“Sex Dwarf” by Soft Cell. Lyrics availabe here. Here’s a sample:
All I previously knew about Soft Cell was from their cover of “Tainted Love”, but after reading some of the other lyrics, well damn, those guys are weird!
All right, let’s make this the one we keep open, I guess. My bad.
Apparently you’re not familliar with the work of Laurie Anderson.
In some cases it pushes the limit of what you would consider “music”.
Their cover of Tainted Love?
Who did it before them?
For that matter, who did it after them?
And if you think Sex Dwarf is messed-up, you’ve never heard The Leather Nuns, who were recording around the time that Soft Cell was popular.[ul]Sht on my knuckles, blood on my fist!*[/ul]A real toe-tapper, that one.
Marilyn Manson did a cover of it just last year. As for the original artist…she was a Motown artist (or just had a very similar style) back in the late 50’s/early 60’s. I saw it on VH1’s “100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders” program.
I don’t know if Sex Dwarf is messed up; after all, I listen to bands like Cradle of Filth and Deicide. But for some reason, it just struck me as very weird.
I thought the heavy metal version of Saturday Night Fever I heard the other day was just a bit weird.
Coil also does a version.
Another bizarre song of theirs (Soft Cell) is “Martin” related to a film.