Unusual cool/quirky tracks

[The Griffalo]

I'm updating my music collection and I'm looking for cool/quirky tracks.

Thus far I've got stuff from Andy Williams Sandie Shaw, Mamma Cass, Bowie, Echo & The Bunnymen, Portishead etc... Each and every track is quirky in it's own way and has probably been used in adverts/drama's but I'm looking for more.

Suggest away, make me want to download your chosen song

[blindswelledrat]

Joanna Newsome. Full of songs you describe- if a little wierd at times.
Best known song is 'Into the blue' which is the one in the Orange advert where there is a power-cut in New York.

[vernan]

Les Rallizes Denudes - anything you can find

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Sleepy Jackson - Lovers

[telecat]

All my Wives were Iron - Bill Nelson

The Bird Charmers Destiny - Be Bop Deluxe.

[Stuismyname]

One man's quirky is another's passe and mainstream no doubt, but I'll offer:

Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Hiway

Peter Green Splinter Group - Steady Rolling Man

Fade into you - Mazzy Star / Faithless "back to mine" album

Que Dices - Black Eyed Peas (bit of a wind your window down and turn it up through town, but I think pretty cool nonetheless)

This Heaven - David Gilmour from On an Island

Looking Back - Johnny 'Guitar' Murphy (I think)

Crow Jane - The Derek Trucks Band

Summertime - Jimi Hendrix feat. Janis Joplin

And er, the Radiohead tune from Romeo and Juliet.

[BilldCatt]

Malaguena Salerosa - The Tubes.

[sleep envy]

Prodigy - smack your bitch up

LL Cool J - Momma said knock you out

anything by Kissy sell out

ps - you're not trying to be a daddy cool are you?

[deevee]

Try Nouvelle Vague by Nouvelle Vague - an album of loungecore/bossa-nova covers of well known tracks by bands like Joy Division, Dead Kennedys and P.I.L.

The current Tropicana (I think) advert uses their cover of Just Can't Get Enough.

Quirky as you like!

[yeovilmac]

They Might Be Giants - "Birdhouse In Your Soul"....

[GHW]

The Flaming Lips - It Overtakes Me
(from the Becks advert with the animated chaps dancing in puddles)

[FWDRacer]

Mansun - Wide open space.... Epic, atmospheric and quirky. Where are they now anyway?

[TheCarpetCleaner]

If you are into garage stuff, Todd Edwards does some wierd music all done by sampling. Some of his tracks have several hundred samples apparently

[The Griffalo]

Mansun - Wide open space. Nail, head, firmly hit Atmospheric, that sums up exactly what I'm looking for

:DaddyCool:

[love machine]

Years ago when I was into really lairy funky ceefax music, the parents went out and I cranked the stereo right up with Herbie Hancock. The next thing I knew I heard the door knock, I looked out of the window and there was a big afro hairdo and I thought "Shit" and turned it off immediately. It was the new next door neighbour who was armed with a bunch of records, he said "Ohhh, that took me back, turn it up and tell me what you think of these"..... Best next door neighbour ever.

So, among all the stuff were some early 70's records I had never heard of. A few were by a guy called Eddie Harris. Eddie Harris was a Jazz sax player from Chicago who got fed up with Jazz not selling and decided to disco it up a bit. He had his tenor sax modified by Robert Moog (of Moog synthesizers) and hooked up with some beatnicks with bad haircuts. Well, they were all amazing musicians and made the funkiest album I have ever heard ever. What you are looking for is "Is it in?"-Eddie Harris Atlantic-1973 The title track is "Funkaroma" and is without doubt the best tune in modern music.

Sadly Gary got non-hodgkins lymphoma and after 12 years of being a walking chemistry set, it beat him. Bloody shame really as most neighbours would have called the cops/etc, not come around with an armful of LP's.

I think you can find "funkaroma" on limewire but the album is long deleted. You might get lucky though. It is well worth looking for.

[SlidingSideways]

Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Chromeo - Mercury Tears
Pretty much anything by "The Faint" (although I'd reccomend Agenda Suicide off the Danse Macabre album)

Edited by SlidingSideways on Wednesday 19th September 11:27

[sleep envy]

Propellorheads

loads of stuff you'll have heard already

[Bomber Denton]

Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck
Swansway - Night train
Flash And The Pan - Waiting for a train
Trio - Da da da
Landscape - Einstein a go go

[Bomber Denton]

FWDRacer said:

Mansun - Wide open space.... Epic, atmospheric and quirky. Where are they now anyway?

They split years ago but they were superb, get the album 'Attack of the grey lanterns'
Superb from start to finish.

[Forthright MC]

Tom Vek "We Have Sound" very quirky, yet catchy tracks. well worth a listen IMO!
for a track to download, try and get "C+C You Set The Fire In Me" an awesome fusion of floaty bass hooks, drums and vocals

Edited by Forthright MC on Wednesday 19th September 18:37

[Andy Cross]

Try The Dark, Stonehenge and Disturbing the Priest from the Black Sabbath 'Born Again' album. - Weird.