I was thinking about this today and I rooted this one out from underneath a large stack of cd's:

Sleep Chamber - Sexmagick Ritual (1987)



Bizarre beyond belief, this album sounds like something you'd have playing in the background during a Satanic sacrifice. Eerie and soundtrack-like, one hears a flowing cacophony of noises such as underwater whales, goats bleating, insects buzzing, tubular bells, monks chanting in Latin that weave in and out alongside of staccato violin moans, drums, and the occasional disembodied voice that demands things like, LOOK INTO MY EYES!!!....TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE!!! that is alternately cheesy and scary, sometimes both at the same time. I don't know quite where to classify it. It's definitely a contender for the weirdest recording I own.

Here's what someone else has said about them:

If ever there was a group obsessed with obsessions, Sleep Chamber is it. This Boston outfit (basically the warlockish John Zewizz aided by constantly shifting personnel) makes ritualistic industrial music that works on both a shock imagery level and on a more intellectual erotic/occult plateau. ZeWizz is mind-bogglingly prolific, having independently unleashed (in the US, Germany, Austria and Italy) over ten albums, several EPs and 45s, almost 20 cassette-only releases and a batch of long-form videos in under a decade.

The heavy S&M content and explicit graphics have gotten Sleep Chamber banned and/or ignored — which is a shame. Not all that chaotic, the group's unique sound is more trancelike: Zewizz's ultra-deadpan declarations, minimal electronic pulse-beats, eerie basslines, sparse synth/violin/guitar and occasional samples all serve to induce a heightened mood (sexual or otherwise). The main body of Sleep Chamber's work divides into "song"-oriented albums and dense, mostly instrumental works reminiscent of Nurse With Wound and Current 93.

about a 1/4 of it

C'mon, you can do better than that.



Go back, think about it, then post something interesting for me to read.

barbara stresiand - "...and other musical instruments"

Probably 'The Incredibly Strange Music Collection' compiled by Jello Biafra no less.

i dunno, i've got a lot of wacky shit. seriously.

the last thing i got shit about was One Ring Zero's new album, though I'd think the red army soviet work songs, the sea shanty disc, or the gamelan stuff would be stranger.

Sesame Street Hits Volume 2

i dont know, maybe the gathering? ive got how to measure a planet and if_then_else, like em both. thats all i can think of. the rest of it is hipster approved.

Dunno. Simpsons Sing the Blues is pretty bizarre, but more in a "somebody though this was a good idea?" kind of way.

Take It Off! - Strip Tease Classics

Classic vintage 60's swanky jazz blues sounds. Think Breakfast at Tiffany's scene where Audrey and George take a drink at the strip club.

I have this too, purely for research purposes though.


Sesame Street?! So far, nobody's blowing my mind here....Oh, and my Dad of all people has a CD of The Soviet Red Army Chorus. Now there's a musical extravaganza right there. He even went to see them in concert in the early 90's and brought me back a t-shirt.

I have a Spanish (as in, from Spain) Ska album:



I cannot justify this.

The Cannabis that's incluye Haq...real or not? And did it influence your decision to purchase that?

sadly, CANNABIS is just the hit track. but it was the song i heard in a club that made me buy this album as a novelty.

a lot of the records i own solely for their artwork are pretty strange. i have this andre previn & russ (somebody) album that i think is just jazz in odd timings. i've only listened to it once, though.

does anyone have the leland stanford junior university marching band album? if they have more than one, i'm talking about the one with "suffragette city" on it. that is a very cool, but very strange album.

It's hard to say, probably one of these:

Dogbowl - Flan
Bonzo Dog Band - The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse
Bonzo Dog Band - Gorilla

I've got a lot of stuff like that -- Coil, Current 93, lots of stuff on Cold Meat Industry, etc. Some of it I like, some of it I don't.

I've got a "tribute" to Abba that doesn't sound anything like Abba, sounds more like a noise v/a compilation.

I've got an ambient album that's supposed to be based on guitar solos from Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and others -- I don't hear it.

I've got a "radio play" version of Dante's Inferno -- mostly in German, so I don't get it. I really want to learn German (better).

I've got a tripped out Christmas album. Every other song is an original, which are really good; the Christmas standards are warped.

I've got a lot of (what other people would consider) crap.

I also like Pink and Kylie Minogue. A lot.

Which is weirder? Left as an exercise to the reader.

EDIT: Nope, I know: it's that Painkiller album. Goddamn, that is weird. Short bursts of abstract "scat"-type jazz, Zorn style.

I don't have too much that's "weird". There's the Ronald Reagan spoken word album "Freedom's Finest Hour", a Pat Robertson 700 Club spoken word album from the early 80's (in which the uber-reverend asks the thought provoking question "Do you think God wants to cure cancer?"), various steam engine recordings, various pipe and drum recordings, Leonard Nimoy reading some Heinlein short story, "Hey Jude, Hey Bing!" (precious not only for the infamous title track but for the obviously phony band-member suck-up-edness in the liner notes).

there is nothing strange about that. i don't have any pink, but plenty of rachel stevens.

The strangest album I have is a CD of radio commercials circa 1995. All the commercials were nominated for some advertising industry award. The highlight is Robert Goulet reciting the blackboard writings of Bart Simpson. Hearing Bob Goulet say "I will not xerox my butt" was well worth the $0.99.

I think I downloaded that Nimoy track a couple weeks ago...I got 10-15 of his "songs". Funny stuff.

I dunno about "weird" either, but I have a lot of unusual stuff. An vinyl record of singing barbers, the "Friday The 13th, Part 3" soundtrack ( with 3-D cover! ) , & other kinds of stuff. But the first thing I thought of when reading this thread was this :



Yes...it's a "rock opera" about Spider-Man.

a timothy leary album.

SCORE.

nothing too weird... embarrassing? sure. tons.

I guess the only thing that could be considered novel or strange is a comp album called "Ska: Cover to Cover." It has a bunch of ska bands covering old classic tunes. The weirdest is Bim Skala Bim covering "Brain Damage."

Oh, it's a classic.