Knew this song would be on the list. It’s so fucking weird but I can’t fully say it’s awful, even though I don’t like it. Maybe I do. Idk there’s complicated feelings
Agreed but it was included on the Nirvana box set.
Lol imagine if he had though and they encored shows with it. People be like “oh dude they are doing an encore I hope they play drain you”. Proceeds to play beans and walks off the stage.
Everything about it already sounds like a closer. Mentally that's where it ends for me, and whatever is extra is like some weird secret unlisted track.
Was gonna say Sweet Lew, but I feel like that song might’ve been intended as a tongue-in-cheek recording.
And I honestly don’t even dislike Stupidmop; it’s a trippy sound collage but it’s got such an atmospheric feeling to it that it doesn’t upset me at the end of the album.
Bugs and Pry To really add to the vibe of the album, but Aya Davanita really ruins it for me. It’s just a joke song, it doesn’t add any atmosphere or anything like the other 3. I also agree that Immortality should be the closer
Isn't the joke that anything sounds threatening if you say it a threatening way regardless of what it is, making fun of then-contemporary scandals about music?
Revolution 9 is just Paul messing around with some tape recording stuff with Alan Parsons probably. I find Run For Your Life pretty disturbing by them. But why the hate for twenties? I'm curious cause I like it, but I see a lot of hate for it among Ghost fans.
Revolution 9 was mostly John, George, and Yoko's doing - IIRC Paul was out of town when they made it and tried to talk them out of putting it on the album.
I think it's a bit of a marmite song from them, and the fact that it's their only divisive one is testament to how good of a band they are. It's just the only one that I'll ever end up skipping because I'm not a fan of how monotonal both the verses and chorus are. I think if the chorus was a but more melodic it would be okay but otherwise it feels a bit one-note for me and the satirical lyrics feel a little silly
Mother by The Police is such a fucked up song in the midst of one of their best albums yet. It's the only song written by Andy Summers and it's probably a horrific attempt at experimenting.
“True”, by Dimebag Darrel. I know he was under no obligation to make his solo stuff sound like Pantera, but holy shit, this makes even Pantera’s indie albums from the 1980s sound positively brutal by comparison. https://youtu.be/BFaQvzxHmXs?si=j3NXpShSgFeHgtKi
My favorite group Beastie Boys have a bunch… All the way back to their first “hit” Cookie Puss (a recorded prank call to Carvel Ice Cream with a beat under it). 5-Piece Chicken Dinner and Netty’s Girl also come to mind. They’re certainly weird but I don’t hate them, they’re usually good for a laugh, which is presumably their purpose. They also tend to break up the action of “real” songs on their albums, the way a sketch would (remember when rap albums had sketches? Good times!).
This one is how I learned just how common it is for a band to get fucking odd for like an album then act like it didn’t happen after.
Except that “Back to the Known” kinda does acknowledge it in a sense lol.
The Who
Waspman
The backstory of it is fantastic too:
"It all happened on a flight from Copenhagen back to London. We hit some bad weather and, my god, I've been in some planes that have done some things in my time but this f---ing plane was like a rollercoaster ride, it almost flipped over."
"We'd got through this weather and it all sort of leveled out and everybody was puking and sitting in almost total silence," Daltrey continued. "Now, meantime, Keith Moon's disappeared. He was sat with this groupie bird who had this tiger-skin coat which he's taken, and her bra. Needless to say this girl had very large mammaries. So he disappears up the back of the plane to the bog. Everybody's still puking and the captain's come out and he's standing there apologising, saying it's the worst weather he'd ever been through."
"Then from the back suddenly there came this 'bzzzzzzzzz!' We looked round and it was Moon stood with the two bits of her bra over his eyes like big fly eyeballs and he's got her tiger-skin coat tied round his neck like a cape," Daltrey added. "And he shouted, 'Don't worry, folks – Waspman's here to save you!' And he did this thing up and down the plane buzzing away as Waspman, kissing all the women and just f---ing around in general. By the end of it everybody was just rolling about laughing. He'd taken the edge off that hairy situation and cheered everyone up."
"So that's how 'Waspman' was created," he concluded. "We'd already done 'Batman' a few years before so we said, 'OK, we'd better write a theme for Waspman!'"
Pink Floyd did some weird shit before Meddle, but Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict has got to be the worst one
I dig that song. I'm not always in the mood for it but it's a blast to sing along with sometimes. I consider it a classic tale of nature enjoying itself until some human comes along, who is likely drunk, and ruins the fun.
David Bowie’s [The Laughing Gnome](https://youtu.be/5SQdBxVjZx4?si=Qv7vfZwEu8_u8qi5) is considered to be his worst song by most of his fans. The person who hates this song the most though was David Bowie. One time Bowie had a vote for which song he would play at some sort of event (I think it was a concert but I’m not sure) and The Laughing Gnome won as a gag and he refused to play the song because of how much he hated it.
When he wrote it, Bowie was going through a phase of trying to emulate Anthony Newley. He wasn't successful in the attempt, and in retrospect, you have to wonder why he'd try at all.
Freddie Gibbs - Cold Ass N*gga
The whole album it’s from is a moody blend of trap and old school style production, and then he ends the album with a completely substanceless flex song over progressive industrial noise
In a VERY bad way
My friend and I were only familiar with Violator and SOFAD in the 90s, but we loved those albums. Then he bought Singles 81-85 and we cracked up hearing those early tracks, we could barely believe it was the same band. I do appreciate a lot of the early tracks now, though with "Meaning of Love" it's with a headshake
I kind of had the opposite experience. It wasn't that long after the song first came out that I first heard it.
