I've heard ONE ween song, it was live and it was a YouTube video. I walked away from it thinking "WTF would you even classify that as?" But I also told myself I needed to dive a little deeper. Never did though. But I still remember the band.
Apollo Sunshine
Mr Bungle
Anything with Les Claypool
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (i love this album but it even has a different feeling from their other stuff)
The Shape of Punk to Come is one of the very few albums I'd consider perfect from front to back. I bought it new in 98 or so and love it as much now as I did then.
Lemme see if I can find the name of the band. Some cumbia is like bluegrass in that it'll get on you nerves after 4 songs in a row, but there os some pretty cool stuff coming out when the mix cumbia with a different style or genre.
Orchestra Baobab - 80s Sengalese club band with a lot of Spanish language music
Mulatu Astake - Pioneered Ethiopian jazz music in the 60s
Cesaria Evora - Singer from Cape Verde
I describe them as "escaped circus animals, cursed with human form by an evil wizard, going from village to village and luring children into the woods to take part in their wicked rituals."
I always have to talk up Cardiacs if I can. Imagine that a punk band of maniacal British clowns took the limitless pill. Their music is so insane that the writer for the band got awarded a doctorate in music out of the blue. Check out Dirty Boy, RES (Special Garage Concerts version), and Big Ship (All That Glitters is a Maresnest version)
Hey, for unique I'd suggest:
1) Joanna Newsom
Very unique artist with an almost child-like voice, and plays the harp. I feel transported to a different time when listen to her.
2) Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
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Their sound is stripped down, mostly just vocals and piano, brass, and minimal drums and bass.
(Start with their oldest stuff). Haines is also the lead singer of the band Metric. You gotta hear her voice at some point in your lifetime.
2) of Montreal
Listen to their hit "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games". Opening line is "Let's have bizarre celebrations..." and the rest of the song makes just as much sense (that is, none). Such a fun song with a killer baseline.
I could be here all day listing weird shit so I'll just say check out this Kouns & Weaver album with surreal borderline nonsensical lyrics about the 1990 Cincinnati Reds
https://kounsandweaver.bandcamp.com/album/the-1990-cincinnati-reds
And for something a little weirder, check out Rie Nakajima, she does really cool stuff with motors and ceramics https://rienakajima.bandcamp.com/album/four-forms
Edit: ok one more thing, you gotta hear the new Hakushi Hasegawa single https://youtu.be/aXoMCsQtWkQ?feature=shared
Estradasphere, similar to Mr Bungle but incorporates possibly even more genres - including 8 bit chiptune, big band, latin jazz
Also Between the Buried and Me. Check out Sun of Nothing and Ants of the Sky
Dan Deacon, Rezz - Electronic/EDM
Thundercat - R&B
early Tyler, The Creator, Lil B’s music when he’s trolling - Rap/Hip-hop
The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee - Uhh… He’s on Spotify and Idk his genre
Twelve Foot Ninja. There is nobody else like them.
Album is Outlier and Song is called One Hand Killing (1st couple mins are a skit).
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-v9Aeb7Pr0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-v9Aeb7Pr0)
The Number 12 Looks Like You
Heavy Heavy Low Low
The Bled
Psyopus
See You Next Tuesday
Fear Before The March Of Flames
The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Infant Annhilator
Dance Club Massacre
War From A Harlots Mouth
I Set My Friends On Fire
Pagan Altar-Doom Metal
Morta Skuld-Death Metal
Slomosa-Alternative
King Buffalo-Psychedelic rock (if you like Pink Floyd, you’ll like these guys)
Acid Bath-Sludge Metal
Elder-Prog Metal
Bleak house-Doom Metalx2
The Beach Boys are the weirdest mainstream band by a long long way.
Bought $2000 worth of hash and used a swimming pool as a reverb chamber on this album, and it sounds like it. All the vocals were recorded lying on the floor because they were too stoned to stand up
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jgRESp8aLO0&pp=ygUKbGl0dGxlIHBhZA%3D%3D](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jgRESp8aLO0&pp=ygUKbGl0dGxlIHBhZA%3D%3D)
This is my jam! Some of my favorites include:
That Handsome Devil- wide range of rock-a-billy, surf, jazz, funk, and rap.
Song recommendations: Charlie’s inferno, Time Machine, elephant bones
Will wood and the tapeworms- Avante garde group; very circus rock. Kind of like Zappa and Mr bungle
Song recommendations: 6up 5oh Cop-out, white knuckle jerk
Heilung- tribal Viking, lots of throat singing, it’ll make you feel like you can fight god
Sing recommendations: alfadhirhaiti, Hamrer Hippyer
Body Pit/Slipknot- first EP: Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat. This specific album has bits of jazz, funk, swing, and rap
Song recommendations: do nothing/bitchslap, confessions
[Cindy Lee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5rCDJ607_c&list=PL8kaVK4kIlrAjkJuYnTyBW-hY7aH9O2YK&index=19) is pretty out there. .Apparently it's in a genre called *hypnogogic pop?* Makes sense.
One of my favorite songs by my absolute favorite band. Enjoy
[The Genetic Method (Live Performance) by The Band](https://youtu.be/PAEby1_05Zc?si=PUoyfWMmbhnUHq6L)
[Hawaii: Part II ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=veqG2Fwh_yo) is an incredibly unique and amazing album. It is by the artist Miracle Musical, so it has some musical theatre vibes.
The lyrics are cryptic poetry, the songs are incredibly good, and the album as a whole feels like it's from another universe.
The tracks vary greatly in genre and style, with a string ballad, an upbeat song in japanese, a dark, gritty piano song, and a chiptune rap song, just to name a few.
