I don't know if you could pick a 'weirdest' song, but what is your favourite 'weird' song or album from the psychadelic era?

Dunno if it is 'wierd' or not, I grew up with my brother and sisters playing it non-stop, I heard it so much I can virtually play it back in my head in it's entirety....

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly  :) :) :) :)

Probably for someone unfamiliar with it it would be quite, errr,  strange......

Revolution #9-the Beatles





Cat

Any caterwauling by Yoko Ono  ::) ::) ::) ::)

Any caterwauling by Yoko Ono  ::) ::) ::) ::)
Especially Don't Worry, Kyoko by Yoko Ono, the flipside to Cold Turkey.

Any caterwauling by Yoko Ono  ::) ::) ::) ::)


Oh man. Who ever told Yoko she could sing?  ::)




Cat

This one just scrapes into the psych era...

'You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)' - Beatles

...as the bare bones of it was originally recorded in 1967, but it wasn't actually completed until 1969. Lennon tried to release it as a single under the guise of the Plastic Ono Band, but the rest of The Beatles vetoed its release...

...until a year later when (for some reason) it surfaced on the back of 'Let It Be'...

Although not as avant-garde as the aforementioned 'Revolution #9' (what could be?), it's still very off-the-wall...

Any caterwauling by Yoko Ono ::) ::) ::) ::)


Particularly 'Walking On Thin Ice'  :o  ???

This one just scrapes into the psych era...

'You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)' - Beatles

...as the bare bones of it was originally recorded in 1967, but it wasn't actually completed until 1969. Lennon tried to release it as a single under the guise of the Plastic Ono Band, but the rest of The Beatles vetoed its release...

...until a year later when (for some reason) it surfaced on the back of 'Let It Be'...

Although not as avant-garde as the aforementioned 'Revolution #9' (what could be?), it's still very off-the-wall...


"Featuring Danny Dobell...." ;)

My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry is most definitely one of the wierdest songs I have ever heard.

My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry is most definitely one of the wierdest songs I have ever heard.
My Ding-a-Ling is not weird, it is just full of double entente.

I don't know if you could pick a 'weirdest' song, but what is your favourite 'weird' song or album from the psychadelic era?


My name is Gísli and I'm from Iceland (if you don't know where it is then just look for it, it's in Europe:). I was just looking for "wierdest song" on Google and I ended op here. But if you're looking for something strange then you should listen to "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" - Ummagumma - Pink Floyd

I really think it's funny when the man begins to gibber. It's just weird
:o :D

Hole in my shoe - Traffic.

(one of Steve Winwood's bands)

Take a listen to Napoleon XIV's They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!, released in 1966.

Take a listen to Napoleon XIV's They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!, released in 1966.



That used to be my "theme song"  :D





Cat

Take a listen to Napoleon XIV's They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!, released in 1966.


That used to be my "theme song" :D





Cat


...and the flip-side?

...and the flip-side?



I think I know this but I'm drawing a blank.




Cat

I think I know this but I'm drawing a blank.

Cat
It was They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! backwards.

It was They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! backwards.



That's right. Like I said, I went blank.




Cat

old man willow by elephant's memory is weird and good.

I find a really weird song I've heard is Incense and Peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock...the beat of the song is really weird, plus the words to the song were weird too.

I find a really weird song I've heard is Incense and Peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock...the beat of the song is really weird, plus the words to the song were weird too.


good song

blinded by the light

houses of the holy


theyre pretty weird

My name is Gísli and I'm from Iceland (if you don't know where it is then just look for it, it's in Europe:).

  How come it is that Greenland has more ice than Iceland and Iceland is greener than Greenland?

  The weirdest song I ever heard was D.O.A. by Bloodrock, 1971. It was creepy and spooky.

  How come it is that Greenland has more ice than Iceland and Iceland is greener than Greenland?

  The weirdest song I ever heard was D.O.A. by Bloodrock, 1971. It was creepy and spooky.

Bjork comes from Iceland, and she has composed several weird songs.

This one just scrapes into the psych era...

'You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)' - Beatles



That was the first one that came to my mind.  Then there is "Reasons to be Cheerful" by Ian Dury

Tomorow Never Knows    The Beatles        Revolver          1966

Ram-a-lama Ding Dong

blinded by the light
Just heard on the radio, after all these years I still cannot catch the lyrics.

Tomorow Never Knows     The Beatles         Revolver           1966
I love that song!

Good Morning Starshine when it gets to that weird gibberish in the middle of it...
Gliddy glub gloopy; Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo...
Sabba sibby sabba; Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo...
Tooby ooby walla; Nooby abba nabba
Early morning singin' song.

It's like a normal song most of the way and then all of a sudden it is the the singer went mad.  :D

Just heard on the radio, after all these years I still cannot catch the lyrics.
This part? "Wrapped (some say revved) up like a deuce, another runner in the night" One of the most misunderstood lyrics of all time.
Maybe you guys already knew this but this song is written by Bruce Springsteen.

Here are the full lyrics (sorry so long!!)...
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce
(fade out)
Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer, With a teenage diplomat,
In the dumps with the mumps, As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat,
With a boulder on my shoulder, Feeling kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin, sneezin' and wheezin,the calliope crashed to the ground.
(pickup) the calliope crashed to the ground
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce
(fade out)
Some silicon sister with a manager mister told me you got what it takes.
She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong play the song with the funky break.
And go cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather charts see if it was safe outside
Oh little early Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride.
(pickup)
asked me if I needed a ride
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce  Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light (chorus continues)
She got down but she never got tight gonna make it through the night
She's gonna make it through the night (break with the soul-stirring solo)
Momma always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun But momma that's where the fun is
(chop sticks variation) the calliope crashed to the ground.
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light (fade, mixed with next verse)
Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer, With a teenage diplomat,
In the dumps with the mumps, As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat,
With a boulder on my shoulder, Feeling kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin, sneezin' and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground.
Some silicon sister with a manager mister told me you got what it takes.
She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong play the song with the funky break.
And go cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather charts see if it was safe outside
Oh little early Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride.
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light(repeated several times)
She got down but she never got tight gonna make it through the night (fade)

This part? "Wrapped (some say revved) up like a deuce, another runner in the night" One of the most misunderstood lyrics of all time.
Maybe you guys already knew this but this song is written by Bruce Springsteen.

