Strangest music?

sigh · 11-23-2002, 04:57 PM

What's the strangest band/music you have ever heard?

something you listen to and you're just like *wtf?*

my votes goes to Merzbow. Although for some strange reason i actually like listening to merzbow. I havnt figured out why yet.

Melt Banana would be a close second.

dak · 11-23-2002, 05:07 PM

I've heard a lot of weird music...

The weirdest have heard that actually had skillful musicians was
prolly Nuclear Rabbit.

I want Merzbows hair....

Szlia · 11-23-2002, 05:54 PM

Pan Sonic, ex- Panasonic (Mr. Trade Mark make them drop a A) is pretty strange too.

I am not a specialist of their music but I have a MD with some tracks from an album they made and it uses live recordings (crowd, rain, cars) that they alter and then mix with sythetic sounds. I guess you can call it ambient, but it's not some New Age Woo Woo Shit.

There is also a track with a rythm made with the sounds it makes when you touch the cables of your stereo (a tac followed by a buzz).

I'll make some research later (or now if Lanys is still not back up :P ) to post more info about them. Speaking about them suddenly made me want to know more and to go dig that MD...

Tarissa DR · 11-23-2002, 10:29 PM

If you want to check out some really odd avante garde, jazz, experimental then you could always pick up trout mask replica by Captain Beefheart

Voron · 11-23-2002, 11:28 PM

Mr Bungle... when I first heard them, I was seriously contemplating the possibility of taking drugs just prior and not remembering it. Great music after you get past the insanity and strangeness of it.

somecleric · 11-24-2002, 01:38 AM

Capitol K is up there. Broken, distorted, resampled guitar layers over drum loops. And weird vocals.

ARE Weapons aren't particularly original, but they're weird. Combining the drum machine/synth/spoken word punk stylings of Suicide with samples of car crashes and gunshots and screams, they're very surreal.

Atom & His Package. He's this slightly overweight jewish kid with a sequencer (his 'Package') and ridiculously bad synthpop who sings songs about the offensiveness of team named after stereotypes (If U Own The Washington Redskin's Ur A Cock), how dumb it is that the USA still hasn't switched to the metric system (Metric), stupid punk kids and their non-conformity (Anarchy Means I Litter, with it's great vocal 'I got a patch, I got a pin, I take political beliefs from the same song as my friends') and my favorite, a song that calculates the probability that one of the members of Pantera is gay (Hats Off To Halford).

Dr Octagon is also very weird. One of schizophrenic rapper Kool Keith's alter-egos, he's a gynecologyst from the year 3000. If you have insurance or medical problems, he's there for you for any kind of intestine surgery, rectal rebuilding, relocated saliva glands, chimpanzee acne, and of course, moosebumps.

Hefner are superficially pretty straight ahead, but they have songs about dancing and singing all night when Margaret Thatcher dies (with it's schoolgirl chorus of 'ding dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch'), not missing sex ('just the feeling of skin against skin'), racist jokes ruining relationships and misleading christian girls who aren't as pure as they should be. Definitely weird.

Stereolab sing socialist propoganda in french, but they're British. Explain that.

Prodigious · 11-24-2002, 02:54 AM

maybe not the strangest ever, but Björk and the new Radiohead are just so weird you wonder why they're mainstream. i could kill radiohead for turning experimental (read: shit in my book), i really liked the bends and ok computer.

Evisceros Headcutter · 11-24-2002, 12:47 PM

Painkiller (the band, not the song) would have to top my list of weird music. John Zorn rules

twistidd · 11-24-2002, 09:21 PM

the boredoms are pretty strange

Pest · 11-25-2002, 07:33 PM

For me, its a toss up between Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Saved by Robots. Sleepytime is awesome and put on a great live show, but the music is not ordinary by any means.

Saved by Robots is just plain bizarre to see live. The music is mostly normal, but 1 person playing with 3 robots on backup is ummm, different.

11-23-2002, 04:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
sigh Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 8 -1 Internets	Strangest music? What's the strangest band/music you have ever heard? something you listen to and you're just like wtf? my votes goes to Merzbow. Although for some strange reason i actually like listening to merzbow. I havnt figured out why yet. Melt Banana would be a close second. Last edited by sigh : 11-23-2002 at 05:01 PM.

