68 Weird and Unusual Records You Should See 

Off the hop, I thought Brian Jones was alive with that haircut

See Michael transform from Phil Ramone to Shaun Ryder to Elton John to Dennis Wilson to Eric Clapton to himself during his latest entertaining post from the Bunker......

Thanks for posting a new video Michael. Your videos are my favourite content you produce - we love seeing your thoughts on records and musical oddities.. please keep it up! 🙂❤️

We need videos like this (amusing, informative AND vinyl) especially in this weird COVID period. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your love for vinyl . I lost everything that was in my fathers collection along with my grandparents. Just over 4000 pieces , my father was a serious audiophile . Everything in my life that made me comfortably numb was lost in a fire in Northern California last year , thanks for the memory lane ,

The hair! He’s committed to “the bit!”

That hairstyle is the funniest thing I've seen all week !!! Thanks for making me laugh Michael !!!

He's alive! Great to see you back on RU-vid!

From my recollection, my father (former employee at Capitol in production) explained the Frank Sinatra Lovers album. Frank hated that he looked strung out and made them revamp the cover. My only argument was that Frank had to have seen and approved the artwork before printing, but he argued his case. So, just food for thought, I suppose.

The change in fashion/hair was amazing. Also, it was interesting to see a number of records that over the years I just never bothered with. To tell the truth I still don't think I would play most of them. Well done.

This is clearly your best VIDEO! LOTS OF FUN!

Michael with all that's going on in the world today, I as much as other Audiophiles needed this laugh, my friend. The hair was in as much transition as the records that he covered. Bravo Michael, your comedic timing is always appreciated.

Early Creed Taylor Orchestra is a hoot.

Thanks for sharing another brilliant selection of Vinyl goodies from your collection.

Lots of seniors citizens during this pandemic times are getting insane. This is a perfect example.

From Dee Dee Ramone to Mrs Doubtfire... Is pandemic restrictions eating you up Michael?

Watched the whole episode. Glad you're back Mr Fremer!!!

This was one of your best, and concerning, pots, LOL.

I learn so much about music and records on your channel! Great sense of humor!

"Forbidden Planet" with Leslie Nielsen was one of my favourite movies when i was a teenager. I can still remember the scene when they walked thru that giant machinery. That movie was great !!

I love your knowledge on records

Michael looks strikingly like my grandmother’s friend Ida from her Hadassah book group.

Mr. Fremer, you are a gem for the music/record community. I really appreciate your sense or humor and the content that you bring.

My head high school marching band had the Beatles haircut. Let's give it up for Michael Romone everybody!

Quit watching commercials, and start making videos again. We've missed you!

You should create the "Michael Fremer" museum with all your albums. The collection you created should not be separated. That would be a tragedy.

You are a treasure! Please keep making videos! Not sure how deep your knowledge of the Sinatra catalogue is but would love to hear you break it down. Plus there are nearly no Sinatra vinyl videos on RU-vid, seriously I’m a FS fanatic and there are like 3 videos of his records. Thanks, love you!

I have a matte cover 'After The Gold Rush', also the 'Shock-Horror' album, "Motion In Percussion", The Cabot/Dylan, and the Breck compilation with Pat Suzuki on it. Also the Joan Armatrading EP (given to me at Camelot Records)!

LOL....Love the pearls, it's totally you....Bet your wife had a coronary seeing you in her pearls. This was the best hour I could have spent anywhere, thanks for sharing those records, look forward to next episode and keep up the Awesome work, one of my most favorite channels on YT.

amazing collection!

Get video , just wondering whats the most weird or unusual thing you've found in a sleeve from a record you brought, I ask because i found a part written note to a guy in the army from his girlfriend in a copy of "Thriller", I kept it in the sleeve as it felt like it belonged to the record.

Highly enjoyable! This really should be a weekly series! Share fifteen to twenty records and free associate! Exclamation! Point!

Dig the Klaus Kinski look. 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for the new vid Michael ..great to see you "Still Alive & Well". By the way, in 1990 Mobile Fidelity release "Tommy" with the alternate version of "Eyesight To The Blind". It was Pete Townshend's personal original master tapes so that must be the answer to the mystery on your copy of the single disc "Tommy" you have.

This was fantastic! Please do the Fernando Lamas record! I love the Carol Channing comment and outfit.

Do the Fernando reading schtik!

