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Lately I've been listening to a lot of Devo songs. I'd say they, Whiter shade of pale and some of the songs off Pink Floyd's the wall are the weirdest I've heard. What do you think's the weirdest you've heard?

Shoot, "Rawlinson End" by the Bonzo Dog Band has to be in the top 10 . . .
"Brown Shoes Don't Make It" and "Cheepniz" by Frank Zappa . . .
"The Future's Not as Good As it Used to Be" & "Dinosaurs Are Getting Better" by The Tinklers . . .
"Big Yellow Streetsweeper" by Root Boy Slim . . .
I'm certain Vermin has some choice suggestions! . . .
peter johnson

"Fish Heads" by Barnes and Barnes, I think, is the one to beat.  I might have heard weirder, but if so, they didn't stick.

A sample lyric:

"I took a fish head out to see a movie
didn't have to pay to get   it   in."

Very strange.
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the spam song.

Weird Al has some good ones.   "The Night Santa Went Crazy" and "Christmas at Ground Zero".  

We love his songs.

"Fishheads" is delightfully bizarre!
I'm thinking too:  "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" & "'Cause I'm Blonde!", by Julie Brown.
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Sample lyrics from Zappa's "Cheepniz":
"Little Miss Muffett on a squat by me,
Turned around & said, "Can y'all see?
The little strings on the giant spider?
The zipper from the Black Lagoon?
The holes on the neck where the bubbles go through?
And the flaps on the side of the moon?"
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And:  "Here comes that Poodle Dog!!  He's big as a blimp with a rhinestone collar!!
We can't let it reproduce!
Whoah!  Somebody get out the pants!!"
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I also have a song by Marty Feldman on record called "The Old Bell".  Sample chorus:
"Rum Tiddle Tiddle Tiddle Tiddle
Scum on the water
Lint in your navel
And sand in your tea!"
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And there is, of course, "The Ying-Tong Song", by Peter Sellers, Harry Seacombe & Spike Milligan (The Goon Show), which was a perrenial hit in England & is revived along with "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas" every Christmas in The British Empire.
"Ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong
Ying tong Niddle i-po . . .
Can't you feel that crazy rythm,
Driving me insane?"  etc. etc.
peter johnson

How about the theme from the Bananna Splits?

One time, when I was in HS and working at a supermarket, this one guy had a song.  It went like this:

(Instrumental)
"Look into my eyes.  What do you see?  Not me!"
(Instrumental)

Repeat that about 100 times.  That was the whole song and it sounded like Lars Ulrich's voice.

...although a nod goes to Junk Food Junkie.

A song that not only sticks in your head for LIFE, but I guess taught me a thing or two?

Instanbul by They Might be Giants

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

Yeah, I think Al's weirdest is Albequrque (did I spell that right?)

Oh yeah, I can't believe I forgot the goons!!!

Anything by Wesley Willis

Early Pink Floyd is a good bet if you want something truly frigged up.  Anything by the Residents or Captain Beefheart would also do nicely.

Ah,yes....the demented side of Badmovies.org! Like it!
....Hope Dr. D plays the Feldman song.
....We're taling "Audio Rorchak test" here. Thats a song, like America's "Horse with no name" ie, a song where the meaning is so obscure...you listen to it over and over, to find the hidden message.
....Sure a honker when there is none!
...."American pie"....hate that stupid song. When McClean has to tell you what the song is about, he's doing psych therapy, not song writeing! The weird Al version was infinatly better! At least ya' knew what it was about!
...."Ain't we crazy.,ain't we crazy....this the way we pass the time away.......ain't we crazy, ain't we crazy...we're gonna sing this song all night today.."
....And before i set off on my first deer hunt next year, i'm going to sing Tom Lerer's Hunting song. Bwahahahaha!

Syd Barrett's The Pink Floyd is definitely at the top of my list for weirdness. Buy the album the piper at the gates of dawn, you won't regret it if you haven't heard it. Syd pretty much started the psychadellic movement by playing with the band in underground clubs in England. Hunt down the singles and unreleased stuff like vegetable man (their weirdest song to me by far and one of the last before the band booted him out) and scream thy last scream too and anyone would be happy or possibly freaked out by this stuff. There's tons of 60s stuff out there thats pretty weird, try the nuggets box set to get a taste of other strange garage psychadellic bands.

Pound for pound, the weirdest song I've ever heard is probably "Paralyzed" by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy. Basically, it's two and a half minutes of a guy screaming incoherently in a cowboy voice (no rhyme or structure, mind you, just screaming) while playing one chord on an acoustic guitar, accompanied by a driving snare-drum beat (reportedly played by T-Bone Burnett, who was hanging around the studio). Then, in the middle of it all, there's a borderline-atonal bugle solo. Really, words can't describe it. Go on to whatever Napster clone you're using nowadays and search until you find it. You won't be disappointed.