Here are the full lyrics (sorry so long!!)...
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce
(fade out)
Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer, With a teenage diplomat,
In the dumps with the mumps, As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat,
With a boulder on my shoulder, Feeling kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin, sneezin' and wheezin,the calliope crashed to the ground.
(pickup) the calliope crashed to the ground
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce
(fade out)
Some silicon sister with a manager mister told me you got what it takes.
She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong play the song with the funky break.
And go cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather charts see if it was safe outside
Oh little early Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride.
(pickup)
asked me if I needed a ride
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce  Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light (chorus continues)
She got down but she never got tight gonna make it through the night
She's gonna make it through the night (break with the soul-stirring solo)
Momma always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun But momma that's where the fun is
(chop sticks variation) the calliope crashed to the ground.
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light (fade, mixed with next verse)
Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer, With a teenage diplomat,
In the dumps with the mumps, As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat,
With a boulder on my shoulder, Feeling kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin, sneezin' and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground.
Some silicon sister with a manager mister told me you got what it takes.
She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong play the song with the funky break.
And go cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather charts see if it was safe outside
Oh little early Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride.
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light(repeated several times)
She got down but she never got tight gonna make it through the night (fade)

Copied and analyse will be later on.

I don't know if you could pick a 'weirdest' song, but what is your favourite 'weird' song or album from the psychadelic era?


Trimac21, the weirdest songs came out of the 50's, I don't remember the exact titles or Artists but they sang songs about "I saw the Witch Doctor" ooo eee ooo ahah bing bang walla walla bing bang was the chorus and there's the song "Purple people eater" he was a 1 eyed 1 horn flying purple people eater! and "Ally Oop" and "I'm a yogi, a yogi baby" and there was "Back in the Jungle" and then some female singer sang about her boyfriend who wore Panama hat with a polka dot band, and there my personal favorite "Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on your bed post overnight? and there was many more...maybe Catwomen or RockandRollfan can add a few more?

Hot Wax

Oh man. Who ever told Yoko she could sing?   ::)




Cat

John of course, proving once and for all the 60's and 70's had really good drugs

Dunno if it is 'wierd' or not, I grew up with my brother and sisters playing it non-stop, I heard it so much I can virtually play it back in my head in it's entirety....

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly  :) :) :) :)

Probably for someone unfamiliar with it it would be quite, errr,  strange......


FussBudget, When the Iron Butterfly was making a pitch to record that song to the producers the title "In the Garden of Eden" came out of Doug Ingle's mouth sounding like "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to their ears and they like the song but, with that mummled title instead...so How-du-u-lik-dat?


Hot Wax

That used to be my "theme song" :D





Cat
Gawd that song is d@mn funny!Even though I am a mental-health consumer...I still find that song funny. I know it's just a parody. Having a sense of humor keeps me grounded...as well as not depressed.

FussBudget, When the Iron Butterfly was making a pitch to record that song to the producers the title "In the Garden of Eden" came out of Doug Ingle's mouth sounding like "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to their ears and they like the song but, with that mummled title instead...so How-du-u-lik-dat?


Hot Wax
I heard the band was smashed out of their minds on the recording sessions for that particular song...I'd bet it's true...

This part? "Wrapped (some say revved) up like a deuce, another runner in the night" One of the most misunderstood lyrics of all time.
Maybe you guys already knew this but this song is written by Bruce Springsteen.

Here are the full lyrics (sorry so long!!)...
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce
(fade out)
Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer, With a teenage diplomat,
In the dumps with the mumps, As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat,
With a boulder on my shoulder, Feeling kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin, sneezin' and wheezin,the calliope crashed to the ground.
(pickup) the calliope crashed to the ground
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce
(fade out)
Some silicon sister with a manager mister told me you got what it takes.
She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong play the song with the funky break.
And go cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather charts see if it was safe outside
Oh little early Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride.
(pickup)
asked me if I needed a ride
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce  Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light (chorus continues)
She got down but she never got tight gonna make it through the night
She's gonna make it through the night (break with the soul-stirring solo)
Momma always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun But momma that's where the fun is
(chop sticks variation) the calliope crashed to the ground.
Cause she was blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light (fade, mixed with next verse)
Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer, With a teenage diplomat,
In the dumps with the mumps, As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat,
With a boulder on my shoulder, Feeling kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin, sneezin' and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground.
Some silicon sister with a manager mister told me you got what it takes.
She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong play the song with the funky break.
And go cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather charts see if it was safe outside
Oh little early Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride.
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light Wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light(repeated several times)
She got down but she never got tight gonna make it through the night (fade)

that song was ORIGINALLY written and recorded from NJ's own Bruce Springsteen,for those who don't know how it originated...

Anything by the Blues Magoos is strange..but they were cool for their time.

How come it is that Greenland has more ice than Iceland and Iceland is greener than Greenland?

The weirdest song I ever heard was D.O.A. by Bloodrock, 1971. It was creepy and spooky.

I heard the Bloodrock song you mentioned once...probably what is running through a severely injured person's mind on the way to the trauma center...or if luck is not with them...the morgue to meet Dr. G,medical examiner...sorry, I just had to make that observation.

Just heard on the radio, after all these years I still cannot catch the lyrics.


Looks like others have asked about its lyrics

http://www.onehitwondercentral.com/forum/thread.cfm?threadid=222&messages=185&RequestTimeout=5000

Odd songs? What about 1969's Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White.


 

Question Mark and the Mysterians...96 Tears

Dunno if it is 'wierd' or not, I grew up with my brother and sisters playing it non-stop, I heard it so much I can virtually play it back in my head in it's entirety....

