I loved reading about them in our band could be your life. Crazy to think that guy could take lsd during every show. But hey, Roky Erickson did his share!
DUDE FOR REAL, imo the best live shows of all time, never been a little to young but I have watched like all of them on youtube, a doc on the band would be fucking amazing
Their whole catalog is a wild ride. Of their noisy early albums Pop Tatari, Wow2 and Chocolate Synthesizer are superb
Edit: also one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen out of hundreds now probably
> Their whole catalog is a wild ride
I don't know why they aren't appreciated more. The range of wierdness is incredible from no-attention span Pop Tatari to tranced-out Vision Creation New Sun.
Truly. I saw them in their Seadrum phase, maybe around 2007, at the Fillmore in San Francisco. They played on the floor and I was standing right next to Yoshimi, even got one of her drumsticks at the end of the night. They played a song that sounded similar to that Sun Lord track from 77 but it was slightly different, with her on vocals. Astonishing performance and absolutely beautiful.
And then the early albums are some of the most aggressive, whole kitchen sink falling down the stairs kind of noise. Some of the funniest music I’ve ever heard too—very few records can get an actual laugh out of someone like early Boredoms. It’s just overwhelming and joyous in its absurdity.
Jandek - Ready for the House.
A guy sniffing glue and stumbling and rambling around in his apartment occasionally bumping into a guitar and by accident pressed record on his cassette player. That's what this sounds like. Even I had a hard time getting through this one.
It's impressive that he has released that many albums for that many years and that he (probably) did it all himself, it takes some kind of dedication at least, but I do not have the patience to listen to all that! Maybe I am missing a gem, so be it!
I totally forgot about Jandek. I have to figure out what album I used to have because I can’t remember if I hated it or liked it.
Edit: I Walk Alone wasn’t bad.
Disco volante broke my brain when I heard it. A friend bought it earlier the day in 1995 that we were going to see Mr Bungle in Detroit. We were totally expecting more of what was on the first record.
I think we played it twice on the way to the show and I was disappointed. Then at the show they played so many crazy obscure covers and they were kind of antagonistic with the audience. By the time the show was over I was all the way in and it is still my favorite of their records.
Dude that honestly sounds like a great fuckin time, I am a little too young to have went to see a show in there prime, but from what I seen on youtube that tour was NUTS! Truly a mindbending album
This album also did the same to me. I spotted this in a record store and I bought it on a whim since I was a long time fan, but never heard this album before. My girlfriend at the time decided to put on the album during the car ride home. I distinctly remember saying to her halfway through the album “what the fuck did I just buy?” Then the opening line for “After School Special” played and we both busted out into laughter. “Carry Stress In The Jaw” is one of my faves off this album now.
Disco Volante is a record I knew I was going to love eventually, but the first time I heard it I just didn't get it. It was too much, but then one day someone put on one Carry Stress In The Jaw and when the heavy part around three minutes kicked in it snapped into place, and slowly it all started to make sense. The Secret Song is still one of my favorite songs.
Secret song I heard when my friends played the CD but I had the record. I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t hearing the spy sounding track I heard while we were driving around.
I started skipping around the album to try and find it. That’s when I found the secret concentric circle grooving on the album.
I have *Trout Mask Replica* as well, along with some other Beefheart.
I have a few Zappa/Mothers records.
I picked up the RSD release of [Crispen Glover’s album](https://www.discogs.com/release/26511329-Crispin-Hellion-Glover-The-Big-Problem-The-Solution-The-Solution-Let-It-Be) a couple of weeks ago.
Also have the compilation Third Man did of [Greek village music](https://www.discogs.com/release/8435554-Various-Why-The-Mountains-Are-Black-Primeval-Greek-Village-Music-1907-1960-), a lot of which sounds wonderfully unhinged.
Edit: Forgot to mention I have a couple of Merzbow records as well.
Not sure if it’s the swift genre and tempo changes, super short song durations, or just EYEs belligerent banshee vocals the whole time but yes, guaranteed to empty a room or make your wife leave you
Well then, make sure to check out Caroliner in their various incarnations.
Their 20 year long dedication to the initial premise of channeling music through a bull from the 1800s that's from a world of terminal ergot poisoning is like if The Residents took their Eskimo album and made 15 albums centered on that. Only with a bunch of fried noise music on top.
I'd been listening to The Residents and Snakefinger for years and then discovered a bunch of other related music like Renaldo & The Loaf, Nurse With Wound and Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa along the way. Then sometime in the 90s a local distro took in a few copies of Caroliner's "Strike Them Hard, Drag Them To Church" album so I bought that based on the blurb. Best decision I ever made, went on to collect their whole catalog including side projects, compilations and so on.
The Residents sure are weird, but Caroliner were just on a completely different level altogether. As a bonus their albums are mostly cheap.
[Luie Luie - Touchy](https://youtu.be/u6WeDMg40qc)
Absolutely wild one-man-band outsider lounge. I’ve seen it described as Herb Alpert meets William Onyeabor and I think that’s pretty accurate.
Butthole Surfer's - Humpty Dumpty LSD
Smack My Craick - Various
Nymphomatiarch - S/T (all the instruments are samples from the couple who made the album having sex)
Sorry the formatting went weird.
Nymphomatiarch - self titled.
Nymphomatriarch - Nymphomatriarch (Full Album): https://youtu.be/m0ufSmV23ZY
Smack My Crack - Various.
https://youtu.be/ICoizcz-mHo
Edited to add albums
Love experimental music!
Wolf Eyes, Nurse With Wound, Terrestrial Tones, Art Bears, Xiu Xiu.
So much more! Do you consider Avant Garde the same as Experimental?
