http://www.drdemento.com/
worth a look.
I was sorting
through some of my old music CDs and ran across a few old favorites. Anybody here familiar with Dr. Demento? I am
listening too and grinning about several of his collections. How did I ever forget such classics as 'Masochism
Tango' or 'The Homecoming Queens Got a Gun' or 'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park'?
How about the rest of you?
Strange, sick or otherwise off the wall favorite music?
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.drdemento.com/
worth a look.
early 40's white male or or
The Aquabats - they're my latest
discovery. Really kooky, fun, amazing band. Not unlike Devo, but even farther out there.
I haven't seen them
live yet, but I've heard their shows are perpetual insanity.
Official Site
If a guy's a cocksucker in his life, when he dies, he don't become a saint. - Morris Levy, Hitmen
Holmes' Theme Song
I've always liked
weird or novelty music. From the early days of listening to my grandma's copy of Jerry Lewis singing "Sunday
Driving" and her 78 rpm record of "It's in the Book/Grandma's Lye Soap." Haven't had Dr. Demento in my area for
decades, but one of my prize recordings (though not a very good copy, taped off AM radio) is "We Are the Worms." It
is a parody of "We Are the World." The doc was served with a cease and desist order by the "...World" people and had
to stop playing it.
Another Demento favorite is "Hairless Sister," a parody of GeorgeWe are the worms
There on the sidewalk
We are the ones who make a squishy
mess,
So watch where you walk
Michael's "Careless Whisper." A bit of trivia, Weird Al Yankovic got his start due to the doctor. He recorded "My
Bologna" ("My Sharona") in the bathroom of his university radio station where he worked and sent it to the
doc.
I also like Stan Freeberg's version of "Banana Boat Song," and have a Demento album with a song,
"Shaving Cream" on it that's pretty funny:
My music collection is pretty ecletic, but has everything from SpikeOriginally Posted by Drake Bell
Jones' "Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry" to a Wild Man Fischer album (which I haven't listened to
in a long time). Lately, I've been getting into the Mexican composer, Esquivel, who did "space age jazz" music in
the late 1950s to late 1960s. He was one of the pioneers in that newfangled stereo sound. Pretty primitive to
today's stuff but interesting and fun.
Monty Python, who also have some good songs, Alice Cooper and Frank
Zappa were big influences on me in my formative teen years, so my musical tastes are pretty warped compared to many
people.
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