The weirdest album you've ever heard

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  - in the next attempt he scored a proper success with Stravinsky and Bartok.)

Maybe as a consequence of that I wasn't that surprised anymore when I heard, not much later, sides 3 and 4 of Tago Mago, and Kollaps bei Einstuerzende Neubauten (meaning that I accepted that such stuff was around and had a certain fun factor, but it took some more time to seriously appreciate it), and from then on pretty much anything went.

Still I didn't miss the weirdness of Trout Mask Replica and Caution Radiation Area (which means quite something), even though they came to me much later. To many people probably all of Art Zoyd is weird, but I always felt quite at home with them, however they did catch me be surprise doing an album called  "Pure Noise" that sounds just as what it says on the tin.

Thanks, that was fun to read through!  I need to explore some of that! 

I'm not sure that some things are as weird as we think. In most cases, the stuff is so different and exploratory that to consider it weird, is rather peculiar. 

I don't think, for example, that AD2's material, or Can's for that matter in those days is "weird" ... both those albums listed are prime examples of what IMPROVISATION can help create and a lot of it is really far out and stretches the idea that the Anglo-American music is the only one that can create good things. It might also be noticed that it was thought that those bands did not want to do things with the Anglo-American ideas or concepts ... so it is no surprise that "we" think they are weird.

THEY ARE NOT WEIRD, and I think these lists are way off the top, when (specially) so much of it is played and enjoyed in so many places. Some of the material, played at the right time, in the right place, is NEVER weird next to good material ... what might make it weird is you or I playing something that belongs in the top ten next to it, at which effort I would say that the person playing those things has no taste in music, and is making a bad point about the arts. 

The arts are really about experiments and change and have been for a long time, so us considering things weird simply because they do not conform to something that we think is the right way to do things, is not a very progressive thought whatsoever!

I can not say, that I have EVER, really found a weird album, and I pretty much got "all of them" since the early 70's. I did think that the early material from The Third Ear Band was weird until I realized its context ... it's not weird at all and much more intelligent than we are capable of listening! And the same could be said for many of the early "Harvest" cereal box ingredient bands. The Edgar Broughton Band was not weird. It was one of the most intelligent bands around. Lol Coxhill was not weird. He was experimental. 

Context is every thing ... so someone playing Einsturzende Neubauten right next to a top ten song, would make it seem weird, but that stuff has not been weird for a long time. It's different, but not weird.

Someone made thread about this in the past but always cool to reexplore WEIRD!!!!

I made a list on Rate Your Music of the 70 weirdest albums i could think of at the time.

I think i've discovered weirder since then. Might be time to update and add more!

Oh, that Area album is definitely there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au6XBZ86tOE