Silliest Bands

[mitchell271]

I love me some Megadeth. They've had an impact on my own guitar playing and they've had an even bigger effect on the rock and metal world as a whole with greats like Marty Friedman, Chris Broderick, Dave Mustaine, etc. But I love how Dave Mustaine founded the band purely out of spite towards Metallica (he was kicked out by everyone else).

What are your favourite music groups that either have stupid but awesome music or were formed for dumb reasons?

 

[Esotera]

I present to you the brilliance of Austrian Death Machine, a band that was formed solely to write metal based on movies that Arnold Schwarzeneger has been in.


Surprisingly this is actually a genre...there's at least a couple of decent bands that do this.

 

[Elfgore]

Ylvis I believe wins the award for silliest band in existence. For those of you who are unaware they sing The Fox.

Knights of the Abyss sing the most stupid and vulgar lyrics ever, yet their music itself is awesome.

Spoiler

Just listen to it!

This thread also wouldn't be complete without a mention to Weird Al

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Attila (well the not so much their new album) all they sing about is partying and drinking and getting laid. But damn, the music isn't half bad and the vocals are killer. Plus, they put on a great live show.

 

[antidonkey]

Primus - Very talented musicians that do songs about....well, you figured it out. Their stuff makes no sense but sounds great.

Psyhostick - I think these guys find objects lying around the house then write songs about them. Humorous especially since they're a bit on the metal side.

 

[infinity_turtles]

Steel Panther - Pretty heavily exaggerated 80's hair-metal theme going on. I find it entirely impossible to sing a long with any of their songs without feeling like a smug douche, which is all kinds of fun.

Still, they can be so romantic sometimes.
(Not my favorite version of the song, but it is the official video.)

 

[The_Scrivener]

Residents
They Might Be Giants
Big Dumb Face
Primus
Ween
Les Claypool Frog Brigade

 

[ninjaRiv]

I quite like Ylvis, A surprising amount of people are treating "What does the fox say" seriously, though... Also, Primus and Weird Al are pretty great.

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

Ohhh boy.....listening to some of the more out there stuff surely has its benefits sometimes.

Spoiler: Bubblegum Octopus: Metal-growls and vocals that sound like the english dub of a silly moe anime character on top of chiptuny bitcore

Spoiler: Gangpol & Mit: silly or simply hilariously insane cartoon movies to weird electronic music that sounds a little bit as if taken directly from Mario Paint

Spoiler: Iwrestledabearonce: ADD grindcore - changes and mixes styles as often as possible in their two or three minute grindcore songs. Also don't take themselves seriously as evidenced in their hilariously silly videos.

Spoiler: Mr. Bungle & Fantomas: Both main-bands of Mike Patton and, boy, are they weird. With all their songs they tiptoe the line between silly and awesome and are sometimes simply just both

Spoiler: Die Kassierer: german fun punk with a faible for disgusting sexual practices, faecal matter, lower-class dumbness, political satire and absurd humour. Song examples include songs detailing the state of ones manhood (title: cauliflowers on my dick), lamenting the existential crisis when looking into the empty fridge (title: the worst thing is when the beer is out), discussing what IQ god has to have (title: God has an IQ of 5 billion) and covers of political chansons (title: my freedom is your freedom). Vocalist also led the APPD - an anarchist party openly advocating social parasitism and rebuilding the wall (slogan: work is shit!). You won't get it if you cant speak German but those guys are silly and funny as hell.

 

[PinkiePyro]

they might be giants and bare naked ladies

my two favorite bands and both can be very silly and here are my favorite songs from them

 

[EyeReaper]

has no one mentioned the Aquabats? because yeah...
goddamn do I love these guys

 

[The_Echo]

We Butter the Bread with Butter and Shemales from Outta Space of Death are both German electro-deathcore-kinda bands which don't take themselves seriously at all.

Much of WBTBWB's first album was covering nursery rhymes. Though it looks like they've started taking themselves more seriously now that one of the founding members has left. Which I disapprove of.

