What is the weirdest music you know of?
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- KVRAF
- 3645 posts since 3 Nov, 2015
Seeing Igorrr above, I didn't like it much, if at all. Clicking on related links though turned out his Chickens' Symphony which is pretty funny. The guy got 450000+ views for that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4ofrssoUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4ofrssoUQ
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- KVRAF
- 3645 posts since 3 Nov, 2015
Colorful and fun also (includes a Westerner showing that it's weird)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_l8RXpYYjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_l8RXpYYjA
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- KVRAF
- 3477 posts since 27 Dec, 2002 from North East England
I'll go with Laurie Anderson's O Superman. Not because of the sonics (although they're plenty weird), but because it managed to reach #2 in the UK Singles Chart. That's weird. There's not really any part of me that can comprehend it. I'm guessing it was seen as a novelty record, but it's hardly The Birdie Song. We're still talking about 'difficult music' here.
Also, hip-hop. All of hip-hop. Familiarity has perhaps obscured just how radically strange the core elements are. If you told the average listener as late as 1980 that the spoken word recited over short fragments of other people's music would come to dominate the charts within 10 years, they'd think you were insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
Also, hip-hop. All of hip-hop. Familiarity has perhaps obscured just how radically strange the core elements are. If you told the average listener as late as 1980 that the spoken word recited over short fragments of other people's music would come to dominate the charts within 10 years, they'd think you were insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
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- KVRAF
- 3626 posts since 25 Mar, 2006 from The city by the bay
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- KVRAF
- 2193 posts since 25 Dec, 2005
Weird? Hmm... let me think,ah got something for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJV0ey2QVU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOHKKJxrgA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJV0ey2QVU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOHKKJxrgA
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- Beware the Quoth
- 33175 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
I think it would have been hard for it to have success at most other different point in time, but in 1981 it fitted reasonably well with a lot of what was selling; punk and new-wave had dominated british music, and the UK charts regularly saw some fairly adventurous and left-field stuff. O Superman had been first brought to radio attention by (the legendary) John Peel, so, again, it definitely had that audience.cron wrote:I'll go with Laurie Anderson's O Superman. Not because of the sonics (although they're plenty weird), but because it managed to reach #2 in the UK Singles Chart. That's weird. There's not really any part of me that can comprehend it. I'm guessing it was seen as a novelty record, but it's hardly The Birdie Song. We're still talking about 'difficult music' here.
Plus its a rather beautiful and poignant piece of work, so, in that way, maybe more accessible than some of the other stuff that had success around the same time.
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- KVRian
- 1325 posts since 17 Aug, 2012 from Old Zealand
- KVRAF
- 25053 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
It's weird to me not that there is rap but that so much of it is in a total monotone. which is by definition musically uninteresting, so the people that go for this are not really into music, it's doing something else.
there's this newer style where the bass is so over-amped that a lot of the time there would be hardly any way to know if it relates to other things in the music, it's so unmusical that it wouldn't even matter if it was in tune at all.
as I said before, sticking a drum track over that that's so dinky it should be laughed out of the room, that is just weird. it functions as aggression, it's an assault on your neighbors out of contempt for everyone.
there's this newer style where the bass is so over-amped that a lot of the time there would be hardly any way to know if it relates to other things in the music, it's so unmusical that it wouldn't even matter if it was in tune at all.
as I said before, sticking a drum track over that that's so dinky it should be laughed out of the room, that is just weird. it functions as aggression, it's an assault on your neighbors out of contempt for everyone.
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- KVRAF
- 2256 posts since 29 May, 2012
I wont claim the music itself qualifies for being *the* weirdest, but the audience does since they cut themselves with razor blades while listening. The singer himself denied sending any prophet, so I guess he is "innocent"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALFlnyz64IA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALFlnyz64IA
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- KVRAF
- 4321 posts since 26 Jun, 2004
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- KVRist
- 274 posts since 6 Sep, 2004
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- KVRian
- 549 posts since 9 Aug, 2005 from USA