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    Posted: April 02 2018 at 14:29
Another list on RateYourMusic and you all have been so awesome at suggestions that i'm running another one your way. Star

This is all about the unique and strangely weird and not limited to prog. I'm going for unique and original over something like an avant-prog clone. Sleepy

Weirdness can be musical, visual or stylistic. Any suggestions are appreciated but do check the list first before bombarding the thread with a 1000 Mr Bungle or Deerhoof suggestions Wink

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Well, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat are definitely missing on the list.


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^ thanks for the suggestion. Not sure if this is weird or unique enough but certainly psychedelic. I might include it because it is rather unique in how it wasn't primarily a musical group but rather a graphic designe and poster producer turned musical. Let me think about it but probably yes. Did include that First International Sex Opera that was mentioned. Now THAT was weird!!!

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Oh, and Amon Düül should be on the list too. Not Amon Düül 2, but the band that published the first Krautrock album, "Psychedelic Underground", and later "Collapsing - Singvögel Rückwärts & Co", "Paradieswärts Düül" and "Disaster".


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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ thanks for the suggestion. Not sure if this is weird or unique enough but certainly psychedelic. I might include it because it is rather unique in how it wasn't primarily a musical group but rather a graphic designe and poster producer turned musical. Let me think about it but probably yes. Did include that First International Sex Opera that was mentioned. Now THAT was weird!!!


The vocals of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat are weird, the music not so.


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Methinks this weirdest band in the world site has set the bar rather low. Any left-of-center band with a sense of humor could make it in, along with any 'ol experimental release. The entire genres of free improv and noise could be included, honestly, but then it wouldn't be weird because there are entire genres built around it.

What I think of as "weird" is something that embodies the uncanny valley, something that messes with my sense of reality. I think stuff like:

The Gerogerigegege def deserve their place on the list. 
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thread win...  and yes... a favorite of Raff and mine...
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Oh, and Amon Düül should be on the list too. Not Amon Düül 2, but the band that published the first Krautrock album, "Psychedelic Underground", and later "Collapsing - Singvögel Rückwärts & Co", "Paradieswärts Düül" and "Disaster".










Hmmm. I just listened to the first one and wrote an impromptu review. I'll probably add it. Were they really the first Krautrock band / album?

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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Methinks this weirdest band in the world site has set the bar rather low. Any left-of-center band with a sense of humor could make it in, along with any 'ol experimental release. The entire genres of free improv and noise could be included, honestly, but then it wouldn't be weird because there are entire genres built around it.

What I think of as "weird" is something that embodies the uncanny valley, something that messes with my sense of reality. I think stuff like:

The Gerogerigegege def deserve their place on the list. 

Now THOSE are up my weird and freaky alley! Unfamiliar with all of them but intrigued. I agree with you that that site has low standards of weirdness but i understand the inclusivity factor. Artists can be weird in different ways. I'm including visual appearances as weird such as Gwar even though the music itself isn't that strange. There are a lot of gray areas for sure but i'm not writing a discertation for a PHD, just a list! Thanks for these though, keep em coming :)

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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

thread win...  and yes... a favorite of Raff and mine...





Love Hatebeak too! Already on the list and actually wrote a review a while back. Birds as lead singers for grindcore metal is definately WEIRD!!!!

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:


Hmmm. I just listened to the first one and wrote an impromptu review. I'll probably add it. Were they really the first Krautrock band / album?

Yes, they definitely were. Without them Krautrock would not exist at all because no-one dared to publish an album.


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Even the name "Krautrock" would probably not have existed at all had they not been. The famous DJ John Peel, who coined the term "Krautrock", was most probably inspired by the track "Mama Düül und ihre Sauekrautband spielt auf" from that album.


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Weird is not complete without William Shatner.



Also consider his "prog" collaboration with Billy Sherwood.



On the funny side of things. This had a pretty hokey/weird premise. Big Daddy, '50s group to have been kidnapped by Laotian guerillas while entertaining U.S. troops in Vietnam and not rescued until 1983. Thus playing contemporary (80's music) in the style of the 50's:



Also, for humor, Tenacious D:
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By the way: There had been German rock bands before Amon Düül like The Petards, The Rattles or The Lords, but they imitated British beat groups and had nothing to do with Krautrock at all.

A member of The Petards was for a short time a co-worker of me when I was a computer programmer for a software company and hired out to another firm, but he was 30 years or more older than me and I only saw him once or twice.


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Here examples of their music:

The Rattles:


The Petards:


The Lords (mark their horrible English, for example in track 1, "Skakin' All Over", or track 16, "Poor Boy"):


These bands were very successful in Germany.





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I suggest Sperm. Also, Sperm has made only one album, but it´s most important member Pekka Airaksinen has made many. Also he has made one album with Samsa Trio and one in Mytologinen Duo.

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Another suggestion is Red Crayola/Red Krayola.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcMnpHtJrm8


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Some more:
Trumans Water
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Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
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I noticed you have Nurse With Wound. They made their list of the very original bands, you can find it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_with_Wound_list
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and this is must to me:
Pere Ubu
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Anything by Scott Walker post 1984.
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Hmmm, I see some things on the list that aren't weird in my estimation e.g. Tool, Tinariwen and Xylouris White. But it's in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Viv Stanshall should be added.
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