Most Psychotic Album

[bif]

I'd have to say its a tie between "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" and Wild Man Fisher.

[ret5hd]

1. anything by diamanda galas

[Wickerman]

2. pretty much anything by Bongwater

would work for me.

[Jack The Tab]

37. I second that...

Can't go wrong with Double Bummer...

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Pat Boone "In a Metal Mood"

[slackmaster]

4. I was going to say "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"

But you beat me to it.

[markus]

7. Is this the "Fire" song dude?

[slackmaster]

9. Affirmative

[arlib]

34. He's been...

...singing with Hawkwind recently.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. 20 Golden Greats by Bubonique.

[flakey_foont]

6. The Madcap Laughs

Barrett............

also, don't know if he ever actually made an album,, but, for plain old nutcases............Napoleon 14 "They're Coming to Take me Away Haha"

[mac56]

8. the album

[flakey_foont]

12. Wonder how many of them actually sold

as I recall, isn't the flip side of the sngle..the song done backwards?

[mac56]

13. Yup

Even the label was printed backwards.

I used to drive my sister crazy and chase away all her friends by playing it.

[flakey_foont]

16. And yet,,,,

for some inexplicable reason,, he never became a big star...
shocking, positively shocking!

[mac56]

20. Sometimes fate is cruel.

nm

[arlib]

40. Kim Fowley...

...wrote and produced this iirc.

[flamingyouth]

10. Trout Mask Replica, by Captain Beefheart

[Wickerman]

48. a fine choice!

Its no Foghat, but still, pretty psychotic!

[VOX]

52. Gets my vote, too!

Beefheart in top form. Great stuff, but it'll make your ears bleed if you listen in time segments longer than 10 minutes.

:toast:

[quispquake]

11. Skip Spence "Oar"

Lyrically, this is about this most twisted album I've ever heard...

On edit...FY...you're probably right :)

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Metal Machine Music

by Lou Reed. No contest.
The Professor

[Tikki]

15. Just about anything by......

The Meteors or The Cramps.

[DBoon]

17. anything by Einsturzende Neubaten

eom

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. Can't remember any titles but Marianne Faithful did some wild stuff

in the 80's

[Misunderestimator]

22. "Broken English" from 1979

Though my classical collection exceeds my contemporary collection at least 100-fold, I do have an eclectic little collection.
This little gem of a CD has some crazy songs.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. I wouldn't call it psychotic though. It's honest.

Unless women being honest is considered psychosis by our male-dominated patriarchal fascist state,of course.
(OK, I'm determined to start a flamewar today) :evilgrin:

[Misunderestimator]

27. LOL... good answer... no, not psychotic.

No flames from me... :)

[Bridget Burke]

29. She wasn't psychotic, just pissed off.

She'd come a long way from being the icy princess, plaything of the Stones. Was still into heroin when she began her comeback--but produced some amazing albums.

Last I heard, she's much healthier. And she's still producing interesting music--far better than her old flame Mick's latest.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. England's establishment, police and pop culture totally fucked her over

Her life story is a hell of a read. I recommend people check it out.

[tigereye]

32. well it does seem like that sometimes

;)


no it's that album with the guy holding a razor behind his back, Kevin... something. Blast, I had a friend who was obsessed with that guy and used to show me that album all the time. Shit. Memory gone.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Yeah that's it!

and SLB is right, it's honest but WAAAAYYY over the top honest

[Search Party]

19. Ascension by John Coltrane

[qb]

21. My fave: Alice Cooper: From the Inside

[Magrittes Pipe]

24. Nico's "The Marble Index" has to be up there somewhere.

Cage's arrangements were fucking mad on that record.

[Bridget Burke]

25. "The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders"

Peter Stampfl & Steve Weber played & sang acoustic old-timey with an edge on their first 2 albums. One song (recorded in 1963) included the first recorded use of the word "psychedelic". These remain classics.

By 1968, they'd gone electric, added members (including Sam Shepard) & recorded with The Fugs. They'd also gotten much further into various consciousness-altering substances.

You may remember "The Bird Song" from the Easy Rider soundtrack; that's the more "normal" song on The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders. "Dame Fortune" is lovely & slightly scary; "The Werewolf Song" is really scary. Then, there's "The STP Song", etc. Truly crazed.

And my nomination for Most Psychotic Single: "Paralyzed" by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. (Although some of Roky Erickson's later works would also qualify.)

[perardua]

28. not to mention Indian War Whoop.....

described once as "virtually unlistenable".....

[Bridget Burke]

30. I think I managed to listen to it.....

Once?

I've got it on vinyl & am amazed that it's been released as a CD.

[pbg]

35. The Legendary Stardust Cowboy

Holy Shit...

We got a promo single into our college radio station by him.

"I took a trip on a Gemini spaceship...and I thought about youuuuuuuu..."

We played it every day.

[Magrittes Pipe]

36. Hhhhehehehheeeeyyyhhhaa!!! Para-LYZED!

:D

[Bridget Burke]

42. He's got a website.

More than a one-hit wonder. Well, it wasn't much of a hit, but it sure made a lot of people wonder.

www.stardustcowboy.com/

[FredScuttle]

33. "The Transformed Man"

I think that was the title of William Shatner's late-60's oddity....the one where he sang that psychotic version of "Mr. Tambourine Man"

[WilliamPitt]

38. Zappa: 'Freak Out!'

[DBoon]

49. Just side 3 & 4

"Help I'm a rock" and "monster magnet"

[arlib]

39. Red Krayola's...

"The Parable of Arable Land".
On the same label as the 13th Floor Elevators (International Artists), produced by Lelan Rogers (Kenny's bro') in 1967.
Contains songs like Hurricane Fighter Plane and Transparent Radiation (covered by Spacemen 3).
...sample lyric:

Selfless man slip by my side
Uttering words about the turning tide, and
She slowly furnishes my continuous ride
Towards insanitary bits of hide
Hair quite long and lavender-dyed
Split nostrils are green open wide
Velvet breasts with crimson legs astride
Uttering words about a turning tide
And she asks me can I ever provide
Transparent radiation

[Bridget Burke]

43. "God Bless the Red Krayola and All who Sail with It"

Their second album was also a minimalist gem--without the "white noise" of the Familiar Ugly.

Ah, Houston in the 60's!

[arlib]

44. Mayo Thompson's solo lp...

..."Corky's Debt To His Father" is also pretty out there....
I have the vinyl of "Indian War Whoop" by the HMR's also. An endurance test.

[skypilot]

41. Karen Finley's "Tales of Taboo"...

...or at least the title track. Sample lyric:

"You, don't own me, BASTARD!! You fucking ASSHOLE!! You say you want to suck my PUSSY. Well, let me suck you DICK..."

It gets more "pyschotic" from there.

[JSJ]

54. i like finley nt

[arlib]

45. Another candidate...

...is Brainticket's "Cottonwood Hill" lp from 1971. A mind fryer, trip to it and you might never come back.

[Rambis]

46. Psychic TV

Weird stuff man
http://www.invisiblerecords.com/bands/genesis/

[Tikki]

47. Alot of theirs.....

Nina Hagen
Wendy O. Williams & The Plasmatics

[Character Assassin]

50. Anything by Yoko 'unlistenable' Ono

[David Zephyr]

51. Anything By the Thirteenth Floor Elevators.

Great stuff.

[enigmatic]

53. "The Big Problem" by Crispin Hellion Glover

His insane take on "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" is worth it for that track alone..