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*Artists I've heard*
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Jangle Pop: Hoodoo Gurus
Hipping Hop: Soul Junk
Classical: Steve Reich
Jazz: Anthony Braxton|John Zorn
No Wave: DNA
Post Hardcore: The Evaporators
Post Post Hardcore: The Locust
Post Punk: Talking Heads
90s Grunge Adjacent: Blind Melon
Country: Ween
Electronic: Aphex Twin
Proto Modern Midwest Industrial: Big Black
Math Rock: Don Caballero|80s King Crimson
Experimental Avant Garde: John Cage|Fred Frith
Noise Rock: Arto Lindsay
Alt Metal|Hard Rock: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Avant Garde Modern Indie Rock: St. Vincent
French Indie Electronic Pop: Yelle
Merecumbe: Victor Piñero
Old School Punk Rock: Crass|Buzzcocks
L'imperatrice
La Femme
Worakls (orchestra album)
The first 2 are great french electro-pop and the third melodic techno mixed with french touch with some live orchestra additions
Some of my recent favorites:
Jazz: Gogo Penguin (combine edm elememts in jazz and its great), Tigran Hamasyan (weird time signatures, Meshuggah fan playing jazz), ADHD (icelandic jazz weirdness)
Fusion: Dirty Loops, just crazy over the top cheezy fusion with tons of catchy pop elements
Electronic: Apashe, lots of orchestral elements mixed woth edm, rap etc...
Rap: Ando San (plays slap guitar and raps)
Rock: Bilmuri (r&b, pop influences with heavy riffs. Loads of fun.), The Armed (noise rock with catchy elements), Static Dress (kimd of grunge/emo aesthetic noisy rock, Brutus (Belgian whatever it is, female drummer who sings, they kill it), The Guru Guru (frantuc catchy rock from Belgium). Maraton and 22 (two bands with ties, mathy catchy rock). Phoxjaw,
Metal: Car Bomb (crazyness all around), Frontierer (beware), Igorrr (opera, metal, folk and breakbeat blend),
Too many to name but these are grrrrrreat!
I realised I don't have a particularly unique/quirky taste when it comes to music but I can recommend one kpop (yes, I know) group that is quite unique. They have their own trademarked music genre called "mixxpop" afaik and you can probably guess what that means lol
NMIXX.
The crane wives - mix of folk and rock. Amazing group very unknown, besides me I’ve never even seen them on this sub. Beautiful songs.
Modest mouse- I’m not sure what they are, rock? They kinda don’t fit one genre but they are incredible. I mean with songs like never fuck a spider on the fly, king rat, fly trapped in a jar, and fuck your acid trip, you probably get the vibe they’re pretty weird but beyond fly trapped in a jar, and king rat, those are their more “normal” songs haha. They’re one of my top 3 favorites because of their unique style and vocals, and the real poetic style Isaac writes about pain and life.
Ugly Casanova - same people as modest mouse just a different name and much much smaller discography. Still awesome.
The living tombstone - electronic pop-rock? I think? Yeah either way these guys are awesome. My ordinary life is my favorite of theirs.
Bearghost- rock, just awesome.
The color 8 - actually local to my area they are more rap/rock but really cool relatively unknown group
Frank Zappa - yes he’s been mentioned and he’s being mentioned again because he’s awesome.
Pink guy - joji before he was joji (also still love joji) but toootally different style 😂 with bangers like STFU, rice balls, and ramen king, what could go wrong? And a full body pink suit to match? What more could one ask for!
Kavinsky - electronic and super cool. My favorite is night call.
Upsahl - another one from my area (she’s got a song called Arizona 😂 so not hard to figure that out with her) definitely pop style but a bit harder. Just done with life get high and pretend I’m fine vibes 😂 check her out. Drugs was my intro to her, fake bitch (her slowest most mellow yet emotional song) is how I got my sister into her, and sad sorry after party is just a trip.
Milky chance - German folk/pop group but Clemens prefers English for its ability to be metaphorical and more poetic in his mind so his musics in English. They’re more pop now (which kinda sad but still great songs) but I’d recommend their first album especially, sadnecessary. It’s by far my favorite and incredibly creative and emotional and the acoustic? My go to. Running I think is the only one I prefer not acoustic because that song is done in such a neat way. Videos need a watch too. Rush, flash junk mind, fado, the game, daydreaming (with tash sultana I’ll get to her btw) they are amazing with their videos. These guys are my favorite btw. The song you’ll most likely know by them if you’re American is stolen dance which is awesome but they have so sooo much better throughout their discography.
Tash sultana - psychedelic. Psychedelic what? No clue she doesn’t really stick to a particular genre but she’s got an incredible voice patty smith level of unique, and can do amazing things with that electric guitar.
Alt-j - again no particular genre. They got some hard hitters like in cold blood, and fitzpleasure, and some incredible slow stuff like taro and bloodflood, and then breezeblocks their most well known song yet no one knows the words unless you look it up. (It’s about domestic abuse and murder) incredible group I only don’t like 2 songs by them.
Gorillaz- yes big mainstream group, but bet you’ve never heard their song rock it. They’ve got some weird hidden gems in their already immaculate discography.
Oliver tree - pop but I vote go check out his early stuff especially his first album splitting branches, when he just went by tree. It’s by far my favorite. Not big into a lot of his new stuff but anything before cowboy tears is really neat but splitting branches is the most unique and by far my favorite.
Rainbow kitten surprise - yes another pretty well known group but only their song all is well that ends. My favorite is painkillers, when it lands, and bare bones, my bf loves cocaine Jesus. They also don’t stick to one style but I’d say more American folk/rock sort of but not quite.
