Post subject: What's your favorite "whoa that was weird" song ev
Share your favorite "what the hell was that!?" track. It could be that Tool song in the middle of 10,000 Years that stole many a night of sleep. It could be that Radiohead song with the pigs on sticks. It could be Aqua's Barbie fetish. Whatever it is, share it here.
Talk about it, maybe?
And if you've got a link to it, please yes share that too.
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I'm rather fond of the Isidore track, CA Redemption Value.
The track starts out with Steve Kilbey (most famous as the bassist/singer of The Church) rambling off some sort of demented sermon. There's this wicked, dark ambient reverb and delay on his voice, and he coughs, and it's whack. But his sermon rant is incredible.
Steve Kilbey wrote:
during the preceding phase of culturalization, the mesmerization co-founded the philogynic trust to ensure the miraculous safety of the fringe dwellers and to give gracious guarantee and thank the bellicose god, who shineth on high in his great goodnesshood, where all the cronies wield silver pearls. yes! real silver pearls straight from the find that lies along the diamorphically resonant dollop, and lo they felt both shock and awe. SHOCK AND AWE! as they stood before the almighty corrugated roof, and baptismal fluctuations played about their wispy, girlish hair
Then it segues into a gorgeous little tune that could've been plucked off of The Joshua Tree for a while before it goes back to another ranty thing - this time with heavy musical accompaniment.
I listen to a lot of off-the-wall stuff, but there's nothing else I've ever heard quite like this, and it's incredible through-and-through.
Christmas 72 I listened to the British Top 20 for the first time. And the song that made the biggest impression was Chuck Berry’s "My Ding-A-Ling". My English was next to not existing at the time. But I had a feeling that what he was singing about was... Ah, that could not be. _________________ When the stewardess is near do not show any fear.
How weird that your favorite one is a bizarre sermon rant because mine is too. It''s on the track "S.A.L.T." by the Orb. and it's what sounds like a religious nut doing street corner preaching about the End Times. He carries on about how all the prophecies in the Book of Revelations are now coming true and apocalypse is at hand. And he talks about all those things you hear from religious nuts about 6-6-6 and having everyone being implanted with chips, and all that wacko stuff. As it turned out it was actually dialogue by the actor David Thewlis in the movie "Naked", but at the time I first heard it I hadn't seen the movie, so it seemed even weirder to me because it sounds like an actual lunatic rather than just an actor. But anyway, it freaked me out for years. Its still weird. And i have to add that the music on this track is just the creepiest, most paranoiac music I've ever heard in my life. It just screams paranoia and insanity. While at the same time being humorous, which makes it all the more insane..
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But the deepest effect was that weird magic which can appear as a by effect of deep beauty:
Grateful Dead - Unbroken chain
Beach Boys - Surf's up
Laura Nyro - Desiree _________________ "But really, the thing that propels me through music is the emotional reality of it."
Jerry Garcia
My brother had a cassette tape of Weird Al's "Off The Deep End" that we played constantly. One night I fell asleep with the headphones on and I got startled awake by the parody of the hidden track on "Something In The Way" by Nirvana.
My favourite weird song is Nuclear War by Sun Ra, though I'm more familiar with Yo la Tengo's cover version.
Musically it's not that weird except in it's simplicity. It has a repetitive nursery rhyme sort of rap with a call and response structure. But it's the lyrics and dry delivery that make it funny, chilling and strangely infectious all at the same time. The lyrics subvert the singalong quality of the track with frequent use of the word 'motherf****er" and warnings that "if they push that button your ass gotta go". It's a strange juxtaposition but really works given the subject matter, making it a totally unique and brilliant song. I've never heard anything remotely similar.
Now I've heard the original Sun Ra version I'm sticking with that as the musicianship is far more subtle than on Yo La Tengo's cover.
You must listen very carefully to what I have to say.
There isn't much time, because You Know Who
has consumed all the instruments.
For many eons now I have been trapped on this planet.
He is keeping me here against my will, and sometimes
when I press my ear up very close to the concrete
I can hear his daughters sobbing with laughter.
Either I am blind, or I have been in darkness
ever since the sun exploded fourteen centuries ago.
A few hours ago, He Who Keeps Me Here visited me saying,
"God, why do the millions worship you instead of I ..
am I not more powerful, more forgiving and truly compassionate?"
A black liquid was seeping uncontrollably from my mouth
and all I could do was babble incomprehensibly
about a dream I had many moons ago.
In it, a clock ticked constantly, maddening my senses.
That was all, but it lasted for many days
until each tick seemed like fragments of glass piercing my scales.
He Who Keeps Me Here tells me that one day I will return to earth,
and then I will seek my revenge.
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