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Hello everyone, I am a big fan of weird music and I thought it would be fun if there was a thread here for that. Please everyone feel free to share some of their favorite stuff. Flying Lotus Flying Lotus (or Flyo) is a really out there guy. He keeps it weird with his wobble hop beats that I am sure many of you have heard on adult swim bumps before. Its like if someone took a bunch of acid and decided to make hiphop but instead went into space for a while and came back to give us alien beats. It is so easy to get lost in his stuttery shamble tunes especially when stoned but just when you think your lost in a haze, wham a Thundercat or Kendrick Lamar verse out of nowhere! Make sure you check out his side project where he dips into rapping "Captain Murphy" for some more great songs. Here are some of my favorite songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ScYz9sNaQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXD0vv-ds8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4amEWUw6t4
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 Death Grips This is music that your grandmother imagines all rap sounds like. Its like they grabbed a homeless man off the streets to ramble on a microphone while a schizophrenic bangs on a sampler all while Zach motherfucking "the dude from Hella" Hill just going like Animal from the Muppet Show on those drums. Maybe one of the most important rap groups today even though mainstream rap doesn't care about them. But it doesn't matter because I stay noided. Here are some real good songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCgxi-h1PoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl3XWUhUOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MHhLDCJ57E
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Not really into rap, OP. Any suggestions for weird, out there rock n' roll?
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Oct 26, 2015 12:05
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I also stay nerded. GBS FTW
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Oct 26, 2015 14:45
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jagstag posted:
this is absolutely insane, op. how do they even think of this stuff
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BigFactory posted:Not really into rap, OP. Any suggestions for weird, out there rock n' roll? I will do a little write up of them later but definitely check out Swans and also make sure to listen to some Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. little munchkin posted:this is absolutely insane, op. how do they even think of this stuff I don't even know!
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 Vaporwave Lets do something a little different. This time lets talk about a whole genre instead of individual groups. I got into this thanks to Future Funk, but Vaporwave is a whole movement that stretches far beyond just music to touch on art and fashion. Originally concepted by Ariel Pink with his Haunted Graffiti releases, Vaporwave takes corporate logos and sounds of muzak and culture jams it right back into those suit's assholes. That song you heard playing while placed on hold with comcast has now been repurposed to be the defiant sound of today's youth as we take back culture from the wasteland of reality tv and corrupt politicians. Look out for some of the leading artists in the movement like Macintosh Plus and Yung Lean. Here are some essentials to get you started in this odd genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Fk7GniXq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stgrSjynPKs
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jagstag posted:I will do a little write up of them later but definitely check out Swans and also make sure to listen to some Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Cool, i'll check them out!
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Coil "ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPXp2MN8fMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZK7MjvVVs0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaheLcRqxn8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1xv3sw1e8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztdatfUEW94
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Anything by Sleep is pretty good if you ever decide to go all Buffalo Bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIw7oeZKpZc
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Oct 26, 2015 22:25
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Man this music is Plain Out There.
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Rat Flavoured Rats posted:Coil Thank you. I will have to listen to this later because I can not turn my speakers up past 10% because the family is sleeping so I can hear what they are saying.  [b]Odd Future[b]  Odd Future (or Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, Golf Wang, and OFWGKTA as they have sometimes gone by) is made up of Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis, and Mike G, singer, songwriter and rapper Frank Ocean, producers Left Brain, Syd Tha Kyd, Matt Martians, Hal Williams and other non-musical members, notably Jasper Dolphin, Taco Bennett, L-Boy and Lucas Vercetti and led by their creative head Tyler, The Creator. These guys are just some insane messed up geniuses and they even have their own show on Adult Swim. They rap about some seriously messed up stuff like rape over some of the most evil beats I have ever heard. This is what I put on for people when I meet them to see just how real they are. Here are some songs but just know that these are all very  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9hahNPqO8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79_axJZ2plk
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If you like the bombastic hi-fi production of Ween's later albums or The Flaming Lips' late 90's\early 00s work, you should check out Nuclear Bubble Wrap's album Psycho Delicacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea4sZt2HRWw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsw6z92m0QQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9xyha4l6y8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXZMQffG2E
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Check out Omar Souleyman's remix of Björk's Crystalline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEjKrP6tOs He brings the outrageously cheesy Syrian rural wedding music (otherwise known to the world as Dabke) right into your home wrapped around a tiny sliver of Bjork's vocals in what might be the most thinly veiled excuse for a remix just to pander to my guilty pleasures. I love it. Then, if you have the heart, check out his stand-alone work. Wenu Wenu (full album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkDWslo13UM
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quote:this is absolutely insane, op. how do they even think of this stuff i went to one of their concerts. it was a mix between a rave and a death metal mosh pit, all inside of a factory.
