Unearthly Sounding Music

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What're some songs/albums/artists, etc. that sound so bizarre, surreal or detatched from conventional ideas of musical composition that they could theoretetically be made by nonhumans?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

lock thread, plz.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform

― gas coin, Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

folke rabe - what??

― phil turnbull (philT), Thursday, 12 February 2004 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the shaggs

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 February 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Bizarre. I was gonna say the Shaggs.
So instead, I offer the Godz.

― otto, Thursday, 12 February 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

thai elephant orchestra hurr hurr.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 12 February 2004 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus thing...completely unearthly/unhuman and, er, inhumane.

No, really - listen to it.

― blablablah, Thursday, 12 February 2004 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

nurse with wound, sometimes

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Thursday, 12 February 2004 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Autechre. And that's not a compliment.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 12 February 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Re. Beefheart, Shaggs etc - surely there's a difference between sounds-like-nonhumans and sounds-like-not-NORMAL-humans! Anything which uses human language is pretty much disqualified here I'd guess.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 12 February 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

*has his doubts 'bout suggesting david hykes & harmonic choir*

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 12 February 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to nominate D Hykes and crew! Good choice. Anything using harmonics to create melodies seems to create an unearthly feeling. Jews harp, tb-303, digeridoo...

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 12 February 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Autechre. Unearthly indeed. Mouse On Mars even more.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 12 February 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

That chattering thing from 2001; A Space Odyssey.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 February 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

jon rose & hollis taylor, who have travelled australia playing fences
find out more here

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 12 February 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and you can hear them playing fences by going here

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 12 February 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Liberace.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 12 February 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The parts of Main : Hz that don't sound shoegaze-y (ie everything except Corona I and Maser I) are like field recordings from a Martian jungle or something.

― j4n (Wintermute), Thursday, 12 February 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(everything except Corona I, Maser I, Maser IV and Neper II, that is.)

― j4n (Wintermute), Thursday, 12 February 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Some Zoviet France stuff has this quality.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Forbidden Planet soundtrack
Alan Lamb's telegraph-wire drone discs
Nuno Canavarro's Plux Quba, maybe

Lemme think . . .

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Robots made Discovery.

I'll hear nothing against this fact.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Tangerine Dream, Zeit
Portions of Miles Davis's On The Corner, and "Rated X" and "Mtume" from Get Up With It.
Lots of Autechre (LP5 and EP7 in particular) sounds like music computers would make for the entertainment of other computers.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

there's lots of stuff that fits the bill on here:

500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 February 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Morton Subotnik "Silver Apples On The Moon" / "The Wild Bull"

― Russ, Thursday, 12 February 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

perrey-kinsley - barnyard in space

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 February 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yamo / Wolfgang Flür (ex-Kraftwerk)

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Buckethead's albums under the name Death Cube K (such as Dreamatorium) are ridiculously dark and ethereal and structurally open and don't sound even vaguely representative of a lifeform, much less human.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Autechre. And that is a compliment.
Eno -- Thursday Afternoon.
Stuff released on Table of the Elements.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: lots of twerky turntabling (a la Q-Bert et al) sounds like aliens attempting to grok our earth-culture.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything from George Crumb -- try, specifically, Ancient Voices of Children or Makrokosmos, Vol. 3: Music for a Summer Evening, they'll both get right under your skin.

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

>Forbidden Planet soundtrack

quietly seconded because it's just so cool

http://seamus.lsu.edu/activities/seamusaward/1997Award.html
http://sfstation.members.easyspace.com/fbessay.htm

god google's getting annoying. you used to be able to find informative descriptions of albums very easily, these days you have to click through 40 returns of retail sites saying "FREE EXCLUSIVE LOUIS AND BEBE BARRON MP3'S" before you get to anything useful.

― (Jon L), Thursday, 12 February 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of Philip Glass sounds like it was made by space aliens.
I'm surprised no one's yet mentioned Joe Meek's I Hear a New World.

― otto, Thursday, 12 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Earth

― ddb, Thursday, 12 February 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Bits of Pere Ubu always reminded me of ghost-haunted construction sights.

― Thea, Thursday, 12 February 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

yma sumac

― mike bott, Thursday, 12 February 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Charalambides/Scorces
The Dead C Operation of the Sonne
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
Meerk Puffy Nung

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 12 February 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 13 February 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything which uses human language is pretty much disqualified here I'd guess.

Hey! Surely aliens can learn our language? Like ABBA or something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 13 February 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Crom Tech!

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 13 February 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I was actually thinking of just this thing the other day. The two examples that made me think of it are Magma's "Maahnt" and the opening track of John Coltrane's Meditations. You listen to these, and you don't really think of whether you like it or not, so much as "What the fuck would go through a person's head to make them come up with this?"

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 13 February 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Mika Vainio/Ohm/Panasonic

― Former Supposed So Called Nihilist Teenage Drug Disco Addiction Counselor (mjt), Friday, 13 February 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey "Former Supposed..." was that really Bill Callahan in that jpeg you posted or just a weird mod lookalike?

― Thea, Friday, 13 February 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you talking about that picture of Andy Warhol listening to a walkman in like 1981?

― Former Supposed So Called Nihilist Teenage Drug Disco Addiction Counselor (mjt), Friday, 13 February 2004 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa. yes, i guess i meant that picture. hmm.

― Thea, Friday, 13 February 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This is Chris Carter from Throbbing Gristle.

http://nihilistdisco.matterwave.net/images/_chr4.jpg

― Former Supposed So Called Nihilist Teenage Drug Disco Addiction Counselor (mjt), Friday, 13 February 2004 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it me, or is there a resemblance:

Son
M(aybe)
Of
God(Andy Warhol)...

= (smog)

― Thea, Friday, 13 February 2004 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh well

Son
M(aybe)
Of
C(hris)

= (smoc)

― Thea, Friday, 13 February 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://nihilistdisco.matterwave.net/images/warhol.jpg

― Former Supposed So Called Nihilist Teenage Drug Disco Addiction Counselor (mjt), Friday, 13 February 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ok. i have nothing (more) to say

― Thea, Friday, 13 February 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Reynols! Xenakis!

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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