Who can forget CBAT

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For me, it's probably "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

It's like a weird fever dream. Catchy tune though.

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.

Tim Curry - I Do The Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPCsaO_55o

Also Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

Pretty sure The Most Unwanted Song takes the cake on that front. It has bagpipes and opera rap! Good luck listening all the way through. https://youtu.be/-gPuH1yeZ08?si=NRXK7GH9qnDbGt3H

Maybe not the strangest, but definitely up there. Twiggy Twiggy by Pizzicato Five.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rAY4Wo-QkQ

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Whatever the hell this song is supposed to be. The more you watch, the weirder it gets.

Cathy Berberian - Stripsody

An opera singer and avant-garde music composer who made a song out of comic book sound effects.

Less strange, she also did an operatic cover of The Beatles' Ticket to Ride. I'm pretty sure my ironic love of this has crossed over into completely unironic genuine love.

Here's a good one. On the surface, it's not that strange... Until you think you're having a stroke because none of the words make sense. It's all gibberish

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDY3HFkh_Y&si=CUtoNyslkSlpq-KI&feature=xapp_share

It's gotta be something from Songs in the Key of Z

https://open.spotify.com/album/7hkWmPdLAFG3WnXJKBKyRL?si=REmJQO_jTZCq6CxRLeZM0Q

Steve Reich has a lot of interesting stuff. I have heard Clapping Music performed several times. https://youtube.com/watch?v=liYkRarIDfo

Buggy Techinica by Polysics.

It is not super strange to me, but everyone I share it with looks at me like I'm a nutter.

Anything by Clown Core or Macabre is always sure to delight.

Jesus Was Way Cool by King Missile.

Shit, I'm not even sure you can classify it as a song, really. There's music and words, but the words are just spoken and it's just a guy giving mad props to Jesus Christ. But it's like a surfer, grunge kinda dude so it sounds sarcastic AF.

But also Ween. So much Ween. They have maybe 2 or 3 albums of somewhat regular music, and then 5 times more just the most bizarre, drug induced aural hallucinations imaginable. I love 'em.

Oh and I can't forget Daniel Johnston; a song writer with schizophrenia that afaik only released his work as bespoke, custom cassettes for people so there are like thousands of different versions of the same songs because he just played them from memory. The songs themselves are pretty gnarly, too.

When you realize Hamsterdance:

https://youtu.be/H9K8-3PHZOU

Is the Whistle Stop song from Robin Hood sped up:

https://youtu.be/gxnvxtYfsd4

Baby shark backwards.

Kraus - Pitch Fucker

Renard - Rainbow Dash Likes Girls (Stay Gay Pony Girl)

Susumu Hirasawa - Day Scanner

György Ligeti: Aventures

Very experimental, not just with microtonality but making the singers do noises that few composers dared to put into their music.

Literally anything by Prince Midnight. He plays black metal on a xylophone and a guitar supposedly made of the skeletal remains of his late uncle (Google it, it's a fascinating rabbit hole lol). He calls his music "black metal" but to me it sounds more like black metal vocals mixed with The Doors, 80s style hardcore punk, and I guess eastern European folk music? A lot of the themes seem to be about Greek mythology. It's a wild ride lol

Here's a track to sample: Sword of Dardanos

"Little Specked Egg" by Cordelia's Dad

It was a song I heard from a friend who was in a Music Appreciation class. The song was just counting in kind of a meditative chant and only did it in groups of 2 3 or 4, i can't remember. and they only counted to 12 or something and then started back. so it'd be like "one two three four one two three four five six seven eight one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve one two three four"

Cut the Mullet. A classic. And good advice in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roxMH07qHmc

For some general Milwaukee style weird, there will always be Wooden Robot. I really liked Wooden Robot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOmtl8Lmeps

Too Many Zoos - Car Alarm

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict - Pink Floyd

Never get ahead by Bobby Conn. In this video he's performing at a youth show, so he isn't allowed to sing 'you'll never get ahead by giving head to the man' instead singing 'saying yes to the man'. But he slips up once, saying sorry after.

Bitch I'm a cow

Basically Merzbow's entire discograpgy. Here's the album Pulse Demon, and no, its neither a bad upload nor did your speakers (which you should turn down beforehand) take a shit on you.

https://youtu.be/ukZYP5Dy43E

I Wanna Be A Cowboy by Boys Don't Cry.

Lemmy Kilmister did a cameo in this video!