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PrincessTast...	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 10:42 AM What's the wierdest album you've ever heard? My top 5 in no particular order: Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun Can - Tago Mago Flaming Lips - Telepahic Surgery Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
wailingmiserere	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 11:02 AM Anja Garbarek - Smiling & Waving Anja Garbarek - Balloon Mood Oldsolar - Many Vistors Have Been Gored By Buffalo Dark Star - Twenty Twenty Sound Cocteau Twins - Garlands Most of them are probably more spacey than weird though...
PrincessTast...	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 11:06 AM Don't matter, that counts too! I'll have to check some of these out! Anyone else got any?
zedsalt	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 11:12 AM Diamanda Galas' "Masque of the Red Death" is wonderfully weird (her collab with John Paul Jones, "The Sporting Life", is a good choice if "...Masque..." is a little TOO weird for you).
Alecs	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 11:23 AM 1. http://halaka.dmusic.com/ 2. http://halaka.dmusic.com/ 3. http://halaka.dmusic.com/ 4. http://halaka.dmusic.com/ 5. http://halaka.dmusic.com/
PrincessTast...	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 11:25 AM Yup!
sinai	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 12:00 PM Ulver
Alstroph	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 12:28 PM ALECS! I don't see FLYING APPARATUS in that list! Well I guess we don't have an album...
kingo	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 12:38 PM Our albums are actually the only normal albums. Everything else is all fucked up. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
PrincessTast...	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 12:53 PM Beefheart! Almost forgot about him! Yeah that's a crazy one all right.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 1:24 PM I dunno about albums, but listen this song called Poeme Electronique by Edgard Varese. Think about being locked in a room with Frank Zappa and some weird electronic gadgets that are not actual musical instruments, but produce weird sounds. That'll give you a faint idea what it sounds like!
leedsquietman	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 2:15 PM Bjork or The Sugarcubes (Bjorks band) -
MinisterofSc...	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 2:18 PM Yay! Bjork!
MinisterofSc...	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 2:19 PM Big Dumb Face...I forget who it's by...but it has death metal on it...some country stuff and a medly of other weird stuffs. John 5, Vertigo; only because it's metal AND country.
kingo	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 2:28 PM Oh yeah, there are also a lot of weird to choose from in the set of things that contain Mike Patton. Mr. Bungle, I don't know which album is most weirdest. Let's say Disco Volante. Then Fantomas stuff, take your pick. And his solo shit is nothing BUT weird. With a cherry on top.
furiousBall	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 2:32 PM continuing on kingo's Bungle lineage above...Secret Chiefs 3 Trey Spruance is insane and brilliant
kingo	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 2:45 PM Except, Shhhh... they're supposed to be secret.
TheOwl	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 3:24 PM Can - Monster Movie Frank Zappa/Mothers: Uncle Meat Pink Floyd: ANYTHING before DSOTM Magma: Udu Wudu, Mekhanik Destruktowh Kommando Van Der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts Mr Bungle: Disco Volante Soft Machine: s/t Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
	Date: January 31, 2006 @ 10:20 PM les claypool's bucket of bernie brains: flying eyeball in the sky
100thmonk	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 3:16 AM residents mole trilogy velvet underground v.u. and white light white heat syd barret .. any ween the pod butthole surfers hairway to steven king krimson starless and bible black steelpole bathtub helios creed boxing the clown nurse with wound blah blah blah...
mattbanx	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 3:56 AM Pink Floyd - Saucerful Of Secrets The Moody Blues - On A Threshold Of A Dream Saga - Worlds Apart Styx - The Serpent Is Rising And any of the Jesus Christ Superstar albums
zedsalt	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 10:59 AM For the Minister: "Big Dumb Face" was by Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit fame.
zedsalt	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 11:00 AM Is it just me, or does Trey Spruance look a lot like Skin from The Strange Sensation?
evansorchid	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 11:40 AM Anyone remember Tones on Tail?
victorsskull	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 11:51 AM any thing from primus
	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 10:41 PM ok i got one no one thinks of Skip Spence: Oar
GeneHilbert	Date: February 1, 2006 @ 10:44 PM I'm thinking Captain Beefheart.....
zedsalt	Date: February 2, 2006 @ 10:37 AM Technically...um, Mr./Ms. Blank, it's "Alexander Spence" on that one...that absomalutally brilliant one.
MindSculpture	Date: February 3, 2006 @ 7:59 AM Sky Moves Sideways is class.
