Category: Jam Session
So do any of you like music that you think your friends and most people would find just plain weird? I don't think, for example, most of the people I know could stand things like Phillip Glass or old Tangerine Dream albums or such. How about Negativland, Frank Zappa, or some of Brian Eno's things. How about recordings featuring the Theremin or early Moog synthesizers adn other electronics? Even some of Pink Floyd's early stuff and Sid Barrett's solo work is so quirky that it's just not for most people and wouldn't get a bit of play on your classic rock station. So what do you like that's weird?
Hey I like Phillip Glass :) I have a bbig cd set of his stuff and some of it is awesome, also took part in his "music for 24 radios" performanec (it was his work, not himself there directing or anything butit was fun).
Sigur Ros (Icelandic space rock type of band), Primus (awesome bass playing, the guy is totally a nutter though), the Streets (English rap/poetry .. it's called Garage poetry I think), DJ Shadow (awesome guy, echeck out his the Privae Press album it's fantastic) :) those come to mind immediately, I'll think of some more I'm sure, lots of cool stuff mentioned above as well.
-B
I adore Peruvian music which many of my Goth friends detest and they are convinced I urgently need help
hmm. oNe day I was playing some samba stuff in my keyboard and my roomate, which is just in country didn't even know what it was and well he said "ÿes, jungle music!"" hello? jungle music is totally diferent. And well as he is just in country music I could said, yes, horse/farm music!
Heheheh Lou! Did he really call it jungle music? Hehehe that's funny...
I like a lot of undergound techno. Not that crap that keeps looping the same thing over and over again with crappy vocals mixed in, but the stuff that seems more progressive. I think probably one of my favorite artists is Richie Hawtin.
And I have been known to become carried away with WAR OF THE WORLDS the Eve of the War is wonderful!.
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Or classical music which is my 1st love many just dont expect it when they see the Gothic facade.
Hey Labby:)
Phillip Glass, Pink Floyde (old, as in Uma Guma), that's just weird, wonderful stuff!! LOL. One of my favorite shoutcast streams features electronica such as some old Tangereen Dream and newer stuff of similar ilk. Check out http://www.somafm.com/dronezone.pls. Much of what I've heard sounds like old synthesizer, instruments like the Theraman (sp), and other sounds.
You're right, most of that stuff simply doesn't make it onto your average "adult contemporary" or "top 40" station. That's what college stations and on-line streams are great for!!
Kewl Yule, all,
-Dave
98% of what I like is weird. lol There's my favorite genre which is hardstyle or tech-trance. Even trance fans find that disturbing sometimes. lol I love music in all sorts of languages, even if I don't speak them. I like the actual jungle music. lol And I love experimental stuff.. I guess some of it could be like ambient or something but it's hard to explain. Sampling real world sounds to make tracks is awesome!So I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts.
Hmmm, not sure about techno in all its forms. I prefer stuff where the drums aren't so front and center, and some techno can be downright annoying and cold. But then again I think most of it is more about being danced to than listened to far as I can tell, and I'm more of one who wants to pay attention and listen.
I think Indian music (as in music from India) is pretty cool. It's upbeat and the singers have these really high voices. They just started an Asian radio station near me and I listen to it somethimes to get in a good mood.
Indian and Middle Eastern music can be interesting because they do things differently than music from hte States or Europe. Sometimes they even use different tuning systems for their instruments, so you might ahve a scale with a few pitches which might seem a little off to our ears.
Oh, Goblin, you mentioned War of the Worlds. The only musical thing I know of pertaining to that is the Jeff Wayne production from about 1978. Is that what you're referring to? And Peruvian music? Isn't that the music with the flutes and pan pipes and some different stringed instruments, or is that more from Ecuador than Peru. I've heard a harp-like instrument that sounds wonderful from one of those countries.
Yes thats the 1 but there is the digitally remastered cd with extra tracks it sounds incredible!.
Peruvian music does indeed have pipes guitars and flutes the group I buy the CD's from play live in Glasgow each summer, so we dance along and it really cheers us up if you could bottle the effect of this music and sell it nobody would be depressed.
Oh, there's one artist I forgot to mention. Anybody ever heard of Sid Barrett? He was one of the founding members of Pink Floyd and he made some pretty odd music including some slol work.
I like music that is kinda weird sometimes, like music that's for young people, I mean. Like Dream Street and A-Teens and stuff. And now people think that's strange I listen to it because it's for yougner kids. Mind you, this kind of music is kind of going out of style, so I don't listen to it as much as I used to, but I think a lot of talent resides in those bands that are supposedly "for kids."
Caitlin
i like a lot of what was mentiomed here. I Love the b-52's, They Might Be Giants, Frank Zappa and the like. I have a quote from Frank Zappa on my profile that explains it all.
I have piles of odd music. love eastern music, the rhythms are so unlike western ones. I love celtic music but that's not too strange. I have loads of new age and one of my favorite songs in existence is called "Call of Compassion," which just about seems to sum my soul up, it's got a slow beginning though, and it grows on you. I love trance, good trance mind you. hmmm trance with theremins? It would have to be done right. anyway, I am always looking for new music, especially if it's both unusual and very good.
lol most of what i listen to, especially what i make, is too weird for most people, but here are a few of the albums that get cries of horror from some of those who know me.
the zodiac cosmic sounds, possibly the first album to feature a moog, i love this lp! seem to be on my own with it, though
captain beetheart
frank zapper
the increddible string band
venetian snares
and they're just the obvious ones, i've not yet tried the new kattadrone album on anyone yet, or tea and synthony, or tyranasaurous rex's first couple of lps...
i forgot to mention the third ear band or the soft machine.