Those artists that didn't go to the extremes of Bogan, would often allude to sexual practices through the metaphors of animals and food. Bo Carter, once described as the "master of the single entendre", recorded songs using thinly veiled food metaphors such as Please Warm My Weiner (1930) ,Banana In Your Fruit Basket (1931), and Let Me Roll Your Lemon (1935). Carter is regarded as one the earliest proponents of the style that is now referred to as dirty blues.  When it came to animals, dogs, roosters and "pussy" cats where often employed. Not exactly Blues, more rag-time jazz, but British musician Harry Roy & His Orchestra's song My Girl's Pussy (1931) is hysterical.

These songs weren't all just throw-away comic fluff, they often challenged social taboos speaking directly to their audience in a language they understood. Many of the sings were banned from being played on the radio, and were only available to many of their listeners on jukeboxes. Even some of the most popular artists of the period recorded such songs. Dinah Washington, regarded as one of the most popular female black singers of the 1950s, recorded a couple of very risqué songs. In 1949 she recorded Long John Blues, which contained the lyrics "He took out his trusty drill. Told me to open wide. He said he wouldn't hurt me, but he filled my whole inside." The song was supposedly about a visit to her dentist! She also recorded a song called Big Long Slidin' Thing (1954), supposedly in reference to a trombonist.

The bed in question is a large four-poster, that is possessed by a demon, who built the bed originally to seduce a maiden in 1897. Over the years unwary visitors to the mansion where the bed resides, have been literally consumed by the bed. Sucked into the vast pool of gastric juices below. The spectacle is watched and narrated by the ghost of an artist, trapped in a painting on wall of the castle, who the bed has made immortal. The rest of the plot revolves around the eating of naked women, and the discovery of the bed's weakness and its eventual downfall. 

All very weird, but not necessarily 100% a pure piece of exploitation  cinema. A Death Bed, actually has some artistic merit. Bizarre and often surreal, but despite its low-budget, low production values and low quality acting, it has on some level high aesthetic and artistic values lurking underneath. The movie straddles a line somewhere between cheesy exploitation horror and arthouse cinema. A must see for any true die-hard fan of cult cinema. Who knew? That a movie about a demonic bed that suffers from indigestion because of all the hippy chicks it has eaten, would such a cult gem. Certainly not the direcor, that's for sure.

Go Little Honda (1965) is a track by The Hondells, declaring their love of the Honda motorbike, from the Honda themed album of the same name. Written by Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the Hondells were made up of session musicians that included now country legend Glen Campbell. Another 'manufactured' band of sorts was the 1983 album Beatle Barkers, where animal noises replaced the lyrics of many of the most famous songs by the Fab Four.

During the 1960s and 1970s there was a fashion for instructional spoken word albums. There are many weird and wonderful examples out there to be found, here are included two especially strange choices. From 1976 is mother earth type Molly Roth, who owned a plant shop called Green Earth, that had a jukebox to play to the plants. She recorded the album Plant Talk/Sound Advice, which is Molly in husky loving tones talking to a variety of house plants. The B-side of the album was Molly's advice to plant owners. The sampler includes all 13 minutes of Molly's seductive Plant Talk, who appeared naked on the cover of the album covered only by plant foliage and a watering can.

Download Way Beyond Planet Weird (Sampler) here.

Tortura: The Sounds of Pain and Pleasure (1965) is a bizarre two album series of faked bondage and torture sounds. The first album is subtitled 'A factual living record of discipline and punishment', while the second is 'an evening with the Marquis De Sade'. Produced by a label called Bondage Records. The numbered tracks are all between a minute to a minute and a half long. Listeners are treated to the sounds of whips being cracked, moaning, groaning, screams, laughter and cries of pleasure and pain. Whether you'll be crying or laughing after your ears have been tortured by these weird rarities is another matter. A bunch of weird an wonderful LPs were produced during the 60s, but this must be top of the list.

The Tortura albums have gain a cult status, with original vinyl copies exchanging hands for upwards of $100. Also the short tracks have become popular among DJs looking for that particularly bizarre sample to add to their mixes. Apparently a limited edition pressing, little more is known about these strange albums. Making them cult classics among the collectors of the weird.

Sample for yourself the delights of Tortura here.

Originally posted on Weird Retro's facebook page, in July 2012. The Japanese Sex Manual is a truly bizarre piece of work. The title from the Japanese roughly translates as 'Young Person's Sexual Song-With-Animal-Legs'. Now available on BUZZFEED with up-to-date 'translations' (read: made-up).