Songs that sound like nothing else

[NWBuck 8557]

I'd posit that Yoko Ono meets the criterion for this thread, but there's no way in hell I'm posting any clips of her noise.

[TexasHooch 5122]

Great call on Sigur Ros. I was going to Mention Jonsi's vocals specifically, but I had already suggested Bjork and didn't want to flood the zone with Icelanders.

[smuggs 9353]

Just now, NWBuck said:

I'd posit that Yoko Ono meets the criterion for this thread, but there's no way in hell I'm posting any clips of her noise.

Songs that sound like sapphic hyena intercourse is that way --->

[noharleyyet 2838]

 

[hullabelew 3724]

I didn't know what I was hearing when I first heard this, but it was a completely new sound.  

 

[jimmyjazz 45920]

Regarding "25 or 6 to 4":  George Harrison ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps") and Led Zeppelin ("Babe I'm Gonna Leave You") have a thing or two to say about that.  But, it's a riff, not a sound, so judge's ruling is "acceptable".

[jimmyjazz 45920]

16 minutes ago, hullabelew said:

I didn't know what I was hearing when I first heard this, but it was a completely new sound.  

That drags me back to mid-80s clubs in Austin with all the "New Sincerity" bands.  Everyone was copying REM as best they could, with a little Husker Du and 'mats thrown in for the more aggressive boys.

[Shoxthemonkey 1977]

Steven Reich. Royksop has a kickass version but this was one I hadn't heard before today.

Pat Matheny's version was jaw-dropping the first time I ever heard any Reich works.

Edited February 24, 2021 by Shoxthemonkey

[jimmyjazz 45920]

Yeah, I was thinking "Philip Glass" but he was influenced by Reich, so it seemed unlikely.

[Mole 4333]

Can’t forget Harry Partch. He certainly fits this thread. The documentaries about his music might be more interesting than his music. He made his own instruments dividing the octave into 43 unequally tempered notes and acted as his own publishing company, mailing out records to fans. It’s hard listening, like the music the lizard people might make, but it’s worth a little time.

 

[Rip76 4925]

 

 

 

[sidis 9828]

2 hours ago, sidis said:

two songs on one album completely changed shit for the next decade.  security by peter gabriel...san jacinto and rhythm of the heat.

 

 

building on this...i would say genesis when pete was part of the band and a major driver of the artistic direction was pretty original. 

jacobo peri's dafne and euridice obviously set the stage for the following three centuries of opera.

[Rip76 4925]

This or "Been Caught Stealing."

[Goredho 17404]

I hadn't heard anything like Amon Tobin's "Bridge" or the other songs from his Permutation album when it came out in 1998.  Kind of like the mutant musical offspring of Miles Davis and the Chemical Brothers.
 

 

[Goredho 17404]

Another one, which isn't like anything I heard before I heard it.   Other epic, pink floyd proggy pieces like Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Dogs had their roots here.
 

 

Edited February 24, 2021 by Goredho

[Goredho 17404]

And a final one that came to mind with the original post
 

 

[Bojack 2081]

6 hours ago, smuggs said:

This one blew my mind up as a 12 year old. I mean I was well aware of hip hop then but the subject matter was eye-opening for me, and I had never heard anything like it. And it was fucking awesome.

 

 

Something interesting I learned a few years ago is that Chuck D created the logo himself and that he has a degree in graphic design.

 

[Pescado_Rojo 19416]

3 hours ago, Rip76 said:

This or "Been Caught Stealing."

I'm a huge Jane's fan, but I'm not sure two songs from their 3rd album could be considered ground breaking. As a band, they kind of put a hair band spin on RHCP punk/funk, and I've always thought Perry seemed like a mash-up of Iggy Pop and Stephen Tyler. 

[BrickHorn 18230]

3 hours ago, Rip76 said:

This or "Been Caught Stealing."

Good call. I thought about posting “3 Days.”

[PRONG HORN 3146]

3 hours ago, Rip76 said:

This or "Been Caught Stealing."

 

I think it would have to be "Chip Away", or maybe "Ted, Just Admit It...".

 

59 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'm a huge Jane's fan, but I'm not sure two songs from their 3rd album could be considered ground breaking. As a band, they kind of put a hair band spin on RHCP punk/funk, and I've always thought Perry seemed like a mash-up of Iggy Pop and Stephen Tyler. 

 

They weren't hair band spin at all.  In the late 80s and early 90s it was RHCP who were the hair band next to Jane's art rock.  Jane's was known as the more artistically honest band, and the Peppers were the guys in it just for the fun.

[PRONG HORN 3146]

I'm sure some of these qualify. 

00:00 - Opening Ceremony

03:15 - In Maidjan

15:46 - Alfadhirhaiti

23:10 - Carpathian Forest

27:08 - Krigsgaldr

37:04 - Hakkerskaldyr

40:19 - Fylgija Ear / Futhorck

52:43 - Othan

1:03:09 - Hamrer Hippyer

 

 

 

[UTCzech III 2907]

 

[Mach 1 1677]

soundtrack, not song

Edited February 25, 2021 by Mach 1
see above

[DalTxHornFan 3101]

9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Regarding "25 or 6 to 4":  George Harrison ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps") and Led Zeppelin ("Babe I'm Gonna Leave You") have a thing or two to say about that.  But, it's a riff, not a sound, so judge's ruling is "acceptable".

