The weirdest album you've ever heard

^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!

Ron Geesin - Right Through Frank Zappa - 200 Motels Faust - The Faust Tapes Can - Tago Mago (discussed in an earlier posting on this thread) ...

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!

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

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.