Searching "crazy bone" sure produces a lot of different stuff. I didn't expect to find an online medical dictionary through that route.

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Five Crazy Songs

1. Couch Flambeau, "My Baby Is A Nut." Milwaukee's brilliant smart alecks with a punky, jazzy ode to a lover paralyzed and housebound by her own insecurities. There's an especially funny (and poorly acted) spoken word interaction in the middle where the girlfriend's constant protests of her own unattractiveness convince the male in the equation to relent: "Okay, you've convinced me. You are kind of homely." Couch rules!

2. Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, "Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy." A sharp song that was a huge hit in Australia back in 1972 (given the policies about homegrown artists on Aussie radio, I'd wager this song is about as commonly played down under as the most worn out class rock songs within our wide borders). It has a countrified chunkiness to it in its simple strum-along celebration of personal uniqueness.

3. Keith Moon, "Crazy Like A Fox." Here's some gen-u-wine rock and roll crazy for you. You can't do better than the hotel-room trashing, Rolls Royce submerging drummer of The Who. Appropriately enough, there's a nice mid-70's "pub rock" feel to this one.

4. The Dukes of the Stratosphear, "Have You Seen Jackie?" The decidedly loony psychedelic pseudonym of XTC when they wanted to wallow in the multi-layered influence of latter-day Beatles studio experimentation. This song buoyantly relates the sad tale of an oppressed youth with a revolving door gender. "He's an odd odd odd little fish/To fly around is his only wish."

5. Robyn Hitchcock, "My Wife and My Dead Wife." "Doesn't anybody see her at all?"