The weirdest album you've ever heard

I always thought that some of the electronic stuff that was being considered "classical music" and experimental in the 60's was far more weird than just about anything we list here. The hard part of that was that a lot of "classical music" was mired in interpretations that were out of town, and the album covers were ... really out of this planet, and giving us ideas that in my book had nothing to do with the music itself. So someone puts together a requiem, and the album is full of skeletons and little demons and fires and what not, and I'm not sure this is good for any music. Today (TODAY), most bands like to show off that side because it makes them cool with a large segment of the buying public!

In all honesty,, while I did not dislike anything on that era of electronic material, for my tastes much of it was devoid of personality, something that I got to see first hand in the late 70's and early 80's on my days at UCSB, when almost all the music students thought that great composition meant just changing one note here or there so it would not sound conventional ... I don't think they "felt" their music whatsoever, which is usually the main thing that we get attracted to in it!

Some of the albums listed here, are hard to describe and even discuss. The ones I do not care for are the ones that have nothing better to do than turn it all into a song ... that just takes the cake! But there are things that I'm not sure are actually weird, and in a different sort of way it has a "story" that we can sit and follow, and while it may not be preferable or pretty, it is, nevertheless, interesting. I find things like White Noise's great album interesting and very strong, and then hearing Cottonwood Hill later, even more so, and in many ways, Cottonwood Hill is no where near weird, if that state of mind is more common that we give it credit for ... and I think we just think it is weird just because it sounds crazy, but to me, a person's mind is NOT CRAZY ... different maybe, but not crazy. I have played that to two ladies in my time, and they both said that sometimes it was more confused during various times, and even more difficult to express, and one of them said that it was rather far out that someone could actually express some of that, something that even literature has a really hard time to do ... too slow for the events! Sound recordings, are much "faster" and can pick up the events better.

The one thing to remember ... almost 100 years ago, people screamed and left the theater when a gun pointed itself to the camera and shot. A lot of folks did not like it and there were attempts to even shut down some theaters, and the new "this or that" was evil. Guess what we are doing? We're merely saying it is weird, because of this or that ... or maybe we don't understand it, or know about it. But, all in all, for me, the human mind and spirit is not weird, and has been what the ARTS are all about for millennia, thus seeing things like this, regardless of title (some bands love to flatulate themselves in their titles!) is not crazy or stupid ... sometimes it is even silly, and White Noise's album even gives us a few fun songs, and it makes you wonder how this and that go together in the same room ... well, I think we can safely say, it's the same person. Some of them do not compromise, or confuse you, but I wonder about that when the cover of the album has a picture of the band! 

Trout Mask Replica is definitely another candidate.

Crist, what's the point? 

thank you for the pointless answer 

thank you Paul for never giving a damn for a simple answer. 

Metal Machine Music (Lou Reed)

A lotta stuff from (Magma)

Wafer of Darkness (Three Day Stubble)

Music, Martinis and Misanthropy (Boyd Rice & Friends)

Philosophy of the World (The Shaggs)

In more recent times, I was weirded out when I tried Trout Mask Replica. 

I think his attitude to the work wasn't entirely straightforward, and he also gave different views on it at different times, sometimes dismissive but other times not. Based on some later interviews I've read he was genuinely absorbed in the experimentation that gave rise to the album, and considered it a piece that had its own value and integrity. Of course given the nature of the thing, it could both be that and a raised finger to the record company at the same time.