Entertainment For Lively Minds
Bands that don't/didn't take themselves seriously?
Posted by greenguitarstar on 7 May 2009 - 10:08am.
How about The Darkness? Surely that wasn't serious, was it?
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Iron Maiden
I think they take themselves VERY seriously.....
Maybe not so much in later years but early Dickinson and Blaze Bayley were very po-faced.
If anything it's the recent
Dickinson albums that take themselves a smidgen more seriously than before. Number Of The Beast is comedy song.
The Darkness
I think that's what capsized them (apart from the singer's cocaine despot proclivities) - post-Brit Awards they began to take themselves very seriously. The general public didn't agree, walked out and turned off the light.
Primadonnas!
I would suggest that Justin Hawkins' current band Hot Leg, who have songs called Chickens, Gay In The 80s, I've Met Jesus and Trojan Guitar, don't take themselves terribly seriously
Ooh, I don't know
Some of the titles on that second album didn't really yearn for serious consideration, did they?
Bald
Knockers
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
the title track
I think the vast quantities of charlie may, as you rightly pointed out, had far more to do with them disappearing down the kludgie.
Goldie Lookin' Chain
Blink 182
I might be the only person
in the UK who still finds the GLC funny
No, you're not
Out for dinner the other night I said the same thing, and mentioned that I'd had 'Your Mother's Got a Penis' on repeat play on the walk to work the day before. Cue half the people at the table saying that they thought they were the last GLC fans left in the wild. We would have started rapping, but it was too sedate a restaurant.
Missus Is A Nutter
was the soundtrack to my honeymoon a few years ago.
Still love that track!
"Inapwopwiate"?
I was mooted as "chaperone" for then-teenage daughter & friends to see GLC locally a while back. Was looking forward to it, though strongly suspected I'd be the only forty-something male there.
Sadly they decided against going.
Tom Waits?
(or in the words of the song, Tom Waits for no-one)
(B*b D****n)
you're just stirring it!
careful now, or all our new friends will join in and castigate you.
Lots of DJs don't take themselves too seriously
They just want to create a party atmosphere. People like Kissy Sellout, Shitmatt, Mr Scruff etc all play on some element of silliness in their sets, and I think people find this sort of thing more acceptable with a DJ than a band.
Saying that though, any artist in the public eye has to take themselves seriously to some degree - as you don't succeed in the music industry unless you have some sort of serious drive or ambition.
Steel Panther
as Recommended by Fraser
Tenacious D
Or do they count as being more comedy than music?
Status Quo...
I reckon so.
Pop Will
Eat Itself
Gaye Bykers on Acid
and on occasion RevCo
The Faces
always seemed to think that having a good time was far more important.
The Eagles of Death Metal
.
Electric 6
.
Morrissey
I've always thought that people don't see that his songs are humorous. Yes, he's a pompous twat sometimes (and I love him) He may now reside in LA but he's still got that unique Manc-I'll square-up-to-you-cheeky-arrogance.
By the way, on his latest album, what's that line about welfare housing? Surely he's British and it's council houses. Is he trying to eye up the US market?
The Sultans Of Ping FC
Where's Me Jumper?!
Where's Me Jumper?!
Glad you brought this up
My brother bought his first album on iTunes a few days ago. And it wasn't even a cheap one. £8 for a 256kbps AAC download. Madness. There was a logic to his madness though as he wanted to hear this band again since he used to listen to them all the time in the early 90's (pirate cassette copied from a library loan).
The tape has been lost and he doesn't have a tape deck anyway.
He went looking for them but the cheapest CD was £15 on Amazon. No other download store sold them so if he wanted it at a decent price he had to get it through iTunes. So he did.
He liked it. I was disappointed. The lyrics are basically just the title of the song repeated with maybe the odd alternative line.
U2
A lot of people miss the comedic side to their music.
Well...
their last few records have certainly been a joke.
Arf arf arf
and arf again. Well put Mr C
The Two Johns
that make up They Might be Giants are certainly great songwriters but with severe lack of seriousosity. Although the humour often hides serious subject matter (They'll Need A Crane\ End Of the Tour etc)
Steely Dan?