The Strangest Albums That I Know
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2023
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The Residents
• The Residents - Duck S...
Captain Beefheart
• Captain Beefheart & Hi...
The Shaggs
• The Shaggs ~ Philosoph...
Cromagnon
• Orgasm - Cromagnon (19...
Diapsiquir
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HateBeak
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Venetian Snares
• Venetian Snares - Song...
The Gerogerigegege
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Nurse With Wound
• Nurse With Wound - A S...
Jandek
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Suicide
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Naked City
• Naked City - Grand Gui...
Archaia
• Archaia - S/T (1977)
Patty Waters
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I love that Zorn is still being appreciated. I hold him in such high regard, and I’m glad I’m not alone in this.
John Zorn is God.
Nice to see Nurse With Wound included. Everything Steve Stapleton is involved with is bizarre. His artwork is brilliant too.
Just running through my shelves and hard drive...Sockeye, Borbetomagus, Dead Raven Choir, Wolfmangler, Destroy 2, English Heretic, Happy Flowers, Hermann Nitsch, Metgumbnerbone, Moondog, Natural Snow Buildings, Radio Werewolf, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Smell & Quim, Sun City Girls, The Conet Project, Virgin Prunes. Should be enough to be going on with.
No idea why this has posted here when I was replying to myself. Doh.
You should do funny albums next that'd be interesting
That would be fun, haha!
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@@dtanaka869-d yes !
I second "Confield" by Autechre. It's their most experimental album by far and sounds completely otherworldly. Plus their unique approach to generating sounds on the album (generative synthesis, MAX software) resulted in some of the most unique sonic sound scapes in electronic music.
And in my opinion their best (without disregarding the rest of their catalogue because its amazing still). With Draft 7.30 they just created the soundtrack for a future without humanity where only super computers speak thru texturized beep boops. The funny thing is that all the songs have a pulse that you can follow even if it sounds so abstract and devoid of structure at first.
This Heat’s “This Heat” and “Deceit” contains some of the strangest sounds I’ve heard. This Heat is usually lumped into Post-Punk and Post-Rock but neither can accurately depict the oddity of these two albums.
Thought I replied to this.
You'll wanna check out the godly Psychic Paramount, Laddio Bolocko (pre Psychic P).
Swell Maps are a contender also.
If you dig any of that stuff, I just thought of another... Zs - Grain.
@@dis.infectant Dude thank you for recommending Zs! I've been on a huge Psychic Paramount/Laddio Bolocko kick lately, and I was looking for this band, but didn't know how the spell the name, lol.
@dpclerks09 Right on! Great stuff.
All are impossible to categorize and more tangentially related, but do follow a similar thread, although Zs definitely differ from record to record and as much as I wish I could hang with the others Grain is my go-to there.
I love "Deceit", it's strange, interesting and pretty catchy.
I really have to listen to their debut.
Noticed that Naked City is playing in the background. Bought that Album on your recommendation. Thanks for all the videos. You have opened up my ears to stuff I've would've never tried out
Really appreciate these list videos. Seems like every time I end up opening a series of new albums and listening to loads of new music I might not otherwise. Keep em comin!
I know a band called estradasphere. They could fit on a list like this but they are at the core a jazz band but fuse classica, death metal, black metal, surf rock, funk, disco and wherever else they can. Maybe possibly be the greatest technical band to ever exist
Yes Estradasphere came out of the mid to late 90's jam band scene
Estradasphere are essentially Secret Chiefs 3 (Bungle's Trey Spruance) related, as a few of the members eventually played in SC3, as well as Umlaut (post- Bungle project) more recently.
Key members do High Castle Teleorkestra now.
Some other recommendations:
Graham Lambkin - Salmon Run
Don Salsa - Koolaid moustache in Jonestown
Sun City Girls - Horse c*ck phepner
Jandek - Ready for the house
Costes - Pas encore mort
Farrah Abraham - My teenage dream ended
Susvoutre - Demo
Caroliner - I am armed with quarts of blood, or literally everything by this band. Seriously, if you think The Residents are the weirdest band in concept and sound, check out Caroliner. A mix of Bluegrass and Noise with very abrasive vocals, and the band claims that all lyrics come from a book with songs that a singing bulls head sang in the 1800s.
Amen to Caroliner.
Saw them once, by accident. Unforgettable experience.
I'd love a video on the angriest albums honestly. Or overall emotional where it brings out multiple emotions in you. Love the vids man
Solid list, not to elaborate on, here’s some more for people to consider:
Monks - Black Monk Time
United States of America - s/t
White Noise - An Electric Storm
DNA - DNA on DNA
The Fugs - First Album
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies
I think Faust, the krautrock band, can be a good example. I'm more familiar with their debut, which is quite an unsettling and chaotic listening to say the list. Knowing that they are considered an inspiration for industrial, it all makes more sense. And for more Kraut vibez, I think that the song Peking O by Can is another good example: that shit is so proto-Residents!
Then, a lot of contemporary avantgarde classical music could fit into this category (stuff like Cage, Penderecki, Xennakis...).
Finally, Area, the Italian prog band, has some oddballs in their catalogue, especially in their album Caution Radiation Area: for example listen to Lobotomia, a piece that was conceived to be a literal earrape that samples a lot Italian jingles and melts them, again, in a way that's quite Residents-esque.
OH, definitely also the Pop Group! If you want to know what free jazz meet punk meet dub meet noise rock meet Captain Beefheart sounds like, go no further, traveller.
