# Being a fan of a musician's weirder and less well known work **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 28, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287 "2023-12-28T17:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/21 "2023-12-29T03:46:23Z")
Mike Patton, best known as the front man for the metal band Faith No More, and lesser know as the front man to the already weird Mr. bungle, did a really great album of Italian pop covers from the 50s and 60s Mondo Cane in the original Italian. Definitely a weird choice even for him. But really really well done! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iDOl5q7UXfg/maxresdefault.jpg "Mike Patton / Mondo Cane - Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago, Chile, Sep. 21, 2011 (HD) (Full Show)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDOl5q7UXfg) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/22 "2023-12-29T04:12:33Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Mike Patton, best known as the front man for the metal band Faith No More… This Guy. Clearly has some talent, but also can be responsible for the worst caterwaul of shit you’ve ever heard. He’s a real enigma. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/23 "2023-12-29T04:47:39Z")
A real talented weirdo. And a real weirdo of a talent. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/24 "2023-12-29T05:06:27Z")
I’d like to see what Mike, Maynard (Tool/Perfect Circle) and Christopher Guest could cook up together. Might be music. Might be a Nobel Peace Prize plan for World-wide Famine Relief. Might be Scat-Porn. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/25 "2023-12-29T05:20:59Z")
I’d contribute to a Kickstarter to make this happen. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/26 "2023-12-29T05:41:41Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > The last three Pet Shop Boys albums had the same producer and I thought were really good. > I planned on seeing them when they were in town this year with New Order but saw the setlist was a collection of their popular stuff from the 80s-90s so I skipped it. I saw that tour last year and it was pretty amazing. I’d seen PSB before, but not since 1999, and I was looking forward to seeing New Order for the first time. Tennant and Lowe blew the roof off the joint, and while New Order had some transcendent moments (thousands of fans singing “Love Will Tear Us Apart” while images of Ian Curtis flashed on the screen), they seemed a bit off…out of tune and with some fluffed lines. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/27 "2023-12-29T08:33:19Z")
I was a kid during Neil Young’s “Not Neil Young” '80s period and the first song I ever heard of his was “Sample and hold.” My dad had a VHS recording of one of his concerts or an HBO special… or something during his short hair vocoder days. So I thought Neil was this cool '80s futuristic dude. Later (not much later) of course I became acquainted with Harvest and CSNY and Buffalo Springfield and everything else before, in between, and since, Still, this whole long-haired hippie flannel godfather of grunge Neil image that came about a decade later didn’t fit with how I knew him. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/28 "2023-12-29T08:52:38Z")
One of my favorite songs by the Who is _Blue, Red, and Grey_ - a song they never performed onstage and sounds entirely unlike anything else the band ever recorded. It’s just Pete Townshend singing and playing the ukulele, with a brass section performed by John Entwistle in the background. It’s a folksy little song about finding the beauty that exists in everything and everyone, and it always gets me a little misty-eyed. Roger Daltrey used to perform it as the closing number at his solo concerts, and described it as his favorite Who song that they never did live. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ru8hLfwiTAs/maxresdefault.jpg "Blue Red And Grey") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru8hLfwiTAs) ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/29 "2023-12-29T13:39:16Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > I was a kid during Neil Young’s “Not Neil Young” '80s period and the first song I ever heard of his was “Sample and hold.” I’d heard CSNY on the _Woodstock_ soundtrack, but I think the first actual Neil Young track I heard played on MuchMusic back in the day was “This Note’s For You,” from his brassy blues album, which I guess was one last bizarre foray. He’d kind of returned to doing “Neil Young Music” with _Landing on Water_ and _Life_ as he ran out his Geffen contract, then for his first album back at Reprise he of course dropped the Bluenotes disc (now easily available in the “take it off our hands for $3.99” rack in most used CD stores) before finally cutting the shit, making _Freedom_ and getting back to business. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/30 "2023-12-29T16:56:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > One of my favorite songs by the Who is _Blue, Red, and Grey_ - a song they never performed onstage Back in the [“In The Attic”](https://petetownshend.net/in-the-attic/ita-history) days, Pete performed it solo several times. This one is from a show at Joe’s Pub (with a typical Townshend aside thrown in, just as you would expect) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BOiOgqHEUuI/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGEMgTihlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAS-Kb_yQVC1V31HB2drbkrWQdpjA "Blue Red and Gray - Pete Townshend") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOiOgqHEUuI) If you were a fan of Be Bop Deluxe, it would be nigh on impossible to keep up with Bill Nelson’s solo output, something like 150 albums worth. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/31 "2023-12-30T00:52:10Z")
Charles Mingus: [Let My Children Hear Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKd_f2QBpvQ). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287/32 "2023-12-30T01:50:54Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Back in the [“In The Attic”](https://petetownshend.net/in-the-attic/ita-history) days, Pete performed it solo several times. As I mentioned, I saw Roger Daltrey do it live once to close a solo concert. He introduced it by telling us his “theory” that the Who never played it live because Pete wouldn’t have been able to windmill a ukulele except by lightly flicking his wrist around in circles. “People might have thought he was gay! Not that that rumour wasn’t already out there.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-a-fan-of-a-musicians-weirder-and-less-well-known-work/995287.md?page=1)