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Novelty Music

  • 12-07-2005 12:45pm
    #1
    MorningStar
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    Hi,

    I have always had a love for novelty music and have collected a few over time. THe problem is it's sometimes hard to hear about some artists or songs are not so popular. Can anybody just mentiion artists or songs they have heard and/or liked.

    e.g. Hayseed Dixie, Dead Millkmen, "United States of What ever" etc...


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  • #2
    treefingers
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    yee-haw, its rodeohead!

    http://www.ateaseweb.com/extra/rodeohead.php

    if you are familiar with radiohead songs then its very likely that this is the funniest thing you will ever hear. otherwise = :confused:


    edit: weird al yankovich. (sp?) he is another novelty cover song artist....


  • #3
    MorningStar
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    Weird Al Yankovic

    Is the god father of angry polka. Strangely he is actually really talented musician and really knows his stuff. He presented Dr. Demmento for a while and is kind of a creation of the show in the first place.

    Rodeohead are decent enough Hayseed Dixie is a similar idea but with rock classics the do a great version of "Walk this Way"

    www.weirdomusic.com is worth a try for some stuff I like too.

    I have a lot of novelty music and it isn't all covers but they tend to be the easiest to find or hear. I have Leonard Cohen rapping on a record!


  • #4
    melekalikimaka
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    are the dead milkmen kinda big??? cracking band tho


  • #5
    Pigman II
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    Beatallica


  • #6
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    50 pence, there's a thread about him on the rap/hip hop forum.


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  • #7
    Geiger
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    Where have I heard of the dead milkmen? Have they had anything biggish before?


  • #8
    Pigman II
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    'Punk Rock Girl' is prob their biggest tune


  • #9
    PiE
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    Richard Cheese?

    *shrug*


  • #10
    MorningStar
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    melekalikimaka wrote:
    are the dead milkmen kinda big??? cracking band tho

    No not really. They had a few college hits in the US but they didn't ever really get very big. I met them last year at their memorial gig (one of them is dead) last year in Philly. I loved them as a teen and it was a tad deflating to talk to them.

    Nice guys but I had a view of them being really successful and happy. They are broke in a way that you don't really see here and the gig was for a band memember who comitted suicide. I seemed like a rich Irish guy as I had flown over to see them which was really odd. If you ever want to know what Dublin was like in the 80s go to Philly, loads of goths and punks and no money.

    They are still doing music in different bands now, Butterfly Joe are decent.


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