Thought I'd throw this quircky little group out there for thsoe with a dark and perverse sense of humour. I was at a party some years ago and the couple were playing "Welcome to the Beautiful South" and the band plays a nice soft kinda Jazz/poppy stuff but with bizarre lyrics which of course seem so out of steop with the accompanyment that I found myself rather ammused by the off beat nature of the band.
Fast forward 10+ years and I found myself staring at quite a selection of albums from a band that I have never heard played on the radio.
Woman in the Wall for example is a light jazz pop song about a woman who the singer has killed and put in his wall. Lyrics:
He was just a social drinker but social every night
He enjoyed a pint or two or three or four
She was just a silent thinker, silent every night
He’d enjoy the thought of killing her before
Well he was very rarely drunk but very rarely sober
And he didn’t think the problem was his drink
But he only knew his problem when he knocked her over
And when the rotting flesh began to stink
Cry freedom for the woman in the wall
Cry freedom for she has no voice at all
I hear her cry all day, all night
I hear her voice from deep within the wall
Made a cross from knitting needles
Made a grave from hoover bags
Especially for the woman in the wall
She’d knitted him a jumper with dominoes on
So he wore it everyday in every week
Pretended to himself that she hadn’t really gone
Pretended that he thought he heard her speak
Then at last it seemed that he was really winning
He felt that he had some sort of grip
But all of his new life was sent a-spinning
When the rotting wall began to drip"
Yeah it's off beat allright.
Check them out if you want a different kind of sound with some out there lyrics...their "Carry on up the Charts" album became one of the biggest selling albums in British History and yet have very little presence in the US.
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/beautiful_south/bio.jhtml