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 Post subject: What are the FUNNIEST bands you can think of?
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The ones that make you laugh (in a good way, not derisively) just about every time. Are there any particular songs that do it for you?

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The Bonzo Dog Band
Still funny, even the 1000th time.
Especially "The Sound Of Music" -- still elicits an involuntary, audible guffaw. Every. Stinking. Time.
Love that band.
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Nomeansno and their offshoot, Hanson Brothers.

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I'm gonna add another one:
Steely Dan
Hell, their name alone is the name of a steel fucking machine from Burroughs' Naked Lunch. And their lyrics are just subversive and clever and occasionally very funny.

Also: De La Soul has a pretty great sense of humor.

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Leonard Cohen
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Moxie Wrote:
the frogs


there goes the watermelon seed up my snoot snout
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sorry

the frogs - i'm sad bc my goat just died today
mothers - harry you're a beast
ween - mister, won't you please help my pony, fluffy
smog - ex-con
silver jews - how to rent a room
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Anybody remember Scatterbrain?

And I second Ween (The wheels fell off, the bottom dropped out, the checks all bounced, i came in your mouth)

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pinehurst Wrote:
Anybody remember Scatterbrain?



I try not to, but every once in a while a post like this comes along and whoops, there they are.
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pinehurst Wrote:
Anybody remember Scatterbrain?


And their cover of Cheech & Chong's Earache My Eye? :lol:

fp <------ owns both Here Comes Trouble and Scamboogery.

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Type O Negative.

not musically, but Peter Steele in between songs has such a dry self depreciating sense of humor, its become kind of a hit hearing him chatter between songs.

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pinehurst Wrote:
Anybody remember Scatterbrain?



DONT...CALL....ME.....DUDE!

i have it on cassette. id buy it on cd if i found it for the right price.
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The Fools: "Psycho Chicken", "Life Sucks, Then You Die", "I Rock, Therefore I Am"
The Colorblind James Experience: "A Different Bob"
Bongos, Bass, and Bob: all of it
Kill Ugly Pop: "Purple Haze/Leatherface Gets Experienced"
Blotto: "My Baby's The Star of a Drivers Ed Movie", "Metal Head"
The Dickies: pick a cover, any cover
John Otway: "Headbutts"
Percy Pavillion/Captain Sensible: "You're An Extra, Baby"
Denim: lots o' stuff
The Toy Dolls: lots o' stuff
Splodge: lots o' stuff
Spizz Energi: "Where's Capt. Kirk?"
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I wish I woulda held onto my copy of Scatterbrain's "Here Comes Trouble"...I don't think I ever traded it in, but I dunno what happened to it. Around the same time there was a band called Lord Tracy that had a couple funny songs, like "Piranha" : "This ia a song about a FISH...and fish are BAAAAAADDDD!!!!!!"

But my vote for this thread goes to Too Much Joy. I can't think of another band that came up with more funny lines while not being an out & out comedy act.
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But my vote for this thread goes to Too Much Joy. I can't think of another band that came up with more funny lines while not being an out & out comedy act.


"Long-Haired Guys Form England" springs to mind
Just like the guy from Midnight Oil
Except he's bald and from Australia

Yeah, I still like those guys.
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TMJ's stuff holds up surprisingly well. I can't think of another line on the topic of aging I like better than :

"The Playboy centerfold's younger than me"
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ye merry gentlespoon Wrote:
Half Man Half Biscuit


This was a real band, Spoon? With a following & everything? A hundred years ago a camp counselor of mine had a tape of theirs with a song called "Fuckin 'ell, it's Fred Titmus!" Genius.

Oh, and Zappa needs to be mentioned.
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If we're talking visually funny I find GWAR rather hilarious.

Morrissey, despite his public reputation as a misery, regularily gets a chortle out of me.

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anything by the Butthole Surfers or ween
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