The 50 weirdest albums of all time!

MOJO has good list with audio samples:
http://www.mojo4music.com/14320/50-weirdest-albums/
 
Cheers,
 
Bert

bongwater ruled! saw them live in leeds back in ~90? shame they fell apart

I don't have any of those. I do have 'The Black Rider' by Tom Waits, which is frankly, terrifyingly odd.

jamesg1213
I don't have any of those. I do have 'The Black Rider' by Tom Waits, which is frankly, terrifyingly odd.

Wow, really???  A fairly quick look and it appears I have 40%!  (Yes, that means 20 out of the 50.  )
 
So you don't have Pink Floyd's, or Zappa's, or Hawkwind's, or Jimi's, or the Beatles???  Wow.

jamesg1213
Never owned any Beatles or Hendrix albums.

jamesg1213
Shock horror.
 
Never felt the need to buy Beatles stuff, it was played ad nauseum on the radio when I was growing up. I didn't, and still don't, like Hendrix's guitar playing, or vocals (same goes for Clapton). I recognize both their places in the scheme of things though.

I totally get that. :)

Trout Mask Replica is an abrasively strange record. You can clear a room every time by putting that on the turntable. 

Couple In Spirit - Keith and Julie Tippett.
 
Great album - I used to use it get rid of unwanted guests..
 
Really miss it now.
 
I also miss Keith Tippett Andy Sheppard's "66 Shades Of Lipstick".

Bert Guy
Trout Mask Replica is an abrasively strange record. You can clear a room every time by putting that on the turntable. 

Back when I was 21 I had a couple of friends who hated Frank Zappa with a vengeance. Every now and then they would come over to my apartment and outstay their welcome, and all I had to do was put "Absolutely Free" on loud and not say a single word. Nobody said anything, but we all knew what that album meant. And they'd do their level best to endure it as if to say "screw you, we're not going anywhere" but you could guarantee they'd be saying their goodbyes before the end of Call Any Vegetable. Which is a shame, because I think they probably would have liked Suzy Creamcheese. 

I'm not sure if Maggot Brain is even the weirdest Funkadelic album. From a group that had members perform on stage diapers and gave us a singing underwater worms and song titles like promental****backwashpsychosisenemasquad, I guessbyou have to just had one album and roll with it.

I've actually been going through these for the last three hours.  Much more fun than that 100 Best Guitar Whiffs list! 

All kidding aside -  anyone seen Mosh lately?
 

Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerance For Silence ranks up there fairly high for me.
 
Regards,

I noticed that the Captain and Teniel didn't make the list....

I own some extremely bizarre underground stuff I collected during my touring/gigging days. Mostly demos of punk/artsy/industrial/fusion/WTF/etc type craziness from opening acts or just weirdos in the crowd handing me stuff. Lots of handmade DIY weirdness (I swear to god I have a demo from this one band where the totally weird ass chick lead singer told me they ran out of jewel cases so she cut pocket off her stinky, tour stained corduroy pants... like the whole pocket so her ass was showing, safety pinned one of their patches on it and stuffed the disc inside... and it is WEIRD music).
 
But I have to say the weirdest album by a well known artist I have is a cassette of Alice Cooper Live at the Whisky A Go Go from 1969. There are some tunes off the earliest albums but much of it is total WTF territory and they were obviously BLASTED out of their minds. Oddly enough I found it in the discount bin at a dollar store I was working at at the time (I was like 16 or something) amongst the Kenny G and "Solid Gold 50's" type crud. I listened to that thing endlessly and honestly I think it had a profound influence on my songwriting. It's all completely out of tune and off time and god only knows what the hell was going on on stage or in the audience (apparently that weird group of chicks that used to follow Zappa around were in the audience... forget what they called themselves but you can hear them screaming their heads off) but man do I love that album. I just cruised around youtube hoping someone had posted it in its entirety but alas only a couple of tunes and they are the much more normal ones...
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pCiLPqoQsw
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZITQuE-_aI
 
I should dig out the tape and digitize it because it has been years since I listened to the whole thing.
 
Other than that a lesser but still relatively well known in certain circles dude/act I own some material from is Feotus (JG Thirwell). I've only got the Sony release Gash and a live album they did called boil (both of which I paid pretty good money for). Their older stuff is extremely rare and much of it only available on vinyl. Markyzno is actually a fan which goes to show me how cool and diverse this forum is (BTW if you haven't heard Mark's album check it the frack out. It is in itself very cool and quite off the beaten path).
 
So yeah... I'm sure some of the older dudes probably have the AC album or have heard it (and I'm just gonna go ahead and assume craigB owns it) but if you want vintage live weirdness keep your eyes out for that one.
 
Honestly as a metalhead I bought it thinking it would be more traditional style Coop (which is pretty weird as it is) but ended up with... well... I don't know WTF that was. Art Death Prog?