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Since Jay's wonderful thread has been lost to the doldrums of this subforum, I figured it's worth a revival!

Epic45: May Your Heart Be The Map (UK, 2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtxkbL51sX0
Francesco Cabiati: Mirage (Italy, 1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-XHAJh-oE
The Churchills: When You're Gone (Israel, 1968) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jmcxVPq_M
Apollo: Symboli (Finland, 1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bErEmWa_Ki0
Os Mutantes: Mande Um Abraço Pra Velha (Brazil, 1972) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxXG7wbkmnU
Serge Gainsbourg: Ford Mustang (France, 1968) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6U57QkUe8
Crveni Koralji: Najljepši san (Serbia, 1964) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvhBw6fGqlM
June Wallack: On est rien qu'des amis ici (Canada, 1975) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvCnl7TvRaY

The original thread was great. I have you and Jay to thank for introducing me to the delights of Throbbing Gristle (which in turn led me to Psychic TV) and Silver Apples.

I tried a "The Residents" thread before and no one bit, but they really are worth checking out if you like weird and highly original music.
Try these;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxaVXSea7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfiDWpHDu_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcI5rNR5TGM

I wish I had seen that thread. I love The Residents!

You didn't miss much. I only got two replies.

Put it all in here! We'll make it work. :)

Laghonia: World Full of Nuts (Peru, 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SgiShmYKv0
Roger Roger: Kookie (France, 1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BQMBUWwJE
Dave Bixby: Drug Song (USA, 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0HzNePL-XM
Les Luthiers: El alegre cazador que vuelve a su casa con un fuerte dolor acá (Argentina, 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKxzUg-oktM
Basil Kirchin: Worlds Within Worlds Part 1: Integration (Non-Racial) (UK, 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_yQw2nxZ8A
Bruce Haack: Maybe This Song (USA, 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jnYYen8oGI
Coil: The Wheel (UK, 1987) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t8BOetPpgM
Throbbing Gristle: Maggot Death (UK, 1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geeXiwRH1lA
Jean-Jacques Perrey: EVA (France, 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2q8Fpf3eLQ
eden ahbez: Banana Boy (USA, 1960) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O4YfPUaAqU
Dean Reed: Elizabeth (USA/Italy, 1967) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-GvWKZMUyE

Turning on WFMU at breakfast time in the UK/About 3 or 4 in the morning, New Jersey time is a good way to get the weird.

Primus. ANYTHING by Primus.

My Name is Mud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=953PkxFNiko

Jerry Was A Racecar Driver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQ2305fLeA

Beautiful and frightening. Plain and simple.

Steve Reich's COME OUT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDo1YN_q3c

Oh man. I adore his music. Those early tape experiments are amazing. It's Gonna Rain, too.

I must say, this was quite a pleasent surprise.  ;D I wanted to revive that old thread at some point, but I just didn't have any new suggestions to post.  ;D

I'm about 7:00 into listening to "Come Out". It's interesting that if you let your mind kind of "wander", it almost starts to sound somewhat musical. I mean, you can make a beat out of it.

+1

Interesting topic. 

De La Soul - "Patti Dooke"

If you never listened to them, they kind of did Jazz rap.  They hated ignorant rap that was all about posturing, they just liked making fun music that didn't really mean much.  Very creative, and great production on most of their stuff.  The first guy is "Dave" or "Dove", or "Plug Two" or "Trugoy" (yogurt, spelled backwards).  The second rapper is "Posdynous", or "Pos", or "Plug One" or "Plug one the Wonder" or "Pasta the Lucky".  These guys were incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exdbzs15ebw

I don't completely get them, but I think the whole point was to not take yourself seriously. 


De La Soul - Tread Water

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

Some of the most creative hiphop I've heard.  These guys were WIDELY criticised and ridiculed after they released songs like this on their first album.  All the lyrics are pretty clever but manage to not be too pretentious. 

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Roger Miller - "My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died"

At first listen, it's a bunch of nonsense by the genius.... but if you look into his life a little bit, it becomes even more perplexing.  Roger Miller's father died when he was very young, and his mother couldn't support him and his two brothers; so Roger and his two brothers all were split up and went to live with their father's three brothers.  Roger moved to Texas, and hated his uncle so much he ran away from home a dozen times as a child.  His next door neighbor was the guy who wrote "Flying Purple People Eater".... which explains Rogers penchant for strange music.  So, with that bio, what does this song mean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH3yYcc0gBc


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Merle Kilgore - "Five Card Stud"

The famous Scopitone.  If you're not familiar with them, they were video jukeboxes in airports and bus stations back in the 60's... they shot very strange music videos for them, like this weird-ass song.  Great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoH5xKC3xoE

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Kokane - "Night Locs".