I LOVED this video. Your collection and knowledge and your passion for your records is intense. One cool thing is that I have a lot of the oddball records you showed. In fact I have a couple of the Co- Star records and used pieces of the Maxie Rosenbloom disc for a track on my own CD. One prize in my collection is your record. I'm 61 of Italian decent and when I learned about your record, I searched and found a mint copy on Discogs. So, the title is "I Can Take A Joke". Remember I'm a wop; and the record, came from Italy, in an inverted PIZZA box, which I've kept because I love the story, and then it hit me... I can take a Joke! ...Oh ya, stop showing records that make me spend money I don't have. PS...a newer test track can be found on Cornelius "Ripple Waves" album trk 1. This is a remix of his "Mellow Waves" album from 2017. He does incredible recordings using space to it's fullest. He loves to use binaural mics. A truelly incredible and unique artist. You'll love it! Anyways keep spinning, you crazy MOFO. And Zappa is the best!

Re Roxy Music, the original bass player played in all songs except in Virginia Plain, which is not in the UK version. I have an early UK pressing that sounds excellent.

Keep the hair man! Looks cool and fluffy!

missed you Michael, always so funny, glad you never went bald

I just sent the link to this video to Moni and Amber Ricker. Thank you for sharing your photo and memories with Stan SR/2 at 53:35.

@41:00 - I enjoy the VOX test record that comes in the box and has a great book with it. - I'm surprised to see no Cook records in this demonstration. @43:00 - cheap cable but looks like balanced and in proper DI boxes :)

Thanks Micheal. I have always enjoyed your videos. I’m also a man of some age with an out of control COVID haircut. A couple of my strange albums are Mom’s apple pie. With one being a controversial cover and one after they “fixed” it. Another is a copy of The Cars Candy-o. I have a copy with side B pressed on both sides. Hope to keep hearing from you.

Michael the hair looks good! Havent hat a cut in over a year myself and am a bit anxious about where to go and what to say! Speaking of weird records I have a copy of "I Can Take A Joke" on Kan-Tel label by Michael Fremer which repackaged a lot of your satirical ads for NE Music City, which I remember fondly on WBCN. I just found this in my late housemate's collection. The cover's beat but the disc is mint, no visible spindle markings! PS Keep the hair!

Welcome back to my namesake!!! Michael you look like our rock legend here in the Phil. Pepe joey smith. Rock n Roll!

This video was in sequence for my next viewing & since I just let roll while working. I thought 💭 I had seen that “Listening In Depth” before & on my break looked in my cleaning & storage crap, there it was I forgot I had that. The video was a lit’l long, maybe 🤔, but I learned something & made a discovery. Thanks 🙏 Mike keep sharing.

also ... funny that you showed "After The Riot At Newport". I just picked up an original copy myself a month ago . Never assume what those country boys can do .... love the Jim Flora cover too !

I have that Fernando Lamas record. Thought it was worth picket up for fifty cents or whatever I paid for it.

His hair looks just like George Harrison's in the 60's

Wow! I did not know that about Tommy, or the Duke Ellington track for the gorgeously designed, Listening in Depth. Fascinating.

Hi Mikey, You seem like your enjoying your transitioining. That was a clever one and subtle messaging with Wendy Carlos. ;)

That compilation disc with one unique Ellington track reminds me of that obscure Leonard Bernstein record about the history of jazz. It had one unique Miles Davis track on it, with the First Great Quintet.

I think the weirdest record in my modest collection is Trimicron's "Version Intégrale", which is the longest-playing 12" record ever produced, clocking at roughly one hour per side. It has all of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos plus an organ piece, also by Bach. Glad to see you back, Mr. Fremer!

The SOUNDPROOF stereo album is actually the SOUNDBLAST record from a year or so prior.

The man, the legend.

Ok Michael, give us the list of records you are listening to that trigger hair growth.

Love the hair🦳 & video!

I was a barber before my 4th and 5th back surgery. That mops so bad I damn near wanna walk to your house from KC to cut it for ya. Lol Good grief go get a haircut already. :)

Great insight (as usual Michael), thanks for the laughs, & the hair. Hope the haircut went well. 🧓✂️👴🤣

Good to see you again! Looking good

22:45 Just a classic kind of a story, thanks for sharing, gave me a good laugh 🤣

I watched the video to the very end. I find your videos very informative. I love to hear all of the stories that you tell about each of the individual albums. I appreciate the longform commentary.😃

Such a crazy video! Loved it!!!!

I had two of those jewel box Capitols also.

