What is the strangest song you've heard? - eviltoast

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

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
      6·
      7 months ago

      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

      • stanleytweedle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        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.

      • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        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.