Weird songs you've loved

Self | June 17, 2017 | Self

[RegulatorCountry]

If you've ever had an inexplicable love for a song that's just strange, post a link to it here. Should be amusing and entertaining for a Saturday night.

[lizma2]

What in the hell where they thinking? What a waste.

[RegulatorCountry]

I have bad memories of that song from childhood, lol. But, Melanie Safka was a beautiful woman and there are other songs of hers that I love, for instance, from some Dutch TV show there’s this remarkable live performance:

Melanie Safka & The Edwin Hawkins Singers - Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)

https://youtu.be/IZ52lk9wjZI?list=RDIZ52lk9wjZI

[Fiji Hill]

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream--Waring's Pennsylvanians (1927)

Does the Spearmint Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?--The Happiness Boys (1924)

Bolshevik--Waring's Pennsylvanians (1926)

[Big Red Badger]

Yer Back!
Riding the Storm Out?

[RegulatorCountry]

Kate Bush “Withering Heights” to me is an amazing performance, such vocal range. What’s weird isn’t the song so much as Kate Bush herself, lol. Them’s some serious jazz hands.

[RegulatorCountry]

Are we still hanging in suspense? What was the song, lol?

[RegulatorCountry]

Here it is, all of 36 views, lol:

Ben Light - The Piddlin’ Pup

https://youtu.be/603e1Lyz2qw

[RegulatorCountry]

Cool, I only knew that one from the Muppets.

[Fiji Hill]

Melanie Safka & The Edwin Hawkins Singers - Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)

I also liked that song--sort of a morbid fascination, since it was an anthem for those on the other side of the barricades in 1970, when I was a strong supporter of President Nixon and the Vietnam War.

[daltec]

Hawkwind is pretty weird anyways, but You Shouldn't Do That is a good intro. More psycho trippy than weird, maybe, but when you think that this is one of their more "pop" numbers, well...

Holiday in Cambodia, DKs

Blank Page of the Blind, Melt Banana. How Agata can get that much noise to come out of his guitar is beyond me.

Somebody already mentioned Kate Bush, who is pretty much a cottage industry of weirdness all by herself, but Hello Earth is as good a place to start as any. More surreal and otherworldly than weird, maybe. But here's a weird fact, this song was featured in the best episode of Miami Vice, Bushido (Season 2, directed by Olmos).

Bjork is another cottage industry of weirdness: Isobel and Hidden Place.

I Sang for the Swans, Ved Buens Ende.

Dunkelheit, Burzum. A weird song from a disturbed individual. But there is still some beauty in its harshness. Still weird though.

[RegulatorCountry]

LOL, that reminds me of this for some strange reason:

Porter Wagoner - The Carroll County Accident

https://youtu.be/_ytEoR2pOc4

[Neidermeyer]

homicide by 999

[HandyDandy]

“I can’t seem to face up to the facts.......
I’m tense.....nervous........can’t relax.
Can’t sleep..........beds on fire!
DON’T TOUCH ME I’M A REAL LIVE WIRE!!! “

[lizma2]

Agree, this thread has been a hoot!

[RegulatorCountry]

Wow, they’re like very early prototype Replicants from Bladerunner and they hadn’t quite worked out all the bugs.

[bethelgrad]

Digital witness by St Vincent. Monkberry Moon Delight, Paul McCartney

[CommerceComet]

William Shatner’s Rocket Man

I have never heard this and I'm guessing I should be extremely thankful for that.

[RegulatorCountry]

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

[LibWhacker]

I don't like weird. So I can't tell you about a weird song I loved. But this one is definitely weird. And I'm sure someone loved it: "Frontier Psychiatrist."

[RegulatorCountry]

The What’s Rocket Man

How quickly we forget, Shatner would be crushed.