you’re not gonna find songs from these
genres topping the charts anytime soon
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 weirdest music genres
for this list we’re looking at the
weirdest most bizarre and obscure music
genres we can find this isn’t the
judgment on the quality of the music or
musicians that make up these genres just
confirmation that they’re not at all
conventional number 10 vaporwave a lot
of these genres are going to be tough to
define and this format is no exception
and it’s hard a satire of consumerism
vaporwave emerged as a genre in the
2010s
across various online music communities
beginning with artists such as James
Ferraro and vet Troy just to name a few
start with a foundation of basic pop
music and add a heavy dose of 80’s and
90’s pop culture then make samples of
smooth jazz and corporate lounge music
while using pitch shifting and loops to
achieve a distorted sound and you’ve got
yourself some vapor away
Oh
number nine
lowercase today’s popular music is all
about dense catchy overwhelming beats
and compositions you know hooks and
massive choruses but by contrast
lowercase asks listeners to experience
sounds drowned out by the auditory
clutter of the world lowercase artists
digitally amplify natural sounds like
ant hills and flowers growing taking a
microscope to sounds otherwise
imperceptible to the human ear others
such as Steve Roden isolate everyday
situational sound like the handling of
paper or the sounds of a quiet library
minimalist and ambient it may be but
lowercase is unlikely to top the
Billboard charts anytime soon I just you
know I wish that you would have told me
from the beginning what was going on
number 8 Nintendo core
in the early 2000s or Seban jokingly
coined the term Nintendo core to
describe their unique style of music
which combined metal and 8-bit video
game inspired sin
the term caught on leading other video
game inspired rock and metal musicians
to adopt the term
Nintendo Korres ancestry can be traced
to chiptune genre of music spawned in
the 1980s that incorporated 8-bit sent
from the video game world and EDM like
tempos
it’s a formula that is just so crazy
that it works
leaving video game fans everywhere
looking for the nearest mosh pit
yeah
number seven splitter core and extra
tone hardcore techno and Gabbar were
among the first TDM subgenres to push
the number of beats per minute in an
aggressive direction but splitter core
and extra tone make them look tame by
comparison
both splitter core and extra tone fall
under the larger umbrella genre of speed
core which is defined as any EDM where
the BPM exceeds 300 beats per minute
splitter core is speed core on
amphetamines usually exceeding 600 BPMS
it pushes the boundary of recognizable
EDM to it’s very limits and then extra
tone demolishes those limits going
beyond 1000 bpm
in fact the human brain struggles to
keep up and the individual beats sound
like a single pulsating tone
number six pirate metal have you on the
news of late the Queen’s declared a war
on Spain who were the original metalhead
you asked so metal they were metal
before metal even existed
pirates pirate metal pays a Maj to the
original head bangers of the sea by
mixing power metal thrash metal and
speed metal with traditional pirate
ballads chants and the folk sound
associated with seafaring
lyrically pirate metal is all about
buried treasure rum kidnapping
landlubbers and other pirate pastimes
wenches at me doc told tales of a hog
pester Steve pirate metal fans around
the world have 80s metal bag running
while to thank for inventing the genre
when they abandoned their satanic
imagery for the pirate life with their
third studio album under Jolly Roger
number five crunk core you see you
looking at me there seems to be a clear
correlation between weird music and
genres that end in core in this case our
hybrid genre combines crunk music with
screamo and emo this is usually achieved
by pairing vocal styles more commonly
used in emo and screamo with electronic
beats similar to those found in southern
hip hop that being said crunk core
really feels like an old pastiche of pop
culture from 2005 to 2010 Johnny in the
club goes like Oh throw everything you
can find including hip hop scene kid
fashion emo scream Oh techno suburban
youth auto-tune and Hot Topic into the
mix and you got the neon monster that is
crunk core
number four have on guard avant-garde is
a term that can be applied to any piece
of art which pushes beyond the accepted
boundaries of that given artform
in the case of music it’s difficult to
set any specific set of characteristics
but a number of composers from the 20th
century rose to prominence by radically
altering the definition of music and
came to be commonly known as avant-garde
composers among them are Arnold
Schoenberg who worked with serialism
a technique of composition using a
series of systematic values and John
Cage whose most infamous piece consisted
of four minutes and 33 seconds of
sitting in front of his piano in silence
number three catholics psychedelic synth
folk psychedelic synth and folk music
feel like an unlikely pairing to begin
with but add Catholic symbolism to the
