The Offspring, The Beastie Boys, Van Halen w/DLR, and the B52s. Are there other bands that rock, but are often silly/goofy and funny?

Man, that's just wacky to see those bands in one sentence in reference to rocking and being silly. You're not wrong.

One of my favorites - Frank Zappa's Apostrophe / Overnight Sensation.

Bloodhound Gang, Blink 182, Sum 41, Sublime, Men Without Hats, They Might Be Giants, Tenacious D, Ugly Kid Joe, Green Jelly / Jello, The Dead Milkmen, Dee Lite, Squeeze.

Does Weird Al count? Because he is just as talented as any "serious" musician.

Also, The Presidents of the United States of America.

Queen. They’re essentially the Monty Python Team of hard rock.

System of a Down is an equal mix of the most serious and fun songs that I've ever seen.

🍌🍌🍌🍌🧱🍌🧱, 🧱🥧

Primus sucks

WEEN

Hands down my favorite band ever (though, Faith No More could claim that spot depending on my mood.). Put their entire library on shuffle and you'd think you're listening to multiple bands. Extremely talented musicians, quirky songs, fun compositions, and a variety and uniqueness rarely found coming from one band.

All hail the mighty Boognish!

Strapping Young Lad / anything Devin Townsend

Zimmer's Hole

Dethklok

Mindless Self Indulgence

Punky Bruster's Cooked On Phonics

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Das Racist

DANGERDOOM

Handsome Boy Modeling School

The Lonely Island

MC Paul Barman

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Big Dumb Face

Mr. Bungle

Lovage

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Man... Or Astro Man?

Electric Six

Ween

Dead Kennedys / anything Jello Biafra

Mean Jeans

Flight of the Conchords

Presidents of the United States of America

Reverend Horton Heat

The Unicorns

EDIT: The Chats

EDIT 2: Atom and His Package

EDIT 4: Voodoo Glow Skulls

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Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine

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Chromeo

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Only Some Funny Songs:

Mountain Goats

Tom Waits

EDIT 3: Beck

EDIT 5: Flaming Lips

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A League of Their Own:

GWAR

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Most Importantly:

Weird Al Yankovic, because he fucking rocks god damn it. ___

They Might Be Giants

Just rock or is metal allowed? Cus if so:

1. Ghost (Ghost B.C. in the UK) is very silly. Guys dressed in corpsepaint clergy, sounding like a hodgepodge of 70's/80's hits you missed. They got lore too, which is appropriately silly.

2. Electric Callboy is silly. They are... Like, deathcore mixed with whatever they feel like for that song. We Got the Moves is deathcore with a bit of hard bass, for example. And it's a song about partying. Pump It is about going to the gym. Spaceman is about a guy going to space and rapping in german. Honestly one of my favourite bands.

3. Wind Rose is silly as hell. Bearded guys, singing about dwarf stuff. They covered Diggy Diggy Hole and blew up, and props to them because their version is a banger, but they got good original stuff too which is sadly overlooked because Diggy Diggy Hole was just that good.

4. Powerwolf is another one, similar to Ghost. They're vampiric werewolves? And their songs are all in-keeping with that theme. Power metal though, unlike Ghost.

5. Austrian Death Machine is also silly. Voice actors emulating Arnold while the vocalist growls about lifting weights, the cookie monster, jingle bells, getting to the choppah, etc. The vocalist's history has kind of soured the band for me though.

6. Gnome is underrated. Their songs are simplistic as hell, and none of them are virtuosos. But their songs go hard. Wenceslas is great, Ambrosius as well. Edit: writing this gave me an earworm and went down Gnome's songs. Their bassist is a goddamn genius. Simple licks that sound great, and they got weird time sig changes here and there that tickle my brain in the best ways. I can't figure out if they are actual time sig changes or just weird changes, and I love that.

Tenacious D

Electric Six

I think I saw someone mention them, but I can't find them now. They're pretty silly, but also their songs are unironically fun to listen to as well.

I didn't see this one yet....

Weezer

Bowling for Soup

Barenaked ladies

GWAR

Butthole surfers

They Might Be Giants?

System of a Down - Cigaro

Individuals and groups in English:

• Beck

• Green Day

• Silverchair

• Busta Rhymes

• Missy Elliot

• Eminem & D-12

• Snoop Dogg

• Immortal Technique

• Red Hot Chili Peppers, especially Flea

• Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne

• The Beatles

• Daft Punk

• Brad Paisley

• Pitbull

Spanish:

• Residente & Calle 13

• Los Van Van

• Tromboranga

• Kola Loka

• Charanga Habanera

Pirate metal is fun and silly.

Adam and the ants

Reel big fish

The dead milkmen

Talking heads

Devo

Devin Townsend. Saw him live, warming up for Dream Theater, in 2022. In addition to providing a kickass set, it was hilarious.

Example I dug out of my phone: https://files.catbox.moe/jdmyd6.mp4

Found one more: https://files.catbox.moe/0qb70t.mp4

Fun fact: My employer paid for my plane ticket and hotel stay that evening. It "just so happened" that I had something to do at the head office at the same time my two favorite artists were performing nearby.. sure, I had something work-related to do, but my timing was no accident.

