Weird Songs

[superfrank]

What are th weird songs you.ve come across? Songs that make no sense or their message seems very strange.

I think "Nice Weather For Ducks" by Lemon Jelly is one. The only words in the song are "All the ducks are swimming in the water...." :eek: :D

[jorge]

Anyone heard Comeback Girl by Republic of loose?

[superfrank]

Yeah, it's always on the radio. I don't get what's so weird bout it though?

[jorge]

I like it and all but I just laugh when i hear it. :D

I'm not sure why.

[gustavo]

idioteque by radiohead freeaked me out the first few times i heard it. also that song with the old man saying jesus blood dont fail me now over and over is pretty fecked up./

[CollegeTillIDie]

One of these Days by Pink Floyd... Only lyrics in the entire piece is a ghoulish voice saying....

One Of these Days/ I am going to cut you up /Into Little pieces

[carrickharp]

Anyone heard Comeback Girl by Republic of loose?
One of the worst songs of the year, annoying as fook :mad:

[parnell ranger]

im forever blowing bubbles- weird football anthem

[Dublin12]

Can't get any stranger than Revolution 9 by The Beatles from the White Album,weird at the time and still a strange one :confused:

[fosterdollar]

Try Aphex Twin for real weirdness

[Gareth]

The Ocean Doesn't want me today off Bone MAchine, Tom Waits.

Then again, alot of Tom Waits songs fit the bill.

[Schumi]

Anyone heard Comeback Girl by Republic of loose?
Awful song, a pity too as they had some good ones in the past.

[EnDai]

Tool - Disgustipated

If anyone can decipher the meaning there...

[James]

Coin Operated Boy - The Dresdon Dolls

weirdly infectious song

[Gerrit]

The Virgin Prunes had a few extremely weird songs. They got one that just constitutes of the sound of birds flying around in an empty building... Minimalistic to the bone that is :p

Still like the views of this band though. Can't help but thinking they're more respectful than their fellow Lypton Village folks U2. The Virgin Prunes are no less talented, but their music's just not mainstream enough to score big time. Sticking to their own style rather than trying to go commercial, is very respectful on the other hand.



For weird sounds: Abruptum. Horror sounds collages without real music or chords being played, and the screams of "singer" IT while he self-mutilates... Kinda myth act, see the Metal topic for that...

[bigmac]

Lovesick Blues by Hank Williams - supposedly nice middle America country music with wholesome lyrics - chorus reads more like a rap from the hood.


She'll do me, she'll do you
she's got that kinda lovin,
Boy I really love it
when she calls me sugar daddy

[CollegeTillIDie]

im forever blowing bubbles- weird football anthem

Used to be Michael Jackson's theme song :D

[CollegeTillIDie]

Strange House In The Snow by The Teardrop Explodes... counts as weird.

Unless of course it was a certain type of snow that was consumed during it's composition/recording... in which case it all makes perfect sense :p

[gustavo]

how about ghost town by the specials

[CollegeTillIDie]

how about ghost town by the specials

That was about the economic decimation of England North of London under Margaret Thatcher... all the clubs closed down, because nobody had a job or could afford to go out... hence Ghost Town.

[gustavo]

i know what its about im just suggesting it as a spooky song!
great video too !

[Gerrit]

Used to be Michael Jackson's theme song :D

*strike* :D

[geysir]

I know its not a wierd song but surely it's lyrics are totally incompatible with the varying circumstances in which the song has been used to pump up the patriotisn level.
Who said the americans don't get irony?

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick i took was when i hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the u.s.a., i was born in the u.s.a.
I was born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the u.s..a....

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said "son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my v.a. man
He said "son, don't you understand"

[CollegeTillIDie]

LA FOLIE by The Stranglers It's in French... but the story, which is true, behind the song makes it weird:-
Commemorates a Japanese student in Paris who murdered his girlfriend, chopped her into pieces and kept her in the fridge so he could eat her later... :eek:

[Réiteoir]

That was about the economic decimation of England North of London under Margaret Thatcher... all the clubs closed down, because nobody had a job or could afford to go out... hence Ghost Town.


it was specifically about Coventry which was where the band were from

[CollegeTillIDie]

it was specifically about Coventry which was where the band were from

but the reason it was so successful was Coventry was a case study for the entire North of London region . Hence no. 1 record

[Lionel Ritchie]

Camouflage by Stan Ridgeway. :D

On the one hand sounds like the type of gibberish barstool republican party songs you hear a fifty-something geezer with an acoustic guitar playing in any pub in any town in the land while accompanied by utterly horrific MIDI file backing tracks which are always too loud.

On the other -it's about a ghost GI in Vietnam. This made the top 10 back in 1986.

And it was near the riverbank when the ambush came on top of us
and I thought it was the end, we were had.
Then a bullet with my name on it came buzzing through a bush
and that big marine, he just swat it, with his hand.
Just like it was a fly.

Woohoohoohoo Camouflage,
things are never quite the way they seem.
Woohoohoohoo Camouflage,
This was an awfully strange marine.

And I knew there was something weird about him,
cus when I turned around he was pulling a big palmtree
right up out of the ground and swatting those Charlie's with it,
from here to Kingdom come