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I just listened to a recording called "Past Present and Future" by The Shangri La's, and was inspired to make this thread. I guess this could work in the same way that the Psychadelic thread works. I thought we could all name songs(or give YouTube links to) certain songs that we have always thought were a little odd, or strange. Or downright forboding and disturbing or "freaky". It doesn't even necissarily have to be a song that's meant to be weird. It could just be any song or recording that sticks out to you. Something that makes you think "something isn't right here...". A good example is "Past Present and Future", which I mentioned above. Here is a link to it:http: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hCZiTNric

Or to give an example of an odd recording that might not have been intended to be that way would be a song called The Big Hurt by Toni Fisher. Something about it just creeps me out. Here's a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWDT7TB6YpY

I didn't knew the Shagri-Las one ... It's really, really great and impressive.  :smokin

The Tony Fisher I knew because of the famous flanging sound at the begining. It's commonly regarded as the first flanging effect ever recorded.

Yes! That was done at Gold Star by Stan Ross and Larry Levine, and is credited as the first use of tape phasing when they linked two machines together. I'd argue I hear some of the same effect on Les Paul's first breakthrough "new sound" record "Lover".

Here is an original 78 of Lover, so the sound quality isn't up to par but still:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYmchIReOM&feature=fvwrel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYmchIReOM&feature=fvwrel)

Listen at 1:34 and 2:20 on this clip and you'll hear phasing, and this song was a pretty big hit in the late 40's. Disclaimer: If I remember, Les was using all discs to make these overdubs rather than tape so the Toni Fisher stands as tape phasing and Les' is slightly different in how he got it but the same effect. Les said he was trying to capture the sound of a shortwave or distant AM radio broadcast going in and out of tune as you listen, and that's where his phasing/flanging sounds were born.

Lover is a bizarre record - it sounds like the late 40's jet age to me.

eden ahbez: The Wanderer (USA, 1960) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh0CTuJ3x9w
Caldera: The Mother Stood (USA/UK, 1970) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jKzOui_F0
Charles Manson: Look At Your Game, Girl (USA, 1968) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qMFBqCeAc8
Chrome: Chromosome Damage (USA, 1978) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBQFlDOv0s
Cromagnon: Caledonia (USA, 1969) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPiO_G-DEHs
David Tukhmanov: Я мысленно вхожу в ваш кабинет (USSR, 1975) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDhUnjqDgug
Dzeltenie Pastnieki: Triisi, Triisi Sikspaarniiti (USSR, 1983) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXrV5YuVAOU
Gnags: Go'dag Go'dag (Denmark, 1973) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_R8n5_3_I
Guruh Gipsy: Indonesian Mahamaddeka (Indonesia, 1977) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXFgtZF_XGA
Kim Jung Mi: 官恩 (South Korea, 1973) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC4EsO0AhaU
Lucia Pamela: Walking On The Moon (USA, 1969) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qACGIfJIirA
Oronzo De Filippi: Architettura Industriale (Italy, 1967) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vh-KLW2VEc
Popera Cosmic: LSD (France, 1969) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BNYKnngV7g
T.O.N.T.O.'s Expanding Head Band: Cybernaut (USA/UK, 1972) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJCa7dIWwvk
Manos Hadjidakis/Ann Lonnberg: Is There Life On The Earth? (Greece/West Germany/Yugoslavia, 1974) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3gaQv4nRV0
Voltaire: Cantina (USA, 2007) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seh8cNirlU8

I wish I had better answers for this thread. Apart from the 'Man With Harmonica' theme from Once Upon A Time In The West

If you folks are looking for potentially odd, weird, disturbing, or downright messed up sounds similar to those in this thread, check out the Mutant Sounds blog. All kinds of rare and obscure stuff; underground psych, lo-fi folk, noise, hard rock, lounge, fusion, progressive rock, ambient, disco, chanson, tropicalia, you name it. Stuff from all over the world, too. Lots of Eastern European and Asian stuff.

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com

Thanks for all those links, Real Beach Boy.  :) I wasn't quite sure how to describe what I'm looking for. I think "Past, Present and Future" by The Shangri Las might sum it up the best. I'm looking for songs that you listen to and think "Hmm, something sounds very wrong here". When you listen to "Past Present and Future", the lyrics don't come right out and say it, but the listener is left with a distinct feeling that somebody was raped. DOA by Bloodrock is another example.

