CONFESS!!!!!! What's the strangest Album/Tape/CD in your music collection

[LynneSin]

I would have to say it's my collection of Polka Favorites by Myron Florin



It was something my grandfather would enjoy listening to and when I would visit him we would watch Saturday Night Polka Night on Wilkes-Barre Public Televison.

The tape has worn out and I'll probably pick it up on CD. I really do like polka music and I'm not ashamed to admit it!!! And yes, I know how to polka. I went with some friends to a Oktoberfest last year and taught one of my friends how to polka

[goodhue]

1. something by Jandek n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

12. All right! The Houston Ghost!

Sterling Smith is either a genius or an idiot, but his work is indded fascinating. I've got most of his work on vinyl...Jandek....jeez what a weirdo!

[terrya]

2. A cd of the James Bond themes.

It's a 2 cd set...with the themes from Doctor No to License to Kill. The original themes. I'm a fan of the composer John Barry, who wrote a lot of the music from the Bond movies.

[CalebHayes]

11. ummmm...

[RandomKoolzip]

41. Does that have "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" on it?

I've heard that song-it's brilliant. If I find a copy of that CD, I'll immediately buy it. People tell me the Postal Service is awesome...

[mike_c]

3. Best of Kiss....

Something of an oxymoron, but one of those music club CD's that you get when you forget to send in the reply card....

[LynneSin]

5. I got a 'Best of Dokken' CD that way

I've yet to take it out of the unwrapper - I forgot to return it too

[Kolesar]

21. You can just write "return, refused" on the box and send it back

No extra postage required. A woman in the mailroom at work told me that. You are under no obligation to pay when they bill you for $19 plus $4 shipping! I have done it a few times.

If it has been opened...find a used CD store and sell it.

[kmla]

4. Probably my "2 Live Crew" cd.

Didn't really care for it. Didn't really enjoy it. Musically, it was just plain average.

I just didn't want some Ashcroftian censor-headed geek deciding what cd's I could and couldn't buy because it had a dirty word in it, and spoke about "the dirty deed."

[Loonman]

6. Shaped Haysie Fantaysie picture 7"

[kmla]

7. Oooh. I loved that song...

....but they were a little odd, I must admit.

8. Ultimate Spinach - Behold & See

long out of print, so I can't post image but read more here if you really want to--
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005J722/ref=m_art_li_1/104-2270919-1464740?v=glance&s=music






Also Dr. West's Medicine show and Junk Band with the classic Eggplant that Ate Chicago. Have the original which is also long out of print. Here's the Greatest Hits. Norman Greenbaum who wrote Spirit in the Sky was in this band.



I almost forgot this beauty--- Phil Lesh and Ned Lagin -- Seastones

[cspiguy]

9. It's either Raffi - Bannaphone or Amy Grant's My Fathers Eyes

no explanation possible.

[BurtWorm]

10. Pygmy music

Strange, beautiful harmonies, collected in the Congo rainforest while the singers worked, relaxed, worshipped and played.

[TheUnknownPoster]

13. Tie

I have the South Park "Chef Aid" album and WWF: the Music.

You may now mock me.

[Whitacre D_WI]

14. "Plant Serenade"

It's a record of "sonic stimulation" for plants; it's supposed to help them grow. And no, this is not that Stevie Wonder album (in the words of the great Phil Lynott, "I don't want no songs for plants, I want songs for me") -- this is a collection of music for plants to "listen" to.

I suppose I shouldn't call it "music," though. Each band (2 or 3 per side) is a single tone, sustained for far too many minutes. I listened to the album once, and my bird nearly went berzerk.





Best damn $0.99 I ever spent.

[BurtWorm]

16. I think you win

So far. :toast:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

15. The Karate Kid II soundtrack

Cetera talking about being a knight in shining armor and whatnot. Frightening.

[RandomKoolzip]

17. Emilio Cubiero: "Death of An Asshole."

Very offensive spoken word pieces, chanted in a very thick Brooklyn accent.

I've got a whole lot of great outsider music in my collection too...

Here's a great link for cool weird music:

www.incorrectmusic.com

Check out Y. Bhekhirst, Robert Alberg, Little Marcy, The Shaggs, etc. Good stuff!

[Whitacre D_WI]

26. The Shaggs kick ass!

I also noticed that website mentioned the Langley Schools album -- I've got both records, and they each bring me much happiness. There's just something transcendental about a bunch of Canadian pre-teens singing Klaatu's "Calling Occupants."

