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Posted: January 20 2015 at 14:21
^Yes, Pros and Cons is a bit strange. What's stranger to me is that he talked Eric Clapton into playing on this dud! EC should have stuck to making beer commercial jingles with Phil Collins.
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 14:36
SteveG wrote:
^Yes, Pros and Cons is a bit strange. What's stranger to me is that he talked Eric Clapton into playing on this dud! EC should have stuck to making beer commercial jingles with Phil Collins.
I'm pretty sure he was referring to Waters' collaboration with Ron Geesin on "Music from the Body"
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 16:52
When I was younger, I thought the Residents were weird - but I like weird things (I enjoyed the movie Zardoz, as for example). Now that I went to explore free jazz, improvised music and stuff like that, my definition of "weird music" is more and more reduced. In fact, I tend to describe as "weird" some 60's bands which were... surely not sober: the Godz, Cromagnon or the Holy Modal Rounders. Some French 70's bands are also on my list of "weirdos": Komintern, Barricades, Red Noise, Crium Delirium... Among contemporary bands, I would "vote" for Japanese bands such as Acid Mothers Temple, Ex-Girl, Ni-Hao, Afrirampo...
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 03:48
Many VddG compositions have really weird, bizarre bits e.g Lost: The Dance in Sand etc, Squid 1/ etc, Man-Erg...I usually fast forward those bits. A trifle too discordant, bordering on cacophony.....I can do without those bits.
But I do like them.
Probably the weirdest that is not prog, or at least not on Prog Archives anyway is Scott Walker. Just llisten to his albums, Tilt (1995), The Drift (2006), Bisch Bosch (2013) and his latest album in collaboration with Sunn O))) called Soused (2014).
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 04:35
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king crimson
I've come to regard KC not really as weird, just a bit edgy and intense. Even their more dark material is quite accessable compared to the likes of Magma or Henry Cow..
It's all relative of course, I suspect non prog fans would consider parts of Wind & Wuthering weird and bizarre..
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 08:05
Blacksword wrote:
sydbarrett2010 wrote:
king crimson
I've come to regard KC not really as weird, just a bit edgy and intense
I'd agree with that - weird in this context could be defined as "different to the point of making no sense and losing viability". KC have made a lot of unusual music, but none of their work could be called "experimentation for the sake of experimentation". You can always see more or less clearly where they come from, and where they were going in each album.
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 12:28
King Crimson? Really?
I think the op is shooting for stuff that makes KC look like Beyonce. Something that would make Kanye West soil his knickers rather than steal a sample.
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 13:35
Except a few exceptions such as The Residents I guess I don't consider most R.I.O (Avant or Zeuhl) to be as weird and bizarre as some of you do. I find it dark and twisted.
Japan:
After Dinner - both their albums are as weird as they are stunning
Wha-Ha-Ha - more or less the same as After Dinner
Karuna Khyal - Alomoni 1985
Masahiko Satih and the Soundbreakers - Amalgamation
elsewhere:
Dedalus - Materiale Per Tre E Nastro Magnetico
Robert Wyatt - End of an Ear
Horrific Child - L'Etrange Mr. Whinster
Faust - St
...there's so much more, but I just can't remember right now
Anyway the winner has to be Styx - Kilroy Was Here - by far the most bizarre performance I've ever seen.
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