Origin/Composer: George Harrison
Year: 1969
For the first day since getting back to Minneapolis, it was a clear day, but unfortunately, I head back to Stanford again today, so I won’t even get the chance to enjoy the extra snowy sunlight. But I’m sure there will be much more sun out west than in the Twin Cities.
Year: 1971
A new year needs a song to buoy the spirit of an entire year. Therefore, I feel like this song is very appropriate. It came as a kind of fatalistic coincidence when I watched Forrest Gump again a few days ago, and finally understood the “Imagine” reference in the mock Late Night with David Letterman interview with Gump and Lennon.
Origin/Composer: Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych
Year: 2004
This is definitely my favorite holiday song. Ali Ling also made alternate lyrics for this 4 years ago for the EPHS math team. If I find them, I’ll put them up here too. This is probably my favorite arrangement of this piece.
Year: 1964
Christmasy and not over(t)ly christmasy at the same time. And it’s piano!
Origin/Composer: Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker)
Year: 1992
So, at Stanford, we have this tradition called Secret Snowflake, where people in the dorm would sign up on a sheet with a “comfort level.” Then, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of Dead Week (the week before finals, where everyone is studying), we assign people stuff to do (which is a bit like Secret Santa, except that we do extreme things–things that would make most people politically unviable). My Wednesday task involved this song. If you want to know what the task was, please ask me in private.
Year: 2004
Hoo, hoo
Everyone, hey, I’ve got something to say
And it touches each one of us every day
It’s hard to admit it’s a little risqué
But I think that it’s time that we all threw our shame away
[Chorus]
Everyone pees in the shower
Don’t try and tell me you don’t
Oh everyone pees in the shower
If you think that I’ll judge you I won’t
If you’re laughing right now,
Then you don’t care who knows
That you pee in the shower
And that’s for sure
But if you’re not laughing
Then you just don’t want people to know
That you pee in the shower
I know that you pee in the shower
[End Chorus]
Sometimes it’s cold
And you don’t even know
When you get in the shower
That you gotta go
When the warm water flows
On your finger and toes
And you stop!
And say, “Ahhh, screw it.”
And you just let it go
[Chorus]
So drink your fill
Do it with pride
If you have doubts
Then I’ll be right at your side
Let’s make a pact
That when we go home tonight
Everyone here will pee in the shower
At your dorm
You’ll pee in the shower
At your grandma’s
Pee in the shower
At the gym
You’ll pee in the shower
At the beach
Pee in the shower
At the Whitehouse
Pee in the shower
C’mon guys
[peevishly]Everyone pees in the shower…
Doc. I don’t actually pee in the shower
Yeah, me neither.
I think it’s sick.
I thought people peed in the shower
Maybe it’s only just me
I thought people peed in the shower
Maybe I need therapy
If you’re laughing right now
It’s because it’s a joke
I don’t pee in the shower
I simply misspoke
But if you’re not laughing
It’s because you think it’s gross
That I pee in the shower
You know that I pee in the shower
Oh you know that I pee in the shower
[crying]
[laughing]
Oh, Doc! We’re just kidding!
Really?
We all pee in the shower!
I don’t just pee in the shower. Sometimes I…
[Chorus]
Shower the people you love with a (yeah!)
Show them the way that you feel (sing it!)
Things are going to be much better
If you pee in the shower
Everyday, oh won’t you pee in the shower
Ahhh, won’t you pee in the shower
Bum bum ba ba bla bla
If you pee in the shower
Origin/Composer: Doug Hopkins (of Gin Blossoms)
Year: 1993
Great song. It’s my study song for tonight as I write the papers that I planned to do over Thanksgiving break, but didn’t really get around to doing.
Origin/Composer: Rivers Cuomo
Year: 2005
Still waiting for an album from Weezer that tops their Blue Album.
Origin/Composer: Mel Brooks, Brian Morris, and John Morris
Year: 2005
The disturbingly hilarious song from one of the funniest musicals ever. I would write more, but wow do I need to study for my Math 51H midterm and write my research paper.
CHORUS:
Germany was having trouble
What a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore
Its former glory
Where, oh, where was he?
Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me
LEAD TENOR STORMTROOPER:
And now it’s…
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Rhineland’s a fine land once more!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Watch out, Europe
We’re going on tour!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany…
CHORUS:
Look, it’s springtime
LEAD TENOR STORMTROOPER:
Winter for Poland and France
CHORUS AND STORMTROOPER:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
CHORUS:
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
STORMTROOPER:
Come on, Germans
Go into your dance!
STORMTROOPER “ROLF”:
I was born in Dusseldorf und that is why they call me Rolf.
STORMTROOPER “MEL”:
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party!
ULLA:
The Fuhrer is coming, the Fuhrer is coming, the Fuhrer is coming!
STORMTROOPER #1:
Heil Hitler!
STORMTROOPER #2:
Heil Hitler!
LEAD TENOR STORMTROOPER:
Heil Hitler!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
ALL:
Heil Hitler!
ROGER:
Heil myself
Heil to me
I’m the kraut
Who’s out to change our history
Heil myself
Raise your hand
There’s no greater
Dictator in the land!
Everything I do, I do for you!
CHORUS:
Yes, you do!
ROGER:
If you’re looking for a war, here’s World War Two!
Heil myself
Raise your beer
CHORUS:
Jawohl!
ROGER:
Every hotsy-totsy Nazi stand and cheer
CHORUS:
Hooray!
Every hotsy-totsy Nazi…
ROGER:
Heil myself!
CHORUS:
Every hotsy-totsy Nazi…
ROGER:
Heil myself!
CHORUS:
Every hotsy-totsy Nazi…
ROGER:
…stand and cheer!
THE HEIL-LOs:
The Fuhrer is causing a furor!
He’s got those Russians on the run
You gotta love that wacky fun!
The Fuhrer is causing a furor
They can’t say “no” to his demands
They’re freaking out in foreign lands
He’s got the whole world in his hands
The Fuhrer is causing a furor!
ROGER:
I was just a paper hanger
No one more obscurer
Got a phone call from the Reichstag
Told me I was Fuhrer
Germany was blue
What, oh, what to do?
Hitched up my pants
And conquered France
Now Deutschland’s smiling through!
But it wasn’t always so easy…
It was 1932. Hindenburg was working the Big Room and I…
I was playing the lounge. And then I got my big break.
Somebody burned down the Reichstag. And, would you believe it?
They made me Chancellor. Chancellor!
It ain’t no mystery
If it’s politics or histery
The thing you gotta know is
Everything is show biz
Heil myself
Watch my show
I’m the German Ethel Merman
Dontcha know
We are crossing borders
The new world order is here
Make a great big smile
Everyone sing heil to me
Wonderful me!
And now it’s…
CHORUS:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Goose-step’s the new step today
ROGER:
Springtime!
Goose-steps!
CHORUS MEN:
Bombs falling from the skies again
CHORUS:
Deutschland is on the rise again
ROGER & CHORUS:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
U-boats are sailing once more
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
ROGER:
Means that…
CHORUS:
Soon we’ll be going…
ROGER:
We’ve got to be going…
CHORUS:
You know we’ll be going….
ROGER:
You bet we’ll be going…
ROGER & CHORUS:
You know we’ll be going to war!!
Origin/Composer: Cathy Dennis and Simon Ellis
Year: 2001
S Club 7 is a band formed from a TV talent show, singing across the country and Britain, and doing other stuff. This song is the only song of theirs I liked, and it’s one of my few favorite super-sappy pop songs. All pop songs sound pretty much the same now, and generally, it’s really bad, but this one is definitely the diamond in the rough.