The Mother Stood was weird as hell. I swear those moogs were talking to me.  :brian

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but the one, the only Shaggs....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN9UT2zF8c8

Frankie Teardrop by Suicide is another who that leaves me with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. The first time I heard that "song", I was on the computer late at night, by myself and with the lights off. Not one of the smarter ideas I've had.  ;D

Honestly, just about everything on Suicide's first album would count in this thread. There's definitely a pop sensibility to their stuff, but the idling engine-like sounds of the drum machine and the distorted organs seem to mask that. They lost that sound on the four albums that followed, opting for a cleaner production; it's also of note that Martin Rev came into newer keyboards and left the Farfisa organ of the first album behind, although he'd still play it in concert as late as 1980.

Essentially, Suicide is rockabilly with a completely atypical sound. If you transcribe some of the keyboard lines to guitar, you basically have rockabilly rhythms and beats.

Something about the title track on The Cure's "Pornography" creeps me out everytime I listen to it.

Not to mention Vega's Elvis-like delivery.

I still get chills when I listen to Suicide, unlike some other creepy stuff. The last creepy thing I heard lately is Randy Newman's Same Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdnL8Q32crI

One of the more disturbing "songs" I've heard is called "Hamburger Lady". I can't for the life of me remember who did it. It was about a women who was very severely burned. Supposedly the lyrics came straight from the women's medical records.

That is by Throbbing Gristle.

Another one is Murder In The Red Barn by Tom Waits.

I remember hearing a John Lee Hooker song about how he shot his girlfriend/woman with a shotgun - it was on a Blues at noon radio show on the local college radio.  This was followed by a panel discussion about sexism in the modern-day workplace.  The song was disturbing - the programming was odd.

Throbbing Gristle...oh man. They are definitely one of those groups that "separate the men from the boys", for lack of a better phrase. But there is so much to their music once you get past the initial "WHAT THE FODA IS THIS NOISE?!?" period. Some of their stuff could very well be considered dark ambient music, a good five years before Lustmord was releasing records. Then on the other hand you have much of the stuff on 20 Jazz Funk Greats, which sounds like very early techno. There was a method to their madness. Psychic TV, Coil, and Chris and Cosey were nowhere near as daring as TG ever were.

Genesis P (or was it Psychic TV?) did a pretty-straight version of Good Vibrations - that was pretty odd!

I was going to suggest that you don't listen to that one... too late. I remember Throbbing Gristle and Genesis P and Psychic TV. Psychic TV did a cover of Good Vibrations. I think the keyboardist designed his own keyboards and that's how they made the unique synth sounds.

There are three recordings I wish I had never listened to. Hamburger Lady, Frankie Teardrop, and the complete 45 minute Jim Jones "death tape".

The Shaggs fit so well in this topic, they were natural inhabitants of the weirdest musical worlds.

A personal choice of this kind of odd music would be Os Mutantes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYmchIReOM&feature=fvwrel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYmchIReOM&feature=fvwrel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSe2Dn960mo&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSe2Dn960mo&feature=related)

And another one that maybe is pretty obvious, Frank Zappa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b09aSqfvelM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b09aSqfvelM)

OH. MY. GOD.

Just heard it. Bar none THE most fodido up thing I've ever heard in my life. This and the R. Budd Dwyer live suicide footage (also online if you're that desperate to see it) would make any fan of the macabre very happy.

The worst part is the last minute or two. Knowing all those innocent people were dying is one thing, but the fact that they were hearing weird, slowed down and reversed music as they were actually dying makes it even more demented.

yes. that( Budd Dwyer) was pretty weird.  Never seen, or heard of, that before. Dude was messed up! 
The Jones folks, screwy folks got what they deserved. the world's a better place with them not in it. They made their choice to be there. 

The weird thing about the Budd Dwyer footage is how calmly he pulls out the gun. He even warns people not to get to close because somebody could get hurt. Another very messed video is the clip of Vic Marrow and the two kids getting killed when a helecopter fell on them. It was during a scene for the Twighlight Zone movie. Obviously, the scene didn't make the cut.

Maybe I should make a weird video thread?  ;D

Oh my God yes.