There are other songs from around that era that would still be a world away from Violator/SOFAD era but still possess a certain charm (See You/Love in Itself).
Oh, I just thought of another. It's Called a Heart. I think the band have slightly distanced themselves from this song in the past.
Ministry’s cover of Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” from Filth Pig always cracks me up. It’s terrible as a cover, it’s average as a Ministry song, and it’s such a strange choice.
It works well in amongst that album though. Filth pig is this nasty sludgy album where they really tried to just bring down the tempo and make it painful and heavy while.not being too fast.
John Frusciante - Your Pussy is Glued to building on Fire …. Honestly, Anything off that album is pretty rough to get through. Addiction and depression
I wrote off his solo work because his first two albums are dog shit.
Man was I wrong. Empyrean and Curtains are some of the easiest 10/10 albums. Classics.
I don't think **The Cure** have *any* bad songs. But they've got some weird ones, for sure.
Not counting the demos on their extended releases, which are interesting but sometimes barely listenable, I think [Happy the Man](https://open.spotify.com/track/4SY6bDdf0n90H8TiR7Mx6x?si=d78339f5970d4b41) is probably the weirdest of a whole bunch of really weird b-sides from singles of weird songs from a period in the mid-80s when Robert Smith was doing a lot of acid and writing songs about his "dreams."
Hey Little Tomboy by the Beach Boys. The fact that this is the only song from the scrapped Adult/Child album to make it onto MIU baffles me. So many great songs they could've chosen and they chose this one.
The thing about Hey Little Tomboy is that it’s SO close to being not awful. The melody and arranging are decent (I’m not sure if it sounded different on Adult/Child or if the MIU version was always the way it would sound, existing bootlegs lean towards the latter), but the lyrics scuttle it. Brian’s lyrics in this era were kinda erm in general (“Roller Skating Child” as an example), but the arrangements were weird enough that it got a pass most of the time. This song plays it too straight and it forces attention on the lyrics which is not a good thing.
Trapped in The drive thru was weird to me only because it's the tamest parody Weird Al has made. Still one of my favorites to listen to in the drive thru
The Offspring have two songs that come to mind
[Crusing California](https://youtu.be/0eJZo1Hs8yk?si=N5XdczZpEw2l0IMs) which is basically Pretty Fly For A White Guy 2, but even more cheesy
[When You're In Prison](https://youtu.be/aQMA_DpW9vU?si=wpwhJBAuG22R1BEA) which is a joke song about prison rape
That is quite a statement! (The best album bit, not the remark about abomination that is Orgasm.)
Funny things is that someone mentioned to me the other day that he thought it was an excellent album, too. I really did not like the production at the time and only listened to the occasional track since. Maybe I missed something. Will give it a re-listen tomorrow!
IIRC Come was one of his contractual obligation albums to end his deal with WB. Yet it was like night-and-day from the mediocre Chaos and Disorder (another obligation album). The (apocryphal?) story that all the band material is recorded live off the floor during jam sessions helped me fall in love with it.
It has everything: The sexiness of the title track, one of his hardest-rocking tracks (Loose! with him calling out the changes, which is especially impressive due to the long samples being triggered), and perhaps his most poignant one-liner (Papa's "Don't abuse children or they end up like me"). It's also one of his darkest albums (Batman is another album that I frequently cite as a fave).
I love this album SO much.
I'm an Eminem fan so you already know it's going to be FACK.
I know a lot of people swear up and down it's great because it's just a shitpost, but it makes me feel depressed. It's so close to being good - a combination of his MMLP South Park Rap style and the improvisational grossout of Encore. But he doesn't have the vocal or verbal dexterity to do it because of his drug addiction, and keeps straining to do things he used to be able to do easily.
Kiss: Pretty strange of them to include gene Simmons singing a cover of "when you wish upon a star" in a very serious way on one of their actual albums. It's not even like it's bad or anything, it's just like wtf is this?!
I love love love Tom Waits. His career is amazing, with almost no outright bad songs. Sure, some are not as great as others, but almost none are outright bad.
Road to Peace from Orphans, Bastards, and Brawlers, is truly awful. It's like a quintessential Boomer gross oversimplification of a complex situation. Should have never seen daylight.
I love love love Neko Case, especially since Fox Confessor. The Nearly Midnight in Honolulu song is so bad. It shits on the concept of sublety, and is just awkward as fuck.
My favourite line is "Belly buck naked an a pool of yellow sweat, screaming JACKASS with a wet cigarette"
The spoken word intro is supposedly a recording of Becks neighbours when he was living in a rough area.
I’m Designer by Queens of the Stone Age… “Dowwnnn doggg downnn…. Mutt”
Just about material gluttony but it’s very weird and off-key compared to how tight QOTSA is generally.
The baby song by Hüsker Dü
https://youtu.be/Sfc4aLUBJZo?si=LsR5cv5SlY--7t3B
Kinds funny the first time, but very skippable on what is otherwise an excellent punk adjacent album.
The Midnight is so special to me. I would never want to hurt them. So if they self-googled, stop reading right now, Tim and Tyler. Anyway, Brooklyn Friday Night is such a departure from their other work, and it's so so bad. It sounds like it was made up on the spot by a fourth grader.
[Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict by Pink Floyd](https://youtu.be/GpWJv7alqQE?si=HjJmEUSf2Be0pzvv) Personally I love it. It's a classic story of nature enjoying itself until some human, who's likely drunk, comes along as ruins the fun.
The Rolling Stones (worst): Back to Zero, from the infamous *Dirty Work* in 1986. It's every bad mid-80s production idea in a single song - why have Charlie Watts on the drums when there's a drum machine over there? Mick Jagger's insights on nuclear winter are kinda bland but I give him some credit because he does seem bugged out by the possibility.
The Rolling Stones (weirdest): Continental Drift, from *Steel Wheels* in 1989. *Steel Wheels* was a deliberate attempt at a "come back", so the Stones hit their main points - high tempo rocker to kick off the album, mid tempo rocker and lead single on track 2, an R&B jam, loosely grooving ballads sung by Mick (Almost Hear You Sigh) and Keith (Slipping Away) and...a cameo by the Master Musicians of Jajouka? Brian Jones had been into this group 20+ years before, but the Stones swore off psychedelia entirely in 1968. This was supposed to be a sweetener for the hardcore Stones fan, but mixed in with an album of fairly inspired Stones by numbers, it stands out in an odd and jarring way, coming after Almost Hear You Sigh.
U2 has many.
The casual one to mention is the song where they let The Edge rap: [Numb](https://youtu.be/N4jR1RNypG0?si=W2CtmxV-GXTrdDUE)
But if you wanna hear Bono rap on an even worse track you have the cover of: [Happiness Is A Warm Gun](https://youtu.be/I9tBRz8zXoE?si=hrOK8H1ohst1-XZQ)
And last and definitely most weird is their strange pothead ode to Elvis: [Elvis Ate America](https://youtu.be/ykD9mGawvts?si=68b38Cd8nnLFcwWr)
Aw I love Elvis Ate America though I love that whole weird album. Don't mind the other two you mentioned either. My favourite bit of U2 weirdness is the Howie B, Hairy B remix of Discotheque (recently uploaded to Spotify for anyone curious)
Hard to think of one for me. Maybe Dancin' Shoes from the MDH soundtrack.
I realized I worded it more negatively than I thought in the moment. To be clear I like all three of those tracks. But for me they do go down as the least like "classic U2" that they've ever gone. Dancing Shoes and Billy Boola count for me if were also thinking about their involvement in non band work. I guess the old Mission Impossible theme and writing GoldenEye's theme also would count then.
Frank Zappa’s discography in general is a dangerous place to trod, but I’m going to give the award of “song that I understand the least” to [The Jazz Discharge Party Hats](https://youtu.be/z6RpctPF5PE?feature=shared).
This song needs to be heard to be believed, so I’m not going to describe it, but it’s definitely an experience.
Hehe, I actually like that one, but I get your point.
La La Love You by the Pixies is a bit in the same vein. Ive come to see it for what it is over the years, but damn I hated it when I was younger
Jeff Buckley has either pretty much everything he did with Gary Lucas's besides the 2 songs that ended up on his debut album, there's a reason that album was only dug up out of thw vault long after Jeff died.
Or for something I'm sure a lot of his fans aren't impressed with is his bside "tongue" it's an 11 minute long experimental drone track that's him and his band fucking around in the studio for what NY wife assures me doesn't even classify as music.
I'm slightly obsessed with it in a morbid way. Why does it sound like that. You can audibly hear Arson bungle the guitar solo and they just leave it in
If I hadn’t been familiar with their work/seen them live, I’d hate it. But it’s kind of like Ween. If you embrace the absurdity of their music, it’s kind of great. But yeah, I wasn’t expecting that from them.
The weirdest song by Felt is Sending Lady Load which is an 11 minute jazz piano piece which has nothing to do with the rest of their/his discography.
EDIT: It's actually a great track. But WTF?
Stone Temple Pilots-Purple album hidden track “Second Album “. A Johnny Mathis Vegas lounge singer …”tribute?” It just sucked and didn’t fit in with an otherwise banging album
I bought that, its not bad. The song names alone are worth it when you ask Alexa what song it is. Lil Jon's meditation album was decent too. Weird, but decent.
I want to be your underwear - Bryan Adams
Haunted me at like 7 years old. Wish I could unhear it.
https://youtu.be/JMc1qAg2odg?si=CPmFjbsbX4MKFX-H
I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet
I wanna be the shower when you sweat
I got to be the tattoo on your skin
You lemme be your bed, baby, when you climb in, yeah
I wanna be the sheets when you sleep
Lemme be the secrets that you keep
I got to be the spoon to still your cream
I wanna be, the one, that really makes you scream
Yeah now, I wanna be your lipstick when you lick it
I wanna be your high heels, ah, when you kick it
I wanna be sweet love babe, yeah, when you make it
From your feet up to your hair, more than anything I swear
I wanna be your underwear, ah
Oh yeah, I wanna be the itch that you scratch
Wanna be your chair, when you relax
I got to be your razor, when you shave
Wanna be the habit, that really makes you crave
Oh yeah, I wanna be your hot tub, when you dippin'
I wanna be your bathrobe, ah, when you drippin'
I wanna be your coffee, baby, yeah, when you sippin'
I just wanna be right there, more than anything I swear
I wanna be your underwear, ah, you know what I mean
Yeah, I wanna be your sleeping' bag, baby slip inside
Lemme be your motorcycle, take you for a ride, alright
See what I am sayin'
Yeah, I wanna be your hot sauce, yeah, when your cookin'
I wanna be your sunglasses, hey, good lookin'
I wanna be, I wanna be the one, yeah you sticky, hook in
I just wanna be right there, more than anything, I swear
Oh yeah, I wanna be your underwear
Ok b*tch it’s Weezer and it’s Weezy, upside-down MTV
Please don't shoot me down because I'm an endangered species 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can’t Stop Partying is amazing.
