Dr. Demento

VA - Dr. Demento Covered in Punk (2018) Music

Posted by El Misha at Jan. 15, 2018

This extra-special two-hour demented punk extravaganza is an audio oddity unlike anything else! An eclectic mix of artists from the world of classic and contemporary punk/indie/alt-rock have assembled, along with special guest stars from film, TV and more, to pay homage to radio icon Dr. Demento (a world-renowned institution who has championed novelty music and its creators since the 1970s), for this mind-blowing compilation.

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VA - Dr. Demento Presents: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time (Limited Edition) (1985) Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 3, 2024

VA - Dr. Demento Presents: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time (Limited Edition) (1985)
Vinyl FLAC (tracks) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 560 MB
3:54:17 | Novelty, Comedy, Humor, Parody, Country | Label: Rhino

Barret Eugene "Barry" Hansen (born April 2, 1941) better known as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present. Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. He played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, and DJ "The Obscene" Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be "demented" to play it, and the name stuck. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974] and was syndicated by the Westwood One Radio Network from 1978 to 1992. Broadcast syndication of the show ended on June 6, 2010, but the show continues to be produced weekly in an online version.

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VA - Dr. Demento Presents: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time (Limited Edition) (1985) Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 3, 2024

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Vital Information - Where We Come From (1998) {Intuition} Music

Posted by tiburon at April 2, 2018

Vital Information - Where We Come From (1998) {Intuition}
EAC 0.99pb5 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 502MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 182MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Fusion

Modern electric jazz and the funky soul of the '60s fuse into a rollicking trip down memory lane on WHERE WE COME FROM. Vital Information, the long- lived pet project of leader and world-renown drummer Steve Smith, make a distinctive change from their usual format of hard-edged fusion on this, their eighth album. The emphasis here is on the soulful instrumental grooves of their youth, the music that originally enticed these world-class musicians to take up their instruments in the first place. From the influence of Jimmy Smith, the Meters and Tony Williams' Lifetime, Smith and company serve up a spicy gumbo of groovy tunes and have a grand old time in the process.

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Weird Al Yankovic - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 5, 2022

Weird Al Yankovic - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:18:09 | 432 / 180 Mb
Genre: Soundtrack / Label: Legacy Recordings

The foremost song parodist of the MTV era, "Weird Al" Yankovic has carried the torch of musical humor more proudly and more successfully than any performer since Allan Sherman. In the world of novelty records – a genre noted for its extensive back catalog of flashes-in-the-pan and one-hit wonders – Yankovic was king, scoring smash after smash over the course of an enduring career that has found him topically mocking everything from new wave to gangsta rap. Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born October 23, 1959, in Downey, California.

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VA - Three Decades Of Classic Novelty Hits (2016) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 26, 2022

VA - Three Decades Of Classic Novelty Hits (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 399 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 178 MB
1:18:07 | Pop, Novelty | Label: Eric Records

Novelty songs, spoken-word recordings, topical songs, parodies these were the records that made you stop what you were doing and look at the radio in amazement. The ones that made you exclaim, "How do they come up with this stuff?"
Now Complete 60s has gathered 30+ years' worth of the best and hardest-to-find novelties on a 28-track package called Three Decades Of Classic Novelty Hits. It offers more than just laughs, though: You'll find plenty of funny songs like Guy Marks' "Loving You Has Made Me Bananas" and Susan Christie's "I Love Onions" but also a number of oddball hits that are just plain different.

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The Barron Knights - Night Gallery (1978) + Teach The World To Laugh (1979) 2CD Set, Remastered Reissue 2010 Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 27, 2023

These two albums are released on CD for the first time ever. Founder member Peter Langford has been interviewed by Mojo's Daryl Easlea for the extensive notes, on a release that promises to bring back the fun into music! The Barron Knights are a British humorous pop group, originally formed in 1959, they became the Barron Knights on 5th October 1960. Although the Barron Knights undoubtedly had their own style and produced regular `beat group recordings' in their own right, it was their production of comedy parodies that brought them the greatest success. In fact, their catalogue of recordings - although impressive - does not reflect their success as stage entertainers. By adapting their act to each new wave of emerging performers they were able to survive longer than their more conventional contemporaries, and even today can still be regularly found in cabaret or performing a seaside summer season.

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VA - Brain In A Box - The Science Fiction Collection (Remastered) (2000) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 15, 2024

VA - Brain In A Box - The Science Fiction Collection (Remastered) (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.5 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 721 MB
5:07:48 | Psychedelic, Soundtrack, Alternative, Pop Rock, Rock & Roll, Indie, Jazz, Modern Classical, Novelty, Rockabilly, Blues, Funk
Label: Rhino

It doesn't take much rhetorical muscle to argue that science fiction was one of the dominant genre artforms of the 20th century, from the Lumiere brothers to Spielberg, from Wells and Conan Doyle to Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. This nearly exhaustive, lavishly packaged collection documents the genre's musical legacy across virtually every major genre on its five discs and 113 tracks. Each volume is divided by sub-genre–Movie Themes, TV Themes, Pop, Incidental/Lounge, Novelty–with each containing both the obvious contenders and some delightful surprises. The film disc alone contains a wealth of rarities, including music from Them!, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Andromeda Strain, Fantastic Voyage, and other notables. The packaging is brilliant kitsch: a 6.5-inch square, metal-lidded cube emblazoned on three sides with suitably tacky 3-D images of–you guessed it!–a floating brain. But the profusely illustrated, hard-bound, 200-page book (designed to emulate the Big Little Books of the 1940s and '50s) that's included gives the subject its serious due, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury and contributions from an array of other notables, including Forrest J. Ackerman, Billy Mumy, Joe Dante, Dr. Demento, and Matt Groening. Perhaps the best half-cubic-foot of sci-fi brain food every assembled. –Jerry McCulley

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VA - The Force (1975) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 5, 2022

VA - The Force (1975)
FLAC (tracks) - 522 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 201 MB
1:26:00 | Pop Rock, Soul, Classic Rock | Label: Warner Bros.

Jan & Dean’s “Laurel & Hardy” is a bizarre, 1968 45 release that’s included here for reasons completely unknown. Bolstered by an electric sitar and a psychedelicized arrangement, the song had never appeared on an LP before showing up on The Force. Dr. Demento (Barry Hansen), who compiled and annotated this collection, calls it “an exquisite rarity,” and one can’t help but think the good Doctor included the oddity here solely for his own amusement. The song wouldn’t surface again until the 2010 ‘lost album’ issue of Jan & Dean’s Carnival Of Sound.

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Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) [4CD + DVD, 40th Anniversary Edition Box Set] Music

Posted by v3122 at Dec. 27, 2021

It was designed to be a blockbuster and it was. Prior to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John had hits – his second album, Elton John, went Top Ten in the U.S. and U.K., and he had smash singles in "Crocodile Rock" and "Daniel" – but this 1973 album was a statement of purpose spilling over two LPs, which was all the better to showcase every element of John's spangled personality…

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