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Otto's Weird Music Thread

How about Ligeti? His music has always been wierd and far out, and I think the Communists in Hungary even tried to ban it because of its 'Pointless Abstractivism'...

 
Erm, It's really unusual for me to agree with the Communists on anything, but... :LOL:

It's better than 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, anyway... maybe... let me think about it.

If I have trouble going to sleep, and I do regularly, I think we found a good piece of music to put on. ;)

And on a more serious note, that is indeed weird music, and that's what this thread is about.
 
Otto Von Herunterhängen said:
Erm, It's really unusual for me to agree with the Communists on anything, but... :LOL:

It's better than 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, anyway... maybe... let me think about it.

If I have trouble going to sleep, and I do regularly, I think we found a good piece of music to put on. ;)

And on a more serious note, that is indeed weird music, and that's what this thread is about.
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That made an impression on you, didit?

OK then, this perhaps Ligeti's most famous and haunting piece of music, 'Kyrie' from 'Requiem'...


Although not written for a specific film, it's been in loads most specatcularly 2001, and more recently Godzilla of all things...
 
It is rare to get something unique and unusual from the Doctor WHo TV show, but here is a piece of music which has rapidly moved into true 'Cult' territory...

 
Not exactly weird music, more classic modern music video weirdness


And since i like Christopher Walken
 
I've seen that Walken one before, I liked it. The one on Vimeo I am going to have to create an account to view. I have a work one, I don't want to tie it in to personal viewing, I'm not the only one on it.
 
I probably posted this one over on VoD, it's one of my favorites by Weird Al. A couple of notes about it:
  1. It's one continuous camera shot - no breaks. And keeping that in mind, it looks like a more tortuous route then it really is, they actually don't go that far, they keep backtracking over the same path, particularly at the beginning section.
  2. Al is at the beginning and end of it, which means after his part at the beginning, he is rushing down the stairs and doing a costume change to appear at the end. Which is pretty impressive
  3. They had to find an elevator that completed its drop in the same amount of time as the bridge of the song.
  4. The fanny pack Jack Black is sporting didn't belong to him, it belonged to one of the dancers on a floor the elevator was passing. Jack convinced him to loan it saying "On you it will only be an extra, I want to make it a star!"
 
xj900uk said:
I like these two - Guru Josh and Metal Mickey. Such a shame Josh is no longer with us, died far too young like so many of them :-(

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By the time the Rave movement started I had finished partying so I missed the whole thing. This is the first time I have ever heard about Guru Josh. I imagine handling that level of fame is tough, particularly the ups and downs of it. The music business is really tough in that regard, you're only as good as your last record, except for the elite few who can put out a string of them and managed to hold on to their own catalog.
 
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Ah Leo P, I would have gotten around to posting him sooner or later if you hadn't. I follow him both in Too Many Zoos and 2Saxy with Grace Kelly. The guy stays busy. The performance you posted was my introduction to him, it's rare for a baritone sax to be used as a solo instrument and even rarer to see it flung around like a toy. I played one of those things back in college, they are freaking heavy!
 
First Leo P vid i saw was one of the Too Many Zoos vids labed: "If you are a baritone sax player this is your final boss to beat"
 
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