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly  :) :) :) :)

Probably for someone unfamiliar with it it would be quite, errr,  strange......

Albert Common...by the Blues Magoos!

One of their albums was called PSYCHEDELIC LOLLIPOP...

I love that song!

Good Morning Starshine when it gets to that weird gibberish in the middle of it...
Gliddy glub gloopy; Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo...
Sabba sibby sabba; Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo...
Tooby ooby walla; Nooby abba nabba
Early morning singin' song.

It's like a normal song most of the way and then all of a sudden it is the the singer went mad.  :D


I love this song, its from the musical "Hair" and was a hit for Oliver.


Anyone remember "Morbid Melody"?
I barely remember hearing it once or twice and it was about a guy killing his family. Late 60's or early 70's

"a spoonful of bromide helps pulse rate go down"
by atomic rooster.

did frank zappa ever write a song that wasn't a
little weird?

did frank zappa ever write a song that wasn't a
little weird?




I don't think Joe's Garage was THAT weird.





Cat

Trimac21, the weirdest songs came out of the 50's, I don't remember the exact titles or Artists but they sang songs about "I saw the Witch Doctor" ooo eee ooo ahah bing bang walla walla bing bang was the chorus and there's the song "Purple people eater" he was a 1 eyed 1 horn flying purple people eater! and "Ally Oop" and "I'm a yogi, a yogi baby" and there was "Back in the Jungle" and then some female singer sang about her boyfriend who wore Panama hat with a polka dot band, and there my personal favorite "Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on your bed post overnight? and there was many more...maybe Catwomen or RockandRollfan can add a few more?

Hot Wax


"Purple People Eater" from Sheb Wooley (probably one of the weirdest names for a solo artist), was from the 1950's (#1 in 1957); although I would say the weirdest song from the 1950's would have to be this #1 from 1958:  "Witch Doctor" by David Seville.  Well most anything from Seville was kind of weird, including the Chipmunks.  But the lyrics from "Witch Doctor" are so outlandish, to wit:

"Ooo-eee, Ooo-eee, Ooo-eee, Ooo-ah walla walla bing bang!" (And that's only some of it!) 

"Alley-Oop!" both versions are from 1960. 

One other one that is also outlandish from 1960 would have to be Brian Hyland's "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini".

As for the original psychedelic era there are two really odd songs that come to my mind, one is:

"Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)" by John Fred & his Playboy Band from 1968 (yes, this was taken from the Beatles' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"), some of the lyrics in this song make absolutely no sense, but it is a fun song. 

And much of the work Tommy Roe did in the late-1960's, "Sweet Pea", "Dizzy", etc. are pretty far fetched when you think about them. 

Of course the most interesting song has to be 1969's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam.     

"Purple People Eater" from Sheb Wooley (probably one of the weirdest names for a solo artist), was from the 1950's (#1 in 1957); although I would say the weirdest song from the 1950's would have to be this #1 from 1958:  "Witch Doctor" by David Seville.  Well most anything from Seville was kind of weird, including the Chipmunks.  But the lyrics from "Witch Doctor" are so outlandish, to wit:

"Ooo-eee, Ooo-eee, Ooo-eee, Ooo-ah walla walla bing bang!" (And that's only some of it!) 

 

I've heard that record so many times. "Ooo-ee oo-ah-ah, ting, tang, walla walla bing bang." ;D I think that's how it goes, if I remember correctly.

I've heard that record so many times. "Ooo-ee oo-ah-ah, ting, tang, walla walla bing bang." ;D I think that's how it goes, if I remember correctly.


Yes, that's it!  :D  Or should I say, I think she's got it!  I knew I had gotten it wrong, actually I'm glad I did.  (My noggin's hurtin' waaay too much this evening to have gotten those lyrics correct.)  ;D

I don't think Joe's Garage was THAT weird.




One of my favorites, but Zappa is the epitome of weird.

Pata Mata - Miriam Makeba - 1967
What the heck is this person saying, but this song is kinda catchy!

Stoned Soul Picnic - The Fifth Dimension - 1968

I can only guess what a stoned soul picnic entails.. lol

Pata Mata - Miriam Makeba - 1967
What the heck is this person saying, but this song is kinda catchy!

Stoned Soul Picnic - The Fifth Dimension - 1968

I can only guess what a stoned soul picnic entails.. lol



Stoned Soul Picnic. One of me favs from the '60s.

There`ll be lots of time and wine
Red yellow honey
Sassafras and moonshine

So surrey on down!

:)


(Oh, and if anyone cares a surrey is a horse-drawn carriage)

An instrumental called 'Waltzing Black' by The Stranglers.

Of the 1970's, I'd say the weirdest songs were, in no particular order: (1) "Spill The Wine" by Eric Burdon and War (1970); (2) "Stuck In The Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel (1973); and (3) "Rock On" by David Essex (1974).

But of all time, the weirdest song I've ever heard is "Your Woman" by White Town (1997).

Royal Guardsmen - "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron"

OK, here are a few that come to mind, which all were made before the 1970's:

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport    Rolf Harris
Hooray for Captain Spaulding      Groucho Marx (was the source of his theme song)
Lydia The Tattooed Lady          Groucho Marx (was also done by Ribin Williams in The Fisher King)
The Preacher And The Bear      Phil Harris
Der Fuehrer's Face                    Spike Jones & His City Slickers (taken from a Donald Duck short!)
The Martian Hop                      The Ran-Dells
Cover Of The Rolling Stone        Dr Hook & the Medicine Show (and yes, the song did get them on the cover!)

A bit of trivia here, "Rolling Stone" was written by the late great American poet Shel Silverstein.  He also wrote Boy Named Sue, Queen Of The Silver Dollar, Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout, and The Unicorn.

