I'm well versed on Cake. I had all their albums upon release up until Pressure Chief.

Oldie.

But a goodie.

Wow. I thought I listened to some weird shit. You guys are off the damn walls. Where did you find this stuff? I'm going to spend a lot of time looking through this.

Direkshun, I apparently listen to pretty mainstream shit, but here are my off the beaten path recommendations...

Taking Back Sunday - All their albums are good, but I like the first and second ones the best.

OAR - I'm sure you know them

If you haven't checked out the Piano Guys, do it.

You're probably not into Country but check out Turnpike Troubadours Diamonds and Gasoline album. Along with Jason Boland Pearl Snaps.

I'll do some more thinking on it. I'm sure there is some more stuff that I could come up with.

Maybe not so much weird as different but Alabama 3 is a fav of mine.They have a lot of different sounds and you probably know them best if you ever watched The Sopranos as they sang the opening song Woke Up This Morning.

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I think I figured out this embedding thing.

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Glenn Miller - In The Mood - Glenn Miller volunteered to enter the US Army and was a Captain when a plane bringing him home disappeared and was never recovered.

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Jay McShann - Swingmatism - Based out of KC
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Jimmy Lunceford - Tain't What You Do
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Lionel Hampton - Lavender Coffin
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Lavern Baker - On Revival Day
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Louis Prima & Keely Smith (his wife) - Embraceable You
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Ella Fitzgerald - Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
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Andrews Sisters & Danny Kaye - Civilization
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Sigh. All of their albums apart from the first two.

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Daniel Johnston. He's a folk singing Christian fundamentalist with Bi-polar. I really like his early stuff, he played his music on old out-of-tune pianos and guitars. He would record a bunch of songs on to cassette tapes and pass them out. Then, he would do it again because he didn't have a way to dub.

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I hadn't heard of him until I saw this documentary about him.

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ever heard of a sing band? this is pretty bad ass.

The Jones Boys - pickin' a rib
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this clip is from a 1938 movie called Hollywood Handicap

The benefit of being weird AND one of the consensus top albums of last year:

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Subtly weird:

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