Fantastic list! Not sure whether I should be embarrassed or proud for being so intimately familiar with over half of that list already. Still, a few great new names to explore! Also, on a side note, epic ferocious drumming on Gerogeri's "Instruments Disorder" was by Tatsuya Yoshida of ex-Ruins/Koenjihyakkei; maybe the main reason I love this album so much!
This is the most basic answer. The ending of A Day In the Life by The Beatles. I smoked some DMT back in the day and that part made me think I was gonna die.
Practically anything by Current 93, Nick Cave's old band The Birthday Party were pretty bizarre, Bjork's old band, the Sugarcubes...The Meads of Aspodel's album SonderKommando is an interesting ride. Sopor Aeturnus are rather odd...My fave weird records would probably be Rudimentary Peni's Cacophony & Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric; MASTERPIECES. Negativeland. ( Shout out to the Anton LaVey album "Weird Music" lol)
Also shout out to Death in June and Black Magick SS.
Naked City, Mr. Bungle, and Cardiacs are the big three of wacky manic genre-bending rock music from the 90s.
Great video. One I think would fit on this list is Sun City Girls- Horsecock Phepner. They really have a string of weird albums, but this one is my favorite
I would say 'Confield' by Autechre is the most alien sounding album I have ever heard. None of the sounds on it really remind me of anything human and oftentimes you can't even really pinpoint what the music makes you feel.
Just came to the comment section to suggest this! Great album!
I'd say they went really alien in elseq/NTS, songs like c16 deep tread, xflood, violvoic, mesh cinereaL, elyc6 0nset go really wild
I adored this video and the albums were definitely good picks!
An album I would add is definitely halber mensch by einsturzende neubaten (yeah long ass name because it’s german ) and this album is literally industrial, like in a sense that they took the term industrial literally, meaning that most of their instruments were literally construction tools instead of actual drums and I mean sure there were guitars and bass but most of it were construction tools as persecution or just doing noises with those, even a shopping cart was included at some point. Vocals are also considered weird because Blixa Bargeld (singer and leader or the band) does this really weird noises and just interesting vocals and for most people sounds just inaccessible to enjoy.
I pretty much consider this album as some of the most inaccessible albums to enjoy (and they even have weirder ones)
Pretty good list, here’s some I think are incredibly strange.
- Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (as well as Disco Volante)
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious
- Gorguts - Obscura
- Chaos Echœs - Mouvement
- Full of Hell - Garden Of Burning Apparitions
- Sigh - Heir To Despair
- Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
full of hell is such a great band
You mean, that’s the strangest albums everyone knows? My picks would be:
- Rogers Met an Iranian - Sloth
- Tritonchasm - Polar Epoch
- Hexenchauss - Besenbande
- Foreskin Decapitation - Volume Whore
- Gold Teeth - Doom III
- Deprived Existance - S/T
But again, the basis for your upcoming “The Strangest Album You Know” video.
I bought Duck Stab and Fingerprince and Third Reich and Roll without knowing a single thing about them based entirely on their covers and the experience was entirely positive and opened my mind up to literally anything musical.
I read an interview with guitarist of the Magic Band who played on Trout Mask Replica and he recounted Captain Beefheart coming up to him and saying "Sound like this" and crumpling a piece of paper in his ear. Personally Trout Mask Replica kind of irritates me even though I consider myself pretty broadminded. However I love all the Captains other stuff. Lick My Decals Off Baby is one of my all time favorites.
Nice list! Not familiar with all picks. I'm especially interested in checking out Cromagnon. As for my list, I will skip over the albums that came up in the past videos in these series (Diamanada Galás comes to mind) as well as the artists you mentioned here, including ones mentioned in-between the lines like Mr. Bungle and Frank Zappa, which would normally make the cut. These are my picks:
Ween - The Mollusk
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Nail
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
Devil Doll - Dies Irae
Ground-Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Version 1.28
Good stuff!
My suggestions:
Maska Genetik - Страда (ghostly industrial-power electronics)
Demilich - Nespithe (finnish death metal w/ weird vocals)
John Zorn - Naked City (you know...)
Laibach - Volk (Laibach meets national anthems!)
Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes (strange experimental-idm music)
...and everything from Nový Svět discography!
Excellent video as usual. You already mention my favorites but some other good picks could be:
AMMMUSIC by AMM
Mouth of Babes by Nocturnal Emissions
The Night Before the Death of the Sampling Virus by Otomo Yoshihide
Silence & Wisdom by Deux Filles
By the way, Archaia's album would be consider Zeuhl music which is a genre of its own and is amazing, I recommend you to listen the band Shub Niggurath, it's a blast
yes and Zeuhl was created by Magma
@@JohnMicius Yes and in 1969! Like Wyatt said there's a lot of creative music and experimentation coming out from the late 60s and early 70s like you wouldn't believe. Always something new to discover in that period of time.
Glad to see the Otomo Yoshihide rec. I'll have to check out the rest of what you've brought up.
Adult themes for voice by Mike Patton is probably the strangest album you will ever here. You should give it a listen.
I remember randomly coming across an album called Parasite by the band See You Next Tuesday while searching on ITunes after getting an iPod for my 15th birthday. It was my introduction to the grindcore style of music. At the time it was the most bizarre thing that I had ever heard with it’s ridiculous song titles and short song lengths that I eventually had to buy it despite my initial distaste.
