I Started a Joke (or Careful: MGMT at Play), Vol. 1

October 13th, 2008posted by Kerry O

There have been many days, more than I care to remember, when the Bee Gees’ 1968 ballad "I Started a Joke" (written and sung by Robin Gibb) was the only song that made any sense of a world that seemed hellbent on shoving overblown, insincere nonsense down our throats and making us pay for the privilege with a tragically forced Olan Mills smile.

While a lute-like acoustic guitar rustles and a cymbal tinkles, Robin emotes (as if John Lennon were being lightly choked with a scarf): "I started a joke, which started the whole world crying / But I didn’t see that the joke was on me, oh no / I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing / Oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me." (The joke was really on Robin when he left the group after continuing to battle with older brother Barry [...]

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