When Music Was Fun

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While reading through the "Why So Many Home Songs Suck" thread I came across the Defibrillator cove of "Lime in the Coconut" and it caused me to wonder where the fun in music has gone. By the way gecko zzed, great video, I loved it. I am so tired of all the hateful, sad, melancholy, and cerebral songs that people are writing and recording.

So here is a bit of a challenge. How many of you can write, record and post or post songs you have already done, songs that are just plane fun? Remember fun and songs like "In the Summertime", "Amos Moses", "Crocodile Rock" etc. etc.
 
Gosh, thanks, Illsidgus. I'm pleased you liked it!

The defibrillators always have fun, because that it is the whole point. We have no aspirations for commercial success, but we do enjoy the sense of achievement that comes with putting together something halfway reasonable!
 
Illsidgus said:
While reading through the "Why So Many Home Songs Suck" thread I came across the Defibrillator cove of "Lime in the Coconut" and it caused me to wonder where the fun in music has gone. By the way gecko zzed, great video, I loved it. I am so tired of all the hateful, sad, melancholy, and cerebral songs that people are writing and recording.

So here is a bit of a challenge. How many of you can write, record and post or post songs you have already done, songs that are just plane fun? Remember fun and songs like "In the Summertime", "Amos Moses", "Crocodile Rock" etc. etc.
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All of my songs are fun. Fun for me. :)
 
Greg_L said:
All of my songs are fun. Fun for me. :)
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That is important, very important. Don't get me wrong, all types of songs are important, even the ones I said I was getting tired of hearing. I just like to hear a song now and then that makes me smile. Roger Miller songs are good for a smile and I just love the Smothers Brothers.
 
Illsidgus said:
That is important, very important. Don't get me wrong, all types of songs are important, even the ones I said I was getting tired of hearing. I just like to hear a song now and then that makes me smile. Roger Miller songs are good for a smile and I just love the Smothers Brothers.
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I write a lot of satirical songs that poke fun at various things, and people, including myself. Often they're crude or offensive, but I don't care. I think some of them are funny.
 
I think most of my stuff is pretty dark

Just finished a tune with Industrial Okie about viruses, and have one on the go about god and plagues


Otherwise Im pretty happy :D
 
Greg_L said:
I write a lot of satirical songs that poke fun at various things, and people, including myself. Often they're crude or offensive, but I don't care. I think some of them are funny.
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I have to give a nod to Vaginasaurus Rex, after all, my name is Rex. :thumbs up: Also I just love your treatment of the Munsters theme song, it makes me smile. :p
 
kcearl said:
I think most of my stuff is pretty dark

Just finished a tune with Industrial Okie about viruses, and have one on the go about god and plagues


Otherwise Im pretty happy :D
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I think a dubsteppy doomladen version of the Beach Boys' "Fun Fun Fun" should be on your list of projects kc... there's no-one else we can trust to do it right...:thumbs up:

OP - Some of us just don't write many "fun" songs... if I never hear Crocodile Rock again it'll be too soon. On the rare occasion I reach for Elton John it would probably be something like "Tonight" from Blue Moves, which has real melodic depth and drama and angst, rather than his poppy confections from the early 70s.

I don't mind fun / funny tunes, they're just not what I do personally most of the time... and it doesn't mean that I don't find the process of songwriting and recording "fun" although that's not the exact word I'd use, perhaps..

Monster Mash, anyone? :guitar:
 
Armistice said:
I think a dubsteppy doomladen version of the Beach Boys' "Fun Fun Fun" should be on your list of projects kc... there's no-one else we can trust to do it right...:thumbs up:

OP - Some of us just don't write many "fun" songs... if I never hear Crocodile Rock again it'll be too soon. On the rare occasion I reach for Elton John it would probably be something like "Tonight" from Blue Moves, which has real melodic depth and drama and angst, rather than his poppy confections from the early 70s.

I don't mind fun / funny tunes, they're just not what I do personally most of the time... and it doesn't mean that I don't find the process of songwriting and recording "fun" although that's not the exact word I'd use, perhaps..

Monster Mash, anyone? :guitar:
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I really like "Tonight", I still have "Blue Moves" on vinyl. I don' think I have ever written a fun song myself...well maybe one or two but they were instrumentals. I am not saying that any of you should stop writing the kind of songs you write, I just want something to make me smile and music is one of the things that can do that. For instance, even though I'm a Yank, I follow Britain's Got Talent. Jenny Cutler's rendition of "No Regrets" in the 2010 season makes me smile from ear to ear every time I watch that video clip, what a great performance for an 80 year old great grandmother.

A project I have been thinking about is doing covers of five or six bubblegum songs from the 60s. Why you may ask? Because some of them where just plane fun. :guitar:
 
Illsidgus said:
"In the Summertime", "Crocodile Rock" etc. etc.
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I know everyone hears music differently and I would never disparage anyone else's personal taste.....buuuuuuut those two songs send me scrambling to change the station every time. Heard back-to-back, they might even ruin my day. :)
 
fat_fleet said:
I know everyone hears music differently and I would never disparage anyone else's personal taste.....buuuuuuut those two songs send me scrambling to change the station every time. Heard back-to-back, they might even ruin my day. :)
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LOL. I have the feeling that watching Elton perform "Crocodile Rock" with the Muppets would give you a stroke. Maybe those weren't the best examples, I also think "Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Group is a fun song and puts a smile on my face. I am just saying that everyone has at least one song that makes them smile, that for them is fun whatever the genre, time period, etc.
 
Elton John music is about as fun as a pineapple shaped suppository.
 
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