could someone reccomend some good avant garde music?

[MISTA BOOTSIE]

hey me and a few friends are starting an experimental group and I'd like some good refrence material for inspiration. Anything similar to, like, The Residents or Renaldo and The Loaf would be great.

[Silly Putty Clock]

Doesn't experimental mean experimenting? As in, you should be relying more on your own creativity than on using other bands as a frame of reference?

[MISTA BOOTSIE]

Doesn't experimental mean experimenting? As in, you should be relying more on your own creativity than on using other bands as a frame of reference?

but from where does creativity come? Everyone needs influences.
"those who don't want to imitate anything, produce nothing." -Salvador Dali

[Silly Putty Clock]

but from where does creativity come? Everyone needs influences.
"those who don't want to imitate anything, produce nothing." -Salvador Dali

grumblegrumble
here are a few bands I used to be into back when I figured it was SUPER-COOL to be into obscure experimental bands:
The Jesus Lizard
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Drive Like Jehu
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Hella
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Battles
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I actually still kinda like the Jesus Lizard, here's another song by them:
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[MISTA BOOTSIE]

thanks bro! Good bands.
I actually already have a lot of drive like jehu, but the rest of those are new to me.

[Silly Putty Clock]

thanks bro! Good bands.
I actually already have a lot of drive like jehu, but the rest of those are new to me.

No problem. Also, at the time, I wanted to get into Nomeansno and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, but I couldn't find any songs by either on Limewire(which should tell you about how long ago this was). You might want to check them out.

[SilverCherryClock]

damn good bands sillyputty

anyway i'm not entirely sure what you mean so i'll just post some videos for a few bands i can think of that are tentatively related to some of the ones in this thread (not really though but whatever)

Secret Chiefs 3
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Swans
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OOIOO
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Mr. Bungle
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Rapeman/Big Black/Shellac/etc.
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[Beast]

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Milton Babbitt
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John Cage
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"My music is not modern, it is merely badly played." - Schoenberg

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

Einsturzende Neubauten - Tanz Debil

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Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady

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Mr Bungle - None of them Knew they were Robots

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Coil - The Snow

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Foetus - Heuldoch 7B

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[ChimeClock]

Coil:
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Einstürzende Neubauten:
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Faust:
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Art of Noise:
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[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

I really need to get into Faust.

[SilverCherryClock]

yeah i was gonna suggest coil but i forgot

[MISTA BOOTSIE]

thanks evrabody. Can't say I dislike any of these bands- especially Mr. Bungle. I've got afew of their records and a tshirt laying around somewhere

[AMPEEEM]

Listen to me and listen to me good.


Disco Volante by Mr.Bungle

Troutmask Replica by Captain Beefheart

and it's not avant garde, but required listening for your field of music

Carl Stalling Collection, anything

[pop-tart]

Pinkly Smooth. Words can't describe. Queen meets Danny Elfman meets metal. The late great James 'Rev' Sullivan (better known for A7X) was their singer before passing away last month.
 
 
http://www.myspace.com/pinklysmooth

[Loki Clock]

but from where does creativity come? Everyone needs influences.
"those who don't want to imitate anything, produce nothing." -Salvador Dali

There is no royal road to originality. Being influenced and pushing away from your influences are both parts of it. Just someone original saying something doesn't make it right. All the quotes in the world won't make you that person. Paul Erdős got his ideas from doing a bunch of meth, that does not make meth the answer.

A lot of realizing creativity is knowing how far you can go within apparently tight constraints. So here is some rock:

KUKL

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Attic Ted

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Nina Hagen

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Bauhaus

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The Flying Lizards

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The Pop Group

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The Birthday Party

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Þeyr

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Gaseneta

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Princess Tinymeat

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P-MODEL

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Industrial:

Throbbing Gristle

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Factrix

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D.A.F.

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SPK

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Noise:

hanatarash

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Whitehouse (bit of a weak link)

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Other:

Taco

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Totsuzen Dan Ball

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Suicide

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Béla Bartók

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I could go on forever.

[TwistClock]

Sunn 0))) is as avant-garde as it gets

[Fireman]

I think it is safe to say that The Mars Volta would fall within this.
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[TwistClock]

Boris, Mertzbow

[TwistClock]

Oh and Lady gaga