Songs to make you smile

Jake & Moss Pit

Editor’s note: 2 DJs and a Boombox is exactly that. Jake, a former DJ at Campustown bars, and Moss Pit, a local mobile music DJ, play a few tunes for each other and let their thoughts flow.

Jake and Moss Pit: One, two, three …

MP: Scissors win it again.

All right, this week, we’re doing funny songs to make you smile during finals week.

“Detachable Penis”

King Missile

MP: This is a tune I discovered as a DJ at KURE. I started playing it …

J: Doh!

(Boombox eats tape.)

J: Our trusty boombox has let us down.

MP: Luckily, I brought a back up …

“Lunchlady Land”

Adam Sandler

MP: You can always trust Adam Sandler. This is my favorite brand of humor, where you listen to it and go, “Oh yeah, that is so true.” Lunchladies are an interesting breed.

J: I love the way he takes the Axl Rose approach to “Sloppy joes, sloppy, sloppy joes.” He fashions this song after a real type of music — the power ballad.

MP: Did I hear someone cover this at People’s?

J: Dazy Head Mazy. Jason Anderson, the bass player, while they were waiting for Tone Loc to come up, grabbed his guitar and did this. Boner helped out with it one time at Seventh Street Entry in Minneapolis and started playing keyboards. Pretty soon, it was like a jam session on “Lunchlady Land.” Pretty humorous.

MP: It sucks, Sandler’s other two discs were pretty disappointing.

J: This one is by far the funniest. I watched “Saturday Night Live” over Easter weekend — I was actually in on a Saturday night — and it’s just not funny anymore. But there is one guy who plays guitar and sings, and it was kind of reminiscent of when Sandler did the news.

He was so funny with “Red Hooded Sweatshirt” and “Opera Man.”

MP: “Hoagies and grinders.”

J: It’s hilarious to hear that high falsetto voice singing “Navy beans, navy beans.”

MP: Those are total words you would see on the hot food calendar they sent home every month.

J: And on the 30th of every month it was cook’s choice/baker’s choice. Even the avid hot lunch eaters would bring a bag lunch on cook’s choice.

“I’m The Man”

Anthrax

J: I got turned on to this song by one of my cross country buddies in high school and it kind of became my namesake so to speak, well, my e-mail name, when I was a cocky freshman.

It’s hilarious because they sing regular verses and then just stop and fill in the last word with something you wouldn’t expect. And the entire time, they’re talking about their drummer Charlie and how he messes up all the time.

MP: Classic Anthrax sound.

J: What’s wild is there is a clean version, then a raw version and a live version and they all build from the previous one.

MP: I like the Beastie Boys take on the verses — throwing out words where they don’t belong.

J: This song and when they did “Bring The Noise” with Public Enemy are the only two Anthrax songs I’ve listened to. But, I like both of them. That’s why I’m quitting, ’cause I’m batting 1.000 with Anthrax.

“I Wish I Was Queer, So I Could Get Chicks”

Bloodhound Gang

MP: There’s definitely some Anthrax influence in this band. Except everything they do is funny.

It’s comical because it’s so true. If you’ve ever been out on a date and had the girl comment on how some gay guy is so hot …

J: Or how they are such good friends and how they can comfort them. This is a funny take on it, too. I still get a kick out of their first song, how they string together such random thoughts and have it sound good.

MP: Jimmy Pop Ali is just crazy. I was reading this alternative music magazine, Pop Smear, and it had Jimmy Pop interviewing one of the singers from Duran Duran and the entire time he was like, “Do you think I’m pretty? Will you make out with me?”

J: Looking at some of the other titles, “Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny,” “Your Only Friends Are Make Believe,” you know these guys are out having a good time. You have to realize that they are poking fun at themselves and society.

MP: And these guys actually have some musical talent.

J: He’s a talented vocalist to rip these lyrics out like that.

MP: To cover “It’s Tricky” like he does …

“45 Caliber Woman”

Delon

J: This was sent to me from some co-workers and it’s one of the cheesiest songs I’ve ever heard in my life, and that’s what makes me smile.

Listen to the first line: “I’ve got a 45 caliber woman on my mind/ She’s frisky as a colt and man, she is so fine.”

MP: Hah hah. This is bad.

J: What I’m worried about is I don’t know if this person wants to be taken seriously.

MP: Oh, he definitely wants to be taken seriously. Look at this cover.

J: It looks like a senior picture.

MP: Any CD that calls itself “A ray of sunshine in today’s musical world…” With the smash hits “When I Moved Down To Tulsa,” “Chalk On The Blackboard” and “What Condition Is Our Country In?”

Was this before or after the Clinton scandal?

J: I could see this becoming a party favorite.

MP: We need to get some local bands covering it. That’s all it would take.

J: People would think it’s some awesome song from some underground Seattle band.

MP: They’d have no idea it was actually from Delon.