What is the most bizarre/eccentric music you listen to?

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Audiovisual albums are pretty fun/strange. I've loved iamamiwhoami for years.

Got some more stuff to share, couldn't resist, now that TC really meant different styles of music that aren't as popular/common.

Diablo Swing Orchestra is a band that combines metal and swing.



Leper combines ska, crust punk, reggae and black metal in their songs


Soul'd Out is a Japanese Hip Hop/R&B group



I like listening to some hybrid electronic score music once in a while


Some dark ambient, electronic-industrial music


Some Trip Rock



Trance Metal



And my most favorite rapper Rosko John

Here's one you might like

https://borismerzbow.bandcamp.com/

The first cd has elements of noise in it but its not predominately noise. Boris is not a noise band but the cd has parts that were added by Merzbow. The second disc is just Merzbow and follows what a lot of his noise music sounds like. Start out with noise and harsh noise. If you ever feel up to it also try HNW(Harsh Noise Wall). For most people it sounds like a wall of noise. To me and other fans it has subtle differences which makes it enthralling.

Serbian folk dance music

Hrmm, after looking through my collection, I'm not sure I have a lot that would be considered "weird," except maybe this group. It's all instrumental, and it includes a lot of instruments you wouldn't necessarily hear in mainstream music (a lot of accordions for example). It's not the kind of thing you'd hear on the radio that is for sure (though I think I originally heard this particular song in a commercial lol):





The band doesn't actually exist anymore, but they released a few albums before calling it quits, and I think there are offshoots now.

Prog rock can also get pretty weird (though that's often where my enjoyment of it ends).

95% of what I listen to is by ridiculously obscure classical composers, so I guess that counts as "eccentric." Not sure how "bizarre" it is... I like the early 20th century, and the many strange ways in which classical music was developing that kind of got forgotten once Serialism became the Official Music of the Future at universities.* Currently obsessed with Malipiero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzWyFWfZZOU

I went through a big "World Music" phase, back when you could still go to Borders to browse for completely random stuff. Got hooked on Klezmer music by an eerie album for clarinet and hammered dulcimer (Andy Statman and Zev Feldman). Tuvan folk/punk band Yat Kha had me wandering around throat-singing for ages. I have one album which really does have to be listened to through headphones: it's Breton folk music played on the bombarde and Breton bagpipes. Both instruments are incredibly high-pitched, and the drone of the pipes can send people fleeing from the house. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDwfBx2MzYc

*Bitter? Me?

While I don't think it's bizarre, I was listening to a metal song two weeks ago and my cat was sitting in front of me. It started out mellow then went into a full on metal instrumental with screaming. Her eyes got really wide as she looked at me and then she ran away. It was Shadows Die by Black Veil Brides.

Also, while once playing Patrick Stump's solo album Soul Punk, I was driving home. It startled my brother and father so greatly that when I pulled up in front of the door to park, they literally unlocked the door and jumped out of the car while it was still moving.

I obviously don't think my music is bizarre but even my animal disagrees with me. And I've been scaring my family for nearly two decades. They never know what they're going to hear.

Here is a list of the stuff I have listened to with joy that isn't obscure, per se, but bothers my mother (a very neurotypical person) due to how unconventional it is:

Primus
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefheart
The Residents
Miles Davis (during the fusion/jam periods of his career - 70s and very early 80s albums like "Star People" and "We Want Miles")

But the worst reaction from her - interestingly enough, since I think this music is interesting but "tame" from the perspective of dissonance or atonality (the traits in music which my mother cannot stand) when compared to the others above - was when I was listening to a Medeski, Scofield, Martin, and Wood live album in the car. She seemed to have a near full-fledged anxious breakdown and started to lose her cool, because some aspect of the music was bothering her. I was grooving to it. I thought it was amazing. Oh well.

^ Those are all good.

The most bizarre thing Ive ever listen to (not necesssarily liked , just heard ) is Tuvan "throat singing". Tuva is a little country between Russia, and outer Mongolia, inhabited by Mongol-type nomadic tribesmen who do a distinctive musical thing of singing several notes at a time straight from their throats. Professional musicians (like Mickey Hart) find it fascinating. To me it just sounds like they have frogs in their throats.

I have been told multiple times the music I listen to is not normal. I'm not good at knowing what is or is not bizarre where music is concerned... the stuff I listen to is normal to me. I'm just gonna grab y player and write out the first ten songs to show up on shuffle.

- The Crystal Method - (Can't You) Trip Like I Do
- Idle Worship - Doc Delay & Godforbid
- Chris Whitley - Living With the Law
- Caroline's Spine - Psycho
- Bongwater - Nick Cave Dolls
- Wednesday 13- Kill You Before You Kill Me
- Les Claypool - Booneville Stomp
- Sun@mun - Mr. Suitcase
- Lard - Can God Fill Teeth
- Puscifer - Cuntry Boner (Disco Viagra Mix)

As far as musical styles, my tastes vary pretty widely! But if I had to pick maybe the most jarring genre to people in general, I have a strong affinity for "Goth" music. Some favorites include Emilie Autumn, Paralysed Age, The Cure, Sonata Nocturna and a smattering of others.

Highly recommend:
Bloodsuckers by Paralysed Age
Dead is the New Alive by Emilie Autumn
The Darkest Winter by Sonata Nocturna

His later stuff isn't particularly goth, but I'm obsessed with anything by The Cure/Robert Smith. ^-^ Highly recommend The Cure to just about anybody. He had a pretty eccentric sound.

The most bizarre/eccentric music I listen to are:

John Cage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage

Karlheinz Stockhausen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen