What's you're favorite Punk/Surf/Metal/Trash/Goth/Black Metal band???

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

I used to listen to the "Crossroads" movie soundtrack, it had some good Mississippi Delta blues.

[Wicked Lester]

  Messer Chups, too.  Both closer to what you were initially looking for here, I suppose.

Cool. I'm not the only one that likes this "strange" band.
Messer Chups "Shandor Diabolikoff"

[MDG]

Closest I get to punk/surf/metal is Man or Astro-Man?

From High School 'til I was 30, mostly listened to delta and chicago blues. Now I listen to a lot of surf (faves are pollo del mar, torquays, insect surfers, lots more). Also listening to a lot more rockabilly (old and new)--of course, to a certain extent it all starts with Link Wray.

Really like Deadbolt--consider them what? psychobilly?

Not into metal/hardcore, but that doesn't stop my kids.

The Red Death 4 of 5

straight, no chaser - new song

The other is in a ska band

The LeVar BurTones at Unity 2006 Ska Festival

[Toy Ranch]

I don't care much for pop, rap, or doo wop.  Aside from that, I listen to just about everything, and I like some of those genres too.

As far as favorites, hard to say, I can't make a "desert island" list.

Off the top of my head though...  I really like listening to these the most:

Pere Ubu
Mars (not Volta)
Miles Davis
Martin Denny
Flipper
Germs
Television
Iggy (Stooges and later)
Alice Cooper's Killer and Love It To Death albums
Kiss - Pre-Destroyer
Hellacopters
Led Zeppelin
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection and Madman Across the Water
PJ Harvey
Captain Beefheart
Robert Gordon
James Brown
Parliament, Funkadelic, et. al.
Sly & the Family Stone
Sister Double Happiness

I'm down with any of those, anytime, anywhere.

[Toy Ranch]

Recent favorite.

Lee Harvey Oswald Band

[Toy Ranch]

I know metallica did a crappy, REALLY crappy cover of this, but I've always loved it and they didn't ruin it for me.

BUDGIE - BREADFAN

[Toy Ranch]

I love this guy. 

Whatchamacallit Esquivel!

[Toy Ranch]

Evil Superstars - B.A.B.Y.

[fmofmpls]

Don't forget these icons of Exotica. Martin Denny and Les Baxter.

Exotica- Quiet Village

Les Baxter

[Toy Ranch]

Music starts about 1:15

Millionaire - Champagne


Millionaire - I'm on a high clip

[Toy Ranch]

Don't forget these icons of Exotica. Martin Denny and Les Baxter.

My parents had a bunch of awful music, but I found a few gems and grew up listening to Esquivel, Martin Denny, Buddy Holly, and the Tijuana Brass over and over, until I could buy my own music.  I've been a Les Baxter fan since Jr High. 

[Scary Terry]

I like all these wacky "Scopitone" videos from the '60s -- hit YouTube and check 'em out... also http://www.scopitones.com/
Web of Love - Joi Lansing Scopitone film
Scopitone : Stella "Le Vampire"
...and this one with Brigitte Bardot!
Comic Strip - Serge Gainsbourg

[fmofmpls]

I've been a Les Baxter fan since Jr High. 

First Pere Ubu, then Captain Beefheart, and now Les Baxter? You better check your birth certificate and make sure there isn't an Ingram name on there somewhere. Too weird. 

[Toy Ranch]

First Pere Ubu, then Captain Beefheart, and now Les Baxter? You better check your birth certificate and make sure there isn't an Ingram name on there somewhere. Too weird.  

I used to comb thrift stores, yard sales, and pawn shops for anything with Les Baxter's name on it.  Still remember the day I found the Dunwich Horror soundtrack and listened to it for the first time.  Or Black Sabbath (movie).... OMG, it was Karloff and Les Baxter and Mario Bava!

[BlackLagoon]

Something I have been getting into recently is Frank Zappa..not all of it, some of it is just way too much for me, but a few songs and catching clips of the improv live stuff has been incredible...any Zappa fans?