20 Mindfuck Artists In My Collection
Ranked, as always. No noise artists on here (e.g. Whitehouse, Merzbow) since that is their sole mission. Soul-raping, I mean. |
| 1 | Slint
Ladies and gentlemen, the serial rapists of indie rock.
Top Mindfuck Moment: "Don, Aman" |
| 2 | Can
Top Mindfuck Moment: "Aumgn" (Close Second: "Peking O") |
| 3 | Butthole Surfers
Top Mindfuck Moment: "Jimi" (Close Second: "22 Going on 23") |
| 4 | Public Image Ltd.
Top Mindfuck Moment: "Poptones" |
| 5 | King Crimson
Top Mindfuck Moment: "Providence" (Close Second: Too Many to Count!) |
| 6 | Throbbing Gristle
TMM: "Slug Bait (ICA)" - actually this is the most disturbing use of sound I've ever heard, and I suggest you hear it, too. Share my trauma! :P |
| 7 | Suicide
TMM: "Frankie Teardrop" |
| 8 | The Pop Group
TMM: "Words Disobey Me" |
| 9 | Neu!
TMM: "Super 16" |
| 10 | Sunn O)))
TMM: "Aghartha" |
| 11 | Frank Zappa
TMM: "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" (definitely the weirdest song I've ever heard) |
| 12 | The Doors
TMM: "The End" |
| 13 | Sonic Youth
TMM: "Pacific Coast Highway" (Close Second: "Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Your Dog) |
| 14 | Radiohead
TMM: "Fitter Happier" |
| 15 | My Bloody Valentine
This is the good, soothing kind of mindfuck.
TMM: "Only Shallow" |
| 16 | The Fall
TMM: Mark E. Smith himself |
| 17 | The Beatles
ASIDE FROM REVOLUTION 9, TMM: "Tomorrow Never Knows" (Close Second: "Blue Jay Way") |
| 18 | DJ Shadow
TMM: "Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2" |
| 19 | The Velvet Underground
TMM: "Sister Ray" (Close Second: "I Heard Her Call My Name") |
| 20 | Tim Buckley
TMM: "Star Sailor" |
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