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As the only person on the road cruising in to work today I had Procol Harum's Broken Barricades turned up to 11 in the car. Now long time since I last listened to this album and looked down to check the name of the current song. It was Playmate of the Mouth.

 

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Lead me to the thought that in my yoof from Frank Zappa on "We Are Only In It For The Money" there were a lot of witty, wry and play on words or phrases, Song and Album titles.

 

So why, and when, did this stop?

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As straight humour I guess that updates songs like this

 

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But what I was thinking of was more along the lines of "Too Stuffed to Jump"

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Or

 

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There are many more, just can't recall them ATM.

 

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Did it stop? Off the top of my head there"s Bruce Hornsby"s 'Rehab Reunion' and Chris Thile"s 'If You"re Gonna Leave Me (Set Me Up With One of Your Friends).' Many of Thile"s songs of the week for Live From Here are pretty witty - he tends to switch between funny and earnest.

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TISM also did "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me":

 

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I"d have to say that this is probably my favorite song about venerial disease.

 

 

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The fact there's a Highway To Hell and only a Stairway To Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers

 

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The fact there's a Highway To Hell and only a Stairway To Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers

 

People only say "It's a free country" when they're doing something shitty-Demetri Martin

 

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Almost every album and song by these guys. This is an LL Cool J cover (he's in the video) but their originals are in a similar vein:

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As the only person on the road cruising in to work today I had Procol Harum's Broken Barricades turned up to 11 in the car. Now long time since I last listened to this album and looked down to check the name of the current song. It was Playmate of the Mouth.

 

Lead me to the thought that in my yoof from Frank Zappa on "We Are Only In It For The Money" there were a lot of witty, wry and play on words or phrases, Song and Album titles.

 

So why, and when, did this stop?

And I thought I was the only person who ever bought this album. Great tune. Broken Barricades is a big favorite, :like:

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