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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Subject: v.e.r.y...W#E-I~R*D...b+a=n^d-s \m/ o_o \m/
Date 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.  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.  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  Thanks!  https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/v_e_r_y_w_e-i_r_d_b_a_n_d-s-m-o_o-m/" rel="nofollow - v.e.r.y...W#E-I~R*D...b+a=n^d-s \m/ o_o \m/ - Rate Your Music  -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 15:21
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Well, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat are definitely missing on the list. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 16:29
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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!!! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 16:47
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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". ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 16:49
The vocals of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat are weird, the music not so. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
siLLy puPPy wrote:Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 16:53
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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. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 17:01
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thread win... and yes... a favorite of Raff and mine... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 18:26
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? ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 18:29
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 :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 18:29
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!!!! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 18:53
Yes, they definitely were. Without them Krautrock would not exist at all because no-one dared to publish an album. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 19:00
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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. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 19:14
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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: |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 19:16
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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. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 20:46
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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. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 22:44
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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8G8NvCEDU Another suggestion is Red Crayola/Red Krayola. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lERLfwriyJI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNJxlg9Lb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcMnpHtJrm8
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 22:58
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Some more: Trumans Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWAjsL8lBi4 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Fz_S8345Y 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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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 23:00
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and this is must to me: Pere Ubu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TaW_glWy6g&list=PLE5F9A01C128D1DE4
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 00:35
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Anything by Scott Walker post 1984. |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 03:39
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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. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 04:03
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Definitely Portal. Beyond even my "wall of noise" threshold, these guys are thematically charged. And whatever that thing on the vocalists head is is mesmerizing. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 04:17
 Portal are technically brilliant. I think the singer is wearing the cabinet to a grandfather clock. So, let's call him Clock Face from now on.------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 04:21
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Lovely Little Girls. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 04:22
 WtF?
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 04:25
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Uberband ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 04:31
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^ Luv this video and the song! ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 04:34
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And of course, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's baby momma...Idiot Flesh. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 04:36
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I have more but I'm sleepy. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 09:45
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Wow! I have some work to do. Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. Just one quick comment. I'm looking for WEIRD, meaning something unique. That doesn't mean technically challenging. I have a list for that. Also, humor isn't a factor either. WEIRD means that the artist has come up with some gimmick that no one else has. However if they were first for a popular strange style of music that works. As far as humor goes. Check out my list of humorous music. If you see anything missing from that, please do tell!  https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/does-humor-belong-in-music/" rel="nofollow - Does Humor Belong In Music? - Rate Your Music Thanks to infinity! https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/v_e_r_y_w_e-i_r_d_b_a_n_d-s-m-o_o-m/" rel="nofollow - v.e.r.y...W#E-I~R*D...b+a=n^d-s \m/ o_o \m/ - Rate Your Music ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 09:46
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Actually i'll make another list for the humor list. Let's keep it to WEIRD here ;) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 10:15
LOL. Now that's the kind of WEIRD i'm going for. Thanks, froggie :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:00
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Portal was definitely not suggested for their technical aspects. More for their stage presence and themes. When I think of weird it tends to be something that fans of the band's core genre hear/see and say "Ack! What the hell is this?". ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:03
That's exactly what i'm looking for! I'm a Portal fan but haven't seen them. Great suggestion :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: doompaul
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:04
| The Tiger Lilies. Odd stuff. Odd singer. Overall disconcerting. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:05
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I see Captured by Robots on your list. Saw him almost 20 years ago. A one man band for the ages. Watching a guy enslaved, tortured and forced to play their music was definitely unique. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:28
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Arab on Radar ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: doompaul
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:32
