The Strangest Albums Ever

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:26 pm

thedisavowed wrote:I'd put Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach up there. I don't know what to do with Glass sometimes. And sometimes he makes me want to scream.

This.

sacred_geometry · Post by **sacred_geometry** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:39 am

Personally:

Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1
The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Plastikman - Consumed
Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung
Gong - The Flying Teapot (And basically anything from Daevid Allen era)
Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya
Mr. Bungle - Disco Violante
T.O.N.T.O's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time
Soft Circle - Full Bloom
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
Love - Forever Changes
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Lost Trident Sessions
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Naked City - Radio
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:55 am

KISS - Music from 'The Elder'

Archrival · Post by **Archrival** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:30 am

The Telepathic Kid wrote:Very bad?

Why so mean?

I never insulted your music taste (which I share) yet you bite back like I've made a joke at your expense.

I thought this place was a little mature than that.

And this is coming from someone that's probably younger than you.

I apologize if I sounded mean...It don't wan't to make you mad and I have nothing against you.

My bad.

I just detest Trout Mask Replica and Pure Guava, sooooo overrated albums when it comes to wierdness!

more like a bad joke. For me it gets more weird when the artist is for real!

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:32 pm

What makes you think Ween and Captain Beefheart aren't for real? Fool, you think you have access to the artist's personal thoughts and motivations?

Archrival · Post by **Archrival** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:04 pm

I surely don't have access to the artist's personal thoughts and motivations, but I can't feel them at all, and I can't say that I think Ween are weird at all in my world.

"Reggaejunkiejew! Pumpin' 4 The Man! Flies On My Dick!!! Touch My Tooter! huhuhuh "Hey Fat Boy (Asshole)" that's some seriously weeeeeird tunes man!!!!"

Compare these tracks and play Pure Guava to someone stoned and see the reaction compared to drukqs and geogaddi...Pure Guava would make a retarded stoner or a 10 year old giggle at best, when tracks like "Opening The Mouth", Gwely Mernans, A Is To B As B Is To C and "Gwarek2" will make them go "wtf!!! this is so weird its scary dude, turn this shit off!!! im trippin badly

"

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:13 pm

whatever

you guys let your imaginations run away with you or something. i never got weirded out listening to geogaddi. yes, it's bizarre, but it's not emotionally arrestingly bizarre.

i'd put just about anything by Throbbing Gristle on the weird albums list.

idonnoimconfused · Post by **idonnoimconfused** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:10 pm

CoBoC wrote:Why? - Alopecia

And what a marvelous album it is.

I do have to agree with this entirely.
The first song I heard on the album was Good Friday.
Good way to start it off.

Treefingers · Post by **Treefingers** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:21 pm

The Microphones - The Glow, pt. 2

bleak. · Post by **bleak.** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:50 am

will have to get back about album, but as for song...stars of the lid - down 3

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:54 am

idonnoimconfused wrote:
CoBoC wrote:Why? - Alopecia

And what a marvelous album it is.
I do have to agree with this entirely.
The first song I heard on the album was Good Friday.
Good way to start it off.

Ok, yeah, but the best I think are:

A sky for shoeing horses under
Exegesis

This is genius shit.

harpoon dodger · Post by **harpoon dodger** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:39 pm

CoBoC wrote:
idonnoimconfused wrote:
CoBoC wrote:Why? - Alopecia

And what a marvelous album it is.
I do have to agree with this entirely.
The first song I heard on the album was Good Friday.
Good way to start it off.
Ok, yeah, but the best I think are:

A sky for shoeing horses under
Exegesis

This is genius shit.

Yoni Wolf is amazing..everything he touches is brilliant

On another note:

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:55 pm

Well Archie I agree with you on Pure Guava.
I only like post Chocolate and Cheese Ween where they actually write songs instead of noisey weird experiments.
But I've been getting into Trout Mask Replica lately and I think it's good.

On the other hand Cupz never said that the album had to be good per say, just strange.

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:01 pm

Also how could I forget Boredom's Pop Tatari and Chocolate Synthensizer?
Both of those albums are just messed up, man.

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:43 pm

"noisey weird experiments"?? Are you deaf, or just incredibly narrow minded?

Also, Archrival, I completely agree, humor has no place in music or life, and anyone who laughs or finds things funny is a retard.

The Friendly Stranger · Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:42 pm

CoBoC wrote:
idonnoimconfused wrote:
CoBoC wrote:Why? - Alopecia

And what a marvelous album it is.
I do have to agree with this entirely.
The first song I heard on the album was Good Friday.
Good way to start it off.
Ok, yeah, but the best I think are:

A sky for shoeing horses under
Exegesis

This is genius shit.

Don't see it as wierd at all personally but do feel I have to declare my love for this album too! Agree with you on Exegesis but really loving Gnashville too.

observation · Post by **observation** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:41 am

I agree about Drukqs, it's great but also very strange.

I have to add Vivian Stanshall's Sir Henry At Rawlinson End. Insane spoken word genius with very bizarre musical interludes. Or possibly outerludes.

I've been reading a book about the history of the Atomic Bomb. Apparently some Federal Civil Defence Agency people thought it would be a good idea to release a spoken word album called The Complacent American. It seems it mostly consists of a man, vapourised by a Russian missile attack, who is now regretting not building a bomb shelter as he watches from heaven.

Aha... here it is

Ah bless

Strrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange...

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:07 am

oyster wrote:"noisey weird experiments"?? Are you deaf, or just incredibly narrow minded?

Neither, I phased what I meant to say wrong.
I meant to say I just don't like it.
You like things, and you don't like other things.

Edit; plus I like a few songs on Pure Guava like Big Jilm, Poop Ship Destroyer, Pumpin 4 The Man, Sarah, Springtheme...

Actually since you've got me listening to it again, I've found that I like it more than I did last time.

I guess I could thank you.

Vexille · Post by **Vexille** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:25 pm

early pink floyd
confield and untilted (draft and quaristice really bring out their hip hop influence tho so it seems more normal to me)
selected ambient works 2 is weird if you haven't gotten used to all the tracks, the first 2-3 times listening to it are a treat

observation · Post by **observation** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:13 pm

Vexille wrote: selected ambient works 2 is weird if you haven't gotten used to all the tracks, the first 2-3 times listening to it are a treat

Yep. Although I once listened to it around 7am, having not slept and still a bit out of my face, and found it absolutely terrifying. I was so scared I had to switch it off and phone my sister. Shiver me timbers.