The scary part about the Budd Dwyer footage is that it aired, unedited, on Channel 6 (ABC) in Philadelphia during the five and six o'clock news...

I don't think he ever accepted any kind of bribe...the American "justice system" ate him up and spit him out.

My dad talked about seeing it unedited. I was kind of surprised at that. There was another live suicide from the 1970's. A women shot herself during a news broadcast. I've never seen the film. I don't think any copies exist.

This thread has gone from a casual discussion of odd, weird, scary, or disturbing music to a rotten.com-lite.

Man, rotten.com is a piece of cake. If you really want to get your head f***ed up, check out Ogrish.com.

Since we're talking about odd, weird, scary, or disturbing music...

Bill Holt.

This guy is one of the true enigmas in "pop" music. Born and raised in Philadelphia, great fan of the Beatles, Bob Dylan and such, corporate suit and tie worker, he quit his job in 1972 in order to follow his musical muse and wrote and recorded what became 1973's Dreamies on a TEAC 4-track recorder with only acoustic guitar, Moog Sonic 6, a very primitive drum machine, a pocket watch, and hundreds of snippets of found sound (political speeches, news clips, advertisements, Beatles songs, nature field recordings; effectively one of the first uses of sampling) as his instruments. One of the most confounding yet amazing albums to ever come out of the 1970s. He wasn't able to immediately follow it up, since he had to return to the 9 to 5 lifestyle in order to support his family as he was out of work almost eighteen months and living on savings; the sequel Dreamies Program Twelve (The End Is Near) came in 2006, a few years after he retired from his company. Both are required listening. Unfortunately neither are anywhere on YouTube but can be found on the usual sites for purchase.

Just dig the album cover...

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/466362904_88cc1fd8ae.jpg)

That album cover does it for me. I gotta find a copy of that album now.

Found a blog with that on. Am going to wait until my next 'noise' phase, wherein it'll quickly become my favourite album of all time, I'm sure  ;D

Disturbing in a different sense is the hour-long Sinking Of The Titanic by Gavin Bryars (NOT the one with Alter Ego and Phillip Jeck). Put on in a darkened room, lie down, feel yourself sink into the ocean with the orchestra....

I'm not sure what to say about this, so I'm just going to post the link without saying much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN8hwjsfqTk&feature=related

Ehhhh...it's not really "noise music". It jumps between and intersects folk and pop/rock with the electronics and the sound samples.

Wow. That was truly, horrifyingly terrible. So why can't I stop listening to it?  ???

Of course i posted that and ended up listening to the first side.... i kinda say 'noise' to distinguish from more song-based stuff, which is where my head is at atm. But that was so dreamy and good! Going to play it in full tonight with a beer and headphones  ;D

If you got it off of a blog it's most likely from the lousy 2000 CD reissue taken from a very scratchy vinyl. Bill Holt put out his own reissue in 2006 from his own master and it sounds MUCH better. Definitely worth the cash. I think Amazon has it for like $10.

I just listened to Hamburger Lady and it made me genuinely feel ill. I hope it doesn't give me nightmares tonight.

Here's the Beatles Revolution 9 played backwards if you have the stamina for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc

Failed to hear the words "Charlie, Charlie, send us a telegram!" anywhere on the recording.

Turmeondemun...turmeondemun...turmeondemun...turmeondemun...

odd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2wheSpxL94 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2wheSpxL94)

weird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9duSZL_-mM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9duSZL_-mM)

disturbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jy6e4HSb4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jy6e4HSb4)

downright forboding and freaky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwj0gLriTnk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwj0gLriTnk)

LOL!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XHtEkgU_sI&feature=related

Sounds like Rick's been covered by the Deadites from Evil Dead.

We all seem to have forgotten a rather obvious weird song. http://www.youtube.com/user/1backoffice#p/u/20/HiZypzykxBs

If you havn't heard these before Jay, prepare to poop your kex!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZeUBmIUv_8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBhF__cBH8E

I made the mistake of listening to these Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations late one Saturday night when everyone else had gone to bed. Not a good idea.

http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

I stopped the first one at about 15 seonds in. That was enough for me.  ;D

You won't feel very well after this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqxrY86FYN8

Jay mentioned it but never linked it, so...

