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Classic / Idm / Metal
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/dsujpdbsU_g?version=3&hl=hu_HU
“Tóth Kína Hegyfalu is the Budapest, Hungary based duo of Kinga Toth and Gergely Normal. The pair has a strong performance art bent, with Gergely’s sparse, often minimalist instrumentation serving as counterpoint and complement to Kinga’s poetry, which takes the form of aggressive growls, and wails. Gergely also contributes the artwork for the releases, which also reflect the ever present themes of alienation and violence. Tollasbál represents a fervent desire to capture the disruptively awkward and often unsettling feel of an art house performance. Standing in contrast to most of the record, “it hurts (kapar)” forcefully prods the listener into an uncomfortable state with thick slices of noise and distorted vocals, rather than leading them there via teases and the occasional backhanded threat. It’s a sludgy oil slick of guitar that’s definitely not easy listening, though it is rewarding in its own very specific and slightly sadomasochistic way.”
30.01.2012 Written by Luke Carrell (www.internationaltapes.com)
http://www.internationaltapes.com/reviews/toth-kina-hegyfalu-it-hurts-kapar/
Charles Manson qualifies me thinks.
I can’t but help like his music, I think it’s pretty good, not to mention strange.
I know, right? He’s my fucking namesake. Andy has issues with promoting him, though, because he’s a criminal mastermind and all. I dunno, he’ll probably make the list evenutally.
Also this band has to bo on here. Survival Research Laboratories. This is easily the strangest ‘band’ out there. Heres a quote “Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.”
They are more of a performance art band, but they have released some albums based on the ‘music’ they make with the machines and what not. Their live shows feature homemade remote controlled robots / homemade cannons / flamethrowing devices / tesla coils / etc…
They tend to have extremely dangerous live shows, and more than once has Mark Pauline and some of the other ‘members been arrested. One infamous incident was during the ‘Crimewave’ show in San Francisco where SRL had been warned to not play in SF again due to a previous show they did. They ignored this and decided to perform in an abandoned parking lot, eventually the police came and arrested Mark Pauline and Mike Dingle for arson and intent to injure the public. They’ve been doing this shit since the mid 70′s.
And now that I’m certain you’re interested heres some live insanity.
Heres the show that got them arrested. Flamethrowers, robot battles, and general insanity.
More live insanity, fire and mayhem.
I should clarify that the music is those around sounds you hear being played plus the combination of the noise made by all the robots and other machines.
We definitely know SRL and their work, but I’m not sure if they really qualify as a band per se. They’re more a performance art project with “music” (depending on your definition of music). I’d put Blue Man Group in the same category. I dunno, maybe that’s splitting hairs, though. We’ve put other performance art acts on the list before.
They have released a compilation cd based on the music they. http://www.discogs.com/Survival-Research-Laboratories-Survival-Research-Laboratories/release/188310
and a hard to find cassette.
http://www.discogs.com/Survival-Research-Laboratories-Illusions-Of-Shameless-Abundance/release/736991
and numerous vhs’s and dvd’s.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Survival+Research+Laboratories#t=Releases_Videos&q=&p=1
Also my definition of music comes from John Cage (who also needs to get on here sometime) “music is the organization of sound”.
I have to say theres some essential weird bands that are missing from this blog.
Frank Zappa?
Tom Waits?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfamPW3Eaw
I have to post this.
Nurse With Wound is also an essential band for anyone into Avante-garde experimental noise wierdness.
^ That song has some amazing grooves going with that didgerijidoo (or however it’s spelled.)
Tis true, we’ve got some gaps, because a) this blog is a work in progress and b) if all we did was pick obvious weirdos, people would get bored with us pretty quickly. So we try to mix it up, which has meant neglecting such worthies as Messrs. Zappa and Waits. I’m sure we’ll include them eventually.
How about That 1 Guy?
Also nice blog!, I don’t know if I should be proud that I have cds/cassettes/records by half these bands you’ve done. Keep up the good work!
Glad you’re digging the site! We haven’t done any homemade instrument acts for awhile, so yeah, That 1 Guy could be a good one.