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Hasil Adkins He accidentally invented psychobilly. Was an influence on The Cramps. Here's a song about cutting off a woman's head and sticking it on his wall so she "can't eat no more hot dogs:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nz9jR_AuLM (It's a good fucken song listen to it now.) Serge Gainsbourg  He's quite famous in France for his long and successful music career. Most of his albums are fairly traditional and, though good, are still pretty standard examples of rock, jazz, and pop. Except for his 1968 album "Initials B.B." which featured Brigitte Bardot. It's still genuinely good. The songs are "cool" and "groovy." But they also have an odd layer of lighthearted goofiness all over the top, usually in the form of interjecting random English words and phrases into the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTPoDcRiZ40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKEk2FblRec The Bran Flakes  Plunderphonics masquerading as children's music, but not in a creepy way (mostly). A lot of their stuff is available free on Soundcloud. A couple of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdo9LSqyJBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohCvGAU7KOY The 365 Days Project  http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/index.shtml It's an audio blog of outsider music, found audio, industry propaganda music, and other odd stuff. They posted an .mp3 a day for a year, once in 2003 and again in 2007. It's a rabbit hole you can get lost in for days. (And yeah I know the rule about "music blogs" but it's not a pirate site - there's no commercial stuff on here that the RIAA is going to get pissy over.) A few of my favorites: Muhammad Ali - Muhammad Ali's Historical Themesong Leslie Harris and the House of Fire - Jogging for Jesus The Frugal Gormets - Satan's Blood
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whoah deathgrips, some pretty out there stuff op ill just leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJiyOPmsJs
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Woah! This is some crazy stuff. It's just too far out there for me but you guys enjoy yourselves.
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Aw jeez fellas, quit making fun of the OP for not actually posting weird music in his own weird music thread and post some weird music. Or keep making fun of him, idgaf... just post weird music anyway Wesly Willis  Wesly was a schizophrenic sometimes-street-person who played the pre-installed demo tunes on old Casio keyboards and sang his own unique lyrics over the top. He had a wide range of topics including what bands he recently saw, what superheros he could beat up, and what kinds of animal dicks you should suck. The dark callus on his forehead is from - very gently - headbutting people repeatedly with light little taps while staring straight into their eyes like a loving psycho. He made over 20 albums in his life, both as a solo artist on his Casio and with his punk band The Wesly Willis Fiasco. I saw him play a couple years before he died. I bought him a beer after the show and he read me some of his bestiality poetry. He then - very gently - headbutted me repeatedly while staring straight into my eyes like a loving psycho. It was an awesome show. Rock over London! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDVKtwjs5yY Bingo Gazingo  Sometimes billed as a "97 year old rapper" even though he died at 85 and his "rap" is more like spoken word. Hits include "I Love You So loving Much I Can't poo poo" and "Up Your Jurassic Park:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10W2hr1n9VU dot communist fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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Probably a good place to share DC's own Mingering Mike.quote:Between 1968 and 1977 Mingering Mike recorded over fifty albums, managed thirty-five of his own record labels, and produced, directed and starred in nine of his own motion pictures. In 1972 alone he released fifteen LPs and over twenty singles, and his traveling revue played for sold out crowds the world over. How is it that such a prolific musician has gone under the radar for more than forty years? The answer is that all took place in Mike's imagination, and in the vast collection of fake cardboard records and acapella home recordings that he made for himself as a teenager in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s. 
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me your dad posted:Probably a good place to share DC's own Mingering Mike. That is a cool loving story. I started reading the original discovery thread on Soul Strut and this guy on page three called it pretty well: PJ4533 posted:I hope for a dude hittin' a bucket singin gong-show style into a tape recorder.
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Deadeye Dick posted:Aw jeez fellas, quit making fun of the OP for not actually posting weird music in his own weird music thread and post some weird music. i think we all know the best wesley willis song and by extension video on youtube is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogid9D0rcEI rock over london, rock on chicago, wheaties, breakfast of champions
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiorncOFpcg Capitan Beefheart was a prodigy sculptor who turned his sights onto music. His music was made with out any knowledge of standard music theory, and takes on a unique "sculpted" form. He was known for being very imposing on his band members, mistakes would never be tolerated. Once he asked his drummer to play a strawberry during a set, when the desired result was not produced he picked up his drummer and threw him down a flight of stairs. Because the music does not utilize common conventions that we are used to hearing in western music it sounds like a cacophony of random tones, but after a few listens it begins to make sense. Of course it doesn't always click for everyone, so some people end up listening to a rambling fish man 6 times in a row, while thinking "The gently caress am I listening to". But if it does click, the feeling is defiantly worth the time spent listening. Some people think Beefheart was a genius, and some think he was a simpering mongoloid, but like cocaine: "You can't knock it 'til you try it."