| Ooooh! I saw them a couple of times when I lived in San Francisco. What a fun band! |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:33
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Unexpect (Canada) Augury (Canada) (sort of a tentative suggestion) Taal (France) Empalot (France) Cake, The Presidents of the United States of America (USA) (tentative suggestions) The Mars Volta (I know everyone here knows them, but maybe not everyone on RYM) ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:43
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Vocal cover multitracker Dokaka. He does an amazing version of KC's Fracture that doesn't seem to be anywhere online. Fortunately, I have it. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 11:55
Moving Gelatine Plates. You don't need samples.  ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 12:23
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I think Lydia Lunch is the strangest woman artist I know. Not just made personal music, also poetry & films. In the begin of her career she´s put into No Wave and New Wave, but recently she´s done experimental collaborations for example with Philippe Petit, Omar Rodriquez Lopez & Marc Hurtado. Here´s collaboration with Petit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4qaj5-Q54E&list=PLhS2x96waD6ZlwH4YRQkocm9DuV-JXiAs
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 12:54
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On the avant side of things, there's Diamanda Galas: |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 13:44
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this is absolutely weird: Mani Neumeier's concert for excavator and drums. here three video excerpts: -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 03 2018 at 23:13
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Some Finnish weird bands: Circle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vegSHX00B4w Keuhkot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArnsN67qjY Sweetheart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isnm09yWi5g Jimi Tenor & His Shamans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiABca8J_pU Eleanoora Rosenholm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrgxAbiXrlc Sielun Veljet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxuNN2xCIJI 500 Kg Lihaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A2ssckJRss Risto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_810LiKf4 |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 04 2018 at 05:27
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^ wow! I don't have time to check all these out now but keep em coming :) Thanks everyone. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 04 2018 at 05:36
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I stumbled upon this one day... The Idiots of Pennsylvania https://idiotsofpa.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - https://idiotsofpa.bandcamp.com/ The earlier ones seem to be made of a lot banging on metal and stuff. They don't have any YouTube videos.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 04 2018 at 06:00
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Post punk/new Wave has quite much personal & mad stuff (the last one is from U.S. hard core punk), here´s some: the Pop Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpwcrOGRjC8 Lemon Kittens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iYdHkQ_fSw Minutemen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7yCC2QraXY
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: April 05 2018 at 11:53
You beat me! I wanted to suggest her too. Also: ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 05 2018 at 12:00
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^lol, that falsetto is brutal. From his other videos it seems to be a regular feature. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 05 2018 at 12:06
And no search results either other than the Bandcamp page. ;O
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: April 05 2018 at 12:13
It's not falsetto. He was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countertenor" rel="nofollow - countertenor . ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 05 2018 at 12:23
"...In actual practice, it is generally acknowledged that a majority of countertenors sing with a falsetto vocal production for at least the upper half of this range, although most use some form of "chest voice" (akin to the range of their speaking voice) for the lower notes..." Regardless, in this context, it's pretty brutal. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 05 2018 at 12:41
She was a headliner at the Big Ears festival a couple of weeks ago. She was definitely odd, not really my thing but an experience.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 06 2018 at 21:58
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^ i saw Diamanda Galas live once. She is very, very strange indeed and on my list! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: April 07 2018 at 05:09
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^ She is great! And what about Nomi?
------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: April 07 2018 at 17:16
Those weeks it felt like I was 100 percent ready to enjoy your musical world and have fondly visited your website. Without surprise I prefer Superluminal Pachyderm to TIOP esp. Incoherent Brain Dump & Unsalted Pants – According to my angle of listening I don't see bogs at all in the music and there are no absurd harmonies but a lot of tension... But it is nice to detect similarities in those early recordings (esp The Cushions Smell like Poop). Moron talk echoed (like the voice of a very powerful entity in a place where one can hear echoes...), mixed with both fresh and clean sounds, forming twisted harmonies into unsettling atmospheres, are an exciting recipe and IMO your projects should get some KUDOS at least for that reason. Globally one could compare your style with Zappa's, but your stuff reminded me of no particular FZ piece or from another band except for All The Toilets Of The City, that sounds very close to Elephant Talk and Thela Hun Gingeet, and "It Smells Like Aunt Helen" close to (KCrimson's) Neurotica's Arrive in neurotica Through neon heat diseaseI swear at the swarming heards I sweat the foul terrain I rove the moving scenery ...maybe Zappa's Sy Borg isn't very far. I'm curious about what albums others may compare some of your pieces to. Clonus (6th The Idiots of Pennsylvania in the list) is not the same style but it sounds very promising. (...This post gets closer to a review than expected... We'll see) * Calling music "Weird" implies one doesn't get it... Either there's something to understand and a challenge, or it's a kind of zen koan and there's nonsense to sort of relax to. ------------- http://www.digger.ch/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - Support mine-clearing ! https://bandcamp.com/machinechance/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - bandcamp collection |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 07 2018 at 18:25
Um. Weird is a real word. It means "unusual." It doesn't imply some esoteric understanding, it simply means that something stands out as not fitting in with an established pattern. In the case of musical artists, this can be a musical trait, it can be a visual appearance, a live stage personna or it can simply be anything that the general public wasn't quite ready to experience. For some of us, such as myself, there is no such thing as "weird" as i'm utterly unshockable however there is a general consensus of what society at large would consider "unusual" by orthodox standards. This is the "weird" i'm going for with this one ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: April 08 2018 at 05:47
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^ My mistake, period... Thanks for the effort of making it all clear.
