Post your favorite atonal rock songs!

[FSogol]

Here's mine:

My Pal Foot Foot by The Shaggs (1968)

I double dog dare you to listen to the entire track. Turn up the volume!

The band is primarily notable today for their perceived ineptitude at playing conventional rock music; the band was described in one Rolling Stone article as "sounding like lobotomized Trapp Family singers."

On the topic of the album, Cub Koda wrote, "There's an innocence to these songs and their performances that's both charming and unsettling. Hacked-at drumbeats, whacked-around chords, songs that seem to have little or no meter to them ... being played on out-of-tune, pawn-shop-quality guitars all converge, creating dissonance and beauty, chaos and tranquility, causing any listener coming to this music to rearrange any pre-existing notions about the relationships between talent, originality, and ability. There is no album you might own that sounds remotely like this one."

[lunasun]

1. The Shaggs ! Bringing a smiley to my face!

My seasonal favorite

[geardaddy]

11. Beat me to it!

I love this one!

[DBoon]

2. does this count as atonal?

[FSogol]

5. Love the girls hyperventilating at 4:12. I'd still prefer to listen to this than the Grateful Dead.

[DBoon]

7. There may be an interesting story behind that hyerventilation

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/30-most-embarrassing-rock-star-arrests-20140227/frank-zappa-0314974

Quote:
In March 1965, a used-car salesman approached Frank Zappa, then a 24-year-old struggling musician and composer, and offered him $100 to produce a sex tape for a party. A gig being a gig, Zappa and a go-go dancer friend spent an evening recording fake squeals, grunts and bedspring squeaks onto a cassette.

[DBoon]

3. here is one!!

Lou Reed's FU to his record label

[FSogol]

4. LOL, I still remember the Trouser Press review of that record.

The Trouser Press Record Guide referred to it as "four sides of unlistenable oscillator noise", parenthetically calling that assessment "a description, not a value judgment".

[GWC58]

6. I will say every song on the album/CD

“Dark side of the Moon.” I know that’s not the correct answer but, hey, sure is great!

[hurl]

8. You Yesyesyesyesyesyes You - The Residents

[hurl]

9. Hand Me Down All Stories - Robin Holcomb

Not completely atonal, but I think it still qualifies.

[hurl]

10. Pork Soda - Primus

[geardaddy]

12. More Shaggs

[geardaddy]

13. I absolutely love The Shaggs!

[FSogol]

17. When I started this thread, I never realized that the Shaggs had fans or that there was

so much atonal music out there. I learn something everyday here.

While not a fan of the Shaggs, we do play them from time to time at BBQs and home gatherings. Most people can't believe it.

[hurl]

14. Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra

I think this counts. Sort of anyway.

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[Tikki]

15. You and I.......Silver Apples (1969)

Tikki

[fleur-de-lisa]

16. "pawn-shop-quality guitars"?

There was a guitar? Sounded more like someone banging on a trash can with their feet.

[FSogol]

18. LOL, like the quality of the guitar would have made much difference.

[robbob]

19. That was surreal and amazing!

Make me want to listen to it on lsd! Hearkens to some early Floyd albums or maybe Sid Barret’s solo work.

[robbob]

20. Some high brow atonal noise:

In the Wiki article on The Shaggs their music is actually compared to the free jazz compositions of Ornette Coleman!

[Number9Dream]

21. Zappa / Mothers - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask

[Number9Dream]

22. Zappa / Mothers - The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue

[yesphan]

23. Here's some

[hurl]

24. The Prestidigitator - Naked City

[DFW]

25. Mind Gardens

By the Byrds (this one was all David Crosby) on their album Younger Than Yesterday (their best, in my opinion)

[BlueTsunami2018]

26. Happy Flowers - Ive got the Picnic Disease Again

[Le Gaucher]

27. Nothing will EVER beat this .. by the great PAT METHENY

I paid good money to buy this CD .. and was left scratching my head.

Pat Metheny has created some of the most beautiful music that I have heard .. but this was something totally different.

Rumor has it that he had one recording left to finish his contract with Geffen.

[hurl]

28. Jizzlobber - Faith No More

I think a great way to keep things interesting is to drift in and out of tonality... Provide some musical mooring for listeners but also allow an occasional escape from tonal tyranny.

[Ptah]

29. Subterranean Homesick Blues

[jpak]

30. Gang of Four Guns Before Butter

[ornotna]

31. Battles - The Yabba

[hurl]

32. LOVE Battles!

Here's another:

Found them through my favorite band ever Don Caballero because of a shared member.

[ornotna]

33. Henry Cow - Beautiful as the Moon

[EarnestPutz]

34. Good lord, you win.

If someone can come uo with something worse
than the Shaggs, I really don't want to hear it.

[jmowreader]

36. Don't google GG Allin, then

[FSogol]

38. GG Allin put Charles Mason's poetry to music.

[jmowreader]

35. This should be a crowd favorite

[trusty elf]

37. "The Jewels of the Madonna " by the Red Krayola

song starts at 32:12

[LudwigPastorius]

39. The Decoding Society