Where are the weirdos?

[lz4005]

I consider Violent Femmes to be "wierd" in the sense that they were off-the-wall soundwise,

A couple of my students and I have started playing short sets of Violent Femmes songs at a coffee house down the street from me, mostly to get them over their stage fright due to lack of experience playing in front of people. It's fun stuff, and basically one big bass solo for me.

I've been in several weirdo bands in the past. The strangest was 8 people, all on experimental and/or homemade instruments, playing strange noisy drone music. Our first gig was a no-rehearsal, 60 minute, one-song set live on a college radio station. I played one hour long note on lap steel with an e-bow while twiddling the knobs on a tremolo pedal. That was weird.

 

[Deleted member 264575]

Remember: Weird is in the eye of the bee-holder;

 

[Auguste]

Anyone here into weird stuff? In a weird band?

Most of the folks on here seem to be into classic rock, metal, funk, motown, and that's cool, but who's into bands like Swans, Can, This Heat, Neu!, Sonic Youth, Slint, Jesus Lizard, Shellac, Dinosaur Jr., Minutemen, Guerilla Toss, Zappa, Beefheart, Melt-Banana, Boredoms, The Melvins, John Zorn, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Pharaoh Sanders, Oxbow, Scott Walker........

And who's in weirdo bands? I'm in a group called XOX (facebook.com/xoxlouisville) - I play bass and synths, we have another synth player, a drummer, and our singer also plays synths. No guitar. We have a few tight, structured songs, but most of the time we improv around a main riff while our "singer" talks and yells. We're not exactly easy listening.

I am weird enough by myself

Really don't need excessively weird music. I am eclectic however, but not weird.

Hmmmmm . . . What is weird?

 

[Tom Bomb]

This is my fav kind of skate video. Fast and aggressive - not slow and overly technical.

It's a great clip. Very cool! Love the close-in camera work. That's stuff's not easy.

 

[bluesblaster]

Remember: Weird is in the eye of the bee-holder;

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thats my kind of weird

 

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[Bisounourse]

14 pages so far and still no

Heh, great stuff in this thread. I loves me some weirdness. Listen to a lot of weird stuff, but only play it solo. No one, I mean NO ONE within several hundred miles of me plays stuff I would consider "weird."

But I won't whine about that... instead, I'll listen to this, at high volume:

Massacre... Funny thing is, my first girlfriend introduced me to them. Fond memories of that album.

And let's continue with some classics:
Scratch Acid


Big Black


Pussy Galore


Mars:


Diamanda Galas:

 

[sunbeast]

Anyone here into weird stuff? In a weird band?

Most of the folks on here seem to be into classic rock, metal, funk, motown, and that's cool, but who's into bands like Swans, Can, This Heat, Neu!, Sonic Youth, Slint, Jesus Lizard, Shellac, Dinosaur Jr., Minutemen, Guerilla Toss, Zappa, Beefheart, Melt-Banana, Boredoms, The Melvins, John Zorn, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Pharaoh Sanders, Oxbow, Scott Walker........

And who's in weirdo bands? I'm in a group called XOX (facebook.com/xoxlouisville) - I play bass and synths, we have another synth player, a drummer, and our singer also plays synths. No guitar. We have a few tight, structured songs, but most of the time we improv around a main riff while our "singer" talks and yells. We're not exactly easy listening.

I'm a fan or have been a fan of all of these musicians to some degree. My tastes have mellowed/narrowed a bit as I've grown older, but I still have an appreciation for the aural angst! Still love Swans and have been psyched to see them three times since they started playing shows again. I've also seen Michael Gira's solo acoustic shows twice and they were some of the most intense musical experiences I've ever had- he knows how to pull himself open for an audience like few other performers (though it can be very discomfiting to experience!). Love "Krautrock" too- Can and Neu, Popul Vuh. Grew up listening to the weirder side of hardcore, industrial, and metal music, and developed a strong taste for ambient musics.

Some other possibly un-mentioned long-time (and some recent) favorites that fit the experimental/weird side IMO- Kate Bush, Bjork, Get Hustle, Celebration, Andrew Douglas Rothbard (as well as the VSS/Angelhair/Pleasure Forever/Rabbits), Diamanda Galas, Unwound, The Move, Dungen, Japan/Mick Karn/David Sylvian, Cocteau Twins/Robin Guthrie/Harold Budd, Belong, Savage Rose, The Knife/ Fever Ray, Buke + Gase, Jon Hassel, His Name Is Alive, Nels Cline, Steve Reich, EMA/Gowns, Garmarna, Thank You, Magma, Bobby Beausoleil, Terry Riley, Charles Mingus

Been loving this band (dig the way that weird instruments and limitations can mold unique arrangements) :


And I've always dug everything that Andrew Rothbard does. His solo albums are all textural masterpieces in my opinion:


Bobby Beausoleil:


And one of my favorite artists ever, who never seems to lack a unique approach to anything she touches:

 

[10cc]

Here is a link to a group of locals that have consistently put out numerous bands full of eccentric tunes since the nineties.
The Elephant Six Collective
http://www.last.fm/tag/elephant 6/videos

 

[10cc]

Ramases (71) Life Child

 

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Roky Erickson

Gotta get to work, see you weirdos later

 

[whitespikebass]

I'm not sure what weird is. See for yourself maybe? I just made this video.

 

[sunbeast]

Oh yeah- my band is not what I would describe as "weird", but we definitely are influenced by some weirder elements:
https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?ur...r=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true

 

[10cc]

Oh yeah- my band is not what I would describe as "weird", but we definitely are influenced by some weirder elements:
https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/160109688?secret_token=s-BQ4Ug&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true

Definitely great stuff! Really good. Thanks

 

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[Deleted member 264575]

A crossover from the In praise of weird looking basses thread (a little worried, as I'm starting to like them...);

Smell the Bacon RED ELVISES



Also,

Dread Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (At The End Of Lonely Street)



B-52's - Planet Claire

 

[Deleted member 264575]

FZs early influence - Varèse, Ionisation, Ensemble Intercontemporain

 

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[10cc]

Gene Loves Jezebel