# What is the oddest song/piece of music you've ever heard? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524 "2016-12-24T11:04:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/101 "2016-12-31T22:59:03Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gKTGS1sSfds/hqdefault.jpg "on suicide") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTGS1sSfds) Art Bears - On Suicide ---
**Author:** ![Squonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squonk)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/102 "2017-01-01T00:25:19Z")
Pink Floyd - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together and Grooving with a Pict [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gJ61uAHNk) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/103 "2017-01-01T01:37:56Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Art Bears - On Suicide I used to find playing \*Art Bears \*LPs at the wrong speed produced even more fun sounds/songs. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/104 "2017-01-01T02:05:25Z")
Almost three pages of responses and nobody has mentioned [Ladybaby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-vje-bq9c) or [Babymetal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY)? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/105 "2017-01-01T02:34:38Z")
[quote=“Squonk, post:102, topic:775524”] Pink Floyd - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together and Grooving with a Pict [/QUOTE] Doh!..I was going to post that but my link went dead and I couldn’t remember what the title was. About 20 years ago I worked with this really conservative, Christian, family values type guy. I played that track for him and his comment was “That’s what Hell is going to sound like.” ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/106 "2017-01-01T02:54:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Almost three pages of responses and nobody has mentioned [Ladybaby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-vje-bq9c) or [Babymetal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY)? Ha, that’s cool. Japanese school girl speed metal with a little techno tossed in. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/107 "2017-01-01T04:25:04Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Doh!..I was going to post that but my link went dead and I couldn’t remember what the title was. > About 20 years ago I worked with this really conservative, Christian, family values type guy. I played that track for him and his comment was “That’s what Hell is going to sound like.” I heard that a few times from people who’d had a chance to listen to this. > **[In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Metal_Mood:_No_More_Mr._Nice_Guy)** > > In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy is a 1997 album by American singer Pat Boone in which Boone covers hard rock and heavy metal songs in a jazz/big band style. Boone promoted the album by appearing in leather clothing (and, at that year's American Music Awards, wearing a dog collar). He succeeded in propelling Metal Mood onto the Billboard record charts (making it Boone's first hit album in 36 years), but it did not please some of his older, longtime fans who considered the heavy metal genre i... ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/108 "2017-01-01T08:37:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Almost three pages of responses and nobody has mentioned [Ladybaby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-vje-bq9c) or [Babymetal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY)? I wouldn’t think to mention them, since I listen to J-pop and K-pop; they’ve got a higher threshold for odd. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/109 "2017-01-01T11:08:15Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > I used to find playing \*Art Bears \*LPs at the wrong speed produced even more fun sounds/songs. Wrong in what direction? I used to scare people with "hopes and fears"in college. It got a lot of hates. It was difficult as hell. But I just listened to an hour of this stuff, and Henry Cow, on you tube and I think it may be something I’m going to check out a lot of. Am i hallucinating it is this good? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/110 "2017-01-01T11:38:22Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Doh!..I was going to post that but my link went dead and I couldn’t remember what the title was. > About 20 years ago I worked with this really conservative, Christian, family values type guy. I played that track for him and his comment was “That’s what Hell is going to sound like.” I’m pretty sure that would be [Ixtasis](https://youtu.be/qeSsGDwtdSg) by Crash Worship. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/111 "2017-01-01T16:40:26Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Wrong in what direction? > > I used to scare people with "hopes and fears"in college. It got a lot of hates. It was difficult as hell. But I just listened to an hour of this stuff, and Henry Cow, on you tube and I think it may be something I’m going to check out a lot of. Am i hallucinating it is this good? I particularly remember [Song of Investment Capital Overseas](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPoTsVwvO4E)from \*The World As It Is Today \*. That record looked like a 33, but played as a 45. At 33, this song is about as menacing as it gets. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/112 "2017-01-01T17:56:02Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > One of the most profoundly “making me see the light” songs of the 80s for me. [snip] I’m a young one. More or less sums up my childhood. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/113 "2017-01-02T02:14:47Z")
I just remembered, and Googled “Altoona Kitchen Band”. They were a band made up of women who played various household objects as musical instruments, and were a staple of parades and similar events that called for a novelty act in the Des Moines area (Altoona is a bedroom community) when I was a kid in the 1970s. Most of the links to this that I clicked no longer exist, so it’s a safe assumption that they are long defunct. ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/114 "2017-01-02T07:07:42Z")
I hear lots of odd content in this thread. I contribute the following… > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > The young Frank Zappa playing a bicycle: [https://youtu.be/izDvYokFU7U](https://youtu.be/izDvYokFU7U) Frank Zappa was the first name to come to mind upon reading the thread title. Odd weirdness in time signature changes… [“Inca Roads”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYxaoRVofE8) by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (1975). There exists a plethora of oddball lyrics among Zappa’s 100+ albums. Here are a few examples… [Apostrophe Suite featuring “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow”, “Nanook Rubs It”, “Saint Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast”, & “Father Oblivion”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpNn1nht0_8) [“Camarillo Brillo”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllWDc8_9lw) [“Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiu6DFXeF9A) > [@RealityChuck](#): > > Of course, you can pick just about anything from the work of Captain Beefheart (other than from _Safe as Milk_). +1. Zappa’s buddy, Captain Beefheart, often had oddball lyrics on top of cacophonic music… [“Old Fart at Play”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHjOuS-rABU) is a prime example. Zappa produced and engineered the _Trout Mask Replica_ album. Odd silliness… [“Bike”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmW17QvUhRM) by Pink Floyd during the Syd Barrett era (1967). Oddball psychedelia… [“Koeeoaddi There”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcmgUpkabM) by The Incredible String Band Odd soundscapes… [_Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!)_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTzg5_KPRf8) (album) by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Many other pieces by Acid Mothers Temple and various ensembles would qualify, too. Oddball tunes with chart success as singles… [“Bull inthe Heather”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7gBNQJf14) by Sonic Youth. [“Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaUqpnHvua8) by Crash Test Dummies. [“Bohemian Rhapsody”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ) by Queen ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/115 "2017-01-02T09:30:59Z")
Current 93 – [\*Faust \*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zz8901TotIs) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/116 "2017-01-02T21:08:40Z")
Nuthin like the usual _Midnight Special_ fare like Robert Fripp giving one of his patented erudite discourses on the premise of his music before actually engaging in execution of said music. I’m sure the average MS viewer would have greatly valued such a helpful treatise, and, accordingly, exploited such data as a framework with which to absorb, assimilate, and then finally, evaluate, Fripp’s looping soundscapes.:dubious: [An introduction to Frippertronics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wGj73hjTc) Featuring the most unbelievable fucking sentence in the whole Sun Ra fucking universe, right at the very beginning of video: Robert Fripp: “Thank-you very much, Rick James.”\* \*Great - now I won’t get any sleep wondering - ok - seriously - how the fuck could someone like Rick James could have possibly introduced someone like Robert Fripp? That’s like…a tequila-soaked Gary Busey introducing Autechre. Or something. “Hey - comin 'atcha…this cat’s from [_shitty Brit accent_] “the U-\*ni-\*ted _King_-dom”, and gonna lay down some crazy guitar stylins…” ? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/117 "2017-01-02T21:21:33Z")
[This Canuck digs these crazy Scots a whole lot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FGtd3oH_PQ) Love the fucked-up time signature-y shit just after the 12 minute mark. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/118 "2017-01-03T03:39:30Z")
I’d go with Moondog Symphony (1949) or almost anything by Sun-Ra. Of course there are ten thousand weird songs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524/119 "2017-01-03T09:49:40Z")
Anything by Crispin Hellion Glover [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524.md?page=5)