Ohio's second-best record store (Shake It! in Cincinnati) has an entire section devoted to "difficult listening." When I was there over Christmas, I almost bought an album featuring the vocal stylings of Mr. Anton Szandor LaVey; but as I'd already eclipsed the $150 mark in records bought, I decided against it.

By the way, Ohio's BEST record store is Used Kids Records in Columbus. Fer Chrissakes, it's owned by Ron House (from Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and Great Plains) and Dan Dow (from the Gibson Bros.).

[RandomKoolzip]

39. Ron House co-owns Used Kids records?!

Wow, I had no idea. I loves me some Ron House..."Why do punk rock guys go out with new wave girls?....You'll buy anything that comes out on 4AD...." And TJSA were even better! Great live band.

In NAshville, the only places you can hear about this stuff is over the internet. The only good "difficult" record store closed down after a year (Off 12th Records) although Grimey's has some good stuff.

The Langley Schools album is probably the best known outsider album of the last few years...that version of "Deaperado" is sheer beauty. I've never heard children sing with that much CONTROL before. It's amazing!

[Whitacre D_WI]

46. Yep-ers. Here's the list of Used Kids employees:

As previously mentioned, Ron House (Great Plains/TJSA) and Dan Dow (Gibson Bros.) run the place. Additionally...

Michael Hummel (AKA Mike Rep of Mike Rep and the Quotas fame) used to work at the store, now he runs their eBay auctions from the comfort of his own home in Harrisburg, OH.

The late Jerry Wick (from Gaunt) was riding his bike to work at the store when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver.

Bela Koe-Krompecher (the chap responsible for Anyway Records) worked there until he moved to Florida; last I heard he was heading back Buckeye-ways, but I don't know the whole story behind that.

Tom Shannon (Cheater Slicks) works there; and the guitarist from New Bomb Turks used to, as did Bassholes drummer Bim Thomas.

Of course, I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody. But this is a start.




Oh, and when I was last at Used Kids, around Thanksgiving, I ran into Don Howland (Gibson Bros./Bassholes).



On edit: The Used Kids folks are also a great bunch of *-hating pinko lefty subversives.

[Red_Storm]

18. I have this CD .......

it's a compilation of the best 70's porn music..........I bought 6-7 years ago as a goof but it's still in my collection.........

[salinen]

19. "The best of Blotto"

actually pretty damn good. Lead singer Lee Harvey Blotto.

[LynneSin]

20. I think you just topped the "Plant Serenade" guy

I mean porn music, even for today's music, is nothing more than a crappy keyboard player playing some cheesy music. I mean, if you put that CD with your significant other you're almost guaranteed to end up having porn sex (which is nothing more than widely exaggerated dirty talking sex)

[BurtWorm]

23. What if you played the best of 1970s porn music to your plants?

Interesting experiment, huh? :hi:

[LynneSin]

25. NO STOP, the visualization is painful to imagine

:cry:

[Red_Storm]

27. Don't forget the gentle saxophone riffs too.........

[BurtWorm]

Ohhhh....God....gentle...saxophone...........uhhh....riffffffffffffffffffs

:smoke:

[LynneSin]

34. That was 3 seconds...

you're career as a porn star will be very 'short-lived' if you know what I mean. When you hear the porn music you have to be able to last for about 10-15 minutes!!!

[BurtWorm]

35. I wasn't being a porn star

just a consumer. I think I had the timing right. ;)

[Red_Storm]

36. ok, you'll think i'm a weirdo or nuts but .............

the music on the CD is not that bad, there's some songs that bring the funk, others are light jazzy ballads, the whole CD is actually listenable.........seriously !

[Whitacre D_WI]

29. HEY!

'70s porn music is way different from today's porn music. Funky. Way funky.

[Red_Storm]

32. that's why I still have the CD......

remove all porn imagery and get the funk out !

[GregW]

22. I have two ... a CD and LP

CD - DEVO's EZ Listening Disc - DEVO remixed as ... muzak?


LP - Monty Python's "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" - World's first three sided record

[grannylib]

24. Probably some crap I picked up when I was a director of youth ministry

and used a lot of Christian rock/pop/whatnot when working with the kids. Some of it is really pretty good and most of it sucks elephant ass.

[mac56]

28. "I Love A Banjo" by Art Ford.

Great weaponry for combatting boom cars.

[AlienGirl]

30. Gwydion Pendderwen collection

Good stuff!

Tucker

[dwckabal]

31. Something I thought they'd never release on CD:

Lou Reed -- Metal Machine Music (the original CD release, not the reissue from 3 years ago)

64:04 of pure industrial bliss! (Ha! I've never listened to the whole thing.)

[xcentrik]

33. Little Marcy records

I have two different albums by "Little Marcy", who is a Christian singing hand puppet who looks like the product of an illicit union between Tammy Faye and Chuckie, and sounds like Kate Smith on helium.

[frylock]

37. bombay the hard way: guns, cars and sitars..

and the sequel, Bombay the Hard Way, Vol. 2: Electric Vindaloo



Both parodies of Bollywood crime/drama sountracks by the multi-talented producer Dan "the Automator" Nakamura. Full of cool samples, soundbytes, and dope ass beats!

[darkstar]

38. Bookmarking this thread !

Love the weird and wonderful titles so far. Keep 'em coming.

As far as my own collection goes, let's see:

Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies
"American Metaphysical Circus"
(a google should render a better idea than I could provide; be back shortly)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002R51/qid=1073503416/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/104-2903108-5954338?v=glance&s=music

The Langly School Music Project,
wherein a school teach from Canada has his junior high music students cover some 70's classics--Space Oddity, Band on the Run--to sometimes hauntinigly moving--not to say *well performed*--effect.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Q6NP/qid%3D1073503513/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-2903108-5954338

Sun Ra
"Atlantis"
Lots of contenders when it comes to SR, I suppose, but the most "out there" of his that I own...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000014KI/qid%3D1073503615/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-2903108-5954338

That's it off the top of my head.

On Edit:

Was surprised to find the Langely School thing on Amazon. A friend burned and sent it to me with lots of other oddities a while back. I assumed it was making the trader ciruit he's into. Will have to buy it now. It's given me and my friends too much enjoyment not to pay up.

[MrBenchley]

79. The Portsmouth Symphonia

A weird classical record from the late 1970s...a guy took a bunch of amateur musicians, let them rehearse a couple times, then recorded the results...

Sounds similar to Langley.....

[Ellen Forradalom]

40. Soundtrack to Valley of the Dolls

Music by Andre Previn.

[CanuckAmok]

42. "Cowboy Jazz"

An Australian c&w groups who infuse jazz and swing into country anthems. It's indescribable.

Well, "terrible" is a start.

[ProfessorGAC]

43. Free Jazz by Ornette Coleman

Or The Best of Cecil Taylor. Even my other musician friends don't like it. I sure do. But, i'm weird that way.
The Professor

[Zuni]

48. is this atonal jazz?

Ornette coleman plays some weird stuff. Atonal music is really weird.

[ProfessorGAC]

59. Yes. It's Harmolodic Structures With Atonality

Harmolodics can best be described as random keyshifts around a more or less fixed harmonic structure, in which the tone color for each chord is left to the decision of the player. IOW, if the change suggest a G to a D, the players decide whether the tone color is a 7th, 9th, m7th, m9th, diminished, half-diminished, augmented, or so on.

Then, the goal is to play a modal pattern over that chord selection, where each player may be playing a different mode over a different tone color.

It's pretty out there. However, it takes REALLY good players to keep it together. That's why i like it. The musicianship is sublime.
The Professor

[chiburb]

66. Prof, you're talkin' Greek with that stuff but...

One of my favorites was by Pharoah Sanders called "Thembi". The second cut was NOISE that everyone who heard it objected to. I loved it and don't know why... I heard the "music" in it. Could I have been hearing what you just described?

[ProfessorGAC]

69. Probably

Sanders and Coleman were friends for a long time, so it's not hard to believe they tried some of the same experiments in music. I'm not familiar with the piece you mentioned, but it's certainly possible that the idea behind them were related.

You and me, boy! We both could hear the melody from glass in a meat grinder. Cool!
The Professor

[chiburb]

74. Holy S@#$ !!!

I found it online! You can listen to the cut I'm talking about, "Red, Black and Green", 2nd song. I hadn't heard this for 30 years!
Let me know what you think...

http://www.tigersushi.com/site/frameset.jsp?page=Rcd.jsp&RcdId=547

On edit: They only give you 30 seconds of each song, but you'll get the idea. Also check out the beautiful "Astral Traveling" (cut #1)...

[ProfessorGAC]

76. Red Black & Green and Bailophone Dance

Those are pretty much what i was talking about. Combinations of atonal noise, modal playing over what appear to be random chord changes. It's not quite Coleman, but philosophically similar.

