The weirdest album you've ever heard - Progressive Rock Music Forum

This is pretty strange too, but I like it, like it, Yes I do! Thumbs Up

Christopher Lee - My Way

Songs For Swinging Larvae by Renaldo and the Loaf. And anything by The Residents.

"Why, she's no fun, she fell right over".--Nick Danger (Third Eye)

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Mirakaze wrote:

I'm keeping a list of my own on RateYourMusic; probably there's some overlap with Silly Puppy's list. Mine's not really in any kind of order, but at the top spot lies the self-titled album by the Feminist Improvising Group, which is the first thing I thought of when reading the thread title.

Which of course features two of the members of Henry Cow, the wonderful Lindsay Cooper & Georgie Born.

Speaking of Henry Cow, all their albums qualify but what's even weirder is Chris Cutler's CASSIBER.

This debut album is quite out there

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

I thought Frank Zappa's Lumpy Gravy was a very strange album. When I first heard it I thought Tangerine Dream's Phaedra was pretty weird but apparently they have weirder ones. Also, believe it or not I thought the vvery first Genesis album From Genesis To Revelation was rather weird when I first heard it. Side two of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma is another one. I'll have to think about it and list some others later.

FXM wrote:

"Beauborg" by Vangelis was another odd one. In the late 70's I bought his "Albedo 0.39" and "Spiral" albums and loved them. Then he released "Beauborg" I rushed out to buy it expecting something similar but was in for a shock. At the time I hated it but maybe now I would love it if I still had the album.

I had the same reaction to Beauborg, I still don't love it.

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

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Mirakaze wrote:

I'm keeping a list of my own on RateYourMusic; probably there's some overlap with Silly Puppy's list. Mine's not really in any kind of order, but at the top spot lies the self-titled album by the Feminist Improvising Group, which is the first thing I thought of when reading the thread title.

Which of course features two of the members of Henry Cow, the wonderful Lindsay Cooper & Georgie Born.

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - November 17 2021 at 06:26

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

My weirdest album would have to be the first time I heard Dark Side of the Moon. I love it now, but when I came home from the store and put it on, it honestly creeped me out a little!

Area Palea. I have two of their albums, and they are certainly in that category.

I have listened to so much experimental music through the years that there's not much that seems really weird to me these days. I remember the first BIG music "WTF??" moment in my life was when my grandfather played Stockhausen's Gesang der Juenglinge to me. I think I was 15 or so and I didn't get it at all, but these days I do. (My grandfather was big into classical music and after finding out that I got into rock that was more progressive than what he'd pick up on the radio, and failing to get enthusiasm rather than just respect out of me for Bach and Mozart, he thought he could try Stockhausen Big smile

- in the next attempt he scored a proper success with Stravinsky and Bartok.)

Maybe as a consequence of that I wasn't that surprised anymore when I heard, not much later, sides 3 and 4 of Tago Mago, and Kollaps bei Einstuerzende Neubauten (meaning that I accepted that such stuff was around and had a certain fun factor, but it took some more time to seriously appreciate it), and from then on pretty much anything went.

Still I didn't miss the weirdness of Trout Mask Replica and Caution Radiation Area (which means quite something), even though they came to me much later. To many people probably all of Art Zoyd is weird, but I always felt quite at home with them, however they did catch me be surprise doing an album called "Pure Noise" that sounds just as what it says on the tin.