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Favorite Weird Song

#61
Good to see the Residents love. My Fav is Walter Westinghouse. I used to have a recording of the residents where it was a supposed radio interview with their manager and some guy who was knocking the group. The residents take over the studio while doing the chant at the end of the Walter Westinghouse song. I got to see them in Cleveland on my B-day years ago on the first offical tour they ever did w/Snakefinger. I also saw and and got to talk to Fred Frith who worked with them in Kent Ohio years ago....cool group...weird. Heres the first vid i seen of them over 20 years ago in Kent the night i saw Fred Frith.

 
#64
I loved this song when I was a little kid and bought the 45 record and still have it.

The Martian Hop by The Ran-Dells



"Martian Hop" is a song written by the Ran-Dells which was released in 1963. It has been described as a one-hit wonder novelty song and it reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The song also stands as one of the earliest instances of popular electronic music as it incorporates the use of a sine wave generator for sounds at the beginning of the song and at the key change. Steve Rappaport wanted to be able to attract the attention of radio DJs so they would play the song, and as a result of this, the song was the "first pop record to use "additive synthesis" from sine wave generators."
 
#65
^ Thanks for that one Richland,it's a new one for me.


Some of the sounds in The Martian Hop reminded me of an earlier instrumental song.


Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Space Guitar:

Fairly normal music-wise,but the breakdowns,use of huge sounding reverb,and insane glissandos on the guitar put it over the top for me.
 

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