10 Funniest Joke Songs In Rock Music
1. The Metal - Tenacious D
I mean, it's pretty obvious why something like this is here right? How do you talk about some of the funniest tracks in the world without bringing up one of the greatest bands to ever walk the Earth? While The Metal by Tenacious D may not be the Greatest Song in the World, it does do a worthy job at least paying tribute to one of the greatest genres that has ever been sprouted from rock's loins.
Complete with a menacing guitar riff, most of the lyrics from Jack Black revolve around the different genres of music rising to try and take the place of metal, before being thrown back down to the ground in gruesome fashion. Though most joke songs are thrown together with not much thought, this is the rare exception that takes the humor very seriously, with guitar sounds that wouldn't feel that out of place on a proper metal release and a choir of voices mimicking the vanquished foes of the metal.
It gets even better when you see the performance of the song on the live stage, as Jables himself tries to vanquish the metal with his bare hands, only to be smite to the ground on his own. Then again, there's a bit of truth in between the humor, isn't there? For all of the trends that come and go, no one can really destroy the power that comes from metal.