Weird 100

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

For the second straight month, Insane Clown Posse occupy the No. 1 spot on our list. Nice work, Juggalos! Let’s all celebrate with a nice bong rip, shall we?

Elsewhere on the Weird 100, self-styled techno superhero Sir Ivan leaps into the No. 2 spot, thanks in part to his recent Bravo TV appearance; toytronic piano one-man band Twink scores the month’s highest chart entry at No. 24; and America’s only junkyard show band, Vocal Trash, take the biggest leap up the chart, moving up 44 spots to No. 34. And somehow, Coachella managed to sell out in a day without booking any of them.

For a complete alphabetical list of every band we’ve ever blogged about (137 and counting), go here.

Updated monthly(ish). Last update: Jan. 14, 2012. Previous rank listed in (parentheses). Former No. 1′s noted with an asterisk. New entries in boldface.

1. Insane Clown Posse – fucking weirdos, how do they work? (1)

2. Sir Ivan – all we are saying is give weird a chance (15)

3. Max Normal* – in South Africa, Normal is the new Weird (2)

4. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott would not approve (3)

5. Crash Worship – neo-tribal/industrial/extreme audience participation insanity (5)

6. Here Come the Mummies* – making music even funkier than the smell of their rotting flesh (4)

7. M△S▴C△RA (Mascara) – weird even by witch house standards (6)

8. Mr. Bungle – confusing the shit out of metal fans since 1991 (7)

9. The KLF – what do Tammy Wynette, Dr. Who, acid house and wanton destruction of legal tender have in common? (9)

10. Laibach – Eins, zwei, drei, weird (17)

11. Metalachi – a mariachi metal band? only in L.A. (14)

12. Prussian Blue – the world’s most adorable white supremacist folk duo (12)

13. Cromagnon – weird even by 1969 standards (13)

14. Die Antwoord* – straight outta Cape Town (11)

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

16. Trippple Nippples – weirrrd electro-pppop from Japppan (54)

17. Rammstein – du bist in Weird Land! (31)

18. Loutallica – thrash metal takes a walk on the weird side (21)

19. Mayhem – murder, suicide, flying pig’s heads; just another day on the Norwegian black metal scene (20)

20. Sun O))) – what if a bunch of druids started a drone metal band? (28)

21. Social Climbers – weird even by no-wave standards (10)

22. Throbbing Gristle – the tranny lead singer is the least weird part of it (24)

23. The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players – immortalizing bad photography in song (22)

24. Twink – toy pianos are weird (NEW)

25. Brokencyde – behold, the douchecore kids (45)

26. Naked & Shameless – a drinking band with a music problem (16)

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

28. Super Geek League – Seattle’s best sci-fi punk circus (26)

29. Rasputina – finding weird new uses for the cello (18)

30. Dwarr – lo-fi stoner metal from South Carolina…need we say more? (29)

31. Bob Log III – he wants your weird on his leg (25)

32. The Ass Orbiters – rude, crude and offensive, even for a bunch of New Yorkers (39)

33. The Wet Spots – Canadians can make anything seem adorable…even taking it in the butt (30)

34. Rudely Interrupted – not letting a few disabilities get in the way of rocking out (23)

35. GG Allin – putting the danger (and the bodily fluids) back into punk rock (34)

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

37. The Emotron – setting his package on fire for your amusement since 2004 (38)

38. The Misfits – happy Halloween, punks! (50)

39. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – sledgehammer dulcimers and Unabomber lyrics (41)

30. The Shaggs – the unwitting godmothers of outsider music (32)

31. Lenny Pickett with the Borneo Horns – you know that sax player from SNL? yeah, he’s a weirdo (44)

32. Red Shadow – workers of the weird unite! (52)

33. Haunted Garage – the original punk-rock horror-movie circus freak show (36)

34. Vocal Trash – Stomp meets Glee in Texas, weirdness ensues (78)

35. Powerglove – turning videogame soundtracks into raw metal fury (37)

36. Primus – sailing the seas of weird (42)

37. Dirty Sanchez – trannies, Italian satanists and trashy electro-pop (47)

38. The Baseballs – Germans + rockabilly + Rihanna = weird (51)

39. Extreme Turbo Smash – when furries attack, death-metal style (43)

40. The Residents – hey, who took my giant eyeball mask? (57)

41. The Superions – this just in: Fred Schneider is a weird dude (NEW)

42. Evelyn Evelyn – weird even by Amanda Palmer standards (27)

43. Rancid Penguin Molestation – the only thing weirder than pornogrind is fake pornogrind (40)

44. Arrington de Dionyso Malaikat dan Singa – William Blake + throat singing + “trance-punk” = WTF? (48)

45. The Polyphonic Spree – the world’s most cult-like 24-piece indie rock band (46)

46. Hatebeak – spiking the bird seed with an extra dose of weird sauce (73)

47. Dolchnakov Brigade – is “Palevish” Russian for “weird”? (49)

48. Tool – this just in; Maynard James Keenan is a weird dude (56)

49. Yip-Yip – stroboscopic spazz-tronica so weird, it just gave us a seizure (55)

50. Gidropony – something weird is happening in Russia (58)

51. Caroliner – Bay Area freaks with a thing for blacklight paint, noise, bluegrass, and 19th century livestock mythology (62)

