10 Hilarious Joke Songs By Rock Artists
2. Dysentery Gary - Blink 182
Pop Punk was never known back in the day to be the most mature of musical genres. Who are we kidding? Most of us were considered lucky if we came across one band that didn't have one joke song in their arsenal. It doesn't matter as long as the song kicks ass though, and Blink 182 got the most out of their heartbreak song in Dysentery Gary.
Like most great pop punk ragers, this is about a love gone bad, with Tom DeLonge being bummed that his girlfriend broke up with him and moved on to another guy. So... you can expect our man here to accept what's happened and move on with his life, right? Wrong. The rest of the chorus is basically just Tom making up every possible insult for this other guy that he can think of, saying that going out with him will give you diarrhea and that he probably spends his weekends trying on his dad's tights.
For as many dumb lyrics are in this song though, you can't help but smile along with every single word that comes out of Tom's mouth in the chorus. Anyone who's ever gotten their heart broken back in their middle school days has probably felt this way at some point, it's just that Tom was brave enough to actually put it into a song. He's got a lot of growing up to do from here, but you can't help but get caught up in all of that raw emotion.