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Topic: The weirdest album you've ever heard
Posted: October 27 2024 at 11:52

If you want to dive into something really very weird, try out Berlin band Die Tödliche Doris!

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/die_todliche_doris

(You can basically try any of their albums.)

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Posted: October 27 2024 at 10:21

Originally posted by Cylli Kat (0fficial)

Cylli Kat (0fficial) wrote:

Anything Diamanda Galás immediately springs to mind...

I had an album with her and John Paul Jones teamed up... Yeah it was weird allright. Cant remember the name of it. Pretty bad weird too.

https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024

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Posted: October 24 2024 at 07:27

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Gong - You ..is often described as weird. Perhaps the zany bits, the spacey more ambient sections with Gilli Smyth whispering Diana, and the flow of the album with one odd sounding piece into the next affects a number of people in that way.

Hi,

Kinda weird to see that ... a lot of her whisperings and sounds would also be done for a baby .... and if you met her in person, she was not exactly a new age woman, but a serious feminist that lived her life the way she wanted, regardless ... and her work on GONG and her solo albums, show her quality ...

I, personally, do not think folks are "weird" ... for its sake ... unless you are talking about AL ... but even that is more satire than it is anything else.

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Posted: October 24 2024 at 03:02

Any of The Residents albums.

I do like them though, especially Eskimo, The Commercial Album and The Mole Trilogy. Smile

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Posted: October 23 2024 at 23:10

You mentioned two of my favorite album experiences.

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The Residents- Mark Of The Mole...The story enhanced by the music comes across oddballish..although they have been termed as Avant-garde...it's actually their own formula producing a certain style and sound within certain boundaries of experimental Avant-garde..perhaps not unlike Ron Geesin in a sense.

In a weird way I think the weirdness (as opposed to "normal") make perfect sense. Both Gong and The Residents' approach to realizing these musical concepts feel like the only approach possible - or logical. Well, to me at least. Some claim there's no such think as perfection, but I certainly wouldn't change a single millisecond on either album. The soundspaces they create place (me) the listener smack dab in the middle of their universe of darkness and light (or vice versa). I'm completely immersed in their unique ways of storytelling. Every time.

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Posted: October 23 2024 at 20:15

Hi,

Ron Geesin - Right Through

Frank Zappa - 200 Motels

Faust - The Faust Tapes

Can - Tago Mago (discussed in an earlier posting on this thread)

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A couple of notes here ...

Ron Geesin ... it's hard to think that RG was not thinking about extending the experience of classical music with the aid of sound effects ... his solo albums are great for this idea and concept and it is done with a lot of humor ... to the point that Guy Guden once did a take on "Right Through" about the doors ... and of course, it was the character of Jean-Paul Sartre who could not find an exit! When you listen to his orchestral version of ATOM HEART MOTHER on the tube, you will find that it is really strong, and, probably, better than what the band did ... EVER ... which DG and RW have gone on to disrespect that piece ... probably because they thought that RG did not deserve a percentage is my guess ... everyone wants a piece of the pie any rich man would say!

Frank Zappa - 200 Motels

It is sad that many folks don't like this, and instead are often simply stuck on the guitar and his more rock/jazz material. It is an amazing album of satirical comments about a lot of the adds you saw on television and on the newspapers (and some radio) at the time ... this is the part that doesn't sync well with many of us ... and Donovan ... was the idea that Donovan was too clean to be taken seriously ... meaning that he was the idea for the inevitable "new age" that came later ... although as he got older he got better than just a pop song. The rest of 200 Motels is an incredible travesty of what survived considering the fights between him, one other guy that released it in his own style, and the record company that was upset with it, considering they knew and had heard what Frank had done before! But there are some magnificent things in it, and the choir in the end part is amazing, and you probably not appreciate it until you hear 200 Motels done many years later at UCLA just before Gayle passed away ... she obviously appreciated it like so many of us can't ... and could relate to it! I kinda think of it as a satire on choirs ... so straight and always this and that, and for one night, they could let loose and have some fun ... which you have never seen, unless you have sat at PDQ Bach concerts!

Faust - The Faust Tapes//Can - Tago Mago

These are not "weird" ... they are pure experimentation, although I often think of Faust as just turning knobs on a synthesizer and saving it for later. Tago Mago was explained by Holger a long time ago ... and this is the part that rock music in the western world has a horrible hard time with ... they are afraid to get off the notes and chords. In an exercise in a class, an experiment works great for actors (for example) but not for musicians ... why? ... easy ... most of them run out of their bits and pieces in the first 15 minutes, and after that don't know what to do ... says a lot more about their ability to listen and work with a few friends, that it does anything else ... ohh ... excuse me ... we gotta make music, not noise ... RIGHT!

