What are your favourite quirky/whimsical songs?

equalsql

Any favourites?
Here's a couple of mine..

Pink Floyd  - Bike


The Shadows - What A Lovely Tune

BillDL

The Kinks - Lola

Cream - Mother's Lament

Dr. Hook - Monterey Jack and Freaker's Ball

.... and many, many more.

thecolourbox

I wish I was an English muffin, about to make the most out of a toaster. I'd ease myself down, coming up brown. 

Funkfingers

Most of The Dukes Of Stratosphear catalogue.
Tori Amos - Space Dog
Thommo - Poor, Wee Jockey Clark
Love - 7 And 7 Is
Frank Zappa - G Spot Tornado*

* PARENTAL WARNING - Explicit Music!

thecolourbox

sev112

my Lovely horse - the Divine Comedy

RandallFlagg

Tea For The Tillerman

vasselmeyer

There's a very short track from Kimberly Rew (songwriter and guitarist for Katrina and the Waves) on his second solo album, "Grand Central Revisited" called "Purple and Orange Stripes". It's only about 1m20s long but is acapella with close harmonies and the whole track is quite unsettling.

Gassage

The first record I was bought as a kid....

I am sure it's now culturally inappropriate somehow....

blobb

Golf Girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtRviPtI4SI

Winny_Pooh

BillDL

Rossington Collins Band - Pine Box

Bowser & Blue - Colorectal Surgeon

Shrews

Nobody but nobody does quirky like Bjork

Keefy

https://youtu.be/PRgwX4BeQa4

TTBZ

All about that keyboard fill at about 00:45.

Bit like Primus on crack.

Grumpyrocker

Pink Floyd - Bike

My late wife didn't know much Pink Floyd. And when Syd died she was captivated by his story and struggles with mental health. It really moved her. And I played her some of his music - she adored Bike - she made it her ring tone. And so now every time I hear the song it makes me think of her, and maybe I should tell her that her phone is ringing. 

EricTheWeary

A funny category in some ways as some artists have specialised in the quirky. But I have always liked the ‘big name band does weird songs as album filler’ category which is something that largely died out by the mid 80s. 

So, in the spirit of that…

https://youtu.be/bvFuUaCe8eY

https://youtu.be/1CzKpjBFwjA

…and this is quite a long song but the introduction always seemed quite odd to include on a major release (well, they were big for ten minutes in the USA)…

https://youtu.be/B42OGxmsepA

EricTheWeary

…and speaking of quirky first records, mine was a second hand copy of this…

https://youtu.be/hnzHtm1jhL4

CaseOfAce

scrumhalf

I was there...

digitalkettle