Trimac21, the weirdest songs came out of the 50's, I don't remember the exact titles or Artists but they sang songs about "I saw the Witch Doctor" ooo eee ooo ahah bing bang walla walla bing bang was the chorus and there's the song "Purple people eater" he was a 1 eyed 1 horn flying purple people eater! and "Ally Oop" and "I'm a yogi, a yogi baby"


I remember the song Yogi.  My mom had it on one of those "Hit Parade" 45s (they had 2-3 songs on each side of a 45).  I used to listen to that all the time as a kid, and I could still kill my ex for taking my 45 collection when we split up.

The song was sung by "Ivy Three", and it was the inspiration for "Yogi Bear".

I saw a Kook who was standing on his head
He flipped his lid like he should have been in bed
I said, what gives man
He looked at me and said
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby

Hey, Bo-bo

And then the cat started strutting on hot coals
He was wearing sneaks, but they were so full of holes
He sang right out from the bottom of his soles
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby

Hey, Bo-bo

Listen here, baby, the Yogi man said
It's all a matter of the mind
Just commune with your innermost being
Baby, you'll be just fine

He was hip, all right, wasn't he

Though I tried my best to dig my inner me
I walked on coals, my head below my knee
Until at last I heard him say perfectly
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby

Hey, Bo-bo

^
Certainly a strange one, and no mistake!

Even more stranger, it got a British release - even though the cartoons weren't shown here at the time!

Someone must have been optimistic!

One that I discovered not long ago...'Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam)' by The Valadiers - or how to be 'drafted', doo-wop style!

Hooray for Captain Spaulding      Groucho Marx (was the source of his theme song)
Lydia The Tattooed Lady          Groucho Marx (was also done by Ribin Williams in The Fisher King)




When I see M*A*S*H with Loudin Wainright III, I think of that song "Hooray for Capt. Spaulding" because that is his character's name, "Capt. Spaulding" and of course Loudin Wainright III also sang a strange song "Dead Skunk".


I also think of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" when talking about my sister-in-law. I think you can guess why.  ;)




Cat

When I see M*A*S*H with Loudin Wainright III, I think of that song "Hooray for Capt. Spaulding" because that is his character's name, "Capt. Spaulding" and of course Loudin Wainright III also sang a strange song "Dead Skunk".


Ahh, I take it you mean this song?

Crossing the Highway late last night
He should have looked left and he should have looked right
He didn't see the Station Wagon car,
the skunk got squashed and there you are
You've got your dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road, stinking to high heaven.
Take a wiff on me, that aint no rose
Roll up your window and hold your nose
You dont have to look and you dont have to see
'Cos you can feel it in your ol' factory
You've got your dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
and it's stinking to high heaven.
Yeah you've got your dead Cat and you've got your dead Dog
On a moonlight night you've got your dead Toad Frog
Got ya dead Rabbit and ya dead Racoon
The blood and the guts are gonna make you swoon
You've got your dead skunk........ in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to high heaven

Come on stink
You got it it's dead
It's in the middle, dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to high heaven
All over the road, technicolored
You've got delusions, it's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinking to high high heaven


Believe it or not, this song reached #16 in 1973!  I used to have it on a collection of "One Hit Wonder" rock songs from the 1970's.

I don't know what song this is but I know that it's by Jefferson Airplane

something about..."the blue pill makes you smarter...the red one makes you grow older...blah blah blah

I don't know what song this is but I know that it's by Jefferson Airplane

something about..."the blue pill makes you smarter...the red one makes you grow older...blah blah blah


That's "White Rabbit"  NullandVoid  :)

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"

Believe it or not, this song reached #16 in 1973!  I used to have it on a collection of "One Hit Wonder" rock songs from the 1970's.



I DO believe it, it reached higher in Aus  :)

It's a classic, clever word play  :D

That's "White Rabbit"  NullandVoid  :)


Corker of a song as well...weird or not!

There's also versions of it ranging from George Benson (in his jazzier days) to The Damned!

Ahh, I take it you mean this song?

Crossing the Highway late last night
He should have looked left and he should have looked right
He didn't see the Station Wagon car,
the skunk got squashed and there you are
You've got your dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road, stinking to high heaven.
Take a wiff on me, that aint no rose
Roll up your window and hold your nose
You dont have to look and you dont have to see
'Cos you can feel it in your ol' factory
You've got your dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road,
and it's stinking to high heaven.
Yeah you've got your dead Cat and you've got your dead Dog
On a moonlight night you've got your dead Toad Frog
Got ya dead Rabbit and ya dead Racoon
The blood and the guts are gonna make you swoon
You've got your dead skunk........ in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to high heaven

Come on stink
You got it it's dead
It's in the middle, dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to high heaven
All over the road, technicolored
You've got delusions, it's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinking to high high heaven


Believe it or not, this song reached #16 in 1973!  I used to have it on a collection of "One Hit Wonder" rock songs from the 1970's.




Yup-that's the one.


That's "White Rabbit" NullandVoid :)

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"




GREAT SONG!!!!



Cat

I don't know if you could pick a 'weirdest' song, but what is your favourite 'weird' song or album from the psychadelic era?


'A Horse With No Name' and that dingy one about rollers skates! OMG, they both drove me nuts!!! :D

'A Horse With No Name'

I like "A Horse With No Name" but I only have the 80s version by D:A:D, who made the original song?.

I like "A Horse With No Name" but I only have the 80s version by D:A:D, who made the original song?.
The original version of A Horse With No Name was by America.

The original version of A Horse With No Name was by America.

Thanks a lot Philip, have you heard the version by D:A:D, it's a pretty good version.

Thanks a lot Philip, have you heard the version by D:A:D, it's a pretty good version.
Cannot say that I have knowingly heard the D:A:D version, but I will keep an ear out for it.

I can think of a few that as a little kid that I thought were not only weird but creepy.    Tell Laura I Love Her....Teen Angel....Laurie(Strange Things Happen)
What's the obsession with teenage death songs in the sixties??

i always thought that song Purple People Eater would be perfect for a category like this.

