[Closed] Off the wall music which you like - List it here :

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

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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.

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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 :

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

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+ 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
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I must say I have quite a soft spot for the residents
Here live with snakefinger
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Or more classic bits here
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Not sure if they are "off the wall" though?

Yello - Lost again video
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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
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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 [url=

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.

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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 [url= http://www.psychedelic-music.de/pmdb/db3/db_band.php4?id=268 ]Dr.Brown[/url] ltd vinyl or [url= http://www.myspace.com/wobblejagglejiggle ]Wobble Jaggle Jiggle Band[/url] cassettes (which is just as well as the ****ers 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..

[url= http://www.brainwashed.com/c93/ ]Current 93[/url], [url= http://www.acidmothers.com/ ]Acid Mothers Temple[/url], [url= http://www.myspace.com/flightofthebehemoth ]Sunn o)))[/url], [url= http://noise.as/rallizes ]Les Rallizes Denudes[/url], [url= http://www.myspace.com/unitedbiblestudies ]United Bible Studies[/url]

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

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

"cardiacs" top choice.

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[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThN0KXLiUFU&feature=related ]Autoaggression - The Sky Is Not Yours[/url] great beat to this track but has so much more to it than just your average dance track

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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

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

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

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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 [url= http://www.b-music.co.uk/ ]Finders Keepers[/url] 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.

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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....

Michael B - I'd forgotten about Cornelius. He was really good, like a Japanese Beck. Point is a great LP, don't think I ever owned Fantasma though.

New Music For Bowed Piano - Stephen Scott

Lantern - Clogs

Maybe not off the wall but definintely off the beaten track.

chakaping – Highly recommend Fantasma if you like Point I think Fantasma was his first album in 1998

Tipper and Si Begg.

Ooh metalheart you are the only other person I have ever seen who likes Clogs - I really like Lantern. 🙂

Onieda
Mono
Dead Can Dance
Black Mountain
Murcof
Engineers
Kid606
Jay Reatard
Beirut
Nortec Collective
Wooden Shjips
Johann Johannsson

oh, and kelly Clarkson

Quite a lot of decent (for once) musical suggestions, but quite a lot of mainstream stuff (Black Moutain ain't off the wall but Druganaut, live, at the Green Man last year was ace)

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Tom Waits?

Mr Agreeable

OOh you saw the Residents!!
How easy did you find it getting hold of tickets and was it a good gig?

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Tipper and Si Begg.

Good choice grumm. Si Begg's bass makes me happy 🙂

Anyone know Bridge & Tunnel?

I know Bridge and Tunnel, no idea what, where or how though. Planet mu?

Not Planet Mu - used to be on Harmsonic. Very cool, almost ambient stuff. Somehow I've managed to own 3 albums by them without knowing a thing about them.
Just noticed, next to them in the rack Broken Spindles. They're worth checking if you like erm.. off the wall stuff 🙂

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Maybe not off the wall, but "off the beaten track" mixed by Quantic is one of my most treasured CDs.

23 super rare funk/reggae/african cuts with no track listing. To this day me and two of my friends are still desperately trying to figure out who did the last tune, in the slim hope we can buy more of their stuff somewhere...

Roper, wan't that hard to get tickets, they played a hey-yuge venue in London (the Forum in Kentish Town, if you know it). It was more of a multimedia performance piece than a gig, if you know what I mean. Part of it was live performance, then they had odd little short films between. It was OK but having heard their bonkers first album (the one with the cover that is basically [url= ]a Beatles album they've drawn on[/url]) I do get the impression they've mellowed with age...

It was OK but having heard their bonkers first album (the one with the cover that is basically a Beatles album they've drawn on) I do get the impression they've mellowed with age...

Third Reich'n'Roll is probably my favourite of theirs but the whole apocalyptic bunnyman thing was meant to be awesome. I had a mate who went who raved about it for days. Cuoldn't make it myself and feel like I missed out

Heathenwoods, it was pretty fun (and quite creepy) but I wouldn't say it was properly gobsmacking. Then again I'm not that familiar with the Residents (I can't really get into their classic period stuff, it's a bit arch and synth-y) and tend to prefer shouty gigs that encourage the throwing of shapes, so I can well believe that other people raved about it.

13thfloormonk, have a gander here. No ID on the last track though:

http://www.verygoodplus.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3424&page=2

Ambient black metal anyone?
Wolves in the throne room
http://www.myspace.com/wolvesinthethroneroom

Or Doom/Drone possibily?
Nadja
http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv

I must admit that Black Mountain weren't quite what I expected, neither were Engineers who my local kiwi record man suggested were kinda ok. If I wanted Pale Saints lite I'd have bought Pale Saints.
I do still need to get Thee Hypnotics on cd.

My Bloody Valentine- especially Loveless
NoMeansNo - 0+2=1
The Mint Chicks -F*ck the golden youth.

Also Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music

Good luck to anyone who listens to the whole album.

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Saw Stars of the Lid (with Lichens supporting) at St Martin in the Fields church last year. Really good gig.

Animal Collective and Battles are two favourites, particularly for eating up commuting road miles.

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

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