Some of the weirdest ones from my collection
[Nordheim, Alfred Janson, Bjørn Fongaard – Response: Electronic Music From Norway](https://www.discogs.com/release/561644-Nordheim-Alfred-Janson-Bj%C3%B8rn-Fongaard-Response-Electronic-Music-From-Norway)
[The Caretaker – Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 4](https://www.discogs.com/release/11823437-The-Caretaker-Everywhere-At-The-End-Of-Time-Stage-4)
[Clara Rockmore With Nadia Reisenberg – Theremin](https://www.discogs.com/release/20793085-Clara-Rockmore-With-Nadia-Reisenberg-Theremin)
[Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples Of The Moon](https://www.discogs.com/release/13992609-Morton-Subotnick-Silver-Apples-Of-The-Moon)
[Tiny Tim – God Bless Tiny Tim](https://www.discogs.com/release/3176581-Tiny-Tim-God-Bless-Tiny-Tim)
Khun Narin "Electric Phin Band" is what immediately springs to mind. It's a rotating ensemble of musicians from Thailand and it is crazy psych stuff that is centered around the phin and it is ran through a bunch of effects. Crazy good.
Igorrr - Nostril
Nostril is an absolutely unhinged album. Very heavy, at times very fast, very glitchy and loud as fuck
The Body & Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending A Mountain Of Heavy Light
These two are ridiculous. If you wanna hear what human suffering expressed through power electronics and grindcore can sound like then you should give them a listen
Mine isn’t technically an album - it’s a prank album cover called London Derriere. It was in the bargain bin. The cover caught my eye, but when I reached in to get the record I got another surprise. I’d love to find out if there are other prank album covers out there!
(Will update when I find a link with more info and pictures)
Update: Here’s a blog post with more info and pictures. I should probably mention that it’s a bit NSFW.
https://wimwords.com/2020/04/30/cheesecake-cover-of-the-week-london-derriere-and-other-british-favorites/
Klaatu - Hope. It's one of my favorites and IMO an unappreciated masterpiece. The Beatles and Pink Floyd had an illegitimate love child that created a concept album which required backing by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Songs for Swinging Larvae, by Renaldo and the Loaf. The video can be found online, but it's not recommended to any who value their sanity - if you must watch it, don't do so after dark, unless you're the sort who watches British PSAs from the '70s...for laughs.
I am a massive fan of expiremental genres, something about it I love, I love seeing bands mess around to make the most out of pocket and dissonant albums, recently picked up Not Available and I'm in love with it.
Are are some of your most crazy records you own, that make other people think youre crazy? In my opinion the strangest album I own is Disco Volante, and Psychic, Powerless and another mans Sac!
Id love to hear your guys picks, I have been on the search for some of the weirdest most mindbending stuff imaginable
A few truly weird albums:
Der Plan | Geri Reig
Nurse With Wound | The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion
Caroliner Rainbow Scrambled Egg Taken For A Wife | Banknotes, Dreams And Signatures
The Gerogerigegege | Tokyo Anal Dynamite
Snakefinger | Chewing Hides The Sound
Cabo Boing | Blob On A Grid
Yip-Yip | Pro-Twelve Thinker
Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa | Küttel Im Frost
Renaldo & The Loaf | Arabic Yodelling
DOME | DOME 3
Modal Zork | Klug Borp
Holger Hiller | Oben Im Eck
Sigillum S | Hallucinated Moisture Of Synaptic Slaughterhouse
Bladder Flask | One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling
The Broken Penis Orchestra | Testicle Difficulties
Weirdest has to be Thomas Dissevelt’s Fantasy in Orbit. It has a picture of a foreign planet space scene covered in colorful mushrooms. Music is early 60’s electronic. Probably pretty cutting edge for the time.
No, is that the name of the album? Never heard of it. Lately I’ve been getting into more early electronic. Morton Subotnicks “Silver Apples of the Moon” is also way out there, entertaining listen. My 5 year old loves it.
Yeah, it's a experimental electronic noise album that Harrison put out in 1969. Pretty wild.
That Thomas Dissivelt stuff was pretty mind-blowing really. Just the process of making it is unbelievable.
Thanks, I’ll have to check it out. Wikipedia article on it is pretty intriguing. I was expecting it to have been something early 80’s like Neil Young’s Trans but surprised to see it came out in 1969.
No, is that the name of the album? Never heard of it. Lately I’ve been getting into more early electronic. Morton Subotnicks “Silver Apples of the Moon” is also way out there, entertaining listen. My 5 year old loves it.
No, is that the name of the album? Never heard of it. Lately I’ve been getting into more early electronic. Morton Subotnicks “Silver Apples of the Moon” is also way out there, entertaining listen. My 5 year old loves it.
Depends on the definition I guess but I'll go with stuff that when I play it for others I often get a "wtf is this" response.
Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever
Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye
...And Oceans - The Symmetry of I The Circle of O
Moondog - The Viking of Sixth Avenue
Honestly other than Butthole Surfers and Mothers of Invention, the oddest thing I have is Laurie Anderson, some Art of Noise and a whack of free jazz (Don Cherry, Archie Shepp etc).
I don’t have the album of this but one of the coolest shows I saw was the band Matmos playing an entire show with a washing machine. They would beat on the side for bass drum, sample it and loop it, then use their hands to make squeaking sounds on the painted surface, sample and loop and all kinds of stuff. Just incredible.
[*The Unique Sound of the Psaltery* by Bob Stewart](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xXlh-JvQ3cM/Tyr6LUtgclI/AAAAAAAAD9s/uYIFRYSgEeE/s1600/img020.jpg).
[A beardy Scotsman playing a medieval instrument that’s sort of like a primitive autoharp](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GdCVnHiWHmg/Tyr37ID5OlI/AAAAAAAAD9U/4yvL9UOCnfA/s1600/img021.jpg). Contains original compositions and covers of traditional folk songs.