Check it out, man…That 1 Guy is now our Weird Band in the Week. Thanks for the tip!
far more entertaining than bumsick maybe not “weird” enough tho…
Nice. We know Gaslamp Killer well…he’s a resident DJ at Low End Theory, which is just down the road from me…but never heard this before.
its a bloke called andy reinfeldt he does loads of covers of pop/ metal and does weird versions of them…..this one he got told off by as (from what ive herd) gaslamp had a hissy fit and wanted to take him to court hes done some awesome ones tho really worth checking out
Ohh…so it’s *not* Gaslamp Killer. That makes more sense. Didn’t think he was known for farty techno.
have you guys thought of doing a thing on cartoon bands, like the characters. how dethklok is it’s own economy and metal as fuck, how the gorillaz are just all around weird, and how the neptunes had a shark that sounded like curly from the three stooges as a member.
Hey there again. Last time it was Klaus Nomi, this time it’s a one man band with robots! First of all I don’t know why this band isn’t in the top 100 already. I think this guy is friggin awesome! Here is Captured! By Robots
(Live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvU165DEYc&list=FLKRDVt3IAVMIy5j28eXHlwQ&index=15&feature=plpp_video
(Interview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B0t_v8NYjI&list=FLKRDVt3IAVMIy5j28eXHlwQ&index=14&feature=plpp_video
Nice. We were gonna make The Trons our next robot-themed band, but this guy wins. Way cooler than this shit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws
‘Vitamin Wig C’ is not only weird, but totally original. I highly recommend.
http://vitaminwigc.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-adults
Well…we’ll definitely give you points for having a song called “Horrible Beach Boys Concert.”
Oops, i forgot the link: http://imomus.com/
Momus! The original Scottish pop pervert. ‘MC Escher, the impossible rapper’ is one of my all time favorite lyrics.
hers a couple of my favorite weird bands (that havnt been mentioned prior to this)
1. toxic lipstick
2. jez north (now fred westlife)
The running commentary of that one guy in the audience in the Jez North video is more entertaining than the band.
Hey grab a load of ‘WhEn Pets ATtacK!’ from New Zealand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHK5qEnNoXg
here are my submissions for today
aphex twin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_twin#Artwork
usually his video and music are incredibly creepy and most of the album cover feature is face in some distorted manner. also look up the video for rubber johnny.
Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bryBqKYovnY&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(Swedish_band)
they like satan
I do love me some Aphex Twin. Wasn’t familiar with Ghost, thanks for submitting them. Not the only masked, hooded band on the block but definitely pretty weird.
The Chap. They’ve been described as looking like a group of geography teachers.
Check out “Well Done You” from “Well Done Europe here:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Well+Done+Europe/4556457
As well as the entire “Mega Breakfast” album:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Mega+Breakfast/1352249
http://www.thechap.org/
Not totally sold on their overall weirdness but we do love their “We’ll See to Your Breakdown” video. Also, we know an Andy Gillette in Los Angeles. For a second we thought that bastard was finally reading our blog, but no.
I’ve got here three artists all based being offensive or gross. the first is rapper Necro.
He takes the norms of gangster rap (sex, drug, and violence) and turns them to an extreme. this song is detailed instuctions on how to dispose of a recently murdered person.
next is the band Anal Cunt.
they are incredibly fast, unitelligble grindcore. all of their songs are highly offensive and many are under the the title “_____ is gay”. so far their only censored title is “Connor Clapton Committed Suicide Because His Father Sucks”. it was changed to “Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck” because the record company they worked for was in britain where deframation laws are really bad.
finally here is the band i have been trying to remember the name of (Thanks to rapesbladder for reminding me) Bumsick.
their vocals are farts do i need to say more. oh and they’re british.
This site could easily turn into Grossest Band in the World, which was never really the point…so we tend to pick and choose offensive bands carefully (also, I’m of the pretty strong opinion that making offensive music is easy and usually pretty boring…but that’s a whole other discussion for another time).
That said, Bumsick are kind of amazing. So yeah, I’m pretty sure we’ll be adding them to the Weird List sometime soon.
and you thought Mr. Bungle confused the shit out of metalheads.
here is a band i’m suprised isn’t on the weird band yet.
this is the aquabats. they are a ska band that dresses up as super heros and fight villans in their songs like powdered milk man and the cat with two heads. the lead singer is also the creator of yo gabba gabba and the band has appeared on the show.
Ah yes. The Aquabats. I dunno, I guess they’re weird. Mostly they just seem like a shitty pop-punk band that wears wacky costumes.
