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  2. Category:Musical satire - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Satirical songs (1 C, 174 P) Pages in category "Musical satire" The following 6 pages are in this category ...

  3. Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs - Wikipedia

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    The book opens with a warning that it will "put bad songs into your head" (or at least wake up the ones that are dormant), [2] and suggests that it instead be given to your enemies as a potent psychological weapon. This kind of hyperbole is also found in the book's criticism of cheesy or overly sappy lyrics, and is a hallmark of Barry's writing ...

  4. Category:Satirical songs - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Pages in category "Satirical songs" The following 175 pages are in this category ...

  5. Satirical music - Wikipedia

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    For instance, Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." (1984) listed in Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and RIAA's Songs of the Century was written as a satire yet canonized as a "patriotic rock anthem," a designation that ignores the message "how far political leaders had strayed from the values the country was founded on ...

  6. List of satirists and satires - Wikipedia

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    Some of them being, "Underground", "Sports and Wine", and "Rock Star". Dead Kennedys, an American punk band, often used satire in their songs, most notably Kill the Poor. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's We're Only in It for the Money, a satire of flower power and conservative America.

  7. List of "Weird Al" Yankovic polka medleys - Wikipedia

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    All of the songs in "The Hot Rocks Polka" medley are songs by The Rolling Stones, with the addition of Yankovic's "Ear Booker Polka" at the end. The title of the song refers to Hot Rocks 1964-1971, a greatest hits album of The Rolling Stones music. The following songs are contained in the medley: "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" "Brown ...

  8. Tom Lehrer - Wikipedia

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    Lehrer in Loomis School's 1943 yearbook. Thomas Andrew Lehrer was born on April 9, 1928, to a secular Jewish family and grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side. [2] [3] He is the son of Morris James Lehrer (1897–1986) and Anna Lehrer (née Waller; 1905–1978) and older brother of Barry Waller Lehrer (1930–2007).

  9. Of Thee I Sing - Wikipedia

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    Of Thee I Sing is a musical with a score by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.The musical lampoons American politics; the story concerns John P. Wintergreen, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform.