Forgot -- Mountain Goats, yes, the whole album Sunset Tree is about a bunch of tweakers, maybe early-to-mid Talking Heads, trying to think of actual songs, argh. Early Dresden Dolls, "Coin-Operated Boy"....the local band Circus Contraption did a lot of cabaret-vaudeville stuff with fun lyrics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_Contraption