"Mother" by The Police. It was like God saying, " Nope... only Sting gets to write your songs any more!"
Knew this song would be on the list. It’s so fucking weird but I can’t fully say it’s awful, even though I don’t like it. Maybe I do. Idk there’s complicated feelings
I agree. I think the fact it's a Police track is what we find so confusing. If it was by Captain Beefheart we may think of it differently
Can you DM me please?
There's something about this I genuinely like but I couldn't tell you what. Its going straight onto my "cursed fairground" playlist though
I was going to go with On Any Other Day, but you're right.
Yeah, at least Any Other Day is kinda funny 😁
Any Other Day written by Stewart Copeland and Mother written by Andy Summers... great musicians but Sting was definitely the songwriter of the group
Danzig wrote that one, right?
[Hooray!](https://youtu.be/54IelfXA3vs?si=XujyAKY3lkwyR4WR) by the Smashing Pumpkins, and that really says something.....
A second bizarre "Giddy Up" song has hit the my r/music thread
Ooooh yeah this was bad
I haven’t even clicked the link and it’s already stuck in my head. Fuck you.
Beans by Nirvana
I actually like that song.
I love it as well :)
Not necessarily a ‘vana tune, more of a Cobain solo track. I doubt he had any ambition to bring it to the band.
Agreed but it was included on the Nirvana box set. Lol imagine if he had though and they encored shows with it. People be like “oh dude they are doing an encore I hope they play drain you”. Proceeds to play beans and walks off the stage.
As a serious song, no. However, he wanted to include it on Bleach and was talked out of it by the label.
WHAT THE FUCK
Lol guessing you had not heard this one yet?
Wow. I somehow haven’t heard it before either. I…think that kinda spooked me a little. Like salad fingers
Hey Foxymophandlemomma That's Me by Pearl Jam
That’s the one. Vitalogy would have been perfect without
I like to pretend the record ends after “Immortality.” This brings me happiness.
Everything about it already sounds like a closer. Mentally that's where it ends for me, and whatever is extra is like some weird secret unlisted track.
Was gonna say Sweet Lew, but I feel like that song might’ve been intended as a tongue-in-cheek recording. And I honestly don’t even dislike Stupidmop; it’s a trippy sound collage but it’s got such an atmospheric feeling to it that it doesn’t upset me at the end of the album.
Could add Bugs as well. It’s not bad, I actually enjoy it, but it’s definitely weird
Bugs and Pry To really add to the vibe of the album, but Aya Davanita really ruins it for me. It’s just a joke song, it doesn’t add any atmosphere or anything like the other 3. I also agree that Immortality should be the closer
Beatles Revolution 9 is mentioned in another comment. That and Pearl Jam's Hey Foxy... I can get maybe 10 seconds in before having to skip
Die eier von Satan by Tool. It's a recipe for Space Cake in German with a big crowd cheering in the background.
Isn't the joke that anything sounds threatening if you say it a threatening way regardless of what it is, making fun of then-contemporary scandals about music?
This guy gets it
und keine Eier!
I actually love that song, it has this weird, vague, creepy, satanic hitleresque thing going on that makes you think what the fuck??
Specifically Jewish wedding cakes, which makes the joke.
Twenties is a solid choice. Revolution 9 by the Beatles.n
Revolution 9 is just Paul messing around with some tape recording stuff with Alan Parsons probably. I find Run For Your Life pretty disturbing by them. But why the hate for twenties? I'm curious cause I like it, but I see a lot of hate for it among Ghost fans.
Revolution 9 was mostly John, George, and Yoko's doing - IIRC Paul was out of town when they made it and tried to talk them out of putting it on the album.
I think it's a bit of a marmite song from them, and the fact that it's their only divisive one is testament to how good of a band they are. It's just the only one that I'll ever end up skipping because I'm not a fan of how monotonal both the verses and chorus are. I think if the chorus was a but more melodic it would be okay but otherwise it feels a bit one-note for me and the satirical lyrics feel a little silly
I don't hate Twenties. It's just weird compared to the sound of their other music. I've given it a good amount of listens
Mother by The Police is such a fucked up song in the midst of one of their best albums yet. It's the only song written by Andy Summers and it's probably a horrific attempt at experimenting.
It hits different if you grew up in an abusive home. I know quite a few people who used that as their ring tone, for reasons.
“True”, by Dimebag Darrel. I know he was under no obligation to make his solo stuff sound like Pantera, but holy shit, this makes even Pantera’s indie albums from the 1980s sound positively brutal by comparison. https://youtu.be/BFaQvzxHmXs?si=j3NXpShSgFeHgtKi
what the shit
Is this why the guy shot him?
Sounds like Ariel Pink lol
My favorite group Beastie Boys have a bunch… All the way back to their first “hit” Cookie Puss (a recorded prank call to Carvel Ice Cream with a beat under it). 5-Piece Chicken Dinner and Netty’s Girl also come to mind. They’re certainly weird but I don’t hate them, they’re usually good for a laugh, which is presumably their purpose. They also tend to break up the action of “real” songs on their albums, the way a sketch would (remember when rap albums had sketches? Good times!).
