No one here likes “Inagaddadavida” but me…sniff…sniff.
ABBA – “Two for the Price of One”
A track from their last album, The Visitors, and one even ABBA fans have probably never heard.
Dude, WTF?! But seriously, I didn’t like it but it didn’t sound bad or weird. Why the WTF reaction?
I loved this song! Never heard it before and loved it!
I also loved this one and the music video was 40% of the reason. Great stuff!
I liked this one a lot. What’s your facebook page?
It’s unusual, but it’s also upbeat and fun. Sounds like the band is having a good time.
Eh, not really my kind of thing but sounds nice enough. I may give it a try one of these days.
It’s not a WTF really, but I strongly disliked these songs. Can’t quite tell you why, but they rub me the wrong way.
This time I’ll do it for real: dude, WTF? This stuff is nightmare inducing.
Seconded, that’s the only part I hate. Otherwise, I like the entirety of the “Abbaesque” ep.
Oooh, lots of goodies. This WTF-thread is the best music recommendation thread I’ve come across on the Dope.
Thanks for reminding me of Yat-Kha. I used to have various of their CDs, but they got lost in all my travels. Not WTF to me at all, though I suppose if you were only used to chart pop, it could be a bit :eek:.
I’m not really a linkin park fan, but do you know what sounds really, really, really cool? The linkin park song “Numb” when it’s being played on a harp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjnzlAZ3ttU&feature=related
This girl, and others like her, have a bunch of versions of modern song played on the harp on youtube. I thought “My Immortal” by Evanescence was an ok song, nothing special, but it sounds really cool on the harp.
Haha, while I was typing this, I was asked, “Why the fuck are you listening to harps?”
Space Invaders - Player One
Cruise Control - Headless Chickens
Can’t Get Enough - The Supergroove
I love the Iron Butts. They were my first rock concert, back in 1969. The Iron Butterfly Live album was recorded at that show.
Another vote for Rasputina’s “Wish You Were Here”! A great cover of with female vocalization. Another one I like is Mandy Suiter’s cover for the Offsprings “Gone Away”.
And this one for just guilty pleasure sake…a smash-up of Golden Earring - Beastie Boys - Ludacris.
I think the album “Avalon” by Roxy Music is the best album ever made.
And to prove it, I post this:
Now you can laugh.
T-e-e-n-t-i-t-a-n-s Teen Titans let’s go!
I imagine the show producers requested a little throwaway theme jingle, and the band (Puffy AmiYumi) gave them back a damn fine polished pop song in return.
One I just remembered the other night, which has peppered my “spontaneous reactions” file for years, isn’t a band but a sketch comedy duo from Seattle, Dos Fallopia. With songs like the Co-Dependent Song (to the tune of Frere Jacques)* to the song from Fran & Annies Holistic 12-Step Daycare skit, the People on the Bus**, people just kind of look at me like I’m throwing darts at their eyes or something…
Are you kidding? I get late adolescent acid flashbacks just thinking about it!
What I Want Bob Sinclar and Fireball
The chorus is a guy singing “Ha hahaha hahahaaa hahahahahaaaaa” in this high pitched voice. It’s utterly stupid, repetitive, and probably shouldn’t even count as music, but it makes me smile.
This thread is bringing back memories. I used to play a lot of these artists on my radio show. Rasputina, Bjork, Meryn Cadell, Hildegard von Bingen, Varttina, Dolly Parton (specifically “Jolene”), Garmarna…I feel like you guys are raiding my old playlists! Oh, and I owned the single to “98.6” and the Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and Avalon LPs, so it’s like old home week.
I like those. They are pretty normal compared to their biggest alternative -charts hit, “Transylvanian Concubine” though.That’s the first thing I heard by them and fell in love.
One of the (many) former members of Rasputina is Zoe Keating (from 2002 to 2006), who has many amazing works. Here’s one, not too WTF-ish, called “We Insist.” I met her when she was touring with Imogen Heap and she’s so nice. She’s appeared on various soundtracks too. If anyone comes across a very obscure movie called Ghost Bird it’s well worth watching. Not only is it a fascinating documentary (about the supposed sighting of the Ivory-Billed woodpecker in Arkansas in 2004, and how it changed the lives of all the people involved and became a huge controversy), the gorgeous, haunting soundtrack is by Zoe.
PookahMacPhellimey, gonzoron and aruvqan, you guys are awsome! Seriously.
Love that. I got to see them in concert once and it was amazing! The first song I ever heard by Varttina was “Oi Dai” in 1991.
As long as we’re talking about Scandinavia…
I take it you’re familiar with Mari Boine (Persen) from Lapland? That version of “Gula Gula” is awesome enough, but here’s a really cool remix of that song
How about Agnes Buen Garnås & Jan Garbarek?
Kristen Bråten Berg? (man that scenery is to die for!)
Thanks for the tip about Hedningarna and Ranarim, PookahMacPhellimey. I love that.
Not Scandanavian, but here are several that I played that may have caused some WTF moments, but since I was just having a ball and playing what I wanted and not caring, that was the last thing on my mind.
