For me it’s Nitrobenzene by OwataP. This one is… make car horn noises? idk man, the whole benzene series is weird but this was the strangest one i’ve heard so far

  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    I think it’ll get neglected a little bit just because of how well-known and frankly good it is, but Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is a very weird song. Probably not the very strangest for me, but it’s up there. Definitely the strangest that I actually like and remember well.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
      6·
      11 months ago

      Also Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

      Or completely non-strange once you understand the method behind the madness. Either way, a damn cool/funny song IMO.

      Anyway for the OP, instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music, I’ll go instead with The Shaggs, three teenage girls who had utterly no musical training, but who tried their best to make conventional, ‘normal music’:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5T2kaFiFgg

      Over the decades, the album Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and found fans such as Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. Following a 1980 reissue on Rounder Records, it received enthusiastic reviews for its uniqueness in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. A compilation of unreleased material, Shaggs’ Own Thing, was released in 1982. The Shaggs became the subject of fascination in the 1990s, when interest grew in outsider music, and they are credited with influencing twee pop. --WP

      • stanleytweedle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music

        That’s what I like- organic ‘strangeness’. Philip Glass has made some strange sounding music but with intent, that was his style. The Celentano piece is intentional linguistically too but it’s a very strange to experience how effectively he’s mimicking US ‘phonics’ or whatever.

        The Tim Curry piece is hilariously strange to me because Tim Curry actually can and does rock, but somehow wrote an embarrassingly unrocking song about how rocking he is.

      • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        That Shaggs tune was cool. The guitar actually remind me of the final few tracks on Velvet Underground and Nico, when it’s degenerating into madness.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    11 months ago

    Forty-plus years ago, when I was in high school, the teacher doing chorus was crazy. Mostly for things not involving music, but there was this one time he pulled out new sheet music, told us we were going to learn it for some recital, and it was pictures of someone’s impressions of sound waves; literally, line drawings of what someone’s idea of that sound would be.

    Not actual sine waves, artistic impressions of . . . something. Like, ten pages of little illustrations like nested circles or interlocking triangles that we were supposed to look at, understand by sight, and then reproduce vocally.

    He then played a recording of this . . . work, and that left us all even more horrified than we were by the sheet music. I would not care to hear it again. An orchestra tuning would have had more structure and melody; this was like someone playing a busted theramin.

    He tried and tried to get everyone excited and onboard with it, and honestly, we just didn’t get it. Mercifully, he gave up after a few days.

    I actually saw a reference to it several years later, back in the 90s, so it wasn’t just something he pulled out of his ass (did I mention he was crazy?) but I couldn’t tell you the name of it, or what it was supposed to be; a musicologist could. It was like vocal exercises without any reference to musical notation.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        Your guess is as good as mine. Closest I’ve been able to come is sonorism, and a similarity to composers like György Ligeti, but this work was entirely vocal: no instruments, no band, not even SATB, just people making strange mouth noises, lol.