Really WEIRD sounding songs by not-too-overtly-out-there bands

I'm thinking stuff like Kangaroo by Big Star, really quite fucked-up sounding psychedelic stuff. Suggestions, please, for a playlist.

Maybe some Disco Inferno could fit in there.

"Swollen Hand Blues" on the b-side of "Falling Down" is strange, it starts off like it's Julian Cope, then the Oasisness breaks in but not totally obscuring all the oddbits.

I know, I know, but give it a listen.

Beatles Band

pictures of matchstick men?

Macca's Check My Machine?

Cellophane Symphony by Tommy James and the Shondells. Proto-Kraut Rock!

"As a joke, Tommy begins his proto-prog bloater with a few notes of an actual symphony. Har har. For a second, I thought I wasn't listening to shit. The title track is staggeringly bad drone, refusing all resolution and wielding a Moog like its own justification."

The whole of McCartney 2 is pretty fucked though. (x-p)

Cellophane Symphony by Tommy James and the Shondells. Proto-Kraut Rock!

'i am a tangerine' is pretty fucked-up sounding as well, love it

Album's pretty weird in general - there's about 3 comedy tracks on it!

I remember there's one of those pinched-nose-and-megaphone tracks that were de rigeur in the late 60s. Was there EVER a good one of those?

"Lazy Old Sun" by the Kinks. It's like a melty ketamine trip except from the '60s. Actually the Kinks were a lot weirder than many will give them credit.

The Ghost Of You Lingers by Spoon is pretty weird.

Actually the Kinks were a lot weirder than many will give them credit.

"Fancy"! "Rainy Day in June"!

Not too many albums weirder than this...

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LOLOTM

remember there's one of those pinched-nose-and-megaphone tracks that were de rigeur in the late 60s. Was there EVER a good one of those?

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The 2nd Moby Grape album, "Wow" has one.

It's not very good though, whereas "Magnolia Simms" by the Monkees is. Also "Magnolia Simms" is in one channel, with fake crackles, it sticks at one point and you hear the sound of a needle being wrenched across the record and placed back on - all pretty weird. In fact the Monkees rule this thread!

Anything more modern / recent?

well, as I say, that Oasis b-side...

What about the song on the Stone Roses first album that's basically Waterfall played backwards?

It was just Waterfall backwards, but that wasn't so much weird as entirely pointless.

I assume the point was to fill up 3 minutes on an album that was 3 miniutes too short

I picked up "Let Me Touch Your Mind" by Ike and Tina this weekend, there is some brown acid on that platter.

Was it "Full Fathom Five" on a 12" single, that was "Elephant Stone" played backwards, literally?

Madonna's "Act of Contrition" sounds like a Butthole Surfers one-off.

"Tusk," of course

^my first thought

although there's several lindsey songs on that lp that could qualify equally

"Don't Stop" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Waterfall"

yes fleetwood mac are better than the stone roses

"Pammie's On A Bummer" Sonny Bono

The Who - "Cobwebs and Strange"

Rolling Stones - "Heaven" and "Continental Drift"
("Heaven" is a great one to play "Guess the Band" with people. Stumps 'em every time.)

love "heaven"

I want the answer to be "Tangerine" by Led Zeppelin, but that would ignore that half their songs were WEIRD, and the other half aren't weird because we are used to them.

Other songs I have considered and rejected for similar reasons

Orgasmatron - Motorhead
Armenia City in the Sky - The Who
She Divines Water - Camper Van Beethoven

Tones on Tail - "Slender Fungus"

I seem to be the only person in the world who thinks Genie In A Bottle is a really weird Autechre thing with Christina singing on top of it. Only makes me love it more.

I'll say 'Murder', HAL samples and all, which would sound pretty weird to someone only familiar with New Order's pop catalogue.

Shall I do a rundown of Stone Roses songs that are backwards versions of others?

Full Fathom Five is Elephant Stone backwards, with a few bits of added reverb and some odd overdubs, but not much.

Don't Stop is Waterfall backwards, with overdubbed forwards vocals, extra guitar, and various other alterations in the mix to make it longer.

Simone is a backwards instrumental version of Where Angels Play that's been remixed so it's structured differently.

Guernica is Made Of Stone backwards with forwards overdubbed vocals and some mix alterations.

There's another, Second Coming era one, on the b-side to Ten Storey Love Song, that I think is one of the jammy ones on the album played backwards.

Generally they did quite a bit more to them than just flip them backwards.

while we're with the roses, how about the out-of-tune blues hidden track on second coming?

I'd like the weird sounding songs to also be things I might ever want to listen to...

How about "Under The Rose" by Kiss from their "The Elder" album?

Yazoo: "I Before E, Except After C"

"Revolution #9". Even though they'd done stuff like "I Am The Walrus", they wouldn't quite be expected to do that.

Cheap Trick - Mandocello

'Sometimes I Make You Sad', the last song on Supergrass' In It For The Money record, is a pretty strange song all things considered.

The Monkees - "Porpoise Song"

The Carpenters' cover of "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"

"pimpf" by depeche mode

"Glass" by the easy listening group The Sandpipers (1960s). And speaking of sand, Nancy Sinatra's "Sand."

Speaking of Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning

Unless I missed something, there's nothing by the Jazz Butcher that would prepare you for Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present.

I don't think Tusk really cuts it, since Fleetwood Mac had beein weird prior to Buckingham/Nicks (e.g. "Danny's Chant"), and would be weird again later (e.g. some of the Lindsey tracks on Say You Will).

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood made a bunch of songs that sound like "Sand", so it doesn't really feel that weird to me. "Some Velvet Morning" at least has that rapid tempo change thing going on, which makes it kinda weirder than other Nancy & Lee duets.

The freejazz breakdown on Violent Femme's "Black Girls" has gotta qualify. I think John Zorn actually played on it!

Femmes'

osmonds' crazy horses owns this thread

there's also that weird Monkees track, with the syncopated voices..."calling mr. lina mr. bob bob-a-lina." i believe it is called "zilch." totally bizarre.

joni mitchell -- the jungle line