Tried and didn’t find particularly/sufficiently weird:
Gentle Giant – Mildly odd
Malice Mizer – Normal
The Unicorns – Normal
Mogwai – Good band, good music, but more mellow than weird and not a lot of variety
Kronos Quartet – World music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Good music. Not weird
Captain Beefheart – More playing while high than weird
Frank Zappa – Generally more parody than weird. Though I do like Willie the Pimp quite a lot
I tried to find a few of the other bands listed in the previous thread, and will probably check through them again now that YouTube exists, but I encourage you all to post any new (or old) exotic groups out there.
Mclusky. see if you can find the songs “Without MSG I Am Nothing” and “To Hell with Good Intentions.”
Aaron Macdonald while you’re at his site, download “She’s a Witch”, “Defeated at Last” and “The Saddest Song.”
Ass Ponys. find “God Tells Me To” and “Swallow You Down”
Bob Tilton. songs such as “Be my Valentine” and “Run Horsey Run”
Devendra Banhart. Especially “Insect Eyes”
…but have you ever heard Incubus’ S.C.I.E.N.C.E. album? That’s really weird. So much so that I’m still surprised they gained mainstream popularity on the scale they did.
Frog Eyes
Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd (and Syd Barrett’s solo work)
The Pixies
Tom Waits, depending on the album
Devo
David Bowie
The Stranglers
The Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock
Oingo Boingo
Lene Lovich
Neutral Milk Hotel
Les George Leningrad
Frog Eyes
Jay Reatard
The Besnard Lakes
Animal Collective
Lightning Bolt
Liars
Boris
The Death Set
The Fiery Furnaces
Joe Meek and the Blue Men
Muscles
Oneida
Sunset Rubdown
Thomas Tantrum
Times New Viking
Xiu Xiu
Wolf Eyes
YACHT
All albums = WIN
Ulver, the main project of Garm, who did vocals on the Arcturus albums I mentioned in the last thread. No single album really stands out as weird, but what really makes them is that, even though I have and have listened intently to everything they’ve ever recorded, I literally have no idea what their next album will sound like.
Does anyone else have a strange almost viseral reaction to their song “Happy New Years”? I wouldn’t be surprised if it induces seizures in some people. Yet it’s not a bad song…
Wow, people talking about Oneida? On the Straight Dope? I never thought that would happen.
They’re signed to a record label that’s located less than a mile away from my house. I like The Wedding a lot. I used to play it at work all the time at my old job, which annoyed the hell out of everyone. People would walk in and you could just tell they were thinking, “what the fuck is this…noise?”
Here’s an A to Z list of some great stuff:
AIT!
Beyond Sensory Experience
Cyclotimia
Death in June
Elijah’s Mantle
First Law
Galas, Diamanda
Hafler Trio
Inade
Job Karma
Kirchin, Basil
Lucisferrato
Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud
Nurse With Wound
Organization Toth
People Like Us
Quatro Bravo Eballieros
Renaldo & The Loaf (Creator of perhaps the weirdest album of all time, Songs for Swinging Larvae)
Stahlwerk 9
Today I’m Dead
Ultra Milkmaids
Volcano the Bear
Whitehouse
Xanopticon
Yello
Zoviet France
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