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showing my age but the 80s B-52s are one of my favorite bands. The songs are so playful and about different topics. Song about cleaning the house. Song about we
by greggman3 5y ago
showing my age but the 80s B-52s are one of my favorite bands. The songs are so playful and about different topics. Song about cleaning the house. Song about wearing a wig. Song about Mesopotamia. Song about sex under a strobe light.
I'd love recommendations for similarly fun bands.
Not comparable in style but maybe in crazy topics are They Might Be Giants and Aquabats.
- 7357 5y agotalking heads?
- tptacek 5y agoAnd if that's the direction you want to go from the B-52s, Parquet Courts and Kurt Vile are two modern standard bearers for that kind of songwriting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRG3R2FmGlY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRG3R2FmGlY
- exodister 5y agoSparks
- castlecrasher2 5y agoKate Bush and Oingo Boingo
- prpl 5y agoGwar, Deerhoof
- handrous 5y agoDeerhoof popped right into my head on reading that post, too. Kate Bush and Talking Heads, from other posts, are others I'd personally second, for the requested qualities. Older stuff, I'd say the White Album is up that alley, if not all Beatles music. Maybe The Zombies? Other recent stuff to throw on the pile... maybe Scissor Sisters? Might be too dark to fit the request, though.
- BucketsMcG 5y agoSuper Furry Animals. Mullet haircuts, pushy parents vicariously living out their dreams through their children, sleep deprivation, Che Guevara's asthma, golden retrievers, the 1992 military coup in Sierra Leone, El Niño... Quite a lot of it's in Welsh, too.
- JohnBooty 5y agoThey are varied and wonderful.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoGorky's Zygotic Mynci was another one that was a great Welsh band, psychedelic folk sort of thing, some similarly absurd/surreal lyrics, and the later material some very emotive folk with a unique Brythonic feel. Loved their song writing.
- overlordalex 5y agoScary Bitches is a good one - my favourites are "Lesbian Vampyres From Outer Space", "Birds and Bees", and of course, "Bad Hair Day"
- giglamesh 5y agoFun may not be the right word exactly, but for crazy topics galore I suggest that you look into The Handsome Family.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoI think you’d like Cibo Matto, try Sci Fi Wasabi, Beef Jerky, and 10th Floor Ghost Girl
- vlunkr 5y agoFlaming lips. Their music has gotten a bit too ridiculous lately, but songs like "she don't use jelly" and "yoshimi battles the pink robots", and many others from earlier in their catalog are both silly and heartfelt.
- jkestner 5y agoFlaming Lips is great kids’ music. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song was a favorite.
- adolfojp 5y agoThe Flaming Lips hit... weird. When I first heard Yoshimi I treated it like a whimsical story but then one day I heard it as an escapist fantasy of a child in distress talking about their savior and I got weepy. Is that how you're supposed to interpret the song? It doesn't matter. It hits you how it hits you. Wayne Coyne's voice is awful. He has a terrible singing voice. And yet you don't care because it makes some devastatingly beautiful songs like Do You Realize. I can't listen to The Flaming Lips for more than a few days at a time. Prolonged exposure makes me tired and heavy. But then, after a few months have gone by, I am drawn back to it like a moth to the light.
- bigbillheck 5y ago> I'd love recommendations for similarly fun bands How about some Shonen Knife?
- duderific 5y agoBeck's 90's music was quite quirky
- tclancy 5y agoA band that scratches the same itch for me is Scissor Sisters.
- egypturnash 5y agoSparks. Every single one of their songs starts off as a meticulously crafted piece of pop perfection, then goes severely off the rails at least once. Often more. They've been around for decades and have changed multiple times to match what currently defines "pop".
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- flir 5y agoJohn Prine never took himself too seriously. Lot of humour there. Carter USM might work, or maybe the references would be too British.
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoWhere do The Residents fit into this list?
- sebastian_z 5y agoThe New Pornographers, maybe?