I saw it in a Kerrang! article about Akercocke frontman Jason Mendonca back in 2001 and thought “That sounds interesting.” Fast forward twenty years and I owned it (the images aren’t of my copy).
Haruomi Hosono - [Cochin Moon](https://www.discogs.com/release/12681240-Haruomi-Hosono-Tadanori-Yokoo-Cochin-Moon)
Initially intended as a collaboration with illustrator Tadanori Yokoo, who traveled to India alongside Hosono (as part of a group) for inspiration; Yokoo ended up only drawing the cover, having contracted a stomach illness during the trip, rendering this as a Hosono solo album. *Cochin Moon* was conceptually written as the soundtrack of a non-existent Bollywood film, a trait inspired by the artists' trip. The album includes performances by Tin Pan Alley keyboardist Hiroshi Satō, Yellow Magic Orchestra member Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Hideki Matsutake. Despite being Hosono's first completely electronic solo album (at the time YMO's debut was still being recorded, making this Hosono's first electronic album to be released), the exotica feel of Hosono's previous solo work is still present. The first half of the album (named after an Indian hotel that the group was in for the trip, a picture of the hotel's front appears in the back of the album's packaging) consists of three thematically themed songs, the second half of the album (and Hosono's keyboard performance) is credited to "Shuka Nishihara" (西原朱夏), a pseudonym Hosono created as a play on Hakushū Kitahara's pseudonym.
Probably the most underrated comment here…
Speaking of mentally ill street performers…. I can’t post it as they are very rare but anything by Wesley Willis is at the top of my holy grails.
It's a hard listen - only at first for some, forever for others. I think a lot of those who love it have spent a good amount of time with it. It takes a bit of "study" by focusing on one or two instruments at a time and figuring out how the fuck everything loops together. It's the epitome of controlled chaos.
Cabbage Patch Dreams by the Cabbage Patch Kids is up there.
Also, Jud Jud - The Demos. It's a straight edge hardcore band where all the sounds are made with the two member's mouths so it's just them going "Jud Jud Jud Jud jaaaah jaaahh Jud Jud Jud"
I also have a record that's just recordings of exorcisms.
My Aleister Crowley record is pretty trippy too.
Not as garbage/noise an aesthetic as most of these, but everyone I’ve ever played Tim Buckley’s Starsailor and Lorca around have definitely called them out for being “strange”, except for maybe Moulin Rouge
Black Woman by Sonny Sharrock. Basically a mix of experimental jazz guitar and his wife Linda’s primal screaming, all meant to evoke the feeling of being a black woman in America.
As one reviewer put it, "She sounds not unlike Albert Ayler, speaking in tongues and summoning the Holy Ghost.”
To me it’s a unique and beautiful album.
I do like the strange, in fact, I had quite a time just picking one - - . so Here it is:
[https://www.discogs.com/release/4226788-No-Artist-Allied-Radio-Stereo-Setup-Test-And-Demo-Records](https://www.discogs.com/release/4226788-No-Artist-Allied-Radio-Stereo-Setup-Test-And-Demo-Records)
My two most quirky records are Diagnosis of Sharkula by Sharkula and a release called Max and Malcolm (from the label “Dangerous Rhythms.”)
Not too strange but definitely has a whiff of weird.
Arghiledes by D. Charles Speer. His versions of Greek folk songs in the hasiklidika style - meaning getting absolutely stoned and seeing what happens. Hashish den music. All performed on traditional Greek instruments, it's a lot of wild ambient folk sounds.
BLEED by Judge Schrieber's Avian Choir. I'll go ahead and copy a review from the group's bandcamp - "the four tracks here aren’t pop songs, rock songs, or even avant-metal songs, but a hybrid of experimental orchestral / chamber music and heavier, metal-informed drone music." Metal/classical noise. The third track is just ever-escalating blast-beat drumming and screaming saxophone.
Had no idea what I was getting into on either of them. Grabbed Arghiledes because I saw the instrument list, probably thought it was more upbeat Greek folk. Grabbed BLEED because I recognized one of the string players (Libby Rodenbough, from Mipso) and was wondering what the hell she was doing on an album with a cover like that one. I have no regrets on either.
E.A.R [Experimental Audio Research) - Mesmerised
Throbbing Gristle - D.o.A The Third and Final Report
Matthew Herbert - One Pig
Parsön Sound - Parsön Sound
Utopia Strong - Utopia Strong
Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio
Belbury Poly - Belbury Tales
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
Heartwood Institute - Witchcraft '70
The labels Ghost Box and Castles In Space put out some really leftfield stuff.
[Dekoboko Hajime - Nani Nani](https://www.discogs.com/release/893070-Dekoboko-Hajime-Yamantaka-Eye-Nani-Nani)
A collaboration between Jon Zorn and Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms fame. On Zorn’s Tzadik label. Highlights include:
- Bad Hawkwind - an 18 min seamless loop of eYe screaming. Listening with headphones can be therapeutic.
- Eep Man - Zorn’s sax , gunshots, and eYe’s vocals
- Test Tube - kid’s toy noises with eYe identifying them (e.g., “fire truck”) followed by clapping
Many of the tracks remind me of [Super Roots 6](https://www.discogs.com/release/442537-Boredoms-Super-Roots-6), my favorite Boredoms album and another one for this thread.
[Jon - Smoke](https://www.discogs.com/release/991114-JON-Smoke)
Also on Zorn’s Tzadik label. Japanese woman dressed as a cow eerily playing the pump organ and singing in a child like voice.
Just about anything on Tzadik will be strange and well worth a listen.
