Weirdest Band You Love
The King Prawn ·
April 30, 2012 at 3:05pm
Lance does an amazing job putting music up for us to all enjoy. A lot of it is out of my taste range, but sometimes I wonder why. There was a band I listened to in the '80s that is just plain strange. Even now I pull up the youtubes when I need a fix of "Don't Be a Hippie" or "All the Pretty Girls." The band is The Judys. These guys, The Dead Milkmen, and other off beat bands created the sound track for my teenage years. When I saw Elizabeth's post about Jim Jones and Kool Aid this song immediately started playing in my mind:
Anyone else have strange music from the past that just keeps cropping up?
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Aug '10
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In no particular order:
- They Might Be Giants
- The Dead Milkmen
- The Arrogant Worms
- Corky & The Juice Pigs
- Garfunkel & Oates
- Weebl's Stuff
- Devo
Edited on April 29, 2012 at 11:38pmAug '11
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I will bite, just to point out the odd-ball in my "most played" list: The Do-Nuts - お花見ビーナス . How can you not love a peppy Japanese song about a holiday-season donated to beauty and heavy drinking?
http://www.youtube.com/embed/bQL7AajmOB4
Edited on April 29, 2012 at 11:30pmDec '10
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I was working with a client in Delaware 6 or 7 years ago and heard a story on the car radio about a big controversy brewing at the local music festival. Seems some were a bit offended at the name of this particular group.
Dec '10
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If we're doing some Old McDonald I'll have to put Seamus Kennedy out there.
Mar '11
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Loved the Dead Milkmen - Watching Scotty Die was a favorite of mine for testing the bounds of friendship. If you didn't get the song then you weren't likely to be a friend.
The B-52's cost me a lot of cool points.
Weird Al was my favorite though, and he's still going strong.
Jun '10
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Misthiocracy: In no particular order: · 2 hours ago
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With you, The King Prawn, skipsul, me, how on Earth did we end up doing the stuff and thinking the things that led us to Ricochet? I grew up on The Dead Milkmen, Skinny Puppy, Black Flag, The Misfits, They Might Be Giants, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Pavement, et al. What the hell?
Jun '10
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I'm a huge fan of Split Lip Rayfield, by the way. What they've done with a three-piece and found material is amazing.
Dec '10
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I'm a little surprised the Violent Femmes haven't had a mention yet.
Jun '10
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My goodness, but I have lapsed. I blame the Crane Creek Vineyards 2009 Brasstown Mountain Claret.
Nov '11
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Sorry if this is too uncool, but, Brit-pop boy band, Breathe...particularly "Monday Morning Blues" and "Where Angels Fear"...(You did ask.)
Aug '10
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Warren Zevon. He was one of the greatest songwriters ever. Almost nothing he wrote was conventional. He is still my favorite musical artist.
Apr '12
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Split Lip Rayfield is outstanding! "The Day the Train Went off the Tracks" may be the perfect anthem to describe misspent youth and regret, albeit horrible in the song's case.
Voodoo billy by the creepiest band in the world may be heard in Deadbolt. They HATE hippies and use power tools on stage. Hobo Babylon and Tijuana Hit Squad are two of their great albums in my estimation.
Currently my favorite band is Living Sacrifice. Christian grind-core metal. Their songs "In Christ" and "Not My Own" charge into your head and require a change of heart. A nice musical juxtaposition to my small collection of John Michael Talbot.
Aug '11
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I thought you said "weird". If thats the bar, I would include the Toy Dolls.
Jun '10
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Furius Camillus
Split Lip Rayfield is outstanding! "The Day the Train Went off the Tracks" may be the perfect anthem to describe misspent youth and regret, albeit horrible in the song's case.
Voodoo billy by the creepiest band in the world may be heard in Deadbolt. They HATE hippies and use power tools on stage. Hobo Babylon and Tijuana Hit Squad are two of their great albums in my estimation.
Currently my favorite band is Living Sacrifice. Christian grind-core metal. Their songs "In Christ" and "Not My Own" charge into your head and require a change of heart. A nice musical juxtaposition to my small collection of John Michael Talbot. · 10 minutes ago
Agreed. In answer to Jack White's recent lament that there are no characters in modern music, Split Lip Rayfield supplies them in spades.
I will now be spending some time with Voodoo Billy, based on your rec. They'd better be creepy!
Dec '10
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Thanks for the tip. I listened to a lot of Christian metal and punk during that time of life as well. I still love some Deliverance, Crucified, One Bad Pig (whoever did this video is a genius, Barren Cross, Vengeance Rising (before Roger went off the rails), Ghoti Hook, Tourniquet, and many others.
Jun '10
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Dramman
I thought you said "weird". If thats the bar, I would include the Toy Dolls. · 7 minutes ago
If we're going to get weird (as in outside the bounds of society's ken), then you just can't beat the trio of Dead Can Dance, Coil, and Throbbing Gristle.
Dec '10
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Casey Taylor
Dramman
I thought you said "weird". If thats the bar, I would include the Toy Dolls. · 7 minutes ago
If we're going to get weird(as in outside the bounds of society's ken), then you just can't beat the trio of Dead Can Dance, Coil, and Throbbing Gristle. · 39 minutes ago
I should have stipulated that it had to actually be music.
Edited on April 30, 2012 at 3:22amJun '10
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The King Prawn
Casey Taylor
Dramman
I thought you said "weird". If thats the bar, I would include the Toy Dolls. · 7 minutes ago
If we're going to get weird(as in outside the bounds of society's ken), then you just can't beat the trio of Dead Can Dance, Coil, and Throbbing Gristle. · 39 minutes ago
I should have stipulated that it had to actually be music. · 0 minutes ago
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Well, you should've said.
Dec '10
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And speaking of spooky...Rammstein.
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I just want it stated for the record that I find precisely none of these bands to be weird. But, then again, I was having trouble putting anyone else I like in the weird category. I kind of feel like the late, great Poly Styrene could get that descriptor? But there are so many better descriptors. Wild Man Fischer was kind of weird. I always kind of wondered if Sex Pistols were weird or just really funny. I remember the first time I heard Gang of Four I thought they were super out there. Sugarcubes might have changed my life when I first heard them at the age of 13 and I know I'm supposed to think Bjork is weird. But I don't.
Honestly, what I find weird is stuff like Celine Dion or Maroon Five or stuff like that. It just weirds me out so so much.