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Gleeful Irreverence

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Songs that poke fun at sacred institutions or deflate or refute conventional wisdom. I realize this is kind of abstract, but it's a definite trend of John and John and a major reason of why I love them.

  • Another First Kiss - A cheerful "screw that" to soppy, romantic, adolescent love songs.
  • Cage And Aquarium - Mocks the musical "Hair" and, more pertinently, the way the counterculturalists of the sixties have aged.
  • The Devil Went Down To Newport - "Go, go, Satan, go"
  • Fingertips - One interpretation is that each phrase is mimicking a different style of music.
  • I Should Be Allowed To Think - Manages to skewer whiny didacts as well as those guys at your college who were always organizing symposiums on the First Amendment or putting up prints-out of Allen Ginsburg poems on their doors.
  • Kiss Me, Son Of God - Doesn't make fun of Jesus or Christianity so much as people who exploit the faith of others for personal gain. (And possibly those who allow themselves to be exploited. See the Discussion on this.)
  • Man, It's So Loud In Here - The rave scene.
  • O, Do Not Forsake Me - If you ever heard the song, you know what this is. Not only that, they ocassionally use the phrase "talking like this" which basically is mocking how the narrator is singing.
  • Purple Toupee - A veritable counterpoint to We Didn't Start The Fire's insistence of the historicity and significance of 60's-90's events.
  • Stomp Box - Not only is the style mocking satanic heavy metal music, so are the lyrics.
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