Along the same Elvis line, Elvis’ Greatest Shit 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.
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music on RCA Red Seal, a classical label, is still bizarre and mostly unlistenable.
The Beastie Boy’s country album, Country Mike’s Greatest Hits
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?
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.
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.
Lurking in my mother’s record collection is an LP called On Wine and as the name suggests, is a monologue about wine.
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!
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.
One of my all time favorites: Leonard Nimoy sings the Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins
Folks, there is no competition. The strangest LP ever is “Lil Markie”. That link has an MP3 of one of the tracks, “Diary of an Unborn Child.” Give it a listen.
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.
Some interesting suggestions in this thread.
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).
Pat Boone
In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy
1997 Hip-o Records
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.
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!
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
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.