UPDATE: Looks like Dream Theater will be in the area again in November. Sounds like it's time for a department-wide meeting, don't you think?

Mr Bungle. The singer from faith no more. Apparently he liked hiding his turds in ventilation ducs in the hotels while he was on tour. Also made fun of the other lead singer of RHCP.

Devo

Super Furry Animals

Weird Al

Frank Zappa

Any time drummer Tré Cool takes the stage at a Green Day show, you’re in for a treat. Dominated Love Slave is his signature, but there’s also Like a Rat Does Cheese which is unreleased and All By Myself closes Dookie.

The Who were kinda silly (eg: Boris the Spider) in their early years.

Steel Panther

Lagwagon, nofx

There is a lot of hip hop that fits this idea of great music with wacky lyrics.

Megan thee stallion, cardi b, and the like sing some raunchy songs.

Bbno$, yung gravy, lil dicky, flynt flossy and the entire turquoise jeep records collection of artists are humor-forward

Then theres czarface which has made many albums all about comic book characters.

They've already been mentioned, but The Dead Milkmen are exactly what you're looking for.

Peter Gabriel era Genesis was pretty goofy, as well as some of his solo stuff.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is pretty much the goofiest band known to man right now; especially if you listen to their earlier stuff like Cellophane or Vegemite.

Have you checked Nanowar (of steel) which is parodic metal ?

Vulfpeck

Devo

Ween.

Nobody mentioned steel panther yet. Quality stuff

Svinkels, Stupeflip, MC Frontalot

you might enjoy pulling up some Dr Demento playlists you'd be surprised how many good bands have a goofy side!

Nerf Herder

No More Kings

I don't know if its 'silly' but Health runs a phone number, a discord, and subjects Johnny to a bunch of miserable shit for laughs I guess.

fine young cannibals, wall of voodoo/stan ridgeway.

Electric Callboy are very silly and produce excellent videos.

JBO, if you understand German.

Sparks. Best. Band. Ever.

Here's one you never heard of - Gung Ho by Shaka Ponk

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eahh8Xb41u8&si=_-tKGTX4u2iaoqiL

Angus McSix (formerly Angus McFife of Gloryhammer) is a hoot.

How silly are you looking for? It doesn't get sillier than We Ran Out Of CD Space by PsychoStick... or anything else by psychostick. But there's also Ninja Sex Party, Wolves of Glendale, First of October (listen to Ravioli).

While not outright comedy, there's a humor to Falling for Me by Parker the Bandit and It's Okay to Punch Nazis by Cheap Perfume

Spinal tap

Ween, Dead Milkmen, Gwar, Nomeansno, Hansen Brothers, Pink n Brown, Jesus Lizard, Moistboyz, Stormtroopers of Death.

Maybe Beck? Que’ Onda Guero always makes me giggle.

And, a bit of a different genre but Father John Misty’s songs are sarcastic and often nonsensical. They sound all romantic and dreamy but the lyrics don’t always match the vibe.

Somebody already recommended Primus so I have to come up with backup. And that is:

• Nuclear Power Trio
• Carnival in Coal
• Igorrr

Thank You Scientist are seriously talented musicians who make very complex music, but don't take themselves seriously and have fun with their performances.

Future Idiots.

Patent Pending.

Estradasphere and Ween pop to mind

Andrew WK

Until you listen harder.

The Aquabats

Macklemore

Devin Townsend

Kendall Street Company

Them being ska punk makes it an easy pick, but Russkaja has great covers and original songs.

The Presidents of the United States of America fit the bill

THE TUBES

The Tubes

White Punks On Dope

NoFx - 72 Hookers

Chris De Burgh - Spanish Train and other stories Gotta listen to Patricia the stripper

Southern Culture On The Skids https://youtu.be/T9NLgyEFzOo?si=w0c80_Pv1FL1qALV

Freak Kitchen, and their front man, now solo artist, Matthias IA Eklundh.

Igorrr is its own music genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxDOV6IwHk

(Not really, it's a blend of metal and breakcore)

In my search for artists like the Beastie Boys I came across Joey Valence & Brae and I'm loving their music.

I only know a couple singles, but I get the sense Primus is pretty wacky

spose

Mindless Self Indulgence.

Southern Culture on the Skids

The Reverend Horton Heat

Camper Van Beethoven

Does music that is unintentionally funny count? Like how you laugh at a bad B-movie?

Because if so...

Rod Stewart.

Steel Panther, before they jumped the shark.

I second most of these other recommendations, but since I haven't seen them said yet, The Magnetic Fields. Somehow manages to be funny while also being very geniune and touching, which I think is kind of what I look for in a band.

Alestorm.

The lonely island. Although they're always silly and funny, not just often.

Captain Sensible. He was the guitarist for the punk band The Damned, but had a #1 hit in the UK with "Happy Talk", a song from the 1949 musical South Pacific.

Try Engerica