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Originally posted by notaneel
They Might Be Giants - They'll Need A Crane....the music is as quirky and up beat as can be expected from TMBG...but the song is about a man whose life is ruined by alcoholism
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Absolutely! Most of TMBG is like that. "'Til my Head Falls Off" is way upbeat, but it's about a guy who feels like crap. "Twisting" is sounds like a 50's love song, but the Lyrics begin "She set your goldfish free, and now she's sighing. Blew out your pilot light, and made a wish," and get more violent from there. "Don't Let's Start" and "Everything Right is Wrong Again", song 1 and 2 on the very first album. Even their one Love song, "She Is an Angel" has this poderous Thump Thump Thump beat, and is mixed with menacing lyrics. Absolutely brilliant. One of the John's said something to the effect of "There is a thrread running through our music that is relentlessly dour."
Some more - the last two movements of Jethro Tull, A Passion Play, are about Lucifer and flight from lucifer, and they sound like a bloody calliope.
It always strikes me as odd when a classical poem is set to heavy metal - Iron Maiden's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" or Rush's - "Xanadu"
Of course, this is part of Weird Al's stock in trade. "One More Minute" sounds like a love song, but is really about the agony he would undergo to avoid ever again spending time with the girl. Making his parody of McArthur Park about "Jurassic Park", or All about the Benjamins into "All About the Pentiums" or Gangsta's Paradies into "Amish Paradise", and of course, playing a snippet of Marylin Manson's "The Dope Show" in one of his Polka medleys.
Two just awesome covers that are complete musical inversions of the original songs, to the point of irony - The Cardigans cover of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", and the Gourd's Bluegrass cover of Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice".