# The most extreme album you own? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935 "2007-08-25T22:36:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/41 "2007-08-26T20:49:29Z")
> [@](#): > > **Scott Walker** - [The Drift](http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/scott_walker/the_drift/) - Creeeeeeeepy. Creeeeeeeepy it certainly is, but I felt it was kinda like a shot at the Top 40 next to [Tilt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_%28album%29)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/42 "2007-08-26T23:05:57Z")
Everything by [Sleepytime Gorilla Museum](http://myspace.com/sleepytimegorillamuseum) ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/43 "2007-08-27T00:13:25Z")
[QUOTE=Leechboy] \*\* Sunn O)))\*\* - [Black One](http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sunn_o___/black_one/) or [Oracle](http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sunn_o___/oracle/) - Think of the more queasy moments from a David Lynch film. [/QUOTE] I have a coworker who often gives me extreme MP3s to listen to, and he has given me Black One. If you like that, try _Things Viral_ by Khanate. (The band shares a member with Sunn O))).) All twelve of the reviews on Amazon give it five stars; one of them calls it “doom metal minus the metal”. The most extreme thing he’s given me that I’ve enjoyed is probably either _Sleep’s Holy Mountain_ by Sleep or _As Heaven Turns to Ash_ by Warhorse. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/44 "2007-08-27T01:35:25Z")
It’s probably been twenty years or more since I listened to it, but somewhere in my stack of vinyl I still have an old copy of the **Fugs** “Golden Filth: Live At The Fillmore East”. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/45 "2007-08-27T01:49:11Z")
Most extreme - Negativland “Escape from Noise” (samples a Mr. Magoo cartoon, among other really odd things. Least commercial - Wayne Butane - “Seduckted”. Don’t know anything about the artist, except a gal I once dated thinks she knew him, once, as a DJ in a strip club. He seems to have a vendetta going against Johnny Mathis. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/46 "2007-08-27T02:34:59Z")
The People’s Temple Gospel Choir Album- a CD with a really lame Gospel album they did in the early 70’s, and then the last cut is the tape of the Mass Suicide. I’ve listened to it TWICE. The music part is bad & the “Finale’” is creepy as Hell. I actually listen occasionally to Manson’s LIE- I hate to say it, but he really wasn’t a bad singer/songwriter/musician. If it weren’t for that pesky homicidal streak, he’d be a major seller in Europe & probably doing 3 AM Gospel broadcasts instead of Gene Scott or Arnold Murray. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/47 "2007-08-27T02:45:21Z")
That’d be **Doktors 4 Bob** , Bob. _A Lewd Spectacle of Wanton Depravity_. Both difficult to listen to and resolutely non-commercial lyrically. Do I listen to it? Not really, not anymore. But I did play drums on a cover of “Half-Ass Drunk” from it once, as the last song of a set when we’d run through everything else we knew. Not that I play drums. But I’d already played guitar and bass, and we sort of worked out that everybody had to play something they don’t really play on that one, except the guy who came out of the audience to play guitar. I have that performance on CD as well. \ ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/48 "2007-08-27T04:08:44Z")
“Aggressively non-commercial?” Well, I don’t buy music to shock anymore (that’s so 1987) 😉 , but I’m not sure how commercial Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s stuff was… sure, [Facing Future](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Israel_Kamakawiwo%27ole_Facing_Future.jpg) was the best-selling Hawai’ian album of all time, but I wonder how many people only listened to “Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World” and missed out on the sweet voice and awesome ukulele on the rest of the tracks… I miss Iz. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/49 "2007-08-27T13:28:45Z")
I have a bunch of foreign language cast CDS. Joseph in Italian? Got it! Jesus Christ Superstar in Russian? Got it. By Jeeves in German? Here it is. What about Chess? German or Swedish? The Beautiful Game? German or Hungarian? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/50 "2007-08-27T16:07:14Z")
_The Holy Modal Rounders_ first two eponymous LP’s are/were classic examples of psychedelic old-timey. _The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders_ is weirder–but has some gems. I may have listened to _Indian War Whoop_. Once. The Red Krayola’s _Parable of Arable Land_ was plenty weird but had at least one good tune. _God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It_ was just _too_ obscure. But they were local heroes back in the day. And the second LP might be worth money–since it \*isn’t \* scratched to shit. I’ve got 3 _Nordic Roots_ samplers. The bands are pretty obscure outside the Scandinavian/Scandinavian-American folk-rock scene, but the music isn’t really too “extreme.” However–each CD is $4.98 at Amazon & they’re still available. (This is a recommendation!) ---
**Author:** ![percussion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@percussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percussion)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/51 "2007-08-27T16:14:27Z")
Tom Hamilton - [London Fix](http://www.muse-eek.com/record/hamilton/content.html) thats up there in terms of accessibility ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/52 "2007-08-27T19:08:59Z")
[QUOTE=Kilvert’s Pagan] If the entire _White Album_ had sounded like Revolution 9, it would have qualified. [/QUOTE] Kilvert’s Pagan, meet John Lennon (and Yoko Ono)'s [Unfinished Music #2: Life with the Lions](http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Music-2-Life-Lions/dp/B0000009RF) ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/53 "2007-08-27T19:21:09Z")
[QUOTE=JKellyMap] Kilvert’s Pagan, meet John Lennon (and Yoko Ono)'s [Unfinished Music #2: Life with the Lions](http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Music-2-Life-Lions/dp/B0000009RF) [/QUOTE] Wow. Yep - that one would qualify. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/54 "2007-08-27T20:01:20Z")
No Pussyfooting- Fripp & Eno ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/55 "2007-08-27T22:06:30Z")
[QUOTE=JKellyMap] Kilvert’s Pagan, meet John Lennon (and Yoko Ono)'s [Unfinished Music #2: Life with the Lions](http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Music-2-Life-Lions/dp/B0000009RF) [/QUOTE] Actually _Two Virgins_ is closer to sounding like a whole album’s worth of “Revolution 9.” Only not nearly as good. I own probably the majority of the albums mentioned in this thread, as well as too many noise/free improvisation/electroacoustic music albums to mention, and the most forbidding would have to be either something by John Zorn/Naked City (with so many albums I don’t know which one to pick) or Diamanda Galas (probably _Litanies of Satan_). Oh, and then there’s [Jandek](http://tisue.net/jandek/). I only have two albums, but his whole vast discography is supposed to be uniformly ultra-weird. A few namedrops: Iannis Xenakis, Derek Bailey/Music Improvisation Company, Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser, Karlheinz Stockhausen (I have a huge amount of his stuff), Pierre Henry (ditto), Morton Subotnick, Faust, Tod Machover. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/56 "2007-08-27T22:41:44Z")
I dumped most of my really out there stuff: Litanies of Satan by Diamanda Galas, Aloha! by Henry Kaiser. I still have all my Residents albums, though. ---
**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935/57 "2007-08-27T23:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] Mike Patton’s solo album [Adult Themes for Voice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Themes_for_Voice) has to be one of the weirdest albums ever created. I think he went partially insane while recording that album, at least it sounds like it. The best song title on the album is “A Smile, A Slap In The Face, A Fart, A Kiss On The Mouth” it is twenty six seconds long. Many of the “songs” are under a minute long. [/QUOTE] This is what I came in to mention… it’s very weird. I bought it, and listened to it once. It’s just him making random noises with his mouth, in various hotel rooms… very bizarre… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-extreme-album-you-own/416935.md?page=2)