whats the wierdest record you ever heard?

[zeca azevedo]

Hi Funky!

I think you'll enjoy CONGA CONGA CONGA a lot! BTW, Weird Al Yankovic is great. LIKE A SURGEON rules! The 1st time I saw the video, I rolled over the floor laughing. Weird wild stuff indeed!

Peace,
zeca azevedo

[Jeff H]

I have to agree with Nonkel808 that "Ultimate Warlord" is a strange song--although I really consider it just stupid.

As for DJ Phil's comment on page 1 re: the "Stairway to Heaven" remake (by the Wonder Band, if I remember correctly?). I used to love to play this record for my stoner friends at college and watch their heads damn near explode. I happen to think "Stairway" is one of the most annoying and overrated songs in history, so to see it get a cheesy disco treatment gave me some perverse delight.

So here's my entry in the weird record category: "Disco Matilda" by Dame Edna! I picked up this 1979 (I think) 45 on eBay (and it was cheap--duh!), and it's Dame Edna singing the Aussie favorite "Waltzing Matilda" to a disco beat. The arrangement is actually not bad, and it's hysterical to hear her scream: "Look at me, possums! Edna's a disco queeeeen!" Another great record for shocking your friends! :lol:

[Funky Dude]

Bootsy Collins included a lot of silliness in his funky music so I'll include some of his songs in the weirdest list:

Stretchin' Out In A Rubberband 1976
Psychioticbumpschool 1976
The Pinocchio Theory 1977
Rubber Ducky 1977
Bootzilla 1978 (This one takes the cake)

[Blaxman]

Speaking about Bootsy.
Well.......if the topic is about weird songs the, prize goes to George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic brotherhood. Their Psychadelic-funk is top class on weirdness.

Peace.

P.S. I love Mr. Clinton's stuff!

[keefelc]

On 2002-06-05 09:01, nonkel808 wrote:
2 more weird disco songs that were not mentioned yet:

> BOOTS CLEMENTS: YIPPY-I-A, YIPPY-I-O (Ghost riders in the sky)

> THE IMMORTALS: THE ULIMATE WARLORD

Both of these songs were HUGE hits at the Trocadero Transfer during the Bobby Viteritti days. However, Bobby used the instrumental of Ghost Riders In The Sky, which I understand was deleted from the later pressings of the US twelve inch single.

[Soulman]

I've got one that'll beat you all!

Back in the late 70's I was DeeJaying several places every week and was on Virgin Records mailing list. I had a 12" record sent to me by a French band, can't remember their name (probably session musicians). It was a disco track called C'est Le Sheep!!! Believe it or not it was a typical disco track with sheep ba'ing all the way through!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I kid you not!!! It went on for ages!!! I gave it away to a DeeJay friend of mine who was doing a mobile disco for The Young Farmers Association. Dunno what happened to it after that. He's still alive so it must of been OK. :lol:

I did get some gems fom Virgin. Like The Gibson Brothers "Kay Sera, Mi Vida" on white label among many others.

Later
Soulman



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[Funky Dude]

Soulman wrote:
I've got one that'll beat you all!

Back in the late 70's I was DeeJaying several places every week and was on Virgin Records mailing list. I had a 12" record sent to me by a French band, can't remember their name (probably session musicians). It was a disco track called C'est Le Sheep!!! Believe it or not it was a typical disco track with sheep ba'ing all the way through!!!

I kid you not!!! It went on for ages!!! I gave it away to a DeeJay friend of mine who was doing a mobile disco for The Young Farmers Association. Dunno what happened to it after that. He's still alive so it must of been OK.

I did get some gems fom Virgin. Like The Gibson Brothers "Kay Sera, Mi Vida" on white label among many others.

Later
Soulman

Speaking of sheep songs, here's something that is really weird. On a 1979 episode of the Australian pop show "Countdown" Molly Meldrum whacked up a segment on the show called "Offcuts" which shows snippets of stupid and weird songs and one was "Lost Sheep" by some Holland band and you have some bloke in front of a bunch of sheep going "baaah baaah baaah" while some soft music is playing in the background.

[remicks]

*****

The weirdest disco related song I've heard of would have to be:

New Birth - Got To Get A Knutt 1973

Reason being was because of the weird noises they make such as the fart hiccup sounds.

:icon_eek: .....:icon_rolleyes: .... :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol:


I don't know why but trying to imagine this sound has really triggered my funny bone .....lol !


:icon_lol:

*****

[JOL]

A song by Vivian Stanshall entitled Terry Keeps His Clip On. It's about a man who always wears bicycle clips and never takes them off. This came off a solo effort after the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band broke up.
Here are the lyrics.

