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Oh wow, I have a lot of things that could be posted here... but instead, I'll just post a few of the best examples of each, and not counting overly long titles or nonsense combinations of letters.
Song Titles:
- Deerhoof - Whither The Invisible Birds?
- Errors - A Lot Of The Things You Don't Isn't
- Future Of The Left - Stand By Your Manatee
- The Young Knives - Murder The Otter
Album Titles:
- Errors (again) - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
- Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
- Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
- of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (and just about every song on that album)
edited 22nd Feb '10 6:47:10 PM by Saeglopur
Listen to Music with Tropers at The Troper Turntable!
Li'l Shardfinder
Pretty much anything by They Might Be Giants can be considered weird.
What other band would come up with a song called "Chess Piece Face?"
You can not go to Utah again after you have eaten Utah and have not eaten.
frozen in time
I'm sure I could find a lot, but I immediately think of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask by Frank Zappa.
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Big Black got straight to the point on the last album I listened to by them: Songs About Fucking.
The mayo-lution will not be televised.
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
- Sufjan Stevens: Enjoy Your Rabbit
- Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State
- Come On, Feel the Illinoise
- Starflyer 59: Can't Stop Eating
- I am the Portuguese Blues
- Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice
- Ghosts of the Future
- Five Iron Frenzy: Our Newest Album Ever!
- Quantity is Job 1
- Proof that the Youth are Revolting
- Showbread: No Sir, Nihilism is not Practical
- Danielson Famile: Tell Another Joke at the Ol' Chopping Block
- Switchfoot: The Legend of Chin
I like Chumbawamba's 2008 album:
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.
Decent album as well.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
Here's some Mogwai song titles:
- Oh! How The Dogs Stack Up
- 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
- Kids Will Be Skeletons
- I Know You Are But What Am I
- Stop Coming To My House
- I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
- I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School
- Thank You Space Expert
- The Sun Smells Too Loud
frozen in time
Needs moar Zappa.
- Theme from the Third Movement of Sinister Footwear
- Gee, I Like Your Pants
- The Jazz Discharge Party Hats
- Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
- Penis Dimension
- Penguin in Bondage
- Evelyn, a Modified Dog
- Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague
The Collective
Giraffes? Giraffes! first album, in its entirety:
SUPERBASS!!!! (Black Death greatest hits vol. 1)
1. Fucking ants man! Where they coming from? (Let’s hang the Carroll footnoteitsists)
2. Ko-ink-e-dink? I think not!
3. …And then she look’d down and saw miniature houses and miniature people and inside the miniature people were miniature hearts pumping blood through miniature veins (her mouth was watery and wet)
4. It’s easy-eeeee to be full of shit and look good in black
5. TOMHANKS’S’ES(EM)ANTICS’ES’S
6. I dreamedpt I had a little death but I camed for the big sleep
7. She looked up from examining the freckles on her and shouted, “Jesus! I’m fucking god-damn tired of all this make-up sex!” and he just stared off.
Giraffes? Giraffes!
Progressive, Post Rock, Psychedelic
Ken and Joe grew up in Massachusetts.
Even though they had never met, they both enjoyed the same amusement park. They both liked a ride called the Rotor. You would stand inside the Rotor and it would spin and you would stick to the wall and the floor would drop.
Joe once saw someone puke on the Rotor and it stuck to their face until the ride slowed down. Other names for the Rotor are the Gravitron, the Twister, the Vortex, the Turkish Twist and the Starship 2000. Have you ever seen The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups)?
Ken has never seen anyone puke on the Rotor.
Joe and Ken first met while going to college in New Hampshire. Ken studied music, while Joe studied literature.
They drank coffee and talked about the theory that whales were once sea creatures and they evolved into wolf-like creatures that ran on land, but they didn't like it so they evolved back into sea creatures and eventually became huge fucking whales.
They formed a band.
They can both play guitar and drums, but in GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! Joe taps and plucks while Ken taps and hits.
Ken and Joe and their very nice and very attractive girlfriends moved to Santa Cruz, California. They like it there. It's nice outside.
GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! released their debut album "SUPERBASS!!!! (black death greatest hits vol. 1)" in December 2005.
They've played some fun shows with HELLA, ERASE ERRATA, MAKE BELIEVE, THE ADVANTAGE, THALIA ZEDEK, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, GROWING, MAJOR STARS, SHOPLIFTING and billions of other really great bands.
LOVES IN HEAT records released the new GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! album "More Skin With Milk-Mouth" on December 8th, 2007.
edited 24th Feb '10 8:00:44 PM by iamathousandapples
"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl Pilkington
The Prodigal Returns
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and Primus are rich sources of weirdness. Most anyone in the avant-garde scene is, really.
