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Points: 67478 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 26 2009 at 18:42
I can't explain it, but I found Halber Mensch by Einstürzende Neubauten very shocking the first time I heard it and I still do. Especially the title track.
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Originally posted by St.Cleve Chronicle St.Cleve Chronicle wrote:


And you? (NOTE - Shocking does not mean bad. The list of ways in which a piece of music can be shocking would be endless)
 
Sometimes we describe shocking as bad, or even offensive. But there's another way to think of it. I would think of it as something that stunned me, hit me in such a way that I was dumbfounded, something that was so unexpected in it's power that I was left speachless. If I think of it in those terms I'd have to say that describes the first time I heard Birds Of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra.


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Review by hdfisch:

Sick,completely sick!I can't tell more!--Noises from a surgery on someone still alive..... and some Slayer type of metal in between.If you like noise and sick music and you are fan of Slayer (and horror movies) well go for it,just have fun .....or just the most terrifying experience in music you've ever got!For sure "progressive" yes indeed! Even the most difficult FRANK ZAPPA albums are much easier to get into (maybe Mainstream compared to this), but once again....music????I would say rather NO!!!!Really only recommended for fans of very sick music (and of horror movies), humanoids,aliens and so on!!!!
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2009 at 07:37
Originally posted by meptune meptune wrote:

If I think of it in those terms I'd have to say that describes the first time I heard Birds Of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra.


Agreed! Clap Another examples are my first auditions of SBB's "Follow My Dream" and Magma's "K.A." (both were my first encounters with said bands).

Oh and I forget listening to GYBE's "Moya" on the PA streaming, my first encounter with post-rock. Wow!


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The first time I heard Psychic Jugglers by UneXpect on this very site
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Originally posted by meptune meptune wrote:

Things lose their shock value over time, they get "one upped" again and again. I remember being shocked when I heard KCs Red and Lark's Tongues in Aspic (the tracks not the discs). I was shocked when I heard Zappa sing Broken Hearts are for A*******, especially because I heard it the first time at a live show. "Shocking" is definitely relative.
How true.  My nomination is for KC's Cirkus, but it sure doesn't shock me anymore.
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Points: 1955 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2009 at 19:53
Originally posted by Takeshi Kovacs Takeshi Kovacs wrote:



Review by hdfisch:

Sick,completely sick!I can't tell more!--Noises from a surgery on someone still alive..... and some Slayer type of metal in between.If you like noise and sick music and you are fan of Slayer (and horror movies) well go for it,just have fun .....or just the most terrifying experience in music you've ever got!For sure "progressive" yes indeed! Even the most difficult FRANK ZAPPA albums are much easier to get into (maybe Mainstream compared to this), but once again....music????I would say rather NO!!!!Really only recommended for fans of very sick music (and of horror movies), humanoids,aliens and so on!!!!

man this is sick . that album i barely listened to the end .. it is horrible .. i hold myself not to throw the cd out of the window .. i thought i might use it as a frisbee or something ,but not dare listening that crap again. just bunch of noise nothing more.. and some says it is Prog .. i wont call that Prog or anything else  .. 


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Originally posted by meptune meptune wrote:

Originally posted by St.Cleve Chronicle St.Cleve Chronicle wrote:


And you? (NOTE - Shocking does not mean bad. The list of ways in which a piece of music can be shocking would be endless)
 
Sometimes we describe shocking as bad, or even offensive. But there's another way to think of it. I would think of it as something that stunned me, hit me in such a way that I was dumbfounded, something that was so unexpected in it's power that I was left speachless. If I think of it in those terms I'd have to say that describes the first time I heard Birds Of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra.
I felt the same way the first time I heard Percy Jones on a Brand X album.  It both astounded me and depressed me.  As a bassist, there was no way I could ever play like that. Cry
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Nobody's mentioned Threnody yet.
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SYL is pretty intense, and very loud. Meshuggah used to shock me Big smile Mr. Bungle was almost frightening ('goodbye sober day' sure is a great track) but now i love them. but really aside from intense metal, or the insanity of something like Mr. Bungle, music has never really shocked me
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Originally posted by Synchestra Synchestra wrote:

SYL is pretty intense, and very loud. Meshuggah used to shock me Big smile Mr. Bungle was almost frightening ('goodbye sober day' sure is a great track) but now i love them. but really aside from intense metal, or the insanity of something like Mr. Bungle, music has never really shocked me
Mr Bungle really isn't that weird. :P I mean, guys, they were on a major label...

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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by Synchestra Synchestra wrote:

SYL is pretty intense, and very loud. Meshuggah used to shock me Big smile Mr. Bungle was almost frightening ('goodbye sober day' sure is a great track) but now i love them. but really aside from intense metal, or the insanity of something like Mr. Bungle, music has never really shocked me
Mr Bungle really isn't that weird. :P I mean, guys, they were on a major label...
 
I discoverd them when the weirdest music id heard was Radiohead LOL Fantomas also scared me, and i only discovered them like a month ago LOL
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by St.Cleve Chronicle St.Cleve Chronicle wrote:

To me, it has to be sh*tstorm by Strapping young lad.

And you? (NOTE - Shocking does not mean bad. The list of ways in which a piece of music can be shocking would be endless)

Could you please explain to me what's so very shocking about it? Confused


Well, maybe it's that I wasn't very used to that kind of music when I heard it. And I'm still not, actually.
We all feel differntly about different things. This is about everyone's personal shocking experience.
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for me it is "Dem Guten, Schönen, Wahren" by Amon Düül 2. lyrically one of the most shocking songs ever, and definitely mega-shocking at the time it came out. you have to understand German though to be shocked. nowadays a lot more shocking songs have been written, but this one still grabs you.

the lyrics of "Henriette Krötenschwanz" from the same album are supposedly just as shocking, but the way Renate Knaup sings them they are very difficult to understand; they only line I fully get is "dein helles Blut versickert im Sand", "your bright blood trickles away in the sand"


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Points: 1573 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2009 at 09:39
The lyrics to Ptolemy by this guy are pretty shocking...
 
https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2009 at 11:05
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Nobody's mentioned Threnody yet.
 
Yes, Penderecki is quite difficult.
But in contemporary classical music, you have plenty of those "shocking" pieces :
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come in general.  And no, I didn't say that because it's considered "shock rock", though I do enjoy a pun from time to time
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There's supposed to be a recording circulating around the net of a Lebanese trumpeter playing to the accompaniament of Israeli bombs/shells falling around him. Haven't heard it personally, but I'd say it takes the cake.
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I usually don't listen to Sunn O))), but my friend told me to listen to "Bathory Erzsebet" and it's with out a doubt the scariest, piece of music I've ever heard.
Apparently, they locked their extremely claustrophobic singer in a casket and recorded his screaming for the vocals.
When my friend told me that, I was a bit skeptical at first, me being completely enthusiastic when it comes to anything and everything horrific/scary/creepy and never being freaked out by anything, so I figured "How scary could some screaming possibly be?"
Needless to say, it was actually pretty jarring the first time I heard it and I actually had to turn it off.
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Cage's  4' 33"  or Earle Brown's December 1952 should probably be in contention. 
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