Conchords Songs We've Never Heard

I know they've talked about a couple of their older songs that they don't play anymore.

Sexy Flower

We had a song called ‘Sexy Flower’. It was a love song from me, a man, to a flower. We had one of those battery-operated toy flowers that danced when you made a noise. Jemaine sang the voice of the flower from off stage and I would serenade this dancing plastic flower. We don't play that one anymore. Mainly because we lost the flower.

What's That Strange Smell?

"
Some songs, people just think we're weird,"
McKenzie says. Case in point: the tender ballad "
What's That Strange Smell?,"
in which a husband's nose alerts him that his wife, lying beside him in bed, is dead. "
Pretty disturbing,"
says Clement. "
We don't do that one anymore."

Does anybody remember any others?

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--- Would pay good money to see Bret serenade a dancing flower.

Hehe well, Nikki has gotten a hold of a couple of those dancing flowers in hopes that someday a Flighty somewhere will be able to give them to the boys as a gift and maybe inspire them to revive the Sexy Flower song...

I don't know of any other though... at least not that I can remember right now.

omg - i TOTALLY want to hear the strange smell song! it sounds hilarious... then again, i do have a morbid sense of humor, as some of you may have noticed ;
)

chrissycubana wrote:omg - i TOTALLY want to hear the strange smell song! it sounds hilarious... then again, i do have a morbid sense of humor, as some of you may have noticed ;
)

I know, right? I love the completely messed-up out-of-left-field songs. Like "
Petrov, Yelyena, and Me"
and to a certain extent "
Bus Driver's Song"
... which they really don't play so much anymore, do they? I think they still do "
Bus Driver's Song"
sometimes, but it seems like they're sort of moving away from songs where they're supposed to be different characters. Even stuff like "
Jenny"
and "
Robots"
are still kind of variations on the same theme.

I dunno. Wild mass guessing.

Speaking of totally messed-up out-of-left-field songs.... Nothin' Wrong.

The first time I heard that I didn't believe that was Bret singing. I had to listen a couple times.

parapluie wrote:Like "
Petrov, Yelyena, and Me"
and to a certain extent "
Bus Driver's Song"
... which they really don't play so much anymore, do they?

Bus Driver's Song was played at almost every show on the tour. And Petrov, Yelyena and Me made a comeback at the end (they played it at the last few shows).

Amily wrote:Speaking of totally messed-up out-of-left-field songs.... Nothin' Wrong.

That's one of my absolute favorite Conchords songs, and I know so many people that don't like it.

Nothin' Wrong is one of my favourite songs of theirs too... I love singing it at the top of my lungs. " title="" border="0"/>

sunnyringo wrote:

What's That Strange Smell?

"
Some songs, people just think we're weird,"
McKenzie says. Case in point: the tender ballad "
What's That Strange Smell?,"
in which a husband's nose alerts him that his wife, lying beside him in bed, is dead. "
Pretty disturbing,"
says Clement. "
We don't do that one anymore."

That is definitely a Bret song. Bret = surreal or dark and surreal.

If you sing that song, I promise I won't judge you!

sunnyringo wrote:

parapluie wrote:Like "
Petrov, Yelyena, and Me"
and to a certain extent "
Bus Driver's Song"
... which they really don't play so much anymore, do they?

Bus Driver's Song was played at almost every show on the tour. And Petrov, Yelyena and Me made a comeback at the end (they played it at the last few shows).

Yeah ... we got "
Bus Driver's Song"
and "
Petrov, Yelyena, and Me."
They said it was the first time they'd played "
Petrov"
in 5 years (I might be getting the number of years wrong). It was awesome.

And "
Petrov"
is the reason we got to hear Bret say he would eat his way out of a ladybug!

sunnyringo wrote:
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--- Would pay good money to see Bret serenade a dancing flower.

As Ami mentioned, I have two vintage dancing flowers in excellent condition. I'm hoping (fingers crossed) I can give them to the guys when I go to NY.

I'm hoping you can too Nikki.

hellomyfriend wrote:

sunnyringo wrote:What's That Strange Smell?

"
Some songs, people just think we're weird,"
McKenzie says. Case in point: the tender ballad "
What's That Strange Smell?,"
in which a husband's nose alerts him that his wife, lying beside him in bed, is dead. "
Pretty disturbing,"
says Clement. "
We don't do that one anymore."

That is definitely a Bret song. Bret = surreal or dark and surreal.

That was my immediate thought too. That and I need to hear the song.

hellomyfriend wrote:They said it was the first time they'd played "
Petrov"
in 5 years (I might be getting the number of years wrong). It was awesome.

