Strangest Musical Events

[Kimo]

What do you guys think was the strangest events in the music world? The strangest things artists have done, strangest albums (compared to previous works), just music-related stuff that's odd.

For my answer, I'd have to say it was when Garth Brooks decided to try his hand at a different genre of music...and a different identity altogether.


Meet Chris Gaines, an Australian Alternative rocker. Yes, that is indeed Garth behind that hair and dark glare. From Wikipedia...

Chris Gaines began in 1994 when Brooks, attempting to expand his career boundaries, collaborated with his production company Red Strokes Entertainment and Paramount Pictures to develop a movie Brooks was meant to star in as Chris Gaines. The Lamb was to have revolved around Chris Gaines, a fictional rock singer and his emotionally-conflicted life as a musician in the public eye. To create buzz for the project, Brooks took on the Gaines identity in the October 1999 album Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines, which was intended as a 'pre-soundtrack' to the film. Brooks also subsequently appeared as Chris Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind The Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which Brooks hosted as himself.

Brooks' endless promotion of the album and the film did not seem to stir much excitement and the success of the Chris Gaines experiment became fairly evident mere weeks after the album was released. Although critics admired Brooks for taking a musical risk, the majority of the American public was either totally bewildered or completely unreceptive to the idea of Garth Brooks as anything but a pop-country singer. Many of his fans also felt that by supporting the Gaines project they would lose the "real" Garth Brooks. Sales of the album were unspectacular and although it made it to #2 on the pop album chart, expectations had been higher and retail stores began heavily discounting their oversupply. Poor sales of the album and lack of interest in the film brought the film production to an indefinite hiatus in February 2001 and Chris Gaines quickly and quietly faded into obscurity.

Now, despite the lack of success, it was an excellent attempt by Mr. Brooks. Of the few songs I've heard from the album, I've enjoyed all of them, especially "Right Now" (dude can rap, let me tell you) and "Way of the Girl". I'd love to see a Gaines revival someday.

[もも]

Have you heard of Negativland?

And here people thought Dan Deacon and The Blood Brothers were hard to listen to.

[vanityangelfixx]

All Madonna concerts. She is the only artist I know that can bring such sexuality onto the stage without any nudity.

[The Deep Striker]

seeing will smith get on stage yelling "Bury Your fucking Dead!" at ozzfest a few years ago...I laughed so hard I was in tears because my friend yelled "Oh my god it's the fresh prince!" and proceded to yell the lyrics to theme from the fresh prince of bell air.

he was there cause his wife's band (wicked wisdom) was playing that year and I gotta say...it was pretty much the audio equivalent to 2girls1cup and it's affiliates.

To top it off...later there was this drunk old guy sitting behind us yelling "SHOW ME YOUR TITS!" to every girl (whether they were hot or not) that walked by. He finally got a girl to show just one and everyone around cheered (mostly cause the dude would finally shut the hell up)

The only thing that sucked about it that year was Ozzy was sick...which wasn't that bad of a thing cause Iron Maiden was gonna do an extra-long set, but the guy we were riding with left way early cause he had a migraine, and the other people we were riding with wanted to leave just as Iron Maiden was getting on stage...that totally made baby Jesus cry that day

[Oni-91]

Anal Cunt's album Picnic of Love. It's disturbing.

[rogeriidx]

Is he an alien? Is he some far out, futuristic witch doctor? Is he even human? No, he's Klaus Nomi. I have to admit, the 80's produced some weird stuff in terms of music, but Nomi takes the cake. His singing capacity sure matches his outer appearances, which is absolutely out of this world.

[Swors-k]

I just check out Klaus Nomi on youtube. Geez that guy is strange. Although the song I listened to, "Total Eclipse", got kinda catchy after a while.

[Valex]

This should turn out interesting rofl

[Eshmasesh]

I remember reading about some punk rock idol in the late 80s (i think) who was infamous for doing stuff like defecating on stage and throwing the shit at people in the audience... x_X

[vanityangelfixx]

YouTube - Madonna on David Letterman

[もも]

Hey guys I just remember Wesley Willis.

ROCK OVER LONDON, ROCK ON CHICAGO!!!!

[Brazoliange]

Originally Posted by Eshmasesh

I remember reading about some punk rock idol in the late 80s (i think) who was infamous for doing stuff like defecating on stage and throwing the shit at people in the audience... x_X

gg allin

[Eshmasesh]

Originally Posted by Brazoliange

gg allin

thank you, it was driving me nuts that I couldn't remember