[lloyd]

i'm looking for music with unconventional/bizarre/weird lyrics. basically songs that aren't about love. or they can be about love but not a traditional love song aka about unrequited love /loving somebody so much/appreciating them etc. unless its freaky obsession or whatever. patience & prudence - tonight you belong to me is a good example of an unusual creepy love song especially cuz its sung by two little girls. maybe the song tells a story or is about a subject like food or whatever. hopefully you catch my drift.

some examples:

beatles - taxman
bikini kill or bratmobile singing about feminism
velvet underground - heroin
any john waters compilation, tracks like paul evans - happy go lucky me
most bruce haack tracks
cabaret voltaire - nag nag nag
Jacqueline Taib - 7 Heures Du Matin
006 - like what, me worry?

no genre specified except no emo or heavy metal.

[SpaceCadetHayden]

anything off xiu xiu's knife play or a promise

[Derek]

sun city girls

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by lloyd

tonight you belong to me is a good example of an unusual creepy love song especially cuz its sung by two little girls. maybe the song tells a story or is about a subject like food or whatever. hopefully you catch my drift.

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Get 12 year olds to write lyrics. Weird.

[Genteel Death]

Bruce Haack's lyrics are ridiculous, not weird or unconventional . And they're often forgettable.

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by SpaceCadetHayden

anything off xiu xiu's knife play or a promise

Christ, XIU XIU are one of the worst bands ever. I thought you had good taste in music at the very least.

[TheMadcapLaughs]

wow. too many to name but for some reason this one came to mind. raymond pettibon writes some weird ass but funny ass lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFz-9RJ6vKI

[Screaming Skull]

Most of Stephen Malkmus' lyrics are quirky.

[louder]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Christ, XIU XIU are one of the worst bands ever. I thought you had good taste in music at the very least.

lol

[SpaceCadetHayden]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Christ, XIU XIU are one of the worst bands ever. I thought you had good taste in music at the very least.

Xiu Xiu is god awful for the most part but A Promise and Knife Play are two of the greatest albums of all time, you geezer.

[lloyd]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Bruce Haack's lyrics are ridiculous, not weird or unconventional . And they're often forgettable.

weird/ridiculous is a fine line i guess so ridiculous is good too.

thanks everybody for your recommendations

[the ikara cult]

I think this is about your house getting flooded and being molested by crustaceans, or something

[Derek]

Originally Posted by SpaceCadetHayden

Xiu Xiu is god awful for the most part but A Promise and Knife Play are two of the greatest albums of all time, you geezer.

agreed.

[Mortte Jousimo]

I think for example Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Can, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Cure have a weird aspects in the most of their lyrics (also in love songs).

[the ikara cult]

If you aint too much of an indie snob this song is about the guy who took this picture

 

This picture was on the wall of my secondary school, together with a quote attributed to the photographer, frankly the quote diminished its impact, the picture said enough. The photographer took his own life after winning a pulitzer for this image.