soooOOO today I learned about what may be the most shitposty song in history.

I have personally created some shitposty songs, but mostly they are one-off jokes like singing “rudolph the red nosed reindeer” to the tune of “frosty the snowman,” or a bunch of church hymns from my catholic upbringing with “holes” inserted after every instance of “come in glory”

the only shitposty song I’ve made up that is actually recorded and somewhat listenable is when I took the energy pool scene in the classic Tron movie with the water-trickling sound effects and the Wendy Carlos musical score, and I chose 3 segments of the melody, assigned them 1, 0 and null, and ASCII-binary-encoded the words “gay sex” enough times to fill a 2-hour remix (it is somewhat listenable, but only if you are using it as a background for some, um, activity that interests you a whole lot more than the background music)

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but TODAY I encountered a song that has spent the past 51 years being a more extreme shitpost than that.

It is called Hocus Pocus, by Focus. In my opinion the ideal way to experience it is the way I did.

First you listen to the fancy studio-recorded version, just to let it sink in what an absolute mindfuck every second of these 6 minutes and 42 seconds is.

AND then the live version, where just for the hell of it they played the exact same thing but twice as fast.