Some interesting stuff there, as usual... *Grand Guignol* is a strange album for sure - you are correct that JZ was always looking to push this band to the limits of what it could do - but despite appearances, it contains very little improvisation (if any). Even the title track sounds fully written out to me (having spent three decades listening to Zorn's various projects) and the stuff which can't be transcribed will still have been precisely conducted by JZ. The rest of it contains no improvisation at all: a handful of JZ's arrangements of 20th Century orchestral repertoire, followed by the 33 tracks from *Torture Garden* which weren't included on *Naked City* (TG was released on Shimmy Disc in the US, then licensed to Earache in the UK and Toys Factory in Japan, but was not released on either of Zorn's own labels until much later - so he made sure that the tracks themselves were). All of the guys in the band were experienced improvisers, but that wasn't what this band was about.
Personally I reckon that *Absinthe* is Naked City's strangest recording, though - and the one least suited to the band... You may also wish to check out Mike Patton's *Adult Themes For Voice* if you're not already familiar with it - I've known people get quite angry about the fact that such a thing even got released..! Another one for which we can thank Mr Zorn 😂
First time i heard of Patty Waters was from a Diamanda Galas interview where she referenced her as an influence. Not sure if you have, but she is another amazing artist to look into. Alot of her work is not for everyone. She done blues covers and her own blues music (she's a classically trained pianist) but her more Avant Garde work is full of truly other level vocals and dark subject matter (definitely not music for entertainment). She's also collaborated with John Paul Jones of led zeplin (a more rock album) and John Zorn. Edit: Just watched your Industrial Iceberg video. Love the Strawberry Switchblade t shirt. 😉💜
On Trout Mask Replica, Beefheart recorded his vocals without listening to the backing tracks while he sang.
I unironically love A Sucked Orange, and most of Nurse With Wound's material, great picks with Captain Beefheart and The Gerogerigegege
Kengo Iuchi has some incredibly bizarre performances blending avant-folk / singer/songwriter, improv, noise, and wild vocal performances. cant think of specific examples but hes def worth checking out, so is Yikii, very unique and talented
Some sonic oddities I know of
Horrific Child - L'étrange Monsieur Whinster
Hanatarash - 4: Aids-A-Delic
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
Caroliner Rainbow Open Wound Chorale - Rise of the Common Woodpile
Appreciate the good content
Surprised nobody mentioned Yoko Ono yet, her album "Fly" was a major influence on power electronics pioneer Philip Best (Whitehouse).
Speaking of "power electronics" the japanese project GRIM is a totally weird listen, the first LP from '86 "Folk songs" is something to behold!
Great series of videos, so much stuff to listen to!
Great list!. I'd suggest checking out (if you haven't already):
Diamanda Galas- The Litanies of Satan
The Frogs- My Daughter the Broad
Mr Bungle- Disco Volante.
One of the strangest I know would probably be
"Diagnose: Lebensgefahr - Transformalin",
not necessarily because of the music but the circumstances it was recorded in. Though it's a wild mix of industrial, noise, powerviolence, drone and some deranged, raspy vocals.
is this that nattramn's project
@@paveantelic7876 Yes.
@@kontrakrist knew it sounded familiar
I'm gonna mention an album by Steve Rodden called "Forms of Paper". This album basically popularized a subgenre of ambient called "Lowercase" which is basically the loosest, most minimal form of ambient possible, to the point that it can be argued whether it should even be considered music at all.
It's basically just him handling paper in different ways into a microphone. Definitely fits the bill for a weird album.
Some great strange albums on this list. I would add:
Daniel Johnston - Hi How Are You (classic outsider music, adore this album)
Autechre - Exai (or any of their stuff really)
Grant Chapman - Indentations (wish more people talked about this one)
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended (this needs no introduction)
C'est la key - Superflat (just generally strange)
Maybe it's not as weird sounding as all of these other albums, but Warning - Warning (1982) is pretty strange because of how ahead of its time it is, foreshadowing many genres that weren't around at the time kind of like that Cromagnon album.
A lot of things I was already familiar with in this, but definitely a few I wasn't! And I love that! Thanks!
as soon as i saw this video in my notifications, "Сатанизм" by Коммунизм came to the mind. (you can type "kommunizm - satanizm full album" on youtube)
it was recorded in 1989 in USSR. album starts with two chaotic and noisy songs "human factor" and "human factor in action", first one being an intro and the second one being a 30+ minute experimental noise rock song. harsh noise, unsettling screams, various psychedelic effects and samples with a simple bass line with a drum beat playing in the background. followed by a 19 minute beatbox tune with acapella singing "miners' strike in kuzbass" and finishing with an eerie & hypnotic 15 minute gothic/psych rock song with a funereal organ, which sounds like satan himself plays it.
Love your videos as always, here I will compile a list of albums that I find very strange yet still enjoy a lot.
Faust - Faust
Neptunian Maximalism - Éons
Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark
Current 93 - Have a Special Plan for This World
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Ved Buens Ende.... - Written in Waters
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
instürzende Neubauten - ½ Mensch
Comus - First Utterance
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost
Ad Nauseam - Nihil quam vacuitas ordinatum est
PainKiller - Executi0n Ground
Ween - The Mollusk
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Gorguts - Obscura
Khaooohs & Kon-Fus-Ion - Pan.Thy.Monium
Can - Tago Mago
This Heat - Deceit
Mr. Bungle - California
Ad Nauseum is such a bizarre band, and Obscura is still such a mind-bender
Awesome recommendations, my personal favs are the Comus, Tom Waits, and Current 93 records with how well they all mix experimental elements into their folk/singer-songwriter style
Choirs of the Eye might be one of the best albums of the last 20 years
solid list
deceit isn't really that much of a strange album, its themes and ideas are pretty well understood. not to say that it isn't an amazing and revolutionary lp, but i wouldn't put it alongside the likes of the residents in the terms of strangeness
Loving these lists so far!!