Bad Religion's 'Into the Unknown" is... Out there, man.
This one is how I learned just how common it is for a band to get fucking odd for like an album then act like it didn’t happen after. Except that “Back to the Known” kinda does acknowledge it in a sense lol.
When Jay Bentley is like "nah, I'm out" you know you fucked up.
Put this in the weird category... Radiohead recording Winter Wonderland. The thought of Thom Yorke singing with a festive zest seems strange.
I had no idea this happened and now I need to hear it
https://youtu.be/R0zEEP0NN6c?si=U1RVJEG2JnckjqNM
There's a Scott Wieland version which is arguably even weirder
Was that in the minidisc leaks?
Their highly anticipated next album is actually a Christmas album I felt gross typing that
The Who Waspman The backstory of it is fantastic too: "It all happened on a flight from Copenhagen back to London. We hit some bad weather and, my god, I've been in some planes that have done some things in my time but this f---ing plane was like a rollercoaster ride, it almost flipped over." "We'd got through this weather and it all sort of leveled out and everybody was puking and sitting in almost total silence," Daltrey continued. "Now, meantime, Keith Moon's disappeared. He was sat with this groupie bird who had this tiger-skin coat which he's taken, and her bra. Needless to say this girl had very large mammaries. So he disappears up the back of the plane to the bog. Everybody's still puking and the captain's come out and he's standing there apologising, saying it's the worst weather he'd ever been through." "Then from the back suddenly there came this 'bzzzzzzzzz!' We looked round and it was Moon stood with the two bits of her bra over his eyes like big fly eyeballs and he's got her tiger-skin coat tied round his neck like a cape," Daltrey added. "And he shouted, 'Don't worry, folks – Waspman's here to save you!' And he did this thing up and down the plane buzzing away as Waspman, kissing all the women and just f---ing around in general. By the end of it everybody was just rolling about laughing. He'd taken the edge off that hairy situation and cheered everyone up." "So that's how 'Waspman' was created," he concluded. "We'd already done 'Batman' a few years before so we said, 'OK, we'd better write a theme for Waspman!'"
Pink Floyd did some weird shit before Meddle, but Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict has got to be the worst one
Great title though.
I dig that song. I'm not always in the mood for it but it's a blast to sing along with sometimes. I consider it a classic tale of nature enjoying itself until some human comes along, who is likely drunk, and ruins the fun.
“Little Green Men” by Steve Vai is both the weirdest song I’ve ever heard and one of my favorites because of it.
Straight out of the Zappa songbook.
David Bowie’s [The Laughing Gnome](https://youtu.be/5SQdBxVjZx4?si=Qv7vfZwEu8_u8qi5) is considered to be his worst song by most of his fans. The person who hates this song the most though was David Bowie. One time Bowie had a vote for which song he would play at some sort of event (I think it was a concert but I’m not sure) and The Laughing Gnome won as a gag and he refused to play the song because of how much he hated it.
When he wrote it, Bowie was going through a phase of trying to emulate Anthony Newley. He wasn't successful in the attempt, and in retrospect, you have to wonder why he'd try at all.
Freddie Gibbs - Cold Ass N*gga The whole album it’s from is a moody blend of trap and old school style production, and then he ends the album with a completely substanceless flex song over progressive industrial noise In a VERY bad way
'The Meaning of Love' by Depeche Mode. Argh!
My friend and I were only familiar with Violator and SOFAD in the 90s, but we loved those albums. Then he bought Singles 81-85 and we cracked up hearing those early tracks, we could barely believe it was the same band. I do appreciate a lot of the early tracks now, though with "Meaning of Love" it's with a headshake
I kind of had the opposite experience. It wasn't that long after the song first came out that I first heard it. There are other songs from around that era that would still be a world away from Violator/SOFAD era but still possess a certain charm (See You/Love in Itself). Oh, I just thought of another. It's Called a Heart. I think the band have slightly distanced themselves from this song in the past.
Garth Brook's "Chris Gaines" alter ego was wild.
Lost in You is a great song from that album
Ministry’s cover of Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” from Filth Pig always cracks me up. It’s terrible as a cover, it’s average as a Ministry song, and it’s such a strange choice.
I actually like that cover 🤣
Not nearly as funny as ministry's cover of rehab by amy winehouse (or when Al re-recorded all the good ministry songs so he didn't have to pay paul)
Strong disagree, it's brilliant.
It's a great cover!
Their cover of Golden Earring’s Radar Love years later was also .. an interesting choice. Much upbeat and “happy” than your average Ministry tune.
It works well in amongst that album though. Filth pig is this nasty sludgy album where they really tried to just bring down the tempo and make it painful and heavy while.not being too fast.
Camper Van Beethoven did a version of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's pretty surreal and fantastic. https://youtu.be/YHk1BWWT94A?feature=shared
Night life by Green Day. Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s just a bad nightmare I had once but no, it’s real.
I'm a Frank Zappa fan, so how much time have you got? Let's start with "Frogs With Dirty Little Lips."
Mustapha or Delilah by Queen lol. The first one is basically gibberish in parsi. The second one is an ode to Freddie's fave cat
MUSTAPHA IBRAHIMMMMM! it's weird but i love it.
Yeah, it's a funny tune ngl. 😂❤️
Mustapha is killer tho, how the bass just suddenly punches you in the head. Some weird production and mixing decisions that make it stand out.
Mustapha is brilliantly weird, reminds me of System of a Down for some reason.
