Okay, so my goal of spending a $100 itunes gift certificate on 100 super-strange songs by 100 different artists is looking, well, really strange. We've got twenty-eight so far, and they represent the whole spectrum of oddness, so dig deep for the craziest tunes in your collection - I NEED MORE WEIRD MUSIC IN MY LIFE!!! (My girl friend would argue otherwise, but that's another post all together...)
Here's the the first 28 of the 100 strangest songs out there (in Mog-o-logical order):
The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World The Conet Project Shooby Taylor Black Velvet Flag - "Institutionalized" Sun Ra - Interstellar Low Ways Magnetic Fields - Fido Your Leash Is Too Long Squirrel Nut Zippers John Otway - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Vivian Stanshall - Terry Keeps His Clips On The Goons - The Ying Tong Song Hasil Adkins - Ha Ha Cat Walk The Animals - Spill The Wine Tiny Tim - Just What Do You Mean By Antichrist? Ohio Players -Funky Worm Velvet Underground - The Gift Themselves - Paging Dr. Moon & Gun B52s - Rock Lobster Cabaret Voltaire - Why Kill Time When You Can Kill Yourself? Faust - "Anything off of 'The Faust Tapes'" Cromagnon - Caledonia Julie Brown - Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun Butterfly Child - Cancer Killed Capricorn Dead Milkmen - Bitchin Camaro Magnet - Willow's Song Television Personalities - I was Mod Before You Was Mod Nina Hagen - Wau Wau Stereo Total - Push It (Saln N Pepa Cover) or I Love You Ono El Vez - "Anything"
P.S. I'm not going to make my purchase until I get a list of 100 songs. I want to see how much weird iTunes can handle...
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Laibach- Geburt Einer Nation or Opus Dei PIL - The Flowers of Romance
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Robyn Hitchcock -- "Uncorrected Personality Traits"
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Any instrumental song that you can find by Cell's ost certainly qualifies as strange. If you are not looking just for songs with lyrics that is.
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lyrics schmyrics...i love the instro-tracks...
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"Mighty Mouse"- by The Black Lodge Singers ( a native american childrens group)
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"Mighty Mouse"- by The Black Lodge Singers ( a native american childrens group)
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The Sugarcubes - Birthday (in Icelandic) Sons & Daughters - Johnny Cash (Johnny Cash is the name of the song) Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever Kenji Kawai - The Ballade of Puppets(The Ghost Awaits in the World Beyond)
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Kongar-ol Ondar - Tuva Groove Kronos Quartet - Cafe Tacuba
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what about that horrible song that i love so much about "someone left the cake out in the rain" and "now, ill never have that recipe again"... what the fuck is wrong with the guy who sings that shit. i love how absurd it is that he is so upset about the cake... must be a cake-a-holic... im gonna cover it and change it to "someone left my beer out in the rain, if i find that fucker i'll kick him in the spleen". ok, maybe not.
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and anything by barry louis polisar (especially "my brother thinks he's a banana).
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The Shaggs is a great choice. Would suggest:
Captain Beefheart - Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish (or anything from Trout Mask Replica) The Fall - Free Range Truman Water - anything from Of Thick Tum LP Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah (recent Eurovision winners - how???) Melvins - Pure Digital Silence (from Prick)
And for the brave something by the Boredoms, from Pop Tatari - its all weird!
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etcvisitor, that's "Macarthur Park" by Richard Harris. And yes, it's awful (and weird).
I have a few more:
"Hippie Boy" by The Flying Burrito Bros. "Truck Turner" by Isaac Hayes "Don't Bet Money on the Shanghai" by BR549 "Wah-Watusi" by The Orlons "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion
... and anything by Yma Sumac. Take your pick.
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If you were a real man, you'd purchase only blank tracks. You know, like placeholders for hidden tracks. Then, if you were a real man, you would press a thousand of them and put it out.
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bod teen you are a genius.
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Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair Super Furry Animals - Shoot Doris Day The Frank and Walters - Funky Cold Medina (Tone-Loc Cover) The Nazz - Meridian Leward The Divine Comedy - Becoming More Like Alfie Half Man Half Biscuit - The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman Half Man Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes Half Man Half Biscuit - Teenage Armchair Honved Fan Half Man Half Biscuit - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Alternative Alf Garnett Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - The Taking of Peckham 1-2-3 They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head American Music Club - What Godzilla Said To God When He Found His Name Wasn't In The Book of Life Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit (Dr Dre cover) New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Fishes Eyes New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Purple Haze (odd Hendrix cover) Sultans of Ping F.C. - Where's Me Jumper Sultans of Ping F.C. - Riot At The Sheepdog Trials Hefner - Dragnet For Jesus The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - The Smiths The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer Sonic Youth - Come And Smash Me Said The Boy With The Magic Penis The Toy Dolls - She Goes To Fino's X-Ray Spex - 0h Bondage Up Yours! The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? Tenpole Tudor - Who Killed Bambi? Kirsty McColl - There's a Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
And i'm clean out of ideas.
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If you're getting two Nina Hagens (and honestly, I can't see why you wouldn't), make the second one "Egyptian Reggae."
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oh, bod...
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birdman kicked my ass by wesley willis... or any other one suck a dirty llama's ass comes to mind... was that a wesley willis song title or just one of his many sayings. or even rock n roll mcdonalds. i love wesley.
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Almost forgot a MUST-HAVE:
"Float On" by The Floaters. Make sure you get the long version that has the guys introducing themselves at the beginning.
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Sureshot, you are a start...LOL!
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Damn, my mind must be going. How could I skip:
"Hunger Is From" by Ken Nordine!
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doh, just spent my last dollar...i posted the list a second ago...doh.
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THANK GAWD I DON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT :)
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"Burn the Flame"- Roky Erickson, or really just about anything from him, especially seeing as Haloween is coming up.