Pancake Dream is available on CD, vinyl and digital, as well as deluxe editions with elaborate packaging, a video/DVD version of the album and merch bundles. ( Pre-order yours.) The video version of the album will also be available to stream via Night Flight Plus soon.Ĭheck out Pancake Dream's artwork and tracklist below. The video premieres in this post and you can watch it below. The video for "American Dream" also pays tribute to "old friends with sad ends" like Bill Paxton (who directed the "Fish Heads" video), Devo's Bob Casale, Miguel Ferrer, Gilligan's Island's Dawn Wells, and more. Demento Fish Heads: Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum In the morning laughing happy fish heads. But… it’s an honest and a personal song, which in itself, is a rarity for Barnes & Barnes.” I wish I hadn’t been inspired to write it. "It’s a reflection of American politics and the divide that causes so much trauma and drama in our country and it’s also a personal report regarding friends lost during this heinous global pandemic. "Inspired by current events, I wrote American History as a 'social studies' song," Mumy tells us. The album also occasionally draws back the curtain, for something a little more serious and direct, which is the case with "American History." While none of their other songs hold quite as much cultural cache, Mumy and Haimer have continued to make music together as Barnes & Barnes since and will release a new album, Pancake Dream, this Friday (11/5) via Demented Punk.Īs fellow Demento vet Weird "Al" Yankovic notes, Pancake Dream "definitely ain’t 'Fish Heads,'" and "finds the brothers Barnes at their most hypnotic and avant-garde, creating lyrics and soundscapes that will forever plague my dreams and haunt my every waking moment." It's a more mature Barnes & Barnes, but no less strange. That song is " Fish Heads," which still sounds shockingly weird some 42 years after being released. The cover appears on a 2007, tour-only CD-R titled, Heck.Barnes & Barnes, the cult duo of Art Barnes ( Bill Mumy who played Will Robinson on '60s-era Lost in Space) and Artie Barnes ( Robert Haimer), hold the distinction of creating the most requested song in the Dr Demento Show history. Buck 65 recorded a cover of "Fish Heads" set to the music of Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba".Wild Man Fischer released a cover of "Fish Heads" on his album Pronounced Normal.In the 2017 television episode "Goodwill" of Halt and Catch Fire Joe and Haley listen to the song while driving in Joe's car.
Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads fish heads, fish. If the Barnes name doesn’t ring a bell, maybe their music video Fish Heads will. Mumy, 34, is half of the bizarre cult band Barnes and Barnes.
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Alan Arkin sings the song in the 1993 movie Indian Summer. The Robinson family is still Lost in Space, but Bill Mumy, alias Will Robinson, has been found. The song is featured in The Simpsons episode " Treehouse of Horror VII". The video aired on NBC television on Saturday Night Live, on Decemand the following week. The verses describe various things they (mostly) cannot do such as play baseball, wear sweaters, play the drums.Īctor Bill Paxton, a filmmaker at the time, directed and appeared in the music video for the song, along with cinematographer Rocky Schenck and Robert Haimer's girlfriend at the time, Joan Farber, who designed the costume look.
The lyrics are an absurdist celebration of fish heads, describing them in the high-pitched chorus as "roly poly" and delicious to eat. The song was featured on Barnes & Barnes' 1982 Fish Heads (Greatest Hits) 12-inch on Rhino Records. Demento radio show, and a music video for the song made in 1980 was in regular rotation on MTV. " Fish Heads" is a novelty song by comedy rock duo Barnes & Barnes, released as a single in 1978 and later featured on their 1980 album Voobaha.
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