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alanerc

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Topic: The weirdest song you've ever heard?
Posted: December 28 2007 at 13:27

The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet
-Frank Zappa

the dialogue between Sussie and her mind...
it's so weird this song

good for Zappa

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Posted: December 28 2007 at 22:35

Litany IV - John Zorn
Sonatas & Interludes For Prepared Piano - John Cage
Merry Go Bye Bye/Nothing - Mr Bungle

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Posted: December 29 2007 at 04:52

Zappa - The Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet, Zolar Czlakl, Nine types of industrial pullution, The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny... etc...

Captain Beefheart - Pena

Mr Bungle - Carry Stress in the Jaw

Fantômas - Various songs from their first album

Koenjihyakkei - Lussezogi Zomn

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Posted: December 29 2007 at 09:52

Lots of weird songs that come to my mind. Almost any song from "Eskimo" by the Residents, for example. Or how about Faust's "Why Don't You Eat Carrots?" "Woodpecker's Dream" from Guru Guru's album "Mani und seine Freunde" is another good one. Some "songs" by Daevid Allen (who, by the way, STILL not is in the archives ahem. Rather weird because his Microcosmic band is). Someone already mentioned Zappa's "Suzy Creamcheese".

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Posted: December 29 2007 at 11:20

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

sean

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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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Posted: December 29 2007 at 18:16

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 taste

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Posted: December 29 2007 at 18:22

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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Posted: December 30 2007 at 00:14

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 though

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Posted: December 30 2007 at 15:14

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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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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Posted: December 30 2007 at 21:53

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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Posted: December 31 2007 at 13:42

Art Phag - 4 Basic Vejabo Groups

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.

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Posted: January 01 2008 at 15:08

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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Posted: January 01 2008 at 17:43

It has to be some of The Gerogerigegege's senzuri songs.

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Posted: January 02 2008 at 16:11

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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Posted: January 02 2008 at 18:13

The Hawaiian Pups - Baby Judy

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has

been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

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Posted: January 02 2008 at 20:50

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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Posted: January 02 2008 at 20:56

Shakespeare wrote:

sean wrote:

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

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.

Edited by mecca - January 02 2008 at 20:58

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Posted: January 02 2008 at 21:18

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

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