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.
If you’re going to mention Frank Zappa you also have to mention “Sheik Yerbouti” and “Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch” by him.
Don’t forget “Muffin Man”
How is Tenacious D not plastered all over the comments!?
Piling on here… One size fits all is an excellent intro album to Zappa for the uninitiated!
Does Weird Al count? Because he is just as talented as any “serious” musician.
Also, The Presidents of the United States of America.
just as talented
More so, arguably.
Way more so, and it’s not even an argument.
I was waiting for someone to say TPUSA. Their entire first album is basically the answer to this question.
And their second album. And their third…
Unlike the other bands listed in this thread, Weird Al manages to rock even when he’s covering other musical genres!
Weird Al has literally done covers including style covers of many of the bands listed in this thread!
Presidents of the USA cover: Gump
They Might Be Giants style cover: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Devo style cover: Dare To Be Stupid
I’m sure there’s more, that’s off the top of my head.
There’s also songs that may have been initially inspired by a certain other artist but strayed far enough to be basically completely original, such as Albuquerque and (possibly my favorite Weird Al song of them all) Hardware Store.
Not to mention the polkas, which is what I really had in mind when I was talking about him making other genres rock.
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Also, The Presidents of the United States of America.
The song “More Bad Times” came on my Spotify radio playlist a few years back. I had never heard the song before. I was dying of laughter. I was not at all prepared for a song that silly.
Queen. They’re essentially the Monty Python Team of hard rock.
One Vision is a hilarious song. It’s a whole ass song about what brings the world together, and they tell us: fried chicken.
The Bicycle Song
System of a Down is an equal mix of the most serious and fun songs that I’ve ever seen.
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SOAD is goat but NOFX has lots of fun too NOFX - idiots are taking over
I second the awesome silliness of NOFX! They are that and more!
I know who doesn’t want a designer cunt!
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Primus sucks
I will never stop being sad over when the Primus website stopped being primussucks.com for primusville or what the fuck ever.
Real heads remember that “Primus sucks” is the clarion call of people who fucking love Primus.
This explains why the crowd was shouting this when I saw Primus performing Rush last year! I was very confused lol. 🤘
speaking of old times, wasn’t winamp’s genre dropdown menu had ‘primus’ sticking among all other genres, suggesting how special primus are?
You are indeed correct, sir or madam or other.
Although with the explosion of new music styles, I’d argue that Primus needs its own actual categorization. Funk-Metal or something akin to that.
Psychedelic polka
Came here to say this. But as usual I came too late (except for intercourse, where it’s the opposite).
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.
Nanowar of Steel is great too. Who else would make a Rhapsody of Fire tribute/parody, make it about Barbie, and then get the original Rhapsody singer to do lead vocals.
Omg this. Valhalleluia.
Metal, of course, being a subgenre of Polka. You wouldn’t think so, but it’s true.
Thank you, gnome is fucking rad!
Back on topic, Haken love some goofy stuff, and there’s always primus, who do very little serious (but it’s been a few decades, I’m out of date! I loved too many puppies )
Igorrr is always a scream, very noise would be a great example.
I fell like hip-hop often is irreverent or silly, and I’m not thinking of just satirical acts like Goldie lookin chain (although they are classic ), but the herbaliser were regularly entertaining, often more than just samples
Mos def wrote some absolute bangers (under a few names), here’s a great example where it’s been mashed up with Marvin gaye and absolutely bounces along
For something a bit dancier, Marmaduke duke were often a giggle
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Electric Callboy!
Pump it and We got the moves are must listen/watch. The music videos are fantastic.
Powerwolf was the first one I thought of. “Resurrection by Erection” kind of says it all.
That sounds like a fun list! Added all of them to my bandcamp wish list
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They Might Be Giants
I love how cheerful TMBG can make just about anything sound, regardless of- or maybe BECAUSE of subject matter. Except for them, I wouldn’t expect someone singing something like “I destroyed the bond of friendship and respect Between the only people left who’d even look me in the eye” to make me wanna dance
make me wanna dance
That’s how I feel about this:
Is he a dot? / Or is he a speck? / When he’s underwater does he get wet? / Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows / Particle Man
They’re just nerds, through and through. Music, science and history nerds, even.
They’ve also just always had good values. Their first show was at a Sandinista rally.
So many great quotes from that last link
They played to a crowd of about 30 people and were the only English-speaking band on the bill. Flansburgh: “We thought it would be a hippie gathering kind of thing, but it was actually a meeting of Sandinistas.”
The show was free, and ran from 12pm to 5pm. It was one of the hottest days of the year in New York City. The band’s next show took place seven months later, in the middle of a heavy snowstorm.
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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. ___
Mountain Goats
The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton is a certified banger despite being one of their sillier songs.
I can never decide if this song is silly or incredibly touching and sad or all of them at the same time.
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream / don’t expect him to thank or forgive you
Going damn far into this thread without seeing The Vandals
I’d say Dethklok is silly really only in their first album. They start getting a bit more serious after the show really kicks off.
I’m at the Pizza Hut
I’m at the Taco Bell
I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell
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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!
There’s something about Piss Up A Rope that puts me in an incredible mood
If it all goes right / I’ll be in your arms tonight / but I’m wavin’ my dick in the wind
Tenacious D
I didn’t see this one yet…
Weezer
Yeah sounds about right, I mean they covered Africa by Toto lmao.
And made it better
…mainly because of Weird Al, which was coincidentally going to be my answer to OP’s question.
I honestly think their version is not as good as Toto’s. Their cover closely matches the style of the original and they aren’t as good musicians. I was hoping they would make it a Weezer style cover. Toto’s version of Hash Pipe is better than Weezer’s too.
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.
Barenaked ladies
And their predecessors, They Might Be Giants.
Bowling for Soup
Blink 182 as well! Though I’m not much a fan of mark anymore as he’s some sort of pawn for the US govt uap topic imo
