Unexpected Albums To Smirk To

[Bluebeard]

I was walking into work today, and decided to put on Tubular Bells. Hadn't listened to it in ages. I'm arriving at work at the very end of it and I find myself smirking like a fool. The enthusiasm in the first track ("two slightly...disTORTed guitars.... MANdoLIN!") and then the folk music of the second, the ridiculous growling and ending with a hornpipe - what is not to smirk about!

Any other suggestions of good albums to listen to which amuse as much as impress?

[Wolfie]

I was walking into work today, and decided to put on Tubular Bells. Hadn't listened to it in ages. I'm arriving at work at the very end of it and I find myself smirking like a fool. The enthusiasm in the first track ("two slightly...disTORTed guitars.... MANdoLIN!") and then the folk music of the second, the ridiculous growling and ending with a hornpipe - what is not to smirk about!

Any other suggestions of good albums to listen to which amuse as much as impress?

Some of the sheer audacity of the playing and instrumentation on Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland".

For example the opening melody of "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp" involved a twinning of Electric Harpsichord with Wah Wah Guitar!!

Also a few songs by Supergrass feature some smirk inducing ad libs - "Never Done Nothing Like That Before", "Coffee in the Pot" and "Whiskey and Green Tea".

[gustavo]

not an album but a lyric from the Killers - Spaceman

you know that i was hoping,
that i could leave this star crossed world behind,
but when they cut me open,
i guess i changed my mind

always makes me chuckle

[stann]

Again, not a full album, but Delta Disco, the opener of Transglobal Underground's Rejoice Rejoice after the instr intro, always brings a smile.
"Egyptian pharoahs fell from the skies, fell from the skies and played the blues" :D

[kingdom hoop]

"Egyptian pharoahs fell from the skies, fell from the skies and played the blues" :D

I've smirked to that many a time alright, such imagination. Almost up there with the John Holt reggae offering "Beach Party" (included in my most recent mix) which has the delightful image of "One million girls in bikini on the beach, I say." The album it's off is generally good for smirks actually, with highlights being "Police in Helicopter" ("If you continue to burn up the herbs, we gonna burn down the cane fields.") and "Fat She Fat".

Best smirk to music I've had in a while came a few weeks ago as I was just about to walk into a new workplace on the first day. Completely inadvertent, but what more appropriate a song to guide me in than the classic Talking Heads tune "This Must Be The Place" - highly smirkful! :)

[Lev Yashin]

I get this with Semisonic's "feeling strangley fine" i remember listening to it alot wjhen it came out and then never listened to it again...recently it popped on while i was out jogging and i got that warm happy feeling inside;)...cracking little album with some great tunes!!! :D

[pineapple stu]

Got me a 50s compilation over the weekend, and Experiments With Mice by Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra was on it. Never heard of it before, but it immediately put this thread in mind. It's here on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNRvijahB4o). It's probably very witty, although I've no idea what any of the in-jokes are about!

Edit - I see he's Sir Johnny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dankworth) now, and still active.

[On The Ball]

"And i'm puking up all over your capri car bonnet"
Jamie T.Laugh at that everytime.

[superfrank]

I was listening to Republic of Loose earlier today and these are two (of many) of their lyrics which made me laugh for it's bizarreness:
"Ba mhaith liom pussy, ba mhaith liom booze ach stad all an caint sin, ba mhaith liom snooze."

"I bought some heroin and brought it to school, I don't know how I'm so unbelieveably cool."

[Pauro 76]

Really enjoying Arctic Monkey new album 'Humbug'. Some very witty lyrics, Cornerstone being a typical example, using pub names as part of the storyline...

[Battery Rover]

My first ever post in the music section.

Listening to some Eminem and heard The Warning.

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I laughed all the way through it

Be warned as all should know with Eminem it's NSFW