What's the oddest thing in your music collection?

Spinal Tap's Black album......

A 4 disc survey of Hungarian popular music from the 70s. One picture disc of the Hungarian Imperial Eagle on one side and a view of Buda from Pest on the other, and three disc that are the three colors of the Hungarian flag: white, red and green. 
Don't see many white lps!

Favorite song? It's a toss up between "Learn to dissemble, sonny" and "I was disappointed in everyone".

A lot of interesting responses here!

@jc4659 I HAD to look up Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief LP with 3 sides. The interesting explanation from Wikipedia is:

"The album's original LP edition is particularly notable in that it was mastered with two concentric grooves on side two, so that different material would be played depending on where the stylus was put down on the record's surface. For this reason it is sometimes referred to as a 'three-sided' record."

I have an Edison cylinder around here someplace. 😊

Me

Someone had to aay this. 

Bobby Brown - "Prayers Of A One Man Band."

A R2R tape recorded in a Chgo club that was given to me in the 70s.

Folksinger Jenny Clements, quite good, no trace of her on the WWW.

Maybe she married the bass player and changed her name permanently like Christine Perfect.

Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief LP.  It has 3 sides!

The first thing that comes to my mind is Hen House Five Plus Two/In the Mood. Have it on one of those Warner Bros sampler albums, I believe it is Limo. There were about 18 or 20 of them and I bought them all at the same time through Warner at a cost of $2.00 each, all double albums and they turned me on to a lot of great music and artist. Enjoy the music

Like mapman, I have loads of ancient, oddball stuff I inherited from my parents. There's the 78rpm shellac of their marriage ceremony, which was broadcast on a  radio show that did that sort of thing. I have 45 rpm comedy singles. I have a passel of LP test records, both for mono and stereophonic. One compares the sound of ancient 78's to modern HiFi, It features Toscanini recordings as the latest and greatest.  Another compares 78 and mono LP recordings to recordings in that new-fangled invention Stereophonic. One of the stereo ones has London's Ceremony of the Keys that happens every night at Buckingham Palace.  I have a passel of those flexible 7" records that were sometimes included in magazines.

If I may stretch 'oddest' to include most avant-garde: Aisha Devi's "DNA Feelings"

From the bandcamp album description:

"She is a rebel and a radical alchemist who is breaking down barriers and traversing dimensions with her art...Devi applies meditation techniques in her approach to production and performance, channeling metaphysical research, ritualistic practice and healing frequencies into an alternate club paradigm." 

A very trippy listen. Awesome bass on some tracks. Profound at high volumes. 

Whart:

Not it, but I’m placing an order for it - thanks.

Don’t know why I like listening to this stuff as I shied away from it as a kid (1 older sister and 4 female first cousins who lived a few houses away).

I also have a small collection of mono recordings of tribal music (mainly New Zealand) which were made on portable Nagra tape recorders per the album notes.

Great recordings aside the music just mezmorizes me.

Good to hear that about Demme.

DeKay

I have a nice shofar on the mantle in family room with a yoga frog right next to it. Might have to add a third eye to the frog…..🙏

I have one (on CD, not sure it was released on LP) of a guy playing a shofar but I think he is sporting a third eye. There's a whole body of this stuff, a genre. some of it is pretty out there!

@whart

You mean like Oi Va  Voi? You betcha! Good stuff. CD is “Rough Guide to Klezmer”

@mapman - have you heard Hasidic new wave stuff? 

My parent’s collection of Yiddish music and comedy sketch 78s from about 100 years ago that I digitized into my digital music library.

Musically, No Pussyfooting by Fripp and Eno is about as far out there as it gets.

Also I have a well recorded CD of Tibetan Bells that is very interesting….

@mceljo Nice. I just found them on Tidal

@dekay : is it Tony Schwartz 1, 2, 3 And A Zing Zing Zing- 

Demme was a neighbor when I lived near Nyack. Very nice guy. We used to bump into him at the local sushi bar and never talked about his films, just stuff about the 'hood. Sorry he's gone. 

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I have quite a few "weird" records, from those atomic era Batchelor pad records like the RCA posted above (most of which I got rid of to make space, ahem) to rare groove jazz that had black islam overtones and labeling- many on private label that were released at the end of the '60s into the '70s. I did a big purge before I moved from NY to Texas, so a lot (12,000) records got offloaded including old test records, some field recordings and a lot of the novelty stuff, e.g. Music for Non-thinkers, along with lesser pressings and duplicates. The stuff I kept is musically interesting to me, despite bizarre covers or titles. 

Simao:

Unfortunately no.

Can’t even access the LP now as it’s buried behind gobs of other stuff.

Looked for other like recordings but struck out.

Once thought of contacting Johnathan Demme to see if he would be interested in such a recording project, but never got around to doing so and as time flies so did he.

Maybe Ry Cooder would be up for it (we are all getting so old and I can’t stand Ken Burns)?

Some other odd ones I have are a half dozen LP’s of "Official Figure Skating Music" and a Tito Puente "advertising/tourism" compilation LP.

DeKay

No odd, but I think lesser known.

Christmas Classics with Harp & Oboe

Christmas Classics 2 with Harp & Oboe 2

Both are very clean recordings to my ear and an excellent listen, particularly for the season.

It appears that neither are available on CD currently on Amazon.  

@dekay Fascinating! Could you post an image?

I have an "educational" recording LP of "jump rope rhymes" recorded in NYC in the 1950’s.

Never found a reference to it on the WWW (aside from my posting about it).

DeKay

This Sounds in Space vinyl used as packing material for another album I ordered off of Discogs. I cleaned it up and it sounds phenomenal!

I inherited an old record of sound effects.  Never played it though.