List of most unusual/original songs - Page 4

amber · #46 05-02-2006, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

So you think, for instance, that The Ledge sounds like a normal mainstream song? I really don't. For one thing, it sounds like it was recorded down in a well, for another, the vocals sound like someone on a 3 day meth bender, and I'm pretty sure all the instrumentation was created from experimenting with electronic instruments, junk, and found sounds of one sort or another. I dunno, I guess you could say that strange instruments/recording techniques make for strange sounds

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Yes, fairly normal. Not totally boring normal, but within a realm of rock normal that is in my head.
I don't think the sounds sound very strange, though they were created in strange ways. I think the rhythms are a bit unusual, though not mind bendingly so.
I agree a bit about the meth bender, but that is probably the most common sound of all in rock...

Now then, we always talk about Lindsey et al. This is the chit chat thread, can we keep it to artists we don't already talk about constantly??? Take it over to the Lindsey board for crikey's sake!

cliffdweller · #47 05-02-2006, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

I agree a bit about the meth bender, but that is probably the most common sound of all in rock...

touche

And in F.M.'s case, it was probably a cocaine bender anyway

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dreamongypsydkm · #48 05-02-2006, 02:56 PM

Plenty of songs by They Might Be Giants, Lesson 16

Maxwell's Silver Hammer was unusual in a morbid way.
Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite

Considering some of the songs accused of being that unusual, we could be here forever. The Graceland album would have to be unusual then, the sounds of South Africa on the mainstream radio. Much of Live At Pompeii aswell.

amber · #49 05-02-2006, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

touche

And in F.M.'s case, it was probably a cocaine bender anyway

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yeah.

I don't really like the Beatles much, but I think Come Together is unusual.
I also pick Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Graceland was one of the first things I thought of. But I always think of Graceland, because I like it so much.

dissention · #50 05-02-2006, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dreamongypsydkm

The Graceland album would have to be unusual then, the sounds of South Africa on the mainstream radio.

Even that album came many years after Talking Heads incorporated African polyrhythms & world music into their sound. Remain In Light, now that's an unusual, groundbreaking album.

dreamongypsydkm · #51 05-02-2006, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Even that album came many years after Talking Heads incorporated African polyrhythms & world music into their sound. Remain In Light, now that's an unusual, groundbreaking album.

Actually I was going to list some Talking Heads music but we really could go on forever considering, as I said, Edge of 17 was listed. I still think Graceland was very unsual for those with the regular expectations to hear. Not to just appropriate world music, which of course was big in the 60s with the Eastern influence but to actually write and perform with the South African musicians made it "authentic" world music in the mainstream.

dissention · #52 05-02-2006, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dreamongypsydkm

Actually I was going to list some Talking Heads music but we really could go on forever considering, as I said, Edge of 17 was listed.

Hahaha. I think if we're talking truly unusual songs, "I, Zimbra" from the Heads has got to be right up at the top of the list. A Hugo Ball sound poem put to rousing African rhythms? It's still some odd ****.

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Originally Posted by dreamongypsydkm

I still think Graceland was very unsual for those with the regular expectations to hear. Not to just appropriate world music, which of course was big in the 60s with the Eastern influence but to actually write and perform with the South African musicians made it "authentic" world music in the mainstream.

True. Didn't Simon get accused of breaking "cultural boycotts" against South Africa with that album? Never mind that Reagan was an apartheid supporter, of course.

elie · #53 05-02-2006, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by David

I'd like to know what someone like Tom Waits thought of it at the time ... but that's assuming that someone like Tom Waits would have sunk to the level of even listening to Fleetwood Mac at the time, which I seriously doubt he did.

That's funny because I thought about posting a couple of Tom Waits songs in here. Back in my late teens I was completely fascinated by "Rain Dogs", but I 'm not sure I would call it unusual..

And David, your comment about "sinking to the level of even listening to FM" is true, I guess, but it hurts so bad...

Anyway, I would add "Why'd ya do it". Marianne Faithfull's obcene song, based on a poem. I think it is from "Broken English" album.

ryan8472 · #54 05-02-2006, 04:09 PM

I Zimbra, by Talking Heads.

GADJI BERI BIMBA CLANDRIDI
LAULI LONNI CADORI GADJAM
A BIM BERI GLASSALA GLANDRIDE
E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA

BIM BLASSA GALASSASA ZIMBRABIM
BLASSA GLALLASSASA ZIMBRABIM

A BIM BERI GLASSALA GRANDRID
E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA

GADJI BERI BIMBA GLANDRIDI
LAULI LONNI CADORA GADJAM
A BIM BERI GLASSASA GLANDRID
E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA

dreamongypsydkm · #55 05-02-2006, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

True. Didn't Simon get accused of breaking "cultural boycotts" against South Africa with that album? Never mind that Reagan was an apartheid supporter, of course.

Yeah but that was a total load of crap. The album consisted of native musicians collaborating with him to produce a native sound they could celebrate, not a hint of support for the regime, it was never used in any political manner at all, plus the UN disagreed that he did. He was accused of exploiting South Africans to make a statement but that was a load of ****. It was as much their album as his, a total collaboration of his sounds and their sounds to create a very positive album and as I said, it gave them a sound to celebrate rather than the usual repression of the native sound and the sound of the streets. Exploiting South Africans to make a comment on something topical, breaking a cultural boycott? Complete bull****. The Classic Albums series (was that the name?) did one on Graceland which was probably the most interesting in the series I have seen.

David · #56 05-02-2006, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ryan8472

I Zimbra, by Talking Heads.

GADJI BERI BIMBA CLANDRIDI
LAULI LONNI CADORI GADJAM
A BIM BERI GLASSALA GLANDRIDE
E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA

BIM BLASSA GALASSASA ZIMBRABIM
BLASSA GLALLASSASA ZIMBRABIM

A BIM BERI GLASSALA GRANDRID
E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA

GADJI BERI BIMBA GLANDRIDI
LAULI LONNI CADORA GADJAM
A BIM BERI GLASSASA GLANDRID
E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA

Bibbity Bobbity Boo

Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Put 'em together and what have you got
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
It'll do magic believe it or not
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Salagadoola means mechicka booleroo
But the thingmabob that does the job is
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Salagadoola menchicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Put 'em together and what have you got
bibbidi-bobbidi bibbidi-bobbidi bibbidi-bobbidi-boo

goldustsongbird · #57 05-02-2006, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by elie

Anyway, I would add "Why'd ya do it". Marianne Faithfull's obcene song, based on a poem. I think it is from "Broken English" album.

I've been singing that for the past two days! Why'd ya do it she said, why'd ya do what ya did?! It's fun to scream out that long, "WHYYYYYY'D YAAA DO IIIIIIIITTT!!?"

I don't know if this qualifies as weird or unusual at all, but that song, Rise Up by Parachute Club always sounds really different to me. The tune itself, not the fact that they have a choir backing them up.