As a professional oddball, yes, it is a real job, I listen to some pretty weird music. My favorite genre at the moment is dark cabaret. A term first used (to my knowledge) by the amazing and incredible Amanda effing Palmer to describe her band The Dresden Dolls. She's one of my favorite artists. I love this music. It's dark and elegant and creepy. As I write this, I'm listening to Missed me by the aforementioned Dresden Dolls. So, to quote one of my good friends, frickety frackin good. Voltaire is another excellent artist. His music is kinda goth-folk y. Love! his best song by far is The Straight-Razor Cabaret. Starting to get what kind of person I am? I'M GONNA GET WEIRDER.
I also like music that's just plain weird. Label it however you want, no one understands this stuff. For instance, I grew up listening to Tori Amos. She is an amazing, beautiful person. Her song "Cruel" left me with the biggest feeling of "Of what in the unholy-" I'd ever had. Good on you Amos. Good on you.another really good one is Emilie Autumn. Take a fairy, put it on LSD, give it a violin, and BOOM! You have her. Rasputina's really good too.
For some reason, I love Celtic rock too. Might be my Irish-Canadian heritage, might be that my dad worked in pubs when I was young (and I spent many a night in there when I was around 3 or 4) and that's what they play in there. I dunno. The fiddle has to be one of my favorite instruments
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