Can you think of any unusual subjects that have been used for songs?

Question

There's millions of songs about love, cars, etc but a few interesting ones too.

Here's my 2 offferings to get things started.

What about Mack the knife? All about a serial killer

And even more obscure LA Run which was about a skateboard track!

Full points to the most weird or wacky.

Answer 1

The song "Fletchy's Revenge" by Barnes and Barnes is a song about .... fishheads! This has to be one of the weirdest songs I've ever heard. I remember seeing the video to this song as a kid back in the '80's.

Fish heads. By Barnes & Barnes
(Chorus and first verse)
Fish heads fish heads
Roly poly fish heads
fish heads fish heads
eat them up, yum!
Ask a fish head anything you want to
they wont answer they cant talk.
(chorus)
I took a fish head out to see a mooovie
didnt have to pay to get it in.
(chorus)
They don't play baseball
they don't wear sweaters
they're not good dancers
They dont play drums!!
(chorus)
Rolypoly fishheads are never seen drinking capachino in Italian restaurants
with oriental women!!!!!
Yeah!
Fish heads fish heads
roly poly fish heads
fish heads fish heads
eat them up Yum!
YEEAAHHHH!!!!!!

You can read more about the "novelty rock" duo Barnes and Barnes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_and_barnes

Answer 2

Werewolves Of London By Warren Zevon
Splish Splash By Bobby Darin
Macarthur Park( Is'nt This The One About Baking A Cake?)

Answer 3

Green Tambourine, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Mouldy old Dough, Auntie Griselda, Long -haired lover from Liverpool, Mr. Blobby, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Itsy Witsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Poker-Dot Bikini.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Satellite - Dave Matthews Band
Satellite in my eyes
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder.
Satellite strung from the moon
And the world your balloon
Peeping tom for the mother station

Winter's cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasing
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satellite

Satellite, headlines read
Someone's secrets you've seen
Eyes and ears have been
Satellite dish in my yard
Tell me more, tell me more
Who's the king of your satellite castle?

Rest high above the clouds no restrictions
Television you bounce from the world
And while I spend these hours
Five senses reeling
I laugh about this world in my satellite eyes.

Gotta love DMB - awesome songs, awesome lyrics.

>>>>>>>>>>Greg, that's "A Boy Named Sue" by Johnny Cash.

Answer 6

Video Killed The Radio Stars by Buggles

Answer 7

Damn it someone beat me to 'itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini' - brilliant

But what about 'i dont like Mondays' by the boomtown rats it was a true story about some wierd girl in america who went into school one day and shot a load of people and when they asked her why she did it, she said "coz i dont like mondays!" - NICE!!

And how about this for a wierd title - 'Lovestain' by Jose Gonzales - just conjures up funny thoughts in my head although its not actually a rude song

Answer 8

Kate Bush - Running up that hill (About selling your soul)

Tenacious D - Tribute (About Led Zeppelin's Stairway to heaven)

Answer 9

The Young Knives... one of the songs on their latest album is about tailors! They lyrics include:

"Tailors are the best
And Tailors get you dressed
Tailors are the best

Sewing
Sewing
Sewing
Sewing"

I'd say that's a pretty odd thing to produce music about...

Answer 10

Maxwell's Silver Hammer, by The Beatles, is about a serial killer.

Hurricane, by Bob Dylan, is about a man sentenced to imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit.

Seven Chinese Brothers, by R.E.M. is about, erm, seven supernatural brothers. From China.