My Top Ten: Flight Of The Conchords Songs (Studio Versions)

Its that time of the month where I give my Top Ten on ANYTHING!

Lets have fun with this one. Inspired by another blog entry I read, I decided to come up with my own top ten list of my favorite songs from the formally number 4. best folk band in New Zealand, The Flight of the Conchords. Who really knew these guys are gonna be big from geek culture to TV phenomenon? Their music may be witty and funny enough to be popular, but its their TV series, broadcast by HBO, that shot them into worldwide fame. Its one thing to have a brilliantly written show, but mix it with brilliantly written songs and music videos and you have genius. And if it weren't for the TV series, I wouldn't have gotten to know about the band and wouldn't have gotten to love them as much as I do now. They have done two seasons and who knows if they decide to make a third.

There are 2 different versions of their songs, live and studio-recorded. So I will be focusing on the studio-recorded and series-broadcast version since they're made "professionally".



Lets get on it shall we?

10.
FRODO, DON'T WEAR THE RING

First thing, the show mentions/references mega-hit movie series The Lord of the Rings because... thats only thing the entire world associates to New Zealand. And what better way to give tribute by having a combination of folk, metal and rap and having all the show's characters do impersonations of LOTR's key characters and moments?

9.
CAROL BROWN



This is from the episode that was directed by autuer filmmaker Michel Gondry and you can clearly see why it so. Conchords really needed Gondry's and they are a perfect match. While being cute and amusing, it does give a good play on ex-girlfriends singing as a choir about the worthlessness of Jermaine. Its spot on that he kept telling them to shut up.

8.
I'M NOT CRYING

The pilot episode of the show had three songs and each of them succeeds tremendously in illustrating the type of show the audience are in for. This last song shows that kind of wackiness and awesomeness this tiny duo from New Zealand are capable of as they'll cover all kinds of music genres from romance ballads, techno to a depressing emotional. That subtle and awkward humor are presented so well from the whispering "i'm making a lasagna.... for one" to the belching high-note finale.

7.
FASHION IS DANGER

This is one of Conchord's best blend of freaky and cool. Leading from the funny hair-gel scene to the face posing that can rival Zoolander, they are having so much fun when they are parodying or at least living the 80s. It is as if you are watching a wild and out-of-place music video that came from the 80s. Conchords does also provides handy model tips for posing like demonstrating how to pose like a swan.

6.
LEGGY BLONDE

When Murray actually got up and sing for the first time, we all came in our pants with excitement. Murray may be the most favorite character in the show for a good 85% of the entire fans and it made him so much awesome. Murray is the manager for the band and he enlisted their help to send a love song to his office crush, a tech-support whom he dubbed "Leggy Blonde". The only piece of lyrics Murray contribute to the song writing were "I had a budgie, but it died" and "I like pie". Plus it is a nice add for Jermaine to add a thong song.

5.
BOWIES

Bowies... in... space... how could not have an awesome concept like that? Aside from Jermaine's great impersonation of David Bowie from all three eras, this song and music video goes down and get freaky just like Bowie. Its genius that their questions to Bowie's freakiness are one good lead to another such as "leading their jumper" or "asking if the space cold makes his nipples go pointy". They place many references of Bowie in nice and clever spots in the song and the video is just, well, freaky.

4.
ROBOTS

The next song in the pilot that established the Conchord's hilarity and wittiness. Promising the audiences an epic robot apocalypse in the distance future of the year 2000 (the robots rised up in the late 90s). Its not all bad for the robot uprising since there are no more unethical treatment of the elephants and that are two kinds of dances: the robot and the robo-boogie. They also rock out with a binary solo filled with zeros and ones. Unfortunately the show didn't extend out the full song and the complete version can only be heard live or on the studio album. So I present you the album version instead.

3.
HIPHOPOPOTAMUS VS. RHYMENOCEROS

Other than Eminem, Conchords proved to everyone that white New Zealanders can rap while sporting cool-ass rap names. Each of them rap about who they are like Rymenoceros raps about how he was raised a rapper and rhino and Hiphopopotamus raps how his lyrics are bottomless........ahem... They ask you not to diss them and be very constructive with your feedback. And like they say, there ain't no party like yo nanna's tea party.

2.
WE'RE BOTH IN LOVE WITH A SEXY LADY

While its awesome that Kristin Wigg was on to have the Conchords to fight over her, this is a very smart and funny take on Usher and R Kelly's song, Same Girl. Although I perfer this over Usher and R Kelly's. The lyrics proved to be fast yet very clever and witty to parody over the obviousness and obliviousness that they both are in love with the same sexy lady. Especially they fight if her name was Barbera or Brah Brah. But hey, they are accepting to her condition of having a sexy lazy eye.

1.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL (IN THE ROOM)

Imagine this. Imagine you don't know about Flight of the Conchords. Imagine you don't know any of their songs or heard of them. And then you decide to check out their TV show. You starting the pilot, getting to know their characters and the humor for a while. And suddenly this came on.

That is what it was like for me. The first song from the pilot and it already fully established what the show is about. And I immediately fell in love with it. Its awkward and witty lyrics that tries to woo the most beautiful girl in the entire room, which depends on the street, cements the character's personality and description and the setting of the show. Its a perfect parody of a love ballad by Prince that I would gladly sing to my girlfriend. She can spend part of her time modeling for me, while keeping her normal job.



So thats my Top 10. What's your opinion?