From: Martin Ling (martin@nodezero.org.uk)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 15:24:32 MDT
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:32:07AM -0700, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Amara Graps wrote:
>
> > Why are there not silly songs like that anymore?
> > Time for a revival of Tom Lehrer, me thinks..
>
> Agreed...Ray Stevens is occasionally amusing, but nothing
> compared to "Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park."
The musical style of Tom Lehrer is simply considered 'old',
unfortunately. Which is, of course, where Weird Al comes in.
> There are still occasional novelty songs that make it
> onto the radio. Lately "Ugly Girl" and "David Duchovny"
> come to mind.
The Windows 95 song, to the tune of the Stones' "Start Me Up", made it
onto UK radio. I heard that Microsoft were not pleased, too...
"It's Windows 95...
...it's sucking up my drive..."
Martin
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