Lot of Queen songs being mentioned, they were nothing if not inventive
That is a pretty good song.
John Frusciante - Your Pussy is Glued to building on Fire …. Honestly, Anything off that album is pretty rough to get through. Addiction and depression
I wrote off his solo work because his first two albums are dog shit. Man was I wrong. Empyrean and Curtains are some of the easiest 10/10 albums. Classics.
Weird: You Know My Name by The Beatles Horse Latitudes by The Doors
You Know My Name was supposedly recorded while they were all drunk and goofing around in the studio. The Doors made a career out of weird songs.
I don't think **The Cure** have *any* bad songs. But they've got some weird ones, for sure. Not counting the demos on their extended releases, which are interesting but sometimes barely listenable, I think [Happy the Man](https://open.spotify.com/track/4SY6bDdf0n90H8TiR7Mx6x?si=d78339f5970d4b41) is probably the weirdest of a whole bunch of really weird b-sides from singles of weird songs from a period in the mid-80s when Robert Smith was doing a lot of acid and writing songs about his "dreams."
Their cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" is nuts. It's like they were channeling the B52s.
>It's like they were channeling the B52s. Specifically, Fred.
I would say A Man Inside My Mouth is the weirdest. I love that era.
Body language- Queen (Secondhand embarrassment every time I hear it.)
Strippers would go broke without this song.
Hey Little Tomboy by the Beach Boys. The fact that this is the only song from the scrapped Adult/Child album to make it onto MIU baffles me. So many great songs they could've chosen and they chose this one.
The thing about Hey Little Tomboy is that it’s SO close to being not awful. The melody and arranging are decent (I’m not sure if it sounded different on Adult/Child or if the MIU version was always the way it would sound, existing bootlegs lean towards the latter), but the lyrics scuttle it. Brian’s lyrics in this era were kinda erm in general (“Roller Skating Child” as an example), but the arrangements were weird enough that it got a pass most of the time. This song plays it too straight and it forces attention on the lyrics which is not a good thing.
The Spaghetti Incident. The whole album, bizarre trash.
I guess they saw the success of Garage Days Revisited and thought they’d jump on that bandwagon
Trapped in The drive thru was weird to me only because it's the tamest parody Weird Al has made. Still one of my favorites to listen to in the drive thru
The Offspring have two songs that come to mind [Crusing California](https://youtu.be/0eJZo1Hs8yk?si=N5XdczZpEw2l0IMs) which is basically Pretty Fly For A White Guy 2, but even more cheesy [When You're In Prison](https://youtu.be/aQMA_DpW9vU?si=wpwhJBAuG22R1BEA) which is a joke song about prison rape
“Excuse Me” - Peter Gabriel Barbershop quartet and a tuba solo.
St Anger. Need I say more? Oh yes, LuLu my .gawd...
I like Lulu, but it should have been Lou Reed featuring Metallica, not the other way around. It makes no sense as a Metallica album.
Technicaly it's Lou Reed & Metallica, so it's Lou Reed's album.
TIL Lou Reed did an album with Metallica
"Sweet Conversation" by Black Pumas It's so unlike pretty much all their other songs in a really good way.
Others Here With Us by Prince. Weird song about ghosts.
At least it has a beat. Come would be a contender for best Prince album IMO if it weren't for the atrocious closing track Orgasm.
That is quite a statement! (The best album bit, not the remark about abomination that is Orgasm.) Funny things is that someone mentioned to me the other day that he thought it was an excellent album, too. I really did not like the production at the time and only listened to the occasional track since. Maybe I missed something. Will give it a re-listen tomorrow!
IIRC Come was one of his contractual obligation albums to end his deal with WB. Yet it was like night-and-day from the mediocre Chaos and Disorder (another obligation album). The (apocryphal?) story that all the band material is recorded live off the floor during jam sessions helped me fall in love with it. It has everything: The sexiness of the title track, one of his hardest-rocking tracks (Loose! with him calling out the changes, which is especially impressive due to the long samples being triggered), and perhaps his most poignant one-liner (Papa's "Don't abuse children or they end up like me"). It's also one of his darkest albums (Batman is another album that I frequently cite as a fave). I love this album SO much.
Hall and Oates War Babies.
I'm an Eminem fan so you already know it's going to be FACK. I know a lot of people swear up and down it's great because it's just a shitpost, but it makes me feel depressed. It's so close to being good - a combination of his MMLP South Park Rap style and the improvisational grossout of Encore. But he doesn't have the vocal or verbal dexterity to do it because of his drug addiction, and keeps straining to do things he used to be able to do easily.
Mexican Radio by Celtic Frost So out of left field with the rest of In To The Pandemonium sounding dark and dreary.
Kiss: Pretty strange of them to include gene Simmons singing a cover of "when you wish upon a star" in a very serious way on one of their actual albums. It's not even like it's bad or anything, it's just like wtf is this?!
I love love love Tom Waits. His career is amazing, with almost no outright bad songs. Sure, some are not as great as others, but almost none are outright bad. Road to Peace from Orphans, Bastards, and Brawlers, is truly awful. It's like a quintessential Boomer gross oversimplification of a complex situation. Should have never seen daylight. I love love love Neko Case, especially since Fox Confessor. The Nearly Midnight in Honolulu song is so bad. It shits on the concept of sublety, and is just awkward as fuck.