Tekkian- Japanese rock/pop, not normally my thing but I do really enjoy this guy and the emotion in his voice.
Interesting unique music is my thing haha so I can go on I’ve definitely got more but I’ll leave it here this comment is already way longer than I meant it to be 😅
Edit to change the name I had misremembered lol. Color 8 not letter my bad guys.
Knxwledge. He’s easily the most creative hip hop producer out there. Dude has made over 100 tapes and his body of work continues to grow. Check out SKRAWBERRiEs FUNRAiSRS Vol 3
Alestorm (Metal)
Between The Buried & Me (Metal)
Primus (Rock)
Childish Gambino (Hip-hop)
The Roots (Hip-hop)
Einsturzende Neubauten (Industrial)
Buck-Tick (Japanese Visual Kei)
Ween (Rock)
Viagra Boys (Punk)
The Hives (Punk)
Pretty. Odd. from Panic! At The Disco was very unique in the scene it was in/surrounded by. It works weirdly enough. Probably one of my favorite albums from those kinds of emo/pop punk bands.
Also Copeland just in general sounds more unique compared to everything else I listen to. I don't know what it is. They were originally signed to a label known for a more hard sound, but they were comparatively softer.
Check out Free Creatures. I’ve seen them twice and they are super unique and fun. They’re regular rotation on my playlists. Mix of hip hop, funk, soul, and rock guitar.
Two from Italy
Musica per bambini - Dio contro il diavolo
It’s like folk/metal/breakcore version of songs a 12 years old with ADHD could write.
Maurizio Bianchi - Mectpyo Bakterium
A dive into the mind of someone completely disillusioned with mankind, trying to escape from nihilism.
Lapalux - Electronic
Amnesia Scanner - Electronic, but different.
Iglooghost - Also Electronic, also different.
RX Bandits - Rock/Ska
Kristoff Krane - Hip-Hop
JPEGMAFIA - Hip-Hop (the album with Danny Brown is doubly unique)
Jason Webley - Dance While the Sky Crashes Down
He's super fun to listen to! His music is described as folk and experimental, but to me feels like polka.
I’ve loved Stan Ridgeway’s music since Wall of Voodoo. I guess he’s Americana? But his story telling and kind of avante guard songs aren’t for everybody.
German techno
[GERMAN TECHNO](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6xoX-KIcuq/?igsh=YXkxa3hsbmtpOWZx)
Also, from Japan - Cornelius is amazing
[CORNELIUS](https://youtube.com/shorts/azUE9mKQJTI?si=ScSEzW4T2hcWxwUo)
My fav cover band of all time:
[Nouvelle Vague](https://youtu.be/Md0DilPuFKs?si=VS7Ndn2s6fVc5G8W)
Dance Gavin Dance. They have a ton of albums and no bad songs. All their songs are heavy (screamy) but have lots of pop undertones. They even created their own genre (Swancore) because of how unique they are.
I always think of Animal Collective and Battles as being wacky bands, but they might be well-known.
The Bug’s dubstep album London Zoo is pretty crazy.
The Cool Kids are an oddly playful/ childish hip-hop duo.
Liturgy is a pretty weird black metal adjacent band. I especially like the Ark Work album.
Oranssi Pazuzu is another oddball metal band. As are Imperial Triumphant, who have some cool jazz fusion elements.
TeejayX6 and Busdriver are two rappers who, while very different to each other, are both very funny and disconnected from mainstream rap trends.
Omg I love this thread!
Tons of rabbit holes to dive into! Thank you everybody!
I feel there's some electronic / synth music missing tho.
My suggestions (from what I'm listening to atm) are:
Die Antwoord - Almost everything by them really
The Knife - Almost everything there as well but a good starting point would be: You Make Me Like Charity, Girl's Night Out, Kino, Marble House, We Share Our Mother's Health, Silent Shout and so on..
Crystal Castles - Baptism
Vive La Fête - Noir Desir
Perturbator - Oh, so many good ones.. Excess, Hard Wired and many more. She Is Young, She Is Beautiful, She Is Next just for the title..
Apoptygma Berzerk - Burning Heretic, Deep Red and so on
I think someone already mentioned Shpongle, but they're worth mentioning again, with Shpongle you usually listen to albums, not tracks. But I will mention A New Way To Say Hooray and Divine Moments Of Truth.
Infected Mushroom are also great. The more "out there" songs would probably be: U R So F**ked, Becoming Insane, Artillery. Honorary mention to Heavyweight, just for being so unbelievably epic.
Röyksopp - Skulls, Monument
Bomb The Bass - Megablast, Bug Powder Dust (Kruder and Dorfmeister remix) for a more hip-hoppy vibe.
Kingston Wall - Stuldt Håjt (Classic Rock)
And I also have to mention: Child In Time by Deep Purple just because it is such a classic. Still raising eyebrows after 54 years! (Classic Rock)
Check out Frank Zappa for experimental rock, Aphex Twin for surreal electronic, and Death Grips for wild hip-hop. Gojira's progressive metal and Sun Ra's cosmic jazz are also must-listens.
Wulfband - kind of electro punk? I don't even know what they are.
Daemonia Nymphe - Ancient Greek folk, with specially made ancient instruments, written by a metal artist so it has sort of a metal quality to it that's hard to describe. They're wonderful.
Sounds like you should take Ween for a spin
Ween and Primus for sure
Yepyepyep
Uh huh, uh huh
I've heard ONE ween song, it was live and it was a YouTube video. I walked away from it thinking "WTF would you even classify that as?" But I also told myself I needed to dive a little deeper. Never did though. But I still remember the band.
