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    Posted: March 11 2005 at 10:30

Which Prog songs - ones that you know of anyway - are the most bizarre... I mean extremely weird ?
Here's a couple.  I'm not sure they classify as "songs" as such.
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Pink Floyd - Ummagumma:
Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together
In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict

Aphrodite's Child - 666:
The song ( #5 on disk 2) is just a symbol for infinity, something like "00" (or whatever...), it features famed actress Irene Papas repeating words from the Book of Revelation.





note to self: utah_man, get off of this forum and get some work done today...

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For me it has to be White Noise's track 'Black Mass: an Electric Storm in Hell'

Man, that's a freaked out track.
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Originally posted by utah_man utah_man wrote:




Pink Floyd - Ummagumma:
Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together
In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict



That's a good choice. Off the top of my head... well, all of the stuff by Devil Doll is pretty weird, so are bands like Magma... I've always found KC's "Moonchild" weird, but highly enjoyable nevertheless. It puts me in mind of some of John Cage's stuff. Certain sections from VdGG's "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" are also absolutely surreal.
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One of Zappa's labels was "BIZARRE" so he should have a special mention for his entire work. And in terms of songs : "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music"

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Have you seen the track names listed on the latest Forever Einstein album Racket Science, played one on the show last night: God Has A Plan For Me & It Involves Puppets.................?
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Ooh - I keep meaning to get hold of some Forever Einstein! Their song titles are FANTASTIC.

As for plain weirdness, you can't really go wrong with The Residents. (I know they're not listed on here, by 'eck if they're not progressive then tell me what is!). Their sound is wonderfully bizarre and more than a little unsettling. Great fun in small doses.
Other nominations for purveyors of overtly "weird" music: Slapp Happy, Magma and Mr Bungle.

The thing is, as soon as you step outside the cosy settings of Symphonic Prog there's a HUGE amount of "weird" music in prog. In fact, that's WHY it's prog! Go out and explore, friends!
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Try Wigwam's song called "Pedagogue" from the album "Being". That song has one of the weirdest vocals I've ever heard. Actually the whole "Being" album is quite weird.
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any krautrock track is BIZARRE
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Originally posted by greenback greenback wrote:

any krautrock track is BIZARRE

Oh... I was about to mention Can.
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I was about to mention Early Guru Guru, Neu! and Brainticket . How about Grobschnitt`s Mount of Olives from the first album? Other weird stuff I have although perhaps not considered prog:

Beaubourg- Vangelis
Songs From The Dolmen- Meredith Monk
Soundtrack from Eraserhead
Anything from Throbbing Gristle
Anything by Silver Apples
A lot of Fripp`s solo stuff using tape loops and other effects

........to metion a few.
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Ooh - I keep meaning to get hold of some Forever Einstein! Their song titles are FANTASTIC.




From the latest batch of Cuneiform Records, FE's Racket Science, took slightly longer than the others to get into, but it has got me now. Deceptive instrumental trio, who are far more complex than the casual first listen might suggest. Elsewhere described as 'RIO', but not on the evidence of this album and so supposedly the earlier ones.
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Egg - A Visit to Newport Hospital

-the whole polite force album

awesome awesome band
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

I was about to mention Early Guru Guru, Neu! and Brainticket . How about Grobschnitt`s Mount of Olives from the first album? Other weird stuff I have although perhaps not considered prog:

Beaubourg- Vangelis
Songs From The Dolmen- Meredith Monk
Soundtrack from Eraserhead
Anything from Throbbing Gristle
Anything by Silver Apples
A lot of Fripp`s solo stuff using tape loops and other effects

........to metion a few.

"Beaubourg",absolutely fantastic. One of my all time favourites!
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The last track on Tool 'Lateralus' is pretty strange and disturbing.

Vangelis - 'Invisible Connections' out weirds anything else he did
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tool - fraaip de oiad - a bizzare recording from a person who owns the closest house to area 51 apparently
tool - die eier von satan - a german recipe sounding all demonic and dramatic
that pink floyd one is a good choice certainly! from my fave PF album!
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Points: 430 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2005 at 19:24
You want reeeeally weird and bizarre? Try Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun or anything by Opus Avantra. Definitely an acquired taste! 
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the mars volta - ambuletz
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i still think A Passion Play is bizarre, not bizarre like krautrock or anything, but still pretty frickin crazy

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Gong is pretty weird, especially that "i am your pussy" song
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One you missed - anything by Ruins.  That is definitely the most bizarre music (if one can call it that) that I have ever heard.
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