Einstürzende Neubauten: Noisy German industrial gothic punk nutters, led by a singer who looks like he escaped from Camberwick Green Secure Mental Unit. Went a bit sensitive at the end of the nineties, did a (frankly disturbing) cover version of There's a Worm at the Bottom of the Garden.
Then they gave us this heart-breakingly gorgeous song:
Exhibit 2:
Edward Barton: Deranged Mancunian poet and songwriter, (in)famous for performing this, er, performance on The Tube back in the eighties.
Also responsible for this:
Exhibit 3:
David Bowie: Rather tiresome glam-rock wannabe, had a few singles in the Hit Parade, responsible for utter drivel such as this.
Redeemed himself, briefly, by giving us this:
Does anyone else have any examples of apparently hopeless weirdoes having brief flashes of utter brilliance, against all expectations?
Mad as a cut snake he maybe, but he was always hauntingly breathtaking.
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Exhibit 1:
Einstürzende Neubauten: Noisy German industrial gothic punk nutters, led by a singer who looks like he escaped from Camberwick Green Secure Mental Unit. Went a bit sensitive at the end of the nineties, did a (frankly disturbing) cover version of There's a Worm at the Bottom of the Garden.
Then they gave us this heart-breakingly gorgeous song:
I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it, but in my opinion, Spike Milligan's moment of brilliance was an outrageous (and nowadays utterly politically incorrect) television sketch involving daleks and curry.
I shan't reproduce it here, but it may be found easily on youtube.
I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it, but in my opinion, Spike Milligan's moment of brilliance was an outrageous (and nowadays utterly politically incorrect) television sketch involving daleks and curry.
I shan't reproduce it here, but it may be found easily on youtube.
I am sure that many of his sketches qualify as brilliant, and probably no longer politically correct. I picked his speech as it was, probably, straight off-the-cuff.
The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band's "My pink half of the drainpipe"
The best choice is dear, departed Captain Beefheart. Good call! I could put his whole recorded works here. Had the privilege to see the old sod live twice.
More to come later.
Last edited by FrankZappa; 10.05.2011 at 22:20.
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I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it, but in my opinion, Spike Milligan's moment of brilliance was an outrageous (and nowadays utterly politically incorrect) television sketch involving daleks and curry.
I shan't reproduce it here, but it may be found easily on youtube.
Here's another one: Richard Wolfson and his Towering Inferno project, which gave us the barely-listenable-to album Kaddish, full of industrial noise, Cretan peasant songs and chants in a variety of European languages.