Definitely Murmuüre’s self titled and only album. The black metal and avant garde electronic instrumentals enhance the songs to become so much more abstract (and weird in the surreal way)than almost any album I’ve ever
Peaks on the first track tbh.
Thank you for this, I knew a few of this albums. Some I didn't. By the way do you know Red Crayola's Parable of an Arable Land, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, Royal Trux' Twin Infinitives, Dirty Knobs' Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell?
I love most of these albums! Can't wait to check out what I haven't heard yet!
Here's some of my weird album picks:
Godflesh - "Us and Them": This band is known better for albums like "Streetcleaner" but I feel like this is one of their strangest and most underrated albums. It mixes their signature sludgy industrial sound with a multitude of genres like Drum and Bass, Breakbeat, Post-Metal, Big Beat, Industrial Hip Hop, etc. It definitely has a strange atmosphere but I personally love it.
Divine Styler - "Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light": Definitely one of the strangest hip hop/spoken word albums I've heard and stupidly ahead of its time, some of the songs on it sound like Death Grips or Dalek but this album came out in 1992! I call it a hip hop album but it's actually more accurate to refer to it as a weird cross between spoken word, psychedelic rock with elements of jazz, funk, industrial, folk, abstract hip hop, electronic, and other weird genre blends.
Gorguts - "Obscura": Some of the weirdest death metal probably ever made, it sounds like avant-garde jazz but played by a death metal band. Took a while for this to click for me but now it's probably one of my favorite metal albums ever.
Ulcerate - "Everything Is Fire": Intense technical death metal out of New Zealand, sounds like a mixture of Gorguts, Immolation, Nile and Cryptopsy, and there's even a post-metal influence that pops up here and there, similar to Neurosis or Isis, but the overall atmosphere on this album is extremely suffocating and intense.
Devin Townsend Project - "Deconstruction": Don't even really know how to describe this record, it's completely all over the place, like most of DT's music but this album is unique in my opinion in that it has a really schizophrenic and crazy feeling to it.
Lye By Mistake - "Arrangements for Fulminating Vective": A really overlooked and unknown band, it's basically TDEP-esque mathcore but these guys can just segway into a bunch of random-ass genres like jazz fusion, flamenco, stoner rock, folk music and there's even a song that has a country and bluegrass section, but the thing is these guys are extremely talented musicians so they're extremely proficient in any genre they play, similar to Estradasphere and Between the Buried and Me.
Tub Ring - "Zoo Hypothesis": This band should have been way bigger than they are, they started off as pretty much a Mr. Bungle/Secret Chiefs 3 copycat but it was on Zoo Hypothesis where they finally developed their own unique style in my opinion. I guess you could say they're like if Mr. Bungle was an Art Punk band, but they also throw in elements like hardcore punk, mathcore, synth punk, art rock, emo, and a multitude of other genres, and manage to make their songs extremely catchy at the same time.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - "Grand Opening and Closing": Another album that it is hard to find words to describe correctly, very weird and schizophrenic avant-garde metal/avant-prog.
Brutal Truth - "Sounds of the Animal Kingdom": Very intense and spastic grindcore but with lots of strange songwriting, atmosphere, and production.
I could go on and on, there's tons of weird music out there but I'll leave it at that. Some of the records you mentioned piqued my interest, so I'll definitely check them out!
giving you a heart just soly because you brought up Godflesh's most underrated album
@@wyattxhim Yeah, "Hymns" is also a really underrated one.
I have Us and Them in my cd collection, it's a great record. I wouldn't have considered it that weird though. It's a bit odd yeah but as watching this video i was thinking "Okay, Disco Volante would have been my pick but it's probably not weird enough compared to all of this"
I've been a big weirdo-music fan since my first exposure to the world of Mike Patton and company (Fantomas, Secret Chief 3, Umlaut and John Zorn as a whole).
Going to mention those albums that still to this day twist my brain and scratch that unexplainable itch:
Fancy by Idiot Flesh.
Last album of the carriers of the torche that at some point Henry Cow carried and then gave to Thinking Plague until the flame reached Idiot Flesh. This album is an absolute ride because even though they experiment with recognizable ideas, you still don't understand what the fuck they are on about. Is funk? Is metal? Progressive rock? COUNTRY MUSIC? None and all maybe. Personally I just hear a lot of Thinking Plague is how they approach dissonance and rhythms but with their own sense of humour. Songs like " Chicken Little " starts at first in this very menacing world-is-ending type of atmosphere (The refrain of the song is " The sky is falling... ") until they reach the " chorus ", an amazing and groovy as fuck section (the bass goes crazy) that then connects to a upbeat joyful country section that changes everything in a second to then return to the first section of the song. Other notable pieces are " The Straw " (a 10 minutes epic journey about the world ending... not with a bang but with a whimp), " Motherfucker " (a song that halfway-through starts to jump in a disjointed manner through various part of the song like a collage of sounds) and People in Your Neighborhood (a kids show-esque song about a naive kid meeting the not so happy or good people in his neighborhood). They where also like a big theater group so their live shows use to have this very carnival composed of street artists feeling to them.
Aaaaand I extended myself too much already lol
Quick ones:
Boingo by Oingo Boingo.
