c/asklemmy · by TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world · 2y

What is the strangest song you've heard?

For me it's Nitrobenzene by OwataP. This one is... make car horn noises? idk man, the whole benzene series is weird but this was the strangest one i've heard so far

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nerdschleife@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Who can forget CBAT

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That's where my mind first went. The fact that that song is still turning up is fascinating.

RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y

Oh man, that whole post. It is not even that old but so damn good. The commenters who first have written serious responses but then later edited them after hearing that damn song. Just wow.

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

Wa wawa, wa wawawa, wa.

Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

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flubba86@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I for one certainly cannot forget CBAT. It's nuts, and so good, and so bad.

rudyharrelson@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y (3 replies)

For me, it's probably "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

It's like a weird fever dream. Catchy tune though.

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Great tune that. A lot of the main samples are from John Waters movies I believe.

Quazatron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Thank you for bringing this back to me, sir.

waterbogan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Now this.... this is seriously strange. Strongest contender so far. Their track "Subways" is also quite something

Gigan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Chacarron

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y

I’ve been transported back to YTMND days.

ki77erb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I can't believe multiple people put a lot of effort into making this. So weird.

Carrolade@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

I think it'll get neglected a little bit just because of how well-known and frankly good it is, but Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is a very weird song. Probably not the very strangest for me, but it's up there. Definitely the strangest that I actually like and remember well.

stanleytweedle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Tim Curry - I Do The Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPCsaO_55o

Also Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Also Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

Or completely non-strange once you understand the method behind the madness. Either way, a damn cool/funny song IMO.

Anyway for the OP, instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music, I'll go instead with The Shaggs, three teenage girls who had utterly no musical training, but who tried their best to make conventional, 'normal music':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5T2kaFiFgg

Over the decades, the album Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and found fans such as Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. Following a 1980 reissue on Rounder Records, it received enthusiastic reviews for its uniqueness in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. A compilation of unreleased material, Shaggs' Own Thing, was released in 1982. The Shaggs became the subject of fascination in the 1990s, when interest grew in outsider music, and they are credited with influencing twee pop. --WP

stanleytweedle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music

That's what I like- organic 'strangeness'. Philip Glass has made some strange sounding music but with intent, that was his style. The Celentano piece is intentional linguistically too but it's a very strange to experience how effectively he's mimicking US 'phonics' or whatever.

The Tim Curry piece is hilariously strange to me because Tim Curry actually can and does rock, but somehow wrote an embarrassingly unrocking song about how rocking he is.

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That Shaggs tune was cool. The guitar actually remind me of the final few tracks on Velvet Underground and Nico, when it's degenerating into madness.

SirDankbud@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Pretty sure The Most Unwanted Song takes the cake on that front. It has bagpipes and opera rap! Good luck listening all the way through. https://youtu.be/-gPuH1yeZ08?si=NRXK7GH9qnDbGt3H

FullOfBallooons@leminal.space · 4 pts · 2y

No joke, I think about "do all your shopping... at Wal-Mart!" more than I should.

Nemo@midwest.social · 4 pts · 2y

Ramadan! Ramadan!
Lots of praying and no breakfast!
Ramadan! So much fun!

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

Thank you for this. I just listened to the whole thing. Then I listened to The Most Wanted Song.

The most Wanted felt 5x longer than The Most Unwanted.

Pronell@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I own that on CD!

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Maybe not the strangest, but definitely up there. Twiggy Twiggy by Pizzicato Five.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rAY4Wo-QkQ

SeedyOne@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Whatever the hell this song is supposed to be. The more you watch, the weirder it gets.

ki77erb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Wrap it up boys. We found the winner! WTF?

atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Well, they asked and you answered.

ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Sounds like a John Cage piece, but I have no clue.

ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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FullOfBallooons@leminal.space · 3 pts · 2y

Cathy Berberian - Stripsody

An opera singer and avant-garde music composer who made a song out of comic book sound effects.

Less strange, she also did an operatic cover of The Beatles' Ticket to Ride. I'm pretty sure my ironic love of this has crossed over into completely unironic genuine love.

deranger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

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Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y

It's gotta be something from Songs in the Key of Z

https://open.spotify.com/album/7hkWmPdLAFG3WnXJKBKyRL?si=REmJQO_jTZCq6CxRLeZM0Q

praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

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Jayb151@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Here's a good one. On the surface, it's not that strange... Until you think you're having a stroke because none of the words make sense. It's all gibberish

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDY3HFkh_Y&si=CUtoNyslkSlpq-KI&feature=xapp_share

DrBob@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y

Steve Reich has a lot of interesting stuff. I have heard Clapping Music performed several times. https://youtube.com/watch?v=liYkRarIDfo

Bo7a@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Buggy Techinica by Polysics.

