Fitter Stoke
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Edited Jul 02, 2013, 20:12
Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2013, 20:06
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AMM 'AMMMusic 1966' - the free-est of free jazz records yet strangely accessible and compelling. They were to go on to even looser stuff but this is the record of theirs I dig the most. Still available on Chris Cutler's ReR label, which is the greatest source of so much weird shit (in the complimentary sense).
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Fitter Stoke
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Edited Jul 02, 2013, 20:30
Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2013, 20:27
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I gotta mention Robert Wyatt's 'Rock Bottom' as well. We're all so familiar with it after 39 years that it's too easy to forget just how downright radical, original and far out it was...and remains.
Which reminds me, in turn, to pretty much all of Virgin's early catalogue. Jeez, their very first batch included 'Flying Teapot', 'Marjory Razorblade', 'The Faust Tapes' and a ramshackle, pissed up session man collective called 'Manor Live' that were beyond adventurous in both commercial and musical terms. Oh, and something called 'Tubular Bells' that was itself far from regular fayre at the time. Then came Henry Cow. No wonder Branson got a reputation as an entrepreneur.
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Sin Agog
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2013, 20:28
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It would have to be Japanese. I'll go with Juke/19's entire ouevre. They veer from early Boredoms and Godz-like yelpings to long, beautiful protracted drones, to nightmare noise loops. I couldn't possibly say why, but it just hypnotises me like nothing else. They'll be too raw and weird for most people's blood but they really get mine flowing.
I usually find as long as the artist isn't being too contrived and self-conscious about their mad noise, something in my music receptors will pick up on their enthusiasm and resonate to the energy behind it. If it's an acutely aware attempt at being weird, well...I still may enjoy it, but the grating things will probably grate just that little bit more.
I seem to have gone a bit full circle lately, after floating past an early, intense EVERYTHING I LISTEN TO MUST BE AN ELECTROACOUSTIC RELIC THAT WOULD MAKE THE ACTS ON THE NWW-LIST RUN HOME CRYING stage to the ability to even appreciate chart pop back to a need for esoterica and visceral stuff after being around too many people whose tastes veer towards music that you can do nothing but nod absently to. They're lovely people, but I generally need something I can listen to actively; something that challenges my way of thinking, or sends electric currents up and down my arteries.
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billding68
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Edited Jul 03, 2013, 13:59
Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 02, 2013, 23:42
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this is a REALLY old thread!!!
Anyhow..... Nunsexmonkrock by Nina Hagen is out there for a "pop" album in my top 5 of all time for sure.
Troutmaskreplica by beefheart its a grower for sure.
Sidewinder by Morton Subotnick don't know if this is on cd my old lp is full of pops and hisses that add more to the album.
Early S.P.K painful sounds of agony and torture sounds just as good on 45 as it does on 33 1/3.
The grand illusion by Styx JUST KIDDING!
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claudio
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 04, 2013, 00:32
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Brainticket,Cottonwoodhill.
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mr sulcus
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 04, 2013, 09:59
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"Orbus Terrarum" by The Orb. In hindsight not that weird but as a teenager, this was the tape that plugged me into a whole different musical world. Very different from anything else I'd heard, I didn't get it first but had spent all my pocket money on it and it took a while until it clicked. Still in my all time top 10.
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olivergoodyear
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 04, 2013, 16:33
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This is such a wide open topic because everyone's idea of weird is so different. I would guess that most people on this board would happily groove along to 45 minutes of The Faust Tapes, but I have many friends who would see it as a sure sign of an addled brain.
The Residents' Eskimo came up earlier, and I think I'll go for that one. I only heard it recently and even into a 30 year career of esoteric music listening it struck me as pretty peculiar. It's no the noise, per se (which is often not a million miles from more standard ambient fare) but the whole concept and strategy. What a weird thing to concoct. And the sense of absurdity about the whole record is palpable. Yes, I have weirder sounding records, but fewer so weird in execution.
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Monganaut
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 05, 2013, 13:10
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Totally looked thru this great thread. Some wonderful choices up there.
For me, I think it'll be
Time machines - Time machines
Ambient to the extreme, rather cheesily the four tracks have 'drug' names, but as far as drone outs go, this is the beans.
The flip side of which would be...
Coil - Constant shallowness leads to evil
Amazing layers of distorted resonance and dissonant frequencies, something akin to all the back ground noise around you sandwiched together and pumped out all at the same time. I've always been drawn to 'sounds' as much as music and melody. With synths, the more twisted the better TBH.
Nurse With Wound - Spiral Insana
Heard/bought this when I was about 18, and it changed my opinion of what could be classed as music. Love the returned to 'musical' themes that drift/cut in and out on this record. Probably heard the Nocturnal Emmisions on Peel at the same time, which became another fav' band of my youth.
In my mid 20's got into the whole Earache records thang, that grindcore/industrial thing really did it for me then. Particularly enjoyed stuff by Carcass and Electro Hippies, stuff that I can barely listen to now.
Swans - Cop was pretty radical when I first heard it. Don't think i'd heard such an intense/depressing record at the time, though with a very low slung funk to some of the tracks. About the same time i discovered Einsturzende Neubauten. Think I picked up Kollaps and Strategies 1 and was hooked from there. Of course, NWW and Neubauten led onto Faust, who I'd not heard of except in interviews with E.N.
Early Feotus records still get fairly regular spins. Strange, almost comedic mix of show tunes, surf music and industrial clatter with some great catchy lyrics. Sure it was massively informed by The Residents et al, but J G Thirwell seemed to make it a sound of his own.
Could go on all day but that'll have to do for now.
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Dog 3000
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 05, 2013, 23:25
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I quite enjoy The Shaggs "Philosophy of the World".
Somewhat like Beefheart or Ornette & Denardo, as performed by a trio of hopelessly unhip Karen Carpenter fans.
estrogenic skronk!
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1001realapes
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Re: What's the weirdest record you've heard and enjoyed?
Jul 06, 2013, 01:02
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Caroliner factors in here...
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