The Lounge Lizards' My Clown's on Fire

[nancylebov]

Some odd music (possibly jazz*) which includes aa-oogah horns.

I've got some theories about why I like it so much, but I'm curious about how it sounds to people who come to it fresh.

What's the weirdest music that you like?


*It may be jazz in the same sense that alternate history is science fiction. AH isn't really very much like science fiction, but it appeals to people who like science fiction and there's nowhere else to put it.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

My tastes in music (as opposed to lyrics) hardly ever go to the really weird. The outer edge is perhaps an occasional Schoenberg where the extreme dissonance of the music is appropriate to the subject matter, e.g., "A Survivor from Warsaw."

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Harry Partch's music. I haven't heard much, but what I've heard I liked.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Are there any particular pieces you recommend?

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Daphne Of The Dunes is probably the best of the ones I know. Barstow is fun, but that one's more about the words than the music.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

How fun! And apropos to the title to boot.

[atomicat.livejournal.com]

Ummm.... I have been listening to stuff like Pere Ubu, The Residents, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle since I was a kid, as in early 80's so.... um....

I used to have this screeching experimental industrial cover of "You've Lost that Loving Feeling", that kinda ranked.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Probably Magma. A French band that sings - well, mostly chants and occasionally screeches - in a madeup language about a planet called Kobaia.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I just listened to their cheesecakemouse. Thanks.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

What's the weirdest music that you like?

When I want weird I generally look to old stuff like PDQ Bach and Spike Jones.

AH is too SF!

[bruce9999.livejournal.com]

AH uses what Arnold Bennett called 'the technique of Wells'; the next step beyond 'the technique of Balzac'.

'The technique of Balzac', the secretary of French society, being the technique of a realist novel. Status detail, what it means to have Second Empire furniture in your living room just after the Second Empire falls yadda yadda.

'The technique of Wells' being the next step, the status detail that includes the dreams and alternities of where that status detail could go- what if Napoleon III had beat Prussia? Or just stayed the f out of an unnecessary war with the Prussian Army? Or put his 'I'm Napoleon' side to work building dirigibles like the baby Jesus intended?

Thus, AH is Skiffy.

Um, 'The Audience' before Sophie Ellis Bextor got famous.

[andrewducker]

http://www.last.fm/music/Mr.+Bungle/_/Desert+Search+for+Techno+Allah
That album probably.

[anniemal.livejournal.com]

I can't begin to guess. Are we going for purely weird or just esoteric but oddly listenable?