Your Strangest Music

The strangest album I own is probably "Westfield Lane" by Spare Snare... maybe "In Hospitalable" by Beatnik Filmstars. Not sure what it is about those two that make me think "strange", but it's something...

This LP of rock bands from Yakutia ... there's this native, shamanic drone about them but otherwise its near-gothic, and the combination is very, very dark.

Thats definitely weirder than Yenisei-Punk by Yat-Kha (when Tuvan throatsinging got influenced by (post)punk), but Yat-Kha should be easier to find...

The Jamaican version of the Internationale (all happy and dubby) is pretty odd too.

A CD with ethnic music from China's minority peoples includes beautiful, melnacholic music with a kind of repetitive-violin sound (dont know what instrument) from the Miao Miao people

The theme from Deep Throat. Kind of a lounge-type thing...

Now I'm going to tell you the way it has to be
and pay attention, I'm sure that you will see
If you relax your muscle and once you hit that spot
keep right on pushing and give it all you got
Now we found your tickler, the solution is quite clear
For if we both can hit it now, the bells you'll surely hear...

Deep throaaat...Deeper than deep...Your throat...deeeeeep...throaaaat...

I have a ton of cd's. Not sure how much of it is really "weird," but I definitely have some that don't really fit in. Some just kind of ended up there, so they don't count. Ones I have listened to, Ani DiFranco is kind of weird for a straight guy, then again, I listen to a bunch of chick music.

I have New Kids on the Block's Greatest Hits(no I don't listen to it), and a pretty funny cd called "Back 2 Back Hits," with 4 or 5 singles from both Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer.

There comes a point where it's 'OK' to let some things go.

And by 'let them go' I mean 'cram them into the garbage disposal and pray that it never gets out that you used to crank them.'

I have to admit to owning a Vanilla Ice tape. I believe it later wound up 'round my arch nemesis' mail box one evening.

The reason I bought it, was in college one of my roomates and I would drive my car through campus blaring it out the car window. We'd call it "new kids cruising." I never throw cd's out though, so I probably have it somewhere.

I specialise in weird, both of itself and weird by juxtaposition.

There goes Concorde again - ...And The Native Hipsters (AAAAAGH!!!!)

Almost anything by Barnes & Barnes eg 'Kiss me where it stinks'

That EP by The Benzedrine Monks of Santo Domonica that had Gregorian chant versions of 'Smells like teen spirit' 'Do ya think I'm sexy' and 'Losing my religion'

Speedy Gonzalez by Pat Boone

Faster, pussycat! Kill! Kill! - The Bostweeds

The laughing gnome - David Bowie (almost any Bowie from the 1960s counts)

Mel Brooks' 'To be or not to be' and 'Springtime for Hitler'

Almost any Julie Brown eg 'The homecoming queen's got a gun'

22 going on 23 - Butthole Surfers (almost all they're early stuff is right out there)

Captain Beefheart

Bits of the Cramps like 'Can your pussy do the dog?'

Very early Cure like 'Killing an Arab'

I want to marry a lighthouse keeper - Erika Elgen (from the Clockwork Orange soundtrack)

Bits of early Eno like 'The paw paw negro blowtorch'

A55hole from El Paso - Kinky Freidman and The Texas Jewboys

Musically Fripp's 'Haaden two' is barely bearable...


And to finish off this sample how about Godley & Creme's 'I pity inanimate objects'? It has to be heard to truly appreciate its aural weirdness (they played a lot with tape speeds so the vocal pitch changes mid line are most disturbing....

I pity inanimate objects
Because they can't move
From specks of dust to paperweights
Or a pound note sealed in resin
Plastic Santas in perpetual underwater snowstorms
Sculptures that appear to be moving
But aren't
I feel sorry for them all

What are they thinking
When they arrive at a place
Do they sigh with disappointment
And when they leave
Do they have regrets?
Is a sofa as happy in one corner
As it is in another
And how does the room feel about it?

I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity them all

Physics isn't fair
Is a tree as a rocking horse
An ambition fulfilled
And is the sawdust jealous?
I worry about these things

Peppercorns don't move
Until they contaminate the ice-cream
Three weeks later
Is the gold in Fort Knox happy gold?
I care about these things

Some things are better left alone
Grains of sand prefer their own company
But magnets are two faced
No choice for sugar
But what choice could there be

But to drown in coffee or to drown in tea
The frustrations of being inanimate
Maybe its better that way
The fewer the moving parts
The less there is to go wrong
I wonder about these things

I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity them all

hmmm. I have cds of these 2 Czech bands: one is Monty Picusuv Flying Circus, and another is Ahmed ma hlad (Ahmed is hungry). They're both a mix of ethno folk with electronica... Interesting, funny, captivating.

Hey, remember that Hungarian band that only did strident Smiths covers?

Noise


Noise is a kind of music that is just a bunch of random noise. It's the strangest thing Iv'e ever heard.

"The noise scene" Thats what they call it

hmmm. no.

but speaking of hungarians, there is Mihalyi Idres, also dubbed the John Coltrane of Hungary. He uses snippets of ancient folk tunes, along with strange instruments carved out of wood and merges them with modern jazz. frickin phenomenal.

i have William Shatner doing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

wish i could play it for Intrepid

He does a way cool version of Pulp's 'Common People' with Ben Folds on backing vocals too....

The michele gun elephant-Gear Blues- some random japanesse rock.

nick cave and the bad seeds-The curse of millhaven

Czech music can be pretty trippy too, yeah, tho I dont know this one. I saw Uz Jsme Doma live tho, got a couple of albums of theirs, they're pretty wild. And Iva Bittova is just mesmerisingly mysterious and pixie-like. And Jim Cert Horacek's "Havran" is the wildest harmonica & raw singing beer-song ...

Weirdest artist in my collection...

I'd have to say Joanna Newsom.