Last album by them and with a complete different sound (fully inspired by Danny Elfman's works with movie scores at that point). Sinister, fun, melancholic and wonderfully orchestrated.
Yha Hamaraa by Paavoharju.
Awesome ethereal finnish freak folk with grainy noisy ambiance (reminiscent of Fuck Buttons and the first album of Animal Collective), chip tune synths and vocal melodies that sound inspired by Hindi pop music. Very very mesmerizing, desorienting and unsettling at some points (but in a good way).
Contentum by Atrox.
Norwegian avant garde metal that fuses this very exaggerated high pitch opera singing with more " typical " progressive metal sections. It has beautiful moments like in the song " Panta Rei/Gather In Me No More " that are maybe gatekept by the vocals that can be quite harsh to the ear to some.
Nymphomatriarch.
" Venetian Snares balls bouncing on some cheeks " samples.
UNCANNY VALLEY by Stabscotch.
I don't really know how to describe this one. The most intense and weird as shit experience I've ever exposed myself to. Its a 10.
Sing to God by Cardiacs.
Goofy divine masterpiece. The album tries to get on your nerves most of the time in the first half and then lets you breath a little in the second half. Not easy to describe but it sounds like the happiest and enjoyable panic attack ever.
You know your shit 🙂
Scott Walker - Bisch Bosch
masterwork of whatthefuckness
Choirs of the Void can be weird. It's the idea along with traditional Metal, also inspired from 60s-70s Horror film Music. The new EP coming knocks the piss out of the first one. Cool channel Sir 🦇🚬⚰️
Anything by Current 93 would be my pick. Great list!
Got some more to check out! Aby Ngana Diop, very odd rythym/beats. The style is really cool/unique other than that I got no idea on how to describe it.
Getachew Mekurya plays saxophone in a very emotive but also very creepy way. It is a style from Ethiopia that is really nice!
Here's a few strange albums I'm obsessed with:
Old - Formula (started out as the joke grindcore band Old Lady Drivers, they later incorporated elements of industrial, psych and death metal into their music, but this album sounds like it comes from another dimension, it's very hard to describe)
Coil - Stolen and Contaminated Songs
Ween - Pure Guava
The Sidewinder - Colonized (a short-lived Kevin Martin/Justin Broadrick project, so expect distorted beats, hypnotizing techno loops and some very unorthodox production choices, listen to the track Total Destruction of Mind of Body)
O.L.D. Formula. A masterpiece.
Coil was awesome. RIP Balance and Sleazy.
cromagnon is one of my favourite albums of all time because of the weirdness of the first track with the time it was released in but very few know about them
Definitely do that video about the weird 60s and 70s weird experimental bands, been digging deep for those obscure records and I can say something was going on at that time, drugs probably but interesting nonetheless lol
Nice choice to have the Spidergod Black Renditions album on display 👌
Nice list! If you do a 'list of strange albums mentioned by others" I'd love to hear you talk about "What if he what ant" by Especially Likely Sloth. It was a bizarre avant garde album that I saw on Black Metal Radio in the early 00s (it was a flash streaming site, no idea why it was on there because it wasn't remotely black metal but I digress).
Especially Likely Sloth was done by Jason Walton, bassist of AGALLOCH.
@stanboman7190 oh wow, thank you! I had wondered what was up with that album, I tried looking stuff up about it a really long time ago and couldn't find anything. It was interesting though, the song on Black Metal Radio was Mouthful of Pirates. Kinda liked it!
Edit: Funny enough, the weird Angelfire page I found about them is still online. It was basically just an in character interview of the singer character created for the group, haha
@@joseystrife No problem! Happy to help. It's always nice when this encyclopedic knowledge in my head can actually be useful, haha! Cheers!
tek lintowe - the world
i feel it would classify is pretty strange but i genuinely enjoy it so much w its combination of sounds, theres no other music like it.
For anyone not really vibing with 'Trout Mask Replica', and I guess also for people who do, definitely check out their album "Safe as Milk'. It's a lot more normal and it's one of my favourite 60's psychedelic rock albums.
I think my favourite is "Ice Cream for Crow".
@@schillinger7814 yeah, Safe as Milk is to Trout Mask Relica, what Burroughs' The Cat Inside is to Naked Lunch. Easier to parse, and far superior (in my opinion).
Doc at the radar stations a good one
I find folks who consider Trout Mask Replica a 'Classic'.. and 'Genius Album'..
Utter Wankers!
@@davidlomax4028 I find folks who don't to be utterly unimaginative and thick.
So not that this band is wildly weird or anything the genre mix is definitely weird but please let us know your opinion of the band Zeal and Ardor. I personally love the mix of black metal and blues..much love!
The Litanies of Satan by Diamanda Galás (and pretty much everything else she's done) is really, REALLY bizarre.
Good selection. Do you know Silencer and the album Death Pierce Me? cheers from Vienna Austria
i suggest bull of heaven every video but bull of heaven - 210: like a wall in which an insect lives and gnaws is probably the most surreal album ive ever listened to (i mean all of the excerpts provided on their website, but the story behind it is also very strange) id suggest listening to each excerpt on their website btw
oh, and the artist ringex plaster (a now discontinued alias by the prolific artist roxy radclyffe) basically any project from that alias is incredibly strange
My favorite strange album is My Fruit Psychobells…A Seed Combustible by maudlin of the Well. Their second and third album, which is a double album, is also strange, but the debut is all over the place with genres and song compositions compared to the double album.