There's a great rapper named "Kokane" who is the son of one of Motown's songwriters (His father wrote "Just My Imagination").  Really interesting style and crazy ass songs.

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


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Suga Free - "On My Way"

Another crazy rapper, this guy thinkis he's a pimp.  So he does things like grow his fingernails long.  I think it's supposed to show all his women that he's better than them, I don't get it.  I don't think he's homosexual, it's a 'pimp' thing.  Pretty good rapper, just very, very weird.  Anyways, weird music thread: Suga Free is relevant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLw8ErkT7io



... and I could go on and on

This one deserved it's own post, because the guy is so brilliant.

Chris Smither - "Leave the Light On"

Do yourself a favor, if you don't listen to any of my other links, click this one, you won't regret it.  Genius doesn't say enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ZH0mAesGI

Try to figure this one out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw  :lol

I'm VERY surprised Ween hasn't been mentioned yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQdmKVkWbGU&feature=relmfu

I hope that this isn't to against the rules to post. I won't go into the details of it until a few people listen to it and give their opinions/thoughts on it. http://www.4shared.com/music/5oGqbtHL/19-Its_Over_Now_weird_version.html

Have fun trying to sleep tonight.  ;D

Um....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-zysTtMw6M&feature=related

OK I'm buying this album.

 There is something about this that sounds...wrong. I can't really explain it. Out of tune, possibly? Or off key? Whatever it is, it gives me a very "uneasy" feeling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__-lpvXfI6E

All of the cheesy 60's phasing and reverb is making you sick.

Nope...it's all the "happy little trees" and "happy little clouds".  ;D  :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yhg6sq7r-Q
I think this applies to the thread perfectly.

There is a recording that would be great for this thread, unfortunately I have only a vague memory of it. My dad played it for me once when I was real young, when we were going through his old records and playing them. I think it was done by Alice Cooper. But I've looked through the lyrics to a lot of his songs and I can't find it. It starts off with a drumbeat, I think. It was like a "marching band" beat. It was about somebody that was about to be hanged I remember that there was narration leading up to the execution. I remember the line "What have I done to deserve such a fate?" being spoken. I only remember it because John Lennon sang that exact line in "I'm A Loser". Does anybody know of the recording that I'm talking about? I haven't heard it in probably close to twenty years now. I remember that it terrified me, and that was the one and only time my dad played it.  ;D

It's the title track from Alice's Killer album.
Buy it !! Buy it now!!

hanks for the info. I'm listening to it right now. Man, I wasn't anywhere close to being accurate with the way I remembered it.  :lol

I thought I'd give this thread one more try before letting it die out like my other thread. This time, I'm looking for song "suites". Songs that go through different melodies and lyrics, or "sections", without going into another song or album indexed "track". Did that make sense? Something like "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", I guess. One of my all time favorites in this "genre" is the full length version of "The Legend of Crazy Horse" by J.D. Blackfoot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xh5GUkK0u4&playnext_from=TL&videos=NzxFHFMtPfk

Be warned any homophobes out there in Smiley Land, this is without a doubt the gayest video of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20i7ol7cd9g

*drops his Chick-fil-A sandwich*

At least you didn't choke on it.  ;D

I still think that the Smiley Smile to Surfs Up era Beach Boys could have done an awesome cover of this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHqR1Rql5r8  ;D

You're British. You didn't get it. :)

Well, order another one...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk3LHHOlm6o

Moondog! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dLPsw3i_P8  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1yW8FrrXAA

Here's a winner.

DOCTOR IN DISTRESS!

Speaking of Doctor Who, does anybody remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt4DcPjNfuo

I found it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1sNImbI2Zw

In 1979 the keyboard player from Mott The Hoople made an album in his bedroom called Hybrid Kids where he pretended to be a bunch of different groups covering a song in the style of another artist eg Brotherhood of Man's "Save All Your Kisses For Me" in the style of Devo, or The Stranglers "Something better Change" in the style of The Residents. It's one of the weirdest, funniest things I have ever heard. I imagine The Real Beach Boy is aware of it.

I actually haven't, but my interest has been piqued!

I gotcha one better.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eULilLiRdv8

Enjoy dude.

