| Capitol K is up there. Broken, distorted, resampled guitar layers over drum loops. And weird vocals.
ARE Weapons aren't particularly original, but they're weird. Combining the drum machine/synth/spoken word punk stylings of Suicide with samples of car crashes and gunshots and screams, they're very surreal.
Atom & His Package. He's this slightly overweight jewish kid with a sequencer (his 'Package') and ridiculously bad synthpop who sings songs about the offensiveness of team named after stereotypes (If U Own The Washington Redskin's Ur A Cock), how dumb it is that the USA still hasn't switched to the metric system (Metric), stupid punk kids and their non-conformity (Anarchy Means I Litter, with it's great vocal 'I got a patch, I got a pin, I take political beliefs from the same song as my friends') and my favorite, a song that calculates the probability that one of the members of Pantera is gay (Hats Off To Halford).
Dr Octagon is also very weird. One of schizophrenic rapper Kool Keith's alter-egos, he's a gynecologyst from the year 3000. If you have insurance or medical problems, he's there for you for any kind of intestine surgery, rectal rebuilding, relocated saliva glands, chimpanzee acne, and of course, moosebumps.
Hefner are superficially pretty straight ahead, but they have songs about dancing and singing all night when Margaret Thatcher dies (with it's schoolgirl chorus of 'ding dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch'), not missing sex ('just the feeling of skin against skin'), racist jokes ruining relationships and misleading christian girls who aren't as pure as they should be. Definitely weird.
Stereolab sing socialist propoganda in french, but they're British. Explain that. |