No actual scumdogs were harmed during the recording process.Ĭostume: A 7-foot-tall black man in drag, and he looks damn good. Is this metal?Ĭlassic Record: Scumdogs of the Universe (1990). There’s blood in my ear, and a huge mechanical maggot attacking me.
At live shows, they mangle fake corpses and spew bodily fluids on the crowd. Their costumes are art-project mutant-warrior constructs, complete with hideous faces and huge, protruding spikes. GWAR, which stands for “God, What an Awful Racket,” seek to butcher/sexually dominate the human race. We don’t buy it.Ĭostume: Ancient, alien, ape-raping, dinosaur-extincting, rock warriors. To this day, the band insists that “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” was not about LSD. Then they dressed up in animal costumes for The Magical Mystery Tour, and as magicians in the film that coincided with the album.Ĭlassic Record: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, decked out in bright marching band uniforms. Sound: Loud guitars, loud mouth, loud clothes, loud hair, enough said.Ĭlassic Album: The 1984 smash hit Stay Hungry, because it has the anthem “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”Ĭostume: In 1967, the Beatles were costumed concept rock maniacs. Not really a classic, but indeed an album.Ĭostume: Heavily dreadlocked, Faygo-guzzling wicked clowns.Ĭlassic Album: The Great Milenko (1997), an album originally released by Walt Disney-owned Hollywood records, then pulled off shelves six hours later when Disney realized that profanity-heavy evil circus freaks were “bad.”Ĭostume: Anything they could find from their mother’s closet that they could rip and make their own, layers of Revlon makeup that added to their look of being tough. scrubs, which now serve as their swank-ass, butt-covering getups.Ĭlassic Album: Internal Wrangler (2001). 1 on the charts, compelling naysaying conservatives to confront their inner virgins, touching them for the very first time.Ĭostume: These British rock novelties may or may not have failed out of medical school, as they seemed attached to their O.R. Now she sings nursery rhymes to her kids.Ĭlassic Album: Like A Virgin, her second studio release in 1984, reached No. Sound: The queen of pop, she started out singing songs for the young women of the ’80s and then she grew up and started singing songs about seduction, some of it pretty hot stuff and pretty risque at times. All while disguising herself as a mother. Essential party music.Ĭlassic album: Homework (1997), on which you’ll find radio hits like “Da Funk” and “Around the World.”Ĭostume: Eighties punk to Marilyn Monroe wannabe to leather bound dominatrix to slutty mermaid to partying with strippers. This album was rumored to have been recorded in the Swiss Alps with uncredited background vocals by The Strokes.Ĭostume: Publicity-phobic French robots. Sound: Brutal headache-inducing rock/metal that’s “More Human that Human”Ĭlassic Album: Hellbilly Deluxe (1998). What else can you say about it?Ĭostume: Have you seen John Travolta in “Battlefield Earth”? Sound: Psychedelic, rock, funk, dance, soul, R ‘ B and everything in between.Ĭlassic Record: Purple Rain (1984). If he were cast as the kitty-petting, mysterious, flamboyant supervillain in some film, he’d fit in perfectly without acting at all. Their best and only album.Ĭostume: Tight plastic suits, purple fur coats, housewife hair, sultan robes, shiny gold tank-tops, high heels, high-concept facial fair and silky see-through black bodysuits only begin to describe Prince’s look. Sound: Repetitive rock with vintage pop warmth.Ĭlassic Album: Is This It (2001). You know, the one with “Whip It.”Ĭostume: Scraggly, dirty, aloof, uncombed, homeless New York City street punks/bums with acne/international fashion models, who may or may not have met in the Swiss Alps. Sound: An attempt to start a new wave of music, it tends to be more fun to joke about then to listen to.Ĭlassic Album: Freedom Of Choice, released in 1980.
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