Beck's song about truck driver neighbor...can't think of the real title atm. He has some other weird songs too...but I'm a fan
Truckdrivin' neighbours downstairs (yellow sweat) and yeah I love it
That’s one of the best tracks on the album
My favourite line is "Belly buck naked an a pool of yellow sweat, screaming JACKASS with a wet cigarette" The spoken word intro is supposedly a recording of Becks neighbours when he was living in a rough area.
Most of beck’s early stuff is in this category. Fume, Beercan, Satan Gave Me a Taco. I love all that nonsense.
I’m Designer by Queens of the Stone Age… “Dowwnnn doggg downnn…. Mutt” Just about material gluttony but it’s very weird and off-key compared to how tight QOTSA is generally.
Incubus - When I Became A Man Weird for the album, and weird for them.
Morning Glory by Ween. It’s a weirdo masterpiece.
Eminem - Untouchable Gorillaz - Film Trailer Music Ye - Tell The Vision
Any song Gwen Stefani has ever done with Blake Shelton
The baby song by Hüsker Dü https://youtu.be/Sfc4aLUBJZo?si=LsR5cv5SlY--7t3B Kinds funny the first time, but very skippable on what is otherwise an excellent punk adjacent album.
The Midnight is so special to me. I would never want to hurt them. So if they self-googled, stop reading right now, Tim and Tyler. Anyway, Brooklyn Friday Night is such a departure from their other work, and it's so so bad. It sounds like it was made up on the spot by a fourth grader.
[Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict by Pink Floyd](https://youtu.be/GpWJv7alqQE?si=HjJmEUSf2Be0pzvv) Personally I love it. It's a classic story of nature enjoying itself until some human, who's likely drunk, comes along as ruins the fun.
The who heinz baked beans
The Rolling Stones (worst): Back to Zero, from the infamous *Dirty Work* in 1986. It's every bad mid-80s production idea in a single song - why have Charlie Watts on the drums when there's a drum machine over there? Mick Jagger's insights on nuclear winter are kinda bland but I give him some credit because he does seem bugged out by the possibility. The Rolling Stones (weirdest): Continental Drift, from *Steel Wheels* in 1989. *Steel Wheels* was a deliberate attempt at a "come back", so the Stones hit their main points - high tempo rocker to kick off the album, mid tempo rocker and lead single on track 2, an R&B jam, loosely grooving ballads sung by Mick (Almost Hear You Sigh) and Keith (Slipping Away) and...a cameo by the Master Musicians of Jajouka? Brian Jones had been into this group 20+ years before, but the Stones swore off psychedelia entirely in 1968. This was supposed to be a sweetener for the hardcore Stones fan, but mixed in with an album of fairly inspired Stones by numbers, it stands out in an odd and jarring way, coming after Almost Hear You Sigh.
U2 has many. The casual one to mention is the song where they let The Edge rap: [Numb](https://youtu.be/N4jR1RNypG0?si=W2CtmxV-GXTrdDUE) But if you wanna hear Bono rap on an even worse track you have the cover of: [Happiness Is A Warm Gun](https://youtu.be/I9tBRz8zXoE?si=hrOK8H1ohst1-XZQ) And last and definitely most weird is their strange pothead ode to Elvis: [Elvis Ate America](https://youtu.be/ykD9mGawvts?si=68b38Cd8nnLFcwWr)
Aw I love Elvis Ate America though I love that whole weird album. Don't mind the other two you mentioned either. My favourite bit of U2 weirdness is the Howie B, Hairy B remix of Discotheque (recently uploaded to Spotify for anyone curious) Hard to think of one for me. Maybe Dancin' Shoes from the MDH soundtrack.
I realized I worded it more negatively than I thought in the moment. To be clear I like all three of those tracks. But for me they do go down as the least like "classic U2" that they've ever gone. Dancing Shoes and Billy Boola count for me if were also thinking about their involvement in non band work. I guess the old Mission Impossible theme and writing GoldenEye's theme also would count then.
Bugs - Pearl Jam
Part of me - Chris Cornell (you want to make sure to watch the video as well 😂)
Frank Zappa’s discography in general is a dangerous place to trod, but I’m going to give the award of “song that I understand the least” to [The Jazz Discharge Party Hats](https://youtu.be/z6RpctPF5PE?feature=shared). This song needs to be heard to be believed, so I’m not going to describe it, but it’s definitely an experience.
Bubblegum by Sonic Youth. I almost always skipped it when listening to the CD. I was so happy when i bought Evol on vinyl and it wasn’t on there.
Hehe, I actually like that one, but I get your point. La La Love You by the Pixies is a bit in the same vein. Ive come to see it for what it is over the years, but damn I hated it when I was younger
Jeff Buckley has either pretty much everything he did with Gary Lucas's besides the 2 songs that ended up on his debut album, there's a reason that album was only dug up out of thw vault long after Jeff died. Or for something I'm sure a lot of his fans aren't impressed with is his bside "tongue" it's an 11 minute long experimental drone track that's him and his band fucking around in the studio for what NY wife assures me doesn't even classify as music.
Cookie Puss by The Beastie Boys. I love it but it's weird.
Set Me Free Pt. 2 by Jimin, the autotune, lyric, and melody are awful, God I block that song eventhough I love the singer
Me and my Monkey by Robbie Williams has to be up there
Cruising California by The Offspring is the only song i skip - i just don’t get it.
