Tom Lehrer - Oedipus Rex
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This is one of the newest, and Best Tom Lehrer song i heard. Thank you to my friend Kit, who introduced me to it.
I am wondering if i should do something more to my Tom Lehrer music videos than jsut the usual picture. So if you got an idea please tell me.
Song: Oedipus Rex
Singer: Tom Lehrer
Album: An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
My favorite Tom Lehrer quote is by far “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Noble Peace Prize.”
Relevant even today!
Not thar funny
@@no99mnecfw really now, well maybe you should go watch count dankula's video on the man,
@@no99mnecfwIt’s not supposed to be, because it’s an objective fact
@@mitchellwright5478
It’s “Nobel”.
-Grammar Nazi
...be sweet and kind to Mother, now and then, have a chat. Buy her candy or some flowers or a brand-new hat, but maybe you had better let it go at that..."
An absolutely hilarious line with flawless delivery. Lehrer is a genius. Love him.
okay okay, i will
Absolutely right!
Chard O'Mania That's one of my favorite lines of his too.
Even the elements song makes me laugh and there really isn’t a joke to that one. The guy’s delivery was so eccentric and his inflections were so utterly absurd. Love the guy
Lyrics:
From the Bible to the popular song,
There's one theme that we find right along;
Of all ideals they hail as good,
The most sublime is motherhood.
There was a man though, who it seems,
Once carried this ideal to extremes.
He loved his mother and she loved him,
And yet his story is rather grim.
There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex,
You may have heard about his odd complex.
His name appears in Freud's index
'Cause he loved his mother.
His rivals used to say quite a bit
That as a monarch he was most unfit.
But still in all they had to admit
That he loved his mother.
Yes, he loved his mother like no other,
His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother.
One thing on which you can depend is,
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is.
When he found what he had done,
He tore his eyes out, one by one.
A tragic end to a loyal son
Who loved his mother.
So be sweet and kind to mother,
Now and then have a chat.
Buy her candy or some flowers,
Or a brand new hat.
But maybe you had better let it go at that.
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex
And you may end up like Oedipus.
I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus
Than end up like old Oedipus Rex.
This is horrible... I love it.
Just don’t love your mother ok?
@@feartheghus no wait, just don't love her... Too much...
@@feartheghus just dont love your mother like oedipus rex*
I'm sending this to my english teacher. Maybe it will get me some more time on my Oedipus essay.....
Well? Did it work?
It did not.
@@glassesguy904 hard luck mate
@@glassesguy904 was a good shot anyway
I wish that I could see what he is showing them...
"Ooooooooor, you might end up like Oedipus..."
Looks like 28 people couldn't leave it at that.
They sure LooOOoovedd their mother
Wooden Nickel what are you talking about?
A true icon. Brilliant.
the song was very entertaining and funny; i loved it. i really like how he made the piano tune all happy and entertaining when he said, "and yet his story is rather grimm." lol
Genius.. pure and simple. genius.
Thank you Alice Freer to have introduced me to this amazing chansonnier.
1:57 The song begins now.
no no no Tom is a comedian, not just a musician. The talking is all part of the act.
But the song is catchy.
Thanks
Between my Doctor Demento and my sainted mother who owned several of the Professors lps. I came up knowing of his talents by the time 1969 came around.
I still have those old records. But I fear I will be forced to sell them in the coming weeks
Love the ragtime riffs
This man I is not a musician he is a comedian!
I love it!
You know I wasn’t expecting a murdered by words level of rant when I posted the joke comment
Just awsome
"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth! I knew this well, But made myself forget. I should not have come." Tiresias
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
94 years young? Wonderful
This is from "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer" and was released in 1959.
rly i grew up w/ this played in my house 24/7 since i was about 6... im 15
see the generations arent too different... WE ALL LIKE TO LAUGH @ TRAGEDIES
Happy Mother's Day!
'...rock 'n' roll and other children's music.'