Bret did say five years, but he sounded really hesitant. Like they hadn't played it in so long even he wasn't sure how long it had been. And they played it so early in the set too! You'd think that they'd save a song like that for the encore or something, but it was the third song they played.

*JEALOUS OF SAN FRAN PEOPLE*

I wanted so badly for them to play Bus Driver's Song when I went to see them. I wanted it so badly that I just KNEW they weren't going to play it and I was going to be disappointed about it on that looooong bus ride home. But they played it and I nearly died from the happy. Such a good memory.

hellomyfriend wrote:

sunnyringo wrote:
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--- Would pay good money to see Bret serenade a dancing flower.

As Ami mentioned, I have two vintage dancing flowers in excellent condition. I'm hoping (fingers crossed) I can give them to the guys when I go to NY.

Good luck!

Amily wrote:I'm hoping you can too Nikki.

I'd like to give them to anyone *except* Bret. I'm certain my IQ will temporarily drop 50 points if I ever speak to him directly. " title="" border="0"/>

hellomyfriend wrote:

Amily wrote:I'm hoping you can too Nikki.

I'd like to give them to anyone *except* Bret. I'm certain my IQ will temporarily drop 50 points if I ever speak to him directly. " title="" border="0"/>

it is quite difficult, nikki. the outside world gets sorta blurry when he's nearby. but i have confidence that you'll be able to do it! plus, there is just no substitute for those beautiful eyes piercing right into you!! you absolutely MUST experience it for yourself!!!

yis, nikki! u must get that flower to them!!

hellomyfriend wrote:I'd like to give them to anyone *except* Bret. I'm certain my IQ will temporarily drop 50 points if I ever speak to him directly. " title="" border="0"/>

Hee. I did everything I could not to be face to face with Bret at all.

A few years back, like 2003 or so I saw them as part of a comedy fest thingamibob (It was the first time I'd seen them, and they were probably the highlight) and they played "
Think About It"
and another one havn't heard since, and I can only remember one line

"
And if laughter is the best medecine,
Try telling that to a kid with cancer..."


I nearly died laughing on that one, thats why I remember it. It was so beautifully horrible. So...Anyone know which one it was?

omg. petrov = a fav! when they played it at the Orpheum my heart nearly jumped out of my chest, I was so excited;
yay songs about cannibalism + yay Jem's silly Russian accent
(btw, references to "
armfish"
find their way into some of my conversations in the most random ways...)

pukeko wrote:A few years back, like 2003 or so I saw them as part of a comedy fest thingamibob (It was the first time I'd seen them, and they were probably the highlight) and they played "
Think About It"
and another one havn't heard since, and I can only remember one line

"
And if laughter is the best medecine,
Try telling that to a kid with cancer..."


I nearly died laughing on that one, thats why I remember it. It was so beautifully horrible. So...Anyone know which one it was?

hahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!

no clue on that one. but now i'm desperate to hear it!

chrissycubana wrote:... (btw, references to "
armfish"
find their way into some of my conversations in the most random ways...)

I'd like to be a participant in these conversations. " title="" border="0"/>

pukeko wrote:A few years back, like 2003 or so I saw them as part of a comedy fest thingamibob (It was the first time I'd seen them, and they were probably the highlight) and they played "
Think About It"
and another one havn't heard since, and I can only remember one line

"
And if laughter is the best medecine,
Try telling that to a kid with cancer..."


I nearly died laughing on that one, thats why I remember it. It was so beautifully horrible. So...Anyone know which one it was?

This one sounds right up my alley, so I hope I get to hear it one day!!!

sunnyringo wrote:
What's That Strange Smell?

"
Some songs, people just think we're weird,"
McKenzie says. Case in point: the tender ballad "
What's That Strange Smell?,"
in which a husband's nose alerts him that his wife, lying beside him in bed, is dead. "
Pretty disturbing,"
says Clement. "
We don't do that one anymore."

We've never heard "
The Washing Song"
either.

Or "
The Scientist and the French Teacher"




So that's a total of three, right?


I really want to hear "
What's That Strange Smell?"
It sounds like it could be a Bret song. " title="" border="0"/>



ADD: Oops ... four:

"
And if laughter is the best medicine,
Try telling that to a kid with cancer..."

I think it's the right place for this video:

emira wrote:I think it's the right place for this video:

[flash=350,287:hjntnrpn]https://www.youtube.com/v/YD8hX4Y0ILU&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:hjntnrpn]

Look at the way the title of that video is displayed.

They have a son?!?!??