Catherine Lara - “Aral” (this song is awesome in about 100 different ways)
Humpe Humpe - “Yama Ha” (this is so much fun. Note the chorus, which is just Japanese brands: “Yamaha Mitsubishi Toyota Suzuki Sony, Minolta Kawasaki Sanyo Casio Toshiba” - these are sisters from Germany btw)
Akiko Yano - “Rose Garden” (I can’t even think about it without getting a huge smile on my face. That chorus! I have no idea what she’s singing about, but it’s gotta be fun. She used to be married to Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Hector Zazou and Anneli Drecker (of Bel Canto) - “I’ll Strangle You” (spoken parts by Gérard Depardieu)
Helen & the Horns - "Surrey With The Fringe On Top" (scowl, I dare you)
Grace Darling - “Cursing A Muse” and “Transportation” (both sound normal until she starts singing) or “Open Air Cafe” (circus music + a Parisian accent=bliss)
West India Company - “Bengalis From Outer Space” or “O Je Suis Seul” or “My Shooting Star” (here’s a crazy amazing dance video using that by La La La Human Steps, but the audio isn’t as good)
“Raqs” is my favorite Sheila Chandra song, Raqs, but it’s not her weirdest. That would be the Ximerre mix of her song “Strange Minaret” which is all backwards. I think it’s much cooler than the normal version, which I don’t much like.
Aster Aweke - Y’shebellu (I saw her perform this powerful song live. Holy shit!)
J-Pop! Takako Minekawa - “Fantastic Cat” or “Plash”
Rai music makes some people go screaming into the night. I have no idea why. How great is this?
Chaba Zahouania with Cheb Khaled - “Ya Laoulid” (I heard that they never actually met for this recording. They recorded their parts separately and the producer edited them together. It works!)
Iva Bittova - “Huljet”
There’s more, so so so much more that cause numerous WTF moments. I didn’t even get to many. Yma Sumac, Nina Hagen (it just occurred to me that Lady Gaga HAD to be influenced by Nina), Danielle Dax (her too!), Toyah Wilcox, Lene Lovich, Hazel O’Connor, Victoria Williams, Mary Margaret O’Hara, on and on (ok, I got to them, I had to put in links)
I really liked the Bran Flakes! I’ve only listened to one song so far, “Rodeo Butterfly,” but I’m lovin on it. I like fun instrumentals, like this one:
The Fibonaccis - “Romp of the Meiji Sycophants”
You can find Yat-kha on emusic.
I had a friend with a cassette tape of fun filks, like those, and some computer based ones [something about power on a bus as in bus power supplies that involved apparently model numbers from what I can vaguely remember] and some SF fan filks like Leslie Fish’s Banned From Argo [ha, which I also have in my ipod shuffle]
I also have military filk, Bull Durham’s Songs of SEA/SAC have some fun ones, like a strange take on My Bonnie called DaNang Lullaby [the refrain is 'My god how the mortars roll in" I got in trouble in school because that was the only version of My Bonnie I knew, so that is what I sang during the sing along :eek:]
Buys a house in thread
Wow! You guys have really made my day(s). Having a ball listening to this stuff. Aruvqan and Equipoise, you rock. But lots of good stuff in thread.
One more good Scandi for those who liked the previously mentioned stuff is Gjallarhorn.
Recently found this super beautiful waltz-song from Salento, southern Italy. I cannot imagine anyone not loving it, but got tumbleweed from most of my friends, even the ethno-friendly ones. Maybe you guys?
Finally, Georgian choral singing (the country, not the state). If there is a heaven, they sing like this there.
Back later for more listening. Hope more gems will appear.
(depending on taste, some, none, or all of the links in this post may qualify for the “WTF”)
I should note that most Vartinna seems to be rather upbeat and fun, and not at all “horror”-ish. It’s mainly just that one I linked to (Aijo) that sounds like a witch’s coven chanting. The album version has a male voice doing the chant, so I used it as background for a fight with some religious zealot ghouls.
That Ranarim track might work for more sedate travelling music. The Garmana maybe for some dark fae partying in the woods, and the Hedningarna is just pure gold. Unsettling and beautiful.
These are awesome. I’m a sucker for:
a) Rock bands with “non-rock” instruments in them:
Jethro Tull (flute)
Thanks to Gravity (violin)
Ashley MacIsaac (fiddle, and sometimes bagpipes)
Tanzwut (bagpipes)
I also like a lot of Ska, due to the horn section…
and
b) covers that reinvent the song, especially on “non-rock” instruments
Vitamin String Quartet
Apocalyptica (although their recent stuff is more of the first category)
The Disco Star Wars Theme - by Meco
VSQ, Tanzwut, and Apocalyptica have all shown up in my game too. Actually, I even used Tull’s The Whistler once, during a town festival.
Wow, that’s beautiful! this will definitely make it into the D&D playlist. gonna have to go through the rest of your links later…
Here’s one that my improv group used to use during warm-ups:
Huun Huur Tu
And here are a few more from my D&D playlist:
Vas
Rodrigo y Gabriela (their Stairway to Heaven cover is the best version I’ve ever heard (including the original))