Gimme Weird Bands (Another Return)

After a six year hiatus, I’m requesting again the strange and offbeat. The requirements:

  1. Odd lyrics or profanity isn’t an original musical sound
  2. Neither is dressing weird
  3. The music is still very good
  4. People look at you like you grew a fourth head for listening to the stuff

Some new bands/performers that I’ve found since then:

Ex-Girl
Extra Action Marching Band
Exuma
Jay Munly
OOIOO

R.I.P. by Zombie Ghost Train.

Dead Man’s Bones - In The Room Where You Sleep

Bruce Peninsula - As Long As I Live

Bel Canto - Spiderdust

Aisha Kandisha’s Jarring Effects - Muey A Muey

Diamanda Galas / John Paul Jones - Sporting Life

Melinda Miel - The law of the dream

Antony And The Johnsons - Cripple And The Starfish

Boiled in Lead - The Microorganism

Control Machete - SI SEÑOR

Scott Walker - Jackie

Lee Morse - T’Ain’t No Sin To Take Off Your Skin

I was at work when I posted the OP. Here’s the same list, with YouTube links:

eX-Girl :: Hettakorii No Ottokotou
Extra Action Marching Band :: Unknown
Exuma :: Mama Loi, Papa Loi
Jay Munly :: Cat
OOIOO :: Asozan

Akiko Yano - Rose Garden

Takako Minekawa - Plash

butter 08 - Butterfucker

Foetus - Slung

Steroid Maximus - Quilombo

DIAMANDA GALAS & JOHN PAUL JONES - HEX

Ingrid Karklins - Leatherwing Bat

ETHYL MEATPLOW - QUEENIE

Ragga and the jack magic orchestra - Where are they now

Johnny Dowd - No Woman’s Flesh

Danielle Dax - PARIAH

Death Grips - Gullitione You might think he loves you for your money but I know what he really loves you for it’s your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
King Krule - Rock Bottom Easy Easy

Death Grips is pretty much unclassifiable, you have to listen to their songs and even then it’s hard to put them in a box.

King Krule is more mainstream, wikipedia pegging him as " punk jazz, hip hop, darkwave, and trip hop."

Hazmat Modine

There’s also Ryoji Ikeda, he seems to one of the very few artists to use very high and very low registers together, and has a really modern, clean and sharp sound to him.

Ninja’d by lissener on Danielle Dax, awesomely weird. Sharp intelligent lyrics wrapped in Indian/New Wave fusion 30 years ahead of its time.

Hedningarna, Swedish electronic-folk fusion with lots of yodeling and fuzzboxed-didgeridoo.

Weebl of badger badger fame. His live show is awesome :slight_smile:

The Dickies, with their iconic penis puppet.

I wasn’t around six years ago (or maybe I just missed that request) but back then I would have listed the following (already old) artists:

Spike Jones: Spiked (anthology?)

Twang Bang: Nothing Quite as Wholesome as a Fish

Tony Mason (used to have a website full of oddball stuff). A Bad Idea and Barney Must Die are especially good.

–G!
When you told Bruce Lee
You could kick his ass
It was a bad idea
It was a bad idea
…–Tony Mason
A Bad Idea
…No Smurfing Allowed

Noises of Russia -Spirit

More examples of the absolutely incredible and wonderfully bizarre underground Russian music scene:

Bardoseneticcube

Lunar Abyss Deus Organum

Vetrophonia

Linija Mass

I see Einsturzende Neubauten and Birthday Party were mentioned in the other thread, Foetus in this one. The other bands that I like that I get similar looks for:
Young Gods (that’s an acoustic session, the original is …harder)’
Swans (who over their/his (Michael Gira) career were capable of this and this and this)

Then there’s stuff like
Yat-Kha

As far as I’m concerned, The Residents are the primordial root of the cause.

Hallucinogen - Gamma Goblins

A few noteworthy others:

Rapoon

Coil

Nurse With Wound

Andrew Liles

Renaldo and the Loaf

Couch Flambeau - Vipers - I wanted to lync Wot a Caper but Youtube doesn’t have it
Dengue Fever - Seeing Hands - Cambodian pop
Future of the Left - Robocop 4 - Fuck Off Robocop The guys who used to be McLusky doing their warped thing
Gabba - Mama Mia - An Abba/Ramones crossover
T. Valentine - Hello, Lucile are you a lesbian? I swear this guy has some sort of problems.

Yet more:

Current 93

Herbst9

Halo Manash

Reutoff

and a rare Christmas in July Special:

Mom and Daddy perform “O Holy Night”

Tribalistas.

Worth mentioning Australian masked marvels TISM[short fror This is Serious Mum].

A good introduction is their Great Trucking Songs of the Renaissance double album, or their live video [title inspired by Ted Nugent’s Intensity in Ten Cities] Incontinent in Ten Continents.