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jagstag posted:
they aren't rap, nor are those good songs. you disappointed me OP
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Cool thread, let's get loving weird. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum  A band who created a fictitious backstory about a Dadaist art exhibit in 1916 to name themselves after. The story goes that said art exhibit was "anti-artifact, non-historical, and closed," and featured an open fire as its sole exhibit. Their music lies somewhere between classical, art rock, and industrial metal. They performed their very first concert for a single banana slug. Would you like to hear a song whose lyrics are direct quotes from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake? Of course you would! How about a song written from the perspective of the Unabomber? Who wouldn't, right? For fans of: Mike Patton, Swans, Igor Stravinsky, Meshuggah. Not for fans of: music that can be easily summed up or explained when it rotates onto your iPod mix.
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Melt-Banana A Japanese experimental band that sounds like grindcore, post-rock, and J-pop thrown into a blender and chucked out of a jet fighter going Mach 1. The band currently comprises a female vocalist that takes on the qualities of a rapping chihuahua, and a guitarist who uses tons of pedals and effects to create dense, explosive soundscapes of pure chaos; previously they had a bassist and a drummer, but because it was cheaper for only two band members to tour with all their gear, they now play as a duet and synthesize the rest. Became popular in the West due to writing the theme song for the Adult Swim show Perfect Hair Forever, and for touring as Tool's opening act in 2007. In the later stages of the band they've become slightly more accessible, though in their early days they were not afraid of writing tracks that clock in under a minute. Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold Candy Gun For fans of: cocaine, PCP, and other stimulants. Not for fans of: people who can't bang their heads due to a medical brace.
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Glad for this thread, I’m something of a weirdo when it comes to music too! Instead of music that rocks, you could say I’m into music that shocks! Quatuor pour la fin du temps A lot of people worry if their old music is too campy. But this old music was made in a camp! When you play a gig, you get tired of playing your hits. But these guys were tired of playing for Hitler! I’ve heard of the Heimlich maneuver, but the unheimlichkeit maneuver? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeSVu1zbF94 Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima In orchestras, the violins sit on stage left: here they come out of left field! I’ve heard of songs inspired by the B-52s, but songs inspired by the B-29? Maybe you’re worried that you’re going to bomb on stage, but worrying about the a-bomb on stage? I've heard of hibakusha, but the heebie jeebies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA
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The Canterbury-Prog scene deserves to be in this thread. In the late 60's & early 70's, there were lots of big acts (Pink Floyd/Led Zepplin) that were making 'weird' music, but on the fringe of this movement were bands making the truly strange music. Bands like the Soft Machine, Gong & Caravan were blending rock and roll, jazz & avant-garde music with British wit and coming up with some really cool stuff. There was even a supergroup of the genre called 'Hatfield & the North'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7y_pA-L2ww
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Nihilist Spasm Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUJ2rJhddxE I know no more about these guys than you would after a hearing this song once and skimming their Wikipedia page but they are certainly the oddest music I've heard in recent memory. vanov posted:Melt-Banana This loving owns. 
