Do the Dethklok/Metalocalypse albums count?
It’s a fictional band from a cartoon series, but they make really good metal albums.
Intrigued, I made the effort. I enjoy bluegrass. I enjoy Pink Floyd. This combo didn’t work for me, and I’m trying to work out exactly why not.
I’m not sure about Jordan, but it sounds like Belushi booted Shaffer from the movie, because he wasn’t happy about Shaffer also doing work at that point for Gilda Radner. From Shaffer’s Wikipedia entry:
After working in the Caribbean on the film Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Robert Mitchum recorded Calypso — is like so, an album of traditional Calypso songs.
One interesting song on the album is From a Logical Point of View,
which is a cover of Roaring Lion’s Ugly Woman,
which later became Jimmy Soul’s If You Wanna Be Happy
I came in here to mention Richard Cheese. Check out Baby Got Back. Fun stuff!
Thick as a Brick when it had the whole newspaper folded in. That was one of a kind.
ETA: Beaten to it by glowacks and digs.
David Lee Roth’s Sonrisa Salvaje - Diamond Dave rerecorded the vocals for his debut solo album* Eat 'Em and Smile* in phonetic Spanish, and one or two of the songs actually worked better than the original English versions. Supposedly he also recorded Portuguese vocals tracks, but those have never been released.
White Canadian rapper WordBurglar did an entire album about G.I. Joe, which is surprisingly good considering that description. Couple examples here and here
While I do agree that Thick as a Brick is a great gimmick album, I myself prefer A Passion Play as an album for these same reasons, because instead of deliberately telling no story, it does tell a story while still engaging in a lot of nonsense (and even having a weird aside to bridge the two album sides).
DEVO 2.0. Get a bunch of 9-13 year old kids together to cover Devo songs. What could be more in the theme of de-evolution than have Radio Disney publish an album in which a 13-year-old girl sings “Uncontrollable Urge?”