What are some of the strangest pieces of music you've ever listened to?

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Why not ask this guy?

Yeah, I actually first didn't download any of Varese's music from a newsgroup devoted to Zappa, because downloading free music is not only wrong, it's a criminal offense.

So, I didn't do that. At the Zappa-newsgroup. Nope. No sir.

 

[J.Apolo6541]

Hands Down

Mr. Bungle Quote Unquote
(Originally titled -Travolta.... Now you know why they had to change it !)
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=-6HE0FGDsjQ&feature=related
(C'mon, you know what to do )

I had my alarm clock set to Seton Hall's radio station; I used to listen to it when I lived back east, and this song woke me one morning...
In a cold sweat of horror !, Wow !

J

 

[Journia]

Josephine XV

 

[CellarDweller]

Not the strangest, but the funniest in recent times.

You're all familiar with Lady Gaga and her hit "Poker Face".

(Here's the video for those unfamiliar)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngf5Oo_XrjI



Well, here is the latest parody....Lady Gag - Butterface




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7wW-qj2SY

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

I'm becoming a huge fan of Messer Chups, a surf-rock band out of Russia(!). They've been described as an even more manic version of Man-or-Astroman, if that gives you any idea...

 

[Slaver123]

Anything by Varese, especially if it has a Theremin solo!


I'm boasting a little, but I can almost guarantee more strange music has entered my ears than almost anyone else's....

Studied Schoenberg and Vebern in college; I HATE most 12-tone serialism, but Witold Lutoslawski is AWESOME!

Nowadays I enjoy "Space music" and even "Drone music"- some stuff barely sounds like music, just rocket noises and soundbytes of astronauts from the Space Program- AWESOME

 

[Slaver123]

Alberto Ginastera's symphonies and piano sonatas, especially the 2nd piano sonata

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Nowadays I enjoy "Space music" and even "Drone music"

Ooo! Me, too! I may start a separate thread on that at some point. I have a deep and abiding love of ambient music. We'll have to share favorites in the genre. :note:

 

[mikepd]

Kinda strange...mainly different. search youtube for the band " Maylene and the sons of disaster" Song would be " tough as John Jacobs " It's like country metal must here it to understand.

 

[kopfhorer1]

Anything by Varese, especially if it has a Theremin solo!


I'm boasting a little, but I can almost guarantee more strange music has entered my ears than almost anyone else's....

Studied Schoenberg and Vebern in college; I HATE most 12-tone serialism, but Witold Lutoslawski is AWESOME!

Nowadays I enjoy "Space music" and even "Drone music"- some stuff barely sounds like music, just rocket noises and soundbytes of astronauts from the Space Program- AWESOME

Ah, another fan of musique concrete! I'm experimenting with sounds processed through analogue tape-echo (found a 70's-vintage 3-head cassette deck in the garbage - the things people just throw away! It's just appalling, I tell you!)

Philip Glass, Brian Eno and Steve Reich are my main men!

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Did you mean Steve Roach, kopfhorer?

Anyway, here's a sound-collagist whom I've adored for well over a decade now. His name's Wayne Butane, and his CDs will have you howling with laughter. :stuart:

[Caution: Weird-as-fuck. Not for the normal or dull of mind]

 

[MistressValerie1]

The weirdest music I ever heard was Australian Aboriginal music played on native instruments. It was unlike anything I had heard before or since.

 

[locker669]

Vinylshakerz - One Night In Bangkok

 

[kopfhorer1]

Did you mean Steve Roach, kopfhorer?

Anyway, here's a sound-collagist whom I've adored for well over a decade now. His name's Wayne Butane, and his CDs will have you howling with laughter. :stuart:

[Caution: Weird-as-fuck. Not for the normal or dull of mind]

Wayne Butane! Yeah!!! I heard one of his collages on a Canadian radio station's web site!

Here's a guy who does hour-and-change long sound collages. His latest installments are songs by, about, and severely-reworked songs by Michael Jackson ("Deconstructing Jacko")!

@Valerie - Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead was/is a big world music fan. A while back he released CD's of field recordings from various regions.

 

[mikepd]

Kill Whitney Dead.