For me it’s Nitrobenzene by OwataP. This one is… make car horn noises? idk man, the whole benzene series is weird but this was the strangest one i’ve heard so far

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍English
      80·
      6 months ago

      That’s where my mind first went. The fact that that song is still turning up is fascinating.

      • RBG
        30·
        6 months ago

        Oh man, that whole post. It is not even that old but so damn good. The commenters who first have written serious responses but then later edited them after hearing that damn song. Just wow.

    • flubba86
      10·
      6 months ago

      I for one certainly cannot forget CBAT. It’s nuts, and so good, and so bad.

    • SanguinePar
      20·
      6 months ago

      Great tune that. A lot of the main samples are from John Waters movies I believe.

    • Quazatron
      10·
      6 months ago

      Thank you for bringing this back to me, sir.

    • waterboganEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Now this… this is seriously strange. Strongest contender so far. Their track “Subways” is also quite something

    • Rai
      30·
      6 months ago

      I’ve been transported back to YTMND days.

    • ki77erb
      20·
      6 months ago

      I can’t believe multiple people put a lot of effort into making this. So weird.

  • CarroladeEnglish
    110·
    6 months ago

    I think it’ll get neglected a little bit just because of how well-known and frankly good it is, but Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is a very weird song. Probably not the very strangest for me, but it’s up there. Definitely the strangest that I actually like and remember well.

    • JohnnyEnzyme
      60·
      6 months ago6 months ago

      Also Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

      Or completely non-strange once you understand the method behind the madness. Either way, a damn cool/funny song IMO.

      Anyway for the OP, instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music, I’ll go instead with The Shaggs, three teenage girls who had utterly no musical training, but who tried their best to make conventional, ‘normal music’:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5T2kaFiFgg

      Over the decades, the album Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and found fans such as Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. Following a 1980 reissue on Rounder Records, it received enthusiastic reviews for its uniqueness in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. A compilation of unreleased material, Shaggs’ Own Thing, was released in 1982. The Shaggs became the subject of fascination in the 1990s, when interest grew in outsider music, and they are credited with influencing twee pop. --WP

      • stanleytweedleEnglish
        30·
        6 months ago6 months ago

        instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music

        That’s what I like- organic ‘strangeness’. Philip Glass has made some strange sounding music but with intent, that was his style. The Celentano piece is intentional linguistically too but it’s a very strange to experience how effectively he’s mimicking US ‘phonics’ or whatever.

        The Tim Curry piece is hilariously strange to me because Tim Curry actually can and does rock, but somehow wrote an embarrassingly unrocking song about how rocking he is.

      • SanguinePar
        20·
        6 months ago6 months ago

        That Shaggs tune was cool. The guitar actually remind me of the final few tracks on Velvet Underground and Nico, when it’s degenerating into madness.

    • FullOfBallooonsEnglish
      40·
      6 months ago

      No joke, I think about “do all your shopping… at Wal-Mart!” more than I should.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
      40·
      6 months ago

      Ramadan! Ramadan!
      Lots of praying and no breakfast!
      Ramadan! So much fun!

    • Rai
      20·
      6 months ago

      Thank you for this. I just listened to the whole thing. Then I listened to The Most Wanted Song.

      The most Wanted felt 5x longer than The Most Unwanted.

  • SeedyOne
    40·
    6 months ago

    Whatever the hell this song is supposed to be. The more you watch, the weirder it gets.

  • Praise IdlenessEnglish
    30·
    6 months ago

    One really shocked me: Ascension by John Coltrane. At first I thought this was some kind of a joke but the power really held me down. It’s one of the songs that I can feel pure energy and freedom.

  • FullOfBallooonsEnglish
    30·
    6 months ago

    Cathy Berberian - Stripsody

    An opera singer and avant-garde music composer who made a song out of comic book sound effects.

    Less strange, she also did an operatic cover of The Beatles’ Ticket to Ride. I’m pretty sure my ironic love of this has crossed over into completely unironic genuine love.