Pink Floyd is hella weird if you listen to their early albums, especially the Syd Barrett era. “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” is the quintessential psychedelic rock album. Syd Barrett (the original guitarist and songwriter of the band) was the Thelonious Monk of guitar. “Interstellar Overdrive” off the “Piper” album is as weird as weird can be. Even the “Ummagumma” album with David Gilmour on the album was very weird, because they were still trying to emulate Syd Barrett’s style. Flaming Lips has some weird material, too, but I don’t listen to them much.
Early Pink Floyd was a mix of commercial Beatlesy pop, and really weird experimental freak-out proto-punk proto-industrial noise music. The avant-garde noise band AMM and free jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra were among Syd Barrett’s influences.
@psychedelicpiper999 true true. But ive always admired how pink floyd commercialised their weirdness. They succeeded on another level compared to other psychedelic bands.
You reviewed Animal Collective’s most commercial material. Their weirdest albums would be “Ark” (also known as “Here Comes the Indian), “Danse Manatee”, “Centipede Hz”, among others.
Well “Centipede Hz” is more weird in terms of the layered maximalist production, but the other 2 are weird in terms of the song structures and noisy collage instrumentals. (I would avoid “Danse Manatee” if you are sensitive to high-pitched frequencies.) The “Transverse Temporal Gyrus” EP is really weird, too.
@@roya5280 While I acknowledge there’s many faux weird artists that aren’t really weird at all, they’re just commodifying the aesthetic for the sake of popularity; there’s also quite a number of legitimately weird artists who’ve also managed to release commercially accessible music. Animal Collective are the latter. They’ve done avant-garde noise rock albums, they’ve done freak folk, they’ve done electronic pop, and they’ve done varying flavors of psychedelic rock. All of them share a weirdness. Even “Merriweather Post Pavilion” has touches of weird on the album, despite being very poppy and commercially accessible. Although I’ll admit their latest string of albums are their most normal releases to-date, and I don’t find them very interesting. Their best work, by far, is the string of albums they released from 2000-2012.
Yes, thats true. Weird does fall into a more opinion-based thing. If the mass loves it, even tho it has weird elements, it will not be "weird" to most people. I believe this is what makes it tricky. for me, its when i want to rip my ears off :DD
@@roya5280 Animal Collective had one popular album that got big with the Pitchfork crowd, but not big enough for the Grammy’s. Actually, there were technically a series of them. Best you just stick to the album recommendations I made in the beginning for their weirdest work.
Pink Floyd is hella weird if you listen to their early albums, especially the Syd Barrett era. “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” is the quintessential psychedelic rock album. Syd Barrett (the original guitarist and songwriter of the band) was the Thelonious Monk of guitar.
“Interstellar Overdrive” off the “Piper” album is as weird as weird can be. Even the “Ummagumma” album with David Gilmour on the album was very weird, because they were still trying to emulate Syd Barrett’s style.
Flaming Lips has some weird material, too, but I don’t listen to them much.
Early Pink Floyd was a mix of commercial Beatlesy pop, and really weird experimental freak-out proto-punk proto-industrial noise music.
The avant-garde noise band AMM and free jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra were among Syd Barrett’s influences.
@psychedelicpiper999 true true. But ive always admired how pink floyd commercialised their weirdness. They succeeded on another level compared to other psychedelic bands.
You reviewed Animal Collective’s most commercial material. Their weirdest albums would be “Ark” (also known as “Here Comes the Indian), “Danse Manatee”, “Centipede Hz”, among others.
Well “Centipede Hz” is more weird in terms of the layered maximalist production, but the other 2 are weird in terms of the song structures and noisy collage instrumentals.
(I would avoid “Danse Manatee” if you are sensitive to high-pitched frequencies.)
The “Transverse Temporal Gyrus” EP is really weird, too.
ok i shall review these albums too thwn😂
@@roya5280 While I acknowledge there’s many faux weird artists that aren’t really weird at all, they’re just commodifying the aesthetic for the sake of popularity; there’s also quite a number of legitimately weird artists who’ve also managed to release commercially accessible music.
Animal Collective are the latter. They’ve done avant-garde noise rock albums, they’ve done freak folk, they’ve done electronic pop, and they’ve done varying flavors of psychedelic rock.
All of them share a weirdness. Even “Merriweather Post Pavilion” has touches of weird on the album, despite being very poppy and commercially accessible.
Although I’ll admit their latest string of albums are their most normal releases to-date, and I don’t find them very interesting.
Their best work, by far, is the string of albums they released from 2000-2012.
Yes, thats true. Weird does fall into a more opinion-based thing. If the mass loves it, even tho it has weird elements, it will not be "weird" to most people. I believe this is what makes it tricky.
for me, its when i want to rip my ears off :DD
@@roya5280 Animal Collective had one popular album that got big with the Pitchfork crowd, but not big enough for the Grammy’s. Actually, there were technically a series of them.
Best you just stick to the album recommendations I made in the beginning for their weirdest work.