S&D: weirdest musics ever

what was that cd of someone in intensive care crashing and eventually dying? the one that i don't ever want to hear?

also:

Vagina Dentata Organ
Mieses Gegonge

this is true, but you forget the FUN part in weird and most of the records i listed are very enjoyable, dont know about the others yet ;) and that Ubu link is just awesome

i mean, most of the records listed up at the top of this thread are pretty old--are albums that may have been considered extremely far-out when they were released, or were met with mostly negative reception when they were released, get the same reception if they were released today? 'metal machine music' is now 31 years old! that's older than i am! when i heard 'metal machine music' for the first time, i listened to it with the frame of reference of someone who spent their teenage years listening to big '90s ambient electronic/house records (the orb, etc) and '80s junkyard noise like neubauten. it didn't sound so weird to my ears--it sounded like just another ambient record! a little noisy maybe, but an ambient record nonetheless.

Don't forget we are the ones who get used to all of this, the majority of people will still go wtf when they hear these records!

i've played all sorts of conventionally 'weird' records for my father. he doesn't bat an eye at the most out-there sun city girls record i've thrown at him, for instance, and he quite enjoys the sublime frequencies comps that i've made him listen to. but if you played him 30 seconds of the beatles or the rolling stones or something like that, he'd be yelling at you to shut it off, this is so unlistenable, this is so fucked up, this is noise, etc etc.

el sabor, you must mean Life Everlasting, Amen, by I Saw It All Happen From Beginning To End And Sometimes I Still Can´t Believe What I Saw (AKA Jeff Sedgley and The UK Ambassador of Elgaland-Vargaland). now that's a weird cd. and what an eat-your-heart-out-emo-fucks-you-didn't-think-of-it-first name.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/jimjonestopy.jpg

i still find the residents to be delightfully weird.

you know who's really weird, though? this guy: www.mizar.us

There is a part in the song where there's a breakdown. It's guitars and it's right before the second verse and Billy Beck does one of those inhaling-type screeches like Minnie Ripperton did to reach her high note or Mariah Carey does to go octaves above. The DJ made this crack and it swept the country. People were asking us, 'Did you kill this chick in the studio?' The band took a vow of silence because that makes you sell more records.

from snopes.com

but 'metal machine music' -- i mean, i used to put it on each night to go to bed! that's like fluffy-bunny sleepytime music!

My vote for weirdest music is Jimmy's "Spin the Bottle"/"White Christmas" 45. Found it in a bin, listened to it, and still have no idea what the hell it's about.

The best thing on the 365 Days site is The Frugal Gormets "Satan's Blood." Nothing else comes close.

that's because it's less expensive and easier to find.

Some tangentally related vocal madness:

Dokaka - human beatbox covers (mostly heavy metal) on www.dokaka.com see also Bjork's Medula and the We Love Katamari game soundtrack for more.

Kecak from Bali the complete Ramayana monkey chant (remember that bit from the movie Baraka?}

Paul Lansky: More than Idle Chatter academic computer music phoneme cut-ups.

Odd string instruments:

Ellen Fullman: Body Music just intonation drones on an 80 ft. long longitudinal vibration harp.

On a similar note, check out Australian neurologist Alan Lamb's contact mic recordings of abandoned telephone wires: Primal Image and Night Passage, now OOP.

Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano - the most rhythmically complex music ever (AFAIK), think baroque to ragtime contrapunctualism with multiple dynamic tempos or parts played at irrational tempo relations. At high volume, the perfect lease breaker/party ender.

D: Don't have time in my life to catalog the dross, but I'll put a word in for Jap power electronic noise as being some of the most useless "weird" music on the planet.

I try to share the OOP portions of my collection (incl some of the above) as pirouette on slsk, but am currently in the midst of a move.

nope. go ahead and listen to them side by side...there's a big difference! i'm not an insane music collector or anything and i'm hardly an audiophile, but even i picked up on this.

i was just goofin'! i've not heard the vinyl but i'd be willing to bet the remastering team didn't really give a shit about matching the original sound.

Also, the "human beatbox covers" band reminded me of JudJud, truly another great weird band.

Wild Man Fischer's solo recordings?

Personally I find music 'weird' when it has an aesthetic that's clearly a historical artifact and that I have no frame of reference on. Like Latin freestyle is deeply weird with all the out-of-key singing and slightly paedo-inflected little girl voices and insane amounts of echo. How could this ever have been 'pop'?

Also: 80s christmas rap records. Those are fucking strange, like "Dana Dane is coming to town" or "Let the jingle bells rock". It's just a combination that makes no sense but for someone reason was once a fad because people mistakenly thought it would sell records.

-- sleeve (sleev...), March 28th, 2006 12:00 AM.

Indeed...
http://www.fopi.net/images/covers/odds/jimjones.jpg

I used to have a t-shirt with the disk art on it back in the 80s. Boy, was I crazy.

The Jonestown tape is actually up at archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16

Why are there no jokes about the Jonestown tragedy?
Because the punch line's too long.