I get the controversy about the 25 or 6 to 4 riff.  More importantly, listen closely to Terry Kath on that original recording.  He starts it off with some jazz/rock strumming then does other-worldly solos throughout the rest of the song.  He absolutely drives that song. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Dire Straits, Sultans Of  Swing. Very different sound than what was being played on most rock and roll stations.

Edited February 25, 2021 by Onboard 2.0

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

10 hours ago, NWBuck said:

I'd posit that Yoko Ono meets the criterion for this thread, but there's no way in hell I'm posting any clips of her noise.

Thank you....

[UTCzech III 2907]

 

[Hate 20108]

22 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

 

If we are posting classical then I would go with Haydn and the "Surprise Symphony".

 

[Mole 4333]

I'm not sure if this fits, because it sounds like every song at once, but John Oswald:

 

[ztejas 43425]

 

[washparkhorn 9939]

 

making music for mars. sonically unique. Grimes. 

Edited February 25, 2021 by washparkhorn
stick around for the drop at 45 seconds

[bernorange 8361]

Bohemian Rhapsody?

With regards to the Beatles, their early stuff was derivative schlock (fun and sugary, but nothing special).  Once they got big they had the power to break the record industry's chains and experimented a lot on Sgt. Peppers, The White Album, etc.  Those albums had some really wild shit that didn't get play on the radio.

[bonnieblue 542]

I’d posit the following:

Ann Peebles - I Can’t Stand the Rain 

-I think this one is a bit debatable, but I still maintain that it stands out.

Missy Elliot - (piggy backing on the above) The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) and Gossip Folks

-The stuff she was putting out in that era really didn’t sound like anything else, despite that broader type of music getting really popular.

[hullabelew 3724]

17 hours ago, Goredho said:

And a final one that came to mind with the original post
 

 

This was next on my list.  I read a Ken Tucker review in Rolling Stone in early 1979  and drove 30 miles to the closest place I could buy it.   The review said something about "it sounds like they are aware this music is completely different than everything else, and they don't care."  That caught my eye.  He also sort of predicted the album/band was headed to obscurity and that wasn't fair.   All through the next summer, it rarely came out of the tape player in my pickup.    Friends would get in and say, WTF is this?  

 

And Bohemian Rhapsody?  I saw first saw that on Midnight Special and had no idea what I was hearing, but I loved it.  I used to record the show from my TV to a portable cassette recorder and listen to it.  I wore that episode out.  

Edited February 25, 2021 by hullabelew

[Chad Fuck 17677]

10 hours ago, Hate said:

If we are posting classical then I would go with Haydn and the "Surprise Symphony".

 

csb/ This is at the Hagia Irene in Istanbul.  It was the church of churches in eastern Christendom before the Hagia Sofia was constructed.  I was there in November and it wasn't nearly this neat or clean.  It is essentially an empty shell, there's a big net hung from the mezzanine to keep the birds from getting in the higher reaches, but it doesn't work.  I'd love to see a show there sometime though.  What a venue.  

[Steel Shank 9425]

 

[davidg 4037]

Any part or all of this

 

 

[Buzzrock 14920]

As big a fan as I am of that band and song, I'm not sure it fits.  I guess it does in some sense, but the nod to The Pixies is clear (and Cobain admitted it).
To me, the chord progression always echoed "Godzilla" by (irony) Blue Oyster Cult.  Some people say Boston's "More Than A Feeling", but I think that's a copout.  It's just not the same thing.
 

Everything is influenced by something, and everyone is different so I’m not trying to argue.

But I remember sitting on the patio at the Taco Stand in Athens, GA when I first heard that song and saying to my friends, “Are you hearing this?”

They put the loud-quiet-loud thing on the map and it endured for decades. There hasn’t been a sea change like that in rock since.

[Buzzrock 14920]

You wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts!

[jimmyjazz 45920]

22 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

There hasn’t been a sea change like that in rock since.

No argument there.

[TexPx 2323]

Still pretty unique.


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[davidg 4037]

 

[noharleyyet 2838]

 

[noharleyyet 2838]

 

[yoladu 4094]

Velvet Underground - Heroin (1967)

the subject matter, the up and down tempo, the percussion, the narrative, the viola. I would have to imagine it blew anyone's mind who heard it in 1967.

 

[yoladu 4094]

On 2/23/2021 at 4:30 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Post some songs that sound like nothing else that came before, or alternatively, post evidence that a previous example is wrong.

Pretty sure a death metal song featuring a grey parrot on vocals is something that sounds like nothing else that came before.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatebeak

 

[Chad Fuck 17677]

There's some good ones in here.  Here are a couple that blew my mind when I first heard them:

 

[TexPx 2323]

Maybe they invented Dreampop? Not sure, but I had never heard anything quite like this before.


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[TexPx 2323]

I was somewhat familiar with AfroPop from King Sunny Ada and Fela Kuti when this came out, but what the TH did with it blew me away.

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[dogbreath 434]

Heard them on KPFT back in early 80s and special shout out to them for forming Ralph Records.