Baby Love Child By Pizzicato Five

if you want weird

i always thought that song Purple People Eater would be perfect for a category like this.
The Purple People Eater is a novelty song and is no way weird at all.

this purple people eater song isn't weird at all it's just your run of the mill childrens song there are many many like it therefore it can not be weird

How about  "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin

This one's not weird per se, but it's got a weird title ...

Dong-Dong-Diki-Di-Ki-Dong - Super Cirkus

I heard the Bloodrock song you mentioned once...probably what is running through a severely injured person's mind on the way to the trauma center...or if luck is not with them...the morgue to meet Dr. G,medical examiner...sorry, I just had to make that observation.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ObE0ZY2Jv4

its a video of a sample of Bloodrock music, the second song is DOA.

Here are a few weird songs I have always loved:

Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody
The Streak - Ray Stevens
My Girl Bill - Jim Stafford
The Thing - Phil Harris
England Swings - Roger Miller
Whistle Stop - Roger Miller (which was sampled to become "The Hampster Dance")
Bike - Pink Floyd
The Lords Prayer - Sister Janet Mead
Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is A Season) - The Byrds

I picked ones that are not nessicarily "Novelty Songs", but also had some serious airplay for their time.  Hot Rod Lincoln is still connonly played on "Classic Rock" stations.  The Streak was a novelty, but it came at the height of the "Streaking" fad.  My GIrl Bill was popular with it's juxtoposition and making people think "outside the box".

The Thing was very popular, from one of the greats from the "Golden Age Of Radio".  "England Swings" was rather unusual, comming from somebody mostly known for US Country music.  "Whistle Stop" was mostly known at the time for being the theme to "Robin Hood", and was remade decades later a "The Hampster Dance".  "Bike" was a classic example of what happens when you take to much LSD. 

"The Lords Prayer" was an example of what happens when you take the Bible and try to turn it into a Pop Song.  The Byrds did the same thing when they took some lines from Book of Ecclesiastes, and turned it into "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is A Season)".  The early 1970's saw a big resurgence in Christianity (and spirituality in general), and a lot of songs tried to play off of that.  Even George Harrison made "My Sweet Lord" in this era.

If you're talking before the 70s....anything by Tom Lehrer.  ("Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park" "Masochism Tango" etc).  He wrote weird songs and my dad was a big fan so I grew up with that stuff in the 60s).

If you're talking before the 70s....anything by Tom Lehrer.  ("Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park" "Masochism Tango" etc).  He wrote weird songs and my dad was a big fan so I grew up with that stuff in the 60s).


If you ever watched "The Electric Company", you know of him as well.  Tom was the singer and songwriter of many songs from the show.  Among his most popular are "L-Y" and "Silent E".

If you ever watched "The Electric Company", you know of him as well.  Tom was the singer and songwriter of many songs from the show.  Among his most popular are "L-Y" and "Silent E".


Hey -- I don't think I knew that!  No wonder I liked that show.  ;)

If you're talking before the 70s....anything by Tom Lehrer.  ("Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park" "Masochism Tango" etc).  He wrote weird songs and my dad was a big fan so I grew up with that stuff in the 60s).



I LOVE Tom Lehrer. I have 2 CDs of his which all his stuff is great.


If you ever watched "The Electric Company", you know of him as well.  Tom was the singer and songwriter of many songs from the show.  Among his most popular are "L-Y" and "Silent E".


Both of those songs are one of the CDs.



Cat

I LOVE Tom Lehrer. I have 2 CDs of his which all his stuff is great.

Cat
I only really know Tom Lehrer for Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park, are his other songs as good?

I only really know Tom Lehrer for Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park, are his other songs as good?


Just about everything he wrote was brilliant.  My personal favorite is "The Elements", but I'm a geek at heart.

http://www.privatheand.com/flash/elements.html
http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/PERIODIC/lyrics.html

His Cold War satires were brilliant and timeless.

Just about everything he wrote was brilliant.  My personal favorite is "The Elements", but I'm a geek at heart.


That was one of my favorites myself.  I was trying to find a book mark to the Flash version, but the link I had was dead. 

My father-in-law actually had that entire song memorized!  And I thought trying to memorize "Bruce's Philosophers Drinking Song" was hard.

A big song that comes to mind is Goodnight Irene. NONE of the verses relate to each other, nor to the chorus!

A big song that comes to mind is Goodnight Irene. NONE of the verses relate to each other, nor to the chorus!
If you look closer, there are verses to this song.

^ Huh? I know there are verses.

I only really know Tom Lehrer for Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park, are his other songs as good?


So much of his stuff is good.  I actually received a piano book of Tom Lehrer songs from my grandmother as a birthday gift.  It just gives you a hint about my whole family's sense of humor  :D

Just about everything he wrote was brilliant.  My personal favorite is "The Elements", but I'm a geek at heart.

http://www.privatheand.com/flash/elements.html
http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/PERIODIC/lyrics.html

His Cold War satires were brilliant and timeless.



The song that really got me into Tom Lehrer was Mascocism Tango. I also like Lobachevsky, The Irish Ballad and of course Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park.



Cat

IN THE LATE 50'S THERE WERE ALOT OF WEIRD OR DUMB DUMB RECORDS THAT MADE THE TOP 10 HIT LISTS, ALTHOUGH I LIKED THEM ALL. SONGS ABOUT SPACE ALIENS, JUNGLE SAFARI'S, CAVEMEN, INDIAN LOVERS AND WESTERN MOVIES, CARTOON'S YOGI BEAR, AND EVEN A SONG ABOUT LITTLE NASH RAMBLER CAR AND A BIG CADILLAC. THEY ALL HAD THEIR FANS FOR THOSE SONGS AND WHEN THROWN INTO THE MIX OF ROCK AND ROLL, COUNTRY ROCK A BILLY AND EARLY SOUL THEY WERE A WELCOMED COMEDY RELIEF AND STILL ARE COOL TO LISTEN TO TODAY.

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT IN THE EARLY/MID 60'S, ROGER MILLER ALWAYS MADE STRANGE SONGS WITH WEIRD LYRICS, AND LIKED ALL OF THEM AND STILL HAVE A COUPLE HIS LP'S THAT I PUT ON WHEN THE MOOD HITS....CHUG-A-LUG CHUG-A-LUG

HW   

"Surfer Bird" by The Trashmen (1963) is one of my favorite goofy/weird songs of that era.  ;D

That is a tough choice for me. My mother had some 78 RPM records that were pretty wierd. I'd love to get a recording of either one of the following "Dying Duck In A Thunderstorm" or "Feudin' A-Fussin' and A-Fightin'".

Has anyone mentioned the song "Tie me kangaroo down, Sport"?  It's weird but I love it!!

Has anyone mentioned the song "Tie me kangaroo down, Sport"?  It's weird but I love it!!


THAT WAS A GOOD ONE, WHICH REMINDS ME OF "DOES YOUR CHEWING GUM LOSE IT'S FLAVOR ON THE BED POST OVER NIGHT", THOSE WERE OUR DRINKING SONGS, WE'D CHUG OUR BEERS SINGING THOSE AND THOSE OTHER GOOFY SONGS.

"Black Angel's Death Song" by Velvet Underground and Nico is an odd one. Here's some of the lyrics:


The myriad choices of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose
Not a ghost bloodied country
All covered with sleep
Where the black angel did weep
Not an old city street in the east
Gone to choose
And wandering's brother
Walked on through the night
With his hair in his face
On a long splintered cut from the knife of G.T.
The rally man's patter ran on through the dawn
Until we said so long
To his skull-shrill yell
Shining brightly red-rimmed and
Red-lined with the time
Infused with the choice of the mind
On ice skates scraping chunks
From the bells
Cut mouth bleeding razor's
Forgetting the pain
Antiseptic remains cool goodbye
So you fly
To the cozy brown snow of the east
Gone to choose, choose again
Sacrificials remains make it hard to forget
Where you come from
The stools of your eyes
Serve to realize fame, choose again
And roverman's refrain of the sacrilege recluse
For the loss of a horse
Went the bowels and a tail of a rat
Come again, choose to go
And if Epiphany's terror reduced you to shame
Have your head bobbed and weaved
Choose a side to be on
If the stone glances off
Split didactics in two
Leave the colors of the mouse trails
Don't scream, try between
If you choose, if you choose, try to lose
For the loss of remain come and start
Start the game I che che che che I
Che che ka tak koh
Choose to choose
Choose to choose, choose to go

If you're talking before the 70s....anything by Tom Lehrer.  ("Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park" "Masochism Tango" etc).  He wrote weird songs and my dad was a big fan so I grew up with that stuff in the 60s).


I love "Poisoning Pigeons..." just never knew who recorded it.  Here's a few that get my vote:

Octopus' Garden by the Beatles, Please Mr. Custer by Larry Verne and The Flying Saucer by Buchanan and Goodman.  I really like the last two.

I love "Poisoning Pigeons..." just never knew who recorded it.  Here's a few that get my vote:

Octopus' Garden by the Beatles, Please Mr. Custer by Larry Verne and The Flying Saucer by Buchanan and Goodman.  I really like the last two.


YES YES I FORGOT THAT ONE, IT WAS ONE OF THE GREAT ONES, "PLEASE MISTER CUSTER" WAS ONE OF THOSE FAD SONGS WITH A HOOK LYRIC, "I DON'T WANT TO GO" THAT STUCK IN YOUR HEAD AND WAS THE "IN" THING TO SAY IN SCHOOL FOR A WHILE. THERE'S TIME'S NOW WHEN THE OCCATION CALLS FOR IT, I'LL BLURT IT OUT.

 

"Black Angel's Death Song" by Velvet Underground and Nico is an odd one. Here's some of the lyrics:


The myriad choices of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose
Not a ghost bloodied country
All covered with sleep
Where the black angel did weep
Not an old city street in the east
Gone to choose
And wandering's brother
Walked on through the night
With his hair in his face
On a long splintered cut from the knife of G.T.
The rally man's patter ran on through the dawn
Until we said so long
To his skull-shrill yell
Shining brightly red-rimmed and
Red-lined with the time
Infused with the choice of the mind
On ice skates scraping chunks
From the bells
Cut mouth bleeding razor's
Forgetting the pain
Antiseptic remains cool goodbye
So you fly
To the cozy brown snow of the east
Gone to choose, choose again
Sacrificials remains make it hard to forget
Where you come from
The stools of your eyes
Serve to realize fame, choose again
And roverman's refrain of the sacrilege recluse
For the loss of a horse
Went the bowels and a tail of a rat
Come again, choose to go
And if Epiphany's terror reduced you to shame
Have your head bobbed and weaved
Choose a side to be on
If the stone glances off
Split didactics in two
Leave the colors of the mouse trails
Don't scream, try between
If you choose, if you choose, try to lose
For the loss of remain come and start
Start the game I che che che che I
Che che ka tak koh
Choose to choose
Choose to choose, choose to go



Oh yeah, sometimes it seemed Lou Reed and Co's lyrics were weird just for the sake of it. Nonetheless, I really love the Black Angel's Death Song (As I love the whole Velvet Underground and Nico album), and it loses nothing in its power and evocativeness.

For those that like really Weird. just check out one of Dr. Demento's playlist for one of his nightly radio shows.
If it was weird he could find it.
As for the late 50's and early 60's a lot of songs had death in em. Leader Of the Pack. Tell Laura I love her. Last Kiss etc etc.
The later 60's had death in em, but more violent.There where other songs that had violence in em.  Like the Beatles Rocky Raccoon. Or Happiness Is a Warm Gun.  I myself loved the White Album. At one point during the recording sessions for the White Album, Starr walked out of the studio. Starr returned to the Beatles after two weeks, however, after being persuaded by the other three members. During that time, McCartney replaced him as the drummer on "Back in the USSR" and "Dear Prudence.". When he did return, he found his drumset decorated with flowers, a welcome back gesture from George.

