What is THE funnest song ever?

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What song says FUN better than any other? What never fails to bring a smile? What makes it so? Lyrics?/Bassline?/Tempo?

No need to pose as hip -

Nominate & Vote -

(And it better not turn out to be a Kool & the Gang song...)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I nominate The Scaffold's "Lily The Pink".

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Men's Recovery Project - Slap on Some Pants

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Groove Is in the muthafuckin' Heart!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I was leaning more towards "Another one Bites the Dust" (Over "These Are Good Times" because the lyrics aren't quite as dumb) or "Waterloo" or "Love Rollercoaster"

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Too many too choose from on 69 Love Songs. The whole thing is so camp its wonderful.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Nevermind, Sex Dwarf is making me laugh. Its so stupid but great at the same moment. I don't know if I should break out laughing or shake my butt.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" By Louis Jordan, that one never fails to cheer me up.

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Party at Ground Zero"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"You Sexy Thing" makes me smile every time. I love that song.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rubber Biscuit" by the Chips.

Or any of the Go-Go's hits.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Roam" by the B52s, because I smile just thinking about it.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Get Around"

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Wolly Bully" is the funnest song to sing.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

When Summer Comes (I'm Gonna Hustle You) by Jan and Dean.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I nominate "Disc O' Nostalgia" by Joseph Nothing.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Edward Barton (whatever happened to?!?!?) - "I've Got No Chicken But I've Got Five Wooden Chairs"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

'i love you but you're boring' - the beautiful south.
genuinely, brilliantly funny.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

whitehouse-"tit pulp"
queen-"bohemian rhapsody"

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The Weather Girls - "It's Raining Men"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Louie Loooayyyyyyyy! OHHHHHHHH YEAHH, BABY, MEEE GOTTA GIRL! YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

ah. i thought u said 'funniest'.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"Throw Away the Trash" by Kids of Widney High. runner up goes to
"Sing a Simple Song" by Sly and the Family Stone

― Rem Lezar, Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Plastic Bertrand's "Ca Plane Pour Moi." It never fails to make me smile. After that, probably Bad Brains' "Pay to Cum," which somehow always makes me think of the Banana Spilts. Must be the cowbell.

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Evan is right.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The Time Warp.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Roam" is a very good choice; I just got a little more cheerful thinking about it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Kites are Fun" by the Free Design

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Buzzard Luck~Swamp Dogg
..the Louis Jordan is otm

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

most fun.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Louis Jordan's "Beans & Cornbread"

Puffy Amiyumi's "Atarashii Hibi (Brand New Days)"

OR!

Weezer -- "Sex Wax America"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"most fun" didn't sound right. It wasn't fun enough.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 19 June 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah you're probably right, let's all get fucked up and listen to Louie Louie

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Quiet Whiskey" by Wynonie Harris or "Soup on a Stick" by Brak

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Electric Slide"

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

funnerest

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I also have a fun time whilst listening to Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head", esp. paired up with the accompanying video.

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

louie louie is a great contender
beat happening - midnight a go go (for dancing in boxer shorts)

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Go-Go's - "Head Over Heels"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

'The Humpty Dance'

'hey yo fat girl c'mere are ya ticklish yeh i called you fat look at me i'm skinny'

case closed

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

'Humpty Dance' also has possibly the best bassline in history

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 June 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Ellis Orchestra - Turkish Bath

catchy, somewhat odd stuff.... you sit there, enjoying it alright, having a good time
Then out of absolutely nowhere, comes this choir of flutes that are one quartertone too high or low, and it sounds absolutely fucking HORRIBLE, yet in the best possible way ever!
It almost always makes me laugh, as I don't listen to it often enough to remember just how frigging jarring the thing is.

Ellis has a four-valve trumpet for more quartertone bunning on that album too, but that's by far the most earkilling section on "Electric bath"

Other than that, lately Maxine Nightingale's "Right back where we started from" (the song that's practically the theme to Slap Stick) has put many a big smile on my face.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

YMCA obviously

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

In the way of conventional comedy songs, Adam Sandler's
"Piece Of Shit Car" usually has me in hysterics. It probably
works better when if you've owned truly crappy cars, in which
case you know that no amount of obscenity is gratuitous.

Monty Python deserve a mention here. "I Like Chinese,"
especially, usually has me in stitches.

Weird Al is often painfully unfunny, but when he sounds
angry or mean-spirited the results can be hilarious. "I
Remember Larry" and "The Good Old Days" are his two best songs
in this mode.

― squirl plise, Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee Scratch Perry/ Bullwackie - "Dog Walk Skanking"

(funny - AMG asserts it's "Bog Walk Skanking"!? my copy of Satan's Dub got lost quite long ago, cannot check...)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 19 June 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the spice girls - wannabe. dan regan's answer is good. plus anything by t rex.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

the yummy fur - police man ("oh police man/i was in your house last night/snortin' cocaine off the stomach of your girlfriend")

― arne, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Bang A Gong by the immortal T-Rex.

(In fact, this song is what made me notice them, in the first place....plus Bolan looked yummy, at the time.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

nichole gets it.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

prince -- "bob george" ("i'll slap yo ass into the middle of next week" and "prince, that skinny motherfucker with the high voice?!?")

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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Tighten up by Archie Bell and the Drells. The bassline is undeniably and the call outs rule: "Tighten up on those drums. .. "

Yes but Sam you must realize that "Japanese Gentleman! Prease Stand Up!!!" is even better, and that version comes in two parts (I will send you a mix with the YMO version on it one day, whenever I get a new computer)

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

And it better not turn out to be a Kool & the Gang song...

what, are you immune to the simple joy that is "fresh"? do you hate fun?

