Narm Charm: Difference between revisions

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmkM4v9AaY In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida]," by Iron Butterfly, is completely ridiculous. Yet awesome. Yet ridiculous.

** Oddly enough, the rest of its parent album, also titled ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'', could also qualify. What else would you expect from an album that has a song called "Flowers And Beads"?

* The two actual songs on famous stuntman Evel Knievel's record ''Evel Speaks To The Kids'' (the rest of the record consists of one press conference and one question and answer session with children). "Why?" is a poem written and recited by Knievel himself over music: The rhymes are often cliched or painful ("Success is a term that has broad use, for you and I to have none in life there's no excuse"), but the sincerity in his voice and schmaltzy backing music somehow do still make it oddly affecting. Meanwhile there's the country song "The Ballad Of Evel Knievel" by John Culliton Mahoney (which is on the record despite having nothing to do with Knievel beyond it being ''about'' him): the arrangement is just as melodramatic, the vocals waver all over the place, and the lyrics are oddly preoccupied with the idea that Knievel could die while attempting his stunts, but it's still kind of a tearjerker.

* The song "[[Last Kiss]]" is so earnest with [[Teenage Death Songs|its subject matter]] it pretty much gets by on this trope.