Rich here to follow up on Eegah's recent posts about music whose sheer quirkiness was their selling point. Back in the '90s when I ran the indie label Optional Art Records, I released "Milk & Cookies," an album by the band Edgar Schwartz, which was the nom de plume for the quirky duo of James Nicholson and Dennis Steinseifer.
Edgar Schwartz has been featured on this blog-site before, but you can never say too much about their cool and creative music.
If ever there was a way to get from Point A to Point B, you wouldn't have asked Edgar Schwartz how to get there because their directions surely would have been as full of detours and ups-and-downs and twists-and-turns as their music was. For every delicious background harmony you might find, there were as many herky-jerky rhythms, angular melodies, and unorthodox hooks.
I used to compare Edgar Schwartz to XTC-meets-The Beach Boys. But, really, that's far from accurate. A better comparison might be Frank Zappa-meets-Revolution Number 9 with a sprinkle of Jan & Dean.
These guys are SO talented, it's sinful they are not more well known. I guess it's just more proof how badly the system is broken.
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