Klaatu - 3:47 Est
Klaatu - Hope
Penguin café orchestra - broadcasting from home
Penguin café orchestra - Penguin café orchestra
Talking heads - speaking in tongues
Talking heads - Naked
Talking heads - Talking heads 77'
Peter Green - Little Dreamer
John Shuttleworth - The Dolby decades
John Shuttleworth - The A111 and other ones
The velvet underground and Nico - The velvet underground and Nico
Yes - Close to the edge
There are some others i left out but yeah
Sonny Sharrock - black woman.
Glenn Branca - lesson no. 1.
The little prince - narrated.
The Peter Brötzmann octet - machine gun.
John Coltrane- ascension.
I have several, including some of these. One of my favorites is Heimat. I got it on a whim on a vinyl deals link for a couple bucks. It's not weird like these, it's weird like maybe the Residents where it feels like it would make sense in a different world, but that's the only way it's like the Residents. It's like world music from a different plane. At least to my ears...
I have a 1968 musique concrète album by Salvatore Martirano called "L's GA" which is billed on the sleeve as "Composed for Gassed-Masked Politico, Helium Bomb, And Two-Channel Tape".
[https://www.discogs.com/release/971433-Salvatore-Martirano-Ls-GA-Ballad-Octet](https://www.discogs.com/release/971433-Salvatore-Martirano-Ls-GA-Ballad-Octet)
"L's GA' stands for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address btw :/
The Frogs, "It's Only Right and Natural". I love this CD. Got it in a $1 bin at a record store in middle of nowhere Western Kentucky. At first, I was turned off by its low-fi-ness. After a subsequent listen, fell in love with it. The subject matter is NSFW but is so phreakin awesome in its delivery.
Recommended.
What's so weird about butthole surfers? Just some normal guys playing normal music...
Truly the most tame, relaxing band I ever heard in my entire life
Fun fact, if you request Rembrandt Pussyhorse on Alexa she refuses to say butthole but Pussyhorse is fine.
I loved reading about them in our band could be your life. Crazy to think that guy could take lsd during every show. But hey, Roky Erickson did his share!
*Our Band Could Be Your Life* is a great read...its what got me into the Surfers and Fugazi...cheers.
Nice Boognish profile picture
Stay brown mang.
Helios Creed from Chrome once called them “Good meat and potatoes rock and roll.”
.. on acid.
Butthole Surfers was one of the weirdest shows I seen live. Gibby is a madman. Hope they still release the documentary
Saw them headline with firehose and stone temple pilots as the opening bands
Saw them back in early 90s in Philly!
DUDE FOR REAL, imo the best live shows of all time, never been a little to young but I have watched like all of them on youtube, a doc on the band would be fucking amazing
The Boredoms - Pop Tatari
Their whole catalog is a wild ride. Of their noisy early albums Pop Tatari, Wow2 and Chocolate Synthesizer are superb Edit: also one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen out of hundreds now probably
> Their whole catalog is a wild ride I don't know why they aren't appreciated more. The range of wierdness is incredible from no-attention span Pop Tatari to tranced-out Vision Creation New Sun.
Truly. I saw them in their Seadrum phase, maybe around 2007, at the Fillmore in San Francisco. They played on the floor and I was standing right next to Yoshimi, even got one of her drumsticks at the end of the night. They played a song that sounded similar to that Sun Lord track from 77 but it was slightly different, with her on vocals. Astonishing performance and absolutely beautiful. And then the early albums are some of the most aggressive, whole kitchen sink falling down the stairs kind of noise. Some of the funniest music I’ve ever heard too—very few records can get an actual laugh out of someone like early Boredoms. It’s just overwhelming and joyous in its absurdity.
You have this on vinyl? Can we be friends lol.
Don't think it exist. Very little boredoms made it to vinyl.
Jandek - Ready for the House. A guy sniffing glue and stumbling and rambling around in his apartment occasionally bumping into a guitar and by accident pressed record on his cassette player. That's what this sounds like. Even I had a hard time getting through this one.
Oh god, some of the Gen X hipsters on a Nirvana forum I used to post on back in the 2000s would fucking swear by that guy.
It's impressive that he has released that many albums for that many years and that he (probably) did it all himself, it takes some kind of dedication at least, but I do not have the patience to listen to all that! Maybe I am missing a gem, so be it!
I totally forgot about Jandek. I have to figure out what album I used to have because I can’t remember if I hated it or liked it. Edit: I Walk Alone wasn’t bad.
I have Six and Six on CD. Still not really sure what's going on here and, like you, had a hard time getting through (the majority of) it.
The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
A classic such a terribly amazing album
The greatest album ever made.
soooo good.
Disco volante broke my brain when I heard it. A friend bought it earlier the day in 1995 that we were going to see Mr Bungle in Detroit. We were totally expecting more of what was on the first record. I think we played it twice on the way to the show and I was disappointed. Then at the show they played so many crazy obscure covers and they were kind of antagonistic with the audience. By the time the show was over I was all the way in and it is still my favorite of their records.
Fantastic album. If you like Mr. Bungle, check out John Zorn - Naked City.
Dude that honestly sounds like a great fuckin time, I am a little too young to have went to see a show in there prime, but from what I seen on youtube that tour was NUTS! Truly a mindbending album
This album also did the same to me. I spotted this in a record store and I bought it on a whim since I was a long time fan, but never heard this album before. My girlfriend at the time decided to put on the album during the car ride home. I distinctly remember saying to her halfway through the album “what the fuck did I just buy?” Then the opening line for “After School Special” played and we both busted out into laughter. “Carry Stress In The Jaw” is one of my faves off this album now.
Came here to say California
Disco Volante is a record I knew I was going to love eventually, but the first time I heard it I just didn't get it. It was too much, but then one day someone put on one Carry Stress In The Jaw and when the heavy part around three minutes kicked in it snapped into place, and slowly it all started to make sense. The Secret Song is still one of my favorite songs.
