Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

My Genre: Industrial Avant-garde rock. What's this?

iTunes Genre: Rock

Who's in the band?

-Dan Rathbun on [Vocals], [Autoharp], [Bass guitar], [Lute], [Pedal-Action Wiggler], [Recorder], [Roach], [Sledgehammer], [Thing] and [Trombone].

-Michael Mellender on [Accordion], [Euphonium], [Guitar], [Lever-action Lever], [Pancreas (electric)], [Percussion], [Tangularium], [Toy piano], [Trumpet] , [Valhalla], [Vatican], [Wheel] and [Xylophone].

-Carla Kihlstedt on [Vocals], [Autoharp], [Bass Harmonica], [Electric violin], [Nyckelharpa], [Organ], [Percussion guitar], [Pump Organ] and [Stroh violin].

-Nils Frykdahl on [Vocals], [Autoharp], [Flutes], [Guitar (6 string)], [Guitar (12 string)], [Percussion Guitar], [Recorder] and [Tibetan Bells].

-Matthias Bossi on [Drums], [Glockenspiel], [Melodica], [Percussion (6 string)], [Piano] and [Xylophone].

My Experience:

My Drummer Jet, has a cousin who is in Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. That is how I first heard of them.

So I figure "okay, I'll listen to their music, but he probably just likes them because he is related to them". But not at all.

The band was absolutely incredible and one of the most original things I had ever heard.

This Quote from Wikipedia really should say all that I need to say about this band:

"Their first performance, on June 22, 1999, was to a single banana slug . The following night's performance was their first to a human audience."

And that's all I have to say about that.

Noticeable Traits:

• Almost as crazy as Fantomas
• Really...Crazy Vocals
• Crazy amount of instruments
• Crazy Heavy.
• Crazy.

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My Favorite Songs

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Sleep Is Wrong

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Salt Crown

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Widening Eye

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Albums

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Grand Opening And Closing (2001)

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Sleep Is Wrong
Ambugaton
Ablutions
1997 (Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's...)
The Miniature
Powerless
The Stain
Sleepytime (Spirit Is a Bone)
Sunflower

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Of Natural History (2004)

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A Hymn to the Morning Star
The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion
Phthisis
Bring Back the Apocalypse
FC: The Freedom Club
Gunday's Child
The 17-Year Cicada
The Creature
What Shall We Do Without Us?
Babydoctor
Cockroach

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In Glorious Times (2007)

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The Companions
Helpless Corpses Enactment
Puppet Show
Formicary
Angle of Repose
Ossuary
The Salt Crown
The Only Dance
The Greenless Wreath
The Widening Eye
The Putrid Refrain

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