10 Funniest Joke Songs In Rock Music
8. My Second Album - Stone Temple Pilots
If there's one genre that doesn't belong in the same area code as rock and roll, it would have to be lounge music. Especially in the era of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, no one really needed their favorite artists going full Richard Cheese and making songs that sounded like cocktail hour at a retirement home. And yet and the end of the alternative classic Purple, Stone Temple Pilots had a bit of a surprise in mind for fans on My Second Album.
Though the rest of the record pretty much ends after the initial final track Kitchenware and Candybars, there's a few moments of silence before being broken up by someone doing a weird impression of Johnny Mathis. In one of the more meta moments on the record, the whole song is about the idea of the sophomore slump and trying to avoid it, as this leisure-suit wannabe sings to what's left of the audience who left the CD running.
The kicker is that no one actually from STP actually appears on this song at all. Instead, this is actually the voice of one of their musician friends who they let play out the last of the record as a bit of a goof. Though grunge was known to have traces of humor in their presentation, not many have been at the actual expense of the actual album making process.