PrincessTast...	Date: February 3, 2006 @ 3:28 PM I just downloaded Captain Beefheart's "Safe as Milk" album, and I like that one too.
FebruaryBattles	Date: February 3, 2006 @ 3:30 PM primus rocks!!
PrincessTast...	Date: February 3, 2006 @ 3:35 PM Got that right! If I had to pick the weirdest Primus album I'd say "Pork Soda".
EvilPicnic	Date: February 3, 2006 @ 3:39 PM Trout Mask Replica is an awesomely awesome weird album. As is Zappa's Weasels Ripped My Flesh, especially the improvs and the title track. But what's weird? I mean, Weasels Ripped My Flesh is weird, but Francesco Zappa is weirder IMO. I mean, what sort of person programs string quartets by some obscure composer into a synthesiser and then releases it all as an actual album? That's just weird. In terms of spacey, you can't get spacier than one of Fripps Frippertronic soundscape albums.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: February 3, 2006 @ 3:49 PM Oh yeah... The Berzerker's "Self Titled" and "Dissimulate". That's some weird shit...
TegidC	Date: February 3, 2006 @ 6:43 PM Love Bjork - Unplugged is INTENSE! Get it if you can. So many cool weird instruments. I own a Captain Beefheart Album but could only listen to it once, too much for me. Maybe if I ever geyt heavily into drug culture I'll understand what's going on.
FebruaryBattles	Date: February 3, 2006 @ 6:52 PM i remember the primus cd with the cartoon baby on the cover.. used to give me nightmares
Distilled1	Date: February 4, 2006 @ 1:59 AM Pink Floyd - Ummagumma Fish (yes with a F)-Raingods with Zippos ... There are many to ed up to think
Distilled1	Date: February 4, 2006 @ 2:07 AM well I have them all on vinal and CD very spacy I would say but bizzar ..no Obscured by clouds is the best from Pink Floyd :nod: A guy from Michigan band is called...:think::banghead: :idea:! Eat the Neon great stuff!!! find it or ask I will pass it along very :cool: spacy stuff very well done:nod: and not to far out there:D And of course our very own ZedSalt:D A master of sound and emotion better listen to it all it is the Sht:nod:" id="198666">"Pink Floyd: ANYTHING before DSOTM"* well I have them all on vinal and CD very spacy I would say but bizzar ..no Obscured by clouds is the best from Pink Floyd A guy from Michigan band is called... ! Eat the Neon great stuff!!! find it or ask I will pass it along very spacy stuff very well done and not to far out there And of course our very own ZedSalt A master of sound and emotion better listen to it all it is the Sh*t
100thmonk	Date: February 4, 2006 @ 2:07 AM you should give shiny beast and ice cream for crow by beefheart a try too "floppy boot stomp", "ashtray heart", tropical hotdog night""apesma" as for zappa, i agree with evil picnic, he has got to be one of the weirdest out there, with thousands of strange and unusual pieces of music in his catalogue..
zedsalt	Date: February 4, 2006 @ 11:03 AM Ah, my heart...and if I'm not careful, my head...swells with pride! Thank you, Distilled1! I do aim to be odd.
PrincessTast...	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 3:35 PM I just remembered a good one. Tom Waits' "Swordfishtrombones" album. Not very spacey, but pppplennty wEiRd.
PrincessTast...	Date: February 10, 2006 @ 3:43 PM "Soft Machine: s/t" just downloaded the first three Vol. 2 is even weirder than the 1st, Third reminds me of Zappa's "Hot Rats".
EtherEclectic	Date: February 10, 2006 @ 3:45 PM pork soda? thats not fair lol everything les claypool has been extremely strange beyond reason lol. at first i wanted to say "sail the seas of cheese" or their new one about animals acting as humans something like that... but now that i think about it, no primus album has ever been less of just fucking weird!
PrincessTast...	Date: February 10, 2006 @ 3:49 PM I guess you're right, hard to pick just one!
8111	Date: February 12, 2006 @ 9:32 PM Umma Gumma - Floyd UFORB- The Orb Diamand Galas-The Sporting Life Anything by Zappa shit! that's only four, guess I need to buy a Halaka album...
kingo	Date: February 13, 2006 @ 8:32 AM You COULD buy a halaka album, but it might be easier to just go get some for free somewhere.
Ramonesworsh...	Date: February 19, 2006 @ 10:51 AM All the major screamy death metal bands are kinda weird.
