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    The Bobs
    This article refers to an a cappella group. For the ride, see The Bobs ; for the weblog awards, see The BOBs . -------------------- The Bobs are a "new wave" a cappella group founded in San Francisco, California. The original members met while employed as deliverers of singing telegrams. Instead of covering more traditional doo-wop songs, The Bobs started out with songs like "Helter Skelter" (The Beatles) and "Psycho Killer" (Talking Heads). Although two of their albums are dominated by covers, the overwhelming majority of their repertoire is original, with songs discussing diverse subjects like lunar cattle farming, sleepy bus drivers, bumper stickers, laundry, hurricane-related flooding, graffiti, Oliver North, shopping-mall security guards, celebrity autographs, synaesthesia, post office violence, heart transplants, Heaven's Gate, spontaneous human combustion, turtles, rebellious footwear, tattoos, nicknames for genitalia, an

    Discography

    Get Your Monkey off My Dog
    Get Your Monkey off My Dog


    Modern Folk and Blues: Wednesday
    Modern Folk and Blues: Wednesday


    Next to Nothin'
    Next to Nothin'


    True Blue
    True Blue


    Live at Indigo Ranch
    Live at Indigo Ranch


    Day Into Night
    Day Into Night


    Videos

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