Those might of been band examples. heres them fight powdered milkman live
Turbonegro (http://www.turbonegro.com/)
Death Grips (http://thirdworlds.net/)
Merzbow (http://www.merzbow.net/)
King Charles (http://www.myspace.com/kingcharlesuk)
The Radioactive Chicken Heads!! https://www.facebook.com/radioactivechickenheads
I’m kind of surprised nobody’s suggested TISM yet, a band who are sort of like Devo on speed in balaclavas, only more so. They debuted in 1986 with a single called “Defecate On My Face” (describing Hitler’s increasing mental instability due to Eva Braun’s inability to shit in his mouth), and are probably best remembered for their 1995 single “He’ll Never Be An Old Man River” (alt title “I’m On The Drug That Killed River Phoenix”).
Here’s “There’ll Never Be An Old Man River”
And here’s “Defecate On My Face”
Ah yes, thanks for reminding us about these guys. Definitely deserve a spot on the Weird List.
this is Cannabis Corpse. They do covers of Cannibal Corpse songs but change the lyrics to talk about weed. here is the original Cannibal corpse song
Dude, where do you find this shit?
i actually dont remember where i found out about cannabis corpse. but i can safely assume i found it on THE INTERNET!!
here is a band called Jucifer. I have seen them a couple of times and they are by far the loudest band I have heard. That’s not the weird part though. That is what there albums sound like, this is their live performances:
you can see why they were signed to relapse. I talked to them after one of the shows and they said they might release a live album.
P.S. I’m still trying to find the name of that grindcore band that uses farts as vocals.
is it bumsick your thinking of?
my friend became obsessed with them for a while
Thats it ya. Bumsick is the band I was thinking of. Me and my friends were poking around youtube and started listening to Caninus and Hatebeak, when my friend Reece started playing Bumsick. I haven’t been able to remember their name since.
oh boy…
i thought this was only a joke, but this guy is totally a legit artist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impaled_Northern_Moonforest
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp6TSg4_1qo&w=420&h=315
enjoy.
also psyopus is a great band…and can be much weirder than the following video
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4HgEkgF34E&w=560&h=315
finally, Razzle Blaster deserves a few videos here! but i’ll just post this one….
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwRxeY6zuYY&w=420&h=315
please don’t tell me i have to post Crotchduster…do I?
You saw we’ve already got Impaled Northern Moonforest up, right? http://weirdestbandintheworld.com/2012/02/23/weird-band-of-the-week-impaled-northern-moonforest/
Psyopus scares me. In a good way.
wow, and recently… clearly didn’t do my homework! thanks for the link though.
and just because i feel like it, check out crotchduster!
How about The County medical Examiners.
they are a Carcass worship band that all the members are actual doctors. also the bassist is over 60.
there is also a metal bands where all the vocals are fart noises but i can’t remember their name.
Dude, you are on a roll. Did you read about the band Cattle Decapitation? Another weird variation on this particular brand of metal.
i’m a huge fan of cattle decapitation. oh I just remembered the band Larry David
it is a band from California and they sing about Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. the members go by the names:
The Assman – Vocals
Art Vandelay – Drums, backing vocals
The Scofflaw – Guitar
O’Brien – Bass
they are actually recording their first EP right now.
Here’s a good one.
this is Whitehouse, the british band that started the power electronics genre by yelling obscene things at the audience to a backtrack of noise for almost 32 years. heres the wiki page
i am defenittly goingto try to be active in this site, it is awesome.
Awesome suggestion, thanks! Compared to these guys, Atari Teenage Riot is pop music for pussies.
This is a band called Pig Chicken Suicide and they are a panama city grindcore band. what makes this band weird, besides the werewolf playing guitar and the luchadore, is the wacky, sometimes masochistic, antics of the vocalist. During songs he will will do things like mop the floor with a mop he broke earlier in the song, wrestle there camera guy, seen here:
and even go as far as to smack himself with a barb wire pole. If this doesn’t count a weird, it’s pretty damn entertaining.
on a side note. Why isn’t Buckethead on the Weird 100?!?
Huh. I think Pig Chicken Suicide might be more of a Jake band. I’ll ask him if he’s digging them.
As for Buckethead…people suggest him all the time and honestly we have yet to hear a track or see a clip that wasn’t just noodly guitar instrumentals. Does he do anything really mind-blowing besides play guitar really well and wear fast food packaging? Cuz that just doesn’t rock our worlds.
here is one of the weirder songs. alot of the weird stuff he does has to with stuff he does on stage. he will, as kind of a break in the set, start doing the robot or some of michael jackson’s moves, showing off his crazy nunchuck skills, play with his johnny soko action figure, or trading toys with the audience. There are even videos of him rapping along to shame on a nigga by the wu-tang clan. Here:
also i love the Mr. bungle description.