Other choice picks...

*"The Crusher" by the Novas (and later covered by the Cramps). Weird old rockabilly song where the singer seems to be impersonating an insane wrestler. Sample lyric:

Do the hammerlock!
Do the hammerlock!
RAAAAAAA!!!!!
Do the hammerlock, you turkey-necks!
RAAA!
Do the hammerlock!
Do the hammerloooooooock,
Everyone is doing it!
RAAAAAAAA!!!!!

*"Split Level Head" by Napoleon XIV. Album cut from the man who brought you "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haaa!" (which itself could probably make the list). Sped-up vocals shouting different sets of lyrics about living in one's own little world coming from each speaker, all to a pounding cowbell.

*"Patches the Clown" by Deadbolt. Hilarious psychobilly song consisting mostly of interviews with people who have had run-ins with a violent, alcoholic clown. Sample quote:

"My son was sick, and I hired Patches to come and cheer my boy up in the hospital. He said he'd do it for a hundred bucks, a bottle of whiskey, and a six pack of malt liquor. Well, we waited all day at the hospital; the bastard never showed up. So I went to his trailer and knocked on the door. He opened it... And he beat the living sh*t out of me. It was embarassing.

*Anything by the following artists:

"Wild Man" Fischer (the 60s & 70s' answer to Wesley Willis)
Perrey & Kingsley (late 60s syntho-lounge)
King Missile (Odd little spoken-word band; their biggest hit was "Detachable Penis")
Barnes & Barnes (of "Fish Heads" fame, but their other stuff can be at least as weird-- Check out their album "Voobaha")

Wild Man Fisher!!  Produced and discovered by Frank Zappa!!
"C'mon c'mon c'mon let's merry go merry go merry go round
TOO TOO TOO!!"
Zappa also produced Captain Beefheart around the same time, and the original Alice Cooper albumns.
too great . . . .
peter johnson

...then rediscovered and written-for by Barnes & Barnes! My personal favorite of his is "The Taster."

Come on, let's do the taster!
Where our love is so braster! (don't ask me, the guy has issues)
And the things of the past
Can be as good as the re-e-est!

Anything by Fatboy Slim. That guy  must be from the moon or something.

I haven't seen it, but the liner notes for "roseland" decribe a song called "Don't Fart Around With Love"

A buddy of mine picked up Norman Greenbaum's Greatest Hits
You remember Spirit in the Sky? Well track 2 sums up the rest of the disk entitled "Wierd." Followed with songs like Canned Ham, The Eggplant that ate Chicago, and The Day they sold Beer in Church.

I also have to put up there King Crimson's Cat Food. Really twisted tune.

Can't forget the great Todd Rundgren. Emperor of the Highway is the first that comes to mind from him. Then there is the album A Wizard, A True Star. It must be heard to believed. Some of his best work but really bizarre stuff. Just listen to Rock & Roll p***y or Dogfight Giggle off of it.

     If not the weirdest, definitely up there....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0x8S1U7O3w

I'm a massive fan of Hasil Adkins and he has some great weird songs, such as:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vclF5gi1jE

"Friday" by Rebecca Black.

 :bouncegiggle:

Anything by Frank Zappa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEA6oRPSmUA&feature=related

Anything by Jan Teri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqsRFKe3YMA

Loser by Beck-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE&ob=av2e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDj1sYEKWp0

Here's another WEIRD MUSIC thread from earlier this year: 

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,134601.0.html (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,134601.0.html)

The Vagina song by Voltaire

Anything by The Tiger Lillies...

     Or this, off Todd's HERMIT OF MINK HOLLOW album....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSPQfz_Tyd8

     As a DJ from CKLW once said, "No WONDER Indiana wants him!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG_IaX7J1eM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU

Then again, it's not like the artist in particular is normal...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krtWWwc5mqg

I'm not sure how to properly discuss this song...

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

Same Blue Sky In A Strange New World

I first heard this in Takashi Miike's MPD Psycho.

Listen to SHADOW, STRANGE NEW WORLD, AND BILBO BAGGINS while watching the bagging Vid...while drinking beer...it should amuse!
Talk about a three way...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sv5LdF5rvs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8j2ej5jqQw

Pretty much anything by Syd-era Floyd is pretty out there. Zappa has a lot of weird/great moments. Anything I've heard by Jandek has been pretty nuttty as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxQDq87zQik&feature=related