FREAKS GALORE 2 - THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

 

FREAKS GALORE 2

 

THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

according to Luke Haines and Sonic Smith-d

 

Freaks compilation no. 2 now also ready to swirl! 

The Kingdom of Freakesy now spans from Canterbury to Los Angeles – remember we are flying westwards. It’s the good old Rock’n’Roll with a pinch of Art Rock thrown in. Some of the musicians compiled here are still active, some sadly listen from above.

 

 

 

01. THE JAZZ BUTCHER CONSPIRACY    OLD SNAKEY (Oxford‘s Pat Fish qualified as a first-rate Freak for almost 40 years)

02. ANTHONY MOORE    WAR (the Moore guy, a Freak as good as any other or?)

03. THE SOFT BOYS    OLD PERVERT (any band with two Freaks in the line-up is about to top boring farts like Genesis or David Bowie, who‘s just a chameleon)

04. THE BEATLES    BAD BOY (in their Hamburg days Freaks unequalled, who‘d wear toilet seats around the neck) Mono! And their best recording to boot!

05. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND    GIMME DAT HARP BOY (if there ever was a Freak, the Don was it)

06. HENRY COW   TEENBEAT (Fred Frith & Tim Hodgkinson = Canterbury Freaks)

07. GORILLAS    IT‘S MY LIFE (Jesse‘s not just a hairstyle Freak, but also one for the bounteously chequered trousers)

08. THE AUTEURS    BUDDHA (Freak Luke Haines again!)

09. GENE VINCENT and his BLUE CAPS    CAT MAN (50s‘ Norfolk, Virginia, leather Freak with a serious bad leg and an unequalled lead guitarist)

10. THE RESIDENTS    VIVA LAS VEGAS (anonymous eyeballing Freaks Elvising)

11. BLACK BOX RECORDER    UP TOWN TOP RANKING (Freak Luke H. and band dare to cover Althea & Donna‘s anthemic tune: “nah pop nah style, I strictly roots“)

12. KIM FOWLEY    CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE (L.A.s madcap and freakiest of Freaks)

 

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FREAKS GALORE 3 - THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

 

FREAKS GALORE 3

 

THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

according to Luke Haines and Sonic Smith-d

 

So here’s Vol. 3 of the Freaks show which doesn’t always reflect in the music. But it’s always a pleasure to go through one’s record collection a rediscover things one hasn’t been listening to for a long time or which have gone completely off the radar.

Vol. 2 is also almost ready but as there’s a fault in the CD and I’ve wiped the songs off my CDRecorder, I’ve got to start from scratch again. It won’t take long. So here’s 3 before 2, if that’s alright with you!

 

The track list:

01. FATIMA MANSIONS    ONLY LOSERS TAKE THE BUS (cage-rattling confrontational Freaks)

02. LUKE HAINES    ULRIKE MEINHOF‘S BRAIN IS MISSING (Luke H. again)

03. JOHN COOPER CLARKE    SUSPENDED SENTENCE (Manchester‘s Punk poet and town Freak and the only poet ever on The John Peel Show)

04. TELEFÍS    CIRCLING OVER SHANNON (Cathal Coughlan Freak again)

05. STRAWBS    HERO AND HEROINE  (Freaks as recommended by Luke H.)

06. SIMONES    JUST LIKE THE FLOWERS (or the magic mushrooms exceptionnelles)

07. DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR    MY LOVE EXPLODES (in diamonds and pearls for you: Andy Partridge - Freak for releasing an entirely Popsyke album in the mid-80s)

08. GEORGE HARRISON    WAH-WAH (...can there be a Freak in Wellingtons?)

09. THE AUTEURS    AMERICAN GUITARS (the inevitable Luke Haines)

10. STEVE TOOK    GIVE (Steve Peregrine Took was the freak in Tyrannosaurus Rex)

11. CABARET VOLTAIRE    WESTERN MANTRA (three Sheffield Freaks initially wanting to make Noise a music form and then becoming pioneers of Industrial Music)   

 

 

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