Okay, you convinced me; we’ll revisit Buckethead. I think the sheer size of his catalog has also deterred us….
ya it is a bit staggering. lol most fans get a little weirded out when he only releases one album during a year. but with that large catalog bring a lot of weird eclecicity. it goes from really shredding (albino slug) to really mellow (electric tears), to crazy with alot of circuit bending (kaleidoscalp). he even has an all banjo album out. this isn’t even counting the side projects and bands he has been in. just don’t count chinese democracy lol.
she deserves it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt379grdD4Q
mmmm yes
What the fuck just happened?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE&ob=av2e
beck is really weird but maybe to famous to make the page because of e pro and loser
I love me some Beck but I don’t think he really belongs in a discussion of the *weirdest* bands out there. He’s more just, like, eccentric.
but doesn’t eccentric just mean weird with money?
In Beck’s case, I think it’s more like “hipster weird.”
so beck was hipster before it was kool lol?
Well, I´m already here on Weirdest Band In THe World but I would like to post a new video to a song of mine. The video was made by Brian Square (another weird) and you can watch it here: http://youtu.be/uAJ90mL7T2Y
And I´ll try to embed it here!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJ90mL7T2Y&w=420&h=315
Richard! So good to hear from you. Creepy new song/video…we’ll post something about it later this week, too.
this is someof the wierdest electronic glitch stuff ive ever heard, they have a 2 cd available free on their last.fm page: http://www.last.fm/music/Oiled%2520Monkeys?ac=oiled%20monkeys
He was born in a coop, raised in a cage, children fear him, critics rage. He’s half alive, he’s half dead, folks just call him BUCKETHEAD!
Where’s Buckethead? And if you want proof that he’s weird, listen to this -
And then it gets weirder –
Then it gets even weirder –
And then this is one of the weirdest, but not the weirdest -
This is probably the second weirdest song that I sat all the way through with Buckethead -
And this is the weirdest –
Ha, i used to see the deli creeps in the bay area when i was19, the best of times.
Otto Von Schirach is defo weird.
Thanks for those video links! We’d heard this guy’s stuff before and weren’t that impressed, but his live act is definitely pretty out there.
Holy crapballs. I’m both totally traumatized and can’t wait to watch it again.
maybe not so “weird” but definitely unique. Maybe y’all already know them? I think they get more interesting when one starts delving into their earlier work and the members’ other projects.
cheers and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the nightmares!
Tiger Lillies
vicki bennett, people like us
FOETUS – JG Thirlwell
John Zorn’s Naked City
Secret Chiefs 3
http://youtu.be/uZ2rewhOGO4
Thanks for the suggestions! We had heard of most of these before, but not the Tiger Lillies, who are pretty freakin fantastic.
the Yeastie girls or 1-800-zombie maybe
and awesome snakes…seems all their songs are about snakes
eh, I’ve seen weirder. I appreciate the effort, though.
Love the website. Have followed you fellas for a pretty long time, and I must say that even when the music sucks the reviews are hilarious and informative.
So here’s my way of repaying you for all the entertainment…
Paska: the Finnish, a capella, punk, one-man band.
Originals that I enjoy the most:
“Pain in the Ass”
“Banana Butt Plug”
Covers:
“Stairway to Heaven”
“Ace of Spades”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Love Me Tender”
And for the truly adventurous:
“Tubular Bells Part 1″
“Tubular Bells Part 2″
of course, the links decided to hide themselves…
Originals that I enjoy the most:
“Pain in the Ass” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh9sSvQtKSQ
“Banana Butt Plug” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwmu4H6B7s
Covers:
“Stairway to Heaven” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWrZ0Wq2oA
“Ace of Spades” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDndt1aE86o
“Bohemian Rhapsody” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qevbyvz4VJ4
“Love Me Tender” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ZhjGrzwZ4
And for the truly adventurous:
“Tubular Bells Part 1″ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5hs4Fwg_w
“Tubular Bells Part 2″ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZhufdiSbLY
Thanks for the linkage yo!
Wow, somehow I missed that these all links to one dude. Amazing. We’re blogging about his sorry ass, for sure.
Roger Nusic (yes with an N)
cardiacs.
how about dirty sanchez
They’re kinda fun. We’ll make ‘em the next “Submit and Vote” candidate.
needs more Dead Kenny G’s
Greatest band name ever. Will investigate.
