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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