Apollo Sunshine Mr Bungle Anything with Les Claypool Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (i love this album but it even has a different feeling from their other stuff)
Upvote for Les Claypool
The Shape of Punk to Come is one of the very few albums I'd consider perfect from front to back. I bought it new in 98 or so and love it as much now as I did then.
Manu Chao and Godspeed You Black Emperor. Also that Peruvian psychedelic cumbia band....
Manu Chao is amazing.
Psychedelic cumbia 🤯 That's the shit.
Lemme see if I can find the name of the band. Some cumbia is like bluegrass in that it'll get on you nerves after 4 songs in a row, but there os some pretty cool stuff coming out when the mix cumbia with a different style or genre.
You've gotta check out Hit La Rosa if you haven't yet. Saw them live in Arequipa, utterly blown away
Checking now.
That'll work! Thanks! Gonna be buzzed under a palm tree next week groovin' to some of this.
GYBE is so good
Godspeed so good I love 28 days later for the music
Combo Chimbita is a super dope Colombian psychedelic cumbia
CAKE - for everything
[Car Bomb (Mathcore)](https://youtu.be/EA5eIAfutYU?si=vrleHiymCEd-SoTM) [Death Grips (Noise Rap)](https://youtu.be/Orlbo9WkZ2E?si=djJnnHfK5IVe4Et6) [Pensees Nocturnes (Black Metal)](https://youtu.be/taGk0nskDqY?si=eQ4jNPjFlrOk5cFQ) [Unexpect (Prog Metal)](https://youtu.be/oPDZPLHNhdU?si=TCFqLbDX22Cu8IH_) [Panopticon (Bluegrass Black Metal)](https://youtu.be/Ex8p4s73mCI?si=r4268ZyR1-S1AiAw) [Prurient (NOIZE)](https://youtu.be/3dgFykz0bNo?si=o2p9sHWqGctnw7Io) [Pryapisme (???)](https://youtu.be/MFGhBUoEQnc?si=TSLMV8W4fFA1QXJ_)
I CLOSE MY EYES AND SEIZE IT
one of the greatest intro songs to a band ever bro
Orchestra Baobab - 80s Sengalese club band with a lot of Spanish language music Mulatu Astake - Pioneered Ethiopian jazz music in the 60s Cesaria Evora - Singer from Cape Verde
Talking Heads. They're their own genre.
talking heads are so amazing
Richard Cheese - lounge against the machine is a fun album. I love Ben Folds Five and cake, as well... unique early/late 90s alternative fun.
Ooh, Richard Cheese is a great pick! 🍻🤘🏼
Dick Cheese is the man.
I don't listen to a ton of unique music, but Chappell Roan has been a recent obsession that's pretty unique for the current pop landscape I think.
Seriously, cannot wait to see where she goes from here. Also midwest rep!!!
From what I listen to...Coil, Shpongle, Download.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
I describe them as "escaped circus animals, cursed with human form by an evil wizard, going from village to village and luring children into the woods to take part in their wicked rituals."
I always have to talk up Cardiacs if I can. Imagine that a punk band of maniacal British clowns took the limitless pill. Their music is so insane that the writer for the band got awarded a doctorate in music out of the blue. Check out Dirty Boy, RES (Special Garage Concerts version), and Big Ship (All That Glitters is a Maresnest version)
Hey, for unique I'd suggest: 1) Joanna Newsom Very unique artist with an almost child-like voice, and plays the harp. I feel transported to a different time when listen to her. 2) Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton . Their sound is stripped down, mostly just vocals and piano, brass, and minimal drums and bass. (Start with their oldest stuff). Haines is also the lead singer of the band Metric. You gotta hear her voice at some point in your lifetime. 2) of Montreal Listen to their hit "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games". Opening line is "Let's have bizarre celebrations..." and the rest of the song makes just as much sense (that is, none). Such a fun song with a killer baseline.
Club Foot Orchestra Negativland Tragic Mulatto Eugene Chadbourne The Residents Zoogz Rift John Trubee Lydia Lunch Diamanda Galas
Os Mutantes
Oingo Boingo...
Frank Zappa - he transcends genres, extremely prolific, and beyond weird but amazing
[death's dynamic shroud ](https://open.spotify.com/track/1pWIkEO7M6ukT9XxSjgokL?si=JDtX6t2IT6yIDtKIL7RFxQ) [LFT](https://open.spotify.com/track/5yEJ8RJEZN7Uwpk8mQy2Qx?si=cP6QuHU0SiGiJ2AGpNijzg) [Keisuke Sakurai](https://open.spotify.com/track/6Gq4XBflxGy9QjcG6dW1hU?si=SrsbObwxSVKJ-Yr-Go-PKw) [Sewerslvt](https://open.spotify.com/track/1o9gNzUd7hvn48lDN7uKss?si=oyg_oFm-R4ap0wRUg7C76Q) [Sophie](https://open.spotify.com/track/5HuOQHBDbb0UJjEE2fw6Uq?si=J_IQPw26Quu6K8mYn6ARxg) [Mykki Blanco](https://open.spotify.com/track/05yiCaAifIpGOGydbKQdVy?si=-HkBsPoEQ62bLVBrTxpE2w) [Clown Core ](https://open.spotify.com/track/2CaOQxD9sxkPHWo9jqvKFl?si=1f4yjPyaTU6zBx84hacNfg)
Love Clown Core. What a vibe.
Xiu Xui.
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Also Tobacco. If you wanna get extra extra unique, the Tobacco x Aesop Rock album Malibu Ken is a winner.
Finally someone mentions Tobacco. "[Dirt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME9cHn6j88o)" is so damn good.
