For me it’s Nitrobenzene by OwataP. This one is… make car horn noises? idk man, the whole benzene series is weird but this was the strangest one i’ve heard so far
Who can forget CBAT
That’s where my mind first went. The fact that that song is still turning up is fascinating.
Oh man, that whole post. It is not even that old but so damn good. The commenters who first have written serious responses but then later edited them after hearing that damn song. Just wow.
Wa wawa, wa wawawa, wa.
Here’s the Tyler life love time playlist for anyone interested.
I for one certainly cannot forget CBAT. It’s nuts, and so good, and so bad.
For me, it’s probably “Frontier Psychiatrist” by The Avalanches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE
It’s like a weird fever dream. Catchy tune though.
Great tune that. A lot of the main samples are from John Waters movies I believe.
Now this… this is seriously strange. Strongest contender so far. Their track “Subways” is also quite something
Thank you for bringing this back to me, sir.
I’ve been transported back to YTMND days.
I can’t believe multiple people put a lot of effort into making this. So weird.
I think it’ll get neglected a little bit just because of how well-known and frankly good it is, but Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is a very weird song. Probably not the very strangest for me, but it’s up there. Definitely the strangest that I actually like and remember well.
Tim Curry - I Do The Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPCsaO_55o
Also Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
Also Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
Or completely non-strange once you understand the method behind the madness. Either way, a damn cool/funny song IMO.
Anyway for the OP, instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music, I’ll go instead with The Shaggs, three teenage girls who had utterly no musical training, but who tried their best to make conventional, ‘normal music’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5T2kaFiFgg
Over the decades, the album Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and found fans such as Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. Following a 1980 reissue on Rounder Records, it received enthusiastic reviews for its uniqueness in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. A compilation of unreleased material, Shaggs’ Own Thing, was released in 1982. The Shaggs became the subject of fascination in the 1990s, when interest grew in outsider music, and they are credited with influencing twee pop. --WP
instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music
That’s what I like- organic ‘strangeness’. Philip Glass has made some strange sounding music but with intent, that was his style. The Celentano piece is intentional linguistically too but it’s a very strange to experience how effectively he’s mimicking US ‘phonics’ or whatever.
The Tim Curry piece is hilariously strange to me because Tim Curry actually can and does rock, but somehow wrote an embarrassingly unrocking song about how rocking he is.
That Shaggs tune was cool. The guitar actually remind me of the final few tracks on Velvet Underground and Nico, when it’s degenerating into madness.
Pretty sure The Most Unwanted Song takes the cake on that front. It has bagpipes and opera rap! Good luck listening all the way through. https://youtu.be/-gPuH1yeZ08?si=NRXK7GH9qnDbGt3H
Ramadan! Ramadan!
Lots of praying and no breakfast!
Ramadan! So much fun!No joke, I think about “do all your shopping… at Wal-Mart!” more than I should.
Thank you for this. I just listened to the whole thing. Then I listened to The Most Wanted Song.
The most Wanted felt 5x longer than The Most Unwanted.
I own that on CD!
Maybe not the strangest, but definitely up there. Twiggy Twiggy by Pizzicato Five.
Wrap it up boys. We found the winner! WTF?
Well, they asked and you answered.
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Sounds like a John Cage piece, but I have no clue.
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Steve Reich has a lot of interesting stuff. I have heard Clapping Music performed several times. https://youtube.com/watch?v=liYkRarIDfo
An opera singer and avant-garde music composer who made a song out of comic book sound effects.
Less strange, she also did an operatic cover of The Beatles’ Ticket to Ride. I’m pretty sure my ironic love of this has crossed over into completely unironic genuine love.
It’s gotta be something from Songs in the Key of Z
https://open.spotify.com/album/7hkWmPdLAFG3WnXJKBKyRL?si=REmJQO_jTZCq6CxRLeZM0Q
Here’s a good one. On the surface, it’s not that strange… Until you think you’re having a stroke because none of the words make sense. It’s all gibberish
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDY3HFkh_Y&si=CUtoNyslkSlpq-KI&feature=xapp_share
One really shocked me: Ascension by John Coltrane. At first I thought this was some kind of a joke but the power really held me down. It’s one of the songs that I can feel pure energy and freedom.