OMG that's brilliant... I don't know if it's awesome or awful, but I like it.

This is a song that has always creeped me out, or made me feel uneasy. I can't remember if we talked about it in my other thread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXai-sgM-s

This is one of my favorite bands ever, Sabbath Assembly.  I think they will fit nicely in this thread considering they play the original hymns of a 60's apocalyptic cult.  Check out both of their albums on bandcamp:

http://sabbathassembly.bandcamp.com

The new one features Genesis P-Orridge for you Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV fans.  This article gives a decent overview of the band and The Process Church of Final Judgement that they take their inspiration from: http://www.letoilemagazine.com/2012/10/30/we-will-rock-you-happy-halloween-heres-some-freaky-cult-music-for-you/

Arrington De Dionyso- Mani Malakait

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CD4QtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqKVm-BpWP6Q&ei=vFCRUMbnK4Le0gHuyoDICg&usg=AFQjCNFe--YU-FJXZzMvfVHcHmO2QQ8kgA

My brother got me this CD for my birthday. A sticker on the CD said that it is post punk, psychedelic trance, free jazz, with Indonesian throat singing of translated William Blake poems. Indonesian. And the guy is some white guy from Olympia, WA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WHx0B90FUc

This HAS to count.

I've never actually heard the full version of that song until now. What a masterpiece! I wasn't really expecting that tempo change. Is it just me, or did Paul McCartney cop that melody for Live And Let Die?

We might as well include this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs-oGEhDP0E

That reminds me of something of off The Resident's album Duck Stab. It's almost uncanny.

He also did a second album made up of Christmas standards and that really sounds like Duck Stab/Commercial Album era Residents.

And it only takes a song to understand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAFmaWrP4oQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJgyuAu6eo  ;D

Folks....my vote for oddest music goes to The "Ledge"......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F152Gv0haE8

The thread's over guys, nobodies gonna top that.

I can top it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyyhHFKI8E  ;D  :lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXsWBMXorhM
So can I.  :o

Guess I won't be getting much sleep tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ih7KzKLLWA

Wouldn't necessarily say this video of Scott Walker's new song "Epizootics" is -est where the subject heading's four adjectives go, but in the places where the oddness etc of the music goes down a notch or two, the visuals ratchet it up to compensate.

This one is definitely... spooky

Subway Song by The Cure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPTGwc7gNqw

This is truly alien stuff, but I love it:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXeUKZj8W4&list=PL577EA29948F0F004 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXeUKZj8W4&list=PL577EA29948F0F004)

Really digging Peter Grudzien's The Unicorn: Album No. One (In Two Sides)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymvgh-tcobs

Spooky and emotional!  :)

Here's one that's not exactly scary or weird. It's just...interesting. Silent Movies by The Fantastic Zoo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFqJHhAk1jg

Here's Screamin Jay Hawkins version of  Ol' Man River. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tTnawqtr2Q

2069: A Spaced Oddity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_tMZu60tZc&list=UUBwgKnec_gm4qM2eN7iKjOA

Just discovered Nina Hagan, this is both odd, weird, wonderful and disturbing all at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIDnN34ZZaE

This is so totally weird. It's Cara Stewart straightfacedly crooning the outrageous "Song Of The Burmese Land", written by one L. Hazelwood; not Lee Hazelwood, who categorically denies authorship----and who can blame him?  ;D
       
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlbrr49G-A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlbrr49G-A)


"Burmese Land is like monkeyland
A bothersome, troublesome place
Burmese Land is like monkeyland
Listen, I'll tell you so

"The AFPFL* government told the people
When 10 o'clock strikes night
Don't make a noise, don't be a nuisance
Let the people sleep

"If a permit you should get
You can make a noise
If anyone asks, you can say
A permit we have got

"Always at this feast, always at that feast
Chinese, Burmese, Indian
Doon doon doon dang dang dang
Boom boom boom bang bang bang
A permit we have got

"Burmese Land is like monkeyland
A bothersome, troublesome place
Burmese Land is like monkeyland
To the lunatic asylum I'm going"  :lol


* Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League

"I Passed By The Building" by Jandek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgO_JdDXetI

Jandek is the man! This is probably my favourite of his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDmw9mMeTc

Is there an artist you don't know, john? Most people of your age just stuck in familiar faces, when you go outwards.

Oh my goodness. There are so many artists I don't know! I wish I had more time to listen to everything everyone links here. Every day i see a new name either on this board or on YouTube. There's so much more to discover... 

