Department of Redundancy Department/Music: Difference between revisions

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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RePriPCmlro I'M GONNA HAVE A HOUSE PARTY IN MY HOUSE]

* [[Manowar]]'s Dawn of Battle:

to all that I now kill!'' }}

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]:

[[Lampshade Hanging|Did I mention the drive-thru?]]'' }}

** Of course, that's just a ''slight'' exaggeration of how repetitive R Kelly's ''[[Trapped in the Closet]]'' can get:

Damn, he's opening the closet...'' }}

** There's also his parody of [[George Harrison]]'s "(Got my Mind) Set On You", which was titled "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long". A repetitive song about how a repetitive song is repetitive.

* "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight!" from the band Spinal Tap. First seen in the movie ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'', which was about a band named Spinal Tap and included this song, which was named "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight!".

** This song may actually have a real-life parody target in 1979's "Rock You Tonight" by NWOBHM-ish band Marseille, phrased just slightly differently:

I'm gonna rock you tonight!" }}

* I love college, I love drinking, I love women, and I love college.

** Which is Asher Roth's "I Love College".

* Willy DeVille's ''Storybook Love'' for ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''.

it's as real as the feelings I feel. }}

* [[DragonForce]]--''Through the Fire and Flames''.

* The title song from [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]'s ''[[State Fair]]'':

Is the best State Fair in our state!'' }}

** While intended to be humorous, this is ''partially'' justified in that some states did in fact hold multiple regional "state fairs" in different regions within the state.

* Several [[Nirvana]] songs. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOrmjhWpPrY Aneurysm] is a good example.

* "The Future Soon" by [[Jonathan Coulton]] has the line:

Building inventions in my space lab in space'' }}

* ''Moonlight Shadow''. "Four AM in the morning..."

** [[Eminem]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAuo8IOFNuE&feature=fvst It's 3 a.m. in the morning...]

* During the narrated section in the middle of ''Rhapsody''s Sacred Power of Raging Winds:

* The Baka Song. Its lyrics consist solely of the word "baka" (idiot in english) being repeated over and over again.

** [http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/ranma/rnyasshi.htm Not true]. It also contains specific descriptions of the ways in which Ranma (the subject of the song) is an idiot, as well as some other lyrics. Most of them refer to him as being an idiot.

* "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson features the line "They're American planes, made in America".

** However, if you encounter an American Fokker, it will be an American (owned) plane made in the Netherlands."

Like all the burning hoops of fire that you and I passed through }}

** Well, a burning ''ring'' can burn from having eaten a good bunch of jalapeno peppers the night before; it's not actually on fire, so the redundancy isn't. Maybe he had something like that in mind, but remembered in time that that line was already taken.

** It should be noted that this is arguably an homage to Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," itself an eminently worthy example of this trope. Many have joked that it would make a perfect Preparation H commercial.

''The ring of fire'' }}

* ''No Air'' by Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown has this.

* [[The Beatles|Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine...]]

* [[Paul McCartney|''Live and Let Die'']] has a line saying: ''"But in this ever changing world in which we live in"''

* "Fatal Tragedy" by [[Dream Theater]], also in its lyrics.

* ''The Good Old Hockey Game'' by Stompin' Tom Conners:

''Is the good old Hockey game!'' }}

* Rock songs about the road are pretty redundant, and [[Tenacious D]]'s song 'The Road' exaggerates this for humorous effect:

''It don't take no guff...'' }}

* Tina Turner: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIrCFrFpHvw "You're simply the best. Better than all the rest."]

* [[Disturbed]]: Their song The Curse gives us the line

* Queensrÿche: "It just started to hit me like a two-ton... heavy thing."

* [[Erasure]]'s "Always" opens with: "Open your eyes I see, your eyes are open."

* "Free Will" by [[Rush]]: "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice."

* [[Mitch Benn]]'s [[List Song]] of everything that's awesome about [[The BBC]] has the "I Like X" variant (and he [[One of Us|really does]]):

''[[Monty Python]]'', ''[[Doctor Who]]''! }}

** Then later:

Did I mention ''[[Doctor Who]]''? }}

* Drake's "Forever" contains the verse "lil Wayne, that's what they gotta say or mention"

* King Crimson in "Indiscipline" sorta subverts this: "I repeat myself when under stress; I repeat myself when under stress; I repeat myself when under stress . . ."

* "[[Black Eyed Peas|If you didn't know that, well baby, now you know now.]]"

* "[[Van Halen|Only time will tell if we stand the test of time.]]"

** "Older" has the lyrics "Time... is marching on / And time... is still marching on"

* [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Born this way" music video has this:

* [[Phish]] unites this with [[Captain Obvious]]:

We've got cymbals in the band }}

* [[Judas Priest]]'s "Painkiller" contains the following lines:

* [[Paul McCartney]] in the theme from [[Live and Let Die]]:

* George Thorogood and the Destroyers:

* [[U2]]'s "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of". Just the song title itself.

* Everclear's "I Will Buy You A New Life":

Perfect shiny and new }}

* Chicago's "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?":

What the time was that was on my watch }}

* America's "A Horse With No Name":

* [[The Beach Boys]]' "Be True To Your School":

* [[The Rolling Stones]]' "Let It Bleed":

 

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