Monday Crapfest

After delving into my vinyl for yesterday's post, this morning on the train I donned rubber gloves and waders (just for pleasure) and mounted an expedition to the nether reaches of my iPod in search of "unfortunate" musical choices.
Under the various genres of music, some distance beyond Apple's own "Unclassifiable" label, sits a genre I have named "Just Plain Wrong."
Let's go inside and sample the strangeness …

Hokay:
The wrongest thing on my iPod without doubt is still Leonard Nimoy's "The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins."
On my very first blog post I reviewed this record thus:
"The Hobbit Song by Leonard Nimoy (yes, THAT Leonard Nimoy). Not currently available anywhere, as far as I know, but well worth maiming a friend for. Mad as a chocolate hat. Nimoy, what the fuck were you thinking? This is JUST PLAIN WRONG!
There's a video to go with it, too. I caught it once on late night tv and laughed so hard my dinner came out my nose."
And then our wonderful Betty actually tracked down the wrongest video of the wrongest song ever recorded.
But as her link no longer works, here it is, on YouTube:

Next up comes "Sabbatum" by Rondellus.
This is … erm … an album of Black Sabbath covers sung in Latin by a Finnish mediæval music collective.
They are all arranged as plainsong (like Gregorian chants) and it actually makes splendid dinner music. Lovely echoey choral voices singing in harmony.
Until your brain begins to unravel the tune to "War Pigs".
The word "strange" doesn't begin to do this record justice.

Amongst the other weird shit on my pod is my vast collection of obscure sixties psychedelia, including the impossibly wonderful "Granny Takes A Trip" by The Purple Gang and "So Much In Love", a song by poet Roger Mc.Gough and Paul Mc.Cartney's brother Mike Mc.Gear, which features Macca and a certain Jimi Hendrix playing lead guitar all over it. Rare and spiffy.

Then there's Big Black's gloriously trashy lo-fi album "Songs About Fucking" which delivers exactly what it says.
And Bongwater covering bizarre pædo-baldy Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll, Part 2".
Plus a speeded-up punk version of the theme tune to "The Banana Splits", by The Dickies (digitised from my yellow vinyl 7-incher).

An honourable mention must go to "Tony Benn's Greatest Hits", which is essentially a collection of parliamentary speeches by our greatest living socialist, set to trip-hop chill-out music.
Groovy and educational in equal measure, and actually very good indeed.

There is of course a plethora of stupidly obscure blues and country and parlour music recordings from the early years of the twentieth century.

And my wonderful party CD of traditional sea shanties and pirate songs.

The title of "Weirdest of the Weird", however, must go to the "so scratchy it's unlistenable" version, digitised from my 78rpm original (found in a junk shop pile of 78s in the seventies) of "The Laughing Yodeler", by the magnificently named "O. Joy and B. Gay".

Splendid.

So what's the weirdest thing in your iPod?