Has to be "Too Much Blood" off the "Undercover" album. Hard to believe they not only released it, but made a video for it. Mick normally is a genius with marketing and branding, but it's hard to see how this helped their cause in either of those departments.

Here's some background on the tune from Wikipedia:

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"Too Much Blood" is a song by The Rolling Stones featured on their 1983 album Undercover.

Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Too Much Blood" is largely a Jagger composition. The song is a reflection of the many influences the Stones would have during their career in the mid-1980s. Jagger said at the time of its release, "I had made out a very honest burden of mind before everyone had arrived one night. It was just Charlie [Watts] and Bill [Wyman]. And one of our roadies called Jim Barber, he was playing guitar on it too. And I just started playing this riff I had, with this middle part, I didn't have any words to it and then I just suddenly started rapping out these words which are the ones you hear." ("Mick asked me if I could do an 'Andy Summers' on the track" - Jim Barber)[1]

The song itself deals with the growing depictions of violence in the media at the time and the case of Issei Sagawa, with Jagger saying, "Well there was this scandalous, murderous story in France - it was a true story - about this Japanese guy who murdered this girl and it sort of captured the imagination of the French public, and the Japanese. The Russians wanted to make a movie out of it. So that was the first bit and then I started becoming more light-hearted about it, movies and all. ...it came out as a sort of anti-gratuitous cinema of violence. And it's a kind of anti-violent thing."[1]

"Did you ever see "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"? Horrible, wasn't it. You know, people ask me "is it really true where you live in Texas, is that really true what they do around there, people?" I say, "yea, every time I drive through the crossroads I get scared, there's a bloke running round with a @#$%& chain saw. Oh! Oh! oh No, he's gonna cut off, Oh no. Don't saw off me leg, don't saw off me arm."

Jagger uses a half-hearted rap delivery for some lines, saying at the time, "I'm not a great rapper... It's just made up on the spot as well. It's completely extemporized, as well, most of it. A couple words I cleaned up. I don't mean clean up, just made better sounds. That was just rap off the top of my head. I didn't write it down, even."[1]

Recording took place at Paris' Pathé Marconi Studios and New York City's Hit Factory between November and December 1982, with final touch-ups in August 1983. With Jagger on lead vocals, he also performs electric guitars with Barber and Wood. Horns are provided by Chops and percussion by Sly Dunbar.

A dance version of "Too Much Blood," remixed by Arthur Baker, was released as a twelve-inch single on December 1984. A music video, directed by Julien Temple, was produced in support showing the band performing the song as well as Richards and guitarist Ron Wood chasing Jagger with chainsaws. The trio also appear, without chainsaws but still in character, on the record sleeve for the single. The video opens with an excerpt from the first movement of the String Quartet Number 3 by Béla Bartók. "Too Much Blood" has never been performed live by the Stones and appears on no compilations albums.

as opposed to the rap crap song off of B2B anybody seen my baby ?

Not sure I would call it their weirdest tune - perhaps the most eclectic or not-Stones Stones song.

It's great.

Their weirdest tune is probably Time Waits For No One. I've always thought that was a really weird song.

Heaven

Oddly enough, this was a favorite tune of mine off of Undercover and still is.
I liked several others from the album, but this was a nice curveball with it's afro/carribean beat/rhythm, and guitar. And I like Micks singing and 'rap' though I've never considered it rap. From memory, the dance remixes (s) are pretty good as well - some weird form of dance/dub music that seemed ahead of it's time. Will have to dig through the boot collection to find it....

"A music video, directed by Julien Temple, was produced in support showing the band performing the song as well as Richards and guitarist Ron Wood chasing Jagger with chainsaws"

Nice...I can't recall that video - will have to look it up on youtube!

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Have a look at their satanic Majesties. There you find min. 5 songs that are even more weird that these. Too Much Blood is a great disco tune, I tend to play it from time to time.

Continental Drift.

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Continental Drift.

I have to agree

Gomper (lots of TSMR)
Short and Curlies
Heaven
Emotional Rescue?
Far Away Eyes?

Far away Eyes the weirdest vocal.
Short and Curlies a strange album filler.
Just Wanna See his Face was odd.

I go with Continental Drift honorary mention for I Just Want to See His Face

Between the Buttons. The whole album

Indian Girl ...

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Just Wanna See his Face was odd.

that would get my vote for weirdest (and i love it as well!)

Either 'Dandelion' or 'Might as Well Get Juiced'.

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Olly.

Lady Jane is a head scratcher for me.

Something Happened To Me Yesterday, the rap at the end especially

I though on Voodoo they got a little weird. In that they were forcing some feels. "Moon Is Up" is weird; as far as Stone songs go. So is "New Faces".

Cosmic Christmas ...














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I go with Continental Drift honorary mention for I Just Want to See His Face

Agreed. I like them both though. Didn't they open their Steel Wheels shows in 89
with a recording of a partial continental drift?

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I go with Continental Drift honorary mention for I Just Want to See His Face

Agreed. I like them both though. Didn't they open their Steel Wheels shows in 89
with a recording of a partial continental drift?

Yes indeed.

I was at the first show, and as that was the day before the album was released we had absolutely no idea at all what the opening music was.

(There's a top notch film about the making of the track called "The Stones in Morocco". Well worth seeking out).

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'Family', 'If You Let Me' or 'Downtown Suzie'. A trio of weirdness.



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Interestingly enough, this thread mentions some of my favourite Stones tracks. Does this make me a weird fan or even a weird person? Scratching my head...

Sing this song together. Weird and putrid.

C_ockS_ucker Blues

Pretty beat up

Something Happened To Me Yesterday

Sing This All Together (See What Happens) at the end of Side 1 of Satanic Majesties has always struck me as being quite a weird little drug inspired romp (especially Keith's licks around the 2:32 mark)... But a lot of great suggestions here indeed... And I personally have a lot of appreciation for their, shall we say less mainstream, work.



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btw- the answer is always Gomper... it doesn't even matter what the question is.