The Jonestown Death Tape - http://www.archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16

This is the most disburbing song yet.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRxUieZFqc

Oddly enough, that's the very place where I found it several years back. It still haunts my dreams one in a while.

Yeah I think that's where I heard it for the first time as well.  I'm almost tempted to listen to it again (along with all the probably great stuff that people have posted in here), but it's 1 a.m., I'm alone and would rather not have trouble sleeping tonight.  That's what daylight hours are for I suppose.

One of the more disturbing parts is where a women refers to Jim Jones as "dad". But the part that really f***ed with my head is when you hear the occasional moaning from the people as they are dying, with weird slowed down and reversed music  playing.

This song sends a chill down my spine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8WrHJg2xLM

Love that one - a lot of his stuff does that for me, such a weird but beautiful vibe.

I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner. Pretty much anything John Frusciante did between 1993 and 1997 puts chills down my back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RgSb_tWmTs

Projekt Misanthropia by Stalaggh, from the Netherlands, 2007. Noise elevated to the level of artful brutality. This will separate the men from the boys, just like the Jonestown Death Tape or Hamburger Lady.

I just heard the freakiest, most disturbingly f***ed up thing I've ever heard. The audio tape of the exorcism of anneliese michel. It's on YouTube if you're brave enough to find it. There are various versions of it, but I think the full recording is about an hour long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIp_c3CWyeI

"Ave Satanas III" by Morke, from Germany. 1995. The first band to identify as "NS black metal".

I am not posting this as a way of sharing personal views (I wholeheartedly disagree with the views of this band) but merely to add content to the thread. And content it is.

Another very weird video is Suicide Mouse. The audio track with it is also quite spooky.

I'd like to take this thread in s slightly different direction. Right now I'm looking for songs with a "twist" ending. Songs that when they end, you're left with kind of a "whoa!" reaction. Or, a song whose lyrics leave you kind of...empty, I guess. Lucy Jordon by Dr Hook and The Medicine Show is a good example, I guess.

Perhaps this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MnU7R1dIyQ) qualifies?

Wow.  :o Yeah, that's exactly what I'm looking for.  ;D Does anybody else have any suggestions? I guess Lola by The Kinks would count. I'd Love Just Once To See You is another one. But those two are "humorous", rather than "shocking".

Fake or real, that is about the creepiest thing I have EVER heard. there is no way i'm getting to bed easily tonight.

i'm not sure what is worse, the actual recording, or the pictures that go with it.

where's the link?
It's always good to know about exorcisms. ( as if there's any reality there)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKyy7qOe-Ts
This is BY FAR the most bizarre thing I've ever heard, especially the second song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf1Vt6r-sj8

Riz Ortolani's theme from Cannibal Holocaust. Not so much disturbing as it is nauseating. Best seen in context with the film but it can stand on its own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjgRzDEc3M

Cheap shot, but it fits the thread!

That film rules! I love how they often use the gentle music over some of the most violent and gruesome parts of the film. Funny how it gets singled out for animal cruelty yet nobody ever complains about "Walkabout". One rule for an art flick, another rule for an exploitation movie.

Ehhh, not necessarily. Apocalypse Now, Andrei Rublev, and Maîtresse are three art movies that come to mind that found some trouble over segments with animal violence. Granted, the latter two were victims of more scrutiny, mainly because they weren't American films and the criticisms came largely from Americans (although Maîtresse was severely cut in the UK and not the USA).

It should be noted that Andrei Rublev is probably one of the two or three best movies to come out of the former Soviet Union.

I don't really get how this is "nauseating". But then again, I've never seen the movie. I thought it was a really good song.

Here you go, but don't complain to me when you can't sleep tonight.  ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-IdHU3A5M

Such gruesome voices!  I wonder if those were  the same demons spirting away the neer do wells in "Ghost"? 
I think the two comments I read pretty much hit the nail on the head: 

She should be a black metal vocalist.
Hypothermia333 6 days ago 8 

 sounds like me on the toilet
TheOneAndOnlyRuttl 1 week ago 6 

Here's a good creepy song that I totally forgot about. D.O.A by Bloodrock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O79EN3z6IpU

Jay, I hate you for this.  :o

For what?  ;D

Used to listen to that all the time when it first was released

Watch it. Life changing movie.

