Freak Me Out

Hmmm... I had Koalas eating Apples in Denmark, So I guess that's a near miss...

In terms of strange vinyl, may I suggest:

Hogan's Heroes Sing the Best of World War II.

Larry Hovis singing "Lily Marlene" is, by itself, worth the price of admission.

Alternatively, there's a video of Paul Anka singing "smells like teen spirit" that is so horrible that it allegedly violates the 1956 revised Geneva Conventions with respect to "the torture of civilians and other non-combatants." According to Dick Cheney, even by his standards, it's pretty frightening stuff...

Six Degrees 100, from Six Degrees Records. Some years back I purchased a cd online and was sent a free Six Degrees sampler along with it. Ended up getting on their website and bought 5 more. Lots of different textures, excellent recordings.

On a scale of Pierre Schaeffer to Merzbow how freaky are we talking?

Club Des Belugas, "Swop". Heard "The Road is Lonesome" on the radio so I bought the cd along with another of theirs, "Zoo Zizaro".

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Just amazing and also very strange. Also, any music by the electronic artist Shackleton. It is unnerving and amazing electronic music that exists in it's own sonic world.

Give anything by Zoogz Rifft a try. He sounds a lot like Zappa.

Nico marble index, the Cure Pornography, early Zappa, etc

Ghost house then listen to Nils Solid Ether and Kymer offerings. Just stellar.

Qdrone - great recommendation on the Molvaer. Just listened to his Streamer on Spotify. Reminds me of Jon Hassel but with a heavier rhythm track. Good stuff. Thanks.

Check out Streamer by Nils Petter Molvear. He is a disciple of Miles Davis and is probably the most famous avant garde jazz musicians in Europe. This is a live recording with great sonics. Turn out the lights turn up your system and be prepared to be blown away.

Try the track "yuri". By Oi Va Voi.

Flaming Lips "Embryonic"
Massive Attack "Heligoland"
The Mars Volta "Amputecture"
"The B52s"
Determine "Rock The World"
Van Der Graaf Generator "Pawn Hearts"

Early butthole surfers or flaming lips.

Mano Negra's "Putas Fever". What a crazy (and delightful) bunch of MoFos these guys are. Crazy mix of styles.

NUNSEXMONKROCK by Nina Hagen. 1983, still there's nothing like it.

Knappertsgebuesch: does your moniker relate to Knappertsbusch, the Maestro?

Massive Attack "No Protection" remixed by The Mad Professor

Natacha Atlas "Diaspora"

Mino Cinelu "S/T"

Midival Punditz "S/T"

Robert Miles "Organik" and "Organik Remixes"

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Sun Ra's live "Concert for the comet Kohoutek" from the 1970s will shake your socks off if you can ignore the mediocre sound quality. The "Journey through the outer darkness" is the most spaced-out, totally free yet precisely executed synthesizer solo I ever heard; and the way he sets his electronic organ on fire in "Unknown Kohoutek" (a version of his song "love in outer space") must be heard to be believed. Mr. Ra knew exactly what he wanted to achieve. With comparatively simple effects gear he arrived at unique creations. He was just a great musician.
One grade less over-the-top (in my opinion), and less threateningly energetic, is the recent two-CD re-release of Sun Ra's "Disco 3000". Fasten your safety-belt.

Here's another: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki. The 1994 recording with the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra is the best interpretation I've heard yet.

One of the most chilling pieces of music ever composed IMO.

here are some of the weirdest tracks/albums I like out there:

Sunn o))) White 1; the first track is absolutely wacko stuff yet really really good.

Aphex Twin Milkman, Beetles

Ozric Tentacles: Strangeitude (the title says it all)

Magma: Wurda Itah, Mekanik Destruktiow kohmandoh, Kontarkosz

California guitar trio : Threnody for souls in torments

Carcass: symphonies of sickness

Deicide: Satan spawn, the caco-daemon

Pungent stench: klyster boogie (and just about any album made by them. pretty freaky stuff out there. be warned: hide the wife and your children before you play this stuff!!!)

I got more stuff but this is a good start to freak anyone out.

almost everything from Can. If you like creepy dub stuff check out Scorn repetitive but very creepy. Early Delerium stuff is also dark and creepy that will test your system.

The Cure: Fear of Ghosts.

Try Bass Communion - a sub-project of Porcupine Tree's front-man Steve Wilson.

Mary Margaret O'Hara's CD "Miss America" ... an extremely good CD that you will never forget ... makes a black hole look like a luminary

That is a GREAT album raytheprinter. Jonah Sharp is amazing. I have nearly everything he's ever produced.

Spacetime Continuum "Sea Biscuit" plenty of sound effects,great soundstage!

Davemitchell: thank god there is another real 20th century rec here! Most appropriate for the questioner!

