Frontal Lobotomy -- recording, artist name, and lyric wanted
Mike Reymond
somewhere else.
I'm looking for a recording of a very funny song with the lyric:
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
than a frontal lobotomy..."
If you know the name of the artist and/or the lyrics please post them
or email me.
Thanx.
Mike Reymond
MacNeal-Schwendler Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA
m_re...@macsch.com
(213) 259-4926
Phaedrus 'n Co.
The song is called "Exstitential Blues"(sp?) by T-Bone. The lyrics are available at one of the two ftp sites ( can't remember wich):cs.uwp.edu, or nic.funet.fi. Otherwise I do believe that one of the Doctor Demento albums (either 70's or 80's) has it on it. Enjoy.
Mike Kavka
kavk...@indtech.it.ilstu.edu
"Give a person an inch and the'll want a foot. Give a person a foot, they'll want a yard. Give a person a yard and they'll want a house!"
Terminator
of that first word...I have no idea how it's spelled...).
"Some girl with psyhic powers she said "T-Bone, what's your sign?"
"I blinked and answered 'neon', I thought I'd blow her mind!"
Me
Persephone
>This is my first posting in r.m.d. Please let me know if it should be
>somewhere else.
>
>I'm looking for a recording of a very funny song with the lyric:
>
>"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
> than a frontal lobotomy..."
>
>If you know the name of the artist and/or the lyrics please post them
>or email me.
Aha!
Yet another posting for this classic...
The song is "Existential Blues" by Tom "T-Bone" Stankus, available on the
1980's Dr. D collection album (or any of his collections, really). The lyrics
have been posted here so many times I don't have the heart to do it again....
Then again...
(apologies in advance for minor errors)
Hey man, what are you really into, huh?
The elusive butterfly has just tiptoed past my door
My buddy likes the Yankees, she says, "Hey, T-Bone, what's the score?"
And I say, well, Reggie got one to one in three and 25 in 6 to 4,
Is a left-wing reall pinko? Colonel Sanders, what a bore.
You ask so many questions, what answers should I choose?
Is this schizoid paranoia or just existential blues?
The amenities of life have been chasing my soul,
And my mind is transcendental, and I'm losing all control.
And I'm sinking in the quagmire of illusions and Thoreau -
I cry out, "My name is T-Bone!" and a hound dog digs a hole.
You ask so many questions, what answers should I choose?
Is this Plato's heebie-jeebies or just existential blues?
Sailing, sailing, what is illusion, what is true?
Sailing, sailing, over the existential blues.
God bless America, land of glory, too,
May she always wave o'er us with the red, white, and existential blues -
Hey, bobdiddybobdiddy dangadangdang ding existential blues
You can do what you want but lay off my existential blues
My blue suede existential blues.
I was on a quest! Walking down the road one day, doo dah, doo dah,
I was walking down thw road, I was looking for the truth of life,
When I came across all these little people, little people all around me.
They looked up at me and said, "Hey mister, are you tall?"
I said yes, I'm tall, but who are you weird little wonders?
And they looked up at me with their big red bloodshot eyes and said,
"We are the lollipop kids, the lollipop kids, the lollipop kids,
We are the lollipop kids of munchkin land!"
I said hey, weird little wonders, I am on a quest...
I said hey kids, I am looking for the truth in life -
Where do I go, who do I see...
They said "Slow down, mister! In order to find the truth of life,
One must see...the Wizard!"
I said, "The Wizard? Well, where's this wizard o wise one live?"
They said, "You see the big green glow-in-the-dark house up on the hill?"
I said "Yes I see the big green glow-in-the-dark house up on the hill,
with the dark forest between me and the big green glow-in-the-dark house up on
the hill, and a little old lady on a hoover vacuum cleaner going 'I'll get you,
my pretty, and your little dog Toto too!' I don't even have a little dog Toto!"
Such predicaments, I must forge ahead...
I said, "You know kids, I can handle the big green glo-in-the-dark house up
on the hill, I can handle the dark forest, I can handle the little old lady,
but it's a very strange road you're sending me down...
I've seen yellowstripes in the middle of a road before, but kids, never quite
that wide..."
All right, tighten yer shorts, pilgrim and sing like the Duke:
Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road,
Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road.
If everwhwever a wiz there was, the Wizard of Oz is fun because,
Because, because, because, because, beacause of the wonderful things he does!