60s-70s Gong is quite trippy and weird.
Nymphomatriarch, Justice Yeldam (Lukas Abella), Seppuku Fashion, Nurse With Wound... Uh... Cool, you mentioned them. Conlon Nancarow. Crimson - Larks Tongues, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, PIVXI, VV/M, Carlos Gesualdo (heh!), Phantomsmsher, Galas, Single Unit... It's a wonderful world.
One weird album I can come up with is from Finnish group The Sperm and their sole album "Shh!" from 1970. It's some weird improvised droney tape music experimentation.
Oh yeah, THE SPERM!!!! I used to have a burned off copy of this, lost it in a disaster, I didn't know anything about the group but it was for sure a VERY weird album! Thanx for reminding me of it!
Hey! about your deepressing albums video you talked about the Earl album. however you also said you dont know much about Rap. That earl album isnt even a depressing rap album IMO. The most depressing rap album i can think of is Eversince by Bladee. I would reccomend checking it out!
The most fascinating thing about The Shaggs is their authenticity. It's basically giving children musical instruments and telling them to make music without teaching them how to actually make music. It can not be replicated. It's like an experiment, a very tragic, unethical experiment. edit: left out some words somehow
Hell yeah man Gerogerigegege is a fucking trip for sure.
As I commented in one of your other video's, Saturdaynight Big Cock Salaryman is a real dark one.
Hatebeak - 666 the number of the beak. Produced by Travis from Cattle Decapitation. It has Jerry the parrot as the singer. Amazing album. There is also the group Canines. Where 2 pit bulls are the lead singer.
When i think of 'strange' music, i usually think of
1. Clowncore's "Van", not only for the music but the videos (which are fucking hilarious)
2. Fantomas' self titled album and "Suspended Animation", which are brilliant metal albums with the oddest of song structures (if you can even say their songs have structures) and arrangements
3. Mr Bungles' "Disco Volante", easily one of the most complex albums ever created, not only in songwriting but also arrangements, textures and influences. I'd say this is even weirder than their self titled record
4. Danny Brown's "Atrocity Exhibition", one of the most interesting rap albums. Crazier than the instrumentals in songs like Golddust, Pneumonia and White Lines, is the fact that he was able to rap over them and make it sound good
5. Secret Chiefs 3's "First Grand Constitution and Bylaws". I don't even know how to describe this album
But overall, the weirdest music has to belong to Bull of Heaven. Albums that go on for HUNDREDS OF YEARS, or ZETABYTE large albums. have to be the objectively weirdest shit out there
ΩΣPx0(2^18×5^18)p*k*k*k their longest release, it lasts for 3.343 quindecillion years (longer than the lifespan of the universe)
When I think of weird and strange my go to is Frank Zappa specifically my favorite release Absolutely Free with its weird vegetable concept non concept during the first half of the album and weird screaming throughout the record it really brings out this unhinged energy. Frank Zappa really perfected experimental rock in ways The Shaggs and Captain Beefheart could never do.
And even better Frank said 'Philosophy Of The World was one of his favorite albums. It's too long to go into here but look up the Shaggs and you'll understand what makes that album so perfectly weird. In one of the few creative misjudgements of his career Frank rejected a demo the Residents sent him. What an epic a collaboration by those two would be. And I would be with you 100% on Absolutely Free if We're Only In It For The Money didn't have 'Concentration Moon' and 'Mom And Dad' and of course 'What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body' on it.
The first word of the song is discorporate, it means to leave your body….
Discorporate & come with me
Shifting, drifting
Cloudless, starless
VELVET VALLEYS & A SAPPHIRE
SEA . . . Wah Wah
@@teddydog6229 the residents and Frank Zappa would’ve been the most unhinged thing on earth. I need to change our timeline to when this happened. Also you really can’t go wrong with early Zappa that entire era with The Mothers/Mothers Of Invention is just off the wall. One final thing when it comes to The Shaggs I have always extremely disliked them as even if the story is very interesting and everything surrounding it as well to me it doesn’t really change the quality of the music which I personally find sub par especially when compared to Zappa or The Residents.
@@somerandommetalhead8982 Yes it's absolutely subpar and maybe it's one of those things that's more intellectually interesting than it is valuable. But you take these three painfully isolated girls in the boonies of New Hampshire who maybe have one transistor radio between them and shove guitar, bass and drums at them and say ' Make music !' and at least I thought we got something interesting. GG Allin had a similar psychotic upbringing in remote NaH and went on to record multiple hours of unlistenable garbage. A band who did the same thing as the Shaggs a lot more effectively were the Godz from NYC. They couldn't play a lick but still managed to conjure interesting sounds.
Don't know where to start with Frank but give me my own Mt Rushmore and his face would be up there. With the one annoying exception of Thing Fish I believe I own everything he did solo or with the Mothers. Uncle Meat maybe tops my list but his later stuff was just as good as his older. I was hooked on Joe's Garage 1,2 and 3 for months and show me any album as creative and bizarre as Civilization. Most rock musicians go into terminal decline (Bowie stopped his sad skid thank God) but I believe Zappa would have just gotten better with age if Yellow Shark is any indication. But then he was hardly just a 'rock' composer. And I don't know about you but when the Complete Hot Rats Sessions came out I died and went to jazz-rock fusion heaven.
Zappa DID produce the first two Alice Cooper albums. My advice is stay away. Annoyingly weird for weirds sake.
