Strangest songs/bands you know of

[Ambi]

Happy light-hearted chorus then RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGH. xD

I love the album art. It's kind of hilarious and ironic.

Strangeness is subjective and all, sometimes I listen to my "regular" music and think I'd have thought it was demented or evil when I was little. Ah well.

What's strange to you? What are some avant-garde/weird bands you can think of, or maybe some notable bands that were avant-garde in their day?

edit: bonus points if they can be weird without being morbid, but feel free to share the morbid ones too.

 

[Queen Michael]

Deerhoof are my favorite weird band, with Chicks on Speed coming a close second.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Strange huh?


Can't get much stranger than that.

 

[Ambi]

Deerhoof are my favorite weird band, with Chicks on Speed coming a close second.

Listening to Wordy Rappinghood. I like nonsense with a vague semblance of meaning. Actually, now that I've looked up the word semblance, I'm not sure. I think pop music more fits that description. There is good nonsense and bad nonsense; nonsense that is really not nonsense on a deeper level aka weird stuff. If it even has a deeper level, that is, maybe it's just something for pseudo-intellectual artsy types to twiddle around in their minds. Eugh. I like nonsense because I'm lazy and nonsense flows from my mouth so easily. I could ramble on and on but I'll shut up now.

As for Deerhoof, I heard one "meh" song and I'm checking them out again.

Strange huh?


Can't get much stranger than that.

Strangest parts are 0:57 and 1:17.

Spoiler: Crabcore!

Generic emo chorus, though. I mean it might not technically be generic, but it sounds the same to me. I mean they sound like typical post-hardcore/"screamo"/metalcore clean vocals.

 

[wetfart]

The first thing that comes to mind is the Three Little Pigs song by Green Jelly.

Though some of Voltaire's music would qualify too.

 

[Nightfalke]

Horse the Band is a very odd little band. Punk rock with a splash of 8bit chiptune.

 

[Zenode]

Apocalyptica - Cello Rock Ban

.....yeah


Although its not strange as much as it is....different

and System of a Down so some strange stuff such as

 

[ffian1]

Awesome band if you can take a joke!

 

[The_Graff]

alestorm. scottish pirate metal FTW.

 

[dsmops2003]

Animal Collective. THis video is seriously WTF. I mean uh damn...

 

[TheSnesDuckling]

Strange huh?


Can't get much stranger than that.

Oh god the jumping. There's nothing I could possibly post that will beat this, so I will proceed to leave now.

 

[fooddood3]

 

[MattyDienhoff]

I present to you, 'Frontier Psychiatrist'.

Possibly the weirdest song I've ever heard and definitely the weirdest music video I've seen (and that's saying something).


edit: ninja'd!

 

[Zenode]

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Wow, hivemind much? But seriously, where did you find this :\

 

[busterkeatonrules]

The World/Inferno Friendship Society.

This is probably the only band that plays punk cabaret. I especially recommend the album "Addicted to bad ideas", which is a tribute to Peter Lorre.

 

[fooddood3]

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Wow, hivemind much? But seriously, where did you find this :\

Pandora

 

[leedwashere]

'Little Flower Girl' by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull... he means no harm >.>


Also who could leave Taco out of a strange songs thread?


One Night In Bangkok


and some Talking Heads to round it all out

 

[Smokej]

not strange but a good complimentary experience when expanding your mind

 

[evilstonermonkey]

If you haven't heard of him, check out Dr Steel for some eclectic mathcore with hints of world domination. For some reason I can't get onto the youtubes right now to cough up a link, but I recommend looking him up. Fibbonacci is my favouritest, but Back & Forth is great as well. Not sure if he's still out there, I don't think he has put anything out in a while.

Also, ninja'd. I was gonna mention Green Jelly's Three Little Pigs. Once when I was still in highschool I was going through a bunch of my dad's old metallica tapes and that was mixed in with them, I was like "Wait, what? Metallica sang a song about the three little pigs?"

 

[Catchy Slogan]

A friend introduced me to this song and it's been stuck in my head ever since.