Two examples that come to me immediately are Enya and Smashing Pumpkins. If music starts feeling stale, I can put on Enya and music feels new again. It’s such a pleasant departure from the standard pop/rock/RnB etc sounds that dominate (even if I like those artists).
Anybody have their own equivalents?
Mutaforia Lili’s several following albums are in the same vein. Also, the dude is a fan of dadaism, and the record prices are rather tongue-in-cheek: I remember them being 666 bucks or something like that at one point. He won’t really mind if you rip the music from Bandcamp with yt-dlp (as he published his music in a local social network), but he sure could use some money considering he’s in Ukraine.
I might add some more bands later, as I likewise dig those with unique sound. I’m also thinking of creating a community for unusual music in this vein, but ironically can’t think of a non-boring name.
For now, check out The Residents. On that album, they incorporated a bunch of melodies from popular music, so it probably sounded even more wild at the time.
And perhaps Nurse With Wound’s ‘Homotopy To Marie’.
You might also like some of what I’m posting in the music communities, e.g.:
John Zorn’s ‘Naked City’
UneXpect’s ‘In a Flesh Aquarium’
Hans Reichel’s ‘Yuxo: A New Daxophone Operetta’
Black Pus
dimsunk aka Max Sansalone
Chipmunks on 16 Speed
I will look into all of those, thank you again. I would definitely like to support someone currently in Ukraine. The personal reports from Kyiv sound frightening.
The community sounds great. Are you trying to avoid a literal/ descriptive name?
I want it descriptive but also at least somewhat quirky. An odd twist is that peculiar naming was how I dealt with boredom of programming in my day job — it was a bit of a specialty of mine, so now having only a boring straightforward name for stuff that’s actually interesting is downright embarrassing. I probably need to get drunk and fire up the thesaurus.
It’s tricky because the name and sidebar carry the job of letting people know the nuance that it’s not just for posting bands we like.