Don't do drugs, kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur3juD8uIbo

I thought that was pretty cool, all things considered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzBlQAqILK0

You and I by Silver Apples, 1969.

I thought that was pretty cool, actually.  ;D

Check out the complete RVPO interview from 1994, from which that song came from.

I was terrified of this when I was young. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1aQ50iqJN4

Yeah, The Silver Apples are ace!

Not what I'd call one of their better efforts, but terrifying? were you a weenie kid?

Silver Apples might be the most unconsciously (or unknowingly) ripped off group. Virtually every electronic group that came in its wake owes them a debt of gratitude and probably a few royalties!

I'd have to, gasp!, take your word for that; electronic just seems a bore

If you think electronic music is a bore you haven't listened to the right stuff.

And since we've gone onto electronic music in our little thread of odd, weird, disturbing stuff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhnyibDZ0uA

Blow Job by Bruce Haack, 1978.

EDIT - The entire Haackula album might be the first appearance of a so-called "diss track"?

Then compare it with this short live clip, after he cleaned up...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtf-HAjdZZg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtf-HAjdZZg&feature=related)

John is one of my favorite musicians.

I think what you meant to say:  >>The entire Haackula album might be taken as a distraction, but little else, to great music<<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMQSDwQUwWM&feature=related

I always thought that there was something weird about this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQdDjy1UtW4

Can't remember ever hearing Telstar with that intro, not that I listened to it a lot

Me either. I was thinking that it might be a fan edit, but I've found several different YouTube posts with that intro.

My understanding is that opening is the sound of a toilet flushing!

No kidding. Can you tll if it's north or south of the equator?

Get out of my thread, troll.

Uh, how do I say this nicely....?

Nope -- can't!

Anyway -- it's a toilet flushing recorded in reverse.  By the great Joe Meek.  For those of us not super cool and superior enough to know that already.


 :P

Thems pretty strong words, pardner!

Bgas, get off of Jay's thread!!  He owns it like a piece of land and can kick people off when he wants to!

Ya troll!!  ;D

Can't believe I missed this reference...I think there is some misinformation about the R. Budd Dwyer clip which I hope my memory allows me to recall! :-D

I lived outside of Philly so WPVI Channel 6 "Action News" was the go-to station for news. If I remember, this press conference happened during the winter, and school had been closed due to weather that day, so we were all home. The TV happened to be on as they showed the press conference, where Dwyer pulled out the envelope and started waving the gun. The first time I recall seeing it broadcast - whether it was live or not, I don't know - they cut to a blank screen immediately after the gun went off, but the shot was shown for that split-second and I saw it once until YouTube picked it up decades later. This was broadcast during the day.

Any airings of the clip later than that on the evening news showed it right up to the point where he raises the gun, and they cut it off before you hear the shot. It was everything we were talking about in school after that, still quite a shock and a sad story obviously. But I think to clarify, if one station had carried it live as the story was developing at Dwyer's press conference, the gunshot itself wasn't shown on the newscasts after that.

At least to my memory, as someone who saw Channel 6's coverage that day we just happened to be home from school, that's how the local broadcasts covered it. I don't know what the Harrisburg area stations did with the story. Corrections welcome of course!

There were multiple cameras shooting the press conference. The footage I saw on the news the day of the event was shot from the front and showed him putting the gun in his mouth, then abruptly cut to the same shot of the podium after he fell. About 14 years ago I saw the unedited footage shot by the cameraman who was to Dwyer's right. After the trigger was pulled, Dwyer's body fell to the right of the podium and was somewhat supported by it. The camerman tilted the camera down and, instinctively, zoomed in to refocus then pulled back to re-frame the shot. By this point, there was a copious amount of blood pouring from Mr. Dwyer's nose and mouth.

I believe this is the footage that the band Filter saw that inspired their song "Hey Man, Nice Shot". The title seems to be a comment on the cameraman's covering the action as professionally as possible in the face of a horrible unexpected tragedy.

The longer unedited footage made the rounds after the incident and took on a life of its own, definitely. I remember seeing it offered for sale and on trading lists (how bizarre) before the internet made it available. It was a press conference so obviously there were at least 3 Harrisburg stations there, at least 3 Philly stations there, and various others. So whichever station had the most loose control over their tape archives might have been how the unedited version leaked.

