They formed in 1994 and released their debut album in 1999.
Discography:
- Remedy (1999)
- Rooty (2001)
- Kish Kash (2003)
- Crazy Itch Radio (2006)
- Scars (2009)
- Zephyr (2009)
- Junto (2014)
Crazy Itch Tropes:
- Adaptation Amalgamation: "Miracles Keep on Playin'" is a mashup of their 1999 single "Red Alert" (which itself
Sampled Up Locksmith's "Far Beyond" and The Fugees' "Fu-Gee-la") with The Jackson Sisters' (no relation to The Jackson 5) '70s hit "I Believe in Miracles". - Careful with That Axe: "Red Alert"
has vocalist Blue James do a rather unexpected shriek during the breakdown.Blue James: AaaEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOWWWWW! BA-BY! - Digital Head Swap: The video for "Where's Your Head At?" has the band members faces superimposed onto the heads of monkeys; the plot being about a mad scientist's plan to make a monkey band.
- Don't Explain the Joke: "Oh My Gosh", a girl sings about a guy she's met (not that THAT narrows it down, but, you know); their conversation at one point goes:He said "how many sugars do you like in your tea?"
I said "Forget about the sugar, have a spoonful of me!
'Cause I taste so sweet!" - Grotesque Gallery: The video for "Where's Your Head At" is an upbeat-sounding dance song, but the video has monkeys with human faces who, after playing guitars a bit, chase a man through a science lab, tearing through safety nets, before the man is captured in a Mad Scientist's experiment, where people have their heads switched with animals.
- Idiosyncratic Album Theming: Every album up until Scars contained several interludes with the suffix "-alude" appended to the title.
- Losing Your Head: Although "Where's Your Head At" doesn't imply it, a lot of people seem to make fan videos associating with this trope.
- Russian Bear: Their 2006 single "Take Me Back to Your House" featuring Canadian singer Martina Sorbara, features a lot of Russian National Stereotype including That Russian Squat Dance, but there are also bears too, but in keeping with the Lighter and Softer feel the video has, these are dancing bears.
- Sexbot: The music video for "Plug It In" takes place in a factory that manufactures lifelike sex dolls, with the duo themselves playing the incompetent security guards that inadvertently shorts them out.
- Sexy Packaging: Remedy depicts a quite abstract picture of several naked bodies lying together in really close positions.
- Surreal Music Video: "Where's Your Head At" is a fun song that's great to dance to. It also has a profoundly disturbing music video with monkeys with the band's face in some kind of insane medical testing facility.
- That Russian Squat Dance: Featured a lot in the music video for "Take Me Back to Your House". Bears get to dance, too.