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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Progressive Enjoyer Progressive Enjoyer wrote:

Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music". It's really strange how he firstly cared little enough about any fans he may have amassed to just put out such an obnoxious album, & then be able to create something as competent as "Coney Island Baby" just a year later. 

Hi,

My understanding was that he made this as an obligation to fulfil some record company, and it was his finger to that company! As such, it was excellent, and weird, would not even apply. It was a matter of doing the worst possible.

Mike Oldfield's wonderfully weird but fully listenable Amarok was made for the same reason.
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

I think it all depends on your interpretation of 'weird' when you first encounter it.  Unfortunately, nothing sounds very weird to me now but as a teenager, I can list the albums I did find weird - but grew to love, for example:

Slapp Happy/Henry Cow - 'Desperate Straights' (creepy)
Faust - The Faust Tapes (creepy/out there/ etc.)
Pink Floyd - a 71 European bootleg I bought on a school trip (far out)





I'm the same. Nothing sounds weird to me now, just different.

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In my very early teens two albums that my brother had that I found " difficult ".

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I think it all depends on your interpretation of 'weird' when you first encounter it.  Unfortunately, nothing sounds very weird to me now but as a teenager, I can list the albums I did find weird - but grew to love, for example:

Slapp Happy/Henry Cow - 'Desperate Straights' (creepy)
Faust - The Faust Tapes (creepy/out there/ etc.)
Pink Floyd - a 71 European bootleg I bought on a school trip (far out)
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Originally posted by Progressive Enjoyer Progressive Enjoyer wrote:

Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music". It's really strange how he firstly cared little enough about any fans he may have amassed to just put out such an obnoxious album, & then be able to create something as competent as "Coney Island Baby" just a year later. 

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My understanding was that he made this as an obligation to fulfil some record company, and it was his finger to that company! As such, it was excellent, and weird, would not even apply. It was a matter of doing the worst possible.
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WEEN's Pure Guava is a must for those seeking out the weirdest of weird!

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The soundtrack album Music From the Body by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin. Weird.
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Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music". It's really strange how he firstly cared little enough about any fans he may have amassed to just put out such an obnoxious album, & then be able to create something as competent as "Coney Island Baby" just a year later. 
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

This is pretty strange too, but I like it, like it, Yes I do! Thumbs Up

Christopher Lee - My Way


can you explain what is weird here? 
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

This is pretty strange too, but I like it, like it, Yes I do! Thumbs Up

Christopher Lee - My Way
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Hi,

His reading of many books and stories are really fine and worth having! Only thing missing is Peter Cushing doing the singing!!!

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That would've been even weirder. Smile
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Here a track from the CroMagnon album:


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There is a topic here that you may like to peruse if you've got nothing better to do.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

I'm keeping a list of my own on RateYourMusic; probably there's some overlap with Silly Puppy's list. Mine's not really in any kind of order, but at the top spot lies the self-titled album by the Feminist Improvising Group, which is the first thing I thought of when reading the thread title.

Which of course features two of the members of Henry Cow, the wonderful Lindsay Cooper & Georgie Born.


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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

This is pretty strange too, but I like it, like it, Yes I do! Thumbs Up

Christopher Lee - My Way
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Hi,

His reading of many books and stories are really fine and worth having! Only thing missing is Peter Cushing doing the singing!!!

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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I have listened to so much experimental music through the years that there's not much that seems really weird to me these days. I remember the first BIG music "WTF??" moment in my life was when my grandfather played Stockhausen's Gesang der Juenglinge to me. I think I was 15 or so and I didn't get it at all, but these days I do. (My grandfather was big into classical music and after finding out that I got into rock that was more progressive than what he'd pick up on the radio, and failing to get enthusiasm rather than just respect out of me for Bach and Mozart, he thought he could try Stockhausen Big smile - in the next attempt he scored a proper success with Stravinsky and Bartok.)
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Hi,

I think that this is the same for me, and the main difference. I was already a well versed 18 year old on classical music and had already heard Stockhausen, Heinemann (sp.), and seen some of it on the TV in a couple of movies to the point where it did not seem strange or weird. Heck, for that matter some Bernard Herrmann soundtracks were a bit weirder (the Sci-Fi ones) than the average music, mostly because of his odd selection of instruments and their use!!!! A very different kind of "weird" if we use the term correctly.

My take, still is, and I say it all the time, that the bigger issue for folks here on PA, is their lack of ability to listen and appreciate classical music and see its experimental periods ... all they are talking about is the 5 albums that did not sound like the ones they like, which makes it NOT A MUSIC STORY OR THREAD!

I might have thought this or that was weird, but already I was into theater and film, and pop music (specially) was to me sort of like High School Theater ... compared to the better stuff one level up, College, and then another level up, Professional!

It's just scary to have folks that do not listen to music regularly, create these things ... it is down right sad, and to me, most of those folks are not PROGRESSIVE MUSIC listeners whatsoever.
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