Your Strangest Music/Band/Album/Whatever?
 

Howdee strange people:wave: whats the strangest band/music/album you have herd or know of?

Gotta love pig grunts.

She looks and sounds like a witch, but is fascinating nonetheless. Extremely passionate and bizarre - Diamanda Galas

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I love her! I can't remember how I ever heard of her in the first place, but she is great.

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I wrote in her thread that I first heard one of her songs a long time ago on some radio show that aired gothic music (what an unexpected development). I've had You Must Be Certain of the Devil (1988) for years, but only this year I made an effort to find her earlier albums, and they're blowing my mind. It's some of the strangest and the most fascinating avante garde music that I've heard.

Absolutely everyone in the world needs to listen to her at least once in their lives. I am sure even if someone didn't like her in general, they would at the very least be blown away by what she can do with her voice. It is mind blowing.

The songs you posted show her incredibly avant garde type songs, but she is also capable of something like this:

some of the strangest things I've heard...

The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It
The Godz - Contact With The High Godz
Negativland - Escape From Noise
Butthole Surfers - any of their 80s albums/eps
The Pop Group - Y
Half Japanese - Sing No Evil

also, the majority of Jandek's music (that I've heard, which is probably about 5% of his whole discography) is very strange and uncompromising.

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I haven't heard The Godz and Negativland. I'll look into it.
But Jandek, oh my... I only have two of his incredibly long list of albums, one of them being Six and Six (1981). My initial reaction was - WTF is this? At first I was fascinated, but then it became unbearable (I'm not sure if that's a bad or a good thing). The other album that I have, You Walk Alone (1988) is much more accessible.

i liked that diamabda galas stuff i have to look a more into her, almost like nina hagan on acid if thats possible :) some parts remminded me of can tago mago, another tripy album, the cosmic jokers are another fantastic trip, smooth quality excrement is some ****ed up music, i hope im not showin my age, psychic tv themes three is another good one, i love strange music especialy trippy stuff post up me bands and elbum for to check out, cheers people.

Off the top of my head:

Torture Garden - Naked City(And there is a LOT of weird, and weirder, Zorn beyond that but Torture Garden is more significant than most of the really weird ones.)
Eskimo - Residents
I think the First Secret Chiefs album was quite weird even if the later ones are more composed
Helter Stupid - Negativland, not as good as Escape from Noise but of what I've heard, weirder
Requiem - Gyorgy Ligeti(Albeit, not technically an "album")
Almost anything by Boredoms, the earlier the weirder usually. I guess Pop Tatari is pretty weird.

I guess, of the listed, Eskimo would be the "weirdest".

I've got a link for that album by The Godz if you want me to PM you it?

And haha, I've heard none of those two Jandek albums, but my initial reaction to the one I first heard was the same basically - I was totally baffled by it. I still wouldn't regard myself as even a fan of Jandek, I think I'll need to spend a lot more time with his music before it truly clicks with me (if indeed, it ever will!).

That's a good shout, I think they're probably up there with the most innovative bands of the last 20 years. There's some other Japanese bands that are really out there too - I'm mostly thinking of Fushitsusha and White Heaven. I've heard nothing like those two bands.

A PM would be nice. Thanks.:)

I found that album a bit odd, but it's definitely not as odd as Orgasm by Cromagnon.

And Godz 2 has an absolutely terrific track, to say the very least.

I've still not listened to Cromagnon, I'll need to check that out.

dankstra, I'll PM the link just now :)

i second the butthole Surfers....especially Locust Abortion Technician

will have to look into The Godz....i just read about them and they great

i think Caroliner Rainbow is up there for absolute absurdity....as well as pretty much all of Nurse With Wound's "music

Weirdest....well.....
1. Frank Zappa
2. Dr. Nerve
3. Thinking Plague
4. U Totem
5.Unexpect
6. Eric Dolphy
7. 5uu's
8. Arnold Schoenberg
9. Elliot Carter
10. MF Doom

Brenoritvrezorkre wins it for me

The two bands I'll mention I've been listening for too long that I was beginning to take their strangeness for granted.

The first is Swans in their 80's period. When I heard them for the first time it was the darkest and the most nihilistic, self-negating, self-loathing music I've ever heard, the most personal, desperate prayer. And it still is, be it in the form of a very assaulting and aggressive noise of their first album Filth or through very slow, repetitive, hypnotic beats of Greed and Holy Money.




The second band so obviously belongs in this thread that I'm surprised somebody didn't mention them already, of course - The Residents, one of the most unique, weird, mysterious and bizarre bands with a great sense of humor. First albums I've heard by them were probably the weirdest - Not Available, Eskimo and Meet the Residents.




Speaking of The Residents, I was discovering some interesting bands from their label Ralph Records. Renaldo and the Loaf and Snakefinger are probably the weirdest and that is not a coincidence. They were influenced by The Residents the most. Renaldo and the Loaf are hilarious, they sound like Mickey Mouse on speed.

The Residents are actually mentioned on the first page, just not in elaborate detail. I guess you didn't catch the mention of their eskimo album .. ;) Snakefinger sometimes played with them by the way.

I think the weirdest music I hear is old stuff like Vampires of Dartmoore, Cromagnon (thanks Anteater) and Amon Düül. The problem is, while weird, it's also often rather unpleasant to listen to or simply boring, for example Amon Düül's Psychedelic Underground. I like The Residents for the fact they are weird as well as listenable (usually) ..

