And there is one fully absurd song, "English Country Garden," a fast rocker about young love with a farm girl, balancing on the line between tender and gross.
The début Kid Rock album, "Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast," arrived in 1990, and quickly disappeared — doomed, perhaps, by its first single, an absurd song about cunnilingus called "Yo-da-lin in the Valley".
Tom Bobby Cannavalee), the working-class father with a troubled daughter, pregnant wife and rare form of leukaemia, steals every scene he's in, even when he's up against Al Pacino flapping around like an overstuffed pelican as an absurd song-and-dance nostalgia act.
And even during his more absurd songs — "It's in the Mornin' " and "Teach U A Lesson," before which he asked, straight-faced, "Where the bad girls at?" — it was clear: he was not joking.
But the avant-garde and modernism have always been fed from the colonies, whether it's absurd songs from Romania that become the basis of Dada, or discordant folk songs that become the basis of avant-garde music in Vienna in 1910.
Kubicek characterized it as "another brilliantly absurd original song", and Canning said it was a "hilarious performance".
His work has ranged from satirical and absurd rock songs on America and its subcultures, to songs about stained underwear and experimental jazz craziness.
"I mean to be able to play music, to be able to do these silly things that we do and to be able to go up there and sing songs that we like, in front of an enthusiastic audience - 20,000 people singing along to these absurd, optimistic songs, even 20 nights in a row, well, it's kinda like eating dinner or having sex or something - you can do it every night and it's pretty fucking good".
Later, his literary flair and sense of the absurd animated songs like "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus," in which arcane wordplay was matched by musical experimentation.
After an eighth place finish, Bucky Covington released a few hit singles to radio, and his hit I'll Walk remains one of the most audaciously absurd story songs released to radio in recent memory.
Absurd QuickType songs have even been composed. .
