Top 100 Ironic Moments in Music

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100. "Someday We'll Be Together," the last single released by "Diana Ross and the Supremes," was actually sung by Diana Ross and studio backing singers.

99. All the events in the song "Ironic" are actually not that ironic. Which is ironic.

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

[i]99. All the events in the song "Ironic" are actually not that ironic. Which is ironic[/i]

maybe that was the point

― Tom White (lunaticgrass), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

what is this, "Reality Bites"?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

iminent bankrupcy of virgin records salvaged by "never MInd The Bullocks" all this leads to virgin cola.

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

anything involving the large quantity of punk records being put out by exactly the kind of enterpreneur hippy the punks were meant to hate works too.

― young sensation gruppe (young sensation gruppe), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Only one of the original Beach Boys (Dennis) could actually surf.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

98. Frank Sinatra eating Mr. T's brains out of Darth Vader's helmet on Who's the Boss

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

97. The Residents were all homeless at the time of their first record deal

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

99. All the events in the song "Ironic" are actually not that ironic. Which is ironic.

Ha! I never noticed that.

― Nigel (Nigel), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Actually, the verse that mentions someone scared of flying, who decides at an old age, to do it, and is reflecting "Well, isn't this nice" whileunknown to them, the plane actually is crashing.

That actually makes it to 'ironic'. Which really is ironic.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

96. Sun City Girls? They're dudes!

― Aaron A, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

95. Disco Inferno? They're post-rockers!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

94 - iminent bankrupcy of virgin records salvaged by "never MInd The Bullocks" all this leads to virgin cola

See also: EMI buying Virgin in the '90's

there's unlimited supply
and there is no reason why
i tell you it was all a frame
they only did it 'cos of fame
who?
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
too many people had the suss
too many people support us
an unlimited amount
too many outlets in and out
who?
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
and sir and friends are crucified
a day they wish that we had died
we are an addition we are rivaled by none
never ever never
and you thought that we were faking
that we were all just money making
you do not believe we're for real
or you would lose your cheap appeal?
oh don't you judge a book just by the cover
unless you cover just another
and blind acceptance is a sign
of stupid fools who stand in line
like
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
unlimited edition
with an unlimited supply
that was the only reason
we all had to say goodbye
unlimited supply e.m.i.
there is no reason why e.m.i.
i tell you it was all a frame e.m.i.
they only did it 'cos of fame e.m.i.
i do not need the pressure e.m.i.
i can't stand those useless fools e.m.i.
ulimited supply e.m.i.
hallo e.m.i. goodbye a & m

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

93 Trent ("I'd rather die than give you control") vs TVT

― Nick Holmes (nother), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

92. Mike Love is full of hate

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

91. Kurt Cobain committed suicide and GG Allin died of a heroin overdose.

― Pleasant Plains '94 (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

90.sonic youth are old

― french trolly, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

89. I Love Music has never actually had a thread on music, and instead prefers to discuss three-point turn techniques.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

"Sun City Girls? They're dudes!". OMG! I think I just wet myself!

― cnwb (cnwb), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:57 (twenty years ago)

88. Alex in NYC is actually from LA

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

87. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000063DFQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:07 (twenty years ago)

86. http://www.vinylmaniaque.com/pochettes1/iron-butterfly.jpg

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

85. Frank Beard was the only clean-shaven member of ZZ Top.
84. "Easy listening" music is impossible to listen to.
83.http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4959/lynyrdskynyrdstreetsurvivorsor.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 06:44 (twenty years ago)

82. Nirvana displaces Michael Jackson at the top of the Billboard charts.

(This might be #1, really)

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 09:13 (twenty years ago)

81. We've got a Fuzzbox and We're Going to Use It stopped using it pretty damn quickly

― Kim Tortoise, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

80. John Lennon - "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

79. Unknown Pleasures was described as music to top yourself to

― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

82. Nirvana displaces Michael Jackson at the top of the Billboard charts.
(This might be #1, really)

-- Brian O'Neill (e7jey4a0...), February 22nd, 2006.