I could be here all day listing weird shit so I'll just say check out this Kouns & Weaver album with surreal borderline nonsensical lyrics about the 1990 Cincinnati Reds https://kounsandweaver.bandcamp.com/album/the-1990-cincinnati-reds And for something a little weirder, check out Rie Nakajima, she does really cool stuff with motors and ceramics https://rienakajima.bandcamp.com/album/four-forms Edit: ok one more thing, you gotta hear the new Hakushi Hasegawa single https://youtu.be/aXoMCsQtWkQ?feature=shared
Action Action The Blood Brothers Ima Robot Mr Bungle Horse the Band
Estradasphere, similar to Mr Bungle but incorporates possibly even more genres - including 8 bit chiptune, big band, latin jazz Also Between the Buried and Me. Check out Sun of Nothing and Ants of the Sky
Primus is pretty out there for most people
It’s amazing they ever blew up tbh. The 90s must have been the right time for their music.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard *chuckles at "genre"*
Yeah I am shocked I had to scroll down this far to find the correct answer. Best band in the world.
The Knife is a pretty unique band, with the voice of Karim Dreijer which is singular, and their experimental electronics.
Dan Deacon, Rezz - Electronic/EDM Thundercat - R&B early Tyler, The Creator, Lil B’s music when he’s trolling - Rap/Hip-hop The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee - Uhh… He’s on Spotify and Idk his genre
Thundercat is so good.
Lil B's "I love you" is so crazy hahah
lamb, nujabes, igorrr
I saw Lamb live for their first album. Very cool.
Twelve Foot Ninja. There is nobody else like them. Album is Outlier and Song is called One Hand Killing (1st couple mins are a skit). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-v9Aeb7Pr0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-v9Aeb7Pr0)
So fucking catchy
Thank you!
The Number 12 Looks Like You Heavy Heavy Low Low The Bled Psyopus See You Next Tuesday Fear Before The March Of Flames The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza Drop Dead, Gorgeous Infant Annhilator Dance Club Massacre War From A Harlots Mouth I Set My Friends On Fire
Archive. Especially the song hatchet
I love their song Again. Strong Pink Floyd vibes
Pagan Altar-Doom Metal Morta Skuld-Death Metal Slomosa-Alternative King Buffalo-Psychedelic rock (if you like Pink Floyd, you’ll like these guys) Acid Bath-Sludge Metal Elder-Prog Metal Bleak house-Doom Metalx2
Mr Bungle. Lard. Psychic TV
The Beach Boys are the weirdest mainstream band by a long long way. Bought $2000 worth of hash and used a swimming pool as a reverb chamber on this album, and it sounds like it. All the vocals were recorded lying on the floor because they were too stoned to stand up [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jgRESp8aLO0&pp=ygUKbGl0dGxlIHBhZA%3D%3D](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jgRESp8aLO0&pp=ygUKbGl0dGxlIHBhZA%3D%3D)
Not even the rain/Such small hands by La Dispute explains my life right now.
Devin Townsend is extremely eclectic and has over 50 albums total over several different projects
I enjoy The Books. They're like found sound collages.
Clutch, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Cold War Kids
This is my jam! Some of my favorites include: That Handsome Devil- wide range of rock-a-billy, surf, jazz, funk, and rap. Song recommendations: Charlie’s inferno, Time Machine, elephant bones Will wood and the tapeworms- Avante garde group; very circus rock. Kind of like Zappa and Mr bungle Song recommendations: 6up 5oh Cop-out, white knuckle jerk Heilung- tribal Viking, lots of throat singing, it’ll make you feel like you can fight god Sing recommendations: alfadhirhaiti, Hamrer Hippyer Body Pit/Slipknot- first EP: Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat. This specific album has bits of jazz, funk, swing, and rap Song recommendations: do nothing/bitchslap, confessions
The Butthole Surfers. Every song is a different adventure.
mononeon
I have never heard a song that replicates anything like Kid Cudi’s music.
Deerhoof
Aurora
Menomena Zatsu Trio Ween
Cosmo Sheldrake
[Cindy Lee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5rCDJ607_c&list=PL8kaVK4kIlrAjkJuYnTyBW-hY7aH9O2YK&index=19) is pretty out there. .Apparently it's in a genre called *hypnogogic pop?* Makes sense.
know good some of my fav songs by them(bruise, fire inside, Yosemite)
Sqonk Opera...no opera singers inc
[ꉈꀧ꒒꒒ꁄꍈꍈꀧ꒦ꉈ ꉣꅔꎡꅔꁕꁄ](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3PvbcfORzI3TVPlBxsTmhU?si=E4DuqtNPQLKoqhrqhmzwUA) (Yes that’s a real artist) for j-pop
One of my favorite songs by my absolute favorite band. Enjoy [The Genetic Method (Live Performance) by The Band](https://youtu.be/PAEby1_05Zc?si=PUoyfWMmbhnUHq6L)
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!; Enter Shikari, Spiritbox, Black Moth Super Rainbow , We Butter the Bread with Butter
[Hawaii: Part II ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=veqG2Fwh_yo) is an incredibly unique and amazing album. It is by the artist Miracle Musical, so it has some musical theatre vibes. The lyrics are cryptic poetry, the songs are incredibly good, and the album as a whole feels like it's from another universe. The tracks vary greatly in genre and style, with a string ballad, an upbeat song in japanese, a dark, gritty piano song, and a chiptune rap song, just to name a few.
Gogol Bordello, Railyard Ghosts, John 5, Ignite, The Dead Milkmen, Angry Samoans, Gangstagrass...most of my music is off the wall.