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Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: April 12 2018 at 08:49
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: April 12 2018 at 09:04
Agreed. Like Tuvan throat singing for example! Name a few and the weirdest artistst withing them. I haven't had time to even scour the suggestions on this thread yet but i will when i get the chance. It was basically a list that highlighted the website mentioned with new artists being added as i think of them. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: May 07 2018 at 21:50
This isn't even close to the tip of the iceberg. There are other users here who know more about it than I. One genuinely bonkers project that I had forgotten to mention is Esmectatons, which is spearheaded by our very own VOTOMS: https://esmectatons.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - https://esmectatons.bandcamp.com ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 01:22
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^ Not sure why free improvisation should be considered intrinsically weird. It's a particular approach to making music, albeit one that usually produces results most find unlistenable. But if the category of the ‘weird’ starts to encompass entire genres of music just because they deviate from musical norms I think it becomes so broad as to be meaningless, and arguably incoherent. A sober, rather highbrow improvising musician like Evan Parker or Anthony Braxton doesn't really have a lot in common with the guy sitting in a tub of baked beans playing banjo with his underpants on his head. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 01:42
Yeah. Maybe AMM should be on there but i don't want to make it a Nurse With Wound list. More of a list of unique musical artists who have a gimmick that stands out. Same could be said for avant-prog. It's a very weird genre with virtually everything qualifying. In that case i'll add the pioneers but not the copycats :) I'll check some of these out though. Maybe they're weirder than normal :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 01:43
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https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/v_e_r_y_w_e-i_r_d_b_a_n_d-s-m-o_o-m/" rel="nofollow - v.e.r.y...W#E-I~R*D...b+a=n^d-s \m/ o_o \m/ - Rate Your Music ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 02:28
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Simon, Alvin and Theodore
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 06:37
Hey, sorry I didn't followup on this. I don't wander outside the "Just For Fun" area of this forum much and missed this. Thanks again for your comments. "Moron talk echoed" is probably the best description I have heard so far of what SP sounds like. I do like unsettling atmospheres and for some reason I lean more towards soundscapes than melodies. I've heard the Zappa comparisons before, but I tend to think of it more in the spirit of Zappa, sort of like "Zappa does neo prog or space rock." You have to be the first to compare SP to King Crimson. I love Crimson's Discipline album, but I've never actually drawn any inspiration from that when I'm composing or writing. But since you pointed out the lyrics, yeah I can see why you'd pick up on that. Musically, "All the Toilets of the City" was an experiment in delay and Pink Floyd's Run Like Hell was the chief inspiration. Some might even call it a ripoff because I had the delay settings similar to Gilmour's. A lot of that album was inspired by other music, something I try to shy away from in most of my works, but it was also meant as a return to shorter tracks instead of these expansive 15+ minute long ones I've been doing lately. The lyrics for Cadillac were inspired by David Bowie's Looking for Satellites. Parts of Eometry were inspired by the Ozric Tentacles. Radio Donkey was inspired by Elton John (mostly because without printed lyrics, most of his singing sounds like nonsense, so words were purposely mispronounced while I recorded the vocals) and Reunion's Life is a Rock, because the phrase "Radio Rolled Me" always sounded like "Radio Donkey" to my ears. Musically, I don't know what to compare much of it to. Thomas Dolby attempting to do prog?? A friend of mine called it "Frankenstein music." I don't know what to make of that, but it did inspire me to put some Fred Gwynne references in Metadata Socks. Anyway, thanks very much for your comments. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 06:46
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Hey, I noticed you had the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on your weird RYM list. I was friends with Jason Trachtenburg in junior high and high school in Philadelphia back in the 1980s. He was a big fan of the Beatles. In fact his solo album "Revolutions per Minute" was very Beatles-influenced. He was a very quirky fellow, always made me laugh, and saw things in ways most people would never imagine. After school he went to NYC and I think did a lot of beat poet readings or something, and met his wife there. They moved out to the Seattle area and ran a dog-walking business on the side while also performing and recording music. I think the last I heard, they were back in NYC, but I haven't exchanged e-mails with him for several years now. Small world, as they say. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 07:42
Wow. Would that be Sea Of Peas High? I haven't heard them. I just copied that other website for most of those. Don't necessarily agree with some. Added a few of my own. But for the most part their version of weird works. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: May 10 2018 at 09:37