52. The Moog Cookbook – vintage synths are weird (72)

53. Parliament-Funkadelic – we want the weird; give up the weird! (65)

54. The White Mice – Rhode Island’s finest mousehead-wearing electro-thrash noise band (66)

55. Negativland – these guys are weird, and who gives a shit? (60)

56. Aesthetic Meat Front – sewing instruments into their skin since 1996 (67)

57. Threebrain – pre-YouTube viral videos like Weeee! (61)

58. Ghedalia Tazartes – a French nutjob with an accordion and a loop pedal (59)

59. Paska – the worst thing Finland ever did to rock music (53)

60. Edward Barton – he’s got no chicken (70)

61. Deerhoof – panda! panda! weird! (63)

62. Wesley Willis – keeping the demons at bay with his harmony joy music (79)

63. The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble – making techno way more difficult to play than it really needs to be (35)

64. Edmund Welles – the bass clarinet: a weird instrument just got weirder (68)

65. Attila – Billy Joel does proto-metal…nuff said (71)

66. Beatallica – yes, even cover bands can be weird (83)

67. Fantomas – weird even by Mike Patton standards (64)

68. Richard There – we’re pretty sure his middle name is “Out” (see how we did that?) (75)

69.  GWAR – crazy outfits, fake bodily fluids sprayed on the audience…oh yeah, and there’s music, too (74)

70. Schwarzenator – the “vee-yurdist” band in the world (re-entry)

71. Lightning Bolt – taking noise-rock to some weird, masked extremes (81)

72. Peelander-Z – the world’s premier Japanese action comic band (80)

73. Ponytail – if rock music was an art class, they’d be the kids in the corner eating crayons (82)

74. Cattle Decapitation – taking on the meat industry, one gory death metal anthem at a time (69)

75. tUnE-yArDs – more fun to listen to than it is to type (NEW)

76. The Amplifetes – the world’s frumpiest dance-pop band (88)

77. Hank3 – tarnishing the family legacy with speed metal and “cattlecore” (33)

78. Dogs Die in Hot Cars – the world’s most interactive pop-rock band…or at least the most generous with their royalties (87)

79. Justice Yeldham – Australian for “weird shit” (92)

80. Zayde Buti – finding inspiration on the Wendy’s dollar menu (re-entry)

81. The Metal Shakespeare Company – to be weird or not to be weird, that is the question (77)

82. Dead Man’s Bones – this just in: Ryan Gosling is a weird dude (89)

83. The Locust – finally, a punk/noise band with a sense of style…that style being “chemical weapons disposal team” (76)

84. Delhi 2 Dublin – whose idea was it to let Canadians do Celtic/Bhangra/hip-hop fusion? (100)

85. The Books – turning thrift store junk into pure, weird gold (85)

86. The Legendary Stardust Cowboy – the world’s weirdest singing cowboy…if by “singing” you mean “incoherent yodeling” and if by “cowboy” you mean “unhinged lunatic” (91)

87. Imperial Stars – stopping L.A. traffic for bad rap-rock (95)

88. Hurra Torpedo – Norwegians + kitchen appliances + Bonnie Tyler = weird (93)

89. Tumbleweave – what is up with Florida and spazz-tronic bands? Don’t you guys have, like, beaches? And sunshine? (86)

90. Fol Chen – it’s a post-apocalyptic hipster dance party! (96)

91. Einstürzende Neubauten – making a scary industrial racket the way only Germans can (84)

92. Mission Man – pizza delivery man by day; awkward white rapper by night (97)

93. Tinariwen – something weird is happening in the African desert (re-entry)

94. DJ Nu-Mark – this funky hip-hop dance party was brought to you by Toy R Us (90)

95. Mojo Nixon – two-headed love children and tied-down peckers! (94)

96. MC Frontalot* – nerds + hip-hop = weird (100)

97. Señor Coconut – everything’s weirder when set to a cha-cha beat (98)

98. Magma – how do you say “weird” in Kobaian? (re-entry)

99. Hi God People – even God is saying “WTF?” (re-entry)

100. Gangpol & Mit – someone spiked the mai-tais at this tiki party (100)

(Note: After they held the No. 1 spot on this list for nearly a year, we finally decided to retire Rick K. & the All-Nighters so other bands would have a chance at No. 1. Sort of the way the Invisibl Skratch Piklz were forced to retire from international DJ competitions because they were discouraging other DJs from competing.)