good outsider music albums?
Good outsider music albums?
Charles Richardson
Jose Wood
The problem with outsider music threads on Sup Forums is that most of it really isn't outsider music, just weird music.
The defining factor of outsider music is isolation from the existing musical community. But every example, from Johnston to Beefheart to even Moondog, were involved and aware of the music around them and influenced by it.
To a lot of people it just seems to be music made by the mentally ill; I've seen people claim Brian Wilson was outsider music.
Gary Wilson, to use your example OP, was very familiar with normal pop music. The fact he made unsettling, off kilter pop music, doesn't make him outsider music.
If you're looking for weird music, though, try the Savage Young Taterbug, Wicked Witch, Caroliner, and Inflatable Boy Clams.
Nicholas Watson
I will check those, thanks! But now I'm interested in the definition of outsider that you are talking about, do you know any "true" outsider artists then? someone who played music without having any knowledge of normal music?
Aiden Bailey
So are The Shaggs the only valid example or somefin?
This album is dope OP, guy built advanced homemade synths in the mid 60s and did some seminal early electronic music and some notable kids' records - this album was made in the late 70s (and wasn't released until decades later) and reflects him as a bitter alcoholic spouting sarcastic, profanity-ridden lyrics, many directed towards the music industry. Really cool sounding analog electronic instrumentation, I'd say ahead of its time
Brody Perez
Nice, I'll check it out, thanks!
Noah Ross
Daniel Johnston
Alexander Turner
I would still count Ariel Pink's early albums as outsider music. He seemed to have a lot of problems with depression at this time, no band etc. He's a social media whore and a sellout now but in the early days he was kind of a pioneer of this kind of thing
Carson Fisher
Tonetta is the man, meme songs aside he's written some amazing and heartbreaking love and pop tunes and he's enriched my life a lot in the last couple years
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Charles Adams
DR Hooker
Bobb Trimble
Peter Grdzien
Juan Hughes
I love Tonetta
Ethan Torres
Music sounds like being an outsider despite being extremely mainstream.
Caleb Lewis
Lol
Gavin Perez
If you haven't listened to this you should, it's a pretty cool mix between anti-folk and hip-hop.
Tyler Reed
is this Kimya and Aesop? wtf?
Blake Johnson
lol yeah
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Nathan Scott
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when he was at John Cage's house being mentored
Noah Johnson
>not picking R. Stevie Moore instead
Benjamin Bennett
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Gabriel Morgan
Doldrums shits on any RSM album imo, I even think Stevie would agree
Landon Hughes
Trout Mask Replica
Nolan Bell
Hasil Adkins is considered outsider, right? He heard Hank Williams on the radio and didn't know he had a whole band and thought he played all the instruments himself.
Liam White
>Savage Young Taterbug
his album from earlier this year is really excellent, catchy and greasy and rich, like a truck stop cheeseburger
Jandek perhaps?
also that
Robert Gutierrez
Isaac Miller
This is meme, not outsider.
Lincoln Cook
Jerry Solomon
Dane Sturgeon
Heitkotter
BJ Snowden
Marc Mundy
Vyto B
Kenneth Higney
Justin Brooks
If you're a Zappa fan and don't know Wild Man Fischer then KYS.
Brayden Reyes
damn i miss highschool now