Asklemmy

Pirate Metal!

What does the fox say?

(Uhee ahee ahee)

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.

Never Gonna Give You Up

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.

BxMxC by baby metal. That shit goes hard.

I will still champion “That’s Not My Name” by Ting Tings. It’s a well-crafted pop song that most people miss the “subtlety” (for lack of a better word) of the message. It’s about a woman wanting to be social, but hating all of the poor flirtation in the pick-up scene.

And I never knew it until I had it on an exercise mix and was able to hyper focus on it while trying to zone out in my cadence run. It usually just glossed by as a chippy beat.

Who listens to music ironically?

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.

Return of the Mac by Mark Morrison

Never gonna give you up is a great song actually

Started listening to Buddy Holly by Weezer ironically for the meme edits some months ago, now Weezer is my favourite band.

Christmas Pain in Christmas Town by Chowder Man.

If you haven’t played Hypnospace Outlaw yet, I highly recommend it.

"Listening to a song ironically"? Who is doing that? And why?

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!!)

FCK 2020, Scooter

Nothing better than this song to get you motivated

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.

Zu - Soulympics

Kept as an example of unenjoyable music, came to enjoy it.

Probably Agenda Suicide by The Faint, because the music belies the dark hopelessness of people working office jobs hoping to achieve the American dream

https://youtu.be/xv8mJfDPxuA

Power Francers - Pompo nelle Casse

It's a very stupid song with lyrics that make no sense and are kinda hedonistic, and I hated it when it came out in 2010 because I felt that it somehow "promoted" that lifestyle, but it eventually grew on me and it brings me back to simpler times, now I get the irony of that song.

Grouplove - Ways To Go

I remember playing it as a joke to my friends as this "weird video with young Kim Jong Un". Ended up being one of my most favorite songs ever

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.

The Flute Tune

It started as a joke video and now its part of my workout playlist.

Because of Fallout New Vegas I got into songs about that like "Blue shadows on the trail" by Roy Rogers and that's like era of cowboy music that fits the theme if that aesthetic, even have a playlist for it, when I Play DayZ

I grew up on hip-hop never thought I'd be hearing this