Gogol Bordello – Super Taranta

Love this for the crazy punk gypsie circus sounds….

Kev

if you ever get the chance to see them live, they are fantastic. A bit rough down the front 😉

edit: double post.

IGMC.

Classic surf guitar – Dick Dale, the Ventures, the Mermen.

Steve Earle, country/rock/folk songwriting genius

Check out the Freak Zone on BBC 6 Music on Sunday afternoon / evening if you want to experience "off the wall" music.

As well as punk / metal I also like:

Bee and FLower – dark, moody and bluesey female vocals.

Final / Stars of the Lid – minimal ambient soundscapes.

Godspeed! You Black Emperor / Explosions in the Sky / Sigur Ros / Pelican / Codes in the Clouds – post-rock.

Steve Von Till – pared down folk (Steve also sings / plays guitar in Neurosis)

SSP

"the weather report"
nice bit of jazz fusion.

Bat for Lashes

British Sea Power.

Saw them last night headlining the Eastleigh festival. They were incredible. I came away with a dubious souvenir in one of Yan's socks 😀
King Creosote was excellent in support.

I like Camera Obscura a lot too.

Autechre – Rettic AC

Love this, just a rolling wall of clicky static with a haunting horn melody.

Also like John Cages prepared piano work. Having seen some performed live, it's so odd to see a familiar instrument produce such odd sounds :

An example

Prep work

Yello – (1983 album) You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Gotta_Say_Yes_to_Another_Excess

+ lots of stuff from Kraftwerk

Jamie… yes very good… obviously I was a bit pished when I started this thread and only realised my mistake with the title afterwards !

I do have vague memories of some of his 'music' some twenty five years ago or so but understand that the guy is dead now though right ?

Kev

Adrian Edmondson and The Bad Shepherds

Punk classics done in a folk style

ah yep.. off to see Ade Edmonson (aka Viv)& folk in October. Heard an excellent version of 'Down in the Tubestation' yesterday on Beeb six music.

Kev

Do Half Man Half Biscuit count, or are they a bit mainstream? Preferably the slightly more recent stuff, Achtung Bono's my favourite album. CSI Ambleside is quite good. Off to see them in August!

The Cardiacs were also quite good live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlfWoWHHRNA&feature=PlayList&p=C41E6E3FA42FE0A8&index=0&playnext=1

I must say I have quite a soft spot for the residents
Here live with snakefinger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4k5bvYtozI&feature=PlayList&p=F7B65861722239B1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10

Or more classic bits here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYvAIqexGZE&feature=PlayList&p=F7B65861722239B1&index=13

Not sure if they are "off the wall" though?

Yello – Lost again video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWyFs-wbHAc
Oxford Road Show used it as theme tune?

The Orb – The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
The whole 2 hours fantastic very "trippy". Saw them live twice back in 91 + 92 Manchester Academy – large amounts of fungus might have been involved!
Fluffy Clouds is the track most people will have heard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMIXgCaJPQ

The best Yello album is Solid Pleasure. One of the best lps ever IMO.

For sheer wackiness, the Hybrid Kids album is right up there – check the Rod Stewart cover here

I do have vague memories of some of his 'music' some twenty five years ago or so but understand that the guy is dead now though right ?

Is he? They kept that quiet.

I love SUBTLE
+
Current faves are PANTyRAiD

Roper, I thought I was all alone being a Cardiacs fan. Love 'em. Wish there stuff wasn't so damn expensive and hard to get.
Do you know if Tim has recovered?

Pink martini.

Do Half Man Half Biscuit count

Love HMHB 🙂

I was outed in another thread as a old crusty/hippy and my musical tastes are suitably non-mainstrem. I'm guessing tho' that the OP doesn't simply mean obscure (so I won't be flaunting my Dr.Brown ltd vinyl or Wobble Jaggle Jiggle Band cassettes (which is just as well as the **** gave up the death ages ago).

So, by 'off teh wall' i'm guessing the OP means "challenging," which I'm taking to mean what UI'm listening to when my missus says, "Will you turn that off, ffs!"

so..

Current 93, Acid Mothers Temple, Sunn o))), Les Rallizes Denudes, United Bible Studies

Incredible String Band perhaps falls into that category. Not sure if I actually 'like' it tho. But I am a fan of Lee Perry and King Tubby, who can sound like their music is being beamed in from another planet.

Jean Luc Ponty – Enigmatic Ocean

French progressive jazz rock 😆

Incredible String Band perhaps falls into that category. Not sure if I actually 'like' it tho.

I love ISB but then the whole household do too 🙂

as a old crusty/hippy

somehow I thought you might 😉

Francis Cabrel
Aphex Twin
Porcupine Tree
Fabé
IAM
Daren et les Chaises
Winton Marsalis
and many, many more.

"cardiacs" top choice.

MF Doom – Arrow Root Love the jazzy feel to this track

Lustmord – Immersion this is just plain wierd

Autoaggression – The Sky Is Not Yours great beat to this track but has so much more to it than just your average dance track

plop_pants

The last time I saw the cardiacs was about ten years ago. I had a few friends connected with them so got free tickets to Cardiac and Sea Nymph gigs so have seen them quite a few times. They have always been a Fantastic band live with a good following too. I never got bored seeing them, always a good night.

There is a link to Tim's well-being here

http://www.cardiacs.com/2009/06/25/there-now-follows-an-announcement-of-great-importance-from-the-alphabet-business-concern/

Who is him?

Captain Beefheart(the missus hates them!)
Ornett Coleman(went to see him at the Meltdown a few weeks ago, amazing)
Sun Ra
Art Ensemble of Chicago
John Zorn
Aba Shanti I
Jah Shaka
Konono no1
and on and on

for me its the bobby Mcgees. but then i like ukulele

song here

Artist called Cornelius album called Fantasma brilliant 90s Japanese electro pop and one song was a lucozade advert

Nicko74 Dick Dale very cool seen him live twice.

Roper, having seen the Residents live last year, complete with an old man in a rabbit suit on vocals, I'd say they are still definitely off the wall.

I'm really liking the output of Finders Keepers at the moment – a small record label that reissues bizarre music from all over the world. Their site has an A-Z of records they love and some mixes to download, so it's a good starting point of you want to learn more about drum-heavy 1970s Italo-Hungarian folky progressive horror rock.

Francis Cabrel

I had a Francis Cabrel album while I was cramming for A-level french. It was awe-inspiring pap. Has he moved on into an edgier phase? 🙂

I am listening to Portisheads alubums again. Some odd music on there. Still very cool must be 10 years old now….