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Post by vastar iner on Jan 21, 2017 0:18:01 GMT 1
Anything you think is a bit wtf?
E.g. this track from Linda Jardim. Best known as one of the backing singers on Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star". Recorded a single about aliens who were fleeing a neutron war and decided to settle in Northampton.
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Post by Mic1812 on Jan 21, 2017 15:45:51 GMT 1
I know this aint a single but a whole album i found bizarre was Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music album. Totally instrumental and what a bleedin row. 40 minutes of torture.
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Post by madmurray on Jan 21, 2017 15:55:20 GMT 1
Anything jedward have done.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jan 21, 2017 16:53:54 GMT 1
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 21, 2017 22:22:18 GMT 1
I know this aint a single but a whole album i found bizarre was Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music album. Totally instrumental and what a bleedin row. 40 minutes of torture. Contractual obligation album. Reed wanted out of his contract with RCA but he had to deliver one last album. Reed asked for it to go out on RCA's Red Seal label, for classical music. Given some of the utter rubbish that John Cage produced, that's not that bad a call.
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 21, 2017 23:01:35 GMT 1
Not so much a single .... But today Katy Perry looking uncannily like Peggy Ollerenshaw (Su Pollard) from Hi-De-Hi did a cover of Neil Young's "Rocking In A Free World" at an Anti-Trump Woman's March at Washington DC today! Which reminds me of when Neil Young went New Romantic/Kraut rock/New Wave leaving his core blue collar rock audience scratching their heads (sadly the pop video is no longer up) from 1982:
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 21, 2017 23:11:00 GMT 1
How do you follow a career zeitgeist of an album, one of the biggest commercial albums of all time that has sales wise dwarfed everything else you've done before in the previous decade. Most acts (with Adele being the latest) would do more of the same music in the same vein to give the public what they wanted ...... but this Anglo-American rock group had very very very different ideas in this bonkers semi-instrumental world music ode to the name the drummer/co-founder of the group called his private parts (which Prince cited as a major influence on his bonkers "Batdance" single)):
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Post by Mic1812 on Jan 21, 2017 23:50:27 GMT 1
Laurie Anderson - O Superman I love this song.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 22, 2017 10:18:46 GMT 1
Laurie Anderson - O Superman I love this song. I do too. I appreciate it more in the way that I would appreciate an art installation than a pop record. Just wonderful, definitely in my all time top 50. My suggestion for bizarre records would be MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. I recently saw it in a list of the worst ever singles, and yet I still have a sneaking suspicion it might actually be completely brilliant. Completely odd, disorientating, I've never really got my head around it.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jan 22, 2017 10:36:26 GMT 1
Eurythmics - 'Beethoven (I Love To Listen To)' was a quite a bizarre single, especially for a lead single, but in a fantastically good way!
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Post by madmurray on Jan 22, 2017 10:58:32 GMT 1
I remember having the Napolean XIV - They're coming to take me away single and on the b-side it was the same song, but played it in reverse.
Well bizarre, but good for quizzes back in the day...name the song playing backwards...lol.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jan 22, 2017 12:36:45 GMT 1
O Superman & Macarthur Park are works of deranged genius, and I adore them both.
The most bizarre hit single is surely the 4 Minutes of silence from a few years ago, where people chose to give iTunes money rather than donate it to war veterans.
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Post by Mic1812 on Jan 22, 2017 14:05:41 GMT 1
I do too. I appreciate it more in the way that I would appreciate an art installation than a pop record. Just wonderful, definitely in my all time top 50. My suggestion for bizarre records would be MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. I love that version as well. What makes it bizarre i think is the melancholy way Richard Harris sings it. Can he really sing or is he just a novelty. At the time there was another version by a guy called Noel Harrison. Also the lyric "Someone left the cake out in the rain, i dont hink i could take it, it took so long to bake it" is pretty mind blowing but simple when you look at the logic of it. Its an outside wedding and its started to rain so everybody went indoors - maybe.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 22, 2017 14:08:27 GMT 1
ok, probably not really this one...
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 22, 2017 14:13:22 GMT 1
It might be a metaphorical wedding cake. A representation of an intimate relationship that has collapsed in recrimination leaving the proponent to declare he will never be able to get that close to anyone again.
Anyway. This slab of weirdness from an unreleased LP, but which was a lead track on an EP that did emerge, was a Joe Meek idea and production, with the help of a skiffle group from Ealing who were more regularly called The West Five.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 22, 2017 14:18:56 GMT 1
The kind of strange things they put on B-sides that occasionally get turned into the A-side...
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 23, 2017 18:47:04 GMT 1
Parody of the death discs, indeed this is the song about the person that the Leader of the Pack crashed into.
"And over there was my baby...and over there was my baby...and wayyy over there was my baby..."
If you think this is a thin joke taken too far, then you really have to persevere until the end...
Amazingly enough this made the top 100 of all three American 100s - albeit nowhere higher than 80.
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Post by raliverpool on Jan 23, 2017 19:10:37 GMT 1
What happens when you put Burt Bacharach & Hal David; the Hollies & Peter Sellers together .....
A flop single from 1966 released between the Manchester group's UK #5 Bus Stop & UK #2 Stop Stop Stop, which was their only single to fail to reach the UK top 40 in 26 singles up until 1972.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 28, 2017 0:30:48 GMT 1
This was a bit of a departure for Queen.
I note it doesn't appear on any of Queen's hits albums. Probably because it's unlistenable sh*t.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 1, 2017 9:11:38 GMT 1
Maddalena Fagandini was a sound engineer at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, making music for television and radio, ranging from musique concrete for a Beckett play to sound effects for ballet, as well, of course, as working in Doctor Who.
She also created an time signal, originally used for Party Political conferences but adapted into an interval signal. George Martin arranged to put a backing behind it, and Parlophone released it as a single, with a publicity barrage suggesting that "Ray Cathode" was merely an electronic squawkbox that had come up with the whole thing robotically. Perhaps surprisingly not a hit. Martin though would soon have other acts that would take up more time...
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