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Sometimes the most memorable songs aren't the ones that scale the charts, but the ones that defy all logic. I’m talking about tracks that stop you cold …Dead in your tracks and make you ask, "What the hell did I just listen to?" Like Angine de Poitrine. Today, we're celebrating 8 of Rock's Strangest Songs that broke every rule in the book. Including the Peter Gabriel who ruled 1986 with an iconic record, only to wait 6 years to put out a follow-up because his new song Digging in the Dirt sent him into utter madness as he delved into the minds of the truly demented to write a song that seems harmless, but lyrically isthe strangest, creepiest song of its time. We've also got the story of Frank Zappa who woke up his 14-year-old daughter Moon Unit at 3 AM to record a monologue of 80s Southern California slang over a heavy guitar riff. Then there's the tale of a 60s artist Napoleon XIV who wrote a song about going insane that was so controversial it was banned nationwide,. And we’ll dive into a family band, The Shaggs, foretold by prophecy, attempting to play rock and roll without ever having actually heard what rock and roll was supposed to sound like! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Holly Hammet, Remnarc, Kevin riley, Paul Moore II, CharleyAnne ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fo... Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... #classicrock #70smusic #70srock #pinkfloyd Hey Music Junkies Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the Greatest artists and the greatest songs of all-time if you remember tearing open a package of wacky packs you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia make sure you are subscribed and make sure to like comment and share this so we can keep the channel going. So it’s time to cover the weird, the wild, the wacky. The strangest songs of the rock era… Songs that were so out there you couldn’t ignore them . Coming in at #8 on the countdown of Rock’s Strangest Songs, we’re heading over to the Netherlands back in the early 1970s to track down the Dutch prog rockers Focus, and their insane high-octane hit "Hocus Pocus". And nobody, and I mean nobody, was prepared for what they unleashed on this track. "Hocus Pocus" is like musical schizophrenia. It is a jarring collision of high-art rock and circus tent absurdity. You got this bone-crushing, heavy metal riff tearing through the airwaves like a chainsaw. But then you’ve also moments of yodeling, whistling, and scatting. It’s absurd. And it’s so good. I love this one. Focus formed in Amsterdam in 1969 when classically trained organist and flautist Thijs van Leer recruited bassist Martin Dresden and drummer Hans Cleuver to serve as a backing trio for the Dutch production of the rock musical Hair. Originally, Focus was a vocal-heavy act influenced by jazz and chamber music. However, the band underwent a radical transformation in 1970 with the addition of virtuoso guitarist Jan Akkerman, whose explosive style shifted their sound more toward progressive rock. After their 1970 debut album, “Focus Plays Focus,” failed to make much commercial headway, the lineup was overhauled… putting drummer Pierre van der Linden and bassist Cyril Havermans into the mix. This refined unit retreated to a castle in Baarn, Netherlands in 1971 to record their breakthrough album Moving Waves. So yeah, the band was actually rehearsing in a castle. It was called Kasteel Groenveld [and they had a wing of this 18th century estate all to themselves. And according to Thijs, they could play as loud as they wanted. While there Jan Akkerman started playing this heavy, driving riff. Then, realizing they had this amazing acoustic space did something completely off the wall. He started yodeling… even though he had never yodeled a day in his life! and actually and another funny thing, The Guitarist Jan Akkerman played it as a send-up of all the rock bands of his time… He wrote it as a joke to take the piss out of them in the process, and he accidentally created a rock classic that could hold its own alongside his contemporaries. It was never supposed to be a hit, and even though there’s plenty of singing in it, it doesn’t really have lyrics. Said Van Leer, "Shortly before leaving for England to record the second album, we were playing at a castle, when the guitarist suddenly played that riff...