
As with a lot of our catalogue, I just helped him fill in the blanks. “Fish Heads, our biggest hit, came from the mind of Robert Haimer. Official music video for Barnes & Barnes infamous cult classic, 'Fish Heads from the album Voobaha available now for the first time on vinyl since 1980 at. He then talks about how he started making music with his friends and how they would sell it on the streets. He starts out by telling his mother that he wants to be a rapper, but she tells him that he needs to finish school first. Robert made many people happy with his talent and his humor,” Mumy continued in his tribute. Big Fish by Vince Staples is a song about a young man’s journey to becoming a successful rapper. “I will miss making that unique ‘Barnes’ music very much. Demento show, and is the most honored song in Demento show history. After the success of “Fish Heads,” Barnes & Barnes continued to release music - the most recent album, Haimoom, came out last year. Demento About Fish Heads '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.

In 1978, they scored their biggest hit in “Fish Heads.” Actor Bill Paxton directed and appeared in the song’s music video, which was played in a December 1980 episode of Saturday Night Live. (Haimer played the latter.) They made jokey novelty songs that became popular on The Dr. Bill Pearis Published: MaRobert Haimer, aka Artie Barnes of experimental pop duo who gave the world the forever-weird novelty hit 'Fish Heads' (Dr Dementos 1 Most Requested Song. They started Barnes & Barnes in 1970, taking on stage personas as Art and Artie Barnes. Haimer was born in 1954 and was childhood friends with Mumy. Sometimes there was dissonance and silence and sometimes we made a mighty raucous roar together.”

Our relationship was based on harmony as was our music. Fish Heads is one weirdly amusing music video tavm 30 April 2016 I remember first seeing and hearing this song video when it was presented on 'Saturday Night Live' during that shows absolute worst season ever-the only one produced by Jean Domanian which introduced Eddie Murphy. His bandmate Bill Mumy confirmed the news in a Facebook post, writing: “Robert was a one of a kind artist and person. The video follows a man through his journey of a day spent with the titular fish heads. It even made 57 on Rolling Stone ’s 1993 list of the top 100 music videos. I think I saw somewhere he was also the director. The Fish Heads video is a slice of surrealist wonder that manages to be unique and interesting even in the modern day. Even knowing that actor, Bill Paxton, was the appeared in the video still doesn’t help.

Demento’s radio show, but that doesn’t help its case for me. I don’t know if I’d be LMFAO, but at least I’d be laughing.Robert Haimer, one-half of the duo Barnes & Barnes has died at age 69. Now I think the song actually came out in 1978 and was a favorite of Dr. I had a friend that did exactly that with Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time.” When You Die Credits Produced By Robert Haimer & Bill Mumy Written By Bill. And they say Rod Stewart thought he was god’s gift to women… I’m not sure he’s got anything on “Sexy And I Know It,” at least nothing as overt.Īnd the truly funny part is that, while it’s a three-chord wonder (like most songs on this list), you could create an intricate, beautiful, finger-picked arrangement that fools the audience.