That Music for a Chinese Dinner at Home I'm sure I've seen it in a Dollar Bin somewhere. :) I have a Childs Garden of Grass I purchased sometime in the 70's. Didn't and Don't think of it as "Weird and Unusual". Fun record.

There are alot of albums that were basically used for sound tests and equitation ! and getting everything in synch !

I had that Joan Armatrading EP. Forgot all about it, lost it years ago somehow.

Another Great video. Learn tons of information watching your channel. Just started getting some of the Living Stereo albums. Very happy with my current stereo setup. Tweak it little here and there, ... these albums have never sounded better.

Some nice records , I have a few of those the Moby grape The Garden of the grass & 1 -2 others, You left out the Alice Cooper Love & Death with his thumb protruding from underneath his cape (mine has a white bar across the cover) & Steppenwolf " For ladies only" with the Pe.. (Bleep) car in the inside g/f. But, you you probably have those along with a million others LOL!!!! Nice Video Nice to see your back.. Big Fan of you.

Oh how I enjoy your funny and informative uploads. Love the stories. Keep 'm coming!

I was yust listening to Rough mix Record. Yust before I saw your upload notification.

Love your videos Michael. Didn’t know you had made this one

I have that Stereolab record and I didn't know! Great work Mikey. A bunker-buster.

Yes,do the scenes from the Lamas record "Co-Star" Doc BC

Epic hair! I'll call it "Beatles Directors Cut" 😆

Excellent video! I really enjoyed spending the time with you, going through oddball records. I’ve always wanted to find those early Ferrante and Tieischer albums.

Good to see you back in action again!

AWESOME and entertaining video! Thanks for the post!😃👍🏻

I've been a huge Meat Loaf fan since my teenage years, and that befuddling cover for the reissues of his debut has always puzzled me. All I can figure is that they wanted to make a quick buck with a cheap rerelease capitalizing on the success of Bat Out of Hell the previous year, and some rights issue prevented them from keeping the 1971 cover. It does feel like Motown just told an intern to do it with some condiments taken from a staff cafeteria.

I love and appreciate your being who you are , right down to acknowledging the cables involved in making great music back in the old days

Such a crazy video loved it. Thanks

I though Cousin Itt passed away. My condolences.

You need an Artaud - Pescado Rabioso Spinetta Album! Is considered the best Spanish Rock Album and the Record came in a weird shape jacket.

The censoring job on the back cover of the cheesecake record... Your humor is the best. Excellent video and actually, all of those records were quite interesting.

"We're all getting a little bit older and a little bit slower" - John Lennon

Do the Lamas reading, Shatner-style, with Soundproof backing music

Very cool. Thanks for sharing these oddities and rarities.

Great video thanks. Extremely interesting and insightful. Regards from Joburg

love the video michael...love the albums...i was born in flushing queens, started collecting albums in the 60's, had a co-star album with virginia mayo and i remember dippity-do....saw simon and garfunkel in central park...and right before covid, moved to chicago...but, while i was still in new york i recorded a spoken word album..you may dig it...you may not...something to leave in your collection....i could send a copy to the madison ave address unless you'd rather it elsewhere...just let me know..it'll be my pleasure...stay well...keep the peace...rocky

Michael, do a video about the Kermiss(?) Method! I enjoyed this whole video, and your humor makes it all fun and cool.

Yay! We all love these videos. Now to harness that hair to create the ultimate record cleaning brush!

Dude It's about time, So glad to see a video from you! keep em coming Stay safe!

I actually had no idea about Stereolab’s name! That’s awesome Michael thank you

DearMichael - Love. The (lackof) haircut - Aging Hippie suits you! But (not) seriously - Bumsheimer - is not Bum Scheimer - it’s Bums- heimer - whichis a person who comes from a (fictional) town called Bumsheim AND bumsen is the German colloquial term for what the English call ‘a shag’ i.e. the coital experience. So far so clear?! Ah the benefits of a classical education! Good to see you back!

Fantastic....Out of This World selection!!!!

Thanks so much for making another video! Very interesting as well

Michael/Michaela, great video, as always love your style. Keep them coming.

Mr French reading like a rolling stone lol

You should act out the Fernando Lamas scene and post it Mike ✌️ manythnx, please feel free to pull out some more oddities/rarities or anything in between you feel like soon

I enjoyed this video- I like hearing about different pressing variants and just weird info about records. You should play that Lsd record, probably be pretty funny.