![]() Rest assured we’ll have plenty of incredible merch available for on-air contests and giveaways, so don’t hesitate to get in touch. What a blast and true honor it is to team up with John Cafiero and Osaka Popstar to share their brand new, wonderfully crafted animated video for “Fish Heads”! We hope that you embrace this clip as much as we have here at HIP and consider adding it into your regular programming and online presentations in a timely fashion. I can’t think of anyone who could’ve done as great a job! Uhh… well… maybe one band! Heh… YEAH!!” We don’t have to ask if Dr. Art Barnes (aka Bill Mumy of Lost in Space) even endorsed the clip, saying, “Osaka Popstar’s new animated video and rockin’ version of ‘Fish Heads’ is Bitchin’, Boss, Bodacious and Bold! I dig it Bigly. There’s even a nod to actor Bill Paxton, who starred in and directed the original “Fish Heads” video. Demento himself appears in the clip, as do Barnes and Barnes. ![]() Osaka Popstar has paired “Fish Heads” with an animated clip that underscores the song’s hilarity and the band’s punk attitude. Yet Cafiero has kept intact the song’s odd structure, and its unearthly, sped-up backing vocals. The original was dreamlike and vaguely menacing the Osaka Popstar version is propulsive, celebratory, and near-anthemic. ![]() Demento Show: “Fish Heads”, the surreal 1978 hit by Barnes & Barnes. Naturally, Osaka Popstar chose to cover one of the greatest, strangest songs ever aired on the Dr. Billboard, Rolling Stone, the LA Times, CNN: they’ve all saluted Cafiero and the project. Demento fanatics in the music press as there are in bands, the Covered In Punk collection has been showered with accolades. And because there are at least as many Dr. Even William Shatner, Adam West from Batman, and Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark make appearances. Demento favorite “Weird Al” Yankovic, and dozens of other talented musicians contributed to the collection. Fred Schneider (of the B52s), Joan Jett, The Misfits, Shonen Knife, The Dead Milkmen, Rasputina, Dr. Demento devotees to participate in the project. Demento himself.Ĭafiero had no difficulty finding famous Dr. The two-hour demented punk extravaganza is also filled with star studded cameos, and between-song anecdotes from Dr. It’s a sixty-four track collection of favorites from the Dr.’s iconic radio show reinterpreted and newly recorded by punk/indie/alt-rock rock musicians, plus some demented takes on punk-rock classics included for good measure. Demento Covered In Punk released via his own Demented Punk label. Earlier this year, Cafiero produced and conceived of Dr. Demento within his diverse range of inspirations. But he’s never taken himself too seriously – and counts Dr. His band Osaka Popstar has always featured punk rock royalty: he’s worked with members of the Ramones, the Misfits, The Smithereens, The Voidoids, and other legendary bands. Many members of the Demento audience went on to form punk bands of their own, and the oddball classics they learned on those Sunday nights were scratched so deep into their memories that some of that weirdness was bound to manifest in their music. The legendary deejay attracted a devoted audience of misfits, weirdos, and uncooperatives, all of whom tuned in every Sunday night to hear music, gags, and ideas they’d never encounter anywhere else in popular culture. If punk is best understood as outsider music – rock made by non-conformists with attitude – then there’s always been something very punk rock about Dr.
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