Strange, stranger, strangest
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Topic: Strange, stranger, strangest
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Subject: Strange, stranger, strangest
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 10:52
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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 ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 10:57
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sammla mammas manna algarnas tradgard captain beefheart can faust |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:02
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In no particular order: Mr. Bungle Fantomas Frank Zappa Mike Keneally Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Guapo John Zorn Thinking Plague Taal -------------  |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date 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....
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:12
| 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! |
Posted By: proger
Date 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... ------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:59
| Try the self-titled debut album by Italian prog band PIERROT LUNAIRE. |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 11:59
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i think the most of the RIO scen are the strangest ... but beautiful music of course... ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Hierophant
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 12:30
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ZAPPA, Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Taal, Sirmillardmulch ------------- 
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Posted By: Hesselius
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 12:30
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Spooky Tooth: Ceremony (reinterpretation of Pierre Henry music) ------------- This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 13:11
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Reinterpretation????? - sure Pierre Henry plays on the album! |
Hesselius wrote:Posted By: arnold stirrup
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 15:33
Ever hear Laurie Anderson? My faves by her are: United States I-IV Big Science Mr. Heartbreak Home Of The Brave Bright Red ------------- So much music. So little time. |
Posted By: Oxygen Waster
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 15:47
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Fantomas Mr.Bungle SleeppyTime Gorilla Museum Tom Waits |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 15:49
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anything by soft machine ------------- "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 |
Posted By: Gary the Ghoul
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 17:26
| Beefheart kicks ass |
Posted By: Zac M
Date 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....... ------------- "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 |
Posted By: Catholic Flame
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 18:50
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Mine would be: The Kronos Quartet ------------- “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” ~Jack Kerouac |
Posted By: James Lee
Date 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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date 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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Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 00:29
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Zoogz Rift ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: darren
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 01:22
Another vote for Laurie Anderson. Try track down the video of "Home of The Brave" I'm not sure if it's on DVD but I can't see why it wouldn't be. A friend saw her in concert. She was in the lobby handing out AA batteries to everyone as they came through a turnstile. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 03:44
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Some albums by Van Dyke Parks. Song Cycle is one of the strangest albums ever made! Musical atmospheres come and go, one after another. Completely unique.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 28 2006 at 03:46
| Oh, and I should mention The Ex. For instance, their album Blueprints For A Blackout combines noise with classical instruments. A strange musical cocktail. They were a really experimental band, by the way. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 10:54
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You want five? Here`s five althogh I could think of heeps more. ( no particular order ) Songs Frrom The Dolmen- Meredith Monk Beauborg- Vangelis Eroc ( 1st & 2nd ) Nue! ------------- |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 11:50
And so on and so forth ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 11:54
THIRD VOTE FOR LAURIE ANDERSON.  she is amazing!! I have rarely heard such hard-listening,complex,quality music...highly recommended...(make her prog?com'on!)   ------------- 
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