We don’t need a fuckin poll. Their weird. I’ll write em up soon.
Way ahead of you on Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: http://weirdestbandintheworld.com/2011/04/11/sleepytime-gorilla-museum/
We’ll check out the others…thanks for the suggestions. Also, don’t be offended when we take down your comment in a few days. It’s nothing pesonal. We just can’t have too many YouTube embeds on this page or it loads crazy slow.
Just discovered this marvelous site (you were linked by Edmund Welles!). So far it reads as a collection of my favorite bands and things I definitely must check out.
But MORE WEIRD:
Skinny Puppy
Lightning Bolt
Cleaning Women
Naked City
Khanate
Burmese
Kayo Dot
Laurie Anderson
Master Musicians of Bukkake
Melt Banana
Otto Von Schirach
Secret Chiefs 3
Amon Tobin
Venetian Snares
Soul Coughing
All very odd in their own way…
So glad you like the site! I love Amon Tobin and Soul Coughing…never actually occurred to me that they’re weird enough but maybe they are. Lightning Bolt will almost certainly wind up here eventually. Most of the others we’ll have to check out…thanks for the suggestions!
somehow its easy to forget melt-banana is wierd
Check this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KC0xelDtyo
Hm…pretentous yes. Weird? I dunno, I can’t make it thru their videos far enough to decide.
I found a new Gangpol und Mit video which makes me think they could be considered weird enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5w5pj_5JA
Thanks man…that’s pretty frickin weird alright. Thinkin we might make them our next Submit and Vote band.
Heh… Cool. I took that picture.
You did? Nice! Thanks for commenting instead of sending, y’know, a cease and desist letter.
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions, man! We’ll let you know when we post some of ‘em…probably will wind up being a few.
Jesus. You’re a machine. Also: What is up with WordPress squishing the column width on each reply? Nice work, guys.
Hot damn. Some of these we’ve heard of, some we’ll clearly have to research. Thanks the weirdness tsunami! (Is it still bad form to use the word “tsunami”?)
Tool? Surely at least as weird as some bands that are on the list… or are they too big a band to be considered?
Bands can be big *and* weird…so yeah, Tool’s a definite future candidate. Although Maynard’s other project, Puscifer, is arguably weirder.
Well, that’s cool, it’s just that when a band’s been around for a while they might not seem as weird as they actually are because you kind of get used to them, you know? Yeah, Puscifer is weird, for sure. A Perfect Circle are kind of weird too, in their own way, but probably not weird enough – just a little odd. You might want to check out Green Jello too, if you haven’t yet.
So, if anyone reading this is doubting Tool’s weirdness, I guess I’ll try to convince you. I once saw a foetus growing inside a skull, whilst a butterfly made of green lasers hovered over me, flapping it’s wings in time with a crazy tribal drumbeat. “This is pretty weird”, I thought, as I saw Tool live for the first time, “what could possibly make this weirder?” The band could have given the audience an anti-smoking lecture, that would have been . . . unexpected. Well, that’s actually what they did. Seriously. Tool. They were, of course, booed thoroughly by their own fans, as I’m sure they knew they would be. Maynard’s dildo mask and boiler suit either lessened the lecture’s impact, or gave it more weight, depending on your feelings towards gas mask/dildo/boiler suit combos – I happen to think they’re pretty snazzy.
So they’re weird guys (“I have thirty mounted four-horned sheep on my wall” boasts guitarist Adam Jones), they have freaky videos, they collect guns, and occasionally do stupid April Fools pranks, like pretending that they’ve been in an horrific bus crash or that their singer has left the band to become a hardcore Christian. But is their music weird? Well, not all of it, it must be said, but a fair amount of it is pretty ‘out there’. They seemingly base some of their music on mathematical sequences and sacred geometry, including (according to some fans) a kind of ‘secret concept album’ within their Lateralus album, based on two spirals intertwining – I’m sitting firmly on the fence with that one, but there seems to be something in it . . . maybe. One of their songs is a recipe for a type of hash cake/cookie thing, and it’s in German – it sounds evil. A few of their ‘songs’ are simply noise, such as one where they squeezed a cat and added effects to the sounds that it made. They have one song where the track time on your CD player’s display starts to count backwards, which is very worrying if you’re a stoned teenager witnessing it for the first time. Maynard’s lyrics can be pretty unorthodox too, some are actually pretty moving (‘Wings for Marie’/’10,000 Days’ – about the paralysis and death of Keenan’s mother), but for every song like that there’s one like ‘Hooker With a Penis’, where someone who claims to be OGT (that’s Original Gangsta Tool, for the unenlightened) accuses the band of “selling out, laying down, sucking up to the Man”, and it goes without saying that if you accuse a band like Tool of selling out you’ll be made to look pretty stupid. Then there’s Rosetta Stoned, which starts “alrighty, then . . . picture this if you will. 10 to 2 AM, X, Yogi DMT, and a box of Krispy Kremes, in my ‘need to know’ pose, just outside of Area 51 contemplating the whole “chosen people” thingy when a flaming stealth banana split the sky like one would hope but never really expect to see in a place like this” . . . yeah, so there’s that.
