What is the strangest song you know?
Visit the link to the Insomnia Report, and a post from February.....Staggman sent me this link....the intrepid commentator suggests the strangest R&B song ever recorded is I'm Gonna Unmask the Batman, by Sun Ra. hmmmmmmm.
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I guess it really comes down to what you actually mean by strange; that track you cite is outside the mainstream, but it's pretty tame compared to a lot of stuff in the mainstream of modern art music, and that doesn't even need to include Yoko Ono's "Yesterday I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City". Consider just about anything chose for the repetoire of Cathy Berberian, esp any Luciano Berio works.
But for just other-worldly can't put my finger on it strange, there's a track called Wende on the Ran Blake album Rapport that features a female vocal in a melody and harmonic support by Ran Blake's piano that are just at the very teetering edge of The Dreaming, downright spine-tingling beautiful and unforgetful, but alient and surreal.
So Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton & the band Oregon may've been influenced by the school of Third Stream- but Sun Ra's-unmasking of Batman includes Buddy Guy!
STAGG aka Staggman
I always thought Chuck Barry's "My Ding-A-Ling" was the strangest song, for a whole bunch of reasons. My favrite line from that song goes;
Once I was climbing the garden wall.
Man I slipped and had a terrible fall.
I fell so hard that I heard bells ring,
but I held on to my Ding-A-Ling.
Within Ra's catalogue, I'm Gonna Unmask the Batman is pretty tame stuff, especially when compared to Sun Ra Meets John Cage (which may or may not qualify as a song). However, if strange is what you are after, i suggest you give a listen to Tiny Tim's song, "Never Hit Your Grandma in the Head With a Shovel, It Leaves a Bad Impression on her Mind".
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