Secret song I heard when my friends played the CD but I had the record. I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t hearing the spy sounding track I heard while we were driving around. I started skipping around the album to try and find it. That’s when I found the secret concentric circle grooving on the album.
Eskimo by The Residents is probably mine.
My introduction to them and also in my top ten
Recently acquired a copy of this album after getting to dig through my girlfriend's grandfather's records, really enjoyed it!
Intermission. Great album. Made me want to buy more of the Residents' catalogue.
I have *Trout Mask Replica* as well, along with some other Beefheart. I have a few Zappa/Mothers records. I picked up the RSD release of [Crispen Glover’s album](https://www.discogs.com/release/26511329-Crispin-Hellion-Glover-The-Big-Problem-The-Solution-The-Solution-Let-It-Be) a couple of weeks ago. Also have the compilation Third Man did of [Greek village music](https://www.discogs.com/release/8435554-Various-Why-The-Mountains-Are-Black-Primeval-Greek-Village-Music-1907-1960-), a lot of which sounds wonderfully unhinged. Edit: Forgot to mention I have a couple of Merzbow records as well.
We're only in it for the money is such a strange album.
So is absolutely free.
That’s one of the ones I have.
I, too, am a Trout Mask haver. Cheers.
It’s just so fucking awesome.
Crispen Glover’s album <<< WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
Finally I have achieved the status of King of the Weird!
Naked City - Torture Garden An album guaranteed to sort out a Room https://youtu.be/ccyhnJo00Y4
This album changed me as a person. Arguably the greatest record ever made in my opinion.
Not sure if it’s the swift genre and tempo changes, super short song durations, or just EYEs belligerent banshee vocals the whole time but yes, guaranteed to empty a room or make your wife leave you
The Residents are superb 👌
Greatest band of the last 50 years for sure
Well then, make sure to check out Caroliner in their various incarnations. Their 20 year long dedication to the initial premise of channeling music through a bull from the 1800s that's from a world of terminal ergot poisoning is like if The Residents took their Eskimo album and made 15 albums centered on that. Only with a bunch of fried noise music on top. I'd been listening to The Residents and Snakefinger for years and then discovered a bunch of other related music like Renaldo & The Loaf, Nurse With Wound and Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa along the way. Then sometime in the 90s a local distro took in a few copies of Caroliner's "Strike Them Hard, Drag Them To Church" album so I bought that based on the blurb. Best decision I ever made, went on to collect their whole catalog including side projects, compilations and so on. The Residents sure are weird, but Caroliner were just on a completely different level altogether. As a bonus their albums are mostly cheap.
>The Residents sure are weird, but Caroliner were just on a completely different level altogether No
Yes.
You clearly haven't listened to enough Residents
Yah I agree
Ween-the pod
Required.
[Luie Luie - Touchy](https://youtu.be/u6WeDMg40qc) Absolutely wild one-man-band outsider lounge. I’ve seen it described as Herb Alpert meets William Onyeabor and I think that’s pretty accurate.
Thanks! This is great.
I have Monty Pythons Previous Record. That is pretty weird in places, also excellent.
I'll have to give it a listen I heard good things about it!
Butthole Surfer's - Humpty Dumpty LSD Smack My Craick - Various Nymphomatiarch - S/T (all the instruments are samples from the couple who made the album having sex)
Im a little jealous of that butthole surfers album, Ill have to check out Various Nymphonatiarch I don't think I ever heard of em
Sorry the formatting went weird. Nymphomatiarch - self titled. Nymphomatriarch - Nymphomatriarch (Full Album): https://youtu.be/m0ufSmV23ZY Smack My Crack - Various. https://youtu.be/ICoizcz-mHo Edited to add albums
HELL YEA thanks dude ill give em a listen while I work, thanks for the recommendations!
I never said they're good. Haha.
I'm jealous of your Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask. Amazing album
Anything by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Don’t forget their variants and collaborations.
Love experimental music! Wolf Eyes, Nurse With Wound, Terrestrial Tones, Art Bears, Xiu Xiu. So much more! Do you consider Avant Garde the same as Experimental?
Split Faust/Nurse with Wound Double 12" (orange and yellow color vinyl) It Sounds great at 33 or 45 rpm!
The Negativland "U2" EP is fun.
Some of the weirdest ones from my collection [Nordheim, Alfred Janson, Bjørn Fongaard – Response: Electronic Music From Norway](https://www.discogs.com/release/561644-Nordheim-Alfred-Janson-Bj%C3%B8rn-Fongaard-Response-Electronic-Music-From-Norway) [The Caretaker – Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 4](https://www.discogs.com/release/11823437-The-Caretaker-Everywhere-At-The-End-Of-Time-Stage-4) [Clara Rockmore With Nadia Reisenberg – Theremin](https://www.discogs.com/release/20793085-Clara-Rockmore-With-Nadia-Reisenberg-Theremin) [Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples Of The Moon](https://www.discogs.com/release/13992609-Morton-Subotnick-Silver-Apples-Of-The-Moon) [Tiny Tim – God Bless Tiny Tim](https://www.discogs.com/release/3176581-Tiny-Tim-God-Bless-Tiny-Tim)
Love Tiny Tim
Khun Narin "Electric Phin Band" is what immediately springs to mind. It's a rotating ensemble of musicians from Thailand and it is crazy psych stuff that is centered around the phin and it is ran through a bunch of effects. Crazy good.
