Weirdest album

[Juan Albion]

What's the weirdest album you've got? I'm playing "Jan and Dean Meet Batman" at the moment, which is quite bizarre in a bat-tastic kind of way.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I've got a Sheryl Crow album knocking about somewhere...

 

[On the Left Wing]

Frank Zappa's 200 Motels folowed by Freak Out!

Both extremely weird and superb!

 

[defrocked priest]

Any soundtrack to porno,ie anything by the Dark Brothers,lods of fun when the vicker comes calling.

 

[dougdeep]

Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull was a bit different. Just the one track and the cover was a newspaper.

 

[Incredigull]

Faust LP,from Virgin, Queen's Road for 50p

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Most of the strange ones I ever bought came from the 'The Cottage' record shop in Brighton in the 70s. A few that spring to mind are:

Phallus Dei by Amon Duul II
The Polite Force by Egg
Camembert Electrique by Gong

 

[crasher]

Mine would have to be either City Slab Horror by the Severed Heads or the Scotland 1978 World Cup Squad album;


"we're off to Argentina
it's time to do or die
England cannae do it
Cause they didnae qualify"

 

[NMH]

Mine would have to be either City Slab Horror by the Severed Heads or the Scotland 1978 World Cup Squad album;


"we're off to Argentina
it's time to do or die
England cannae do it
Cause they didnae qualify"

They probably had just enough time to smug that verse off before they got eliminated

 

[NMH]

I recently bought 'Hapshash and The Coloured Coat meet The Heavy Metal Kids' from around 1967/8.

It's weird, lots of banging of tablas and bells.
Bloody hippies.

 

[Icy Gull]

Syd Barrett - Barrett. Weird as hell but the guy still had an amazing talent even with a brain scrambled on acid.


An effervescing elephant
With tiny eyes, and great big trunk
Once whispered to the tiny ears
The ears of one inferior
That by next june he’d die, oh yeah!
Because the tiger would roam
And the little one said oh my goodness I must stay at home
And everytime I hear a growl
I’ll know the tiger’s on the prowl
And I’ll be really safe you know
The elephant he told me so
And everyone was nervvy, oh yeah!
And the message was spread
To zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
Who wollowed in the mud and chewed
His spicy hippoplancton food
And tended to ignore the word
Prefering to survey a herd
Of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And the jungle took fright
And ran around for all the day and the night
But all in vain because you see
The tiger came and said to me,
You know I wouldn’t hurt not one of you
I much prefer something to chew
You’re all too scant, oh yeah!
He ate the elephant...

 

[NMH]

Syd Barrett - Barrett. Weird as hell but the guy still had an amazing talent even with a brain scrambled on acid.

It's often wondered "what might have been" had Syd kept his sanity, and stayed off the acid.
He apparently had his coffee dosed with crazy amounts of LSD every morning for 3 months straight by his flatmates, who thought that because he was a musician and artist he could go 'further out there'. Well he did, he just couldn't get back!

After the first Pink Floyd LP and the three first singles, which document his strange and wonderful imagination in music, it was a crime that some pratt took him out of it like that.

Something similar happened to Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, by some Germans who 'looked after' him for a couple of days, and he was never the same again either.

 

[Juan Albion]

I would agree with the mentions of Zappa and Amon Duul, but really those guys set out to be weird. You can add the Residents and Tuxedo Moon to that list. But I was thinking more of albums that accidently left you scratching your head.

 

[jazzy]

Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull was a bit different. Just the one track and the cover was a newspaper.

One of my all time favourite albums.

For weird albums- I've got 'Lord of the Rings' by Bo Hansson. Released in late 70's/ early 80's I think.

 

[Lush]

"Has Been" by William Shatner.

 

[John Boy]

Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull was a bit different. Just the one track and the cover was a newspaper.

 

[northstandnorth]

for pure 70's weirdness AND a phallic connection

ive got MICHAEL MOORCOCK and the deep fix
NEW WORLDS FAIR
he was a science fantasy author who also wrote lots of stuff for hawkwind.the whole album is set about a post appocaliptic fun fair.with lyrics dripping in radiation sores and mangled flesh.

so its not the best choice for a pick-me-up after a cold wet defeat at withdean.so choose your saturday night listening more carefully than the last time it got played

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

2 Hype To Wype, by Hawd Azz Gangstuh Rappaz With Gatz.

Very weird, although also incredibly shite.

 

[Zebedee]

"Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms" by the Doctors of Madness. A truly weird album.

 

[perseus]

But anything by Lord Buckley beats that.