I know I've heard the claim that Channel 6 showed the shooting on their newscasts before, and it was a bit of an urban legend, but I can vouch for the fact it was only shown once, and for a split-second, and everything after that was edited, and the newscasts also started giving a "graphic content" warning before showing even what little they showed.

My parents both remembered the Budd Dwyer incident, and they recalled when I asked them about it that WPVI-TV Channel 6 did show the "unedited footage". The Wikipedia entry notes that the Channel 6 broadcast was the source of the version going around on the internet, and that several other stations played the footage up to Mr. Dwyer putting the gun in his mouth and then cut off the tape or froze the frame and kept the audio running uncensored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer

Just in case anyone here doesn't know who we're talking about or why his suicide would be shown on television.

Here it is. I'm not sure if it's from a tv broadcast or the "raw footage". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUG0oD2eGlg&feature=related

Yeah, this appears to be the alleged WPVI-TV Channel 6 source.

Something that seems to be overlooked about Mr. Dwyer was that he committed suicide so that his family would be able to keep his pension. Not that suicide ever makes sense but it makes financial sense. Thing is, he read only half of his prepared speech that morning right before he shot himself. The unread portion was recovered; it's on the Wikipedia article linked a few posts up. He said quite clearly in the unread portion that he planned his death.

My dad used to tell me about him. He remembered seeing this on the news totally uncensored at the time. I guess this was just right before my time. I've never actually seen any other footage of R Budd Dwyer other than this. I've seen a slightly longer clip where he reads from his prepared speech. I still think it's odd how calmly he pulls out the gun and shoots himself. The part that gets me is the reaction to it. I mean, the top of his head is gone, and people are saying "um...remain calm everybody...".

Does anybody here remember Christine Chubbuck? She was a news broadcaster from the 1970's I believe. She apparently shot herself right in the middle of a live news report.

That was the craziest video ever, he acts all normal and rips out his gun to kill himself. The headshot in real life is so different than Hollywood makes it out to be.

The nose blood river is so much worse than anything Hollywood that I've ever seen....

^THIS


Actually, this whole thread makes me feel more confident about my own band :D

As horrifying as it was to watch, the events behind it are even worse. Here was a man ruined by allegations that were unproven; was trying desperately to clear his name, and it seemed to him that no matter what he was screwed. Imagine knowing you're innocent of something and there is absolutely no way to prove it. The man killed himself so his wife could get survivor's benefits, since defense costs had bankrupted them. THAT right there is truly horrifying, as I know all too well what it is like to be trapped in a situation with no way out.

That was nasty. The freaky thing was how calm he was beforehand.

There was a documentary in the 1990's in the UK called Executions. There's one bit I'll never forget. You see a guy tied and then shot by firing squad. A bullet hits him full on in the face from a couple of meters. It's not pretty. You can find it on youtube. Be warned it makes Budd Dywer's death look like a PG-13 movie by comparison, IT'S THAT GRIM!!!

And I thought the Zapruder film was disgusting. Jeesh, how despicable.

^I don't even want to know what that Executions scene is like.

To continue on the subject of grim, morbid death, here's a clip of British comedian Tommy Cooper having a fatal heart attack on stage. This was actually on live tv. Nobody realised that it was not part of the act. Everybody just kept laughing, as he was literally dying on stage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHELTET6m84&feature=related

No way I'm going to watch any of this stuff.  I'm psychedelicate!

Back to the subject of odd or "disturbing" songs, I've always thought that there was something very weird and even creepy about Busy Doin' Nothin'. On the surface it's just a fairly light weight pop song, but if you really pay attention, there is something very weird and almost forboding about it. I don't know if it's the chords, or maybe the way brian sings it, but something about it doesn't sit right with me.

I think it's the fact that he wants you to come find him.  :)

If you really wanted to, I think you could find his (old) house.

If you knew where to start, that is.

Here's another song. It's more depressing that weird or disturbing though.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9ZkYViEIs

Can't even describe the ways this video will blow your mind....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Even before the complete page loaded, I saw "Rick Roll'd". If you're going to do it, at least disguise it a little. Fail.  ::)

Well you don't have to ruin it for everybody else!  ;D

Cruel, unfunny joke, I know.

