The Background

Raymond and Scum is a comedy rock band based in Southern California. Vocalist Jeff Smith and guitarist Matthew Dunn formed the band while they were still in high school. Their songs were regularly played on the syndicated Dr. Demento

Dr. Demento

Barret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....

 Show. The duo regularly compose and sing songs about celebrities. Demi Moore

Demi Moore

Demi Guynes Kutcher , known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress. After minor roles in film and a role in the soap opera General Hospital, Moore established her career in films such as St...

, Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum

Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum is an American actor. His career began in the mid-1970s and he has appeared in major box-office successes including The Fly, Jurassic Park and its sequel Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Independence Day...

, Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...

 and Aerosmith

Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...

 have all been subjects of their songs.

To date, they have two CDs, 2003's Touch It and 2005's Suck, as well as appearances on comedy music compilation CDs such as both volumes of Laughter Is A Powerful Weapon and Technobabble

Technobabble

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. Other comedy musicians have also appeared on Raymond and Scum albums, such as Hot Waffles, Throwing Toasters, Worm Quartet

Worm Quartet

Worm Quartet is a one-man Comedy Synth Punk band portrayed on album covers as a group of four worms. The "band" has a growing cult following thanks to exposure on the Dr. Demento show...

, Sudden Death

Sudden Death (music)

Sudden Death is a comedy rap trio from Hardyston, New Jersey consisting of members Tom Rockwell , Steve Fernino , and Thom Uliasz .They formed in 1986 and started releasing their music in 1991....

 and The Nick Atoms. "Weird Al" Yankovic

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...

's drummer, Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, also played drums on two tracks of Suck.

In 2007, R&S joined the great Luke Ski

Luke Ski

Luke Ski is a parody, filk and rap artist who writes, records and performs comedy music. He had the #1 most requested song on the Dr...

, Sudden Death, Worm Quartet, Tom Smith

Tom Smith

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, Possible Oscar and Rob Balder

Rob Balder

Robert T. Balder is a professional cartoonist, singer/songwriter, game designer and web entrepreneur. He graduated from Roanoke College with a major in English in 1993, and after a variety of jobs, entered a seven year career in IT, starting as a Manager of Database Development, which he left for...

 to form The FuMP

The FuMP

The FuMP, or the Funny Music Project, is a website founded in 2007 which releases at least two new comedy songs every week under a Creative Commons license. Visitors are given a choice of downloading the songs for free, or purchasing a high quality mp3 for 99 cents...

 (The Funny Music Project), a web site providing free comedy music downloads every Tuesday and Friday.

Downloadable singles

• "Nothing's Gonna Tear Us Apart (Love Theme from Stupid Teenagers Must Die!
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Compilations

• The Best Of The All-U-Can-Eat Buffet Of Musical Madness Vol. 1 (1998)
• The Best Of The B.O.R.E.D. Tour Vol. 1 (1999)
• The Best Of The All-U-Can-Eat Buffet Of Musical Madness Vol. 2 (2000)
• Laughter Is A Powerful Weapon: Funny Musicians For A Serious Cause (2002)
• The Crazy Jay Show presents White Trash Comedy (2003)
• Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes 12 (2003)
• Mr. Snail's Halloween Party (2005)
• Laughter Is A Powerful Weapon Vol. 2 (2005)
• Technobabble (2006)
• The FuMP Volume 1 (2007)
• The FuMP Volume 2 (2007)
• The FuMP Volume 3 (2007)
• The FuMP Volume 4 (2007)
• The FuMP Volume 5 (2007)
• The FuMP Volume 6 (2007)
• The FuMP Volume 7 (2008)
• The FuMP Volume 9 (2008)
• The FuMP Volume 10 (2008)
• The FuMP Volume 11 (2008)
• The FuMP Volume 14 (2009)
• The FuMP Volume 17 (2009)
• The FuMP Volume 19 (2010)

Guest appearances

• Hot Waffles: Ready To Laugh? We Don't Care (2005)
• The Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd - The Complete Season 3 (2006)

Out-of-print CDs

• Til Someone Loses An Eye: The Safety Tips Compilation (1999)
• Raymond and Scum: Almost EP (1999)
• The Crazy Jay Show Featured Artists Vol. 1 (2000)

Other appearances

• Raymond and Scum performed "Nothing's Gonna Tear Us Apart (Love Theme From Stupid Teenagers Must Die!)" for the end credits of the indie horror/comedy flick directed by vocalist Jeff Smith, Stupid Teenagers Must Die!
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  Stupid Teenagers Must Die! is a 2006 spoof film directed by Jeff C. Smith and written by Smith and Curtis Andersen...
  
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• Matthew and Jeff portrayed Lewis and Clark on The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd
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  The Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd is a short audio and video series distributed via podcasting. Created by Grant Baciocco and Doug Price, it is a family friendly show in the style of old-time radio. The show also draws much inspiration from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. The show first began in April...
  
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