Aww, did I hurt your widdle fee-fees?
Laugh it off, everybody
This goes here too I suppose.
I'mma fuck you up like teddybearsFrom El-P's "Delorean" best. line. ever.
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Most 65daysofstatic songs have slightly unusual titles. Particularly:
This Cat is a Landmine, Install a Beak in the Heart that Clucks Time In Arabic, and The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties.
edited 27th Feb '10 8:34:05 PM by AchromaticSky
"I want to create an omelet that expresses the meaninglessness of existence, and instead they taste like cheese."
Between the Buried and Me - Ad a Dglgmut. Also, any trollcore * Anal Cunt song and album, including:
- "Recycling is Gay"
- "Grindcore Is Very Terrifying"
- "No, We Don't Want to Do a Split Seven Inch With Your Stupid Fucking Band"
- "Your Favorite Band is Supertramp"
- "Johnny Violent Getting His Ass Kicked by Morrissey"
- "I Became A Counselor So I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked For It"
- "Rancid Sucks (And The Clash Sucked Too)"
And of course, their alter-ego acoustic black metal band Northern Impaled Moonforest has even more interesting titles:
- "Gazing At The Blasphemous Moon While Perched Atop A Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Forsaken Crest Of The Northern Mountain"
- "Awaiting The Blasphemous Abomination Of The Necroyeti While Sailing On The Northernmost Fjord Of Xzfgiiizmtsath"
- "Transfixing The Forbidden Blasphemous Incantation Of The Conjering Wintergoat"
edited 28th Feb '10 8:14:46 AM by NEO
No regret shall pass over the threshold!
frozen in time
Aw, how could I forget Anal Cunt?
- Everyone In Allston Should Be Killed
- I Noticed That You're Gay
- Living Colour Is My Favorite Black Metal Band
- I Just Saw the Gayest Guy On Earth
- Foreplay With a Tree Shredder
- Les Binks' Hairstyle
- I Sent Concentration Camp Footage To America's Funniest Home Videos
- I Pushed Your Wife in Front of the Subway
- Hitler Was A Sensitive Man
- I Lit Your Baby on Fire
- You're Old (Fuck You)
- I Respect Your Feelings as a Woman and a Human
The perfect band to laugh at their song titles and not listen to them.
edited 28th Feb '10 6:11:52 PM by ImipolexG
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Definitely one of the more milder examples, but Radiohead have a song called "How To Disappear Completely."
yeah man lowercase
^ What's so weird about that?
Anyway, famed glitch compilations Clicks & Cuts have quite a bit of these to offer:
- Kit Clayton - Loads Early Like Normal
- Stillupsteypa - Confused Bear Thrown Into the Sea
- Station Rose - Smoother than Strange
- David Donohoe and Donnacha Costello - Nine Blind Men (The Rankest Poison of Ignorance and Vice)
- Ekkehard Ehlers - The Bakes in the Wood
- Eight Frozen Modules - Dogs Bark People Grow
- bizz.circuits - Ghetto Ambient (okay, so this one is just funny)
edited 1st Mar '10 10:50:07 AM by Litis
Laugh it off, everybody
There is no Spoon, but I might let you Smell the Fork
The best part about this song? I produced it. ;-_-
oh, and from the same album, Invasion of The Killer Teddybears.
edited 1st Mar '10 3:32:20 PM by SpainSun
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Trilambs - Jacket Smasher EP ( "How do you smash a jacket!?" )
The title's not weird at all compared to their rhymes though.
...is out to lunch.
I'm listening to "The Heighest Heights" of some European band called Lovebugs...the name of the song sounds kind of dummy
Currently listening to Eluvium's "I Am So Much More Me That You Are Perfectly You"
Mr. Versipellis
Tool... Just... Tool. Parabol/parabola. Two songs on the same album right after each other
Human thing
Oh No Forest Fires were guilty of this. After their album The War On Geometry, their 'farewell' Wants To Try Something EP has song titles like Real Talk For Manhunter: Know Your Land, Know Your Prey (Song For Shawn), Try Not To Play Any Bass On Your Way To The Parking Lot (Song For Rachel), and Who Will Cut Our Hair When Our Hairdresser Is Gone? (Song For Emily).
...is out to lunch.
E: Ignore the double post and maybe it'll go away
edited 8th Mar '10 6:21:44 AM by yukijin
...is out to lunch.
They're not exactly song titles, but the movements to some Godspeed You! Black Emperor songs have weird names like "Cancer Towers on the Holy Road Hi-Way" and "Edgyswingsetacid."
One could also say Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven and Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada are a little strange, too.
edited 3rd May '10 1:43:05 AM by radradio
Pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
I am right now listening to a song called Music to Be Castrated To.
It has no lyrics....
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....