are you american or something?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

81. The only straight member of Husker Du is the guy most folks would pick as the gay one from a line-up.

― cracktivity1 (cracktivity1), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

note band logo on front of plane ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Also, tell me what's ironic about Nirvana replacing Michael Jackson at the top of the Billboard charts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

80. http://www.foothillcougars.com/justforfun/classicrock/foghat/Rock%20&%20Roll%20Outlaws.jpg
note band logo on front of plane ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

*I really love irony*

Fuck off, that's sarcasm

― alanis morrissey, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

79. Gene Clark, member of the BYRDS & co-composer of a song (ostensibly) about flight ("Eight Miles High"), quits the band because of fear of flying.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

78. John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over"

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

77. MTV, as in Music Television, no longer programs music.
76. MTV2, the offshoot that programs music, no longer programs music.
75. VH1, as in Video Hits 1, rarely programs video hits, instead insisting on shitty countdown shows like the "Top 100 Post-Op Transexual Folk Singers," which then lead to shitty ILM threads like this one, where no one contributes.
74. VH1Classic is the best video channel (unless they're playing Sting)

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

All the events in the song "Ironic" are actually not that ironic. Which is ironic.

i sometimes amuse myself by singing "it's like ray-ee-ain on a rainy day..."

85. Frank Beard was the only clean-shaven member of ZZ Top.

well his chin was clean-shaven. he did have a stache.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

73. Limp Bizkit had a diatribe against "fakers" ("Counterfeit") on their debut.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

*I really love irony*

Fuck off, that's sarcasm

Sarcasm is verbal irony.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

It should be at the top, but I doubt this thread will stagger that far, so:

72. Miles Davis booked to open for the Steve Miller Band

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 23 February 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)

MAKE IT STOP

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:17 (twenty years ago)

thompson twins were 3 people and weren't twins.
nirvana were allowed to use the name of a 70's band .
we love boney m but hate milly vanili.

― retrogurl, Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=foghat+rock+and+roll+outlaws&meta=
james gang bang..mmm..
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1096705&style=music&cart=312405256

― retrogurl, Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:30 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead has a song called "Optimistic"

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

In response to erklie's "Miles Davis booked to open for the Steve Miller Band" --

How about Jimi Hendrix opening for The Monkees?

― Mark Clarke, Sunday, 26 February 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

or Prince opening for the Rolling Stones

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

71. John Lennon saying "shoot me" at the beginning of "Come Together".

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

maybe that should have been #69....

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

or Prince opening for the Rolling Stones
-- xgurggleglgllg

HOW ABOUT http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/irony

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

68(?) - Harry Nilsson was an exceptional songwriter and yet his two biggest personal hits were cover songs. And the most recognizable song he wrote (One) was made famous by another group.

― musically (musically), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

67. The B52s were all scared of flying.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

The cure go disbanded after each album

― antonio, Monday, 27 February 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

66. Rick Wakeman leaves Yes, complaining about the bloatedness of Tales from Topographic Oceans, to fully pursue his solo career. His next two solo albums: Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

65. "Who cares they're always changing/Corporation names" - line from "We Built This City", by Starship (formerly known as Jefferson Starship, who were formerly known as Jefferson Airplane)

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

64. Keith Moon - sitting on chair that says "Not to Be Taken Away" (cover of Who Are You)

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

63. "pavement" used to love "the fall" (and it shows in their music)
mark e.smith dont like pavement at all.(quoted in interviews).

― doc radr, Monday, 27 February 2006 06:37 (twenty years ago)

62. In 1988, when Pulp were still in the depths of obscurity, they played a gig at Mexborough Working Men's Club which featured an early Jarvis Cocker composition called 'Earth Song'. As part of the performance, while Cocker cried 'What about sunrise? What about rain?' he was joined onstage by a Rabbi and children representing the various Ridings of Yorkshire. The song was ruined by one drunken local named Jack Michaelson who climbed on stage, pointed at his arse, and trampled small children.

― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

January by Pilot reached number one in the first week of February.

