The Strangest Albums Ever

[meat like product]

the lava children's happy times collection..

so weird but so great

[pigammon]

Autechre - Exai
Tom Milsom - Alien Home & Organs (although this is mainly due to recent events. the albums themselves are a bit loony in places but aside from that...)
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Crystal Castles - (II) and (III)
Franz Ferdinand - Covers Remixes (because...why? it's literally two twelve inches solely consisting of remixes of covers of franz ferdinand songs. who doES THAT)

[mc10101]

Robert Wyatt "Rock Bottom" (1974) - trippy, funny, beautiful, and weird as f--k! Great sound too - produced by Nick Mason

[Peacock Tail]

Here Comes The Indian - Animal Collective

[drillkicker]

I don't believe that I can think of a strangest one, because there are a lot of strange and obscure releases that nobody in the world listens to (myself included).

Ink Complete by Spastic Ink is an example. For some reason the progressive metal band decided to make an instrumental version of the dialogue from a scene in Bambi, and transposed the vocal intonations exactly to guitar.

Soliloquy For Lilith by Nurse With Wound is strange in a more serious way. Nurse With Wound is pretty much the definition of strange, and that album was made entirely with feedback from electronic effects, with no source sounds and the pitches modulated by Steven Stapleton changing the distance between himself and the effects.

LIVE ACOUSTIC EP by student gobot union is strange as hell. Just guys yelling things in a church until they got kicked out. Not enjoyable to listen to, but certainly strange.

Tonetta is strange.

It's strange listening to the many 78 RPM records from southeast Asia that have degraded over the years. Many of them weren't professionally recorded, so they have a very inhuman sound.

I Hear a New World by Joe Meek is strange, too. It's quite psychedelic. Orgasm by Cro Magnon is another one.

[warphead]

Locust Abortion Technician - Buthole Surfers
Dead Man Ost - Neil Young

[Aerial Boundaries]

The Caretaker - An empty bliss beyond this world
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

[The Telepathic Kid]

That Caretaker record is absolutely magnificent, it's nostalgia in motion, really.

[Mexicola]

Jandek

[IanRedpoint]

Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room

[squid]

Some of the strangest albums I own:

Bjork - Medulla
BoC - Geogaddi
Most of Fennesz' stuff
Most of Tim Hecker's stuff
Nicolas Jaar - Pomegranates
DJ Shadow - Entroducing...

[Aerial Boundaries]

Ian that is both beautiful and bizarre.

[Negamuse]

Ian that is both beautiful and bizarre.

Now listen to Julie and Candy

[Aerial Boundaries]

Ian that is both beautiful and bizarre.

Now listen to Julie and Candy

I know, it's the same concept pretty much. God damn I love that track. Sound disappearing into sound.

[Headphase]

I agree with Medulla. Definitely Björk's weirdest album, yet it's strangely beautiful at times

[The Telepathic Kid]

I consider the idea of a "weird" album some what similar to a guilty pleasure, because in some sense, weird can be a word which doesn't exist for someone if they like a wide breadth of music.
I've shown people stuff like AFX or MBV and they say it's the weirdest stuff they've heard, but not for me because I'm some what used to it.

But there have been records which I've come across which are extremely closed off in their sound, their approaches are so far to the left and unrelenting, and they don't really have any entry points.
In another sense, liking them isn't easy, and they're very obtuse, almost purposely so.



Like this, it's less abstraction, more like an alien's attempt at trying to recreate our pop music if they studied our popular music trends from the beginning of time until now in about 30 seconds.
It's utterly perplexing to me, and that lack of understanding the intention is the main reason it's weird for me. Sometimes I can hear abstract music and understand where the artist is coming from, but this just loses me, and that makes it almost more intriguing and interesting for me.

Something similar could also be said about Skip Spence's Oar, despite that having some cult status in music culture. But for that record, the lack of understanding is due to us not being at all in tune with his mental state. It's hard, as we cannot even begin to understand what he was trying to do with that record, and despite its closeness to pop structure and sensibility, it feels otherworldly and unwelcoming at the same time.

[portiss]

Holy shit TTK, that is amazing. I love the video with it.

[Torn n Frayed]

I consider the idea of a "weird" album some what similar to a guilty pleasure, because in some sense, weird can be a word which doesn't exist for someone if they like a wide breadth of music.
I've shown people stuff like AFX or MBV and they say it's the weirdest stuff they've heard, but not for me because I'm some what used to it.

But there have been records which I've come across which are extremely closed off in their sound, their approaches are so far to the left and unrelenting, and they don't really have any entry points.
In another sense, liking them isn't easy, and they're very obtuse, almost purposely so.



Like this, it's less abstraction, more like an alien's attempt at trying to recreate our pop music if they studied our popular music trends from the beginning of time until now in about 30 seconds.
It's utterly perplexing to me, and that lack of understanding the intention is the main reason it's weird for me. Sometimes I can hear abstract music and understand where the artist is coming from, but this just loses me, and that makes it almost more intriguing and interesting for me.

Something similar could also be said about Skip Spence's Oar, despite that having some cult status in music culture. But for that record, the lack of understanding is due to us not being at all in tune with his mental state. It's hard, as we cannot even begin to understand what he was trying to do with that record, and despite its closeness to pop structure and sensibility, it feels otherworldly and unwelcoming at the same time.

That was going to be my shout.

[Jonse]

I'm with TTK here.

So, "strange" or "weird" is in relation to the response I generally get per recommendation to comment ratio for a record:



90s industrial rock + synthpop/new wave songs written in the 80s + absurd noise = this ^^^



(can't find full upload of most popular JG Thirlwell record on YouTube)

Guess that'll have to do.



(because)



Not so much "weird" this one, people just don't generally seem to know what to make of it even if informed of its age.



For how conventional this guy is, he sure is waaaay more polarizing than I would have expected. Also had the pleasure of seeing him live by accident as an opening act that I didn't know was going to be there.

There's probably stuff that's actually "weird" I can't think of right now but yeah, whatever.

[Aerial Boundaries]

The Caretaker - Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia

Yes I know another one by him. The reason being for the concept as much as the music. Anterograde amnesia is a forward looking amnesia. Unable to create any new long term memories.