Strangest Al***

The Lennon's "Two Virgins - Unfinished Music N° 1". I perfectly knew that the album was unlistenable but I just found I must have it.

Cheese

But Lumpy Gravy isn't strange.

Paul

Depends what you mean by "strange".

The most interesting artifact I have is probably Non's Pagan Musik, an album of, IIRC, 17 lock grooves of extreme noise, playable at any speed, with off-centre holes drilled in the middle so it can be played with a choice of added wow.

Oddly, it's actually quite listenable.

-- Ian

My wife bought me The Transformed Man by William Shatner a few years ago. Is it strange or is it just rank? Both I think. Probably the strangest thing about it is that it should ever have been released in the first place. His versions of Mr Tambourine Man and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds are certainly something to behold though.

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music?

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Originally posted by TomK:
My wife bought me The Transformed Man by William Shatner a few years ago.

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I would love to hear that. What year was it?

Rasher,
It was about 12 years ago during a period when our finances were distinctly ropey. I confess I was annoyed that she wasted £12.95 on rubbish like that. It took me quite some time to see the joke.
It's way past the "so bad it's good" syndrome. It's unspeakably rotten. As well as the songs he does recitals from Shakespeare, classic poetry and some other stuff I didn't recognise. And to top it all off, he's deadly serious about it! He genuinely thinks it's all great art. A review at the time called it "final proof the man's as mad as a maggot".

You make it sound even more tempting. Can you do me a copy? Can you scan & post the cover?

Got it!!!!!

I like the quote.."Bill really puts the Shat in Shatner".

Excuse me. I'm having a funny five minutes here.

Contrastate - A 1000 Badgers in Labour.

A 5" CD embedded in the middle of a a 12" vinyl record. (Both playable)

Sounds like a thousands badgers in labour.

DS

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Rasher,
Check your PTs.

PR - A friend of mine had Dazzle Ships as his all time fave album ever. I think he wore out one copy. I lost touch with him years ago - musical differences! We were in a band together. Says it all really...(Don't look back...don't look back....don't look back...)

Another strange one was

£3.33 by £3.33, which cost £3.33.

It was a Tiller Boys / Peter Shelley guitar drone noise fest LP.

DS

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PR,
i have Dazzle Ships and know what you mean. However I really liked some of the other OMd catalogue, and wore out 'Architecture & Morality', which i purchased on the same day as a little known LP called 'Dare' by some divvy Sheffield lot called 'Human league'

Andy c!

showing off his new romantic history - very very sad...

Lumpy Gravy takes a bit of time to get used to, however it is truly a great album. Strangest but enjoyable album I have is Eno/Bryne "My life in the Bush of Ghosts" Other strange album that's kinda tough to get through entirely is Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica". It is a great album but requires a certain mood, or perhaps sedation to make it through the entire album.
krak

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The Transformed Man by William Shatner

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There's a beautiful p*** take of this album in the Futurama episode, "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", with William Shatner sending himself up brilliantly by reciting the lyrics to 'Slim Shady'. Adds a whole 'nother level to the Shatner madness.

Top stuff.

...and for all those who think an album by William Shatner just isn't enough Star Trek:

A bargain(!)

Strangest album I own: Stuzzicadenti by Diego Cortez (with DJ Spooky).

Hy there ortis head :dummy.
Brand X:unorthodox behaviour.
Why?because brandX was a band with phil collins
and if you listen to their muusic you will never find a connex to collins "normal work"
today there is a big hype about collins "farwell tour"and the press writes everything about Phils "solid pop"work ,and the earlier genesis but no comment about brandX.think it does not fit to phils image.
O.J.

Well, there's gotta be Lou Reed's Metal Machine MusicThe great Lester Bangs once described playing it for none other than Idi Amin claiming the Ugandan dictator "really loved it".

Then there's much of the Residents' oeuvre - the early stuff like Santa Dog and Smelly Tongues especially. I once remember an extremely perplexed Steve "In the Afternoon" Wright playing their version of the Stones' Satisfactionon Radio 2.

I have an extremely bizarre 1985 recording of Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame) locked in a San Francisco motel room for a week being forced to listen to nothing but Residents and Ralph Records (ie Renaldo & The Loaf, early Yello, Chrome, MX-80 Sound, Snakefinger, etc). Needless tto say by the time he reaches The residents' Commercial Album (40 tracks, each precisely 60 seconds long) he begins to crack up. I think it's Eskimo that sends him over the edge. "How... how can you tap your foot to wind?" he asks in despair (a reasonable question, as the LP mostly consists of wind).

I also have all three volumes of Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds For Baby, early 1960s discs of electronic music ddesigned to send tots into the land of nod, but which of course had a completely unintended and opposite effect.

Finally, it's not that strange, but it is funny - Culturecide's Tacky Suvenirs Of Pre Revolutionary America. Basically, it's someone ranting ove recordings of artists like USA For Africa, Huey Lewis & The News, Bruce Springsteen, etc. It violated every known copyright law and was impounded by the authorities, with, I think, fewer than 100 copies escaping.

Kevin


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Most of my friends would inform me that all my collection is wierd, but a couple of the strangest would be:

Alan Lamb - Night Passage. Contact mike recordings of disused telegraph wires in the Australian outback reverberating in the wind

Chris Watson - Weather Report. Field recordings of the Masai Mara, Scottish highlands and Icelandic glaciers

I'd have to go with Electric Storm In Hell by White Noise - I think it's the only record I've ever returned to the shop. The guy in the shop when I ordered it told me that he once went to a 'worst record' party, and that was brought by quite a few of the people there...

As far as I remember, it's a load of spooky electronic noises over a recording of a black mass of some sort. It was bollocks.

It the 'strange but cool' camp has to come Spillane by john zorn - no one idea lasts for more than about 45 seconds, but it's pretty compelling stuff...

Steve

'An Electric Storm' bollocks???

tsk tsk

dearie dearie me

gosh

throb

White Noise? eh?

I have all three of their LPs, and they are no weirder than much euro / kraut electronic music?

How about the Charles Manson Family Singers LP?

DS


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