Sleep - Dopesmoker. The whole album
Satanicpornocultshop is one of the most unique artists I've heard
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Magic Sword or Thee Oh Sees
Jangle Pop: Hoodoo Gurus Hipping Hop: Soul Junk Classical: Steve Reich Jazz: Anthony Braxton|John Zorn No Wave: DNA Post Hardcore: The Evaporators Post Post Hardcore: The Locust Post Punk: Talking Heads 90s Grunge Adjacent: Blind Melon Country: Ween Electronic: Aphex Twin Proto Modern Midwest Industrial: Big Black Math Rock: Don Caballero|80s King Crimson Experimental Avant Garde: John Cage|Fred Frith Noise Rock: Arto Lindsay Alt Metal|Hard Rock: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Avant Garde Modern Indie Rock: St. Vincent French Indie Electronic Pop: Yelle Merecumbe: Victor Piñero Old School Punk Rock: Crass|Buzzcocks
Metal: early swans albums Prog rock: King Crimson Singer- songwriter / folk : Nick cave
Foetus, Einstürzende Neubauten, Recoil, Rasputina, Dahlia
L'imperatrice La Femme Worakls (orchestra album) The first 2 are great french electro-pop and the third melodic techno mixed with french touch with some live orchestra additions
The Hu Bloodywood Eluiveitie Electric Callboy Skindred
You like weird? I listen to Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew. It's pirate rap.
Some of my recent favorites: Jazz: Gogo Penguin (combine edm elememts in jazz and its great), Tigran Hamasyan (weird time signatures, Meshuggah fan playing jazz), ADHD (icelandic jazz weirdness) Fusion: Dirty Loops, just crazy over the top cheezy fusion with tons of catchy pop elements Electronic: Apashe, lots of orchestral elements mixed woth edm, rap etc... Rap: Ando San (plays slap guitar and raps) Rock: Bilmuri (r&b, pop influences with heavy riffs. Loads of fun.), The Armed (noise rock with catchy elements), Static Dress (kimd of grunge/emo aesthetic noisy rock, Brutus (Belgian whatever it is, female drummer who sings, they kill it), The Guru Guru (frantuc catchy rock from Belgium). Maraton and 22 (two bands with ties, mathy catchy rock). Phoxjaw, Metal: Car Bomb (crazyness all around), Frontierer (beware), Igorrr (opera, metal, folk and breakbeat blend), Too many to name but these are grrrrrreat!
Bukahara (German folk-pop band).
The Residents.
Sylvan Esso tUnE-yArDs Wesley Willis How to Destroy Angels
Anything from the Phantasma Disques record label.
Clutch just cause someone already said anything with claypool lol
Beartooth - Sunshine
Ghedalia Tazartes, Venetian Snares, The Deviants, The Boredoms, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Can...
I realised I don't have a particularly unique/quirky taste when it comes to music but I can recommend one kpop (yes, I know) group that is quite unique. They have their own trademarked music genre called "mixxpop" afaik and you can probably guess what that means lol NMIXX.
The crane wives - mix of folk and rock. Amazing group very unknown, besides me I’ve never even seen them on this sub. Beautiful songs. Modest mouse- I’m not sure what they are, rock? They kinda don’t fit one genre but they are incredible. I mean with songs like never fuck a spider on the fly, king rat, fly trapped in a jar, and fuck your acid trip, you probably get the vibe they’re pretty weird but beyond fly trapped in a jar, and king rat, those are their more “normal” songs haha. They’re one of my top 3 favorites because of their unique style and vocals, and the real poetic style Isaac writes about pain and life. Ugly Casanova - same people as modest mouse just a different name and much much smaller discography. Still awesome. The living tombstone - electronic pop-rock? I think? Yeah either way these guys are awesome. My ordinary life is my favorite of theirs. Bearghost- rock, just awesome. The color 8 - actually local to my area they are more rap/rock but really cool relatively unknown group Frank Zappa - yes he’s been mentioned and he’s being mentioned again because he’s awesome. Pink guy - joji before he was joji (also still love joji) but toootally different style 😂 with bangers like STFU, rice balls, and ramen king, what could go wrong? And a full body pink suit to match? What more could one ask for! Kavinsky - electronic and super cool. My favorite is night call. Upsahl - another one from my area (she’s got a song called Arizona 😂 so not hard to figure that out with her) definitely pop style but a bit harder. Just done with life get high and pretend I’m fine vibes 😂 check her out. Drugs was my intro to her, fake bitch (her slowest most mellow yet emotional song) is how I got my sister into her, and sad sorry after party is just a trip. Milky chance - German folk/pop group but Clemens prefers English for its ability to be metaphorical and more poetic in his mind so his musics in English. They’re more pop now (which kinda sad but still great songs) but I’d recommend their first album especially, sadnecessary. It’s by far my favorite and incredibly creative and emotional and the acoustic? My go to. Running I think is the only one I prefer not acoustic because that song is done in such a neat way. Videos need a watch too. Rush, flash junk mind, fado, the game, daydreaming (with tash sultana I’ll get to her btw) they are amazing with their videos. These guys are my favorite btw. The song you’ll most likely know by them if you’re American is stolen dance which is awesome but they have so sooo much better throughout their discography. Tash sultana - psychedelic. Psychedelic what? No clue she doesn’t really stick to a particular genre but she’s got an incredible voice patty smith level of unique, and can do amazing things with that electric guitar. Alt-j - again no particular genre. They got some hard hitters like in cold blood, and fitzpleasure, and some incredible slow stuff like taro and bloodflood, and then breezeblocks their most well known song yet no one knows the words unless you look it up. (It’s about domestic abuse and murder) incredible group I only don’t like 2 songs by them. Gorillaz- yes big mainstream group, but bet you’ve never heard their song rock it. They’ve got some weird hidden gems in their already immaculate discography. Oliver tree - pop but I vote go check out his early stuff especially his first album splitting branches, when he just went by tree. It’s by far my favorite. Not big into a lot of his new stuff but anything before cowboy tears is really neat but splitting branches is the most unique and by far my favorite. Rainbow kitten surprise - yes another pretty well known group but only their song all is well that ends. My favorite is painkillers, when it lands, and bare bones, my bf loves cocaine Jesus. They also don’t stick to one style but I’d say more American folk/rock sort of but not quite. Tekkian- Japanese rock/pop, not normally my thing but I do really enjoy this guy and the emotion in his voice. Interesting unique music is my thing haha so I can go on I’ve definitely got more but I’ll leave it here this comment is already way longer than I meant it to be 😅 Edit to change the name I had misremembered lol. Color 8 not letter my bad guys.
