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.
Thank you for bringing this back to me, sir.
Now this… this is seriously strange. Strongest contender so far. Their track “Subways” is also quite something
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.
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
No joke, I think about “do all your shopping… at Wal-Mart!” more than I should.
Ramadan! Ramadan!
Lots of praying and no breakfast!
Ramadan! So much fun!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.
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Sounds like a John Cage piece, but I have no clue.
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Whatever the hell this song is supposed to be. The more you watch, the weirder it gets.
Wrap it up boys. We found the winner! WTF?
Well, they asked and you answered.
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.
It’s gotta be something from Songs in the Key of Z
https://open.spotify.com/album/7hkWmPdLAFG3WnXJKBKyRL?si=REmJQO_jTZCq6CxRLeZM0Q
Steve Reich has a lot of interesting stuff. I have heard Clapping Music performed several times. https://youtube.com/watch?v=liYkRarIDfo
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
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.
Jesus Was Way Cool by King Missile.
Shit, I’m not even sure you can classify it as a song, really. There’s music and words, but the words are just spoken and it’s just a guy giving mad props to Jesus Christ. But it’s like a surfer, grunge kinda dude so it sounds sarcastic AF.
But also Ween. So much Ween. They have maybe 2 or 3 albums of somewhat regular music, and then 5 times more just the most bizarre, drug induced aural hallucinations imaginable. I love 'em.
Oh and I can’t forget Daniel Johnston; a song writer with schizophrenia that afaik only released his work as bespoke, custom cassettes for people so there are like thousands of different versions of the same songs because he just played them from memory. The songs themselves are pretty gnarly, too.
When you realize Hamsterdance:
Is the Whistle Stop song from Robin Hood sped up:
As certainly not a furry, I recognized that immediately when I booted up dial-up for the first time hahaha