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OK, The Aussie band

Painters and Dockers...here's their "hit" single Nude School


You won't be able to stop singing the chorus...I'll assure you!


then there's their other minor hit Die Yuppie Die




and numerous others

Mortte wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: Sleepy Sleepers is definately an addition! Thanks, Mortte. You´re welcome! Finland was in eighties and nineties a country of stupid humour music (have no idea are there other countries too), I am glad this western clean pop culture has taken them away from the mainstream pop music and stupid humour has gone into youtube where I don´t have to see them (those idiot songs were really popular in radio). I think you have here at least some level, so I won´t recommend you any of those. But I have to recommend one more: Eläkeläiset (means pensioners in english). Eläkeläiset was first just a side project of much more serious band Kumikameli (they have plenty of all kind of humour sideprojects) but become much more popular than their prior band. The idea has been to make cover versions of the very popular rock songs, changing them into traditional finnish dance "humppa" songs with clever Finnish lyrics (I am not going to translate them, because they just don´t open to non-finnish speakers). Also like Sleepy Sleepers, they have had all kind of performances in their gigs, one tour they had a homemade circus. Also, in one gig they just drank coffee in the stage. What most peculiar they have become very popular specially in Germany, but also other north European countries although no-one understand their lyrics anything! They still active, at least released album last year. Here are their wikisites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%A4kel%C3%A4iset

The thing about comedy is that it's only funny the first few times that it's heard, whereas music can be listened to time and time again. Thus, when I first heard Godley & Creme's Consequences, I bought it for the comedy it contained. But after listening to it a few times, the comedy part got stale, and I now listen to only the music parts (usually only sides 1 & 6).

Beardfish has a couple of songs which qualify.

BarryGlibb wrote: Silly Puppy how could you forget Ray Stevens?...Don't answer that! With stupid hits such as Ahab The Arab, Gitarzan, The Streak and others...I know..... all terrible and interposed with the "sensible" worldwide hit Everything Is Beautiful.

^^ Sorry - didn't catch on there was a hyperlinked list. My mistake.

Squonk19 wrote: Neil Innes? The Rutles? The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band?

Edited by siLLy puPPy - April 06 2018 at 15:29

Neil Innes? The Rutles? The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band?

The most important humor rock band in Finland was Sleepy Sleepers (they also have a connection to prog, their early drummer was Markus Heikkerö, who was also Haikara drummer). They really cause disapproval in the seventies Finland, with their sexist and all the way offensive lyrics and also album covers. Naturally their record company censor their lyrics and also even album names (third album name should have been "give us Karelia back" but they had to change it "Back to Karelia", because record company was afraid in that time it would have caused political scandal). Also their live shows were quite spectacles, there were motor bikes, televisions, in the begin they throw faeces to the audience.