PrincessTast...	Date: May 7, 2006 @ 11:13 PM Oh, my! It's been awhile hasn't it! Took me almost a year to warm up to Velvet Underground's "White Light White Heat", perhaps the first punk album? Also bought Zappa's "Uncle Meat", truly one of the weirdest, even in Zappa's book. And also got Syd Barrett and Mr. Bungle albums on the advice of you guys, and greatly enjoy them. A very big thank you to everyone who contributed to this thread!
brothahj	Date: May 14, 2006 @ 2:03 PM its begins and ends with: The Moody Blues - On A Threshold Of A Dream and I love the Moody Blues, one of my all-time favorite bands.
HenriRoger	Date: May 14, 2006 @ 2:33 PM cecil mac bee double bass solo in "let us go into the house of the lord" in pharoah sanders album " summum bukmum umyum " .
Woof	Date: May 14, 2006 @ 8:33 PM David Peel & The Lower East Side's "The Pope Smokes Dope" righteously deserves the title of first punk album, IMHO... As for weird, well... Nobody's mentioned Amon Duul's "Tanz Der Lemminge" yet. My faves are "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Plier" and "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus" by Firesign Theatre, though.
PrincessTast...	Date: May 14, 2006 @ 10:00 PM great suggestions guys! also I'd like to add: Sun Ra - the Solar Myth Approach Vol. 1 & 2 any weird rap I'm curious?
zedsalt	Date: May 15, 2006 @ 10:56 AM Did you know that a promo for "The Pope Smokes Dope" was the only photo in John Lennon's FBI file? That's right; with all of the pictures that were taken of the man, the photo in his FBI file was...not him.
AMGram	Date: May 15, 2006 @ 11:40 AM king crimson: red primus: pork soda
AMGram	Date: May 15, 2006 @ 11:41 AM Floyd: Ummagumma (studio disc)
EvilPicnic	Date: May 15, 2006 @ 1:56 PM Red isn't really weird, or spacy. Just heavy & clever.
RocShaman	Date: May 19, 2006 @ 8:07 AM Going back aways, how about the Seeds, Ultimate Spinach, The Blues McGoos, 13th Floor Elevators, Eire Apparent (Produced by Jimi Hendrix and he plays on their sole album as well), The Pretty Things, The Nice. Another couple of great King Crimson records - Larks Tongue in Aspic, The Court of the Crimson King. Reggae dubsters African Headcharge made some of the strangest reggae dub I've ever heard, very cool.
RocShaman	Date: May 19, 2006 @ 8:12 AM One I forgot was the band Love, very cool band and weird.
EvilPicnic	Date: May 19, 2006 @ 9:03 AM The Flaming Lips! All their albums. I pick: Clouds Taste Metallic.
wailingmiserere	Date: May 19, 2006 @ 11:40 AM Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa Til Du Dør The Kaizers are little known outside of Scandinavian, but certainly one of the weirdest, most brilliant bands around. Rather like Radiohead getting very drunk on cheap gin and playing gypsy sea shanties. This, from their Wikipedia entry, says it all really... "...Any Kaizers show worthy of mention contains gas masks, oil barrels, crowbars, axe handles and the like..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizers_Orchestra
furiousBall	Date: May 19, 2006 @ 2:43 PM Spacemen 3 - Perfect Prescription Moondog - Moondog 2 (Madrigals: Rounds and Canons) The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
hate9wicket	Date: May 19, 2006 @ 7:27 PM Tom Waits - Mule Variations Robert Fripp -That which Passes/SoundScapes Live in Argentina 1999 Butthole Surfers - Humpty Dumpty LSD (Rare unreleased or home recordings)
kyodylee	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 4:22 AM Bonzo Dog Band - I'm the Urban Spaceman George Harrison - Wonderwall Music Harry Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson
zedsalt	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 10:43 AM Wood Records was going to do a Bonzo Dog Band tribute album; I wonder whatever became of that? Their Phil Ochs tribute ("Poison Ochs") is big cool.
panicstrickin	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 2:41 PM The Cure....Disintegration Roger Waters-The Pros and Cons Of Hitch hiking Anything from Tool Mike Patton- Vocalese Antthing from Gwar Oysterhead
TheOwl	Date: May 21, 2006 @ 7:37 PM Ultra obscure, "Scheintot" by Factrix, a short-lived industrial band from San Fran (circa 1981 or so), some othe the most pointedly EVIL scary and creepy stuff I ever heard, in addition to being spacey and weird.
