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Valdez 
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 Topic: The weirdest album you've ever heardPosted: June 22 2025 at 22:28 |
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Robert Calverts Captain Lockheed & the Starfighters is pretty weird but I like it a lot. The track “Hero with a wing” is great.
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https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine
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Posted: June 22 2025 at 21:16 |
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I suppose it's more psych than prog although maybe proto prog fits but the United States of America album from 1968 is pretty weird. Very good but very weird even for a psych album.
For Pink Floyd their weirdest album is Ummagumma (particularly the studio side). The title track to Atom Heart Mother is pretty weird too (the middle part especially) but overall I still say Ummagumma is their weirdest. For King Crimson I say Islands is their weirdest. Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - June 22 2025 at 21:18 |
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Posted: June 22 2025 at 19:44 |
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I once had that wild man Fischer album and never played it
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https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: June 22 2025 at 19:22 |
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An Evening With Wild Man Fischer.
A protege of Frank Zappa (who produced the album), until he threw a bottle at Frank one day and almost hit Frank's daughter, Moon. Fischer was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and manic depression, and spent time on and off in state hospitals. And yes, the album sounds like someone who needs to go back on his meds. |
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
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Posted: June 22 2025 at 19:13 |
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- Comus / First Utterance (1971)
- Area / 1978 - Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano! (1978) - Karuna Khyal / Alomoni 1985 (1976) - Brainticket / Cottonwoodhill (1971) - Boards of Canada / Geogaddi (2002) - The Residents / The Third Reich 'N' Roll (1976) - Univers Zero / Heresie (1979) - Cardiacs / Sing to God (1996) - Art Zoyd / Häxan (1997) - French TV / The Violence Of Amateurs (1999) - Swans / Soundtracks for the Blind (1996) - Silver Apples / The Garden (1998) - White Noise / An Electric Storm (1969) - Panda Bear / Person Pitch (2007) - Spooky Tooth & Pierre Henry / Ceremony (1969) - Scott Walker / The Drift (2006) - Pink Floyd / The Pipers At The Gates of Dawn (1967) - Motorpsycho / Begynnelser (2017) - Moving Gelatine Plates / The World Of Genius Hans (1978) - Gong / Camembert Électrique (1971) - Ruins / Hyderomastgroningem (1995) - Cecil Taylor / Unit Structures (1966) - Sun Ra / Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (1971) - Kenso / 天鵞絨症綺譚 Fabulis Mirabilibus De Bombycosi Scriptis (2002) |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: June 22 2025 at 18:25 |
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A little earlier I listened to First Utterance by Comus. That's still one of the weirdest ones for me. Not everything on it is weird but a lot of it is.
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Definitely Eno and Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" for me.
I bought it when it came out not and was unprepared for what I was getting into. The situation was exacerbated by a hearty beef stroganoff with plenty of fresh mushrooms. My friends and I listened after consuming the stroganoff and settling into a certain kind of groove. We couldn't believe our ears. The next morning we listened again to see if our nutritional choice had influenced our perception of the music. We were relieved to realize that the album is totally original, delightfully weird, and that our nutritional choice merely contributed to mutual good feelings of warmth, friendship, and jocularity. Edited by RockHound - June 21 2025 at 07:44 |
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Every 4-5 years I dig Robert Plant's Shaken'n'Stirred album out of my collection and give it a spin. I've had this album since it was released (40 years now!) and while no one would classify this as avant-garde material, I remain utterly amazed that he would put out an album so drastically different from anything he'd ever done before. There's loads of guitar-synth, electronic percussion, and female vocals, but it can't rightfully qualify as an "80's" album without saxophones/horn sections. It's bizarre, it's fun, and still weird after all these years!
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Posted: February 10 2025 at 11:40 |
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^ Yes, nearly the NWW list, lol! My gateway to weirdness was Slapp Happy/Henry Cow's 'Desperate Straights'. Imagine the impact that had on a 12 year old who was into Free and Deep Purple!
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Neimen- Katharsis
Comus - drip drip Univers Zero - Heresie nearly all of NWW list Whitehouse Orchestra of the Eighth Day - Before I know |
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Posted: February 05 2025 at 21:32 |
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This was pretty weird in a good way, as I recall. Long time ago. |
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Posted: February 05 2025 at 15:09 |
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Yeah, must have been you.
As for me, I do listen to Chinese music now and then... But the Chinese music I'm used to has nothing to do with this at all! I rather know Cantonese varietés pop (see from this channel typically Michael Ip - YouTube), plus Black Panther, which is regular vanilla rock - a friend of mine gave me their first album, which I really liked; recently I've listened to their next albums, and I feel like there is no real magic in there, they lost their rocky energy, and the lyrics are as vanilla as they were, if not more - I love you, don't leave me etc.
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Posted: February 05 2025 at 14:49 |
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I second Diamanda Galas Plague
Renaldo & the Loaf German Shepherds |
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Posted: February 05 2025 at 14:00 |
I guess that was from me. It’s an album that I really appreciate but would not expect most to, especially not so much from those who mostly appreciate melodic prog. I was primed for it by getting into quite a lot of post-industrial and darkwave music over the past several years, I like various Chinese music, and I am someone who has leaned into more experimental music avenues for many years. When it comes to music, I find one thing leads to another, and whether something clicks with me depends on the stage of my journey. Sometimes just being intrigued at first can be enough. I definitely favourite some variety in my art habits. |
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Posted: February 05 2025 at 13:42 |
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I always thought this was weird.....found it some years ago in a cd cut out bin
C A Quintet -Trip thru Hell A list i saw....can't say many of these are that weird... but some are......not sure about that link
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Recently came across the name otay:onii, quoted on this very website with a link (in a discussion about the best 2024 albums), and I wanted to try. I listened to the album MíngMíng 冥冥 more specifically, the one there was a link to.
It's super weird. I think I kinda like it, but I'm not sure.
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Posted: February 05 2025 at 07:27 |
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Whatever Faust did with Faust Tapes. They aren't even proper songs, blurring the lines as to what can be construed as music. And unlike the esoteric examples listed here, like Trout Mask Replica and Tago Mago which can be an acquired taste sometimes[ and appreciated for what they are, I like Can :p], some of Faust's work can never be enjoyed in the conventional sense.
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If you want to dive into something really very weird, try out Berlin band Die Tödliche Doris!
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/die_todliche_doris (You can basically try any of their albums.)
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Posted: October 27 2024 at 10:21 |
I had an album with her and John Paul Jones teamed up... Yeah it was weird allright. Cant remember the name of it. Pretty bad weird too.
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https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine
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Hi, Kinda weird to see that ... a lot of her whisperings and sounds would also be done for a baby .... and if you met her in person, she was not exactly a new age woman, but a serious feminist that lived her life the way she wanted, regardless ... and her work on GONG and her solo albums, show her quality ... I, personally, do not think folks are "weird" ... for its sake ... unless you are talking about AL ... but even that is more satire than it is anything else.
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