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mevla · Post by **mevla** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:23 pm

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.

mevla · Post by **mevla** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:41 pm

Colorful and fun also (includes a Westerner showing that it's weird)

cron · Post by **cron** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:09 am

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.

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:46 am

The Birdie Song?

t3toooo · Post by **t3toooo** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:50 am

Weird? Hmm... let me think,ah got something for you

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:50 am

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.

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.
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.

sbj · Post by **sbj** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:50 am

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:39 pm

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.

stratum · Post by **stratum** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:05 pm

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"

highkoo · Post by **highkoo** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:45 pm

jancivil wrote:It's weird
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it functions as aggression,
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it's an assault on your neighbors out of contempt for everyone.

Totally.

Musicisbest · Post by **Musicisbest** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:34 pm

This one raises questions:

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:31 am

bonzo dog doo dah band - jollity farm

What is the weirdest music you know of?