hansolo comments on The Monster Mash

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Tenacious D did the same thing in "Tribute".

And we played the first thing that came to our heads
Just so happened to be
The best song in the world
It was the best song in the world

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[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Then years later revealed that the song "Tribute" is about was "Beelzeboss" from their movie. Beelzeboss was quite a good song but they could never have met the expectations they made for themselves in Tribute.

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[–] DaneGerous@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

For some reason I thought they were singing about Stairway to Heaven.

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[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I think Stairway was a big part of the original inspiration and then they retconned it to be about Beelzeboss for the sake of the movie

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[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think I did hear a version where they insert the opening breakdown of Stairway, IIRC after the "grass doth grow" line.

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