# Strangest Records Ever Released **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322 "2003-05-29T17:54:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/21 "2003-05-30T04:44:22Z")
Along the same Elvis line, [Elvis’ Greatest Shit](http://www.jordans-elvis-world.com/impemp/greatshit.htm) was a fabulous collection of absolutely the WORST songs that man was forced into singing for his movies. Hard to find. Absolutely worth it, just to hear “The King” crooning about impotent bulls. ---
**Author:** ![Geoduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@Geoduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geoduck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/22 "2003-05-30T05:31:31Z")
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music on RCA Red Seal, a classical label, is still bizarre and mostly unlistenable. ---
**Author:** ![WonTon\_Sean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WonTon\_Sean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonTon_Sean)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/23 "2003-05-30T06:19:58Z")
The Beastie Boy’s country album, **Country Mike’s Greatest Hits** ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/24 "2003-05-30T12:37:37Z")
I have an album put out when the Tijuana Brass were hitting it big. It is by a different group but with a similar “Mexican trumpets” sound. The album is called “Tijuana Christmas” and is a collection of classic carols played in that style. Along with the various brass instruments it also for some reason features a harpsichord in most tracks. Does that qualify? ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/25 "2003-05-30T13:24:00Z")
My SO, who is a psychotherapist, found a couple of novelty records that have songs about various mental disorders. I’ll give her a call and see if she can remember any of the titles. ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/26 "2003-05-30T14:57:44Z")
The best is “Psycho” by Bobby Hendricks. He raps to his psych, who raps back. To the tune of the name game. Done about 1960-the psych was played by a NYC D.J. Well before its time. Check out “The Bells” by the Dominoes- or “Valerie” by Jackie & the Starlites- suicidal crying by the lead singers, the 1st at his girl’s funeral, the 2nd because she left him. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/27 "2003-05-30T16:47:38Z")
Lurking in my mother’s record collection is an LP called _On Wine_ and as the name suggests, is a monologue about wine. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/28 "2003-05-30T17:46:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ianzin \* > \*\*So try that on your next rock trivia quiz - ‘name someone who was the credited artist twice on an album on which he never featured in any capacity whatsoever’. \*\* Yeah, but wouldn’t “Milli Vanilli” also be a correct answer? 😃 Anyway, I vote for the _Girls Together Outrageously_ album. The GTOs were a buch of San Francisco groupies, and Frank Zappa produced this album. It’s even weirder than the ususal Zappa weirdness. And **nitroglycerine** , I am a BIG Cramps fan, but I’ve never heard of this project by Lux. I’ll have to find it somehow. I saw the Cramps when thery were in town (Minneapolis) on Wednesday night, and Lux, Ivy and crew are still as awsome as ever. Stay sick, my friend! ---
**Author:** ![Lillith\_Fair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lillith\_Fair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lillith_Fair)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/29 "2003-05-31T13:56:46Z")
The Pat Boone Family. This album used to be in my church library. It was weird. I’ve been trying to find it lately on e-bay or something. Well, I did find it, but my record player won’t turn any more so I needed a tape or CD. This album was recorded before Debby Boone was famour. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/30 "2003-05-31T14:28:11Z")
One of my all time favorites: [Leonard Nimoy sings the Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins](http://www.tolkiencollector.com/bilbobal.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/31 "2003-05-31T16:11:15Z")
Folks, there is no competition. The strangest LP ever is [“Lil Markie”](http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries/gallery_l/lilmarkie.html). That link has an MP3 of one of the tracks, “Diary of an Unborn Child.” Give it a listen. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/32 "2003-05-31T20:04:38Z")
When I was in San Diego many years ago, I bought The White Album. The cover was all white except for the words The Morales in small letters on the bottom. There was a sticker on the plastic wrap and all it said was White Album. It was only $1.99 and the clerk said it was so cheap because it was a Mexican import. I bought it and took it home. It was a Mexican mariachi band doing covers of Beatles songs. The singer would fade from broken English to Spanish and back again during songs. The drumming sounded like someone hitting and empty cardboard box with drum sticks. And every song ended with the guitarist doing 5 or 6 quick stums and everyone yelling “Hey”. It was a bad bad record. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/33 "2003-05-31T22:20:11Z")
[Shooby Taylor](http://www.shooby.com/shooby/mp3/index.htm)’s “The Human Horn.” That is all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/34 "2003-05-31T23:16:15Z")
Some interesting suggestions in [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174141) ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/35 "2003-05-31T23:23:36Z")
My sister began collecting vinyl albums from yard sales since the eighties. She has a category in her archives entitles “Weird and Strange”. One album that stands out in my memory is “Music to relax to in Your Barcolounger Chair” Pictured on the cover are a man and a woman in his-n-hers Barcoloungers, wuth their heads tilted back and big smiles on their faces, dressed to the nines (for, say, 1960). ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/36 "2003-06-01T02:40:11Z")
**Pat Boone** In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy 1997 Hip-o Records ---
**Author:** ![mrunlucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mrunlucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrunlucky)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/37 "2003-06-01T02:52:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*Folks, there is no competition. The strangest LP ever is [“Lil Markie”](http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries/gallery_l/lilmarkie.html). That link has an MP3 of one of the tracks, “Diary of an Unborn Child.” Give it a listen. \*\* That Lil’ Markie record is great, catchy even. My impression is that the guy was trying to create the male version of Little Marcy, only there’s zero indication that a doll was involved, only a stipled illustration on the front and back cover of a fat child that looks mildly mentally disabled. The album is very extreme fundamentalism in action, and I think the main purpose was to scare children toward God. It swings from fairly innocent “Jesus Put The Stars in the Sky” to, yes, the epic “Diary…” (2/3 of the whole second side). Whoever Rick & Rosemary Wilhelm are/were, they were geniuses in the children’s religious record market. It’s the creepiest religious record I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/38 "2003-06-01T02:54:18Z")
There’s a group called Big Daddy that covers current hits in the style of classic 50s & 60s songs. Best examples: Guns N Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” remade as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” as “Johnny B. Goode”. Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/39 "2003-06-01T04:33:24Z")
My friend’s father, a big aviation nut, had an LP which consisted entirely of fly-bys of various US military aircraft, on one side, backed with sound cuts of air-to-ground and air-to-air ordnance being fired and detonating. You haven’t lived til you’ve heard sonic booms and a close-range nuclear detonation on a kickass '60s-vintage tube amplifier stereo. -Rav ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322/40 "2003-06-01T05:10:35Z")
Lovable loon Crispin Glover released an album called \* Big Problem [does not equal] the Solution. The Solution = LET IT BE\* that features bizarre spoken word performances and cover tunes, including “These Boots are Made for Walkin’”. You simply must hear it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-records-ever-released/178322.md?page=3)