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The Offspring, The Beastie Boys, Van Halen w/DLR, and the B52s. Are there other bands that rock, but are often silly/goofy and funny? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] kersploosh 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Does Weird Al count? Because he is just as talented as any "serious" musician.

Also, The Presidents of the United States of America.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

just as talented

More so, arguably.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Way more so, and it's not even an argument.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was waiting for someone to say TPUSA. Their entire first album is basically the answer to this question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

And their second album. And their third...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unlike the other bands listed in this thread, Weird Al manages to rock even when he's covering other musical genres!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Gump

Everything You Know Is Wrong

Dare To Be Stupid

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] dandroid 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Moving to the country, gonna fight me a lot of ninjas.