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Post by Sydxelia on May 27, 2014 7:11:32 GMT
This is the thread to talk about and/or share your favorite funny, offbeat or just outright weird recordings.
This song received a lot of airplay on the weekly "Dr. Demento" radio show back in the early '80s. It's still one of my favorite novelty songs. A man meets the woman of his dreams on a train. His heart will never leave her behind. He truly hoped he'd get her in the end.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 27, 2014 12:15:13 GMT
From Napoleon XIV, the guy who gave us "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!," comes 1968's "The Explorer". This is NSFW.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 27, 2014 12:29:26 GMT
Harry Shearer is a satirist best known as a member of Spinal Tap, as well as providing numerous voices for "The Simpsons". In 1990, he took on the subject of censorship with "(If U Want Free Speech) Go to Russia".
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Post by japaneseteeth on May 28, 2014 22:41:08 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 28, 2014 23:44:48 GMT
Five Iron Frenzy were normally "serious" musicians, but they weren't above recording random nonsense and including it on their albums for shiggles. This is probably the best example. As they were messing around in the studio one day, they noticed that the mixing deck had a bunch of pre-recorded samples, each in a different genre. So they picked a bunch of these tracks, and each member of the band sang over one of them, with completely improvised lyrics. The result was "These Are Not My Pants (A Rock Opera)":
The hair metal and the rap parts are the best.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 29, 2014 7:05:26 GMT
"Rock and Roll Doctor" by Travesty Ltd., from 1980. This was immensely popular on the "Dr. Demento" radio show. This video is fan-made.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 29, 2014 7:19:24 GMT
I have a tape of Frank Zappa temporarily taking over the microphone as a disc jockey for some radio station in '79 or '80. This is one of the songs he played. From 1979, here's Gerry and the Holograms with their song of the same name.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 29, 2014 11:26:18 GMT
"What if more recent hit songs had been recorded back in the 1950s? What would they have sounded like?" This was the idea the group Big Daddy took and ran with. Here, they channel the Everly Brothers for their '50s reinterpretation of "Super Freak".
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Post by japaneseteeth on May 31, 2014 0:53:25 GMT
I'm far too easily entertained by Slam Jam remixes.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 31, 2014 3:38:33 GMT
This song's lyrics are all bad Engrish translations.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 31, 2014 4:06:22 GMT
You know you watch too much FIM when you hear "That's our wishness" as "That's Owlowiscious".
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Post by Sydxelia on May 31, 2014 4:28:13 GMT
This is my favorite routine about censorship, taken from Stan Freberg's 1950s radio show. The line he can't get past the censor is, "You get a little drunk and you land in jail."
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Post by Sydxelia on Jun 3, 2014 5:23:12 GMT
Don Bowman is a country novelty singer/musician who was most active in the '60s and '70s. "Hello DJ" is usually heavily beeped, even on the original album, but I found this uncensored version a while back. I suppose it's relatively tame by today's standards, but this was 1972.
"Martha White" was a brand of flour that was a big sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry and country music in general.
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Post by Sydxelia on Jun 7, 2014 18:36:46 GMT
Since this is also the thread for the downright bizarre, here's Jack Kittel's "Psycho," from 1973. The title says it all.
The audio doesn't start until about 10 seconds in.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jun 7, 2014 19:35:17 GMT
The episode of South Park 'Good Times with Weapons' was on the UK version of Comedy Central this week, with it's awesome send up of Shonen Anime theme songs, 'Let's Fighting Love!' That's not gibberish made to sound like Japanese either by the way. It's the real deal, as creator Trey Parker is fluent in the language. Unfortunately, the translation is a little too rude to publish here.
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