Lalalalalala lala! We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!
Well, I got a little bit tired of walking down the road one day, doo dah, doo dah
little bit tired of walking down this ol' blinding yellow road
So I pull my tired little body off into a little rest area
And lo and behold there's a little field of little red flowers out there
And they smelled so good, I figured I'd just stretch out in this field of
Poppies...poppies...poppies...
What a strange dream...little flowers, they smell awfully good, and I'm really
tired...old wizards just gonna have to wait, man, 'cause I'm just gonna stretch out in this
out in this field of poppies...poppies...Dorothy...Dorothy...
Along came this old man in a green El Dorado II, screeched to a halt
A little short man with a big red nose toking a bottle of Yukon Jack
Strolled up to me, said "Hey son,"
Old man, don't bother me, poppies...poppies...
He said, "T-Bone"
I said, wait a minute, this man knows my name, he must be...the Wizard!
You must be the Wizard,
The Wizard of Oz,
Why have you come to haunt me,
O wizard of oz?
I said, O wizard O wise one, I have been on a quest...
He said, "Hey son, slow down, relax."
I said but wizard o wise one I have come so far to find the truth of life!
He says, "Hey son, slow down, relax cause a' to tell you the truth, son..."
I said, but wizard, that's what I've come to find, is the truth!
He said, "No, no, son you've got me all wrong. To tell you the truth, son,
Uh, how can I tell you this? I've been in this field of poppies a long time
myself, and I've come to find that the only truth in life is right here in
this bottle."
I said wizard!
He said, "No, truly, son. In fact, I'd rather have this bottle in front of me
than a frontal lobotomy!!"
How profound, wizard!
Some girl with psychic powers, she said, "T-Bone, what's your sign?"
I blink and answer, "Neon," I thought I'd blow her mind.
She reading Moby Dick by some fruitcake named Herman,
She's chomping on a knockwurst, was (can't get this word) really German?
You ask so many questions, what answers should I choose?
Is this really Bugh, Montana or just existential blues?
Really Bugh, Montana?
Is this Plato's heebie-jeebies?
Is this schizoid paranoia?
Lalalala lalala, existentential blues!!!
Once again, I apologize for any errors.
-Persephone the Toaster Fairy
Dormouse
>somewhere else.
>I'm looking for a recording of a very funny song with the lyric:
>"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
> than a frontal lobotomy..."
>If you know the name of the artist and/or the lyrics please post them
>or email me.
>Thanx.
It is off of their self-titled first album.
-dormouse
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|Of all of the things I have lost...|
|I miss my mind the most. |
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Belding, Troy C.
The song is not!!! The Existential Blues, by Tom T-Bone Stankus.
/ \
The line is in the song | , but the song is Frontal Lobotomy
by Dr. Rock.
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I'll get a life when it is proven Troy C. Belding
and substantiated to be better ST...@JETSON.UH.EDU
than what I am currently HS...@MENUDO.UH.EDU
experiencing.
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Gina Mai Denn
>Thanx.
everyone has been saying it is existential blues but please! are y'all
real dementites or not? everyone knows that line was included in the
t-bone tune, but it is the title of an entire song which goes like
this:
(funny child's voice) Daddy, what's a frontal lobotomy?
(music kicks in, daddy's voice) Well son, you know how the pressures
in life can cause people to do crazy things. And if a person does too
many crazy things, then that person is crazy. Sometimes you can do
things to keep from going crazy, like drinkin', or havin' sex, but
if the craziness goes too far, sometimes the only thing left to do is
to cut out that part of the brain that makes you crazy. That kind
of brain surgery is called a frontal lobotomy. Maybe this song
will help you understand what i mean.....
(singing) Jimmy and i are brothers, we went down different paths.
Jimmy always listened to our mother, and me i never liked to take a
bath...
As we grew and tumbled through adulthood, the pressure caused
emotional drain...
And now i'm slowly dying in the bottle, and Jimmy has to live with
half a brain!
(chorus) Yes, me i have a bottle in front of me, and Jimmy has a
frontal lobotomy, just different ways to kill the pain the same...
But i'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than have to have a
frontal lobotomy, i might be drunk but at least i'm not insane.
Jimmy let his troubles drive him crazy, he never tried to drown them
in a drink...
I know that drinkin' makes my thinkin' hazy, but at least i still have
brains enough to think...