It is not super strange to me, but everyone I share it with looks at me like I'm a nutter.

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

Polysics is fucking weeeeird and I love them.

TEI! TEI! TEI!

cousinofjah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Bitch I'm a cow

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 2y

Never get ahead by Bobby Conn. In this video he's performing at a youth show, so he isn't allowed to sing 'you'll never get ahead by giving head to the man' instead singing 'saying yes to the man'. But he slips up once, saying sorry after.

Nemo@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y

"Little Specked Egg" by Cordelia's Dad

Stern@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Basically Merzbow's entire discograpgy. Here's the album Pulse Demon, and no, its neither a bad upload nor did your speakers (which you should turn down beforehand) take a shit on you.

https://youtu.be/ukZYP5Dy43E

willya@lemmyf.uk · 2 pts · 2y

Baby shark backwards.

Gobbel2000@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

György Ligeti: Aventures

Very experimental, not just with microtonality but making the singers do noises that few composers dared to put into their music.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 2 pts · 2y

Jesus Was Way Cool by King Missile.

Shit, I'm not even sure you can classify it as a song, really. There's music and words, but the words are just spoken and it's just a guy giving mad props to Jesus Christ. But it's like a surfer, grunge kinda dude so it sounds sarcastic AF.

But also Ween. So much Ween. They have maybe 2 or 3 albums of somewhat regular music, and then 5 times more just the most bizarre, drug induced aural hallucinations imaginable. I love 'em.

Oh and I can't forget Daniel Johnston; a song writer with schizophrenia that afaik only released his work as bespoke, custom cassettes for people so there are like thousands of different versions of the same songs because he just played them from memory. The songs themselves are pretty gnarly, too.

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict - Pink Floyd

Quexotic@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2y

Sid berret is the musical version of Salvador Dali.

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Too Many Zoos - Car Alarm

JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Check out Moon Hooch, like too many zoos but i think they just do it better. Some are pretty catchy like 'Number 9' and 'EWI'

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

When you realize Hamsterdance:

https://youtu.be/H9K8-3PHZOU

Is the Whistle Stop song from Robin Hood sped up:

https://youtu.be/gxnvxtYfsd4

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y

As certainly not a furry, I recognized that immediately when I booted up dial-up for the first time hahaha

BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

It was a song I heard from a friend who was in a Music Appreciation class. The song was just counting in kind of a meditative chant and only did it in groups of 2 3 or 4, i can't remember. and they only counted to 12 or something and then started back. so it'd be like "one two three four one two three four five six seven eight one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve one two three four"

kartonrealista@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Kraus - Pitch Fucker

Renard - Rainbow Dash Likes Girls (Stay Gay Pony Girl)

Susumu Hirasawa - Day Scanner

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y

Heyo yee Lapfox!

ArtieShaw@fedia.io · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Cut the Mullet. A classic. And good advice in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roxMH07qHmc

For some general Milwaukee style weird, there will always be Wooden Robot. I really liked Wooden Robot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOmtl8Lmeps

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y

RIP Wesley Willis.

18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Anything by Clown Core or Macabre is always sure to delight.

MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Literally anything by Prince Midnight. He plays black metal on a xylophone and a guitar supposedly made of the skeletal remains of his late uncle (Google it, it's a fascinating rabbit hole lol). He calls his music "black metal" but to me it sounds more like black metal vocals mixed with The Doors, 80s style hardcore punk, and I guess eastern European folk music? A lot of the themes seem to be about Greek mythology. It's a wild ride lol

Here's a track to sample: Sword of Dardanos

weeeeum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Staple tapeworms to my penis - passenger of shit

Quazatron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I Wanna Be A Cowboy by Boys Don't Cry.

Lemmy Kilmister did a cameo in this video!

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

It would have to be any of the four tracks on Metal Machine Music. I made myself listen to the entire thing once. Once.

Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Shake it Off by Taylor Swift

DarkGamer@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Mr. Bungle - Golem 2 the bionic vapour boy