Artist-specific music jokes

What is a surgical assistant's favorite punk band?

Operation I.V.

Why did Anthrax hate Led Zeppelin IV?

They're Anti! They're Anti-Zoso!

Now that Andre 3000 has made his debut as a flautist, he is dueting on a track with Ian Anderson.

It's called Hey Yaqualung

I laughed

Why couldn't the producer of Ghostbusters find a classical composer to do the score?

Because they were too hot to Handel, too cold to Holst

this would work marginally better if it was somehow about the composer of Ghostbusters 2 (1989) being a different and less storied composer than that of Ghostbusters (1984), a film that does not have any associated lyrics about being hot to handle nor cold to hold, and if it remembered that the producer of both Ghostbusterses is the fairly well-known-by-name director of same

Fair, I actually forgot that the song was from II!

although the line "Found out about Vigo, the master of evil" should have reminded me.

How Leonard Cohen reveal that he was a pervert for sea monsters?

"Give me Kraken anal sex..."

Why couldn't Billy Eilish find good crew members for her new tour?

Cause EVERYBODY'S WORKIN' FOR THE WEEKND

nice

a few years after Hüsker Dü broke up, Bob tried to patch things up with Grant by hiring his landscaping business to build a privacy fence in his back yard. Grant assured Bob that he'd get it done over the long weekend, but when Bob got back into town on Monday morning, he was dismayed to find that Grant had only erected a single picket on the entire lawn! so he called him up and said, "a stake's no fence at all!"

So Johnny Cash falls in love with a lady of Mesoamerican heritage who keeps a menagerie of big cats that all need exercising, and he tells her "Because you're Mayan, I'll walk the lion."

Does anyone know who did the song Owner of a Lonely Heart?

[makes the screeching sound at the beginning of that song]

Almost 20 years later and I'm still loving that Philip Glass joke upthread

What was Steely Dan’s bus driver for the Welsh leg of their tour called?

Dai behind the wheel

Does anyone know who did the album Once We Were Scum Now We Are God?

Does anyone know the title of Guns N' Roses' next-to-last single?

What did Chris Martin say to the Chainsmokers when he heard their song "Roses"?

I want something just like this

Mick Jones and Lou Gramm were walking down the street and they saw a man who looked unwell. This man stumbled slowly, erratically, his cheeks puffing out periodically.

At one point, he stopped, opened one of the residents' mailboxes, and started projectile vomiting inside it

The homeowners came out very upset, but Lou assured them they would handle the situation. Mick tended to the sick man, offering him water and proving him a pain reliever, while Lou cleaned up the mailbox, then brought the soiled mail inside and cleaned it off.

Weeks later, a man walked by the local civic center and saw Lou and Mick being presented with medals by the mayor. The homeowner from the previous episode was standing outside.

The man asked the homeowner why Mick and Lou were being recognized with medals, and the homeowner replied "Because they're--"

PUKE! BOX! HEROES!

:)

Purgin', purgin', purgin', purgin' emergency... *saxophone solo*