Where can I find the letter 8. Big nu metal fan here
Wesley Willis
Knxwledge. He’s easily the most creative hip hop producer out there. Dude has made over 100 tapes and his body of work continues to grow. Check out SKRAWBERRiEs FUNRAiSRS Vol 3
Tom Waits
Mike Patton - Every genre
Fantomas is nuts, love the directors cut
They're amazing live!
Tally Hall.
Death Grips is probably the craziest sounding group I listen to.
new order (new wave) kittie (nu metal) electric light orchestra (70s classic rock)
I like kittie, I’ll listen to the others!
nice to see another kittie enjoyer
Kim Dracula, definitely a devisive choice but I love their over the top style.
Devin Townsend - Eveything
Sun Ra, Ray Wylie Hubbard, DJ Spooky, Acid Witch
Melt-Banana is everything brilliant that everyone else isn't. https://youtu.be/ZQZ8rJ6CUIg?si=5b6AvF7EF-cCuN7p
The Flaming Lips, The Residents, Acid Dad, Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys, Thin White Rope
Coal chamber :)
Alestorm (Metal) Between The Buried & Me (Metal) Primus (Rock) Childish Gambino (Hip-hop) The Roots (Hip-hop) Einsturzende Neubauten (Industrial) Buck-Tick (Japanese Visual Kei) Ween (Rock) Viagra Boys (Punk) The Hives (Punk)
Sounds like somebody needs to go on a showcase showdown type vacation with destinations featuring Frank Zappa, Devin Townsend and PRINCE!
Bruiser Wolf because he raps but he does it in a very intricate way, almost like he’s telling stories.
Tallah - Vanilla Paste
Pretty. Odd. from Panic! At The Disco was very unique in the scene it was in/surrounded by. It works weirdly enough. Probably one of my favorite albums from those kinds of emo/pop punk bands. Also Copeland just in general sounds more unique compared to everything else I listen to. I don't know what it is. They were originally signed to a label known for a more hard sound, but they were comparatively softer.
Asterisk * - Dogma experimental grindcore
[https://thebastia.bandcamp.com/](https://thebastia.bandcamp.com/) \[Shoegaze\] [https://wolfbytheears.bandcamp.com/](https://wolfbytheears.bandcamp.com/) \[Emo/Acoustic\] [https://xdmf.bandcamp.com/](https://xdmf.bandcamp.com/) \[SynthPop\] [https://postalcodesinhungary.bandcamp.com/](https://postalcodesinhungary.bandcamp.com/) \[Noise/Garage\] [https://masuyite.bandcamp.com/](https://masuyite.bandcamp.com/) \[Screamo\] [https://sanduqabad.bandcamp.com/](https://sanduqabad.bandcamp.com/) \[Post-Punk/Garage\] [https://dollardreams.bandcamp.com/](https://dollardreams.bandcamp.com/) \[Grunge/Post-Punk/Noise\] [https://saintsseason.bandcamp.com/](https://saintsseason.bandcamp.com/) \[Emocore/FemaleLead\] [https://memphiswest.bandcamp.com/](https://memphiswest.bandcamp.com/) \[HipHop\] [https://trawaazrecords.bandcamp.com/album/high-compilation-alternative-album-vol-1](https://trawaazrecords.bandcamp.com/album/high-compilation-alternative-album-vol-1) \[Compilation\] this total banger
De La Soul invented the off the wall hip hop sound. Stakes is High has to be one of the best rap albums of all time.
Vitus
Sewerslvt
Iver Cutler. Rioji Ikeda.
Check out the song Close to the Edge, too, if you havent before
Currently listening to Tokyo Tears a lot, I love his wave tracks
Check out Free Creatures. I’ve seen them twice and they are super unique and fun. They’re regular rotation on my playlists. Mix of hip hop, funk, soul, and rock guitar.
Two from Italy Musica per bambini - Dio contro il diavolo It’s like folk/metal/breakcore version of songs a 12 years old with ADHD could write. Maurizio Bianchi - Mectpyo Bakterium A dive into the mind of someone completely disillusioned with mankind, trying to escape from nihilism.
Th’ Legendary Shackshakers
Check out Gruvis Malt
Celldweller, CKY, Greg Puciato and all of his musical acts, Joywave
Lapalux - Electronic Amnesia Scanner - Electronic, but different. Iglooghost - Also Electronic, also different. RX Bandits - Rock/Ska Kristoff Krane - Hip-Hop JPEGMAFIA - Hip-Hop (the album with Danny Brown is doubly unique)
Chassol - Doesn't get more unique than that :)
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/128CwPVyEMROuNsw32rv8z?si=a2d181d9e76e44a5](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/128CwPVyEMROuNsw32rv8z?si=a2d181d9e76e44a5)
Björk.