Nope, THIS is a truly cruel joke.  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnZ4eOFwn0Y

That reminded me of this (He steals a line from Sam Stone), which is kinda creepy in it's bleary, heroin infused schtick. Just the way he sings them so soft/dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAiBmVGKd90

Surprised he hasn't been mentioned yet, but...

GG Allin. Almost nothing discussed here comes close.

GG Alllin was one sick puppy. There is a message board I frequent that has many hardcore GG Allin there. I have never been more glad to have a computer screen seperate people.  :o

I always thought something about this song was weird. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PePXnXxRGE

It's certainly unsettling----but a great song in my opinion.

Nice to see The Shaggs getting a mention. Everyone needs to hear Philosophy of the World at least once in their lives.

As for Joe Meek, he certainly ending up in some weird (musical) places at times. His "concept" album with The Blue Men, I Hear a New World (from 1959!), starts like this: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mhRt007VAg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mhRt007VAg)
Thankfully most tracks are instrumental...

"Am I Normal?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1Uu3USGn8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1Uu3USGn8)) by David (Virginia to her friends) has always unsettled me for some reason----a particular chord progression? The title? Her delivery? The lyrics (reproduced at the YouTube link) are plain bizarre.

Scroll down to Item 128 on this page (http://www.troubled-diva.com/2003_06_15_troubled-diva_archive.html (http://www.troubled-diva.com/2003_06_15_troubled-diva_archive.html)) for a spot more information----but not much more.

I need to get this album.  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRvyVNA7KSI&feature=related
This is, by far, the WEIRDEST thing I have ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMqxNPsfN50
Tom Waits "what's he building?"

If you want a truly freaky experience, listen to this for about three minutes, and then open the link up again and start playing it from the beginning, so there are two windows up playing the same song, only three minutes apart.  :o

How about a blast of Jandek?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il6OKhd5iyM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il6OKhd5iyM)

Hmmmm...odd, weird, disturbing?

Folks, the one and only MACABRE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUxb139X-N4

Sick humor, basically. Every song is about a serial killer. They even had the nerve to make a concept album about Jeffrey Dahmer. You'll laugh and hate yourself for it later. Great fun, these guys.

I probably couldn't hope to top that, but here's John Frusciante'a Enter A Uh from his 1997 album Smile From The Streets You Hold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn9tnSgylqc

This is not for the faint of heart. I only made it through the entire 8 minutes once. This is not pretty in any shape or form. This is human suffering from the pits of hell. If I had to describe this, I would have to say that this is probably what drug induced psychosis/insanity sounds like.

Definitely in the 'odd' category.....  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-n5vG2SjJY

 :lol :lol :lol

I was always creeped out by "Dreams Less Sweet" by Psychic TV. I used to know some unusual characters who were realllly into that stuff--but it just feels bad to me. Self mutilation and being buried alive, etc. Bleah.

Self mutilation is something I have some experience in. Something like that is not to be played around with.

This one is better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ko2VXpW7_g&feature=related  ;D

 :lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ODlhfA14Bs&feature=related

Posted this earlier in another thread , and fits here just as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WBaPk0EKEY

This band is terrible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0

This is the one that had me laughing so hard I almost pissed my pants!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E&feature=related

Keith Moon meets Chris Farley.  :o

Yeah, that's it!  Just like what Monnie would do!

Lookit these guys. I'd like to invite 'em to my next party!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxebUpRgdKc&feature=related

WTF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdBaoobh05A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI5oE83NIqw

Not so much weird/disturbing, but odd in the sense that it's a rare example of psychedelia from early 1970s Iran.

Dude, you have the most unique and diverse musical taste out of anybody I know.  ;D I've been meaning to tell you that. I admire that.  :) From The Beach Boys, to Suicide and Throbbing Gristle, to the most obscure psychedelic music. I want your cd collection.  :lol

Just my CD collection? You haven't seen my vinyl collection!  :lol

My dad had a pretty big vinyl collection. About 300 records. I'll never forget the day he played me Alice Cooper, and Fever Tree. I haven't been the same since.  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LEWkwvaNcs&feature=fvst

Definitely has a foot in all four of the criteria in this thread, but one we all should know.