Unusual music thread - Post the strangest shit you unironically listen to

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Prisencolinensinainciusol, an intentionally gibberish song by an Italian singer, meant to sound like what English sounds like to a non-English speaker. Weirdly catchy despite the nonsense lyrics.


Next, what do you get when you have a couple of British electronic house music spergs who base their entire personas around an Illuminati-based science fiction trilogy? You get the KLF. With a musical style influenced by a heavy dose of sampling, electronica, and some Dr. Who inspired music, they were somehow moderately successful in late 80's England. So what do they do for their most ambitious project? They start with a grandiose, epic tale of the ancient land of Mu-Mu, with a basis on "world music", add a dash of electric guitar, a generous helping of African tribal music, and a random rap chorus thrown in for good measure. And who do they get to sing on this seemingly incompatible mishmash of musical genres? Why none other than country music legend Tammy Wynette of course! And somehow it ended up being a hige international hit going to the top of the charts in multiple countries.


Amd a few years later, KLF disbanded and decided to publicly burn their entire fortune of over a million dollars, so there's that. 🤷‍♂️🤣
 
Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier present The People's Choice Music (1997)

"Written according to results from a poll [by Russian conceptual artists Komar & Melamid] of over five hundred Americans on their musical tastes. The survey results were used to design two musical compositions [by Dave Soldier] , one that would be liked by the greatest number of listeners, and the other that would be intensely disliked by the greatest number of listeners."

The "most wanted song" is a horrifying (but well-composed) collection of all the most awful 90s music clichés. The "most unwanted song," on the other hand, is an actually enjoyable mash-up of accordion, bagpipes, tuba and other bizarre sounds with quasi-operatic rapping. It's kinda great.

 
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