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I've tried again and again to write essay length lists of free improvisation artists and why I think they might be eligible for inclusion, but I keep forgetting to copy it before captcha obliterates it all. Not sure it's even worth posting at this point. This post alone has taken several tries. Long story short, you're going to want to check out the free jazz pioneers as well as the early London free improve scene as they sort of set the standard, even though that standard is somewhat hard to define in a genre about exploration and idiosyncratic playing styles. I would also check out the Japanese noise (mainly early) and onkyo scenes. The onkyo scene, in particular, is filled to the brim with technical innovations. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music
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Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: May 11 2018 at 15:51
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To my relief I expect none of those very subtly stolen artists will ever want to sue you. Even Crimson should think twice, but you put even less relaxed good old minor or major chords than them, so in spite of similar tempos, rythm sections, and intonations in spoken lyrics to Belew, they should think even more... Thanks Youtube for those entertaining Herman Munster episodes !  ...Maybe I'll come and get you reinflated after that nasty folding of road in the fun corner ? I had long ago printed total nonsense poems made with a lot of english words I discovered by browsing in THE oxford Dictionary, that may fit in there. I'm yet to find them... Why not
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 08:07
Sorry just noticed this as i'm going through old threads! Yeah, they WERE weird and creepy like possessed nuns in the convent of the poltergeist convention ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 09:31
Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka. I have a vinyl copy, it is very hypnotic, not so strange for fans of Middle Eastern music, but an oddity all it's own nonetheless. Wiki on the production, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jones_Presents_the_Pipes_of_Pan_at_Joujouka ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 09:46
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^ i love Middle Eastern fusion music. Will check that one out! Thanks :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 10:08
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It's really just the real deal, recorded. It did intro audiences early on to Middle Eastern sounds, though, as did the music of the US Kaleidoscope (to a lesser degree, as they remained fairly obscure), due to Brian Jones' celebrity status. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 10:18
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Oh I think i got 100 suggestions from Japan alone- not really, but I'll start there |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 10:31
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Awful but truly weird and somewhat fun. Like The Shaggs of space-funk with Cartman on vocals |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 10:37
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^ Yeah, some pretty weird (and very cool) stuff comes out of Japan. A very creative culture. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 10:56
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^^ I adore After Dinner and J.A. Seazer. I'd mention Horrific Child and Les Malecdictus Sound can be strange: The Crazy People - Bedlam (sort of comedy rock) |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 11:17
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^Never heard The Crazy People seven minutes in and its great fun! Now back to Japan: |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 11:51
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Speaking of Japan, I can't believe that I forgot to mention Tenko Took me forever to find this clip. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 18:51
Japan is indeed a trippy place! Even the ethnic music itself and traditional forms are unique. The language and culture exist in their own reality. I love it! Some of these you posted are weird indeed but some are not so if you are familiar with some of Japan's music history but like i already said, it's all weird! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 18:54
Yeah, Horrific Child is pretty out there. How could i forget that one. Brought to you the creator of Visitors and other strange novelties. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 15 2019 at 18:55
OMG! Tenko sounds like a mix of Yoko Ono and Bjork doing a seance or an exorcism THAT was freakily weird indeed ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 16 2019 at 08:25
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Date Posted: January 16 2019 at 08:28
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Date Posted: January 16 2019 at 08:33
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Date Posted: January 16 2019 at 08:46
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: January 16 2019 at 11:48
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Let me suggest Dvar (from Russia): |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: January 16 2019 at 11:59
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Avant-garde metal band from France 'Pin-Up Went Down' seems like they may qualify? |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 17 2019 at 07:44
Damn that was satisfying! Sounds like the avant-prog version of The Flying Lizards Thanks for all the suggetions. You're giving me some great W#E-I~R*D-n .e. s . s |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 17 2019 at 08:03
Also weirdly cool! Keep sending more! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 17 2019 at 08:06
Not really weird but definately cool electronic music! Thanks for the suggestion :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 17 2019 at 08:09
It's definately different. Not sure if it's weird enough but i'll check more out from them :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 17 2019 at 10:44
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: January 17 2019 at 16:27
Have you heard Azam Ali? You might like what she does as well, then. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |