Music You Know and Love but Most Do Not...

I listen to a lot if mainstream stuff, but I also lean toward the the serious, the goofy, and some iconoclastic stuff that's way out on the fringes; all types of music from many different styles.

Here's a partial list of some of the artists and bands that don't get a lot of commercial exposure, but they're in heavy rotation in my listening. None of this stuff is formulaic or disposable. The artists and bands do take their craft seriously--despite some of the genuine wackiness in this list. Each artist/band has a song title in parentheses to give you an idea of what they sound like if they're unfamiliar to you.

-Gogol Bordello (60 Revolutions)
-Tom Waits (What's He Building)
-The Bobs (Helter Skelter)
-Frank Zappa (Dyna-Moe Humm)
-Ween (Push the Little Daisies)
-Southern Culture on the Skids (My Neighbor Burrns Trash)
-Laika and the Cosmonauts (Fadeaway)
-Rubberbandits (Sonny)
-Unknown Hinson (Silver Platter)
-Willie Porter (Paper Airplane)
-Electric Six (The Band in Hell)
-Stump (Charlton Heston)
-The Residents (Monkey & Bunny)
-Here Come the Mummies (Dirty Minds)
-Evan Johns and his H-Bombs (Poor Boy's Dream)
-The Drills (Air Hockey Champion of the World)
-Bodeco (Dead Broke and Dirty)
-The Cramps (Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs)
-Dave Lindley (Your Old Lady)
-Morphine (A Head With Wings)
-Pere Ubu (My Name Is...)
-The Pogues (Sick Bed of Cuchulainn)
-Billy Joe Shaver (Georgia on a Fast Train)
-Kinski (All Your Kids have Turned to Static)
-The Halibuts (Hammerhead)
-Bering Strait (Bearing Strait)
-Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine (Down With the Sickness)
-Sonny Landreth (Shootin' for the Moon)
-Mojo Nixon (I Hate Banks)
-The Avalanches (Since I Left You)
-Webb Wilder (Human Cannonball)
-Outformation (Doc Severinsen)
-Scott H. Biram (Been Down Too Long)
-Hayseed Dixie (Marijuana)
-Iggy Pop (I'm Bored)
-Jim Campilongo (Monkey In a Movie)
-A.J. Croce (Which Way Steinway)
-Tishamingo (Smoked Mullet)

Here's one of our music videos, we made a few years back.

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