OK, I’ll stop now, but, seriously, the band oozes weirdness. If you’re including bands that made it big then I can think of a few you’ve missed. The weirdest band to ever make it crazy-big is almost certainly Jethro Tull. If you need examples of their weirdness, you know I’ve got them . . .
By the way, I was looking around this place quite a bit yesterday, and you’ve got some damn good bands on here. Cool site. I was thinking I might stick around for a while. Cheers.
Wow, that was the most intensely detailed comment anyone’s left on our site ever. We’re not sure whether to be scared or flattered.
And oddly enough, you’re the second person this week to point out to me that Jethro Tull is actually pretty fucking weird. So we’ll take that under consideration too.
Glad you like the site and hope you stick around. We might even get around to updating the fucking thing again one of these days….
Yeah, sorry about that, it didn’t seem like so much writing before I posted it. You should probably be more scared of Tool anyway, they have guns and they hate L.A.
The weirdest of Jethro Tull should mostly be on Youtube, The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles video definitely is, that’s probably weird enough, but that’s not all, they’ve got a lot of weird to give. Like I said, I can think of a few well known bands that would probably make the list, but I also know of some lesser known stuff. I’ll have a think and maybe come up with a list.
No one’s weirder than Tiny Tim, for sure. We’ll probably add him to The Weird List eventually. Patrick Wolf is eccentric but not particularly weird…a fine distinction, I know, but one we ruthlessly insist on making. Darius Greene seems to think he’s weird but as far as we can tell, he’s not. He kinda just sounds like Mocean Worker.
So that leaves Sunday Driver. Definitely an oddball combination of sounds and styles. We’ll put them up for a vote. Thanks for the tip!
They had me going right up until the dude with dollar signs on his sunglasses.
This article and thread are weak weak weak.
Hey, we got haters! About time. We were starting to wonder if we were doing something wrong.
also wesley willis and big fat hungry D
NOBUNNY,The Bondage fairies,The NotoriousMSG,The Aquabats,Holy Molar…………i dont know what weird is people been following the gwar band wagon for a while K.L.F had a album where the frontman was theire car called timelord…maybe thats weird…dont know the clinic wore dr`s masks i dont think thats weird but theres also Uzi rashthat has a dynosaur theme, peelander-z (jap punk band that dresses as power rangers)which is kinda weird with poppy songs about stupid things like tacos,yatagarasu is kinda strange too
Good suggestions all…especially Peelander-Z. Been meaning to write up those guys. Thanks!
Dude, you’re like our new #1 fan. Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Just don’t stalk us, OK?
Too late! I’m checking back only 17 days later, and now standing right behind you with a wet noodle in my hand!
It’s RIGATONI!!!
You win! We finally wrote about Mr. Bungle. But seriously, check out Fantomas too. Even weirder!
Wow, these guys really suck. Which doesn’t necesarily mean we wont blog about them, but I dunno…I kinda want the last three minutes of my life back.
Wow thanks for all the suggestions! We’ll definitely investigate. Cool blog, too. We’ll give you a linkback.
what about ‘three day stubble’? or ‘and the native hipsters’?
Sup Spunj13? Long time no see. Christian Horror Punk is indeed pretty specific. Really hoping next someone will turn us onto a Mormon Pornogrind band (even though we vowed never again to write about pornogrind).
i’m still here, still following the site every time there’s an update.
not writing about pornogrind seems like a good idea, UNLESS some very nitch market pops up. Hindu Pornogrind or… Mormon. there IS hari-krishna hardcore, but… that’s not really that weird. (shelter, youth of today.. sort of, cro-mags, 108).. and then Bad Brains was a rastafarian hardcore band, who MIGHT qualify as weird. (especially more recently since their vocalist has pretty much lost his mind)
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