Terry keeps his clips on
Good advice from dad
"Always wear your clips, son"
Pity that he's dead
Buried with his clips on

Terry is a clean young man
But next door think he's weird
His idiaminosyncraties are stranger than my beard
And if he's strange - he won't change - he won't change

When he rides to work
Terry keeps his clips on
Like any other bloke
Terry keeps his clips on
Slaving at the bench
Terry keeps his clips on
Quiet in the gents
Terry keeps his clips on

Oh Terry, Oh Terry, why why why
Why don't you behave like normal people do-do-do-do-do
why why why

When he goes to bed
Terry keeps his clips on
More advice from dad
"Only take your boots off"
Bending for the soap
Terry keeps his clips on
Afterwards a *** - Terry has a good cough

Terry is an upright chap
And seldom is he rude
Because he keeps his clips clamped on
He's never in the nude
And if that's strange - he won't change - he won't change

25 hours a day
Terry keeps his clips on
Any other way... no
Terry keeps his clips on
Let me tell you why
Terry keeps his clips on
As his dad would say - "To stop those wasps and creepy crafties crawling up your trousers!"

When he mows the grass
Terry keeps his clips on
Protects his private parts - "All the wasps can bzzz off"

Terry keeps his clips on
Terry keeps his clips on
Terry keeps his clips on
Terry keeps his clips on
Terry keeps his clips on
Terry keeps his clips on
Terry keeps his clips on

[remicks]

******

here's one that belongs toward the top



I never noticed before how early ....lounge ....Brazilian .... disco it sounds



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[Mr.Ree]

Hmmm, lots to choose from in this category...

- Aphex Twin: Come To Daddy
Richard D. James has shocked my jaded ears on more than one occasion. But I think this track has to take the cake. Loud, distorted, violent, and utterly psychotic. Punk sounds tame after hearing this one.

- Vangelis: Invisible Connections
One half of the album consists of nothing but random blips and bleeps with massive amounts of reverb piled on. The other side features what sounds like someone smashing the insides of a piano to bits, with all sorts of varispeed and pan effects.

- Boris Midney: Companion
"This is a test" -- yeah, a test of my patience!

- Cluster: 71
Noise-fest of feedback and sound generators. Like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

- VoNo: Dinner Für 2
This one takes a bit of explanation. Many years ago, I was collecting everything I could find from the German label Sky. Sky was a very small label -- they only put out about 10 LPs per year -- and they were active from around 1977 to the early 1990s. Their catalog was a mix of German prog-rock and electronic music. Their best-known releases are probably the two Brian Eno LPs with Cluster (FINALLY available outside of Germany as of a few years ago). Anyway, Sky put out some of the very best electronic music I'd ever heard, but they also put out some of the weirdest stuff I've heard to this date. Now... Does everyone remember how for a few brief moments around 1982, there was this really hip ultra-minimalist German electronic music thing happening? Think Trio's infamous "Da Da Da". Well, this takes that aesthetic to an extreme. Produced by two brothers VOlker and NOrbert, each song is nothing but a weird repeating loop on a Jupiter 8 (early 80s synth with a smooth and quirky sound) while one of them shouts things out in German. Curious to know what was going on, I recorded the album and loaned it to a co-worker who was fluent in the language. Several days later, he ran up to me and said "I can't believe it! It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!!! All they do is say something, and then repeat it, and then paraphrase it, over and over again! It's like this:
'Dinner for 2
2 having dinner
2 eat dinner
They are eating now.'
And I listened to the entire frikkin' thing! I kept thinking that they would tell a story, or start singing, or something, but they never did! What the **** is wrong with these guys??!!"
And to make matters even more strange, their follow-up LP was straightforward rock music.

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Every dog needs a master.

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Graham: I once heard an Aphex Twin record also, called "I Care Because You Do" or something similar. I didn't buy it but out of curiosity I ordered it as a bonus from the CD club I was enrolled in at the time. It was years ago, and the only thing I remember is that I found it sickening to listen to and traded it in at my local record store a short time later. And if you've ever heard any of Yoko Ono's early "recordings" with John Lennon, they're similarly screechy, though I think some of her later ones, especially "Walking on Thin Ice" and "I'm Your Angel" are quite nice.

[BrunoRepublic]

Graham: I once heard an Aphex Twin record also, called "I Care Because You Do" or something similar. I didn't buy it but out of curiosity I ordered it as a bonus from the CD club I was enrolled in at the time. It was years ago, and the only thing I remember is that I found it sickening to listen to and traded it in at my local record store a short time later.

"...I Care Because You Do" is actually a classic in the genre, and quite a decent album overall, with the exception of "Ventolin", which is one of the most unlistenable pieces of music ever made (and deliberately so). Even more surprising is that it got released as a single... several remixes, all with that eardrum-piercing high-pitched whine all the way through.

