Artist-specific music jokes

"the Bonzo Dog Band has actually released quite a bit of music since Vivian's death."
"oh, is it any good?"
"it's a sub-Stanshall body of work!"

dear god

Q: Why were the Byrds great?
A: They set Bob Dylan songs to music.

This made me laugh...

"The Edge you're more beast than man!"

still lolllling after all this time at this! the lack of comma after The Edge is even hilarious.

yes!

Taxi driver dropping off the Mael brothers at an airport, struggling to get one of their suitcases out of the boot. Turns to a nearby man and says 'when this gets out, Sparks are gonna fly'.
― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:51 PM (thirteen years ago)

Jon Anderson from Yes bought the original claymation model of the beloved children's character Morph.

He's the Owner of a Tony Hart

Ok but technically Morph was made by Peter Lord and David Sproxton of Aardman Animations.

Q: What do you call a pig with Wings?
A: Linda McCartney

I saw a member of the Moody Blues tell this in a documentary about Wings, as an example of the sort of sexism and misogyny Linda McCartney had to put up with when she joined Wings, nice work there, fella!

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 15:30 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw Tom D post this on ILM as an example of etc

Steve Reich walks into a bar.
BARMAN: Why the long phase?

Newspaper cartoon I heard about with a guy sitting at the end of a bar looking really moody and the caption 'That's God he thinks he's Miles Davis'
Just googled it and can't find an image. I think it's mid 50s or possibly earlier so maybe that's not that surprising.

fgti to thread.

What’s the difference between a baby and an bag of cocaine?

Eric Clapton wouldn’t let a bag of cocaine fall out of a window.

Terrible I know, a variation I’ve heard of a joke upthread.

I like Neil Hamburger's version of that

"Why did Eric Clapton switch from PC to Mac?"

"Because he had a bad experience with Windows!"

This one is from The Two Ronnies, I think.

Since the break-up of Peters & Lee, Lee has gone solo and Peters has gone straight into a lamp-post.

I'm a terrible person and I love every joke about Clapton's dead son

why weren't Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton friends?
...
...
because Michael Jackson doesn't fuck dead children

irl lol

lol

fav music-related neil hamburger joke:

why did the farmer start a punk rock band?
because he was tired of HALL AND OATES!! ("haulin' oats" lmaooooo)

Q: Why does Snoop Dog carry an umbrella?
A: Fo' drizzle!

― Do you mean ironic in the literary sense or the alanis morissette sense? (KMS), Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:58 (nine years ago) Permalink

This deserves more props

Newspaper cartoon I heard about with a guy sitting at the end of a bar looking really moody and the caption 'That's God he thinks he's Miles Davis'
Just googled it and can't find an image. I think it's mid 50s or possibly earlier so maybe that's not that surprising.

Don't think I've ever heard of this originating as a newspaper cartoon, but About 142 results (0.34 seconds) , several quoting So What: The Life of Miles Davis (Szwed, 2002)

What's Stevie Wonder's favourite book? A cheese grater.

How does Bob Marley like his donuts? Wi' jam in.

What's yellow and lives off dead beetles? Yoko Ono.

fuck all three of those, wtf

The Marley one is good

Following the tragic death of Linda McCartney, Paul gathers the kids into the kitchen to tell them the news.

Paul: “Kids, there’s good news and bad news, the bad news is your mother has passed away, the good news is... it’s steak for tea!”

Todd Rundgren walks into a bar.
Barman says "Why the long face?"

Just read this entire thread for some reason (ILM sure did used to be a lot more racist).

But I did find this one objectively hilarious:

Sasha: "Fancy going to the cinema tonight?"
Tong: "Dunno, who's the projectionist?"
― bg (creamolafoam)

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(probably in this thread already, too predictable)

Why couldn't paramedics save Marvin Gaye when he was shot?

He needed sexual healing

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― StanM, Sunday, May 12, 2019 1:52 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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why was Steve Reich carrying an umbrella?

Because Noah couldn't open the door.

because he answered the iron ... lol lol lol

What major world river is the best at chucking rhythm guitar?

The Nile

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― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:46 (two weeks ago)

sorry DL but Pete Lord made the Morphs. I do actually have an original :)

yes! xp - apologies for stealing your Reich idea

q: why can't stevie wonder read?
a: because he's black

― 6335, 29. syyskuuta 2004 22:44 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Q: Why can't Ray Charles read?
A: Because he's dead.

I think man alive's works more for Philip Glass.

q: why can't stevie wonder read?
a: because he's black
― 6335, 29. syyskuuta 2004 22:44 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A kid told that to me in the sixth grade. As far as I can remember it was my first exposure to any overt racism. He laughed and laughed!

I've often felt that "The National" and "Vampire Weekend" were decent two word jokes albeit ones without punchlines.

a joke without a punchline is... just some words, so you’re correct in that sense i guess

This is honestly one of the greatest things I've seen this year.#warrenzevon #knockknock pic.twitter.com/5O5PKWJg6I

— Ali Catterall (@AliCatterall) May 17, 2019

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I like Motown acts, but I can only think of maybe three, four tops

*applauds*

How do you know an email came from Aretha Franklin?

Subject - Re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Spect (just a little bit)

Q: Hey asshole! Which enterprise-grade messaging platform is used for workspace collaboration at Merge Records?

A: Slack, motherfucker!