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mystoryisgory
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Most Bizarre Album Released by a Major Record Label Sept 17, 2017 18:10:30 GMT -5 Gas Panic likes this

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Post by mystoryisgory on Sept 17, 2017 18:10:30 GMT -5

What do people think is the most bizarre/challenging album ever released by a major record label? By "major record label" I mean UMG, Sony, or Warner Music and any of their sublabels.

My vote has to go to Pop Tatari by Boredoms, which was released on Reprise. Imagine Led Zeppelin crossed with Can doing a mashup of Daydream Nation and Trout Mask Replica played backwards, and you still aren't prepared for this visceral sonic onslaught of an album where no two 10-second snippets are the same. And yet, these guys made it to the Lolla main stage in 1994.

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Most Bizarre Album Released by a Major Record Label Sept 17, 2017 18:35:14 GMT -5

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Post by matt on Sept 17, 2017 18:35:14 GMT -5

Never heard it myself, but I remember reading about a Lou Reed album that was a piss take in order to fulfil a contractual obligation - just noise masquerading as 'avant-garde' music. Metal Machine I think it's called.

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Most Bizarre Album Released by a Major Record Label Sept 17, 2017 18:50:41 GMT -5 via mobile

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Post by Manualex on Sept 17, 2017 18:50:41 GMT -5

Sept 17, 2017 18:35:14 GMT -5 matt said:

Go ahead. I tried to listen and only could do like 5 minutes.

It's metal Machine Music btw

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Most Bizarre Album Released by a Major Record Label Sept 17, 2017 19:08:02 GMT -5

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Post by mystoryisgory on Sept 17, 2017 19:08:02 GMT -5

Sept 17, 2017 18:35:14 GMT -5 matt said:

Ha, I thought someone might mention that one. I'm not at all familiar with Reed's solo work (in fact I only know two Velvet Underground albums), but nearly everything about Metal Machine Music is absolutely hilarious. Everything from that it's an hour of screeching guitar feedback, that it's subtitled *The Amine β Ring, that the end of the fourth side had a locked groove that made the noise go on forever, that Reed claimed he put references to Beethoven and Bach in the album, that he tried to get it released on RCA's classical music label, that it was later arranged for live performance (!), and, best of all, you can hear echoes of the album in groups from Sonic Youth to Kanye West. Vindication!!

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Most Bizarre Album Released by a Major Record Label Sept 17, 2017 22:02:22 GMT -5 Gas Panic, Johnny Rhythm, and 1 more like this

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Post by guigsysEstring on Sept 17, 2017 22:02:22 GMT -5

Was going to nominate Metal Machine Music but since it's been done I'll go with Columbia Records giving a 67yo folk singer her major label debut in 1967 with 'Sings the Truth'- Malvina Reynolds. It isn't an "out there" record like Lou Reed or Frank Zappa, but especially in the youth and polished image obsessed culture of today one can't really imagine a major label backing a senior citizen with artistic control ceded to her and a legendary producer in John Hammond.

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