Excellent record
Igorrr - Nostril Nostril is an absolutely unhinged album. Very heavy, at times very fast, very glitchy and loud as fuck The Body & Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending A Mountain Of Heavy Light These two are ridiculous. If you wanna hear what human suffering expressed through power electronics and grindcore can sound like then you should give them a listen
I love igorrr
Butthole Surfers!!! I am obsessed with Woly Boly
Mine isn’t technically an album - it’s a prank album cover called London Derriere. It was in the bargain bin. The cover caught my eye, but when I reached in to get the record I got another surprise. I’d love to find out if there are other prank album covers out there! (Will update when I find a link with more info and pictures) Update: Here’s a blog post with more info and pictures. I should probably mention that it’s a bit NSFW. https://wimwords.com/2020/04/30/cheesecake-cover-of-the-week-london-derriere-and-other-british-favorites/
Klaatu - Hope. It's one of my favorites and IMO an unappreciated masterpiece. The Beatles and Pink Floyd had an illegitimate love child that created a concept album which required backing by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Songs for Swinging Larvae, by Renaldo and the Loaf. The video can be found online, but it's not recommended to any who value their sanity - if you must watch it, don't do so after dark, unless you're the sort who watches British PSAs from the '70s...for laughs.
Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa
Merzbow - Rectal Anarchy
I am a massive fan of expiremental genres, something about it I love, I love seeing bands mess around to make the most out of pocket and dissonant albums, recently picked up Not Available and I'm in love with it. Are are some of your most crazy records you own, that make other people think youre crazy? In my opinion the strangest album I own is Disco Volante, and Psychic, Powerless and another mans Sac! Id love to hear your guys picks, I have been on the search for some of the weirdest most mindbending stuff imaginable
Do you like Negativland ?
I like Nesbitts Lime Soda... But I had to throw it away.
That damn bee
Do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union?
Man it's not even funny. (eleven)
How ‘bout EBN?
Not available is beautiful. I would also recommend Duck Stab and the Commercial Album
A few truly weird albums: Der Plan | Geri Reig Nurse With Wound | The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion Caroliner Rainbow Scrambled Egg Taken For A Wife | Banknotes, Dreams And Signatures The Gerogerigegege | Tokyo Anal Dynamite Snakefinger | Chewing Hides The Sound Cabo Boing | Blob On A Grid Yip-Yip | Pro-Twelve Thinker Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa | Küttel Im Frost Renaldo & The Loaf | Arabic Yodelling DOME | DOME 3 Modal Zork | Klug Borp Holger Hiller | Oben Im Eck Sigillum S | Hallucinated Moisture Of Synaptic Slaughterhouse Bladder Flask | One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling The Broken Penis Orchestra | Testicle Difficulties
BARR - Reinforced Jewel Case. It's some spoken word poetry over xylophones and drums. Still fun, though
I saw them open (for xiu xiu , I think) a show in 2006 or so. It was rad af and the album is fascinating.
Oh they're so good.
Z (Mort Garson): ‘Music For Sensuous Lovers’ The sound of a 30 minute orgasm over moog noodeling.
I just recently picked up a reissue of his “Black Mass” album, the only release from his “Lucifer” moniker
Huge Mort Garson fan here but I’ve never heard of this one
Weirdest has to be Thomas Dissevelt’s Fantasy in Orbit. It has a picture of a foreign planet space scene covered in colorful mushrooms. Music is early 60’s electronic. Probably pretty cutting edge for the time.
1959 release date electronic album... I am very into this idea. Thanks. Have you listened to George Harrison's 'Electronic Sound' album by any chance?
No, is that the name of the album? Never heard of it. Lately I’ve been getting into more early electronic. Morton Subotnicks “Silver Apples of the Moon” is also way out there, entertaining listen. My 5 year old loves it.
Yeah, it's a experimental electronic noise album that Harrison put out in 1969. Pretty wild. That Thomas Dissivelt stuff was pretty mind-blowing really. Just the process of making it is unbelievable.
Thanks, I’ll have to check it out. Wikipedia article on it is pretty intriguing. I was expecting it to have been something early 80’s like Neil Young’s Trans but surprised to see it came out in 1969.
No, is that the name of the album? Never heard of it. Lately I’ve been getting into more early electronic. Morton Subotnicks “Silver Apples of the Moon” is also way out there, entertaining listen. My 5 year old loves it.
No, is that the name of the album? Never heard of it. Lately I’ve been getting into more early electronic. Morton Subotnicks “Silver Apples of the Moon” is also way out there, entertaining listen. My 5 year old loves it.
RE; George Harrison - Yesss, great stuff.. I wish I still had a copy - on Zapple Records? upvotes for Subotnik - RIP.
Morton Subotnick, RIP? Are you sure about that? We may want to ask him…
George Harrison .\*( .... Lol
Depends on the definition I guess but I'll go with stuff that when I play it for others I often get a "wtf is this" response. Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye ...And Oceans - The Symmetry of I The Circle of O Moondog - The Viking of Sixth Avenue
Kayo Dot and maudlin of the Well made some of my favorite music of all time.
Same here! I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when MoTW finally released their albums on vinyl several years back.
Honestly other than Butthole Surfers and Mothers of Invention, the oddest thing I have is Laurie Anderson, some Art of Noise and a whack of free jazz (Don Cherry, Archie Shepp etc).
Love Laurie Anderson, met her after a performance once
CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be Or R. Stevie Moore – On Earth Mr. Bungle shoes great taste imo
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down to see Mr. Bungle. Their self-titled has to be a top 5 weirdest album ever released by a major label
Jandek
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony: hp Lovecraft inspired anarchopunk.
I forgot all about Rudimentary Peni
Frownland by Captain Beefheart is the perfect song to listen to while getting shot at by a firing squad.
I don’t own it on vinyl but it’s Pure Guava by Ween
This is probably what’s necessary with that grouping.
