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Описание: So today we’re coming back to a show that we did a little while back that you all absolutely loved. It was one of our most popular episodes of 2025… the funniest “non-parody” songs of the Rock Era. Well, we’re back for round two, and these tracks don’t pull any punches. And some of these are really ridiculous. Included in the ranks is one rock’s most famous “teen crush" anthems, Stacy's Mom, a Mrs. Robinson for the 90s, but while everyone thought it was inspired by a crush on his friend's mom, it was actually a crush on his friends Grandma! There’s also the country-fried tune by Primus that’s title is a double entendre about a beaver, and it really pissed off a Hollywood actress, Winona Ryder, who thought it was about her. Find out how it ended. Plus, we’ve got the rock track Popular by Nada Surf with a hard-hitting chorus whose lyrics plagiarized a 1964 etiquette manual about how to become a popular teenage girl, as well as Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-Ling, the dirty joke that was hidden inside of a Nursery rhyme that offended every parent in America when it hit #1… This episode’s got laughs, it’s got weirdness, and it’s gonna be a lot of fun. Let’s get started.

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Hey music Junkies let’s get right into our countdown to the funniest non-parody songs of the rock era. In at #10, it’s The Axis of Awesome with Four Chords, aka, the 4 Chord Song. The comedy rock trio The Axis of Awesome formed in 2006 in Sydney, Australia, and were active up until 2018. The lineup consisted of lead vocalist Jordan Raskopolous, guitarist and vocalist Lee Naimo, and keyboardist-slash-vocalist Benny Davis. Throughout their run, they released 7 albums and just one single… Four Chords from their 2011 LP Animal Vehicle. Four Chords is a medley of nearly 50 pop songs that all contain the same basic chord structure: I - V - vi - IV. The song pokes fun at popular musical tastes, suggesting that almost every pop hit uses the same recycled progression. The song got airplay on BBC Radio 1… And though it only got as high as 175 on the UK charts, listeners started finding it on Youtube where they found an Axis sketch of them performing the song.

It currently sits at over 90 million views. The medley, which usually started with Journey's Don't Stop Believin’, seamlessly weaves in 80s favorites like Take On Me, Down Under, and Forever Young, some 90s alternative like When I Come Around and Self Esteem, and post-millennial pop like She Will Be Loved and Hey Soul Sister… And once the curtain is pulled back and the sonic template is exposed, it’s pretty funny. Wisely, the band consulted with copyright lawyers before releasing the song to make sure they wouldn't be sued by dozens of artists all at the same time. But since they were only playing a chord progression and not the actual melodies of songs, they were in the clear. They essentially "hacked" the music industry to show that almost every hit of the last 40 years is more or less the same song. Later on, Ed Sheeran was accused of ripping of Axis of Awesome when he appeared on a Dutch late-night show to show how every pop song can be sung with only four chords.

But Axis keyboard player Benny Davis didn’t see it that way. He said, “I don't think he's stolen anything from us. He's a great musician who probably came to the realization himself - like so many musicians do. It's always going to be a thing as long as pop music is simple, juvenile, and written with the same four chords. As long as their massive chart toppers, there's always going to be a 4-chord medley.”

At #9, I’m going with My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry. So by the early 70s Chuck didn’t travel with a band and famously insisted on being paid in cash upfront. For these performances, he’d show up with a guitar, plug in, and play with whatever local musicians he could find. Sometimes it worked. More often, it didn’t. But in 72, at the Lanchester Arts Festival, Chuck was backed by a tight group of musicians who would later form