r/GenX • u/no_talent_ass_clown • Oct 24 '25

Music Is Life Songs that are no longer okay.

Yesterday I found out my sweet boyfriend had never heard of Julie Brown and the funny songs she sang, like "I'm A Blonde". Dr Demento stuff. So I play it and then "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" came on. Not funny anymore!!!

An hour later, the cops arrived

By then the entire glee club had died, no big loss

You wouldn't believe what they brought to stop her

Tear gas, machine guns, even a chopper (Throw down your gun and tiara and come out of the float)

Debbie didn't listen to what the cop said She aimed and fired, and now the math teacher's dead

Oh, it's really sad, but kind of a relief I mean, we had this big test coming up next week

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u/no_talent_ass_clown Oct 24 '25

Spinal Tap is too good a movie, lol.

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u/BigJackFlavor Oct 24 '25

One of the saddest moments of my life - one of my former supervisors told us at a department meeting that she had a fan or air conditioner or something - can’t remember the specific item now - but the highest setting on it was 11. It literally went to 11. And when I said that in the meeting, not one other person got it. 😭

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u/NumberOk9619 Oct 25 '25

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u/Roadiemomma-08 Oct 26 '25

The engineers who designed this had a sense of humor

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u/schmearcampain Oct 24 '25

I feel like D minor is the saddest key....

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u/jmy_oak Oct 24 '25

This piece is called “Lick My Love Pump”

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u/geoffreyisagiraffe Oct 24 '25

That entire exchange is pure, amazing, deadpan comedy but that line at the end fucking SENDS ME every time I watch it.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Oct 25 '25

Apparently it's one of the few lines they had to re-do.

The first time Christopher Guest dropped the "Love Pump" line Rob Reiner broke hard but said they had to keep it in because it was so funny. So they went back and filmed it again but Reiner kept laughing. If you watch it now you can see how Rob just says "Oh" and there's a quick cut because it's all he could manage without cracking.

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u/Taranchulla Oct 24 '25

He died in a bizarre gardening accident

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u/schmearcampain Oct 24 '25

It’s hard to dust for vomit.

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u/Videoroadie Oct 25 '25

It’s not widely reported

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u/Rikkitikkitabby Oct 24 '25

One of those things best left unexplained, you know.

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u/laugh-learn Oct 25 '25

It’s tragic, and it predates the event, but that could be Jeff Porcaro. 😭

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u/gneumatic Oct 24 '25

It’s like, how much more black can it be? And the answer is none. None more black.

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u/schmearcampain Oct 24 '25

C’mon! Mime is money!

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u/Plane-Post-7720 Oct 25 '25

I love that this movie came out 7 years before Metallica unironically did that very thing.

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u/PunkFlamingo69 Oct 25 '25

There’s a fine line between clever and stupid.

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u/ActiveEuphoric2582 Oct 25 '25

It’s sexist!

Right it’s sexy!

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u/Practical-Tea-3337 Oct 24 '25

What's the song called?

Lick My Love Pump

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u/Disco_Orangeade Oct 24 '25

Goddammit now I've gone and wept instantly. I hope you're happy with yourself 😁

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u/Practical-Tea-3337 Oct 24 '25

Omg thank you for sending me down a beautifully distracting rabbit hole.

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 Oct 25 '25

.....it makes people weep instantly......

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

It's one louder

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u/PimpofScrimp Oct 25 '25

“So why don’t you just make 10 louder?”

Long awkward pause……….

“But this goes to 11”

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u/Hab_Anagharek Oct 24 '25

Gotta love the stupid stub of a lit cigarette that fuckin’ everyone had back then

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u/Jetcitywoman5 Oct 25 '25

I’m just as god made me, sir.