Demento Show: “Fish Heads”, the surreal 1978 hit by Barnes & Barnes. Naturally, Osaka Popstar chose to cover one of the greatest, strangest songs ever aired on the Dr.
Billboard, Rolling Stone, the LA Times, CNN: they’ve all saluted Cafiero and the project. Demento fanatics in the music press as there are in bands, the Covered In Punk collection has been showered with accolades. And because there are at least as many Dr. Even William Shatner, Adam West from Batman, and Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark make appearances. Demento favorite “Weird Al” Yankovic, and dozens of other talented musicians contributed to the collection. Fred Schneider (of the B52s), Joan Jett, The Misfits, Shonen Knife, The Dead Milkmen, Rasputina, Dr. Demento devotees to participate in the project. Demento himself.Ĭafiero had no difficulty finding famous Dr. The two-hour demented punk extravaganza is also filled with star studded cameos, and between-song anecdotes from Dr.
FISH HEADS MUSIC VIDEO PLUS
It’s a sixty-four track collection of favorites from the Dr.’s iconic radio show reinterpreted and newly recorded by punk/indie/alt-rock rock musicians, plus some demented takes on punk-rock classics included for good measure. Demento Covered In Punk released via his own Demented Punk label.
Earlier this year, Cafiero produced and conceived of Dr. Demento within his diverse range of inspirations. But he’s never taken himself too seriously – and counts Dr. His band Osaka Popstar has always featured punk rock royalty: he’s worked with members of the Ramones, the Misfits, The Smithereens, The Voidoids, and other legendary bands. Many members of the Demento audience went on to form punk bands of their own, and the oddball classics they learned on those Sunday nights were scratched so deep into their memories that some of that weirdness was bound to manifest in their music. The legendary deejay attracted a devoted audience of misfits, weirdos, and uncooperatives, all of whom tuned in every Sunday night to hear music, gags, and ideas they’d never encounter anywhere else in popular culture. If punk is best understood as outsider music – rock made by non-conformists with attitude – then there’s always been something very punk rock about Dr. 1.Osaka Popstar releases the Music Video for ‘Fish Heads’ Throw on your spelunking helmets, flip on your flashlights, and grab your rappel gear, because we’re about to climb down into deep recesses of our collective memory and revisit some wonderfully weird music videos from the '90s. Some are surreal from start to finish, whereas others just give us brief flashes of wackiness - and all are worth a watch. To be honest, you probably don’t remember just how bonkers these videos are - it had been 30 years since I’d some of these, and I absolutely did not fully grasp their peculiarities the first time around. Oh, and let's not forget about “Dragula” by Rob Zombie! But those only scratch the surface of the weird ‘90s music video waters if you spend enough time dragging Lake Internet, you will stumble upon an embarrassment of bizarre riches.
And the nightmare inducing “Come to Daddy” by Aphex Twin. Cast your mind back to when MTV was all about that particular medium, and each new song release promised a corresponding visual component, with intense visual creativity (and probably some bad acting). The final decade of the 1900s gave popular culture some very special things, and one of those very special things is a seemingly endless stream of strange music videos.
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