Jimmy's got a brain that isn't stable, he doesn't have the sense to
say his name...
I'm sorry that his doctor was unable to remove the proper portion of
his brain...
(chorus)
Funny how the world works...People can be real jerks...
Some prefer the tension over booze..
Either way it end the same...Hard to beat the livin' game...
Might as well enjoy it while you lose...
When i need a drink i start to shiver, and Jimmy always viewed it
with concern
But i'd rather have cirrhosis of the liver than an intellect thats
second to a fern...
I wonder if ol' Jimmys gonna hear it when i tell him that his logic
wasn't sound...
They'll dose him up on lots of evil sprits when they take him to the
psyciatric grounds..
(chorus)
I might be drunk but at least i'm not insaaaaaaaaaneee!
(the end)
someone else said this is by Dr. Rock.
have fun!
The Mad Maidenn..............................!
--
Cc
>
>"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
> than a frontal lobotomy..."
>
>If you know the name of the artist and/or the lyrics please post them
>or email me.
>
>Thanx.
>
>Mike Reymond
>MacNeal-Schwendler Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA
>m_re...@macsch.com
>(213) 259-4926
The name of the song is "Existential (sp) Blues". I don't know
the singer's name, but check the "Dr Demento" playlists posted in this
group. I'ts usually in the "Funny 5".
-Cc
Mike Reymond
"Frontal Lobotomy". Most responses said the artist is Tom
"T-Bone" Stankus and the song, "Existential Blues". I wasn't even
aware that line was in that song.
But the song I was really looking for was titled "Frontal
Lobotomy" and I'm pretty sure it was performed by a different
artist and it was finally posted by g...@socrates.umd.edu (Gina
Mai Denn). Thanx again, Gina! If you want the lyrics, see the
post by Gina or I can email it to you.
But, Gina did not tell me the artist's name. My best
recollection is based on hearing it off the radio and I can only
spell it phonetically:
Randy Hanslick
Randy Anslick
Randy Anslett
Thanx to:
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dcd...@psuvm.psu.edu
kavk...@indtech.it.ilstu.edu (Mike Kavka)
v593...@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Persephone)
gr...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dormouse)
st...@jane.uh.edu (Belding, Troy C.)
g...@socrates.umd.edu (Gina Mai Denn)
c_c...@oz.plymouth.edu (Cc)
ligh...@wpi.WPI.EDU
an1...@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Warner Losh
>(apologies in advance for minor errors)
Well, I've found a couple of not so minor errors. They are with the
original version of this song, not the hacked up version that Dr. D
released on Rhino Records.
[...]
>I was on a quest! Walking down the road one day, doo dah, doo dah,
^ To Dream The Impossible Dream (TDTID)
[...]
>I said hey, weird little wonders, I am on a quest...
^TDTID
>I said, O wizard O wise one, I have been on a quest...
^TDTID
That is the Original Classic Version of this song. The one that
Demento plays now loses something w/o the Impossible Dream.
Warner
--
Warner Losh i...@Solbourne.COM
"You're the woman that I've always dreamed of. Well, not really, but you are
good enough for now."
Gina Mai Denn
>But the song I was really looking for was titled "Frontal
>Lobotomy" and I'm pretty sure it was performed by a different
>artist and it was finally posted by g...@socrates.umd.edu (Gina
>Mai Denn). Thanx again, Gina! If you want the lyrics, see the
>post by Gina or I can email it to you.
>But, Gina did not tell me the artist's name. My best
>recollection is based on hearing it off the radio and I can only
>spell it phonetically:
>Randy Hanslick
>Randy Anslick
>Randy Anslett
you are welcome! i can't remember the artist's name, but another poster
said it was by "Dr. Rock" and that poster also correctly identified
the song.
??? the song is played on the show once in a while so there's a good
chance you'll hear it soon...maybe...
the mad maidenn!
--
Robert Camama
Over 3 years ago I heard a song on the Dr. D show that really caught
my attention. The band was British and the song had something to do with
"beer in the sideboard." Some of the lyrics go like this:
I don't care
I don't care
I don't care if it comes 'round here!
I got my beer in the sideboard here,
Let momma sort it out if it comes 'round here!
Could anybody provide the following if possible:
1. The name of the band
2. The name of the song
3. The lyrics of this song
4. (don't bother too much with this) What became of the band since then?
Thanx in advance,
R. Camama