Well it’s time for that most foolish of days: Logan Paul’s birthday. Otherwise known as April Fool’s Day. And what’s a better joke than me actually putting out a playlist that’s not just my favorite songs from the month?

The are all songs I think fit the April Fool’s Day aura. Not all of them are funny “haha”, some of them are funny “weird”. Either way, here’s some silly tracks to soundtrack your japery with:

This is a song constructed from an assortment of silly sounds and random audio clips. I believe the kids call it “sampling”. It’s funky and it’s kind of funny! Play it at your April Fool’s party (which is something I assume we all do every year) and watch all your guests get down with it!

A catchy little ditty about rebelling against oppressive leaders and rejecting the idea that any one religion is superior to any other. Fun for the whole family!

Weird Al is like the big godfather grandaddy of all funny songs. Dr. Demento is like his proud father teaching him the ways of the trade and pushing him to go further in life. So I guess Dr. Demento is like the great-grandaddy of funny songs? Or maybe he’s more like a cool uncle or something. The Ramones are a band from Queens.

I heard this song while waiting in line at a photo shop to get my pictures developed and I really fell in love with how the vocals are mixed so loudly that when it’s played on overhead speakers at a low volume you can’t really hear much else. I think this song is supposed to also be about religion or “society” or something. The more I listen to it the more conflicted my opinion gets. The lyrics make me feel like I’m being lectured at by my friend’s mom who’s always wearing a denim maxi skirt.

You don’t see what I see, but you can try.

One symptom of the modern internet age is that we’re all constantly made to feel like we must have a take or opinion on every single pop culture object that enters into the public consciousness. Enough is enough I say! Let me be unsure or uneducated or out-of-the-know about anything!

“How do you feel about Timothee Chalamet’s most recent interview?”

Who cares!

“Did you see what Kim Kardashian wore to the Met Gala?”

No!

“Do you think it’s problematic that Crumbl Cookies hired Woody Allen to direct their Super Bowl ad?”

Woody Allen’s still alive?

Most of these things will have no effect on my life at any given point and the fact that I am being asked to care about them feels like a direct attack on the ever-dwindling number of minutes I have to live. The best take on Cassavetes is no take.

There’s something like 40 different remixes of this song and I can never pick a favorite. It’s a funny, offbeat song about loving the city you live in so much it feels like the world is reading your mind.

World’s most accurate song about Sacramento.

Me in the aforementioned long line of cars.

I was scanning through that Dr. Demento album and also saw this and I just couldn’t not include it. Institutionalized performed by Brak with a ukulele/mouth harp backing track? Irresistible. Kids, play this and drive your parents insane!

Now that The Muppet Show has been revived, I can spread the propaganda that I really want to see this song performed by Muppets. Or at least with some kind of Muppet backing group for the vocals. Whoever the next celebrity guest is on the show needs to get on this. I’m not sure if any A-list celebrities out there are die-hard Moxy Früvous fans but if so, you know what to do.

What it sounds like in my brain 24/7 unless I take my Adderall. Not exactly a funny song but it is…

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…humoresque. I’ll see myself out.

This is one of those songs that I objectively know is corny but it’s so catchy and when it came out “I almost missed my first handjob” became my new favorite vocal stim. Sleazy summertime music.

This is going to ruin the tour.

Singing this from memory into Shazam because I can’t remember the name: call that Mock Turtle Soup.

One of the most difficult things to navigate in day-to-day life can be the divide between how you see yourself and how others see you. The gap between those two constructs of personhood can drive you to madness and depression. The only way to handle it is to maintain a positive attitude and have a strong sense of self. If you like to play the drums: play the drums! Follow your heart and one day somebody else besides you will call you by your stage name.

Unfortunately feels timelier by the minute.

I have long been a defender of the song “Lola” by the Kinks as being an actually very progressive and inspiring song about falling in love with a trans woman despite the societal stigma. After all, it’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola. The narrator of the song worships her literally on his knees, loving her for who she is, not in spite of it. And once you actually stop and listen to the lyrics, you realize they’re not objectifying or degrading in the slightest. After a couple minutes, most people I talk to about this get over their preconceived notions of the track and come to see it that way as well. I think I’m going to have a harder time with this one.

This is actually a really sad song about an unrequited queer crush from childhood entering back into your life unexpectedly and bringing up all that past heartbreak. But there’s a theater kid stink on it in a way I can’t really quantify. Plus, there’s nothing funnier than throwing one really mopey song into your funny playlist, especially if it sounds like this and you put it after AC/DC.

There’s this online competitive shooter I play sometimes with my friends, and we have a tradition that whenever we win a tournament, we play this song in celebration. I don’t remember how it started but let me tell you: nothing hits as good as hearing this track does after coming back from a losing streak.

First Ocean Man, now another varietal of man has entered the chat. Mix the two together and you get Mud Man!

I have it on good authority that this song is a 100% true story.

Song of the summer, every summer, as far as I’m concerned. Headphone destruction simulator.

Just good advice! Theme song for the slice-of-life anime that a wizard cursed me to live inside forever.

New Cheekface, baby! When government rounds up all the trans people and sticks us in a black site, this is the song I’m playing at the first sleepover. (/≧▽≦)/ *:･ﾟ✧

A song that sounds kind of sweetly melancholic at first, but then you pay attention to the lyrics, and you realize it’s a song about a drunk loser at a bar who bothers women at the bar he frequents. Amazing! This song pulls double duty! You can use it for longing or for making fun of incels!

Jokes aside, this song rules. The Replacements rule. And you know what, dear reader? YOU rule!!! I hope this playlist has brought you comfort on what is otherwise a miserable and torturous day of being duped by all those you love and trust. Keep on laughing in the free world!