Eric Clapton, at Harrison's invitation, provided an extra lead guitar for Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." George would later return the favor by collaborating on the song "Badge" for Cream's last album Goodbye.
Billy Preston had some influence on this album as well..

now for weird. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane was pretty weird. Just about anything done by Ray Stevens had some weirdness to em.
I'm my own grandpa by him is a  pretty strange.

now for weird. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane was pretty weird. Just about anything done by Ray Stevens had some weirdness to em.
I'm my own grandpa by him is a  pretty strange.




"I'm My Own Grandpa" was done by Homer and Jethro.




Cat

I'm My Own Grandpa may have been done by others, but it was actually written and performed in 1948.  Way before Ray Stevens and Homer and Jethro.  It was first performed by Lonzo and Oscar.

I would say that these are weird...

40,000 Headmen by Blood Sweat and Tears (Whoever heard of 40,000 men having to stop and reload their 20 shotguns each all at the same time?)

Beep Beep by The Playmates in 1958 (went to #4 on the Billboard charts)

I agree with In-a-gadda-davida as mentioned earlier.  I always thought Wooly Bully was weird.



WOOLY BULLY by Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs

Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Hatty told Matty, "Let's don't take no chance.
Let's not be*L-seven*, come and learn to dance."
Wooly bully, wooly bully
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Matty told Hatty, "That's the thing to do.
Get you someone really to pull the wool with you."
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.

*L-seven" = the letter "L" and the number "7". When typed, they
form a rough SQUARE (L7), so the lyrics mean "let's not be square."

If you hear a lot of Procol Harum and Moody Blues songs between 1967 and 1972 (Excluding "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and "Nights in White Satin" respectfu-Lee.) their lyrics to most of their songs are quite odd.

back in the 69' Peggy Lee made the top 10 in the pop charts with a song called "Is that all there is?" It always reminds me of someone wanting to commit a suicide.

Kites Are Fun ~ Free Design
So brilliant its weird.

Also, anything by Captain Beefhart from Trout Mask Replica is pretty strange.

'A Horse With No Name' and that dingy one about rollers skates! OMG, they both drove me nuts!!! :D


Roller Skates? Im thinking of two songs here. "You cant roller skate in a Buffalo Heard" by Roger Miller, or... "Brand New Key" by Melanie. "Ive got a brand new pair of roller skates, youve got a brand new key"...

NozmoKing

"Surfer Bird" by The Trashmen (1963) is one of my favorite goofy/weird songs of that era.  ;D


Reading this just brought to mind "Paralyzed" by The Lengendary Stardust Cowboy..  Its great!

NozmoKing

Theres a bunch of them already listed here I think I mentioned some of in some other thread somewhere.  I like Surfin Bird so much that one day I went Surfin Surd.  I wonder if I'll be insane enough to record it some day? http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/trashmen1.shtml

A lot of King Crimson songs, such as '21st Century Schizoid Man ' and the 'Court of the Crimson King', plus some of Redbone's songs, like 'Witch Queen Of New Orleans', and the Beatles song 'Come Together'.

Chakachas - Jungle Fever  (used in Boogie Nights)

If you hear a lot of Procol Harum and Moody Blues songs between 1967 and 1972 (Excluding "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and "Nights in White Satin" respectfu-Lee.) their lyrics to most of their songs are quite odd.

Higher and Higher
Especially some of the  Moodies poetry ( I should say Grahmes)
Blasting, billowing, bursting forth
With the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes
Man with his flaming pyre
Has conquered the wayward breezes
Climbing to tranquility
Far above the cloud
Conceiving the heavens
Clear of misty shroud.

Okay How about Tuesday Afternoon

Tuesday afternoon,
I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way
It doesn't matter to me, chasing the clouds away.

Something, calls to me,
The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why?
Those gentle voices I hear, explain it all with a sigh.

They are still my favorite band and always will be...... :-*

Hard to qualify weirdness.  Here are some:

The Shaggs: My Pal Foot Foot
The Residents: Hitler was a Vegetarian
Laurie Anderson: O Superman
Severed Heads: The Quest for Oom Papa
Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy I/II
Tom Glazer: On Top of Spaghetti
The B-52's: Quice Lourraine
The Beatles: Revolution 9

'O Superman' by Laurie Anderson is a song I find very unsettling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hhm0NHhCBg

'Drowning in Berlin' by The Mobiles is pretty weird as well. The video is even weirder but can only get their 'Top of the Pops' visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBteQR0E8cA

Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road ~ Stealer's Wheel.........oh yuck, who cares


and not forgetting Spiders And Snakes by Jim Stafford

'O Superman' by Laurie Anderson is a song I find very unsettling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hhm0NHhCBg

Disturbing yes, and how is the single worth?

I find a really weird song I've heard is Incense and Peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock...the beat of the song is really weird, plus the words to the song were weird too.


Yes Robbie Benson is sooo cute

Disturbing yes, and how is the single worth?


I think it is the unrelenting single note beat that makes the whole thing disturbing yet, in it's own minimalist way, very effective. I have no idea how much the single is worth if value has anything to do with it.

I think it is the unrelenting single note beat that makes the whole thing disturbing yet, in it's own minimalist way, very effective. I have no idea how much the single is worth if value has anything to do with it.
The rarer the higher the value?

'O Superman' by Laurie Anderson is a song I find very unsettling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hhm0NHhCBg


Disturbing yes, and how is the single worth?

I think it is the unrelenting single note beat that makes the whole thing disturbing yet, in it's own minimalist way, very effective. I have no idea how much the single is worth if value has anything to do with it.

The rarer the higher the value?
HIghest value on eBay (UK) £2.49.

HIghest value on eBay (UK) £2.49.


Not worth much then.

Not worth much then.
Exactly, and it is a Buy It Now, so the value will not increase.

