Surreal music...got any favorites?

[RetiredUSNChief]

So, working the 12 hour back shift, I often have youtube up playing music when I'm desk-bound. I have a variety of ways to select the music...obviously, music I know is one. Another is to pick a song and search covers of the song. You get a lot of really cool renditions this way, and some are quite talented.

Anyway, I ran across an oldie from my childhood that I've always loved, and it struck me how surreal the lyrics were. It's a simple song...simple music, simply rhythm, simple lyrics. But the lyrics and delivery are very surreal.

Angie Baby, as sung by Helen Reddy. It was written by Alan O'Day.

This video has a cartoon made for the song which really plays up on the surreal nature.

 

[JimP42]

SomaFM has a bunch of channels including one that is all covers. Bound to be something there you'd find interesting.

 

[gc70]

Rocky Raccoon

 

[ronn47]

Radio Gaga



He might have sucked a dong, but damn he could sing.

 

[noway2]

I had to go back 25 years to think of it, but I encountered a group called The Dead Can Dance back when I worked in a long gone music store chain called Coconuts.

Plenty of their stuff on YouTube that first the definition.

 

[SimpleMan]

Not sure exactly what your definition of surreal is in this instance, but to me, Maynard is about as surreal as it gets.

 

[JimP42]

I had to go back 25 years to think of it, but I encountered a group called The Dead Can Dance back when I worked in a long gone music store chain called Coconuts.

Plenty of their stuff on YouTube that first the definition.

God thought. The whole 4AD record label they were on was quite interesting, mostly very good, and up this alley.

 

[3ought2]

My favorite cover of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love?

 

[Ghost1]

Not sure exactly what your definition of surreal is in this instance, but to me, Maynard is about as surreal as it gets.

Def in the top ten songs ever

 

[Ghost1]

Wheeler walker jr.


Just search youtube.

 

[georgel]

Sigur Rós



ETA


Don't try to understand the lyrics. There aren't any. It's not a real language.

 

[Ghost1]

I could listen to fever rays "if I had a heart" forever

I love Celtic music

 

[tanstaafl72555]

1983... A Merman I should Turn to be... which seques into Moon Turn the Tides gently gently away ... Electric Ladyland- Hendrix
Meddle- Pink Floyd.

Two of the trippiest songs ever done and I still love them. Used to go to sleep about every night listening to one of these.

 

[georgel]

1983... A Merman I should Turn to be... which seques into Moon Turn the Tides gently gently away ... Electric Ladyland- Hendrix
Meddle- Pink Floyd.

Two of the trippiest songs ever done and I still love them. Used to go to sleep about every night listening to one of these.

Wow. My daughter used to run the Omni-Max theatre in Charlotte when they were doing Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. 180* of laser light show backed with 16,000 watts of amplification over 32 speakers and subwoofers is about as trippy as you can get. The building literally rocked.