The Offspring, The Beastie Boys, Van Halen w/DLR, and the B52s. Are there other bands that rock, but are often silly/goofy and funny?
The Offspring, The Beastie Boys, Van Halen w/DLR, and the B52s. Are there other bands that rock, but are often silly/goofy and funny?
Man, that's just wacky to see those bands in one sentence in reference to rocking and being silly. You're not wrong.
One of my favorites - Frank Zappa's Apostrophe / Overnight Sensation.
Bloodhound Gang, Blink 182, Sum 41, Sublime, Men Without Hats, They Might Be Giants, Tenacious D, Ugly Kid Joe, Green Jelly / Jello, The Dead Milkmen, Dee Lite, Squeeze.
Just rock or is metal allowed? Cus if so:
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Ghost (Ghost B.C. in the UK) is very silly. Guys dressed in corpsepaint clergy, sounding like a hodgepodge of 70's/80's hits you missed. They got lore too, which is appropriately silly.
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Electric Callboy is silly. They are... Like, deathcore mixed with whatever they feel like for that song. We Got the Moves is deathcore with a bit of hard bass, for example. And it's a song about partying. Pump It is about going to the gym. Spaceman is about a guy going to space and rapping in german. Honestly one of my favourite bands.
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Wind Rose is silly as hell. Bearded guys, singing about dwarf stuff. They covered Diggy Diggy Hole and blew up, and props to them because their version is a banger, but they got good original stuff too which is sadly overlooked because Diggy Diggy Hole was just that good.
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Powerwolf is another one, similar to Ghost. They're vampiric werewolves? And their songs are all in-keeping with that theme. Power metal though, unlike Ghost.
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Austrian Death Machine is also silly. Voice actors emulating Arnold while the vocalist growls about lifting weights, the cookie monster, jingle bells, getting to the choppah, etc. The vocalist's history has kind of soured the band for me though.
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Gnome is underrated. Their songs are simplistic as hell, and none of them are virtuosos. But their songs go hard. Wenceslas is great, Ambrosius as well. Edit: writing this gave me an earworm and went down Gnome's songs. Their bassist is a goddamn genius. Simple licks that sound great, and they got weird time sig changes here and there that tickle my brain in the best ways. I can't figure out if they are actual time sig changes or just weird changes, and I love that.
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Strapping Young Lad / anything Devin Townsend
Zimmer's Hole
Dethklok
Mindless Self Indulgence
Punky Bruster's Cooked On Phonics
Das Racist
DANGERDOOM
Handsome Boy Modeling School
The Lonely Island
MC Paul Barman
Big Dumb Face
Mr. Bungle
Lovage
Man... Or Astro Man?
Electric Six
Ween
Dead Kennedys / anything Jello Biafra
Mean Jeans
Flight of the Conchords
Presidents of the United States of America
Reverend Horton Heat
The Unicorns
EDIT: The Chats
EDIT 2: Atom and His Package
EDIT 4: Voodoo Glow Skulls
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine
Chromeo
Only Some Funny Songs:
Mountain Goats
Tom Waits
EDIT 3: Beck
EDIT 5: Flaming Lips
A League of Their Own:
GWAR
Most Importantly:
Weird Al Yankovic, because he fucking rocks god damn it. ___
WEEN
Hands down my favorite band ever (though, Faith No More could claim that spot depending on my mood.). Put their entire library on shuffle and you'd think you're listening to multiple bands. Extremely talented musicians, quirky songs, fun compositions, and a variety and uniqueness rarely found coming from one band.
All hail the mighty Boognish!
Tenacious D
Electric Six
I think I saw someone mention them, but I can't find them now. They're pretty silly, but also their songs are unironically fun to listen to as well.
They Might Be Giants?
System of a Down - Cigaro
Individuals and groups in English:
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Beck
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Green Day
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Silverchair
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Busta Rhymes
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Missy Elliot
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Eminem & D-12
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Snoop Dogg
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Immortal Technique
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, especially Flea
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Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne
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The Beatles
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Daft Punk
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Brad Paisley
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Pitbull
Spanish:
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Residente & Calle 13
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Los Van Van
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Tromboranga
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Kola Loka
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Charanga Habanera
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Butthole surfers
Adam and the ants
Reel big fish
The dead milkmen
Talking heads
Devo
Devin Townsend. Saw him live, warming up for Dream Theater, in 2022. In addition to providing a kickass set, it was hilarious.
