IanB
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 07:20
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The widdly is infuriating but they made some great avant garde sounding singles. Clapton's capable of being a bit of tosser so it is easy to forget how radical they sounded at the time. And a year before Jimi's arrival too.
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Rolling Ronnie
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 11:00
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Probably 'The Hapless Child' by Michael Mantler, Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt & others. Edward Gorey's gothic poetry set to mad music. It's fantastic :-)
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Kid Calamity
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 11:16
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I remember really quite enjoying 'O Superman' by Laurie Anderson, on its release. I heard it again recently and still enjoyed it. It reached N°1 in the UK charts, but I suspect this was becuase a lot of people here love a 'novelty' record and will simply buy it for that reason alone, whether they like or can even comprehend it.
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Stevo
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 11:50
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Couple of wyrd folk things fit the bill too
Simon Finn Pass The Distance
cathartic semi improvised record from early 70s with David Toop as sideman. Bought this mailorder last year, took it up to camp and freaked out several people that I was listening to it out of choice. I find it pretty engaging, Finn doesn't seem to have a very firm grasp on tune in several places
Jan Dukes De Grey Mice and Rats In The LOft
almost totally improvised 3 track lp from turn of the 70s. Getting far more into electric territory than preceding folky lp. This like the lp above was reissued through collaboration with David Tibet of Current 93.
Comus First Utterance
SEveral of the band members had some history of mental illness. This lp is mainly acoustic but is as intense as Death(or Doom?) Metal.
There's a SAnctuary mid price double set and a Get Back/Durtro single disc release just of the lp.
Manson Lie
There's some great quicksilverish guitar on this from BObby Beausoleil among Manson's own croonerish songs. Also some very strangely structured stuff like Garbage Dump & Arkansas Man. I love CEase To Exist which the Beach Boys reworked.
Stevo
Np MC5 TRue Testimonial (just playing through copy I just burnt since a friend's machine couldn't copy it. Don't want to find out part of it's f***d)
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keith a
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 12:30
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Yeah, as much as I hate EC I don't mind the odd Cream moment.
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keith a
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 12:32
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Don't listen to him, pop pickers. It only got to number two! ; )
I played it recently, too. Fab stuff.
Got give a quick mention to Barnes & Barnes Fishhead, which I think I'm right insaying you're a fan of too, Kid.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 12:54
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First record I bought (O Superman).
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 13:00
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I couldn't possibly say.
I know for a fact that certain things that I've thought of as failsafe pop classics have been met with by looks of absolute confusion when filtered through others' ears.
Also there's a certain element of I'm mad me in declaring I like weird stuff or my taste's just so fucked up, man or whatever.
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amazon
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 15:24
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anthonyqkiernan wrote:
Also there's a certain element of I'm mad me in declaring I like weird stuff or my taste's just so fucked up, man or whatever.
Indeed.
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Eduardo
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2007, 15:46
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Recently bought the Fiery Furnaces Rehearsing My Choir (ain't THAT weird - O comes before I in choir, even though you say it kwy-or!).
I'd be stretching the truth to say that I enjoyed it if I'm honest. They've got their grandmother on it kind of narrating along, & she has the least lovely old-persons-voice you've ever heard. Rather than a nice little old lady she sounds like a pervy Mr Punch!
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