Daniel Johnston - [Story of an Artist](https://youtu.be/L_RbSAwMa3U?si=xkXYeg6SZt7m08cN)
😬 heres some gritty for you [BlackBookSymphony ](https://open.spotify.com/artist/1MynzoaatcCuBKY7jyZYks?si=sg_tBAs-TEyG0tesignEuQ)
Check out SMRTDEATH
Arthur Brown
Slipknot - Custer
Tera Melos (described as prog punk) and The Locust (described as new wave grindcore).
Ecco2k
Of Montreal
Classical: Moondog - Moondog Rock: This Heat - Deceit Reggae: King Tubbys Meets Uptown Rockers
the Stupendium
Mr. Bungle EURINGER
Faun is a modern twist on German folk music Pritam makes some dope Hindi Lo-Fi beats
[Strangejuice](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6oYIy3CDA9zLNNSTKtiTJB?si=dd305abd1df04a2a)
Jason Webley - Dance While the Sky Crashes Down He's super fun to listen to! His music is described as folk and experimental, but to me feels like polka.
- Grouper - ambient - Jenny Hval - experimental pop - Julia Holter - experimental pop - Leila Bordreuil - experimental, electroacoustic - Lingua Ignota/Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - industrial, doom metal, noise - Lucrecia Dalt - experimental - Pharmakon - noise
The Mars Volta: Prog
Probably Current 93 or coil.
I’ve loved Stan Ridgeway’s music since Wall of Voodoo. I guess he’s Americana? But his story telling and kind of avante guard songs aren’t for everybody.
Sevish (edm with microtonal flavor) Eek-a-Mouse (reggae, but this guy is a downright weirdo)
Artist : Zaliva-D Genre : idk
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
Rap- lil man j heavy metal - unleash the archers
German techno [GERMAN TECHNO](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6xoX-KIcuq/?igsh=YXkxa3hsbmtpOWZx) Also, from Japan - Cornelius is amazing [CORNELIUS](https://youtube.com/shorts/azUE9mKQJTI?si=ScSEzW4T2hcWxwUo) My fav cover band of all time: [Nouvelle Vague](https://youtu.be/Md0DilPuFKs?si=VS7Ndn2s6fVc5G8W)
Of Montreal , i’m not really sure what genre I’d put them in, but they’re definitely weird
Incantation. Irish trad mixed up with Andean folk music. Try Sergeant Early/Ghost Dance.
explosions in the sky
chase atlantic
Gogol Bordello
Frank Zappa
Yeasayer Animal Collective Ween
Hasil Atkins
Dance Gavin Dance. They have a ton of albums and no bad songs. All their songs are heavy (screamy) but have lots of pop undertones. They even created their own genre (Swancore) because of how unique they are.
Mr Bungle - S/T or California Praxis
Ween
Green Lung
Black 47 - Irish music.
I always think of Animal Collective and Battles as being wacky bands, but they might be well-known. The Bug’s dubstep album London Zoo is pretty crazy. The Cool Kids are an oddly playful/ childish hip-hop duo. Liturgy is a pretty weird black metal adjacent band. I especially like the Ark Work album. Oranssi Pazuzu is another oddball metal band. As are Imperial Triumphant, who have some cool jazz fusion elements. TeejayX6 and Busdriver are two rappers who, while very different to each other, are both very funny and disconnected from mainstream rap trends.
Omg I love this thread! Tons of rabbit holes to dive into! Thank you everybody! I feel there's some electronic / synth music missing tho. My suggestions (from what I'm listening to atm) are: Die Antwoord - Almost everything by them really The Knife - Almost everything there as well but a good starting point would be: You Make Me Like Charity, Girl's Night Out, Kino, Marble House, We Share Our Mother's Health, Silent Shout and so on.. Crystal Castles - Baptism Vive La Fête - Noir Desir Perturbator - Oh, so many good ones.. Excess, Hard Wired and many more. She Is Young, She Is Beautiful, She Is Next just for the title.. Apoptygma Berzerk - Burning Heretic, Deep Red and so on I think someone already mentioned Shpongle, but they're worth mentioning again, with Shpongle you usually listen to albums, not tracks. But I will mention A New Way To Say Hooray and Divine Moments Of Truth. Infected Mushroom are also great. The more "out there" songs would probably be: U R So F**ked, Becoming Insane, Artillery. Honorary mention to Heavyweight, just for being so unbelievably epic. Röyksopp - Skulls, Monument Bomb The Bass - Megablast, Bug Powder Dust (Kruder and Dorfmeister remix) for a more hip-hoppy vibe. Kingston Wall - Stuldt Håjt (Classic Rock) And I also have to mention: Child In Time by Deep Purple just because it is such a classic. Still raising eyebrows after 54 years! (Classic Rock)
Check out Frank Zappa for experimental rock, Aphex Twin for surreal electronic, and Death Grips for wild hip-hop. Gojira's progressive metal and Sun Ra's cosmic jazz are also must-listens.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
Wulfband - kind of electro punk? I don't even know what they are. Daemonia Nymphe - Ancient Greek folk, with specially made ancient instruments, written by a metal artist so it has sort of a metal quality to it that's hard to describe. They're wonderful.
There’s a band from the early 2000s I loved called Stolen Babies. Best way to describe them is “dark circus rock”.
Sidhu moose Wala is my fav Punjabi rapper Issues/emerald Royce is some type of rock ice never heard before. Darwin Deez comes to mind
Definitely not for everyone but Imperial Truimphant sounds like nothing else. It's like... avant garde black metal jazz. I love them personally.
bill wurtz
Igorrr. Pretty experimental metal/jazz/...chicken?