Does anyone have this on their iPod?

The other half of Trout Mask Replica

"∞" from the album 666 by (the mighty) Aphrodite's Child?

Not to mention the track "Ofis" from the same album, which is a bloke shouting something or other in Greek.

Utterly far out and wonderful it is, too.

....isn't really a track I'd want on the I-Pod

I don't actually mind Revolution 9, and generally listen all the way through when it comes on.

.. they give every member of the band a song, including the biffers not known for their songwriting prowess, results in a few weird ones. The Police did this on every album for contactural reasons ('Behind my Camel', anyone?) and the Yes album 'Fragile' included the mercifully brief 'Five Per cent for Nothing' amongst other unlistenable clunkers. I bet even Bill Bruford doesn't have that on his iPod.
However, I love 'Revolution 9', and think it's part of the White Album's spooky magic. 'Horse Latitudes', on the other hand, is shit. 'Mute nostril agony', indeed...

A special mention for Todd here, surely. Even on the albums that aren't mostly madness (AWATS, Utopia, Deface the Music) he always has one token track of total loopiness. I give you, in no particular order;

Todd - The Spark of Life, An Elpee's worth of Tunes
Healing - The Golden Goose
A Capella - Miracle in the Bazaar
Initiation - The whole of side 2
Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect - Emperor of the Highway
Ra - Singring and the Glass Guitar
Hermit of Mink Hollow - Onomatopea (ev'ry time I see ya?)

Feel free to add your own. Bonkers.

...though I don't even have an I-pod, 'Five Per Cent Of Nothing', 'Cans And Brahms' and 'Seamus' sure as hell wouldn't be on it if I did!!

Todd Rundgren's an interesting character, yes; his career has consistently been characterised by sheer genius counterbalanced with insane indulgences. I never got 'Faithful' in particular where the first side was note for note copies of 60s hits- clever, but utterly pointless. I felt the same went for that Beatles pastiche 'Deface The Music'.

Even as a devotee of vintage synthesisers and tracks featuring them, I found that 'Treatise On Cosmic Fire' thing severely hard-going when I last tried to play it. And 'Onamatopoeia' is impossibly goofy!

What about some of Radiohead's efforts on 'Kid A', 'Amnesiac' and 'Hail To The Thief'? I suspect there'd be a fair few tracks that I personally could easily live without from all of those albums...

In which vocalist, Johnette Napolitano, attempts to pick-out a suitable pet for guitarist, Jim Mankey, who remains firmly unconvinced of the benefits of animal ownership.

0:00-0:45 Johnette wastes no time fielding possible candidates – a llama, a mouse, an iguana and a monkey are all put forward for consideration.

0:45-1:06 Apparently Jim’s cat died, despite everybody’s best efforts to save it. Johnette breaks the news rather tactlessly, accompanying it with the kind of disappointed “ohhhhs” that rise from the crowds at Wimbledon whenever the great British hope is knocked out of the tournament.

2:02-2:16 Further suggestions include bees, flees, a white rat, or a horse.

2:23-2:27 It emerges that Jim already owns some fish. Maybe he doesn’t need an animal after all.

2:27-2:32 The fish do not seem to satisfy Johnette. In her own words: “I guess the fish are cool but you can’t bring them inside.”

The song ends unresolved, with Jim reluctant to own any more animals, besides the aforementioned fish, and Johnette insistent that he choose a new pet. Concrete Blonde were to split shortly afterwards.

which I happen to think is the conceptual cornerstone of 'OK Computer'. Did I just write 'conceptual cornerstone'? Oh f**k it, it stays.

By The Stooges. 10 minutes of slow, tuneless chanting. The last minute has a decent bit of viola from producer John Cale, if you can put up with it that long. Did they not have enough songs? It's the only track that makes you aware the album was made in the sixties. It sucks.

by those Beatles. So bizarre the drummer went off and pretended to be talking train a few years later.

Less than we were thinking of the brilliant ghost is Born album is unlkistenable droning that goes on for about 12 minutes - I listened to the entirety once because I thought something was going to happen.It didnt.

Also the whole of joanna Newsoms YS - HOW van Dyke Parks got himself involved with this is beyond belief.

There is also a piece of crap on The Willard Grant Conspiracy album 3AM at Otto's which is basically a recording of fireworks at Chinese nEW years party - it goes on forever.Why??????

Pressed Rat and Warthog by Cream. Ginger Baker recites a stupid drug addled humourless half hearted attempt at Edward Lear about two animals who run a shop selling 'atonal apples, amplified heat and pressed rat's collection of dog legs and feet'.

Check out "Hello, Dad - I'm in Jail" from the album of the same name, or "Needletooth" from their latest album, "Boo!" Both as mad as a van.

on this - Hello Dad,I'm in Jail is indeed a work of genius. They are a grat band and it's good to have them back - saw them at SXSW this year and I defy anyone to stand still while listening to them.

You're pretty close to the truth

I'm sure I remember either the Iggster or Ron Asheton says in an interview that originally 1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog and 1 more were all about 8 mins long. Elektra flatly refused to release the album, and they had to go back in the studio.

We Will Fall came out of that

The Complete Works of.

Andy Summers track "Mother" from Synchronicity is unlistenable.

...a band called Supercharge who had a brief moment in the seventies and a crazy song called 'She Moved the Dishes First' wherein loverboy cuddling up on the couch with his girl was taken by surprise by her need to relieve her bladder ... with the result that whilst she did so in the kitchen sink, he knew she was a nice girl right away because ... 'she moved the dishes first'. I can remember laughing till I cried at the time. .... (I think there may have been a few beers involved).

...and put the very odd The Return of Jimi Hendrix on The Waterboys' Dream Harder album of 1993. Spoken words and chaotic backing track added to the weirdness.

Sample verse: "Together we strolled in sculptured gardens passed the sleepy afternoon
maids were dartin' back and forth
from a window came a violin tune
angels, dressed as nurses toyed with playin' cards
looters sprung from prisons filled the yard..."

Actually it's rather wonderful...

... first incarnation gave away a flexidisc with "The Dignity Of Labour" EP, that consisted mostly of the band arguing about the merits of flexidiscs - I love the seventies! Anyway, it was included in the CD reissue of "Reproduction" and ended up on my iPod, so it qualifies, so there.

Van's 1990 album, Enlightenment (mentioned here http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/van-morrison-what-is-fuss-all-abou... - nice cross-threadery) is as straight-ahead a collection of songs as he's put together, apart from In The Days Before Rock and Roll which is part sung by VM, part recited by the poet Paul Durcan, who enthuses in his slightly strangulated tones about 'Justin, gentler than a man' before reading the station names off an old radiogram ('Hilversum! Helvetia! Budapest!') over nurdly Celtic jazz. And what does 'We let the goldfish go' mean?

They try too hard and therefore fail.

Poppy bands that experiment are far more weird because there you are, eating a Toffo, expecting another straightforward pop song and you get things like :

I Before E - Yazoo's Upstairs at Eric's
(Random echoing words, laughing, spooky noises).

I Want You Now - Depeche Mode's Music For The Masses
(The sound of a paddling pool being inflated orally. Nowhere near as enticing as it sounds).

Slave to This - Soft Cell's This Last Night in Sodom
(10 minutes of indescribable ranting and messiness)