about Watergate but all of the other government wiretappings throughout America's history, which were (and still are) going on ("we still play our little games"), and most of which did not receive legal action. "I hear when you're drinking and cheating on your lovely wife" might be a reference to the FBI's 1963 wiretapping and blackmail of Martin Luther King, though obviously there have been many other instances of this happening.

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Green Jelly – trippin' on xtc Lyrics 11 years ago
This is a style parody of early Red Hot Chili Peppers. They could have made this a bonus track on What Hits!? and nobody would have noticed it wasn't RHCP.

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They Might Be Giants – Hide Away Folk Family Lyrics 11 years ago
The melody of this song sounds suspiciously similar to the Scottish folk song "Loch Lomond" ("you take the high road and I'll take the low road and I'll get to Scotland before ye").

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Mike Doughty – Move On Lyrics 11 years ago
This song contains all of the negative sentiment that Doughty had toward the first term of George W. Bush as well as all of the hope that he had for the 2004 election. What sound to merely be silly nonsense syllables are really repetitions of "dumb" (an adequate adjective for Bush and his policies) combined with "bay" as in "Guantanamo Bay."

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Voltaire – Coin Operated Goi Lyrics 11 years ago
Jewish-themed parody of "Coin Operated Boy" by the Dresden Dolls

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Radiohead – Lurgee Lyrics 11 years ago
Everyone who hates on Pablo Honey should listen to this song, it's the best on the album (and I'm not just partial to it because of my name).

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The Undertones – Get Over You Lyrics 11 years ago
Actually it's "dressed like that, you must be living in another world." Thankfully, this song has nothing to do with Margaret Thatcher.

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Wax Fang – Majestic Lyrics 11 years ago
loved this song on American Dad.

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Frank Zappa – San Ber'dino Lyrics 11 years ago
Mohave: Mohave Desert
Palomino: Palomino Club, a nightclub in Los Angeles which hosted many country and rock bands
San Ber'dino: San Bernardino County Jail in San Bernardino, California
Fontana: a city in San Bernardino County
Redlands: another city in San Bernardino County
Zulch Auto Works: a car repair company in San Bernardino

Sorry if this isn't as interesting as you hoped (San Bernardino is in the middle of nowhere). What's more interesting is that the song is loosely based on a real life incident. It's about a six month (not thirty days) jail sentence Frank Zappa received in San Bernardino County Jail for supposedly making pornography tapes (which were fake). I know that this is also one of Weird Al Yankovic's favorite Frank Zappa songs and I have audio of him playing it on his radio show in college.

I wish I knew where the potato head jokes come from (probably Mr. Potato Head), but Potato Head Bobby is a character in several other Frank Zappa songs.

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Nirvana – Stay Away Lyrics 11 years ago
The official liner notes to this song (only found in the "Lithium" single) say that the final line are "God is gay, burn the flag." However, "burn the flag" is clearly not an audible lyric in this song.

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They Might Be Giants – Rhythm Section Want Ad Lyrics 11 years ago
The accordion solo in this song is Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse."

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Beastie Boys – Twenty Questions Lyrics 11 years ago
Such a gentle, philosophical song for the Beastie Boys. I believe that this song samples "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard" by Paul Simon.

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Deadeye Dick – New Age Girl Lyrics 11 years ago
This song samples "Fight Like a Brave" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, or at the very least is closely inspired by it. Listen to the first 10 seconds of both songs, and you'll notice a distinct similarity.

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Damaskas – Asteroids Lyrics 11 years ago
Parody of "Mongoloid" by Devo.

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Violent Femmes – I Swear It (I Can Change) Lyrics 11 years ago
From the South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut OST.

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