Edited by moshkito - October 24 2024 at 07:20

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Posted: October 23 2024 at 19:23

Tough one, but maybe Erotica: The Rhythm of Love (1962) ? Definitely a f'd up "album".. LOL

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Posted: April 13 2022 at 09:42

^Understandable

It was the first avant-garde piece I saw performed live (at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester), and I was struck by how it might have inspired the Ummagumma / space rock era of Floyd.

Here's a good live performance of it.... if you can make it through that is!

Edited by Progishness - April 13 2022 at 09:44

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Posted: April 13 2022 at 08:05

^ for sure! i added that one because it's the version i personally own

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Posted: April 13 2022 at 03:06

siLLy puPPy wrote:

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://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/crazy-dog-magazines-70-weirdest-albums/

Just a minor nit-pick here - that (excellent) recording of Stockhausen's Kontakte dates from 1960, tho it has been re-issued several times since then.

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Posted: April 11 2022 at 17:31

For a musical album, one dedicated to hogs is pretty weird.

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Posted: April 11 2022 at 16:38

Try ... Die anarschistische Abendunterhaltung
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Posted: April 10 2022 at 17:41

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Posted: April 09 2022 at 00:27

Sean Trane wrote:

wow, missed this thread during its first life

how weird!! LOL

Argentinfonico wrote:

That's right, here we go. And by "weirdest" I mean a work so outlandish and bizarre that you just couldn't believe what you were hearing at the time. Mine is definitely Area's "Caution Radiation Area".

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

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I guess you've read my review about this album. Wink

It's fully explained and it will not be weird anymore once you've understood my explanations. Evil Smile

Thanks for the substancial check to come in the mail Big smile

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Otherwise, from Zappa, only Gravy is "weird", the rest is bizarre or silly.

I think Civilization Phaze III is pretty weird in the vein of Lumpy Gravy.

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Posted: April 08 2022 at 15:08

FZ 200 Motels
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Posted: April 08 2022 at 12:17

wow, missed this thread during its first life

how weird!! LOL

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

I guess you've read my review about this album. Wink

It's fully explained and it will not be weird anymore once you've understood my explanations. Evil Smile

Thanks for the substancial check to come in the mail Big smile

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Otherwise, from Zappa, only Gravy is "weird", the rest is bizarre or silly.

Edited by Sean Trane - April 08 2022 at 12:19

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Posted: April 08 2022 at 10:54

Rednight wrote:

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

It will be released in 12112.

Geez, that's 10,091 years!

…well past the extinction of Homo sapiens sapiens, perhaps into the next version of Earth-based humans!

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Posted: April 08 2022 at 10:24

Anything by Samla Mammas Manna

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Posted: April 04 2022 at 21:33

For weird, as well as pure self indulgence nothing fits the bill quite like the first three Lennon "solo" albums, Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions and Wedding Album.

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Posted: April 04 2022 at 20:41

Gong - You ..is often described as weird. Perhaps the zany bits, the spacey more ambient sections with Gilli Smyth whispering Diana, and the flow of the album with one odd sounding piece into the next affects a number of people in that way.

Ron Geesin- Right Through ...Oddball ideas throughout the album may place it in the "music from the other side of the fence category.

Mort Garson- Black Mass/Lucifer....The music captures the vibe of the dark, mysterious, ritualistic side to the occult brilliantly. Even though it's synthesizer in 1971 ...it moves forward with the on going vibe of the supernatural throughout during the progression of the album's themes.

The Residents- Mark Of The Mole...The story enhanced by the music comes across oddballish..although they have been termed as Avant-garde...it's actually their own formula producing a certain style and sound within certain boundaries of experimental Avant-garde..perhaps not unlike Ron Geesin in a sense.

Jeff Grienke- Timbral Planes...An Electronic artist who was subjected to industrial sounds for years living in Western Pennsylvania and developing the affect of it through Electronic Music..

Throbbing Gristle- In The Shadow Of The Sun...This is from the same swamp in hell as Timbral Planes , but less constructed and more like improvised noise and definitely ritualistic. The guitar sounds like a vacuum cleaner and the keyboards are hellish. It's not musical at all. The voices which moan, weep, chant, and scream provide a 2 second delay /echo ..which causes the voices to sound off in the distance which has amazing similarities to the sound of a cult performing a ritual in the woods