Example I dug out of my phone: https://files.catbox.moe/jdmyd6.mp4
Found one more: https://files.catbox.moe/0qb70t.mp4
Fun fact: My employer paid for my plane ticket and hotel stay that evening. It "just so happened" that I had something to do at the head office at the same time my two favorite artists were performing nearby.. sure, I had something work-related to do, but my timing was no accident.
UPDATE: Looks like Dream Theater will be in the area again in November. Sounds like it's time for a department-wide meeting, don't you think?
Devo
Super Furry Animals
Weird Al
Frank Zappa
Any time drummer TrΓ© Cool takes the stage at a Green Day show, youβre in for a treat. Dominated Love Slave is his signature, but thereβs also Like a Rat Does Cheese which is unreleased and All By Myself closes Dookie.
Devo
Peter Gabriel era Genesis was pretty goofy, as well as some of his solo stuff.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is pretty much the goofiest band known to man right now; especially if you listen to their earlier stuff like Cellophane or Vegemite.
Have you checked Nanowar (of steel) which is parodic metal ?
Nerf Herder
No More Kings
They've already been mentioned, but The Dead Milkmen are exactly what you're looking for.
There is a lot of hip hop that fits this idea of great music with wacky lyrics.
Megan thee stallion, cardi b, and the like sing some raunchy songs.
Bbno$, yung gravy, lil dicky, flynt flossy and the entire turquoise jeep records collection of artists are humor-forward
Then theres czarface which has made many albums all about comic book characters.
you might enjoy pulling up some Dr Demento playlists you'd be surprised how many good bands have a goofy side!
I don't know if its 'silly' but Health runs a phone number, a discord, and subjects Johnny to a bunch of miserable shit for laughs I guess.
if ska counts, reel big fish
Sparks. Best. Band. Ever.
Kendall Street Company
How silly are you looking for? It doesn't get sillier than We Ran Out Of CD Space by PsychoStick... or anything else by psychostick. But there's also Ninja Sex Party, Wolves of Glendale, First of October (listen to Ravioli).
While not outright comedy, there's a humor to Falling for Me by Parker the Bandit and It's Okay to Punch Nazis by Cheap Perfume
Thank You Scientist are seriously talented musicians who make very complex music, but don't take themselves seriously and have fun with their performances.
Spinal tap
Andrew WK
Until you listen harder.
Them being ska punk makes it an easy pick, but Russkaja has great covers and original songs.
Estradasphere and Ween pop to mind
Future Idiots.
Patent Pending.
Devin Townsend
Here's one you never heard of - Gung Ho by Shaka Ponk
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eahh8Xb41u8&si=_-tKGTX4u2iaoqiL
Somebody already recommended Primus so I have to come up with backup. And that is:
- Nuclear Power Trio
- Carnival in Coal
- Igorrr
Angus McSix (formerly Angus McFife of Gloryhammer) is a hoot.
TENACIOUS D! I unironically listen to their first album a lot lol. Weird Al, obviously. Suburban Lawns, the Aquabats, Reel Big Fish, Green Day (the album Dookie in particular), Presidents of the United States of America, Primus, Mr. Bungle, the Adicts, the King Kahn & BBQ Show, Nobunny, Weedeater, Spazz, Gravy Train!!!, the Pixies, GWAR, King Diamond, Busdriver, MF Doom, Talking Heads
Your mileage may vary with some of these; some don't mean to have a funny shtick but I just find them funny personally
Macklemore
The Aquabats
The Presidents of the United States of America fit the bill
Freak Kitchen, and their front man, now solo artist, Matthias IA Eklundh.
Chris De Burgh - Spanish Train and other stories Gotta listen to Patricia the stripper
Southern Culture On The Skids https://youtu.be/T9NLgyEFzOo?si=w0c80_Pv1FL1qALV
Igorrr is its own music genre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxDOV6IwHk
(Not really, it's a blend of metal and breakcore)
In my search for artists like the Beastie Boys I came across Joey Valence & Brae and I'm loving their music.
Captain Sensible. He was the guitarist for the punk band The Damned, but had a #1 hit in the UK with "Happy Talk", a song from the 1949 musical South Pacific.
Southern Culture on the Skids
The Reverend Horton Heat
Camper Van Beethoven
Mindless Self Indulgence.
Red Fang have some hilarious videos.
I second most of these other recommendations, but since I haven't seen them said yet, The Magnetic Fields. Somehow manages to be funny while also being very geniune and touching, which I think is kind of what I look for in a band.
Try Engerica
Alestorm.
Steel Panther, before they jumped the shark.
The lonely island. Although they're always silly and funny, not just often.
Does music that is unintentionally funny count? Like how you laugh at a bad B-movie?
Because if so...
Rod Stewart.