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    Posted: January 15 2008 at 01:40
Stoah, and Maaht by Magma
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 13:27
Just found out a few "songs" that i forgot to mention:
Some of the Sound experiments Pink Floyd did live 68-71.
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"Sound Chaser" by Yes; it took me a few listens to even understand what was going on.

Same with most zeuhl and "Thrakattak" really.

"I'm a dinosaur" - Adrian Belew

"I am a camera" - Trevor Horn

"I am yourself" - Keith Emerson
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Points: 55 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2008 at 14:07
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" yet.  It's just a bunch of animal noises and then some.
 
(I probably botched the title.  Oh, well...)
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The Apocalypse Now remix of "The End", by the Doors. A very weird song to begin with (very Oedipal), its surreality was accentuated by the footage of napalm, helicopters, and Martin Sheen prancing about drunk in a Saigon hotel room. This song visibly *scares* my friends, especially during the notorious "F*ck, f*ck, f*ck" portion.

Edited by Hirgwath - January 02 2008 at 21:18

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: taller than a tree.

Toki Wartooth: not a bumblebee.
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Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

Originally posted by sean sean wrote:

"4'33" by John Cage because the performer does not play anything, the music consists of whatever noise the audience makes

Actually, I think you're confusing two different projects. 4'33 is actually composed with time changes and whatnot, but the performer does nothing. The audience is expected to remain silent as well. Then he has his other projects were he doesn't tell anyone what he's going to do and goes onstage and just sits at the piano waiting, or in the middle of the city, et cetera, and just records the reactions he gets. I think.
No, you're mistaken.  John Cage was the original "composer" of the song.  There have been many bands that have reenacted the same piece, though.
 
Nevermind, I thought you were saying a band "whatnot" made the song originally... I just glanced at your post.  :D 
 
Weirdest song? 
 
That's way too hard for me to possibly answer.
 


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Originally posted by ProgBagel ProgBagel wrote:

Anything from 'Trout Mask Replica'. I hated it very much.


A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous...got me?

How could you NOT like that album?  It's just so out there and bizarre it's brilliant.  Having it in your collection to throw on randomly at parties is essential!
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The Hawaiian Pups - Baby Judy 


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I once heard a song on BBC Radio 3 where the individual sounds of the words were stretched out so much that one word would take about a minute to sing.
 
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy wwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrddddddddddddddddddddd!
 
Can't remember who it was though.
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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2008 at 17:43
It has to be some of The Gerogerigegege's  senzuri songs.

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Something by The Doors, I think. Maybe Horse Latitudes, although that's more a poem with backing than anything else.

Edited by TGM: Orb - January 01 2008 at 15:17
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Points: 7744 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 21:53
Originally posted by sean sean wrote:

"4'33" by John Cage because the performer does not play anything, the music consists of whatever noise the audience makes

Actually, I think you're confusing two different projects. 4'33 is actually composed with time changes and whatnot, but the performer does nothing. The audience is expected to remain silent as well. Then he has his other projects were he doesn't tell anyone what he's going to do and goes onstage and just sits at the piano waiting, or in the middle of the city, et cetera, and just records the reactions he gets. I think.
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Points: 19236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2007 at 15:18
I would go with Captain Beefheart. He has got some stuff that is out there but he gets points for hanging with Zappa.

Zappa has got some stuff but the man was ahead of his time and unappreciated and misunderstood by the masses.
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Anything from '95-present era Scott Walker, especially "Farmer in the City". He has to be the weirdest artist in my entire library.

Now for the negative connotation of weird, those blasted "experimental" tracks from John Lennon and Yoko Ono. My jaw was almost to the floor when I heard some of their "music"...
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Or how about Faust's "Why Don't You Eat Carrots?"
 
 
In fact, Faust's debut in general is just plain weird!
 
Bands like Wha-Ha-Ha, Fantômas, Begnagrad, Myrbein and Samla Mammas Manna as well. Incredibly odd, but equally as satisfying thoughApprove
 
 
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frank zappa:  when yuppies go to hell....   (lets make a jazz noise, that live...)
mr bungle -  my ass is on fire...
planet x - alien hip hop... (actually, unplayable.)
"llrr lrlr rrllrrlrl lrlrrlrlrlrr... at the end are just senseless letters... "
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Zappa have plenty of those weird songs,
 
The Radio Is Broken, Adventures of Greggary Peccary, Didja Get Any Onya and so on!
 
All of them are extremely good though, but also definitely an acquired tasteBig%20smile
 
 
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Points: 1155 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2007 at 14:54
"As Slow as Possible" by John Cage because of the length (639 years)
"4'33" by John Cage because the performer does not play anything, the music consists of whatever noise the audience makes
 
Of course, to my senses, I find Britney Spears and all of them pretty weird. Who actually writes three minute verse-chorus-verse-chorus songs? And what's that whole deal with that 4/4 thing?
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Anything from 'Trout Mask Replica'. I hated it very much.
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