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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.
How is Tenacious D not plastered all over the comments!?
Piling on here.... One size fits all is an excellent intro album to Zappa for the uninitiated!
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.
That's because Anthony Kiedis thought very little of Mike Patton around the time of "Epic" I don't know if they ever settled on the matter.
He thought Mike Patton was biting his style! I recently watched the video for Epic and I can kind of see what Kiedis is saying but honestly RHCP never had a hit like Epic before it was released. Motherβs Milk was released a few months later.
Adam and the ants
Reel big fish
The dead milkmen
Talking heads
Devo
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
Does Weird Al count? Because he is just as talented as any "serious" musician.
Also, The Presidents of the United States of America.
Unlike the other bands listed in this thread, Weird Al manages to rock even when he's covering other musical genres!
Weird Al has literally done covers including style covers of many of the bands listed in this thread!
Presidents of the USA cover: Gump
They Might Be Giants style cover: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Devo style cover: Dare To Be Stupid
I'm sure there's more, that's off the top of my head.
There's also songs that may have been initially inspired by a certain other artist but strayed far enough to be basically completely original, such as Albuquerque and (possibly my favorite Weird Al song of them all) Hardware Store.
Not to mention the polkas, which is what I really had in mind when I was talking about him making other genres rock.
Lagwagon, nofx
And the Vandals
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.
Pirate metal is fun and silly.
Came here to recommend Alestorm π€
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.
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
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?
Nobody mentioned steel panther yet. Quality stuff
I came to mention them. Quite baffled no one thought of them. Incredible band!
Just rock or is metal allowed? Cus if so:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nanowar of Steel is great too. Who else would make a Rhapsody of Fire tribute/parody, make it about Barbie, and then get the original Rhapsody singer to do lead vocals.
Electric Callboy!
Pump it and We got the moves are must listen/watch. The music videos are fantastic.
That sounds like a fun list! Added all of them to my bandcamp wish list
Thank you, gnome is fucking rad!
Back on topic, Haken love some goofy stuff, and there's always primus, who do very little serious (but it's been a few decades, I'm out of date! I loved too many puppies )
Igorrr is always a scream, very noise would be a great example.
I fell like hip-hop often is irreverent or silly, and I'm not thinking of just satirical acts like Goldie lookin chain (although they are classic ), but the herbaliser were regularly entertaining, often more than just samples
Mos def wrote some absolute bangers (under a few names), here's a great example where it's been mashed up with Marvin gaye and absolutely bounces along
For something a bit dancier, Marmaduke duke were often a giggle
I'm sorry all my links are probably a bit AWOL, I'm new to piped
Metal, of course, being a subgenre of Polka. You wouldn't think so, but it's true.
Ween.
They'll be goofy and silly and then drop the greatest western song put to verse that you've ever heard.
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.
Macklemore
The Presidents of the United States of America fit the bill
In my search for artists like the Beastie Boys I came across Joey Valence & Brae and I'm loving their music.
Them being ska punk makes it an easy pick, but Russkaja has great covers and original songs.
Devin Townsend
Igorrr is its own music genre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxDOV6IwHk
(Not really, it's a blend of metal and breakcore)
The Who were kinda silly (eg: Boris the Spider) in their early years.
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!
The Aquabats
Andrew WK
Until you listen harder.
Southern Culture on the Skids
The Reverend Horton Heat
Camper Van Beethoven