What are your favorite musical oddities? Please share if you have any. Here’s an old fave:
Here, these should keep you busy for a while:
The Bonzo Dog Band, of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4vUaNQKHk (Important note: this was done before Laugh-in aired.)
Even odder than that is Lol Coxhill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG4xdjaZHu4
These aren’t as out there as some you’ll no doubt see mentioned in this thread, but I like them, and, well, there you go.
[ul]“The Spectrum Song”[/ul]
[ul]“Know Your Chicken”[/ul]
[ul]“Kiss Me, Son of God”[/ul]
[ul]“Satisfaction”[/ul]
[ul]“Freedom of Choice”[/ul]
Whether they fit your idea of quirky or not, you may find some amusing examples in a couple of recent threads:
Musical Abominations which ran from 05-15-2010, 10:40 AM until 05-23-2010 08:48 PM
Offbeat/Unusual Versions of Music that you still consider good which ran from 05-18-2010, 12:24 PM until 05-19-2010 10:27 PM
Great links, thanks! To be quirky enough, stuff just needs to be a bit odd, although totally insane is perfectly nice too. Here’s a pretty, odd track from a guy who did soundtracks for Mr Magoo and Tom and Jerry. From the days when stereo sound was a new thing:
Then, by all means, you must include SPIKE JONES & CITY SLICKERS - COCKTAILS FOR TWO - 1945 and any of his other things at YouTube.
So, then, I guess Metal Machine Music would fit your criteria?
Yeah that would be in the ballpark 
Yeah I like Spike, but that tune’s kind of spoiled for me since I downloaded it one night from early Napster, drunk, and gleefully played it about 15 times. I had that tune stuck in my head for 3 weeks. I never play it anymore. Even thinking about it’s dangerous.
Chuck Mingus did a nice version of “Cocktails” but I can’t find it anywhere.
Speaking of quirky, nothin’ beats ol’ Melvin Van…
MC Frontalot, in general is pretty quirky, through being geeky rap.
But I’ll just stick to my favourites (due to being my particular geekdom)…
It Is Pitch Dark - about all those old Infocom text adventure games.
Final Boss - a more generalized video game song.
And, while we’re on the topic of video games…a little less inherently odd, but one of my favourite artists doing a song about video games…
the brilliant green - I’m a Player in TV Games. (And, yes, they’re dressed in Hogwarts uniforms. Tommy’s fun like that.)
Also:
[ul]“Truth Is Out of Style” - MC 900 Ft. Jesus[/ul]
[ul]“Earth People” - Dr. Octagon (note the reference to “space doo-doo pistols”)[/ul]
[ul]“Ape Call” - Nervous Norvus[/ul]
[ul]“Danger! High Voltage” - Electric Six[/ul]
Man! How could I forget “The Curse of Millhaven”, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds?
Some stuff (mostly weird covers) from my party music playlist:
Die Zorros - Final Countdown
Henry Jerome - Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In
The Tornados - Jungle Fever
Sun Ra - Pink Elephants
Raymond Scott - Lightworks (50’s radio commercial)
King Automatic - The Model
Also:
The Portsmouth Sinfonia - interesting project see Wiki page.
Belbury Poly
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - There’s Something Wrong With You
Considering my musical tastes…god, where would I start?
Just off the top of my head…how about The Doctor’s Wife by the Clockwork Quartet?
Theme from Shaft - arabized. “Can ya dig it” becomes “Insha’Allah”. Not sure, but it sounds like “Shaft” becomes “Shah”.
Dip into the music of Finnish bassist Pekka Pohjola. One of his less quirky, more ‘mainstream’ examples just to ease you in gently:
But if you explore his work, you’ll get plenty of ‘quirky’, believe me. His work is a fascinating blend of the mainstream/accessible and the ‘so quirky you wonder how it ever got recorded and released’.
Besides Mr Bungle? And The Worst Song Ever?
Well, a couple months ago my dial stopped on a Christian station (since I always keep it in the left hand side of the dial searching for NPR and classical.) They were playing praise music in Spanish, but the backing music was a mix between trad Mexican (i.e. guitars and accordions) and “modern” latin american music (i.e. vaguely 80’s sounding hip-hop influenced pop). Which isn’t a TOTALLY odd combo. But. The singer’s voice was altered to sound exactly like the Hampster Dance (sweet rodent Jesus!) Strange enough for one song, but they played like 3 or four of them in a row!
In retrospect it was probably a block of music by the same artist, despite the theortetical quirkiness of a station that only played Spanish Christian Norteño Chipmunk Rap.
Have you heard of Pinnin Pojat or the amazing accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen?