The Weird 100

The top 100 bands we’ve blogged about on TWBITW, ranked according to their page views over the past three months.

Estonian lunatics Winny Puhh score a second straight month atop the Weird 100, a position we suspect they may occupy for a long time to come. You people freakin’ love those guys.

Elsewhere on the Weird 100, there aren’t a lot of major movers this month. German cutetronic pranksters Räuberhöhle narrowly edge out Naked City and The Chewers for the month’s highest debut, coming in at a respectable No. 40. Finnish one-man freak show Paska scores the month’s highest chart re-entry, hurling himself back in at No. 70. And for reasons we still don’t understand, Australian gearheads The Cycologists continue to storm back up the chart, pedaling up 39 places this month to No. 24.

For a complete alphabetical list of every band we’ve ever blogged about (204 and counting), go here.

Updated monthly(ish). Last update: May 11, 2013. Previous rank listed in (parentheses). Former No. 1′s noted with an asterisk. New entries in boldface.

1. Winny Puhh – how do you say “weird” in Estonian (1)

2. Igorrr* – breakcore + classical + death metal + ambient = WTFF? (2)

3. Professor Elemental vs. Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer – fear of a chap planet (3)

4. Mayhem* – murder, suicide, flying pig’s heads; just another day on the Norwegian black metal scene (4)

5. Primus – sailing the seas of weird (9)

6. Pryapisme – a French prog-metal soundtrack to the 8-bit Catpocalypse (6)

7. Max Normal – and you thought Die Antwoord was weird (5)

8. Prussian Blue – the world’s most adorable white supremacist folk duo (7)

9. Compressorhead – putting the “metal” in heavy metal (11)

10. Iwrestledabearonce – weird even by grindcore standards (8)

11. Whitehouse – the inventors of “power electronics”…no, not the kind you find at Best Buy (13)

12. M△S▴C△RA (Mascara)* – weird even by witch house standards (12)

13. Rick K. & The Allnighters – this drummer is at the wrong gig (14)

14. Parliament-Funkadelic – we want the weird; give up the weird! (10)

15. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott would not approve (24)

