Who doesn’t love a weird little track or two? Tons of big names in the music world have delivered some notably weird songs through the years. Some bands and musicians have even gotten famous solely for their one weird hit. And these seven songs are some of the weirdest that the rock genre has had to offer. Let’s take a look!
1. “Turning Japanese” by The Vapors”
This weird song hasn’t exactly aged all the well, but the meaning behind the song is (allegedly) more about angsty youths clutching to a foreign subculture, rather than glorifying being a culture vulture. However, a lot of people in the 1980s didn’t get it and believed the song was about turning into a Japanese person.
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2. “Surfin’ Bird” by The Trashmen
Immortalized by Family Guy at the turn of the millennium, this song from The Trashmen was actually quite popular in the 1960s. The song doesn’t have a ton of substance; in fact, there are only a couple of full sentences buried in the song’s lyrics, all of which involve birds.
3. “I Am The Walrus” by The Beatles
Megafans of The Beatles love trying to pick this 1967 song apart. What’s the hidden meaning? Is the “walrus” code for something? When it comes down to it, this bizarre track was simply inspired by acid trips, according to John Lennon himself.
4. “Faith” by Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is the kind of band that doesn’t shy away from the weird and the wild. “Faith”, however, was originally a George Michale song. And it wasn’t weird in any sense. However, nu-metal outfit Limp Bizkit’s choice to cover the pop-rock song was a little weird. It’s not the kind of song you’d expect to get a metal makeover.
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5. “Peaches” by The Presidents Of The United States Of America
“Peaches” is mainly about “moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches.” That’s about it. The few additional verses of this song by The Presidents Of The United States Of America briefly explore the life cycle of a peach, and poking a hole into a peach to let an ant inside. It’s nonsense, but we kind of love it.
6. “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” by Deep Blue Something
There are more than enough songs out there about being in love and perfect for one another. This 1993 song by Deep Blue Something is about a couple who are very much not the right fit, have nothing in common, and are falling apart. The film Breakfast At Tiffany’s is only vaguely mentioned, like an afterthought.
7. “Pac-Mac Fever” by Buckner And Garcia
This crazy 1981 pop-rock track managed to work, partly because of how addicted everyone was to Pac-Mac in the 1980s. Buckner And Garcia knew they had a good thing going and followed it up with “Do The Donkey Kong” a year later, though they didn’t quite hit the mark in the same way.
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