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Scatterbrain - You can trust a band wearing bunny slippers A much neglected rock genre is the 50s doo wop thrash metal crossover band. Part of the reason is that only one band has dared to hoe this field of potential and that was New York funk/thrash band Scatterbrain, number 3 in The Best Band You Have Never Heard. Now some Aussie readers may remember Scatterbrain. Back in 1990 they had a top-5 hit with the 50s doo wop thrash metal classic Don't Call Me Dude . Taken from their debut album Here Comes Trouble it was a brilliantly funny song of love gone wrong via a psychotic episode. And that was one key element of Scatterbrain; humour. Overall the metal genre is too full of humourless blowhards who take themselves quite seriously. Scatterbrain were quite the opposite. Tommy Christ was perfect as a vocalist singing or rapping his way through the songs with always a sly grin in his voice. The other element of Scatterbrain was as a band they had serious chops as musicians. The guitarists Glen Cummings and Paul Nieder could shred with the best (shown with effect on a playful romp through Mozart's Sonata #3 from Here Comes Trouble ) while Guy Grogna (bass) and Mike Boyko (drums) were a tight and very capable rhythm section. Here Comes Trouble is worth tracking down (and it is hard to find. Note to record companies: Why don't you use venues such as eMusic to keep out of print material circulating. I'd love to buy a CD version of this album but it is bloody hard to find in Australia). Apart from Don't Call Me Dude the other song that gathered some attention was Down with the Ship , a song whose lyrics are interspersed with classic rock riffs (play name the songs in the comments). But those aren't the only songs worth mentioning. The title track is a stomping, amusing tale of someone down on his luck. I'm With Stupid recounts a tale of karmic revenge involving a man who finds he has grown two heads overnight. Mr Johnson and The Juice Crew takes the traditional rock double entendre to delightful and thrashy realms. Cheech and Chong's Earache My Eye gets a twisted work over as well. After Here Comes Trouble Scatterbrain only released one other album Scamboogery . This was a patchy effort compared to Here Comes Trouble though still not a bad album. Grandama's House of Babe s recounts a childhood in a strip club come gator zoo while Tastes Just Like Chicken pokes fun at commercial music. The title track features a cameo by the renowned metal vocalist Smokin' Joe Frazier. Their final effort, a seven track EP titled Mundus Intellectualis was a disappointment (actually available on eMusic for some reason). The same elements that made Here Comes Trouble and Scamboogery great albums was lacking and Scatterbrain succumbed soon after to obscurity and don't even rate a mention in 'Where are they now?' questions these days. There are ways and means to find Scatterbrain's albums if you get what I am saying. Of course if you can find a CD good on ya but you'd be lucky. For your aural edification I've uploaded four songs below. Hope you enjoy. Don't Call Me Dude from Here Comes Trouble Down With The Ship from Here Comes Trouble Scamboogery from Scamboogery Grandma's House of Babes from Scamboogery Note: Scatterbrain evolved from New York hardcore band Ludichrist. The album Immaculate Deception is both heavy and hilarious.