I can't remember if this one was ever mentioned. Despair Came Knocking by Daniel Johnston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dayas2Q4CY

This, I guess, falls under "odd"... this band called Moon Hooch. I saw them at a music festival and they had so much energy! So fun to see them. I had not heard of them until we randomly came up on their stage.
It's all instruments but it almost sounds like weird jazz-edm-rock-dance music. Check out their Tiny Desk performance here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwBhxBBa7tE

Here's a song called The Crusher by The Novas, from 1964. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7WqVSq_QgY

I'm sure I've heard that before, presumably at the time----but where? Radio Luxembourg? Would they have dared? Radio Caroline?? Can't remember... Great song!

http://devildick.blogspot.nl/2013/02/the-novas-crusher.html

Recently discovered R. Stevie Moore. Love him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OprzFKwpeGY
(Conflict of Interest)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1MfeLx6Uds
(I like to Stay Home)

This is one of my favorite things right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-vje-bq9c

Listening to a handful of Animal Collective, Dan Deacon, and Ariel Pink lately...

Not sure whether it's been linked before but man this is disturbing:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRLCwrdOigtm7KXEfoL7zJCE3EyJ0_ijV

 

In honor of Alan Vega. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_dXp0eF8s0

This is amazing!  ;D

I remember seeing this movie as a kid in the early '60s, particularly the scene with the Monster of the Id:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2BYyeS-fIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYFr3UyVpRA

Even in black and white it scared the living sh*t out of me...


Oh, and that Suicide track is incredible!

 

I first heard that Suicide track about five or so years ago. The first time I heard it was at night, with all the lights off, and I was the only person awake in the house. Bad idea.  :lol

Found this list yesterday and dipped into it:

http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/5883-clinic-a-top-10-of-deranged-psychedelic-classics/

How about this for utter weirdness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlWhFN3appk

Green Jello/y- three little pigs. From their cd 'cereal killer'
http://youtu.be/Gtffv9bpB-U

Nirvanas cover of the terry jacks classic 'seasons in the sun'
http://youtu.be/-Cbc0E6taZk



Butthole surfers really everything theyve released is bizarre, who woulda thought he was the son of 'mr.peppermint'
http://youtu.be/UFwf7gRiLYM

The best thing about horror movie "La Casa 3", isn't this cool? :3d  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3NMK3Ahh8A

I had to resurrect this thread to post this. "Stormy Weather" by The Five Sharps. This is one of the rarest records on earth, with only possibly less than 5 original copies surviving.  The recording as it exists today is a copy that was "mastered" in 1972 from and original that ended up getting broken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooU8o78lMgw

Here's an article that is pretty thoroughly in telling the story behind the recording. This might actually be the rarest record in the world. http://www.uncamarvy.com/5Sharps/5sharps.html

Thanks, Jay. I've bookmarked it.

No problem. Stuff like this is endlessly fascinating to me.  ;D

Harry Partch, anyone? This is "Daphne Of The Dunes" (1958):

https://youtu.be/wa5ok_Ju_MY

https://www.corporeal.com/noteswhp.html

This is unsettling stuff----"Rituale 00" by Ain Soph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMEOb_d8G3E

I'm still out on the little speech (in Italian?) at the 35-minute mark. Does it make the piece, or break it?

Only 171 days to Christmas, folks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk5ufApUArQ

I was reading the wiki page on scratching (I love scratching!), which led me to turntablism and then on to this gent. According to the uploader, "Record Without A Cover is the debut album by visual, Fluxus and conceptual artist Christian Marclay (Recycled Records, 1985). Oddly different from anything else, it is literally a record with no sleeve to keep it safe. All the scratches and mauled grooves over Duke Ellington's 'Caravan' are intentional and unique for every copy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByjdCNLkoZ4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Marclay

This is a famous recording that Charlie Parker did in 1946. He was dope sick and tried to compensate for it by drinking a quart of whiskey. He was so drunk that the producer literally had to hold him up as he played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJpes0XFGU

Poor Bird! Reminds me of the session when P.J. Proby recorded "Somewhere". Everyone took this record seriously when it came out in 1964. I thought it was hilarious. Turns out P.J. sang it lying on the studio floor, because lying on the floor came easier to him at that moment than standing up. :lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPV7z6Byjog
   

Wth thanks to mikewar at PSF for alerting me to this strange if fascinating album. And yes, it's the same Tokens who sang "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kbB1KU684