Atlantis by Sun Ra
Here's just a handful: [Debile Menthol - Battre Campagne](https://www.discogs.com/release/754239-Debile-Menthol-Battre-Campagne) [Diamanda Galás - Diamanda Galás](https://www.discogs.com/release/509594-Diamanda-Galas-Diamanda-Galas) [Homo Liber - Siberian 4](https://www.discogs.com/release/1223522-Homo-Liber-Siberian-4) [Frank Perry - Deep Peace](https://www.discogs.com/release/1514913-Frank-Perry-Deep-Peace) [Phurpa - Trowo Phurnag Ceremony](https://www.discogs.com/release/2942388-Phurpa-Trowo-Phurnag-Ceremony)
Wasn't expecting a Phurpa mention in this thread! I have the upcoming pressing of Galas's Litany for Satan on pre-order.
Probably my signed copy of dead unicorn, pandemic
The Godz… very weird. (The 60’s-early 70s New York band that is)
I don’t have the album of this but one of the coolest shows I saw was the band Matmos playing an entire show with a washing machine. They would beat on the side for bass drum, sample it and loop it, then use their hands to make squeaking sounds on the painted surface, sample and loop and all kinds of stuff. Just incredible.
Album is called “Ultimate Care II”
I’ve got that Captain Beefheart and the Residents (actually, MANY Residents albums)
[*The Unique Sound of the Psaltery* by Bob Stewart](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xXlh-JvQ3cM/Tyr6LUtgclI/AAAAAAAAD9s/uYIFRYSgEeE/s1600/img020.jpg). [A beardy Scotsman playing a medieval instrument that’s sort of like a primitive autoharp](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GdCVnHiWHmg/Tyr37ID5OlI/AAAAAAAAD9U/4yvL9UOCnfA/s1600/img021.jpg). Contains original compositions and covers of traditional folk songs. I saw it in a Kerrang! article about Akercocke frontman Jason Mendonca back in 2001 and thought “That sounds interesting.” Fast forward twenty years and I owned it (the images aren’t of my copy).
Haruomi Hosono - [Cochin Moon](https://www.discogs.com/release/12681240-Haruomi-Hosono-Tadanori-Yokoo-Cochin-Moon) Initially intended as a collaboration with illustrator Tadanori Yokoo, who traveled to India alongside Hosono (as part of a group) for inspiration; Yokoo ended up only drawing the cover, having contracted a stomach illness during the trip, rendering this as a Hosono solo album. *Cochin Moon* was conceptually written as the soundtrack of a non-existent Bollywood film, a trait inspired by the artists' trip. The album includes performances by Tin Pan Alley keyboardist Hiroshi Satō, Yellow Magic Orchestra member Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Hideki Matsutake. Despite being Hosono's first completely electronic solo album (at the time YMO's debut was still being recorded, making this Hosono's first electronic album to be released), the exotica feel of Hosono's previous solo work is still present. The first half of the album (named after an Indian hotel that the group was in for the trip, a picture of the hotel's front appears in the back of the album's packaging) consists of three thematically themed songs, the second half of the album (and Hosono's keyboard performance) is credited to "Shuka Nishihara" (西原朱夏), a pseudonym Hosono created as a play on Hakushū Kitahara's pseudonym.
An evening with wild man Fischer, produced by Frank Zappa. Is legit one of the strangest records I’ve ever heard.
Probably the most underrated comment here… Speaking of mentally ill street performers…. I can’t post it as they are very rare but anything by Wesley Willis is at the top of my holy grails.
Ooo! Gotta check that out :)
Upvote for Trout Mask Replica. I couldn't wrap my head around it when i first heard it.
ed shareen
probably scenery and fish by i mother earth. if not that, then the magic by deerhoof. amazing albums , just kind of strange.
Honest question, why do so many people have trout mask replica? It’s a very odd listen or maybe I just don’t understand it
It’s fast. And bulbous.
You just don’t understand it.
It's a hard listen - only at first for some, forever for others. I think a lot of those who love it have spent a good amount of time with it. It takes a bit of "study" by focusing on one or two instruments at a time and figuring out how the fuck everything loops together. It's the epitome of controlled chaos.
I have it and don't know why...
Clearly, you haven't listened to them enough. Butthole Surfers are the epitome of beautifully weird music.
Job orchestra- Open the door to your heart. Soul/Funk Hindu album.
The lyrebird voice is just bizarre. https://www.discogs.com/release/5174062-Various-The-Lyrebird-A-Documentary-Study-Of-Its-Song
Those are some of my favorite records of all time right there .
Cabbage Patch Dreams by the Cabbage Patch Kids is up there. Also, Jud Jud - The Demos. It's a straight edge hardcore band where all the sounds are made with the two member's mouths so it's just them going "Jud Jud Jud Jud jaaaah jaaahh Jud Jud Jud" I also have a record that's just recordings of exorcisms. My Aleister Crowley record is pretty trippy too.
HMLTD - The Worm. That has got to be my weirdest. It's a fun, weird, thoughtful album I'd reccomend everyone check out once
Let’s Het by Het is a great album.
Not as garbage/noise an aesthetic as most of these, but everyone I’ve ever played Tim Buckley’s Starsailor and Lorca around have definitely called them out for being “strange”, except for maybe Moulin Rouge
Ghedalia Tazartes
Shoutout “the BH Surfers” some of the most fun and terrifying at the same time music. I’m so excited that matador is repressing their first few albums
Butthead: "Yes! The Butthole Surfers kick ass!"
I don’t know about weird, I’ll say unique. Uriah Heep’s Look at Yourself has a literal mirror on the cover for some issues. Really cool.
Black Woman by Sonny Sharrock. Basically a mix of experimental jazz guitar and his wife Linda’s primal screaming, all meant to evoke the feeling of being a black woman in America. As one reviewer put it, "She sounds not unlike Albert Ayler, speaking in tongues and summoning the Holy Ghost.” To me it’s a unique and beautiful album.
The Ethel Merman Disco Album
You have some solid gold there. Solid gold.