The rest of the album is delightful though. I still listen to it often, but I must skip past "Ventolin". I don't think I've ever got all the way through it once.

[FranceJoliFan]

"(Help Me)This Guy Is Crazy" by The Models

The psychotic stalker saying "I'm bringing you flowers" is a trip.

[Disco Funk]

Here's the weirdest one, at least from the James Brown camp.



I tried to find a youtube clip of the similarly demonic Mephisto (or Mafisto) by the Sarr Band, but no luck.

Disco Funk

[remicks]

I've got one that'll beat you all!

Back in the late 70's I was DeeJaying several places every week and was on Virgin Records mailing list. I had a 12" record sent to me by a French band, can't remember their name (probably session musicians). It was a disco track called C'est Le Sheep!!! Believe it or not it was a typical disco track with sheep ba'ing all the way through!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I kid you not!!! It went on for ages!!! I gave it away to a DeeJay friend of mine who was doing a mobile disco for The Young Farmers Association. Dunno what happened to it after that. He's still alive so it must of been OK. :lol:

I did get some gems fom Virgin. Like The Gibson Brothers "Kay Sera, Mi Vida" on white label among many others.

Later
Soulman



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Adrian Munsey


(to emphasize the misery - it's a Sparks concoction )

*****

[BrunoRepublic]

OMG I *must* have this!!

[ngroove]

Anything from Lime. I can tell the difference between serious music, and novelty music; Lime, is kind of confusingly both. Sure, the synths are pure simple, addicting, GENIUS, the guy, decent-sounding enough, the gal, however sounds like Minnie Mouse. And yeah, the fact, that the "singers" presented in their videos are just "models" standing in, for the actual singers.

[Bernie]

OMG I *must* have this!!

I think Jussi will beat you to it!

[BrunoRepublic]

And yeah, the fact, that the "singers" presented in their videos are just "models" standing in, for the actual singers.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that the video for "Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight" features the real Lepages.

[Cdnbob]

Oh gosh. I think the weirdest record I ever heard was a track off Nina Hagen's Nunsexmonkrock album. I wish I could remember which song it was, but at the time I heard it, I thought it was just plain bizarre. One minute she's screaming, then doing over the top opera vocals and then some other weird ****.

[The Disco Dentist]

In addition to those already discussed , I feel special mention should go to -

1) Any of Mrs Millers 60s pop/rock covers. Sadly her retirement from the music business in the early 70s deprived us of the addition of any Disco interpretations to her * cough * remarkable oeuvre.

2) Weird , possibly ; odd certainly :- The Puppini Sisters 1940's harmony swing versions of ' I Will Survive ' and ' Heart Of Glass' from their 2007 debut album " Betcha Bottom Dollar ".
Although not altogether without merit........

( Incidentally , their version of ' Panic ' from the same C.D. is great for annoying Smiths' fans !! )

[skiddlybop]

In addition to those already discussed , I feel special mention should go to -

1) Any of Mrs Millers 60s pop/rock covers. Sadly her retirement from the music business in the early 70s deprived us of the addition of any Disco interpretations to her * cough * remarkable oeuvre.

2) Weird , possibly ; odd certainly :- The Puppini Sisters 1940's harmony swing versions of ' I Will Survive ' and ' Heart Of Glass' from their 2007 debut album " Betcha Bottom Dollar ".
Although not altogether without merit........

( Incidentally , their version of ' Panic ' from the same C.D. is great for annoying Smiths' fans !! )

DD, I totally enjoyed seeing Mrs. Miller perform Top 40 hits of the day like "Downtown" on "The Merv Griffin Show." If Tiny Tim has reissues on Warner Music, why shouldn't EMI compile at least her "greatest hits?" And if you want to annoy Simon Cowell or Simon Fuller, just compare Mrs. Elva Miller to Susan Boyle, teehee.Mrs. Miller never sold albums of her travesties with the tonnage of Susan's, pretensions and all.[Yay, I embedded my first video link, thank you MDF for idiot-proof instructions {tho I am a better idiot every year} and thanks Bernie for making it surprisingly easy.]

My weirdest record is "P.S.K., What does it Mean?" by Philadelphia rapper Schooly D., which Tuff City's Aaron Fuchs hipped me to in Vinyl Mania, and thereby ruined the mood of my Christmas break, in 1985. Later, Jellybean Benitez disarmed the record by playing it regularly as a breakbeat at the Fun House, and the rather cute Chris Schwartz redeemed the image of Philadelphia as a hip-hop center with the good vibes of the Fugees and Lauryn Hill, especially with the massive hit hidden-track cover of "Can't Take My Eyes off You" on L-Boogie's celebrated album, not to mention putting out King Britt and Josh Wink on the Ruff House label.