10 Hilarious Joke Songs By Rock Artists

10. Bank Holiday - Blur

When the Britpop explosion started to really get its sea legs, there seemed to be a clear divide between the camps of Oasis and Blur. Compared to the working class kind of songs you were getting out of the Gallagher brothers, here was Damon Albarn putting together songs about how sad it was to lead a boring life while being rich as hell. Although there was a lot more nuance to Blur's writing, that didn't mean they couldn't still take the piss out of themselves.

Across Parklife, the subject matter is actually pretty dark, being more informed by working class people losing touch with reality. After going through something like Tracy Jacks and End of the Century, Bank Holiday is one of the funnier songs that you were going to hear, being much more punk leaning than anything else that the band had ever recorded.

Rather than just go down the rabbit hole of working class jobs, this is just a fun romp about a bunch of lads going on their bank holiday and going off the rails in the process, getting pissed out of their minds before they have to go back to work when everything ends. If anything though, there's probably still a little bit of that trademark Blur cynicism in there, considering these guys don't even know how much they're burning themselves out whenever they get trashed. Blur were always meant to be the jaded version of the Kinks though, and Bank Holiday is one of those jokes that gets funnier and more tragic the more you hear it.