@@teddydog6229 sorry if I skim over some stuff in my response it’s not my intention but my brain is refusing to read this properly. Firstly yeah I believe the shaggs are more of a interesting story but weirdly enough when you compare them to GG Allin I disagree. Not on the part of interesting upbringing but music wise. Something about GG’s music to me is so intense and raw as well as unbridled rage which I feel is what hardcore is about now obviously a good amount wasn’t great and some projects he had released some bad shit but he does have quite a bit of iron, a little less gold and maybe a rare Diamond among the bunch. I have yet to listen to the Godz but I will be sure to check them out when I have the chance. Also I didn’t mean to imply his older stuff was bad by any means more that I prefer the earlier stuff. I do agree he probably would’ve keep getting better with age yet we sadly will never know. Finally I am huge Alice Cooper fan and though I love the story of how and why Zappa signed them. Which basically goes they opened for him one night in Detroit saw the entire crowd leave when the band started playing and instantly thought they had something. The first two album definitely disagreed Alice Cooper is another very interesting person they could easily make the list of strange especially during his New Wave era but his mainly comes from his small horror concepts and not being strange outright. Either way Alice Cooper rules so does Zappa and thanks for the recommendation
Here's some weird shit I know:
Caroliner Rainbow: Incredibly weird "noise bluegrass", their live shows are very nightmarish. They've been around since the 80s and they handmake all their records and artworks. It's some of the weirdest shit I've ever seen and heard. "I'm Armed With Quarts Of Blood" is my favorite album from them.
Pensees Nocturnes: Legit one of my favorite bands of all time. It's clown metal from France, or more specifically black metal with French cabaret influences. Makes me think of a deranged performance in a smoke-filled underground cabaret. "Grand Guignol Orchestra" is their best album imo.
La Torture Des Ténèbres: Canadian "atmospheric ambient black metal". The music is chaotic, psychotic and noisy and never lets up. idk what it is about "Civilization Is The Tomb Of Our Noble Gods" but I've listened to it front to back dozens of times and love it every time. Reminds me a bit of Gnaw Their Tongues.
Thanks for the introduction to Caroliner Rainbow, it is so odd it is almost disorienting!
you gotta talk about Lullabies in a Glass Wilderness by Lalleshwari (Katie Jane Garside) in the next video
Imagine the world today if in 1969 Trout Mask Replica was a huge hit and then went on to have a massive influence on many musicians for the next 50 years. Things would be so much different.
Feed me by James Ferraro def the the weirdest album I’ve ever heard, basically an hour of noisy radio broadcasts spliced together and a lot of electronic textures, shit’s great
Neoandertals - Neanderthals were Master Butchers is definitely a weird but oddly amusing one. its in the style of brutal death metal/slam with avant-garde mixed in with it, but with the guitar being so down-tuned along with the vocals being low and guttural gives it the sense that actual cavemen made this album, hence the band name. give it a quick listen if you havent.
Just inspired by something6167's comment, I would also suggest Coil's "Love's Secret Domain" ...
I know it's a little basic but the album, EP, song(?) Gmail and the Restraining Orders by Death Grips is best described as Schizonoise Lobotomycore. Like the 30 minutes of incoherent drumming, looped vocals, and extreme lack of song structure really confused me. Considering that most of their releases, although experimental, are for the most part listenable, this release absolutely skyrockets to the spot of strangest thing I've heard.
nice to see the geros and naked city included :3
In this category, I would recommend Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Three more for you since finding weird shit online is a passion of mine:
Diamanda Galàs - Plague Mass. This is a live album from 1991. She basically does this weird operatic singing and otherworldly screeching sounds while topless and covered in blood in an old church. One look at the cover art and you'll know what you're getting into.
Also anything by The Hanatarash would fit. They just scream and throw plate glass and stuff on stage in Japan. You used to have to sign a waiver when attending a show, and you can hear the audience in the live recordings going "Wooohhh!" when some of the shit they were throwing got too close for comfort. One of their live shows involved demolishing the actual venue they were in with a bulldozer, how messed up is that? Haha
Finally I'd like to recommend Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 the Core. I can't even describe this one, man...
Lol yes!!! Corey !!
Strangest album? Easy, it's Hot in the Airport by Y. Bhekhirst. Released and recorded in 1986 entirely by a single, unknown man (who is still unidentified to this very day, and probably will be forever), this record is from the "outside music" scene and sounds like a really weird, dadaist post-punk record. For most people it's barely listenable (if it is at all), and it's a common meme in my friend circle, but it's also quite satisfying and interesting at the same time. There are genuine listenable tracks like "I Run My Car", "Rain in Summer" and of course the title track, "Hot in the Airport" and I always struggled to decide if it's plain bad or has an actual artistic decision, because for me, it wasn't that hard to see the beauty in it and actually started liking it. You like unusual time signatures? Oh boy, now I have the record just for you, because Y. Bhekhirst completely rejects time signatures in a conceptual level, and created an almost hypnotic, "urban samanistic" journey.
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This Heat's "Deceit" is to this day the album I cannot categorize, put into any kind of perspective, or draw any parallels to other music I've listened to prior. The only thing that comes somewhat close to it is probably a self-titled album by a Slovenian avant-garde band Begnagrad.
Unrelated but somewhat related: what's the lämp album on display there?
It’s Spider God
many thanks@@wyattxhim
Great video! Here are some I can think of:
Pork Soda by Primus
Faust by Faust
Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa
Bone Machine by Tom Waits
DaDa by Alice Cooper
Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh by Magma
Bish Bosch by Scott Walker
i’d say primus and the chocolate factory is weirder than pork soda, but overall great list!