George Crumb "Music for a Summer Evening"

Here's a link to a great recording of it:

http://www.georgecrumb.net/rec/elek9149.html

Well, you asked. Check out Hanzel und Gretyl, Test Department, Einsturzende Neubauten for hard stuff. On the ethereal side, try This Mortal Coil (album Blood is beautiful).

Henryhk, Check out the MMW's latest' let us go everywhere' . Freaky and Groovy.
Also check out their old ' farmer's reserve'. Freaky good and makes a great test CD also

Tom Waits - Mule Variations

King Crimson - Islands

come to mind

''Has Been'' by none other than Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner.

A revelation, and this is no joke, a great cd.

Is it a talking man with music or music with added lyrics? Lush production, lush sounds, it's a great oddball recording that I enjoyed. Critically acclaimed by a few indie music mags. TRY IT !!!

Here is one though hard to find: Horacee Arnold's Tales of The Exonerated Flea....with Jan Hammer, Rick Laird from Mahavishnu, Ralph Towner, Art Webb, John Abercrombie, and many others....a swirling sound landsacpe if there is ever one with lots of improv.

Luigi Nono tape pieces circa 1966, Stockhausen from the same general period, Illhan Mimoraglu with Freddie Hubbard "Sing me a song of Songmy"

Anything by Spock's Beard or Jade Warrior, Popul Vuh's "Shepherd's Symphony-Hirtensymphonie", King Crimson's "Lark's Tongue in Aspic",Patrick O'Hearn's "Ancient Dreams",Tangerine Dream's "Optical Race", Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells",Joe Satriani's "Not of This Earth",Zero 7's "When It Falls",Gentle Giant's "The Power and The Glory", Bela Fleck's "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo".--Mrmitch

If anyone can find ANYTHING freakier than Jaap Blonk's craziness I'd be surprised. Listen to these samples.

http://www.ubuweb.com/sound/blonk_flux.html

I was happily surprised to see some of my favorite music listed above. I thought Audiogon was a bunch of dry, anal, academics. :) I'm gonna repeat (reinforce) one or two of the earlier posts, and add some new ones. Format is 'Band - Album(s)':

Can: Future Days, Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi. Excellent production, psychedelic-fusion from the late sixties - early seventies. Start with Future Days! Available in remastered SACD!

Naked City (John Zorn): Grand Guignol, Heretic, Absinthe, Leng Tch'e. Be warned, this can be hard, intense 'noise' at times. Again, excellent production.

Autechre: Quaristice, LP5, Tri-Repetae, Draft 7.30. Electronica gone a bit wonky; nothing is quite right, which is precisely why its so right.

Stravinsky: The Firebird, Rite of Spring. They still freak ME out.

George Crumb: Madrigals, Makrokosmos III. Hard to describe. (Messiean on acid?)

Would love to see more suggestions on here. I am noting down all the ones I do not know. Thank you David99!

Happy the man the album is "Crafty Hands" you will dig this one.

i forgot to mention. two bands opened for skinny puppy on thei 2007 tour: otto von schirach and
i think 3 blind mice. the music was extremely
weird and will freak you out. so much so, that they
border on the absurd. and again, i mean that.

love,
jorge

SKINNY PUPPY!!!try the last 4 or 5 skinny puppy cds.
the last two are particularly awesome sounding.
and i mean that.
you wonder if these guys are not from this planet.
pure sonic scapes and the sounds are not from around
here.

Gentle Giant: In a Glass House

Everything you have asked for you will receive.

MMW is great but freaky? Groovy, yes!

A 2nd vote for Medeski, Martin & Wood. Try their 1st (eponymous) and Combustication. Extremely well recorded IMHO.

Anything w/ Les Calypool, and Gorin/Levin/Marotta's From The Caves of Iron Mountain...the latter was recorded in a cave for XX sake, and recording quality is superb, absolute audiophile quality.

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The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid / The Real Tuesday Weld. You can sample it at Amazon were there are copies dirt cheap.

Check out Daboa, "from the gekko". It's a reference disc I found on the Soundstage! website.

Synthfreak it only shows that the word is wrong, it doesn't correct. You have to come up with the right spelling. I tried a few different ways and never did get it right...

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Nrchy download the newest version of Firefox and it'll spell-check as you type.

sooo many...
The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp
Gong, Camembert Electrique (and indeed any other Gong with Kevin Ayers)
Fripp & Eno, No Pussyfooting
Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom
Captain Beefheart, Lick My Decals Off Baby
Most stuff by Fred Frith, Henry Cow, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake, Holger Czukay,...
but also, on an entirely other note:
Atrium Musicae de La Spagna directed by Gregorio Paniagua, La Folia de la Spagna
sooo many others, really...