Unusual music...

[belgareth]

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?

[gaf]

http://www.drdemento.com/
worth a look.

[Holmes]

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

[InternationalPlayboy]

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.

We are the worms
There on the sidewalk
We are the ones who make a squishy

mess,
So watch where you walk

Another Demento favorite is "Hairless Sister," a parody of George

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:

I have a sad story to tell you
It may hurt

your feelings a bit
Last night when I walked into my bathroom
I stepped in a big pile of ...
Shaving cream,

be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen

I think I'll break off with my

girlfriend
Her antics are queer, I'll admit
Each time I say, "Darling, I love you"
She tells me that I'm

full of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen

Our baby fell

out of the window
You'd think that her head would be split
But good luck was with her that morning
She

fell in a barrel of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look

keen

An old lady died in a bathtub
She died from a terrible fit
In order to fulfill her wishes
She

was buried in six feet of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look

keen

When I was in France with the army
One day I looked into my kit
I thought I would find me a

sandwich
But the darn thing was loaded with ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and

you'll always look keen

And now, folks, my story is ended
I think it is time I should quit
If any of

you feel offended
Stick your head in a barrel of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and

you'll always look keen

My music collection is pretty ecletic, but has everything from Spike

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.