Voobaha is the debut album by novelty rock group Barnes & Barnes

Barnes & Barnes

Barnes & Barnes, fictional twin brothers Art Barnes and Artie Barnes , are a comedy rock duo based in "Lumania", a fictional mythological civilization . Most of their music is standard rock or pop with heavy comedic elements...

. It was originally released in 1980 by Rhino Records, reissued in 1996 by Oglio Records and reissued again in 2006 by Collector's Choice. Its title means "greetings" in the band's artificial language of Lumanian.

Music videos were shot for the songs "Party in My Pants," "Fish Heads," and "When You Die," all of which were released on the home video compilation Zabagabee

Zabagabee: The Best of Barnes & Barnes

Zabagabee: The Best of Barnes & Barnes is the fifth album released by novelty rock group Barnes & Barnes....

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Track listing

(All songs are by Barnes & Barnes, unless otherwise noted)

Side one:

1. "Please Please Me
   Please Please Me (song)
   "Please Please Me" is a song and the second single released by The Beatles in the United Kingdom, and the first to be issued in the United States. It was also the title track of their first LP, which was recorded to capitalise on the success of the single...
   
   " – (2:50) (Lennon/McCartney)
2. "Boogie Woogie Amputee" – (2:31)
3. "Gumby Jaws Lament" – (3:26)
4. "De Pumped Out Blues" – (2:26)
5. "Clip Clop (Ode To Equus
   Equus (play)
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   )" – (3:53)
6. "I Hope She Dies" – (3:15)
7. "Party In My Pants" – (3:30)

Side two:

1. "Fish Heads
   Fish Heads (song)
   "Fish Heads" is a novelty song by comedy rock duo Barnes and Barnes, featured on their 1980 album Voobaha. It has often been played on the Dr...
   
   " – (2:23)
2. "Sewey Hole" – (2:49)
3. "The Lumanian Love Song" – (3:26)
4. "Cemetery Girls" – (4:30)
5. "Something's In The Bag" – (4:24)
6. "Linoleum" – (4:09)
7. "When You Die" – (0:48)

Both reissues contained additional bonus tracks:

"The Vomit Song"

"Boogie Woogie Amputee [Early Version]"

"High School Gym" (featuring guest female vocalist Sulu Dubow)

"Three Drunk Newts"

"Voyeur"

"Cruising Through Westwood"

"Neanderthal Love"

"Please Squeeze My Knees Louise"

"I Love You Baby"

Production

Barnes & Barnes – Producer, Engineer

Joan Farber – Design

Monica Froeber – Reissue Package Design

Rocky Schenck – Photography

Trivia

1. The song "Cemetery Girls" features lyrics referencing ("Fresh souls in the cornfield...Anthony put them there..."), and samples from the Twilight Zone
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   episode "It's a Good Life
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   ", which starred Bill Mumy
   Bill Mumy
   Charles William "Bill" Mumy, Jr. is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community. He is known primarily for his work as a child television actor....
   
    (Art). Since the album was released several years before Art and Artie went "public" about their identities, the reference is more of an in-joke.
2. "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...
   
    provided the accordion on "Gumby Jaws Lament".
3. Artie (Robert Haimer
   Robert Haimer
   Robert Haimer is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He performed in the two-man band Barnes & Barnes as his stage persona Artie Barnes, alongside actor and musician Bill Mumy. Haimer became friends with Mumy in 1965 at his schools Halloween carnival day. Recently, Haimer has sold...
   
   ) was originally to sing "Gumby Jaws Lament", but Art had a terrible cold that day, and they decided his gravelly, phlegmy voice added to the song. The coughing throughout the song is real.
4. Mook and Beanhead, mentioned in both "Party in my Pants" and "When You Die", were pet names for Art and Artie's recently (at the time) ex-girlfriends.
5. Posse, mentioned as the Lumanian phrase for "I love you" in "The Lumanian Love Song", was Artie's dog. Nicknames for several other people Art and Artie knew are also mentioned in the song (such as the aforementioned "Mook").