11-23-2002, 05:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
dak My sig will turn you wicked gay. Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: France Posts: 3,969	I've heard a lot of weird music... The weirdest have heard that actually had skillful musicians was prolly Nuclear Rabbit. I want Merzbows hair.... __________________ Iran != Threat Last edited by dak : 11-23-2002 at 05:09 PM.

11-23-2002, 05:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
Szlia Conquest Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 4,392 +2 Internets	Pan Sonic, ex- Panasonic (Mr. Trade Mark make them drop a A) is pretty strange too. I am not a specialist of their music but I have a MD with some tracks from an album they made and it uses live recordings (crowd, rain, cars) that they alter and then mix with sythetic sounds. I guess you can call it ambient, but it's not some New Age Woo Woo Shit. There is also a track with a rythm made with the sounds it makes when you touch the cables of your stereo (a tac followed by a buzz). I'll make some research later (or now if Lanys is still not back up :P ) to post more info about them. Speaking about them suddenly made me want to know more and to go dig that MD... __________________ -retrosabotage-

11-23-2002, 10:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
Tarissa DR Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 72 -1 Internets	If you want to check out some really odd avante garde, jazz, experimental then you could always pick up trout mask replica by Captain Beefheart __________________ Tarissa Doveshadow 60 Rogue - Hoss

11-23-2002, 11:28 PM	#5 (permalink)
Voron Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: NYC Posts: 170 -1 Internets	Mr Bungle... when I first heard them, I was seriously contemplating the possibility of taking drugs just prior and not remembering it. Great music after you get past the insanity and strangeness of it. __________________ Voron the Wanderer Blood of the Spider profile

11-24-2002, 01:38 AM	#6 (permalink)
somecleric Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 121 -1 Internets	Capitol K is up there. Broken, distorted, resampled guitar layers over drum loops. And weird vocals. ARE Weapons aren't particularly original, but they're weird. Combining the drum machine/synth/spoken word punk stylings of Suicide with samples of car crashes and gunshots and screams, they're very surreal. Atom & His Package. He's this slightly overweight jewish kid with a sequencer (his 'Package') and ridiculously bad synthpop who sings songs about the offensiveness of team named after stereotypes (If U Own The Washington Redskin's Ur A Cock), how dumb it is that the USA still hasn't switched to the metric system (Metric), stupid punk kids and their non-conformity (Anarchy Means I Litter, with it's great vocal 'I got a patch, I got a pin, I take political beliefs from the same song as my friends') and my favorite, a song that calculates the probability that one of the members of Pantera is gay (Hats Off To Halford). Dr Octagon is also very weird. One of schizophrenic rapper Kool Keith's alter-egos, he's a gynecologyst from the year 3000. If you have insurance or medical problems, he's there for you for any kind of intestine surgery, rectal rebuilding, relocated saliva glands, chimpanzee acne, and of course, moosebumps. Hefner are superficially pretty straight ahead, but they have songs about dancing and singing all night when Margaret Thatcher dies (with it's schoolgirl chorus of 'ding dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch'), not missing sex ('just the feeling of skin against skin'), racist jokes ruining relationships and misleading christian girls who aren't as pure as they should be. Definitely weird. Stereolab sing socialist propoganda in french, but they're British. Explain that.

11-24-2002, 02:54 AM	#7 (permalink)
Prodigious Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 24 -1 Internets	maybe not the strangest ever, but Björk and the new Radiohead are just so weird you wonder why they're mainstream. i could kill radiohead for turning experimental (read: shit in my book), i really liked the bends and ok computer.

11-24-2002, 12:47 PM	#8 (permalink)
Evisceros Headcutter That one dude Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Mpls, MN Posts: 39 -1 Internets	Painkiller (the band, not the song) would have to top my list of weird music. John Zorn rules __________________ Evisceros Headcutter The Dark Exile Overlord of the 7th Hammer

11-24-2002, 09:21 PM	#9 (permalink)
twistidd Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Houston Posts: 43 +0 Internets	the boredoms are pretty strange

11-25-2002, 07:33 PM	#10 (permalink)
Pest Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Shawnee, KS Posts: 188 -1 Internets	For me, its a toss up between Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Saved by Robots. Sleepytime is awesome and put on a great live show, but the music is not ordinary by any means. Saved by Robots is just plain bizarre to see live. The music is mostly normal, but 1 person playing with 3 robots on backup is ummm, different.

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