mix and things gets really weird
the 60s and the 70s resulted in a lot of
experimentation but this genre stands
out from the crowd
sister Irene O’Connor’s fire of God’s
love songs to ignite the spirit sounds
innovative and experimental even today
without considering that it was recorded
by an Australian nun living in a
monastery in 1976 ask the Lord to show
you right from wrong as well as truthful
do not be bringing that strong
musicians Pastor John ride gran and
Emily Bittinger each made significant
contributions to the genre with their
respectively trippy releases silhouette
segments and Emily
number two danger music this is another
genre that is more about an idea than
any distinct musical characteristics it
is considered to be a form of
avant-garde music but it pushes a
definition of music so far beyond
recognition that danger music is also
called antti music
confused yet you should be danger music
is defined by one thing the theory that
some music can be inherently dangerous
is he going to hurt himself and that
kind of thing so everyone thinks of
glass and I think danger like broken
glass musicians creating danger music
prove this hypothesis in various ways
such as playing loud enough to deafen an
audience
or riding the performer should blind
themselves five years after this piece
in the sheet music fun before we unveil
our number one pick here are a few
honorable mentions
I’m British like a clotted cream tea
apologetic Boris dancer then you must
mean me I’m British this lift game
slicking dinner brothers with a hip-hop
slang bang bang click they make they do
this on a sunny Nick Nick Nick Nick
neighbor your mother be drunk drivers if
it wasn’t for us trucks no double
clutches
big dragon nuts number one Japan noise
noise music is produced all over the
world but no one does it quite as weird
as the musicians of Japan who have
developed a distinct and highly regarded
Noise music culture known as Japan noise
while the 1980s and 1990s were certainly
the high point of the genre Japan
maintains its position as a mecca of
Noise music the Japan noise movement
encompasses many subgenres of Noise
music coming out of Japan from the table
top electronic noise of mspr or the in
capacitance to more punk inspired Japan
noise artists like ruins Japan noise has
also produced arguably one of the most
famous and respected noise musicians
ever Mirza
so do you agree with our list what’s the
weirdest music you’ve ever had the
pleasure or displeasure of listening to
for more unique top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
genres topping the charts anytime soon
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 weirdest music genres
for this list we’re looking at the
weirdest most bizarre and obscure music
genres we can find this isn’t the
judgment on the quality of the music or
musicians that make up these genres just
confirmation that they’re not at all
conventional number 10 vaporwave a lot
of these genres are going to be tough to
define and this format is no exception
and it’s hard a satire of consumerism
vaporwave emerged as a genre in the
2010s
across various online music communities
beginning with artists such as James
Ferraro and vet Troy just to name a few
start with a foundation of basic pop
music and add a heavy dose of 80’s and
90’s pop culture then make samples of
smooth jazz and corporate lounge music
while using pitch shifting and loops to
achieve a distorted sound and you’ve got
yourself some vapor away
Oh
number nine
lowercase today’s popular music is all
about dense catchy overwhelming beats
and compositions you know hooks and
massive choruses but by contrast
lowercase asks listeners to experience
sounds drowned out by the auditory
clutter of the world lowercase artists
digitally amplify natural sounds like
ant hills and flowers growing taking a
microscope to sounds otherwise
imperceptible to the human ear others
such as Steve Roden isolate everyday
situational sound like the handling of
paper or the sounds of a quiet library
minimalist and ambient it may be but
lowercase is unlikely to top the
Billboard charts anytime soon I just you
know I wish that you would have told me
from the beginning what was going on
number 8 Nintendo core
in the early 2000s or Seban jokingly
coined the term Nintendo core to
describe their unique style of music
which combined metal and 8-bit video
game inspired sin
the term caught on leading other video
game inspired rock and metal musicians
to adopt the term
Nintendo Korres ancestry can be traced
to chiptune genre of music spawned in
the 1980s that incorporated 8-bit sent
from the video game world and EDM like
tempos
it’s a formula that is just so crazy
that it works
leaving video game fans everywhere
looking for the nearest mosh pit
yeah
number seven splitter core and extra
tone hardcore techno and Gabbar were
among the first TDM subgenres to push
the number of beats per minute in an
aggressive direction but splitter core
and extra tone make them look tame by
comparison
both splitter core and extra tone fall
under the larger umbrella genre of speed
core which is defined as any EDM where
the BPM exceeds 300 beats per minute
