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Topic: Stange bands from the 60s Posted: November 07 2017 at 13:50
White Noise 'Electric storm in Hell'... bbrrrr that was one creepy lp (well if youre about 16 and stoned and listening to it in the dark.. err, which I was!)
I thought i'd mention 'Love'.. I guess some may not consider them particularly strange but Arthur Lee was a rather eccentric personality and 'Forever changes' showed a real mix of delicate beauty, harmony mixed with a strange sense of dread and some of the lyrics are very strange indeed!
I already mentioned United States of America. Strange album indeed. I'll have to check out the others. Also, the late sixties Grateful Dead albums and "After Bathing at Baxters" by Jefferson Airplane are suppose to be rather strange also. Not sure what else of the top of my head. I do remember thinking that the very first Genesis album was really weird the first few times I heard it(especially the weird sound in between the first and second song). Also, has White Noise "an electric storm" been mentioned yet?
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Posted: November 06 2017 at 16:11
These guys did some pretty far–out stuff in their all–too–brief career (only two albums, both in 1968). Though based in Ohio, they also included one member from England and one from Australia. Here they wrote two songs -- one a snarling punk–rocker, the other a soft "paisley-psychedelic" tune -- and spun them together into a long, swirling medley that foreshadowed the rock-opera arrangements of the Who's "Tommy" the following year.
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Posted: November 04 2017 at 21:49
Everything from the Velvet Underground (& Nico) in the 60s was weird to me--as was The White Album and PFloyd's first two. A little too inscrutable and peculiar for my musical sensibilities at the time.
Was this thread moved? I thought it was in the main prog discussion section. I don't usually look anywhere but there.
Anyway, I thought of another one. If this one hasn't been mentioned yet it really needs to be since this is probably one of(if not THE)best examples of a strange sixties band I can think of and the band is.........
The United States of America
You can't get much weirder than that for a sixties band. It's sort of a cross between psychedelic, experimental and proto prog with even a bit of proto new age/ world music thrown in. Defintely ahead of it's time in terms of approach and instrumentation(some tracks feature not just early synths(for lack of a better term)but also early drum machines).
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Posted: October 22 2017 at 08:33
ten years after wrote:
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The Incredible String Band - heaps of albums all with weird folk music
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I never thought this was weird. As Robin has stated, it was more of a mix of poetry and theater that drove both him and Mike to create what they did, and unfortunately, it was not as well received as it should have been mostly as it seems that rock audiences are not as in tune with poetry and theater ... to appreciate the newer and more inventive way of presenting it.
Poetry, up to then, was mostly read alone, and you kinda imagined what it was all about ... though some readers were magnificent in their own way. The best example I have was Allen Ginsburg, that does not read well, but when you hear him read it, it explodes out loud. Others that knew poetry and sang a lot like it, was Jim Morrison ... whose work, I always thought was more movie oriented than poetry or theater, but it came alive really loud and clear.
The "strange" side of it comes around when we expect things to sound the same ... and when we see/hear something different, it will be thought of as weird and strange, and they are far from it.
I just listened to the Edgar Broughton Band's first 4 albums and then caught a live show of theirs many years later on the tube, and ... it was not even strange. You could tell that it was serious and well defined and beautifully brought out, even if we thought it was strange and weird, and in the end, it wasn't.
I often say that we are more strange and weird than the artists. They have the art to show for it, and we don't, and the only thing we can do is comment on it! To me, Picasso, Dali, Miro ... you name it, are not strange or weird ... this was their expression, and how they saw it. As 10CC would say ... how dare you?
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Posted: October 20 2017 at 13:47
^ That's a very strange lp! virtually unlistenable due to the weird treatments he put on top of the music.. and Spooky tooth! what a weird pairing! Its a period piece but that's about it.
Music in a dolls house is just one of the best british lps from that late 60's period.. a real corker!
Based on what I've read(and the little of what I've heard)I'd say that the album that takes the cake here(aside from maybe ummagumma)is the collaboration between Spooky Tooth and Pierre Henry called Ceremony.
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Posted: October 16 2017 at 09:38
One stange band from the Sixties that I'm sure must have already been mentioned here is Strawberry Alarm Clock, if only for the fact that its singer on its hit Incense and Peppermints, 16-year-old Greg Munford, wasn't even a member of the band. As legend has it, he was asked to sing the Sixties anthem after its writer and non band member John Carter was dismissed because of his poor singing.
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