I dunno. Weird is in the eye of the beholder, innit? I think K-Pop & those Japanese idol groups are weird as hell, but will quite happily sit and listen to William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, which was a project where he tried to recover old recordings from magnetic tapes to digital, but the tapes were so old & knackered that going over the tape head caused them to...well, disintegrate. So you get lots of interesting noises and crackling on it, in a cool ambienty droney kind of thing. And I like a bit of drone, ambient, noise, that sorta thing.
I guess Melt Banana are weird. Although weirder still is probably the friend I have who thinks Cell Scape is one of the great pop albums of this century. It's a great album, sure, but I think calling it pop is a bit...open minded.
Also weird to an "outsider", the whole DSBM scene. Black metal combined with emo and probably lashings of mental illness most of the time. There's something about the vocalist on this song, you have to wait about 1 minute 45 for him to come in but it's certainly a thing.
Other examples? Nurse With Wound's entire discography is uneasy listening. Venetian Snares' glitchy breakcore is a lot of fun. But as I say, narrowing down what's weird is hard. I can guess what other people might think is weird, but shit like SunnO))) is pretty normal to me at this point. The Fall are probably quite weird except that most people who follow indie music are presumably at least aware of them and what they are trying to do. But hearing Mark E. Smith & friends for the first time is an experience.
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