I've always liked Roger Miller when it came to weird songs, my favorite.....

My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsdArGL55k   

This video is a cover but it is kind of funny.

Heres my vote  Detachable Penis~King Missell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4

Heres my vote  Detachable Penis~King Missell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4

...but that is after 1970, mid 80's I believe.

...but that is after 1970, mid 80's I believe.


Whoops wrong board :-[

Cannot say that I have knowingly heard the D:A:D version, but I will keep an ear out for it.


You still haven't heard it, have you...? ::)

Well, here it is: D.A.D. - A Horse With No Name

(FYI: D.A.D. stands for Disneyland After Dark, but for fear of possible lawsuits the band's name was shortened to D.A.D., D:A:D or D-A-D)

Whoops wrong board :-[


Oh, never mind. I've been browsing the pages and found others doing the same thing. For instance: both "O Superman" and "Drowning In Berlin" are from the 1980's. ;)

This one's not weird per se, but it's got a weird title ...

Dong-Dong-Diki-Di-Ki-Dong - Super Cirkus


That wouldn't by any chance be the same song as this one?  ??? (1968, and a #1 in The Netherlands)

'O Superman' by Laurie Anderson is a song I find very unsettling:


Also very unsettling stuff from 1967... :o

I remember hearing this on the radio and found it's bizarreness rather intriguing.    this song by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band  is pretty weird   "Look Out There's A Monster Coming"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdA4zKp-00

*this wasn't from the psychedelic genre, it's just a weird song from the 60's

nobody has mentioned Timothy by the Buoys? late 60s early 70s?

Trapped in a mine that had caved in
And everyone knows the only ones left
Were Joe and me and Tim
When they broke through to pull us free
The only ones left to tell the tale
Were Joe and me

Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?
Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?

Hungry as hell no food to eat
And Joe said that he would sell his soul
For just a piece of meat
Water enough to drink for two
And Joe said to me, "I'll have a swig
And then there's some for you."

Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you
Timothy, Timothy, God what did we do?

I must have blacked out just around then
'Cause the very next thing that I could see
Was the light of the day again
My stomach was full as it could be
And nobody ever got around
To finding Timothy
Timothy...

nobody has mentioned Timothy by the Buoys? late 60s early 70s?

Trapped in a mine that had caved in
And everyone knows the only ones left
Were Joe and me and Tim
When they broke through to pull us free
The only ones left to tell the tale
Were Joe and me

Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?
Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?

Hungry as hell no food to eat
And Joe said that he would sell his soul
For just a piece of meat
Water enough to drink for two
And Joe said to me, "I'll have a swig
And then there's some for you."

Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you
Timothy, Timothy, God what did we do?

I must have blacked out just around then
'Cause the very next thing that I could see
Was the light of the day again
My stomach was full as it could be
And nobody ever got around
To finding Timothy
Timothy...




I had forgotten about that song. Yeah, that one is very...um...strange. (Now, it will probably be in head all day.  :D ;D ;D )



Cat

I always thought "I statred a joke by The Bee Gees was a strange song, if anyone can expain it to me please do



I started a joke
Which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see
That the joke was on me, ohh no

I started to cry
Which started the whole world laughing
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head from things that I'd said

Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head from things that I'd said

Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me
Oh no that the joke was on me, ohh

©

I always thought "I statred a joke by The Bee Gees was a strange song, if anyone can expain it to me please do



I started a joke
Which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see
That the joke was on me, ohh no

I started to cry
Which started the whole world laughing
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head from things that I'd said

Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head from things that I'd said

Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me
Oh no that the joke was on me, ohh

©
The song mainly written and sung by Robin Gibb. "I Started a Joke" is supposedly about someone who has done or said something horribly wrong, which results in social alienation. Another interpretation, related to the previous one, is that the song is sung from the point of view of the Devil.

Thank you, I really have loved the song since childhood, but never understood it
Karma to you Phil.

Strapped - Edna

http://www.survnet.com/a/Edna-Strapped.mp3


gag me, choke me, ring my neck now
flog me, lash me what the heck now
make me dress in fishnet stockings
high heel sneakers - now you're talkin

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

edna

gouge my eyes out twist my nose off
make me take my geeky clothes off
burn my hair I like that action
make me look like Michael Jackson

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

edna

eddddd naaaaaaaaaaaa

call me edna

edddd naaaaaaaaaaaa

walk on me with spiked heel shoes on
a bed of nail is what I snooze on
twist my arm and break my fingers
you're memory will always linger

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

http://blogs.redding.com/dlangshaw/archives/2006/06/#Scene_1



Dan

Strapped - Edna

http://www.survnet.com/a/Edna-Strapped.mp3


gag me, choke me, ring my neck now
flog me, lash me what the heck now
make me dress in fishnet stockings
high heel sneakers - now you're talkin

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

edna

gouge my eyes out twist my nose off
make me take my geeky clothes off
burn my hair I like that action
make me look like Michael Jackson

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

edna

eddddd naaaaaaaaaaaa

call me edna

edddd naaaaaaaaaaaa

walk on me with spiked heel shoes on
a bed of nail is what I snooze on
twist my arm and break my fingers
you're memory will always linger

tie me down and stomp my head now
whip me beat me call me edna

http://blogs.redding.com/dlangshaw/archives/2006/06/#Scene_1



Dan



Up lifting\ romantic little ditty ;D ;D ;D ;D

Surf City - Jan & Dean (1963).

How can you not love a song that opens with the line, "Two girls for every boy?"

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00457/deidre-threesome-68_457398a.jpg

That song was way, way, way ahead of its time.  ;)

Surf City - Jan & Dean (1963).

How can you not love a song that opens with the line, "Two girls for every boy?"

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00457/deidre-threesome-68_457398a.jpg

That song was way, way, way ahead of its time.  ;)
Is it this that happens in Surf City?

Is it this that happens in Surf City?


What happens in Surf City, stays in Surf City.  :o :o :o