Spoiler: WBTBWB

Spoiler: SfOSoD

On a less-heavy note, Lemon Demon is Neil Cicierega's band, and it's just real good.

Attila (well the not so much their new album) all they sing about is partying and drinking and getting laid. But damn, the music isn't half bad and the vocals are killer. Plus, they put on a great live show.

I really like Attila's sound, but every time I actually listen to the lyrics I feel like a total scumbag for listening to them.

 

[FPLOON]

What do you get when you take the frontman of Blur and team him up with the co-creator of Tank Girl?

Spoiler: A fictional band...

The fictional band...
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GORILLAZ

Oh... They're not silly in the "traditional" sense... The fact that this idea of a band started out as some kind of "project" to counteract against MTV at the time of its inception is just one of the minor reasons that makes me enjoy this fictional band even more than how I was enjoying them just a few seconds ago...

GLOB DAMMIT do I love this band! SO MUCH!!!

 

[BreakfastMan]

Spoiler: Mr. Bungle & Fantomas: Both main-bands of Mike Patton and, boy, are they weird. With all their songs they tiptoe the line between silly and awesome and are sometimes simply just both

Mentioning Mike Patton without mentioning the gonzo tower of strange awesomeness that was Faith No More? Blasphemy, I say! Blasphemy!

(Particularly the songs Land of Sunshine, Caffiene, Be Aggressive, A Small Victory, RV, and Crack Hitler from this album)

 

[Best of the 3]

Thank god for the 90's.


Also Steel Panther but they are amazing.

Spoiler: NSFW just in case

 

[JaceArveduin]

Can't forget Alestorm and Gloryhammer here. You Are a Pirate and Unicorn Invasion of Dundee are hilariously awesome for some reason. And I'd link them, but I'm currently being lazy.

 

[HardkorSB]

Twisted Sister:


Bloodhound Gang:


Busta Rhymes (not a band but still silly in many ways, just look at the clip):

 

[James Crook]

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The Lonely bloody Island.
They're so silly.

 

[Dirge Eterna]

Spoiler: Mr. Bungle & Fantomas: Both main-bands of Mike Patton and, boy, are they weird. With all their songs they tiptoe the line between silly and awesome and are sometimes simply just both

Mentioning Mike Patton without mentioning the gonzo tower of strange awesomeness that was Faith No More? Blasphemy, I say! Blasphemy!

(Particularly the songs Land of Sunshine, Caffiene, Be Aggressive, A Small Victory, RV, and Crack Hitler from this album)

Does that make me weird that I love that CD but I don't really think they are that strange.. hmm maybe that Doctor was right.
Don't forget Gwar and Green Jello/Jelly.

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

Mentioning Mike Patton without mentioning the gonzo tower of strange awesomeness that was Faith No More? Blasphemy, I say! Blasphemy!

Well...Faith No More is comparably normal considering that everything that Mike does is in someway strange. Like he doing weird metal-hip-hop [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRwXBoDghXc], covers of Italian pop songs from the 70s complete with Big Band [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoLzqso_bsk] or just extremely weird stuff with John Zorn [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRPLpO70Gc]...

Now since I'm at it...more weird sillyness...

Spoiler: Igorr: self described Baroquecore - mixes baroque chamber music with breakcore and darkwave stuffs which results in something very weird and considerably silly but still decidedly awesome

Spoiler: Estradasphere: jazz-rock-metal-folk-fusion which I adore to my very core. Chaotic and wild but still entirely awesome clashes of lively styles that results in an album featuring tracks exemplifying 8bit videogame style music, slow ambient-pop, Kletzmer-Rock fusion, hard-rock, black metal, avant-jazz and many other styles. Especially when they go together in a lot of songs the result is always equally as weird and silly as it is awesome.

Spoiler: Pin-Up Went Down: avantgarde metal that I'd describe as power/gothic/progressive metal meets Madonna. Extremely weird and silly but equal parts awesome.