:)
I'd totally rather marry a duck-billed platypus than end up like Oedipus.
Hector Vicuna I wonder how many songs have duck billed platypus in the lyrics as a rhyme.
@MarkNie1 I don't get how it's redundant, besides being a quote.
A guess there is no kind of platypus without a duckbill.
anyone here from 6.0002 mit ocw introduction to computational thinking and data science?
It has nothing to be envious of your mothers love toward your father. The Oedipus complex is when a boy is attracted to his mother. It's called that because Oedipus married his mother (although he didn't know)
I have wondered for years: what is the musical reference at 2:25 that the audience finds so funny?
I think they're just laughing because they know the Oedipus story and the happy light hearted tune doesn't fit it.
The only other Tom Lehrer song I have heard is the Element's Song. This one is just as good. :)
FAN bloody TASTIC!!! He is still the best, put him up against anyone living (go ahead...lol) and he'd still SLAY me :)
my dad showed me this song after i told him about the chris chan jail saga
@mabarry3 So I'm a couple of months late, but hey. I'm pretty sure he didn't cough;rather, everybody that knew what Oedipus Rex is about understood where he was going.
1:58
There's no comparison!
Respond to this video... So, since it's their name, it is supposed to be redundant.
He taught Math at UCSC as I recall.
No, not M.I.L.F., M.O.M.I.L.F.!!
so waht if i dont konw how to spell? :P
Is it just me, or does it seem like the audience had the plague?
only tom lehrer would be able to find a word that rhymes with "oedipus"
Yes. Only Tom Lehrer. Or another person.
@@NxDoyle bruh I was 16 when I wrote this okay 😆
@@tarantinosnumber1fan How old *are* you, then?
@@i_what9584 idk dude do the math
@@tarantinosnumber1fan I physically can't without your actual age??
Have enjoyed his humor for 60 years and still come back to hear him regularly.
I found him through Dr. Demento when I was but a child and have been loving listening to him for 30 years :)
Me, too!! :-D
Every Christmas, every spring☺
I discovered him 60 years ago when I was 14 ish. Most of his songs were unsuitable for children then, but my mother, having a wicked sense of humour, was quite happy for me to listen to them with her. She had to explain a few things, like masochism, the Oedipus complex, drugs,and a lot of ‘It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier
I’m late to this comment but I wanted to say something. I found Tom earlier this year. I am younger (part of gen-z). I love musical comedy and I can listen to Tom Lehrer Over and over without getting bored. I’m glad I found him
When my Ancient Greek teacher was a professor at a different college, a woman who also worked there was given a $50,000 grant to do an interpretive dance full-length MOVIE version of one of Sophocles' Oedipus plays (Antigone, to be specific).
OEDIPUS. INTERPRETIVE. DANCE. FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF.
You deserve to be paid twice that to sit and watch the event.
Runing for you life, from Creon of Thebes
He's brandishing a knife, Creon of Thebes.
@@alpaczka6078 He’s stabbing you in the leg now,
Actual cannibal Creon of Thebes!
There was certain a lot of pelvic thrusts
Amazing.
I'm writing an essay on Oedipus... It's due in three days...
Five years later, how did that essay turn out?
MaximumLearn Animations i wanna know to
Same here
I hope not too many quotes!
So, how’d that essay go?
Her trolls would say, quite a bit,
That as a goddess she was quite unfit.
But even they had to admit,
Chris LOVED her mother.
Fuck you. Take my like
From the Bible to the popular song
There's one theme that we find right along
Of all ideals they hail as good
The most sublime is motherhood
There was a man though, who it seems
Once carried this ideal to extremes
He loved his mother and she loved him
And yet his story is rather grim
There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud's index
'Cause he loved his mother
His rivals used to say quite a bit
That as a monarch he was most unfit
But still in all they had to admit
That he loved his mother
Yes, he loved his mother like no other
His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother
One thing on which you can depend is
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is
When he found what he had done
He tore his eyes out, one by one
A tragic end to a loyal son
Who loved his mother
So be sweet and kind to mother now and then have a chat
Buy her candy or some flowers or a brand new hat
But maybe you had better let it go at that
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex, complex
And you may end up like Oedipus
I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus
Than end up like old Oedipus Rex
Proverbs 31 is the one chapter of the Bible that comes to mind from that first line.