16. Barbara – schizo vocals and Eyes Wide Shut dance-offs (25)

17. Impaled Northern Moonforest – the world’s first (and still greatest) acoustic black metal band (16)

18. GG Allin – putting the danger (and the bodily fluids) back into punk rock (22)

19. Army of Gay Unicorns – totally gay for your ear holes…and they like it rough (20)

20. Attila – Billy Joel does proto-metal…nuff said (15)

21. Crash Worship – neo-tribal/industrial/extreme audience participation insanity (17)

22. The Gerogerigegege – like an S&M Japanese GG Allin, only grosser (18)

23. Die Antwoord* – straight outta Cape Town (19)

24. The Cycologists – finding weird new uses for two-wheeled transportation (63)

25. Anklepants – the prosthetic penis-nose is the least weird part of it (36)

26. Renaldo and the Loaf – songs for swinging weirdos (31)

27. Shibusashirazu Orchestra – free jazz + butoh dancers = WTF? (34)

28. Aesthetic Meat Front – sewing instruments into their skin since 1996 (28)

29. Cromagnon – weird even by 1969 standards (27)

30. Hatebeak – spiking the bird seed with an extra dose of weird sauce (21)

31. Metalachi – a mariachi metal band? only in L.A. (38)

32. Haunted Garage – the original punk-rock horror-movie circus freak show (32)

33. The KLF – what do Tammy Wynette, Dr. Who, acid house and wanton destruction of legal tender have in common? (29)

34. Cattle Decapitation – taking on the meat industry, one gory death metal anthem at a time (30)

35. VirginTurtleWhore – something weird is happening in Mexico (39)

36. Autopsy Report of Drowned Shrimp – Japan’s funkiest crustacean-inspired trance/noise/jam band (37)

37. Here Come the Mummies* – making music even funkier than the smell of their rotting flesh (35)

38. Mr. Bungle – confusing the shit out of metal fans since 1991 (33)

39. Blasted Mechanism – something weird is happening in Portugal (46)

40. Räuberhöhle – tattooed German punk rock chick does J-pop…weirdness ensures (NEW)

41. Sun O))) – what if a bunch of druids started a drone metal band? (48)

42. H-Beam – pig lawyers, love pandas and useful boxes of hair (51)

43. The Chewers – some West Virginia hillbillies have discovered The Residents (NEW)

44. Cardiacs – weird even by ’80s standards (40)

45. Naked City – the early ‘90s’ weirdest jazz/spazz/punk/thrash/surf/country/cartoon/avant-garde/noise quintet (NEW)

46. Rancid Penguin Molestation – the only thing weirder than pornogrind is fake pornogrind (49)

47. Chimney Crow – aliens are just gnomes for our paradigm and other deep thoughts (26)

48. Captured! by Robots – at least our future robot overlords like Journey (50)

49. Fol Chen – it’s a post-apocalyptic hipster dance party! (45)

50. Laibach – Eins, zwei, drei, weird (41)

51. TISM – This Is Seriously weird, Mum (58)

52. Threebrain – pre-YouTube viral videos like Weeee! (52)

53. Wolf Eyes – taking D.I.Y. noise to new heights (or new lows) (75)

54. Powerglove – turning videogame soundtracks into raw metal fury (83)

55. Insane Clown Posse* – fucking weirdos, how do they work? (47)

56. Lenny Pickett with the Borneo Horns – you know that sax player from SNL? yeah, he’s a weirdo (62)

57. Otto Von Schirach – breakcore’s number-one weirdo…which is saying a lot (64)

58. That 1 Guy – playing his Magic Pipe in public since the ’90s (44)

59. Tool – this just in: Maynard James Keenan is a weird dude (42)

60. The Shaggs – the unwitting godmothers of outsider music (60)

61. Throbbing Gristle – the tranny lead singer is the least weird part of it (56)

62. The Wet Spots – Canadians can make anything seem adorable…even taking it in the butt (67)

63. Dirty Sanchez – trannies, Italian satanists and trashy electro-pop (66)

64. Dir En Grey – Japan’s favorite metal band can beat up your favorite metal band (65)

65. Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin – serenading frozen fish and Jumblies (69)

66. The Ass Orbiters – cheap laughs, catchy tunes, zero taste (68)

67. Caroliner – Bay Area freaks with a thing for blacklight paint, noise, bluegrass, and 19th century livestock mythology (72)

68. Leslie Hall/Leslie & The LYs – the gem sweater collection is the least weird thing about her (43)

69. Bum Sick – seriously weird shit…emphasis on “shit” (74)

70. Paska – the worst thing Finland ever did to rock music (re-entry)

71. Vocal Trash – Stomp meets Glee in Texas, weirdness ensues (100)

72. Red Shadow – workers of the weird unite! (71)

73. The Amplifetes – the world’s frumpiest dance-pop band (84)

74. Trippple Nippples – weirrrd electro-pppop from Japppan (76)

75. Bob Log III – he wants your weird on his leg (73)

76. Klaus Nomi – because pop music needs more androgynous, operatic counter-tenors (61)

77. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – sledgehammer dulcimers and Unabomber lyrics (77)

78. Arrington de Dionyso Malaikat dan Singa – William Blake + throat singing + “trance-punk” = WTF? (88)

79. Ghedalia Tazartes – a French nutjob with an accordion and a loop pedal (79)

80. The Vegetable Orchestra – it’s amazing what you can produce with produce (55)

81. The Tiger Lillies – the original Brechtian punk cabaret trio (57)

82. Dread Zeppelin – Elvis + Led Zeppelin + reggae = mercy! (82)

83. Ghostigital – something weird is happening in Iceland (23)

84. Tiny Tim – tiptoe through the weirdness (87)

85. The County Medical Examiners – the world’s most anatomically precise goregrind band (86)

86. The Upper Crust – you like hair metal? get ready for powdered wig metal (59)

87. Dwarr – lo-fi stoner metal from South Carolina…need we say more? (89)

88. The Residents – hey, who took my giant eyeball mask? (70)

89. The Radioactive Chicken Heads – why is the lead singer a carrot? just go with it (85)

90. Buckethead – the world’s weirdest guitar god/nunchuck dancer/Viggo Mortensen collaborator (78)

91. Beatallica – yes, even cover bands can be weird (98)

92. Author and Punisher – welcome, my son, to the Drone Machines (90)

93. Magma – how do you say “weird” in Kobaïan (99)

94. tUnE-yArDs – more fun to listen to than it is to type (81)

95. The Misfits – happy Halloween, punks! (54)

96. Baby Seal Club – California wine country’s weirdest band (96)

97. Caninus – grindcore that’s off the chain…literally (80)

98. Lightning Bolt – taking noise-rock to some weird, masked extremes (95)

99. Naked & Shameless – a drinking band with a music problem (91)

100. Einstürzende Neubauten – Germans + power tools = the most industrial industrial band ever (re-entry)

(Note: After they held the No. 1 spot on this list for about six months, we finally decided to retire Rammstein so other bands would have a chance at No. 1. So congrats, Rammstein! You’re officially too weird even for us.)