This comments section has become quite an impressive list of strange/weird music. Reading through the comments, I'm seeing lots of my favorite artists and finding countless things to discover. Here is my contribution....
THROBBING GRISTLE (Surprised I haven't seen their name on here...)
NUCLEAR DEATH "The Planet Cachexial" (formerly an extreme metal band, they really threw their fans for a loop with this album. As an old fan of their stuff, I think they should've changed their name with this album. It's not metal at all, and it's very bizarre)
Anything on Wheelchair Full of Old Men label (easy to find online)
HEARSEBERRY TACO (over the top weird)
EDITH BUNKER'S DEMONIZED VOMIT INSURANCE (there are a few videos on UA-cam.)
GUARANTEED KATCH (Crazy strange wacky old band from MA, former members of POST MORTEM)
LOU REED "Metal Machine Music" (If you like experimental noise and are not familiar with this album, then you've got some homework to do.)
TINY TIM (He did a lot more than Tiptoe Through the Tulips. Check out the stuff he did with CURRENT 93.)
WESLEY WILLIS (Anyone reading this, if you are not familiar with this guy, go listen to a few songs and thank me later.)
Another underground artist people don't talk much about is Pink Siifu, their album "N*GRO" has to be one of the most odd and ambitious musical experiment I've ever heard. He is an industrial rapper with a very prominent punk influence and his album tackles social and economic problems in the US. The whole thing sounds incredibly dark and deranged, the production is super dusty and sounds like it was recorded in a sewer and it reminds me of the production of Grindcore albums. I heard that you were looking to get into hip hop and I found this artist through the "wide world of experimental hip hop" page, since it's rare to find a clear version of this image I can send anyone a link if they are interested.
Fun fact, one of the human members of Caninus, Justin Brannon, is now a NYC council member and politician.
Anything by Nuclear Death, Lori Bravo is an underrated artist. Extreme death grindcore with a touch of otherworldly melody specially their later material.
for strange records, try the Feeding Tube label - wondrous abstractions
Funny thing about my experience with Caninus is they were actually recommended to me by a very nice couple whom I met when I was travelling in Paris about a year ago.
I found them because they did a split with Cattle Decapitation haha
I like those "whats the ___ album that i know" vids.
You can do "most expensive", "most controversial" or " most hated" next time :v
Don't Underestimate Cephalic Carnage - Conforming to Abnormality (especially the 2008 reissued version with 20 bonus tracks)
Saw that hatebeak album at my local disc replay. I was so confused
the first thing that came to mind when i saw this video was revolutionary pekinese opera by ground-zero, a band fronted by turntablist and guitarist otomo yoshihide
a sound collage epic with elements of noise, avant-garde jazz, avant-prog, and chinese opera music.
there’s pretty much 3 main, very chaotic layers to this album: a singular sample from an album called frankfurt - peking by heiner goebbels & alfred harth, a variety of samples from commercials, political speeches, movie lines, and other bs, and the other members of ground-zero improvising over all of this. it’s one of the most fucking chaotic and wild albums i’ve ever heard, and if you’re a fan of experimental music and you haven’t checked this out, you’re missing out
I have recently discovered the Venezuelan musician Arca through theneedledrop channel, they are labelled as an avant garde pop artists who blends IDM, reggeaton and hip hop. Despite having helped in the production for many popular artists such as Kanye, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, FKA Twings, Bjork etc their sound is incredibly unconventional and at first I thought of their music just being disjointed and messy in an "overexperimental" way that accomplishes nothing, but upon relistening to some of their albums I think that those elements play to their strength. Pretty much any album from their "KiCk" series sounds very dizzing, abstract and atmospheric with industrial hip hop, hyperpop, breakcore and glitchy elements. I recommend them for anyone trying to get into avant pop and experimental electronic music!
Arca is fantastic, KicK iii has to be one of my fav albums of this decade so far. Mutant is also a really good abstract album, very fun sounds in that one.
@@SolarSystemSequel I can see why Kick iii is your favourite it's very hypnotic, heavy and transcendent. It's quite different from their first two kicks as it doesn't have any slow ballads at all which makes everything more chaotic and their rapping significantly improved from kick i, it's also the catchiest and most breath taking release by them in my opinion. Good pick!
@@SolarSystemSequel I haven't heard mutant yet since you like it so much I will give it a try :)
@@ViolettaX-gp8qk I'd also suggest you give her Stretch EPs a chance, they were what put her on the map originally, and there's some really interesting ideas on those, especially the second one.
@@SolarSystemSequel will do. Thanks for the recommendations
Sockweb makes me incredibly sad to think about because it was a father and daughter duo band and the dad had some crazy legal accusations and took his own life, my heart feels for his poor kid. The Grindmother is one of the sweetest people you can ever meet in your whole life and getting to talk to her and her son was a blessing within itself.
CAROLINER. Any album by them, they change their name with each release but their third album (names are too long to remember) is probably the best to start, just be ready for some noise, industrial instrumentation, maybe a little jazz and bluegrass. Theyre one of my favorite bands and I hope you see why
I would like to put forward Orbweaver - Strange Transmissions From The Neuralnomicon
As one of the strangest albums I know, I´d like to mention Bethlehem´s "S.U.i.Z.i.D." from 1998.
I absolutely love this output, although or maybe even because it is such a weird piece of art.
Vocals, lyrics, artwork and songwriting - nothing here seems typical to me,
yet it still attracts me to listen to it.