SimonWaldram	Date: May 21, 2006 @ 8:10 PM Mercury Rev - 'Yerself Is Steam' Absoutely blew my mind when I first heard it as a 16 year old and it still sounds great today. Jandek - 'Ready For the House' It's not weird or spacey or anything like that to me anymore, it's just pure, beautiful self expression. Godz - 'Contact High' Brilliant mid-sixties pyschedelic insanity by guys who played their instruments like...well, Jandek.
PrincessTast...	Date: June 12, 2006 @ 6:35 PM Someone else has heard of the 13th Floor Elevators
patrickbulch	Date: June 12, 2006 @ 6:52 PM Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69
PrincessTast...	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 12:29 AM Ash Ra Temple - s/t 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere Cosmos Factory - An Old Castle of Transylvania
Opossum	Date: June 18, 2006 @ 1:13 AM Tangerine Dream's "Thief" soundtrack, some of it, anyway, as well as parts of "Exit". I've got almost all of their albums, including the special Edgar Froese double set. Tony Hymas - Oyate, which is a mix of Native American styles, spoken word, and some sort of very unusual blaring horns that go on for ages. I like it but can only listen to it fully about once a year. For weird, there's a reggae version of "Whiter Shade of Pale" in which nearly all the lyrics are wrong, including such as "you skip the light and dangle", "as the mirror drove his chair", and "her face was burst just ghostly".
Industrial-B...	Date: July 3, 2006 @ 3:15 AM More on the wierd side but meh: Zoogoo - S/T Worriedaboutsatan - s/t Tribes of Neurot - Adaptation and Survival Vincent Bergeron - L'Art Du Désarroi (Amazing example of creative Samapling)
PrincessTast...	Date: September 9, 2006 @ 9:45 AM I'd also add Monster Magnet to the list, Tab 25 and Superjudge are seriously screwed up and brilliant IMO.
AdNauseam	Date: September 9, 2006 @ 10:27 PM There's some band with two 'o's and a 'g' whose name I cannot think of right now. Their stuff is pretty spacey. Oh, and 'Om', by the Bird. It's weird, although it is some of the best albums ever made. Sadly it was made under the influence of some pretty nasty drugs.
AdNauseam	Date: September 9, 2006 @ 10:28 PM *one of the best albums
invocati	Date: September 9, 2006 @ 10:53 PM KIng Crimson Rules the odd in strange music. They take alot of there stuff now or are influenced by those drug induced beings known as BEATniks
jewsus	Date: September 10, 2006 @ 12:34 PM anything from mr. bungle is extremely odd. evil circus music, how much more weird can you get? plus mike patton is a complete oddball.
zedsalt	Date: September 11, 2006 @ 10:45 AM Has anyone ever seen "Trey Spruance" from Mr. Bungle and "Skin" from The Strange Sensation in the same place at the same time?
Rikki27	Date: September 11, 2006 @ 5:45 PM Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother. Enough said
Dodecafono	Date: October 10, 2006 @ 12:51 AM Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money
PrincessTast...	Date: October 10, 2006 @ 9:05 AM You could almost spin off another genre with Atom Heart Mother -- orchestral space rock!
zedsalt	Date: October 10, 2006 @ 10:45 AM Then, of course, there's the genre of albums that feature that same Frisian cow (Atom Heart Mother, a Hall and Oates album, and one Eurhythmics l.p.).
Alecs	Date: October 10, 2006 @ 12:35 PM Well, not an album, but Vai's song Death Eaters on Alien Love Secrets is pretty whacko
aflunky	Date: October 10, 2006 @ 8:16 PM You guys ever hear "Tha Snikaz LP" ? http://www.cafepress.com/losers_inc.52596477
JanTosh	Date: October 11, 2006 @ 12:28 AM Geogaddi by Boards of Canada creeped me out first time I heard it. I was sort of unsettled for about a day afterward.