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Tad wins for "Rico Suave" but also "Stand & Deliver", "Mambo #5" and "Rockaway Beach" are honorable mentions.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i have seen the light ... "rico suave" indeed rules!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuckin' gross

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yer just jealous of gerardo's abs of steel. and that he gets some spanish home cookin'!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Tie between Prince's "1999" and Foetus's "Wash It All Off"...

(SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICSADOMASOCHISM! *whip* OW!)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 20 June 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead or Alive - "You Spin Me Round"

― Michael Dubsky, Friday, 20 June 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

or maybe Toni Basil - "Mickey"

― Michael Dubsky, Friday, 20 June 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Lazy Sunday~Small Faces

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 20 June 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

En Vogue's "never gonna get it"
Not only do they prepare you for the breakdown by announcing its arrival, BUT IT STILL FLOORS YOU EVERY TIME.
"Love Shack" always gets me moving too

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 20 June 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"How do you do? My name is Sue! Now you gon' DIE!!!"

"A Boy Named Sue," Johnny Cash, written by Shel Silverstein. The actual working definition of fun.

― Neudonym, Friday, 20 June 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry fucked that up lyricwise: "My name is Sue / How do you do / Now you gonna die! Yeah!" (all the lyrical pedants in the house say Yeah)

― Neudonym, Friday, 20 June 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Soul Bossanova" by Quincy Jones activates the ants in my pants. It's both irritating and utterly irresistable. And after Austin Powers, I defy anyone to say that shit ain't both fun and funny as hell.

― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 20 June 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"hobo humpin slobo babe" by whale

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 June 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah Blount OTM but most of the songs from We Care will do (except the one where she narrates her own bloody death in a car accident as well as the deaths of all the other victims and the angels call her home, that's not "fun" except maybe to J.G. Ballard)

― Neudonym, Friday, 20 June 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno, i think that jg ballard inspired at least 2 other legitimately fun songs -- "warm leatherette" and "cars"!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 20 June 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Escape Club, "Wild, Wild West"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Escape Club - "Shake for the Sheik"

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe"! Holy shit, I forgot that song existed.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually saw those characters live. Opening for Blur of all things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, I wish I had. I looooooved that album.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Lyrically, The Would Be Goods' The Camera Loves Me album takes some beating imo.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

"Soul Pad" by the Coasters.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Though right now "Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn (Pts. 1 & 2)" by JB is way up there.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna say the Baby Elephant Walk, by Mancini, just like I did in the 'song to cheer you up' thread. It's great! Do a little dance to it and you'll feel great.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Something by the B-52s, "Rock Lobster" or maybe (my favourite!) "Strobe Light"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Newcleus' "Jam On It." Circa, what, 1983? Wiki-wiki-wiki! Jam-ja-ja-ja-ja-jam OWN it!

Also, Stiff Little Fingers' "Suspect Device" and "Alternative Ulster" both cause me to punch the air enthusiastically, every time.

And speaking of punk/pop, it would be inexcusable not to mention Blondie's cover of "Hangin' On The Telephone." (Has anyone heard the Nerves' original? Is it as good?)

― snazz, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit - Gina G.
All Out Of Luck - Selma.
Club "Kung Fu" - Vanilla Ninja.
Wir Geben 'ne Party - Mekado.
Le Papa Pinguoin - Sophie et Magaly.

Y'see, this is why I love Eurovision.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Acid Song by Loudon Wainwright III

― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Good Times by Chic - irresistably smile-inducing and makes me wanna boogie, so it must be special.

― Braces Tower, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"River Deep Mountain High" - Deep Purple

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OOOOOOPS! I thought it read "funniest"!

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

"Kites are Fun" by the Free Design
― cybele (cybele), Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OMG I just heard this for the first time a month ago and I love everything about it. love the harmonies

― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 October 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago)

move your feet by junior senior

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago)

"Paralyzed" by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy. Especially the version where he does the "Howdy! I'm the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. Speakin' for Bugles. Good old Stardust Bugles." intro.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago)

The Coasters' "Yakkety Yak"

― Mark G, Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago)

The shaggs - my pal foot foot

― Moka, Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago)

magnetic fields - "lonely highway"

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago)

Trashmen - "Surfin' Bird"

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GizTr6QLfc

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago)

The Barracudas - Summer Fun

― MarkoP, Friday, 25 October 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIcj6bhiYoQ

― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Friday, 25 October 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago)

There is no song that has ever made me as happy as 'Wot' by Captain Sensible. If I am despondent and inconsolable, and you want to help, tie me to a chair and play 'Wot' 2 or 3 times. I will recover.

― Shrimp Purse (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, 25 October 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago)

Got Your Money

― Siegbran, Saturday, 26 October 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago)

there are so many rolling stones song that are idiotically fun to sing along with in the car. the more grotesque mick's patois is, the better. take for example "dead flowers"

― (emphasis Treeship's) (Treeship), Saturday, 26 October 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Oqo_2ddq4

― Congress Poland (nakhchivan), Saturday, 26 October 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago)

I think I read the title as 'funniest song ever' before I posted that Jake Thackray video? But I think the song is fun as well, so it's OK I suppose.
'Hello Again' by the Cars would be another contender, particularly this bit (copy and pasted from lyricsfreak):

Oh when there's nothin'
Nothin' left to lose
You leave it all
To fade to blue-ue, eah, yeah
[garbled chipmunks]

― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quich (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago)

Oh, actually I might go for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2v5cejAIzo

― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quich (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago)

Bootsy Collins - Munchies For Your Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVYwZ1hgNiU

― Mordy , Saturday, 26 October 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago)

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