Great Find!
The Professor

[NightTrain]

44. I can't pick just one, so here's a short list....

The Ethel Merman Disco Album
Music from N.O.R.A.D.
Music for Suburban Living
Champagne and Bongos
Legends of the Accordion
Sing the Happy Romper Room Songs!
Radio Shack presents: Song for CBers
The Good Housekeeping Exercise Record (1958 edition)
World Championship Barbershop Quartets of 1953 (also, 1957 and 1960)

I'm just an odd duck!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

45. Toilet sounds effects and "How to Train a Parrot to Talk"

Hello, Hello,Hello, Hello,Hello, Hello,Hello, Hello,Hello, Hello,Hello, Hello,Hello, Hello,Hello, Hello,Hello, Hello,

How are you today?

How are you today?
How are you today?
How are you today?
How are you today?
How are you today?

[LynneSin]

65. I had a friend with "How to Train a Parrot to Talk" on a looping cassette

Since it looped the tape just kept playing all day long.

Funny thing is - the parrot never learned how to talk.

Dumb bird

[BurtWorm]

72. Must be a great conversation starter at parties.

;)

[Zuni]

47. I have a tape by Charles manson and his family

it is mostly hippy/folk stuff. best song is 'Garbage Dump', a song about how much they love their garbage dump.

My other weirdest album is The Suburban Commando Soundtrack (remember hulk Hogan's film?)(I also own the WWF album piledriver II)

I also have a record of alpine yodeling!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

49. O garbage can o garbage can..why do they call you a garbage can

:D

[bif]

50. The Harmonic Choir

Has anyone ever heard this one? Strangly beautiful album.

[chiburb]

51. This one:

Dame Kiri Tekanawa singing songs of the Maori...

[Zuni]

53. my mother has a bunch of her stuff

but I never saw any aboriginal maori music

[chiburb]

55. It's actually quite good...

Some of it is lush, romantic..
And some of it rocks!

[Bridget Burke]

52. Red Krayola & Holy Modal Rounders

Red Krayola: Both "The Parable of Arable Land" & "God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It". Original vinyl from Houston's International Artists label.

Also "Corky's Debt to His Father"--Mayo Thompson's post-Krayola work. Also vinyl.



Holy Modal Rounders: Beyond their first 2 classics on Prestige which everybody ought to own (don't you?), I've got "Indian War Whoop", "Good Taste is Timeless", "The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders" & "Alleged In their Own Time". More vinyl.



All this stuff has actually been re-released on CD! Will get back to you later with some OBSCURE things.....

[scarlet_owl]

58. I love the Holy Modal Rounders!

Nothing embarassing about that. I can't find anything on CD by them. Maybe because they closed down both the local record stores here.

61. ah yes, the Holy Modal Rounders!

I forgot about them.
I have their record that is on Rounder records.

Sam Shepard, the playwright and actor (yes, that Sam Shepard) was even in the band at one point.


from http://www.redhotjazz.com/hmr/middle1.html

"We kept changing the name. First it was the Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers. Then the Temporal Worth High Steppers. Then The Motherfucker Creek Babyrapers. That was just a joke name. He was Rinky-Dink Steve the Tin Horn and I was Fast Lightning Cumquat. He was Teddy Boy Forever and I was Wild Blue Yonder. It kept changing names. Then it was the Total Modal Rounders. Then when we were stoned on pot and someone else, Steve Close maybe, said Holy Modal Rounders by mistake. We kept putting out different names and wait until someone starts calling us that then. When we got to Holy Modal Rounders, everyone decided by acculumation that we were the Holy Modal Rounders. That's the practical way to get named."
- Peter Stampfel
1963 in
New York City's Greenwich Village, where the Holy Modal Rounders played on the streets and at places that included The Gaslight, Cafe Raffio, Cafe Flamenco, The Playhouse Theatre with such acts as The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Luke Faust, Bob Dylan, Tiny Tim, Phil Ochs, Jose Feliciano, John Sebastian, Tim Hardin.


"We worked together at the Cafe Playhouse in Greenwich Village. They and I compared musical notes ... no pun intended .... about the influence of the Beatles, and how they used folk chord patterns and harmonies. It was a wonderful time."
- Roger McQuinn

[Hubert Flottz]

54. 'I Laughed, I Cried, I Fudged My Undies'

And it's money well spent! Check it out! Warning: Not for the faint hearted do-gooders!

http://www.redpeters.com/mp3/index.html

http://www.redpeters.com/

Well, you did ask!

[RandomKoolzip]

56. I have an audio tape of the Jonestown suicide.

And another tape of Aleister Crowley chanting in his own made-up language. Good stuff for when you're tripping your brains out!

[Zuni]

63. Aleister crowley?

How old is that recording?

[NightTrain]

57. Here's another

"Kali Bahlu Takes the Forest Children on a Journey of Cosmic Remembrance."