Cheeseboot	Date: October 11, 2006 @ 4:29 AM Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennaes to the sky Pink Floyd - Animals Modest Mouse - Fruit That Ate Itself Thom Yorke - The Eraser Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
PrincessTast...	Date: January 11, 2007 @ 8:45 AM On 9th Sep 2008, AdNauseam said: There's some band with two 'o's and a 'g' whose name I cannot think of right now. Their stuff is pretty spacey. Oh, and 'Om', by the Bird. It's weird, although it is some of the best albums ever made. Sadly it was made under the influence of some pretty nasty drugs. Haven't been able to find this one, but have heard good things about it. The quest for bizarre and otherworldly music continues! On 19th May 2008, RocShaman said: Going back aways, how about the Seeds, Ultimate Spinach, The Blues McGoos, 13th Floor Elevators, Eire Apparent (Produced by Jimi Hendrix and he plays on their sole album as well), The Pretty Things, The Nice. Another couple of great King Crimson records - Larks Tongue in Aspic, The Court of the Crimson King. Reggae dubsters African Headcharge made some of the strangest reggae dub I've ever heard, very cool. Along with those aforementioned psych-groups, I'll add Egg,the United States of America, It's A Beautiful Day, Mad River, and the Plastic Cloud (Canadian fuzz-psych, very rare).
zedsalt	Date: January 11, 2007 @ 10:54 AM The Seeds, YEAH! Sky Saxon and company RAWKED! The United States of America was a killer "concept band". I love the way they used...really heavily used...their wind and brass section. The Peanut Butter Conspiracy was another great group for that.
zedsalt	Date: January 11, 2007 @ 10:57 AM Has anyone mentioned Love's "Changes" yet? It was just reissued not too long ago...
PrincessTast...	Date: January 11, 2007 @ 11:30 AM I bought it shortly before Arthur Lee died, simply brilliant, one of those "How come I've never heard of this before?" albums. I had heard "House Is Not A Motel" in cover versions, but never the original.
Tallisman	Date: January 11, 2007 @ 3:16 PM I my vote goes to Kool Keith's Black Elvis "Lost In Space" and another by him, Dr. Octagon . Good stories behind them too...
ryanwilliams	Date: January 11, 2007 @ 5:13 PM "Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution. The Solution = Let It Be" by Crispin Glover (aka George McFly). Auto Manipulator is something to behold. As is "These Boots are Made for Walkin'"
None-of-your...	Date: January 12, 2007 @ 4:15 AM I'd have to say Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed would be about as tripped out and spacy as you can get, but other than that I'd have to say anything by the Space-Rock band Escapade fits it to a T
zedsalt	Date: January 12, 2007 @ 10:36 AM There was a band at my old art school that did a punked-out cover of "These Boots...". Man, when Kelly bellowed, "One of these days, these boots are gonna walk all over YOU!", you BELIEVED it!
Cheeseboot	Date: January 14, 2007 @ 6:49 PM Cactuses Come In Flocks Melt Banana
sinai	Date: January 16, 2007 @ 12:09 AM didn't lou reed once put out an albumn containg nothing but an hour's worth of guitar feedback?
leedsquietman	Date: January 16, 2007 @ 12:44 AM yes, metal machine music - he did it to piss off his record label who demanded one more album out of him when he wanted out - a double album of what sounds like random tuning up a guitar while mashing it through 10 fuzzboxes and the biggest stack of Marshall cabs you ever did see ... there are some who say it's his best work too, preferable to the insipid 'Perfect Day' et al... I don't know if this comes from sarcasm or they're serious !
evansorchid	Date: January 16, 2007 @ 12:47 AM I Advance Masked - Robert Fripp & Andy Summers
leedsquietman	Date: January 16, 2007 @ 1:31 AM Those are both dudes capable of weird and wonderful things when they pick up a guitar, should check it out for sure !! (both are underrated players too imho, because they don't play 10 minute speed licks etc. or at least not very often in an easily definable way - Johnny Marr of The Smiths and Electronic is another under rated guitarist)
PrincessTast...	Date: January 20, 2007 @ 11:15 AM True. Thanks for the Seeds tip, Zed. Oh, man I can't believe this! The album "Future" sounds like Satanic Majesties Request if it was made by the Stooges instead of the Stones. That's funny that Lou Reed put out a double album of nothing but feedback! You could never get away with that these days!
zedsalt	Date: January 21, 2007 @ 10:51 AM To be fair, I think it was RocShaman who first mentioned the Seeds here. The first time I can remember hearing them was on an episode of "Bewitched", one of the ones with Samantha's evil twin. "You're pushin' too hard on meeee..."
PrincessTast...	Date: January 22, 2007 @ 9:09 AM Oh, and anything by the band Faust.
PrincessTast...	Date: January 25, 2007 @ 7:02 PM Is AdNauseam the only one who's heard of 'Om' by the Bird? I can't find anything about these guys let alone where to get a copy of the qlbum! Help!

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