Leoncie's Healthy Dynamite Music

March 10, 2008 11:21 AM

I first stumbled across Leoncie in open-mouthed disbelief about two years ago. When her website disappeared I imagined that we'd lost her forever, but last month she returned with her own YouTube channel. While our unfiltered, unmoderated internet has pushed a lot of "outsider art" into the mainstream, Leoncie has remained firmly stuck in obscurity; maybe these gobsmackingly low-rent videos will change that? Until today, I'd only been able to imagine the full glory of songs like Radio Rapist, or the beguiling Man! Let's Have Fun, or indeed the frankly exhausting Invisible Girl. But Sex Crazy Cop and Killer In The Park, with their carnivalesque spin on the grim world of law enforcement, are probably my favourites. Astonishing.
posted by rhodri (25 comments total)

Sometimes the line between "appreciating outsider art" and "laughing at crazy people" is a very fine one.
posted by StopMakingSense at 11:26 AM on March 10, 2008 [2 favorites]

Wowsers.

She's sort of in the same realm of joyous awfulness as Jan Terri.
posted by jack_mo at 11:31 AM on March 10, 2008

I'd completely forgotten about Get Down Goblin. I'm not sure whether to say thank you, or turn off the computer.
posted by rhodri at 11:33 AM on March 10, 2008

My god, Sex Crazy Cop is the greatest song ever. Cheap sex!
posted by mediareport at 12:09 PM on March 10, 2008

Holy shit.
posted by cog_nate at 12:22 PM on March 10, 2008

Wesley Willis mashup time!
posted by Scoo at 1:14 PM on March 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Work it, mama!

(I was talking to my mom, not Leoncie. Carry on!)
posted by not_on_display at 1:38 PM on March 10, 2008

What. In. The. Hell?
It's like a drug-addled Nancy Sinatra crossed with the video graphics of a Commodore 64. Okay, maybe 128.
posted by willmize at 1:38 PM on March 10, 2008

Her website says she "comes from a respected musical family..."

Actually, there's an ecstatic Amy Winehouse vibe in there somewhere!

I rather like this in a berserk way - thanks.
posted by Jody Tresidder at 2:10 PM on March 10, 2008

You know, there's a reason some people remain "firmly stuck in obscurity". A good reason.
posted by signal at 2:21 PM on March 10, 2008

Leoncie has mad recorder skillz.
posted by astruc at 2:38 PM on March 10, 2008

I am in fucking LOVE.
posted by dozo at 3:19 PM on March 10, 2008

This is pure genius. It's all Nina Hagen and Charo and Klaus Nomi and public access cable she-male fashion magazine. I don't know if I should wish for or against MIA remixes and collab.
posted by fleetmouse at 3:46 PM on March 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

She's not that far from 4 non blondes if you really listen. Probably just one or two bad trips away.
posted by cashman at 4:21 PM on March 10, 2008

The skies are gray in my little corner of Ohio and, well, I just wasn't sure how to pick myself up.

Then Leoncie comes into my life singing

every day my answering machine
has your voice on it
oh darling, come home soon
come and feel the fire in me
feel me burnin'
you are turnin' me AWWWWWWWN ("Love Messages from Overseas" 2:05)

She winks at me and does some magic on her keyboard. I can tell everything is going to be all right.
posted by mistersquid at 4:22 PM on March 10, 2008

LOVE!
posted by miss lynnster at 4:30 PM on March 10, 2008

I actually saw her perform once, a few years ago. At the time I couldn't enjoy her music even on an ironic level so I didn't stay for long. But it was something else, that's for sure.
posted by aldurtregi at 4:42 PM on March 10, 2008

I am speechless.
posted by JaredSeth at 4:50 PM on March 10, 2008

I liked her voice. And the viking helmet. But I wouldn't want to be locked in a room with her.
posted by unSane at 5:39 PM on March 10, 2008

Wow wow wow! I had completely forgotten about her. Thank you.
posted by hot soup girl at 6:55 PM on March 10, 2008

I'm wondering when she's going to come out with a calendar. I think we need to tell her about American Idol.
posted by wantwit at 9:42 PM on March 10, 2008

Add an Uncle Dirty dong in post production, and you've got a new internet meme.
posted by BrotherCaine at 11:40 PM on March 10, 2008

Wow! She's... actually good, on some non-ironic level. fleetmouse nails it.
posted by suedehead at 12:01 AM on March 11, 2008

Frankly, this is better than 70% of the stuff I hear on the radio (though she could work on her drum production a little). She's certainly a much better singer and performer than that poor Marx daughter we had last week.
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 12:13 AM on March 11, 2008

reminds me in a way of Miss Kittin
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:46 AM on March 11, 2008