splitter core is speed core on
amphetamines usually exceeding 600 BPMS
it pushes the boundary of recognizable
EDM to it’s very limits and then extra
tone demolishes those limits going
beyond 1000 bpm
in fact the human brain struggles to
keep up and the individual beats sound
like a single pulsating tone
number six pirate metal have you on the
news of late the Queen’s declared a war
on Spain who were the original metalhead
you asked so metal they were metal
before metal even existed
pirates pirate metal pays a Maj to the
original head bangers of the sea by
mixing power metal thrash metal and
speed metal with traditional pirate
ballads chants and the folk sound
associated with seafaring
lyrically pirate metal is all about
buried treasure rum kidnapping
landlubbers and other pirate pastimes
wenches at me doc told tales of a hog
pester Steve pirate metal fans around
the world have 80s metal bag running
while to thank for inventing the genre
when they abandoned their satanic
imagery for the pirate life with their
third studio album under Jolly Roger
number five crunk core you see you
looking at me there seems to be a clear
correlation between weird music and
genres that end in core in this case our
hybrid genre combines crunk music with
screamo and emo this is usually achieved
by pairing vocal styles more commonly
used in emo and screamo with electronic
beats similar to those found in southern
hip hop that being said crunk core
really feels like an old pastiche of pop
culture from 2005 to 2010 Johnny in the
club goes like Oh throw everything you
can find including hip hop scene kid
fashion emo scream Oh techno suburban
youth auto-tune and Hot Topic into the
mix and you got the neon monster that is
crunk core
number four have on guard avant-garde is
a term that can be applied to any piece
of art which pushes beyond the accepted
boundaries of that given artform
in the case of music it’s difficult to
set any specific set of characteristics
but a number of composers from the 20th
century rose to prominence by radically
altering the definition of music and
came to be commonly known as avant-garde
composers among them are Arnold
Schoenberg who worked with serialism
a technique of composition using a
series of systematic values and John
Cage whose most infamous piece consisted
of four minutes and 33 seconds of
sitting in front of his piano in silence
number three catholics psychedelic synth
folk psychedelic synth and folk music
feel like an unlikely pairing to begin
with but add Catholic symbolism to the
mix and things gets really weird
the 60s and the 70s resulted in a lot of
experimentation but this genre stands
out from the crowd
sister Irene O’Connor’s fire of God’s
love songs to ignite the spirit sounds
innovative and experimental even today
without considering that it was recorded
by an Australian nun living in a
monastery in 1976 ask the Lord to show
you right from wrong as well as truthful
do not be bringing that strong
musicians Pastor John ride gran and
Emily Bittinger each made significant
contributions to the genre with their
respectively trippy releases silhouette
segments and Emily
number two danger music this is another
genre that is more about an idea than
any distinct musical characteristics it
is considered to be a form of
avant-garde music but it pushes a
definition of music so far beyond
recognition that danger music is also
called antti music
confused yet you should be danger music
is defined by one thing the theory that
some music can be inherently dangerous
is he going to hurt himself and that
kind of thing so everyone thinks of
glass and I think danger like broken
glass musicians creating danger music
prove this hypothesis in various ways
such as playing loud enough to deafen an
audience
or riding the performer should blind
themselves five years after this piece
in the sheet music fun before we unveil
our number one pick here are a few
honorable mentions
I’m British like a clotted cream tea
apologetic Boris dancer then you must
mean me I’m British this lift game
slicking dinner brothers with a hip-hop
slang bang bang click they make they do
this on a sunny Nick Nick Nick Nick
neighbor your mother be drunk drivers if
it wasn’t for us trucks no double
clutches
big dragon nuts number one Japan noise
noise music is produced all over the
world but no one does it quite as weird
as the musicians of Japan who have
developed a distinct and highly regarded
Noise music culture known as Japan noise
while the 1980s and 1990s were certainly
the high point of the genre Japan
maintains its position as a mecca of
Noise music the Japan noise movement
encompasses many subgenres of Noise
music coming out of Japan from the table
top electronic noise of mspr or the in
capacitance to more punk inspired Japan
noise artists like ruins Japan noise has
also produced arguably one of the most
famous and respected noise musicians
ever Mirza
so do you agree with our list what’s the
weirdest music you’ve ever had the
pleasure or displeasure of listening to
for more unique top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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