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** This seems to be a specialty of Lehrer's. Other examples include "How black can I make this comedy while still keeping it funny" ("The Irish Ballad" and "We Will All Go Together When We Go", among others), "What wholly inappropriate countries can I suggest are going to get nuclear capabilities" ("Who's Next?"; answer: {{spoiler|[[The Deep South|Alabama]]}}), and "What disabilities can I suggest the army allows in recruits" ("It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier").
* Stephen Lynch is also brilliant at this, although he may cross over into [[Squick]] territory. Rumor has it he left one song unfinished because his father threatened to disown him if he didn't.
* [[Dragon Force (video game)]]. How many references to sunlight/moonlight/warriors/fire can we fit in? How much apocalyptic subtext can we fit in a single verse? How many ludicrously overblown solos can Herman Li and Sam Totman manage?
* And as [[Dragon Force (video game)]] is to metal, so is Meat Loaf to rock 'n' roll. Take the familiar lyrical themes of '70s hard rock, double the length of each song, add pounding pianos, soaring orchestra, layer upon layer of squealing guitars, bombastic backing choirs, and one of the [[Large Ham|largest hams]] in modern music history on lead vocal, and you've got a totally unique brand of "Wagnerian rock" that seems scientifically engineered to produce [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|crowning moment after crowning moment]].
* Neil Peart of the band [[Rush]] appears to be doing it with the number of pieces in his drum set. To be fair, he doesn't have the big-ass glockenspiel and Chinese gong any more. Now, digital samples of said instruments he can trigger via foot pedals on the other hand...
{{quote|'''[[Stephen Colbert]]''': The band Rush is here! Either that or a drum factory exploded in my studio.}}
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* [[The Lonely Island]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4 entire] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c musical] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU output] runs on this trope.
* [[Pink]] in concert. How much more insane can this woman's stunts get? The "Try This" tour had her doing an aerial spin while singing. So the "I'm Not Dead" tour had her doing a Cirque de Soleil performance. While singing. And no net. And then a big aerial stunt at the end. So the "Funhouse" tour has her singing while doing a trapeze act ''that starts out with her blindfolded''.
* [[U2]]'s [[wikipedia:U2 360° Tour|360º Tour]]. If you thought the Zoo TV tour was big, then the Pop Mart tour out Spinal Tap-ed [[This Is Spinal Tap|Spinal Tap]]. Then, after a few comparatively low-key tours, the 360º tour was even more of a spectacle than Pop Mart was.
* [[Two Steps From Hell]], how much more epic can they honestly get? Just about everything they make is already a [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* Metal in general has "How METAL can we make the guitars?" It starts with making them pointy, then making them shaped like dragons, then adding double necks, then...well, look at the picture.
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