Buck - I've been hearing about Dr Demento for years, but never actually had the pleasure as yet.
I'm thinking of something not necessarily tongue in cheek, but it could be. Too much hokey reverb, alien backup vocals, parametric EQ that makes you sound like Rudy Vallee (sp?). Like somebody with too much makeup and tasteless clothes, but the whole thing hangs together in a kind of cheap, spectacular fashion.
Have you ever heard Portishead? Well, that not what I'm thinking about (LOL) but they're an example of what you can accomplish with the unusual. Mind you, if your singer's an angel and your main man's a techno genius, it helps, of course.
[This message has been edited by dobro (edited 02-21-2000).]