Top 100 Ironic Moments in Music

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Number 61, you want the other thread.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

You misspelled "RLY".

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

Or 51. Whatever.

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

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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