instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music

That’s what I like- organic ‘strangeness’. Philip Glass has made some strange sounding music but with intent, that was his style. The Celentano piece is intentional linguistically too but it’s a very strange to experience how effectively he’s mimicking US ‘phonics’ or whatever.

The Tim Curry piece is hilariously strange to me because Tim Curry actually can and does rock, but somehow wrote an embarrassingly unrocking song about how rocking he is.