FREAKS GALORE 7 - THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

 

THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

according to Luke Haines and Sonic Smith-d

 

I thought I'd give you Part 7 of the never ending story of Freaks in music as a Christmas gift. Well, where could there be more freaks than in music? Maybe in arts. Not in politics, though.

However, if I look at Resident Chump he surely qualifies for A1 Freak, but diagonally opposed to what we have in mind here, though he sports a super freaky hairstyle and skin colour. He might go “chumpa chumpa chumpa”, but we won’t groove to his beat, yet we get shakes in our knee bones. Or Resident Vikki Urbán. He even doesn’t look as good as the Chumpman, but has got freaky ideas galore.

Well, let’s stick to the Freaks in music; that’s what this blog is all about. I hope you also enjoy vol. 7 although I wasn’t quite sure Edward Vasela fitted in here. 

Anyway, all the best for 2026, and come lokking in to BIG BEAT and POWER POP again. I'd appriciate that. 

 

1. FAD GADGET    PLAINSONG (Frank Tovey — ingenious Freak)

2. HOLY SISTERS OF THE GAGA DADA    I WON‘T BREED IN CAPTIVITY (Greg Shaw always knew where to find Freaks, in this case Freakstresses)

3. U.S.S. FRIENDSHIP    ICE LAND (Resident Chump seems to have forgotten about Greenland, here are some Texan Freaks knowing better than the orange guy)

4. THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT    LOVE WHIP (And at the end of the sermon, Reverend Heat made an altar call. All the folks came up except Jesus.)

5. THE WAILERS    HANG UP (up in their tree — Tacoma, Washington Freaks)

6. SAD AMONG STRANGERS    IT‘S SO GOOD IT‘S INCEST (the freakiest New Wave band from Wales)

7. OSEES    CHEM FARMER NITE EXPO („John Dwyer was born with shorts on“)

8. THEE OH SEES    CRACK IN YOUR EYE (was I the Freak and got the spelling wrong?)

9. EDWARD VASELA    STAR FLIGHT (Norwegian Freaks)

10. JACK O‘FIRE    BRING ME THE HEAD OF JON SPENCER (fully shaved Texas Garage Blues Freaks)

11. THE SONICS    STRYCHNINE (Some folks like water, some folks like wine, but I like the taste of straight strychnine)

12. THE SONICS    I DON‘T NEED NO DOCTOR (50 years later and none the wiser)

 

 

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FREAKS GALORE 6 - THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

 

FREAKS GALORE 6

 

THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

according to Luke Haines and Sonic Smith-d

 

I mentioned that there were more Freaks in the tube ready for your enlightenment - but probably you know them all. 

The world of freakdom is seemingly unlimited. I chose the Screaming Lord Sutch song, because he was such a tragic figure and a Freak by nature and yet could descend into the world of Popsyke. And Elliott Sharpe is obsessed with outrageous sounds.

Ivor Cutler can’t be beaten in his British eccentricity, and so can’t be John Dowie: just plain wonderful, and be taken with two tongues in your cheek!

Please enjoy this compilation, if you do, leave a comment.

 

1. C.O.B   SHEBA‘S RETURN - THE LION OF JUDAH (Incredible String Band‘s Clive Palmer Folk Freak)

2. SCREAMING LORD SUTCH    THE CHEAT (even the chairman of the Monster Raving Loony Party can go popsyke sometimes)

3. ELLIOTT SHARP   EYES RIGHT (cool head Freak music)

4. THE DAMNED   NEAT NEAT NEAT (the incarnation of Punk madness - 4 Freaks immortalized in “Baby Driver“)

5. MAXIMUM JOY   WHERE‘S DEKE (crazy Y lads)

6. JOHN DOWIE   BRITISH TOURIST (half-shaved London madcap)

7. IVOR CUTLER   SQUEEZE BEES (only Britain can bear eccentrics like Ivor C.)

8. JOSEPH K   THE ANGLE (Paul Haig started off as a Freak, however...)

9. ROBERT WYATT   LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD HIT THE ROAD (a Canterbury nutcase)

10. X   THE UNHEARD MUSIC (when they were still in their puberty)

11. YELLOW   OUAD EL HABIB (Swiss madcap????)

12. ZERO   YOUR CLOTHES TALK (steps by Anastacia)

 

 

 

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FREAKS GALORE 5 - THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

 

FREAKS GALORE 5

 

THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

according to Luke Haines and Sonic Smith-d

 

More from the world of freakdom – of course, the supply is endless. Some even have the freakdom in their names. I chose Billy Roberts because his song was later customized by many Freaks.

I hope you enjoy this compilation as well, if you do, leave a comment.

 

 

01. THE NICE  -  WAR AND PEACE  (it isn‘t Keith E. who‘s the Freak here, but the unsurpassed David O‘List, master of the most unpredictable guitar)

02. ALBERTO Y LOST TRIOS PARANOIAS  -  PETER PARKER (CP Lee, Chaz Jankel, Roger Ruskin Spear - all prolific Freaks)

03. BILLY ROBERTS  -  HEY JOE (the first demo of this landmark song by his songwriter who‘d had the black prisoners on his mind)

04. SCREAMING LORD SUTCH  -  BLACK AND HAIRY (no more Freak than Lord Sutch)

05. PJ HARVEY  -  DRESS (women Freak, naturally)

06. THE TIGER LILLIES  -  HEROIN AND COCAINE (multicultural Freakness)

07. CAN  -  VITAMIN C (Germany‘s Freaks minus one)

08. THE SEEDS  -  MR. FARMER (Saxon Hooper Savage LA  Freaks)

09. THE RADIACS  -  SHE‘S MY WITCH (mustabeFreaks)

10. SAMANTHA FISH    BULLETPROOF (her Blues Freakness)

11. SYD BARRETT  -  GIGOLO AUNT (does he qualify?)

12. CABARET VOLTAIRE  -  WALLS OF JERICHO (F = Kirk, Mallinder, Watson)

 

 

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