Hey guys,

do you know song lines that are dedicated to WAM? Or maybe even a whole song?

I was just listening to Ava Max on Spotify and for the 1st time heard her song "Salt" in which she says "when I'm about to celebrate, push my head into the cake" so I wondered if there are any more examples like that.

In Bob Dylan's "Country Pie"

I don't need much and that ain't no lie
Ain't runnin' any race
Give to me my country pie
I won't throw it up in anybody's face

Radiohead's A Wolf At The Door, quite explicitly describes the humiliation of WAM

Get up get the gunge
Get the eggs
Get the flan in the face
The flan in the face
The flan in the face
Dance you fucker dance you fucker
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Don't you flan in the face
Take it with the love its given
Take it with a pinch of salt
Take it to the tax man

Led Zeppelin have a song called Custard Pie, though the lyrics are clearly sexual, you could interpret them from a WAM Pov

Likewise Frank Zappa's "I'm The Slime", great lyrics though it's all about the influence of television.

The Henry Mancini song in "The Great Race" during the big piefight is "Pie in the Face Polka." Can't get much more specific than that!

DNCE's cake by the ocean great example the video is even a huge cake fight.
One of my personal favorites.

From "Never to Be Found" by the band Meat Puppets:

With a tip of the hat we would exit here
Off you go with a pie on your face
Down the road we can see the electric chair
Who'll be the first? I don't know, it's a race.

With a drop of the fly we should exit here
Off you go with the crumbs on your face
One-eyed clown in the road with electric hair
At his best he's a total disgrace.

In Queen's "We will rock you":

You got mud on your face
Big disgrace

https://www.songlyrics.com/queen/we-will-rock-you-lyrics/

As a huge Radiohead fan, I can also confirm that Thom Yorke makes WAM sound absolutely terrifying.


Mine too (obviously).....
https://youtu.be/bbgf5BC_s-4

Red Hot Chilli Peppers Around the World contains the line,

"Fox hole love pie in your face
Living in and out of a big fat suitcase"

Don't Go Down To The Quarry by Peter, Paul & Mary is about a guy trying to cross a quarry at night who drowns in deep mud.

Back in the '70's, I heard a rumor that Peter Yarrow was into mud. Not long after I ran into a mudman who was in some sort of apartment mud wrestling scene back in the '60's and he said he had seen Peter Yarrow at a couple of the events.

Peter used to perform most years at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Decades ago, I was at that festival and talked to a roadie who was either with Peter and others or it was his best friend who was, I forget, and he provided what he said was the true background story on this song.

There is a large quarry just across I-10 where the Fiesta Texas amusement park in San Antonio is located that has vast settling pond of deep creamy clay. Rob Blaine (Messy Fun) and I visited that quarry one night to verify that there was good mud there as he hoped to film there. And, we most definitely observed that there was a railroad siding in there and that they were loading sand onto railcars.

The story is that Peter visited that particular quarry with some folks into mud and that this song was inspired by that visit. Though I've never managed to get backstage and ask Peter myself back when I used to do that festival, I personally think it might be true as there are several elements in the song that match up.

The quarry in the song definitely has railroad tracks in it as well as a vast deep mudpit where there is often a crust on top that an experienced quarryman can walk across without breaking through. If you are not dressed appropriately and got into the mud, you could indeed sink under if no one was there to help you out. And, it is an active quarry that you can only access at night.

So, it all kind of adds up if the information that Peter is into mud is true. Was it this quarry or another one, don't reckon we get to know but, listen to that song a few times, somebody involved in its creation sure knew a thing or two about mud and quarries.

One final thing to mention. Back in the '80's I was approached by a BDSM group in the Austin area who wanted me to provide them with a quarry location with deep mud. I did not trust their intent as it seemed like they were into breathe control and some other dangerous practices so they got no assistance. However, one of them mentioned that years before he had been at a San Antonio area quarry he didn't know the location of doing some sort of mud thing and a famous performer he wouldn't name was part of the group. Probably was Elvis instead, or he was just trying to gain my confidence, who knows, eh? Again, listen to the song and see what YOU think!

Music and anything sexually arousing normally doesnt go together for me, but with SStuff Ill double down and say Karma Police by Radiohead is probably one of the best songs to couple with gunge. Especially done in a way that is punishing. For something a bit lighter, Supergrass - Alright seems like would be super fun.

Flight of the Conchords, "I Told You I Was Freaky":

Let's take my body and we'll cover it with honey
Stick some money to the honey
Now I'm covered in money, honey

Not sure if this has already been done by a producer but this would be a fantastic sketch concept - a WAM album infomercial

Been there done that. We already did shoot a famous slapstick song pie sketch in 1995, with Lisa Volante singing the famous Judy Garland song ....

.."somewhere over the rainbow - weigh a pie"

Long-time SlapstickStuff fans are probably already aware that I made great (over) use of three songs tailor-made to soundtrack cheap pie gags:
--"Three Whipped Cream Pies On The Wall" (the classic Sesame Street bit that might be my earliest pie memory EVER, despite all the pies somehow missing Maria's face)
--"I'm A Funny Guy" (the great Electric Company song with the lyric "I love to toss a pie/ And get it in the eye," complete with sound effect)
--Soupy Sales' on-the-literal-nose "I Love To Get A Pie In The Face"

I couldn't find the YT video to the latter one anymore, but here's a good excerpt of one of the last scenes I shot using 2 of the above 3 songs. Basically the script was "Shelly gets hit with 20 pies and assorted slime while dancing comically to EC and Soupy songs." Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGZDqPBgJIc

"Make 'Em Laugh" (from "Singin' in the Rain"):

You start off by pretending you're a dancer with grace
You wiggle till they're giggling all over the place
And then you get a great big custard pie in the face

"Cake Face" by Steve Aoki. He's the DJ who throws cakes into his audience.

Not many lyrics, mind... "Raise your hands if you're ready for some cake."

I think the video's been posted here before.

I have a nice musical suggestion for wam enthusiasts,
Listen to Smothered hope by skinny puppy,
while looking at a montage of all the wam scenes where the models are obviously on the verge of crying
but are just keeping it together for the sake of the camera,

rinse repeat. Tell me if you've still got your humanity intact after this psychic waterboarding.