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vanov posted:Sleepytime Gorilla Museum  Is this thread serious now? I'm note quite sure. I'll throw down anyway:  The Frogs started as an eccentric rock band composed of two brothers, sort of a T. Rex meets Sparks and immediately went absolutely nowhere. The album is actually great, but definitely doesn't sound anything like their output after that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsY_CL1VYY0 At some point Steve Albini got hold of the outtakes from the album and started passing them around, all songs improvised on the spot and never meant for release due to the content: the entire collection of lo-fi folk songs were clearly just two brothers loving around as hard as possible trying to make the other laugh. They did that by pretending to be gay. On every song. Despite being two straight married men with kids, The Frogs were now the spokesmen for the completely made up Gay Supremacy Movement. They also pretended to be two incestuous brothers. They also pretended to be two elderly gay men dying of AIDS in a nursing home recording their final, ultimate statement.  Full album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7vy6BLyRk Straight people were offended. Gay people were offended. There's no aspect of the album (or their career. See the album Racially Yours) that isn't deeply, truly obscene, even though the tone of the album is pure celebration. It's also loving funny, completely gorgeous, just about every song is an earworm and the production is outstanding. The band wrote wonderful songs and then sabotaged themselves by writing the most insane, G.G. Allin meets Tesco Vee of The Meatmen lyrics imaginable. The Frogs are the favorite band of all of your Alt heroes of the '90s. Kurt Cobain gets arrested spray painting "God is Gay?" That's a Frogs song. "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins? That's a re-written Frogs song. Eddie Vedder sings with The Frogs. Kelley Deal plays bass for The Frogs. That one part of that one Beck song? That was a good Drum Break? That's a Frogs sample. Evan Dando crashes Frogs shows, grabs the microphone and starts singing Frogs songs. That's because Evan Dando is terrible. Of course Wesley Willis wrote a song about them. JESUS CHRIST I FEEL SO OLD. Other great songs: Sailors Board Me Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtjuQFhU9s Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS5P5zM8E-U Jewels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKJUKHhW-9w Grandma Sitting in the Corner with a Penis in Her Hand Going "No, No, No, No, No": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCM-oVdfe9I
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caligulamprey posted:They've reformed as Free Salamander Exhibit and are in the recording studio right now! Oh my god I'm gonna explode with joy, first you tell me SGM is back and then you give a recommendation that I haven't heard but sounds like it's going to be a complete loving blast
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Tommychu posted:Nihilist Spasm Band Glad you dig it! Will be checking your link in return later tonight
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can't tell how serious this thread is but oh well. some stuff i like. weird but not that hard to listen to i think henry flynt- free jazz hillbilly music (this is a shorter song, some of his stuff is in the 30 min + category) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teM_C0K25-Q la monte young- tamburas of pandit pran nath- some of the most enveloping drone i've ever heard. pretty cosmic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5qDh4weFc stuart dempster- trombone prof takes students into empty 2 million gallon water tank with 45 seconds of natural reverb. heavy stuff, sometimes sounds like stars of the lid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXwshYTOM4Y aksak maboul- belgian avant rock from the late 70s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4rNbvmaysY pelt- similar to henry flynt, combines art/experimental music with instrumentation of traditional american music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouzz7g9sAFI global tetrahedron fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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vanov posted:first you tell me SGM is back Here's a picture I took when Free Salamander Exhibit played in town:  Nils Frykdhal spent the entire show threatening the audience with promises to "unleash the funk."
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caligulamprey posted:Next year's gonna be super rad, actually: the new Free Salamander Exhibit album, the entire SGM catalog is getting issued on vinyl for the first time and if those sell well, the record company will reissue all the old Idiot Flesh records, too! I don't even own a turntable and I might buy them just to help on the Idiot Flesh front, I cannot get enough of these guys. I realized I hosed up and never listened to To Pimp a Butterfly so I'm correcting that and then giving the Frogs record a spin. In the meantime ... clipping.  I'm almost positive these guys have received coverage on these forums in some capacity since they're a pretty good crossover for people who enjoy rap, but want something more challenging than what popular rap has to offer. Death Grips would fit in well on a tour ticket with these guys, since they share similar attitudes but different approaches. Basically, clipping. goes minimal and puts its harsh production and borderline aural noise assault front and center, replacing "angry black guy screaming about drugs and paranoia" with "smooth black guy rapping about all of the other stuff rap raps about, but with sharply-written lyrics and self-awareness bordering on parody." So basically you get club bangers you can't dance to, hustle tracks with shrill screeching and bell chimes, and songs about a hot woman who likes to kill and eat people who think she's DTF. Body & Blood. I'm linking the uncensored version for full effect. The song where people get eaten. Get Up. A song with a beat constructed entirely from an alarm clock looped and pitch-shifted. Oh, and the main MC also does stage theatre in his spare time.
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Surprisingly there's no Negativland in this thread yet so here's some Negativland. They were an interesting thing and I'm not going to write a dissertation here but I encourage you to read up if you're not familiar. I saw them live once in the mid 90's for their 'Christianity is Stupid' tour. I took my friend who (unbeknownst to me at the time) was a right-wing Catholic. He didn't think it was too great and walked out mid-show. I'm sure the band would have died laughing knowing at some point their videos would include mandatory pre-roll advertising. My Favorite Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuOLOQGDmTw Dispepsi - Full Album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpRh1PnQHM0 the infamous U2 / Kasey Kasem track that got them sued https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0 Guns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGF5Pte3TKs
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vanov posted:clipping. exactly how smooth is the black guy in this band?
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like are we talking soul brother smooth or like hustler on the block smooth
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