What I've heard from Swans was also a bit boring. I get a bit tired of the fact that weird almost always means eerie or spooky. That's not necessarily a feeling which is very hard to evoke in people, I think. Neither do I think it really requires vast amount of creativity compared to other ways of being creative with music. Samla Mammas Manna, Gentle Giant, Tom Waits and Frank Zappa are/were weird, but I get the feeling they won't count since they didn't try to creep everyone out all the time. ;)

Oh, I totally missed the mention of Eskimo, apologies to Skaligojurah. Should've read more carefully.

Well, of course, the weird doesn't have to be spooky. To me it's always something that I can't quite compare to anything else, not just formally but through the feeling it brings in me, unrecognized before. In that sense Swans were very strange when I've heard them, not in a spooky way but through the almost unbearable darkness. Like all the other gloomy music I heard before was just romantically playing with dark and they were fully there with no way out.

And I think it takes a lot of creativity for such a slow, minimal and repetitive music to hold the attention of the listener. Well, since you find it a bit boring, maybe it doesn't hold your attention, but it certainly holds mine.

I'm not sure what do you mean by this. Why wouldn't they count?

dankrsta you really need to look into Caroliner......i am positive they are right up your alley....

Swans and Michael Gira's work in general...in my opinion are sheer bliss...although i completely see how they come off as boring and pretentious...i don't feel they are in way....i also think you should explore their latter albums....Gira stated in numerous interviews that he was tired of being lumped into a "aggressive noise" group....and in the later albums found new ways to explore noise and i guess pain through melody and instrumentation versus pounding guitar and drum....it's just a much more fluid sound while achieving the same feeling and message

i also think that Crispin Glover should be mentioned here....his one album is beyond weird

I can attest to this

I have their whole discography, I'm a big fan. And I like their later albums as much as earlier ones. (EDIT: ^^If that was addressed to me)

I'll look into Caroliner, thanks.

Shpongle have a talent in which they can be very strange, but also very accessible and easy to listen to. They combine eastern musical influences with dub, psychedelic, and whatever else they decide to throw in there.


Sigh- Japanese Post-Black-Disco-Metal. Guaranteed to emotionally confuse any stereotypical metalhead!

I love both of these. I only got into Sigh a couple months ago, but have been listening to them a ton. I've been a Shpongle fan for ages.

I'm not saying someone just listening to Shpongle couldn't like them...they are intensely talented and creative and make some of the best electronic music I've ever heard...but let's face it that music is made for drugs.

Star Shpongled Banner = Best Shpongle song ever:



Edit: Anyone who was just blown away by Shpongle should check out Simon Posford's other project Hallucinogen...yay for Goa Trance!

I too need to check out Caroliner.

I think some of the Sun City Girls' music is also some of the strangest I've heard. I should've included them in my first post, but for some reason forgot all about them despite my avatar!

^^ I never got into Sun City Girls. I know, unexplainable. I've heard some of their songs and liked them, but never heard the whole albums. I will change that as soon as possible. What would you recommend me for the start?

i had never even heard of the Sun City Girls until today....i looked at their site and they have quite an impressive discography.....i 2nd suggestions

i saw Sigh open for Thrones years ago....great live band....just never really caught on to their recorded stuff

I think the best place to start (that I know of) would be either Torch of the Mystics or Horse Cock Phepner ... those are probably my two favourites, and they're more accessible than some of the other stuff I've heard as well.

They have lots of releases but not all of them are particularly good, they released some jams they did which are basically just improvised guitar noodling sessions, and they're not very good at all. Quality control has never been Sun City Girls' strongest area, but when they're at their best, they are one of my favourite bands.

Bal-Sagoth

Although labelled as symphonic black metal, the band considers themselves as "extreme avant-garde".

Bal-Sagoth's music seem more like narrated stories with funky beats, as band-member Byron Roberts incorporates spoken-word vocals in many of their songs.

Lyrics are lengthy, written in more of an essay-form, dealing with concepts such as ancient battles and wars, to floods.

A lyric from the song 'In The Raven-Haunted Forests Of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign And The Hues Of Sunlight Never Dance'

My strangest band...

I don't know if this band is strange but it's quite interesting nonetheless. Dirty Granny Tales is an acoustic/experimental group from Greece that combines theatre acts with their music. They play dark-gothic-folk music and use different vocal styles including raspy black metal vocals.

Torch of the Mystics is uber good....listened to it twice....reminds me of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Thinking Fellers Union

all songs by job for a cowboy are pretty sureal and santanistic and rubish but very wierd.

Even though im an Alternative and Black Metal Addict,Dark Psy attracts me like f***
Nine Kinds of Crazy by Frozen Ghost is a really rare/strange track from a s.a artist.addictive =)

Firstly, it's satanic, not satanistic.

Secondly, they're not a satanic band.

Thirdly, there's nothing really weird about them. They're your average death metal band.

allright chill out but im sorry its just not music and im not saying heavy metal is rubish I like some heavy metal.

The film actor Crispin Glover has always been as mad a snake and now he's made an album:

Hello Forum dwellers. This is my first post on this forum or any forum for that matter. HELLO. If I could vouch for the weirdness of an album. . . . Tiny Tim. . .God Bless Tiny Tim?. . . . anyone? and in some ways I feel a bit weird for picking it over so many actual "good" weird albums. And even weirder that ive heard most of it. :(

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No effing way.