Thank you
19 people are duck-billed platypuses
oh noooooooooo. now it 29!!!!
33 now
They are reproducing
They have all had a sense of humour bypass and are all very easily offended. We should feel sorry for them. OK, we should, but..............
Don't call them out, or they'll start sweating milk everywhere.
I have loved Tom Lehrer since I was 11. I'm 55 now. His humor is dated but still timely.
+Ima Fish Dated!? i'm in highschool, going to college and I'd say hell yeah this is funny!... then again can't say i'm like the rest of my generation...
+Ima Fish I consider his humor timeless. :) And peerless.
Oh, I think his music is as relevant now as it ever was!
I'm 12 and love it! :D
I’m glad that Tom Lehner is still staying relevant, though perhaps not quite as popular.
This song is dedicated to Christine Weston Chandler
Took me a good minute to realize who you meant-
Fuckin killed me for a second because this came out of nowhere on a years old video lol
@@mitchellwright5478 I know! What's up? :D
Chris...
Who dat?
Oh god you guys are here from the chris-chan thing too 💀
anyone here from overly sarcastic productions
Th Random Pug me
yes obviously
Me!
Yep, same.
Yep
This guy is so funny! Tom Lehrer has officially put a great first impression on me. He does have a point when he says that movies are only known for their songs at first. But I loved how he portrayed the perfect tragedy, especially with Oedipus' personal "mother complex" and because of that, we think of the story as a comedy than a tragedy. This is indeed the simplest interpretation of Oedipus Rex.
I remember one of my friends back in High School gave me a cassette tape of Lehrer's "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer". That was in '88. I've been a huge fan ever since! I must admitt that I hadn't realized how old the songs were. I grew up in Tampa, and we had a Sat. afternoon show called "Creature Feature". The host was Dr. Paul Berrer and he used to lip sync Lehrer's songs, so I knew "Poisoning Pidgeons" as far back as when I was 4 or 5. His stuff will always be funny and relevent! :D
He is truly the sass-master.
This song is bouncy even though Oedipus Rex is a tragic play. 🎭 isn't easy stuff to take classes for at 🏫.
That's why it's funny. Should he have written a tragic song? Would that be funny? No.
@Chris-Chan this is so sad
My dad introduced Tom Lehrer's music to me in the 1970's. Ever since whenever something weird happens in world affairs, I always think: "that is a Tom Lehrer song for sure".
11 years and only 52 dislikes That's impressive
So what else rhymes with duckbilled platypus?
A freakin genius, and way before his time!
I memorized all the songs with my sister and cousin in the late 1960's when I was 9. I didn't always get the humor at that point but still can sing all the songs and entertain friends and family with them regularly. He is an absolute genius in many ways, and a fantastic musician by the way.
I'm just delighted you are sharing them. My cassettes are completely worn and forget the lps. He is so much fun.
Humour can be dated and even a bit dry but it still gets me every time
Tom Lehrer is never out of date, Iseul. Can you imagine the field day he'd be having in 2019?
@@sallieplanty3102 he's still alive
Dated? These songs were way ahead of their time.
@@robrophside3691 Actually Tom Lehrer's songs are timeless!
@@jamesdettmann94 But he has since sadly retired. I'd pay to get him out to perform again!
He's in his 90s!
ImagineTom Lehrer on Trumpism
Anyone else here from Overly Sarcastic Productions?
balrogdahomie I am
balrogdahomie me!!
me
Yass
Yup
oh sick Chris Chans new theme song j dropped!
I really enjoy the song because it summarized somewhat of the story and what Oedipus did like loving his mother and being a father and brother to his children. He made the perfect tradegy into a really entertaining song.
