Weird songs that are pretty.

[baby_mouse]

"Quarterdrawing of the Dog" - Siouxsie and the banshees

This will be a good thread for me cos I need new music. The thread title pretty much covers my taste.

[Bake]

1. Bowie, Space Oddity

Bake

[MrCoffee]

3. Have you heard the Langley Schools Music Project version?

Talk about creepy as all hell.

I don't know what this video is, but the song is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-pzg4umqqg

Actually, the whole Langley cd fits the OP's description perfectly

[Bake]

33. No but I'll check it out

Freakin' YouTube is freakin' blocked at freakin' work. Freakin' dammit.

Bake

[Bake]

35. You're right. Creepy as all hell!

Oooooooh. That's creepy.

Bake

[mitchum]

36. I love that entire record and I generally hate hearing children "sing"

[enigmatic]

47. Innocence And Despair is one of the great albums this decade

Even though it was originally made in the 70's; both "Desperado" and "Rhiannon" have never, ever sounded better...

[Dr. Strange]

2. Not sure if this classifies as what you're thinking of.

http://www.autumn-us.com/mp3s/Autumn%20-%20Aria%20-%2006%20-%20Seconds%20(Version%20II).mp3">Seconds

[baby_mouse]

9. That'll do nicely!

Lovely, in fact!

[Westegg]

4. Steve Hillage. Album: Motivation Radio.

[Westegg]

5. Jethro Tull. Album: "Thick As a Brick."

[redqueen]

6. Mogwai - Dial: Revenge

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AKO-c2po3k0

Also lots more by Mogwai...

[Forkboy]

7. Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1z0FGxWi7Q

[mak3cats]

8. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield...

...better known as the music for The Exorcist. You have to listen to the whole album.

[Westegg]

14. "QE II" by Oldfield is both weird and pretty...

...Obscure, certainly, and not without its critics. But what "weird, pretty" music isn't?

To that, I'd add most of Nick Drake and Roy Harper. Fairport Convention. Brian Eno's first few solo albums.

[bonito]

24. Was a favorite!

[Dr. Strange]

26. Ooh, yeah!

Oldfield's a good choice. Especially his "Light and Shade" album!

[Perry Logan]

10. Peter Gabriel, "Games without Frontiers." Colin Newman, "S-s-s-stareyes"

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. "O Odessa", by Cluster, album: "Curiosum".

Your mileage may severely vary.

[Duncan Grant]

12. The Magnetic Fields - "100,000 Fireflies"

Granted - it's not new, weird and pretty but it'll do. I like "Strange Powers" a lot, too. :)

[Bzzzz]

13. Crash Test Dummies...

MMM MMM MMM MMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4WbwwhBmRk

[YellowRubberDuckie]

18. I love that one.

That man's voice is AWESOME.
Duckie

[Tikki]

15. "Timothy"......The Bouys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ




Tikki

[atomic-fly]

50. strange indeed

I posted about this one recently.

[x-g.o.p.er]

16. Life in a Northern Town

By The Dream Academy

[Duncan Grant]

17. kick -- because I'd like to discover some new music, too.

:kick:

[baby_mouse]

32. Doing quite well, so far! nt

[YellowRubberDuckie]

19. Standing Outside a Broken Telephone Booth with Money in My Hand...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LKVZ4NTfUc

[triguy46]

20. A lot of Talk Talk is hauntingly pretty, IMHO. Plus damn near unintelligible...

but they are among my current faves. Mark Hollis is really gifted.

[Quantess]

44. LOL... "current fave"?

I guess you just discovered them.
An ex-boyfriend left his Talk Talk cassette tape in my car, back in 1988. I was happy about that, since he stopped calling me. And yeah, they're good!

[opiate69]

21. Mars Volta - "Miranda, That Ghost Just Isnt Holy Anymore"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WAbD-pB3NHE

I’ve always wanted
To eat glass with you again
But I never knew how
How to talk without
Walls dropping on the eve
The nest they made couldn’t break you
Along the fallen
Scowled a fence of beaks
But the temple is scathing
Through your veins
They were scaling
Through an ice pick of abscess reckoning

And when Miranda sang
Everyone turned away
Used to the noose they obey

And whoever said that they would scatter
Separating the mother from child
She can bat a broken eyelid
Raining maggots from it’s sty
And with the traces that she leaves
She will skin you out alive

All the children go grinding their jaws
The sweet smell of their toothless canals
And the damn she will break,
Make an ocean from this lake
As they siphon off all our blood

And when Miranda sang
Everyone turned away
Used to the noose they obey

And when Miranda sang
Everyone turned away
Used to the noose they obey

And when Miranda sang
Everyone turned away
Used to the noose they obey

[SayitAintSo]

22. Night Bird by Deep Forest...............n/t

[speedoo]

23. Several Randy Newman songs. "Short People" comes to mind.

Randy's cool.

[sendero]

25. Back to Nature - Magazine..

.... anything by Cocteau Twins.

[Inchworm]

27. John Prine and Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

The lyrics are a riot - but sweet.

:loveya:

[Glorfindel]

28. "Trojan Horse" by Luv...

weird, pretty, and features bagpipes. What more could one want?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIhb6BHjQCk

[LeftCoast]

29. I would highly recommend Morcheeba's album Who Can You Trust

It's beautiful, haunting sounding at times and has a wonderfully eclectic blend of sounds to create a fairly unique sound.

Another group that goes well with Morcheeba is Thievery Corporation (album - The Mirror Conspiracy). You should be able to preview both these albums on iTunes if you'd like.

:hi:

[Cant trust em]

30. Wilco - At Least That's What You Said

It has this beautiful heartbreak quality. Almost haunting.

[WeRQ4U]

31. God Moving Over the Face of the Waters...

Moby, from the HEAT soundtrack.

It's a pretty song. A little tedious and it's moby...so it's a smidgin weird.

[mikeytherat]

34. "Capoeira" - Al Di Meola Project

mikey_the_rat

[mitchum]

37. Anything by the box devils (from Athens, GA)

[abq e streeter]

38. That Summer Feeling--Jonathan Richman

weird is in the eye ( and ear) of the beholder, but its at least quirky...

[Forkboy]

39. Another one: Nick Cave - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MOjSyLgNc

[BeachBaby]

40. Simon and Garfunkel

Scarborough Fair.

Very strange and very pretty all at the same time. :)

[Quantess]

41. Seal. I'm not sure the exact name, something like

Kiss From a Rose on The Grave

Musically, it is different.

[BeachBaby]

42. That's a good one!

Hauntingly pretty. :)

[Quantess]

45. I can see how Heidi Klum is attracted to him. (eom)

[harmonicon]

43. anything by the pastels

<www.youtube.com/watch?v=shnXuSP8pPs >

or gowns

<www.myspace.com/gowns >

but none of this matters, because my bloody valentine are back

[enigmatic]

46. 'O Superman"- Laurie Anderson

A Classic:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2008/03/o-superman-laurie-anderson.html

[Tektonik]

48. No mention of Kate Bush?

:o !!!

Also only one mention of the Cocteau Twins; I'm disappointed. :(

I suggest listening to M83 for pretty (sometimes haunting but pretty) electronic music.

[atomic-fly]

49. La Folie

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_SM7WhfULVQ

[SKKY]

51. These 2 I think would qualify...

"Horror Head" by Curve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4xMR7mYPWU

and...

"The End of Biters" by Prefuse 73
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUTEd3OmIK0

[Orsino]

52. Bush: "Letting the Cables Sleep"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX3f0iNg4rk