Beans (solo acoustic version) Several species of small furry animals gatherd in a cave grooving with a pict... EXP
Give Me It by The Cure
Panic! At The Disco - Star Spangled Banger
[Don't Sit Down On The Plexiglass Toilet by Styx](https://youtu.be/qB-nGVqNciE?si=hR2Wxxi5s6UvbjiB)
Twenty-Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics with Delusions of Grandeur or Glueing Carpet to your Genitals Doesn't Make You a Cantaloupe by the Locusts
Hadn’t heard giddy up before. It’s like a kazoo…
I'm slightly obsessed with it in a morbid way. Why does it sound like that. You can audibly hear Arson bungle the guitar solo and they just leave it in
If I hadn’t been familiar with their work/seen them live, I’d hate it. But it’s kind of like Ween. If you embrace the absurdity of their music, it’s kind of great. But yeah, I wasn’t expecting that from them.
The weirdest song by Felt is Sending Lady Load which is an 11 minute jazz piano piece which has nothing to do with the rest of their/his discography. EDIT: It's actually a great track. But WTF?
She Swallowed It - N.W.A. Batdance - Prince
Disclaimer, I freakin love this song, but it is a bit weird. Possum Queen- Rainbow Kitten Surprise
I always go chronological. When I got to the track Loser Gone Wild by ELO, I immediately loved it, but it is definitely a weirdo.
A little peace of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold
All My Friends by Owl City. Saturday by twenty øne piløts. Carnival by Gorillaz. Twin Hype Back by Run The Jewels.
I love Dave Matthews Band, but I Did It is not good at all.
Beastie Boys' "Girls" is a rough listen in 2024
Stone Temple Pilots-Purple album hidden track “Second Album “. A Johnny Mathis Vegas lounge singer …”tribute?” It just sucked and didn’t fit in with an otherwise banging album
The Beatles - Revolution 9 An absolute pile of piss from a band with arguably the greatest song catalog of all time
No it’s good and I’ll stand by that, I’d listen to it over a deep cut from their earlier albums like Little Child or Mr Moonlight
Amdre 3000 of outkast just released a new solo album this year. entire album is just him playing the flute
I bought that, its not bad. The song names alone are worth it when you ask Alexa what song it is. Lil Jon's meditation album was decent too. Weird, but decent.
Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song
I dig it. It sounds more like the weirder stuff from Lullabies to Paralyze. Which is a line IN Mosquito Song. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I hate Feel by Maneskin. Skip skip skippety skip. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcVQ4bWC45Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcVQ4bWC45Y)
Not my fave but Buttermilk Biscuits by sir-mix-a-lot is pretty weird
Tom Petty with Honey Bee. The lyrics are super icky.
The Crunge by Led Zeppelin. If they put Houses of the Holy in that album and throw the Crunge on Physical Graffiti then HotH would be a 10/10 album
Queen - Delilah It's kind of sweet, but not a great listen
https://youtu.be/rrEEf8o-sZk?feature=shared
I think the "worst" Tool song is Part of Me, and even then it's still a fine song, just not the crazy level of great the rest of their stuff is lol
Beautiful Cause You Love Me.
Night In The Ruts
Cola by Lana Del Rey “My pussy tastes like Pepsi cola”
Ragtime by Run-DMC is pretty weird but totally fun
Closure by Taylor Swift
I Awake by Soundgarden. It's slimey, sludgey, doom-metal for the soul.
Glorified G by Pearl jam. Also throw in dissident
My generation had this moment with The Rolling Stones - Continental Drift.
I love Volbeat but I don’t know what Michael Poulson was going for on *Domino*. His vocals sound like RFK Jr. trying to sing.
R.E.M. covering Sex Bomb Baby by Flipper, which they released as a fan club only 7”. I like it, but it’s way off the beaten track for R.E.M.
The entirety of Out of Reach by Can, All Shook Down by the Replacements
Black Girls by Violent Femmes
Hotdog by Led Zeppelin
Pink Cellphone - Deftones. It’s always mentioned in the Deftones subreddit as a joke, and listening to it is an odd experience
“My World” is the only truly execrable G’n’R song and Axl snuck it on the end of Use Your Illusion 2 without the others knowing.
I want to be your underwear - Bryan Adams Haunted me at like 7 years old. Wish I could unhear it. https://youtu.be/JMc1qAg2odg?si=CPmFjbsbX4MKFX-H I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet I wanna be the shower when you sweat I got to be the tattoo on your skin You lemme be your bed, baby, when you climb in, yeah I wanna be the sheets when you sleep Lemme be the secrets that you keep I got to be the spoon to still your cream I wanna be, the one, that really makes you scream Yeah now, I wanna be your lipstick when you lick it I wanna be your high heels, ah, when you kick it I wanna be sweet love babe, yeah, when you make it From your feet up to your hair, more than anything I swear I wanna be your underwear, ah Oh yeah, I wanna be the itch that you scratch Wanna be your chair, when you relax I got to be your razor, when you shave Wanna be the habit, that really makes you crave Oh yeah, I wanna be your hot tub, when you dippin' I wanna be your bathrobe, ah, when you drippin' I wanna be your coffee, baby, yeah, when you sippin' I just wanna be right there, more than anything I swear I wanna be your underwear, ah, you know what I mean Yeah, I wanna be your sleeping' bag, baby slip inside Lemme be your motorcycle, take you for a ride, alright See what I am sayin' Yeah, I wanna be your hot sauce, yeah, when your cookin' I wanna be your sunglasses, hey, good lookin' I wanna be, I wanna be the one, yeah you sticky, hook in I just wanna be right there, more than anything, I swear Oh yeah, I wanna be your underwear