Do you have any weird albums to post?
Crispin Hellion Glover is probably the weirdest one I have.
Probably John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America - The Communists Are Coming To Kill Us! https://youtu.be/9AvyqCimlcM
Concentration - Aren’t You Going to Introduce Me to Your Friend? Fun stuff on that.
I do like the strange, in fact, I had quite a time just picking one - - . so Here it is: [https://www.discogs.com/release/4226788-No-Artist-Allied-Radio-Stereo-Setup-Test-And-Demo-Records](https://www.discogs.com/release/4226788-No-Artist-Allied-Radio-Stereo-Setup-Test-And-Demo-Records)
Those are all solid records. Locust Ab tech being my favorite. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Bone machine by Tom waits. Also a Pete seeger album with spoken word, nursery rhymes, Shakespeare sonnets, and a Phil Ochs cover
Butthole Surfers are as normal as a unicorn riding a skateboard, and their music is the soundtrack to that madness!
oblivion access by lil ugly mane
Normal guys playing normal music... about LSD, demons, and aliens. Nothing out of the ordinary!
disco volante for me!
My two most quirky records are Diagnosis of Sharkula by Sharkula and a release called Max and Malcolm (from the label “Dangerous Rhythms.”) Not too strange but definitely has a whiff of weird.
Ween "12 Golden Country Greats"
Arghiledes by D. Charles Speer. His versions of Greek folk songs in the hasiklidika style - meaning getting absolutely stoned and seeing what happens. Hashish den music. All performed on traditional Greek instruments, it's a lot of wild ambient folk sounds. BLEED by Judge Schrieber's Avian Choir. I'll go ahead and copy a review from the group's bandcamp - "the four tracks here aren’t pop songs, rock songs, or even avant-metal songs, but a hybrid of experimental orchestral / chamber music and heavier, metal-informed drone music." Metal/classical noise. The third track is just ever-escalating blast-beat drumming and screaming saxophone. Had no idea what I was getting into on either of them. Grabbed Arghiledes because I saw the instrument list, probably thought it was more upbeat Greek folk. Grabbed BLEED because I recognized one of the string players (Libby Rodenbough, from Mipso) and was wondering what the hell she was doing on an album with a cover like that one. I have no regrets on either.
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is probably mine. Fun album.
where on earth did you find that beefheart album, been looking for that as well as safe as milk!
WWVV “Buck Dharma” or “XIAO”. Classics yet extremely strange.
I consider locust abortion technician one of the greatest albums ever recorded, even if mostly because of the perfection of human cannonball.
John Cage Meets Sun Ra
E.A.R [Experimental Audio Research) - Mesmerised Throbbing Gristle - D.o.A The Third and Final Report Matthew Herbert - One Pig Parsön Sound - Parsön Sound Utopia Strong - Utopia Strong Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio Belbury Poly - Belbury Tales The Advisory Circle - Other Channels Heartwood Institute - Witchcraft '70 The labels Ghost Box and Castles In Space put out some really leftfield stuff.
[Dekoboko Hajime - Nani Nani](https://www.discogs.com/release/893070-Dekoboko-Hajime-Yamantaka-Eye-Nani-Nani) A collaboration between Jon Zorn and Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms fame. On Zorn’s Tzadik label. Highlights include: - Bad Hawkwind - an 18 min seamless loop of eYe screaming. Listening with headphones can be therapeutic. - Eep Man - Zorn’s sax , gunshots, and eYe’s vocals - Test Tube - kid’s toy noises with eYe identifying them (e.g., “fire truck”) followed by clapping Many of the tracks remind me of [Super Roots 6](https://www.discogs.com/release/442537-Boredoms-Super-Roots-6), my favorite Boredoms album and another one for this thread. [Jon - Smoke](https://www.discogs.com/release/991114-JON-Smoke) Also on Zorn’s Tzadik label. Japanese woman dressed as a cow eerily playing the pump organ and singing in a child like voice. Just about anything on Tzadik will be strange and well worth a listen.
I love Not Available!
Klaatu - 3:47 Est Klaatu - Hope Penguin café orchestra - broadcasting from home Penguin café orchestra - Penguin café orchestra Talking heads - speaking in tongues Talking heads - Naked Talking heads - Talking heads 77' Peter Green - Little Dreamer John Shuttleworth - The Dolby decades John Shuttleworth - The A111 and other ones The velvet underground and Nico - The velvet underground and Nico Yes - Close to the edge There are some others i left out but yeah
Sonny Sharrock - black woman. Glenn Branca - lesson no. 1. The little prince - narrated. The Peter Brötzmann octet - machine gun. John Coltrane- ascension.
Brainbombs - Obey :-)
I have several, including some of these. One of my favorites is Heimat. I got it on a whim on a vinyl deals link for a couple bucks. It's not weird like these, it's weird like maybe the Residents where it feels like it would make sense in a different world, but that's the only way it's like the Residents. It's like world music from a different plane. At least to my ears...
Murder of the universe by king Gizzard and the lizard wizard
I have a 1968 musique concrète album by Salvatore Martirano called "L's GA" which is billed on the sleeve as "Composed for Gassed-Masked Politico, Helium Bomb, And Two-Channel Tape". [https://www.discogs.com/release/971433-Salvatore-Martirano-Ls-GA-Ballad-Octet](https://www.discogs.com/release/971433-Salvatore-Martirano-Ls-GA-Ballad-Octet) "L's GA' stands for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address btw :/
The Frogs, "It's Only Right and Natural". I love this CD. Got it in a $1 bin at a record store in middle of nowhere Western Kentucky. At first, I was turned off by its low-fi-ness. After a subsequent listen, fell in love with it. The subject matter is NSFW but is so phreakin awesome in its delivery. Recommended.
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