10 Hilarious Joke Songs By Rock Artists
1. Cigaro - System of a Down
The entire message behind System of a Down's material just feels like it shouldn't work. Here you have a band that has given us some of the most relevant social commentary of the '00s which still holds up today, along with songs that are some of the most bizarre things that the rock world has to offer. And for some reason, the best tracks in their catalogue are the ones that manage to do both at the same time.
When putting together material for their album Mesmerize, Daron Malakian had a lot on his mind relating to the war in Iraq along with the superficiality that he was seeing in Hollywood at the time. There isn't too much room for jokes in that mix, but Cigaro found a way by just being absolutely bonkers from start to finish. The entire construction sounds like it's supposed to be a little bit funny, but the lyrics are actually about the regulators behind the war that are profiting off the backs of the poor who are fighting the wars for them.
And really, would you expect Daron to write this song any other way? You could easily just talk about these guys going to war against each other, but it only comes down to him saying that his... appendage is bigger than his nemesis and that he'll do anything to prove that. That's what war is all about, both then and now. Whether people wanted to face it or not, this is a d*ck-measuring competition between world leaders, and there are absolutely no winners.