Not Cool

Original rap about uncool taste in music. Free song download, lyrics, the story behind the song, and more songs you may like: http://theoffhandband.com/2011/07/not-cool/

Info about the artist: http://potluckcreativearts.com/about/whos-who/

Music, arts and creativity services from the artist, including songwriting workshops, custom-written songs, Simply Music piano lessons online or in-person, and more: http://potluckcreativearts.com/

"Not Cool" by The Offhand Band; Music & Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt; parts based on "The Celebrated Chop Waltz" (a.k.a. "Chopsticks"), by Arthur de Lulli (a.k.a. Euphemia Allen), and Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2 (a.k.a. "Moonlight Sonata"), by Ludwig van Beethoven

Name checks and references:

Pianoforte
Johann Sebastian Bach / Well-Tempered Clavier
Elevator music
X-Men / Professor Charles Francis Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X / Cerebro
Winnie-the-Pooh / Eeyore
Fats Waller
Jerry Lee Lewis
Billy Joel / Piano Man / 52nd Street
Tin Pan Alley
Elton John / Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Face 2 Face
Fiona Apple
Rufus Wainright
Bruce Hornsby
Tori Amos
Sara Bareilles
Stevie Wonder
Randy Newman
Harry Connick
Carole King
Jamie Cullum
Benny Andersson
Bjorn Ulvaeus
ABBA
Jimmy Webb
Jim Steinman
The Fray
Coldplay
Queen
Keane
Radiohead
Muse
Ben Folds
Nellie McKay
Kanye West / We Major
Marvin Hamlisch
Burt Bacharach
7-Up / Uncola
Cholula
Popeye
Jerry Herman / La Cage Aux Folles / Albin / I Am What I Am
The Gong Show
Willing suspension of disbelief
Andrew Lloyd Webber / The Phantom of the Opera / Cats
Tim Rice
Stephen Sondheim
Michelangelo Buonarroti / The Pieta
Cole Porter / You're the Top
Frank Loesser / Heart and Soul
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk
In the Heights
The Who / Tommy
Green Day / American Idiot
Bono and The Edge / Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark
Patter song
Hula Hoop
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Lady Gaga / Born This Way
Hooked On Classics
Vlasic Pickles
Simon and Garfunkel / Bridge Over Troubled Water
Dire Straits / Money for Nothing ("I shoulda learned to play the guitar")
The Simpsons / Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel
The Beatles / Golden Slumbers / You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) / She Loves You ("Yeah, yeah, yeah")
Apple Corps
XTC
They Might Be Giants (TMBG)
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
Joyful noise
The Beach Boys / Wouldn't It Be Nice

Category:

Music

Tags:

• rap
• hip
• hop
• hip-hop
• pun
• wordplay
• rhyme
• piano
• keyboard
• popular
• pop
• culture
• reference
• classical
• music
• musical
• theatre
• theater
• beatles
• beatlesque
• not
• cool
• uncool
• comedy
• funny
• broadway
• slideshow
• offhand
• band
• offhandband
• ohb

[theoffhandband]

@getyourlawnoffdrugs Thanks!!

[getyourlawnoffdrugs]

well done!

[theoffhandband]

@psychobman Thanks!

[psychobman]

NICE!

[theoffhandband]

@Spintown7 Cool :)

[Spintown7]

Well done, this helped me get a lot of the references that blew by me originally.