Music that is unlistenable yet somehow enjoyable

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unlistenable isn't a word, whatever.

You know the type, the banRAB you listen to even though their music makes your brain melt.

Your Only Massive does that to me. Technically, they would be considered horrible, but a duo irish female alternative hip hop act with virtually no prior experience proves to be quite enjoyable from time to time.

GY!BE and Melt-Banana are some others who are charged as unlistenable in my book, but the music is still good.

Who else is guilty of this?
 
i f*cking heart the Locust. Although i think alot of people think metalcore is old hat. Or whatever subgenre they are meant to be. I think it depenRAB if you grew up weaned on various strains of hardcore/death metal etc, that will affect how 'unlistenable' you find it
 
I have this album called "Freddy's Greatest Hits" by The Elm Street Group. The Elm Street Group is basically a super generic 80's girl band singing songs with titles like "Do The Freddy" "Down In The Boiler Room" and a cover of "Wooly Bully", and every now and then Freddy Krueger will chime in with a tone deaf chorus or cackle or something.

It's pretty awesome.
 
Boredoms' mid-nineties output (Super Roots 1-9) was devoid of tonal progression as was Negativland's entire fecking discography. Aphex Twin's pretty brutal in some places...
 
I grew up weaned on various strains of hardcore/death metal but I definitely think The Locust are pretty abrasive and brain-melting, in all the right ways. :D
 
One word, Suicide!

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I know I've posted this several times before but...

I also find "Spit Tastes Like Metal" incredibly satisfying, yet unlistenable.

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GY!BE are pretty listenable.

Some of Ikue Mori's stuff is like asfsadff what. But I like her. Same with Sun Ra and Melt Banana, I guess.
 
Throbbing Gristle's 20 Jazz-Funk Greats is one of the strangest albums I've ever heard. So difficult to listen to, but for some reason I can't quite put my finger on I still love it.
 
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