Readers recommend: discordant songs

Whether deliberately obscure or just plain amateurish, sometimes the best tunes are, well, out of tune. Nominate your favourites hereNot all great records feature superb playing by brilliant musicians. In fact some achieve greatness while also being cack-handed and cacophonous. They don't have to be punks. Virtuoso musicians, experimenters and amateurs all have reasons for deliberate discordance.There are artists – entire genres, even – whose appeal lies (at least in part) in being technical...

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