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Witchwoodhermit 
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 Topic: Strange, stranger, strangest
Posted: February 27 2006 at 10:52 |
I'm doing a little research. I love the avante garde, the stranger the better. What are your favourite experimental, oddities inspired bands. Can you pick a top five?
Mine are:
1) Captain Beefheart-trout mask replica
2) Faust-(debut album)
3) Roger Waters-music from the body
4) Pink Floyd-ummagumma
5) Can-tago mago
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Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan
ringed by ants and musing over man.
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timothy leary
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 10:57 |
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sammla mammas manna
algarnas tradgard
captain beefheart
can
faust
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:02 |
In no particular order:
Mr. Bungle
Fantomas
Frank Zappa
Mike Keneally
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Guapo
John Zorn
Thinking Plague
Taal
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BaldJean
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:11 |
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"Spur of the Moment" by Peter Hammill and Guy Evans. "Osmose" and
"Beziehungen" by Annexus Quam. "Xitintoday" by Nik Turner's Sphynx (the
vinyl version, not the CD of the same name, which contains completely
different music; only the lyrics are the same). "Eskimo" by the
Residents. to name a few....
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:12 |
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I am not up to avant-garde but you should try Far Corner (see my review on this site), they are a bit too complex for me but what a dynamic and adventurous sound!
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proger
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:44 |
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henry cow, Captain Beefheart, VDGG has their parts.
also amon duul2- I dont know why, allthought they are playing rockier they are very strange for me...
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...live for tomorrow...
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ANDREW
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:59 |
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Try the self-titled debut album by Italian prog band PIERROT LUNAIRE.
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memowakeman
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:59 |
i think the most of the RIO scen are the strangest ... but beautiful music of course...
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Hierophant
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 12:30 |
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ZAPPA, Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Taal, Sirmillardmulch
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Hesselius
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 12:30 |
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Spooky Tooth: Ceremony (reinterpretation of Pierre Henry music)
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This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
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Dick Heath
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 13:11 |
 Hesselius wrote:
Spooky Tooth: Ceremony (reinterpretation of Pierre Henry music) |
Reinterpretation????? - sure Pierre Henry plays on the album!
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arnold stirrup
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 15:33 |
Witchwoodhermit wrote:
I'm doing a little research. I love the avante garde, the stranger the better. |
Ever hear Laurie Anderson?
My faves by her are:
United States I-IV
Big Science
Mr. Heartbreak
Home Of The Brave
Bright Red
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So much music. So little time.
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Oxygen Waster
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 15:47 |
Fantomas
Mr.Bungle
SleeppyTime Gorilla Museum
Tom Waits
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Chicapah
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 15:49 |
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anything by soft machine
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Gary the Ghoul
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 17:26 |
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Beefheart kicks ass
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Zac M
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 18:26 |
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The Residents
Snakefinger
Renaldo and the Loaf
Elton Dean related groups and Lol Coxhill (for avant-jazz)
Faust
Mark Stewart
Nurse With Wound
Glenn Branca
..........Among many others.......
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty
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Catholic Flame
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 18:50 |
Mine would be:
Borbetomagus - very very harsh, free noise
Eugene Chadborne - experimental country, Sun Ra meets Hank Williams
Hugh LeCaine - music concrete - Dripsody - recorded the sound of a single drop
of water and used tape manipulation to create a wonder piece of music
Conlon Nancarrow - used player pianos but tightened the action so much that
they do things that a human could never hope to do. Fully acoustic put sounds
electronic.
John Zorn - the man is a genius
Honorable mention:
Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra
Steve Reich
Philip Glass The Kronos Quartet
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
~Jack Kerouac
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James Lee
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 19:48 |
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Residents, throbbing gristle, Zorn, sun ra, and especially Negativland!!!
but for pure weirdness, you can't beat Jandek. I just can't listen to him long or often enough to ever actually call him a favorite.
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The Wizard
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Posted: February 27 2006 at 19:51 |
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Zappa, The Softs, Beefheart, VDGG, Phillip Glass, it's all good.
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Mongo
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Posted: February 28 2006 at 00:29 |
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Zoogz Rift
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"The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish
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