The unique and also unique vocal stylings of everyone's favorite patio barfly, as captured by an unnamed barista. He's outsider everything, but particularly outsider music. As the place finally slides beneath the waves, let's all celebrate what made it so great: completely batshit insane people!

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I direct your attention to Sondra Prill, the songbird of Tampa. Particularly to her interpretation of the classic Janet Jackson dance number "Nasty Boys".

A mad dutchman has memorized "Stairway to Heaven" in reverse, then filmed himself karaokin' it and reversed the film. The result is a mesmerizing video.

I audiohijacked the sound so you can have this artifact wherever you go in audio form: Backwards Stairway (8.7M .mp3). Please save to hard drive rather than streaming thx.

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Music for Maniacs is a fine mp3blog for aficionados of outsider music and other oddities. Today's post revealed one of the main problems "New Religions" or "Cults" have; their gospel music blows chunks.

Submitted for your consideration, L. Ron Hubbard's music from 1980 for Battlefield Earth. Both of those tracks were intended as "soundtracks" to ( Read more... )