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ÌýFlight of the Conchords - Hiphopopotamus vs. RhymenocerosÌý (Rigsy - ATL Presenter)
Has to be Flight of the Conchords. Hilarious lyrics but (crucially) amazing songs as well performed by two suitably daft, loveable characters. The nods to the Pet Shop Boys (Inner City Pressure), Marvin Gaye (Think About It) and The Police (You Don't Have To Be...) are all spot on - in fact I'd reference every song they've done if I had the space to do so. But forced to pick one, I'm going for Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros simply because the first time I saw Jermaine follow up the line "I'm the Hiphopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless..." with silence and a shrug is the most I've laughed in the last five years.

The Mighty Boosh - Love Games (Paul McClean - ATL Producer)
ÌýThe hinterland of the sit-com song is not a pleasant place. However, two unlikely chums made a fine art from the most bizarre circumstances. Sorry, what? An undersea Irish cream swilling monster of confused gender who is in possession of a small black living ball of nipples that produces "the funk"? Sure, why not. The thing is, it's not just arty nonsense for the sake of it. This is an actual song. On this one episode of the Mighty Boosh there are other classics such as Sea Funk but Love Games, with its stacatto organ riff, squelchy bassline and ridiculous lyrics is an absolute belter.

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Spinal Tap - StonehengeÌý(Amy McGarrigle - ATL Content Assistant)
The other week I decided to revisitÌýthe influentialÌýcinematic master piece that is...Spinal Tap. Somehow I'd forgotten all about the 'Stonehenge'Ìýscene, where a tiny dolmen descends on a stage shrouded in mist and mystery. Follow that by the elves who threaten to crush 'Stonehenge' as they dance to the folk jig at the end. It's a master piece.

Billy Connolly - Two Little Boys In Blue (Warren Bell - ATL Web King)
The Big Yin took Rolf Harris' twee and sentimental number about two childhood friends who go off to war but still look out for each other and re-versioned it to apply to the alleged activities of a pair of Glasgow policemen who would not have been too popular down at the Ombudsman's office, such was their renegade approach to police work. Dedicated to "everyone in the Glasgow Royal Infirmiry - that is, everyone in there through injuries sustained 'falling down the stairs' of the Central Police Station in Glasgow". Concludes with the audience joining in on a big singalong of the revised chorus: "I'll tell a pack of lies, pull the wool over their eyes, the way the sergeant taught us to..." Classic.

Reeves and Mortimer - We're a Couple of Girls (Steven Rainey - ATL Friend)
As Connor MacCloud (of the Clan MacCloud) was fond of saying in Highlander, "there can be only one". And in the field of comedy songs, the undisputed masters must be Reeves and Mortimer. Whether singing in character as folk sensations Mulligan and O'Hare, or just as themselves, the legendary comic duo have authored some of the silliest and most hilarious songs ever sung. Whilst they're clearly doing their best to make each other laugh, the real masterstroke is the underlying notion that Mr. Vic Reeves ("Britain's top light entertainer and singer") is quite patently taking it very seriously indeed, whilst singing lines like, "I'm Julie, I'm the one with a limp, I'm Carol, and I too have a limp, we read Marie Claire, shop at Fine Fare, and the Dutch have no concept of rust".