More than any other music, Soul Coughing's Ruby Vroom sums up both my musical tastes and my love of the absurd. Unfortunately Warner Music is on a jihad against everything online, so you can't really hear the music on YouTube or anyplace else, but the Amazon link I gave allows you to hear some brief samples. (I really, really hate the music labels.)

How can you not love an album when one of the songs has the chorus: "You get the ankles and I'll get the wrists—It's come down to this."

But the tip-top song from that album is "Blueeyed Devil," a beyond-funky ode to a door-to-door salesman with a heroin problem.

Seriously, if you dig on unusual music, you owe it to yourself to give Ruby Vroom a try.