Christian and the hedgehog boys should cover this on their new jail album
HBD #94, April 9, 2022 to Tom Lehrer. This is the best Mothers' Day song ever!
I really want to know what happens before, "May I have the next slide please." ARGHH
As a Classics Major this is officially my favorite thing in the world
I've heard a lot of Tom's songs , but this is the first time I've heard this one . He was great .
FYI: AFAIK, Prof. Lehrer is still alive, living quietly in Southern California. Some time back, he made all his music available in the public domain, which means all of us are free to listen, copy, sing and otherwise disseminate it far and wide. He has made it clear that this part of his life was far in his past and he is done with it.
update: he's still alive!
Who's the guy with the tuberculosis in his lungs who insists on sitting near the mic?
He's dead now, poor thing.
I have news for you but according to Tom Lehrer's Wikipedia article he's still alive.
he is currently 89 and just likes people thing hes dead
No the guy in the background that keeps coughing.
Arthur Morgan.
My favourite Mother's Day song...
Second fav Tom Lehrer song after Werner von Braun
Anyone else coming here after the new Chris-chan development?
this song really summarizes the tragedy to the point. i like how it mixes a bit of comedy into it even though it really is a serious situation Oedipus went through.
Don't fret: Oedipus was a fictional character. So were his mom, dad and kids. They were not real people.
Do you think 16 people loved their mother a little more than was necessary?
Don't forget Hamlet!
Barbara Mountrey And let that also be a lesson to you. Everybody died except poor Horatio who had to deal with the mess!
This is by far the best song he ever wrote, you guys. Not to take away from his other songs-they were all great-but you simply can't compete with this. It's too damn perfect.
He "loved" his mother...
The chuckle at 2:25 is, I think, for a lick from Leroy Anderson's "Fiddle Faddle," an instrumental that was recorded many times in the 1950s.
i found this album at a second hand store and is relatively clean and good playing! no skips, was a good buy! :)
@HexReinette And this is cringe-worthy because? I'd be the happiest person in the world if my teachers played Tom Lehrer songs during class! =D
As a student who has studied the tragedy of Oedipus Rex Tom Lehrer's song makes perfect sense. It is unfortunate that more people didn't see the motion picture but in my opinion the greater reason for why people did not see the movie was probably because of its tragic ending. The public would not like to see such uncommon topics like those discussed in the tragedy. I do agree with Tom Lehrer a good song is an essential element for a movie to be good, as is for a play to be a perfect tragedy.
Tom is my hero.
The land of the boll weevil where the laws are medieval...
This song saved my life.
I wish I can listen to this during my english midterm, I'm sure it could help me with Oedipus portion.
Thank you---this brings back so many memories of childhood. Even more fun to listen as an adult.
"You're way ahead of me"
Tom Lehrer is nothing short of a genius!
song start at 2:00
.. to say nothing of the references to "hit movies of the past few years" as Ten Commandments, Brothers Karamazov, Incredible Shrinking Man etc.
Tom Lehrer's song was great. It makes sense and also tells the whole story. Well maybe not the whole story but the main parts of it. Great way to entertain the audience with teaching a lesson (:
Sarchasm. CHASM. GAP. IT'S A JOKE, SON! *WHAP* YA MISSED IT! *WHAP* ADMIT IT, I'M TOO FAST FOR YA, SON! *WHAP*
I know that this is totally not the point, but Oedipus was supposed to be a pretty good leader, which made it more tragic when he fell. This song is still freaking hilarious, though.
Wow I am so sad that 'Brothers Karamazov cha cha' doesnt exist :'(
when you’re happy, you enjoy the music
when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics…
i feel like im missing something that i should see (video would be nice in other words)
I brought in a recording of this and played it for my high school English class, after we read the book.
i would hack off everyone else arms to be able to write like this..
;-}~
LMAO!
Tom lehrner walked so bo Burnham could run