The most memorable track from which is "A Cosmic Telephone Call," in which Ms. Bahlu rambles on for 13 minutes about getting a phone call from Buddha and asking him all sorts of questions. Among the pieces of advice Buddha bestows upon Kali:

"Do not commit suicide, for your soul will end up in the Twilight Zone, and Baba and the boys have a heck of a time getting you out."

Tell me that woman wasn't on acid!

[MrBenchley]

60. "Selling is Money" by Bud Collyer

I bought it to give away as a joke....and then never pulled the trigger on it.

Best weird albums I own are the "Secret Museum of Mankind" series....

http://www.yazoorecords.com/7004.htm

[stopbush]

62. An LP of Walter Brennan "sing-speaking" some country-western songs.

n/t

[Zuni]

64. you need to hear a sample of this lady singing

http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/listen.html

check out the carpenters covers

[Wickerman]

67. john trubee and the ugly janitors of america

The Communists are Coming to Kill Us

prank phone calls and demented phone calls - long before his "big hit", A Blind Man's Penis

we are all dying (j.trubee)
atomic tests (j.trubee)
colonel beep (j.trubee)
the world of mister cool (j.trubee)
dumping buckets of phlegm on bitchy old ladies (j.trubee)
shredded bread crumbs (j.trubee)
i couldn't get through (j.trubee)
don't cuss, mister (j.trubee)
cram the plastic down my throat ! (j.trubee)
goddamn college girl (j.trubee)
you gotta be 21 (j.trubee)
got any earwigs ? (j.trubee)
golden scotch synthesis (j.trubee)
the everlasting candy bar of life (j.trubee)
(rich snobbish nebishes of the) high class (j.trubee)
queen of angels (o.shur, j.sharkey, d.buchanan)
chris leadem describes hell (c.leadem)
my last bird (j.trubee, j.nevius, f.reed)
my asthma problem (j.trubee)
metallic chimes (j.trubee, r.silverware)
beyond space and time (j.trubee, j.nevius, f.reed)
a room for two (j.trubee)
we want birth control (j.trubee)
geriatric care (j.trubee)
call to a funeral home at midnight (j.trubee)
satan pukes on the high school cheerleaders (j.trubee)

[regnaD kciN]

68. Christmas (Unplugged) by RemDawg and the Pound Puppies

This is not a commercially-available CD, but one made out of MP3 files provided on a web site last month.

For those who don't know it, "RemDawg" is Jerry Remy, former second baseman and current broadcaster for the Boston Red Sox. He got some friends together last month to record some Christmas songs. The problem is that none of them can sing. According to the web site, this was an experiment to see if it was possible to do an entire song without once winding up in the proper key. They're using a computer-based karaoke accompaniment and doing to various "Christmas favorites" like "Rudolph," "Winter Wonderland," and "Let It Snow" what I've always thought should be done to them. :evilgrin:

At any rate, I downloaded all the MP3s, converted them to AIFF files on my Mac, and burned them to CD. Now, I can hardly wait for next December to roll around...

[bif]

75. have you ever heard "Blame it on Christmas"?

It's one of the few things I look forward to over the Holidays. "Away in a Swingin' Manger" done by the guy who sound just like Frank Sinatra and a Billy May type orchestra. Outrageously,sacreligiously funny.

[mvd]

70. Radiohead's Kid A and Bjork's Homogenic are top contenders

I like Kid A more than Homogenic.

I also have Loreena McKennitt's Book Of Secrets, which I love. But I find it more beautiful than strange. It's not like some of the new age on the radio show Echoes.

[bif]

71. Ever heard the piano music of Gurdjieff?

A friend made me a tape of it. Different stuff.

[binaryline]

73. Miranda July-- The Binet-Simon Test

Oh, I wish I could describe it properly. It's sort of spoken word and performance art thing where Ms. July does each song as a kind of sketch-- performing all of these characters in different voices with weird, ambient music playing in the background. Each song/sketch tells a different, insanely fucking creepy story... it's really bizarre.

It's so creepy that I've owned this disc for five years, and I've only been able to listen to it a few times all the way through. *shudder*... definitely the strangest cd I own ;-).

[cosmicdot]

77. 1 each: Zoviet France CD and Nocturnal Emissions CD

not necessarily 'strange' ... but, unusual against my CDs* with heavy representation by pulp, blur, erasure, the beatles and array of 'others'

http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/zovfr_fn.html

*only CDs considered since I gave away my vinyl collection to a DJ last year

[wingnut]

78. Crispin Glover's LP

is completely fucking bizarre.