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Howdee strange people whats the strangest band/music/album you have herd or know of?

duga

Gotta love pig grunts.

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dankrsta

She looks and sounds like a witch, but is fascinating nonetheless. Extremely passionate and bizarre - Diamanda Galas

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MassivePeaness

I know her personally, from my Act Up days. I've got lots of fun stories.

One time we met for lunch at Dojo's (the one that used to be at St. Mark's Place in Manhattan). We had our lunch, and as we stepped outside the Mud Truck was rolling up. The Mud Truck had the best coffee and the best ice cream. She happily shrieked "There's the Mud Truck!! Let's have some ice cream!! My treat!!" So we got our ice creams and were walking back to my studio, when we noticed all these goth babies that recognised her. They were following us and we could hear them saying things like "She's wearing colourful clothes! And she's with a man! And she's eating ice cream!" As if she couldn't possibly do these things. She smiled that wicked smile of hers, turned around and said "Dominus vobiscum, yes my children, I only eat catholic priests on Saturday nights!!" All the goth babies shrieked and ran away.

Another time she had just performed one of her more vocally taxing shows and needed to do her routine of repairing her voice from all the fry. This entailed going to an old folks' home and taking requests for 40's and 50's tunes, singing them quietly. She asked me if I would drive her since I was going to pass it. I said sure. So we got into my van, and when I turned the key the music started up. It was Cecil Taylor "Spring of Two Blue J's." She heard the first note and said "Cecil, BAM!!" And then proceeded to sing the head of the tune as he played it, which is no small feat.

duga

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I love her! I can't remember how I ever heard of her in the first place, but she is great.

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dankrsta

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I wrote in her thread that I first heard one of her songs a long time ago on some radio show that aired gothic music (what an unexpected development). I've had You Must Be Certain of the Devil (1988) for years, but only this year I made an effort to find her earlier albums, and they're blowing my mind. It's some of the strangest and the most fascinating avante garde music that I've heard.

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duga

Absolutely everyone in the world needs to listen to her at least once in their lives. I am sure even if someone didn't like her in general, they would at the very least be blown away by what she can do with her voice. It is mind blowing.

The songs you posted show her incredibly avant garde type songs, but she is also capable of something like this:

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GravitySlips

some of the strangest things I've heard...

The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It
The Godz - Contact With The High Godz
Negativland - Escape From Noise
Butthole Surfers - any of their 80s albums/eps
The Pop Group - Y
Half Japanese - Sing No Evil

also, the majority of Jandek's music (that I've heard, which is probably about 5% of his whole discography) is very strange and uncompromising.

Antonio

I can attest to this

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dankrsta

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I haven't heard The Godz and Negativland. I'll look into it.
But Jandek, oh my... I only have two of his incredibly long list of albums, one of them being Six and Six (1981). My initial reaction was - WTF is this? At first I was fascinated, but then it became unbearable (I'm not sure if that's a bad or a good thing). The other album that I have, You Walk Alone (1988) is much more accessible.

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