― Ant, Monday, 27 February 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

61. Due to various genetic disorders and injuries, The Mamas and The Papas were all incapable of producing children.

60. T-Rex in fact not only were not dinosaurs, but they had never even met one!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Number 61, you want the other thread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

59. Brody Armstrong of the Distillers was arrested for bootlegging liquor in 1995. As part of the conditions of his parole, she was legally barred from ever owning an actual distillation device.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

58. The Strokes actually play their guitars with something more resembling a strumming motion. However, in 2002, Julian Casablancas was diagnosed with a mild aortic aneurysm which was successfully treated.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

57. Jesus Jones do not, in fact, jones for jesus. Actually, two members are Hindu, another two are worshippers of nordic gods, and the lead singer, and lead singer Mike Edwards actually engages in a form of animist phallus worship.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

56. ilm users are not as bored geeks as you might think:
they go out a lot, and have a successful and productive life.

― gerald the man, Monday, 27 February 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

when krist novoselic threw his bass guitar into the air at the 1991 mtv music video awards, it came back down and landed on his skull. mr. novoselic's accident opened a bleeding gash on his forehead and caused him to fall to the stage, unable to play the last few bars of nirvana's hit, "lithium."

this is ironic because eight years later he would be on mtv discussing his new job as a representative of the libertarian party, trying to sound smart, when in fact liberatarians are fucking morons, just like mr. novoselic.

― ath (ath), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

hi is a moron exactly because of that guitar falling on his head, which adds even more irony.

― frrrdddd, Monday, 27 February 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah and then high on the list of libertarians' priorities is REPEALING THE HELMET LAW, so there's more irony on top of that.

― ath (ath), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/Birdo90210/thOutkast1.gif

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

You misspelled "RLY".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

poor owl craning its neck (which is ironic because an OWL and CRANE are two different birds)

― ath (ath), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Only one of the original Beach Boys (Dennis) could actually surf.
Isn't he the one who drowned?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

55. The title character in "Boy Named Sue," turned out to be despite (and perhaps even because!) of his name, quite a tough cookie. Wow! Ironic!

54. In Eminem's Stan, he writes to help his fan, but even as he is writing, he realizes that the fan has already killed himself and his wife. Oh no! Ironic!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Should the KLF be all over this thread like a cheap suit? Maybe something about how they were going to ritually sacrifice a sheep at the Brit Awards but were talked out of it by Extreme Noise Terror?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

53. "teenage fanclub" don't have any teenage fanclub of their own.
if they have any fan club - it would probably be "oldage fanclub".

― sure it is right, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

i know it really makes no difference, but nirvana performed at the 92 vma's.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Miles Davis booked to open for the Steve Miller Band
---erklie
In response to erklie's "Miles Davis booked to open for the Steve Miller Band" --
How about Jimi Hendrix opening for The Monkees?
-- Mark Clarke
or Prince opening for the Rolling Stones
-- xgurggleglgllg
HOW ABOUT http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/irony

-- Whiney G. Weingarten (christopher...), February 26th, 2006.

WTF? Expectation vs. reality, hello? You don't expect maybe the greatest musician of the century to play second-fiddle to a hack.

― erklie (erklie), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

52. Spade Cooley celebrates the ménage à trois in his song 'Three Way Boogie'

― You open your face and all that comes out is garbage. (Old Lunch), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:50 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

53. The opening line to Pat Boone's 'Words': "Words are easy to be spoken"

― Skin Boherts (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:27 (ten years ago)

Or 51. Whatever.

― Skin Boherts (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:28 (ten years ago)

50. "Sorry seems to be the hardest word" but he says it quite easily in the song.

― Mark G, Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:31 (ten years ago)

49. You'd never believe it, but the members of Britpop legends Pulp all prefer no pulp orange juice!

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 8 October 2015 15:39 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

48.
Some of them try to rhyme but they can't rhyme like this
Some of them try to rhyme but they can't rhyme like this
Some of them try to rhyme but they can't rhyme like this
Some of them try to rhyme but they can't

― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 November 2016 13:59 (nine years ago)

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