FREAKS GALORE 9 - THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

 

 

FREAKS GALORE 9

 

THE GOSPEL OF FREAKDOM

according to Luke Haines and Sonic Smith-d

 

BO DIDDLEY

Well, as things sometimes do, they get out of order. Well, I’ve got Freaks Galore 9 ready before volume 8. And as I wanted to give you something before the years closes, I just couldn’t wait, that’s why it is here.

I mentioned in one of the other volumes of Freaks Galore there was almost unlimited supply of Freaks in music… but maybe there was no greater Freak than Ellas McDaniel, the man with the big feet and the odd-shaped guitar. He was the master of the kneetrembler and had the incredible Duchess (or Lady Bo at times) play the rhythm guitar, shake the maracas or thump the tambourine, sing background vocals and swing her hips. To everybody‘s delight!

I've got a shelf full of albums by his majesty. A friend of mine once said that I knew more Bo Diddley songs than Bo himself… today it’s true. One of the great inventors of Rock music has gone in 2008. Why couldn’t he live forever? He would have supplied us with his unique tunes.

His Bo Diddley Beat was inspiration for thousands of musicians and his songs have been covered a million times… by acts diametrically opposed to each other.

Here’s a cross section of his work throughout the years. Enjoy it.

As there’s so much great Bo Diddley stuff, I might add a 2^nd volume. Or even a 3^rd one.

 

01. bonus track CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE: HEY BO DIDDLEY

02. THE GREAT GRANDFATHER 

03. DOING THE CRAW-DADDY 

04. SOUL FOOD

05. RIDE THE WATER

06. ELEPHANT MAN

07. COOKIE HEADED DIDDLEY      

08. MUMBLIN‘ GUITAR

09. LET ME PASS

10. AFRICA SPEAKS

11. I‘LL LICK YO‘ FACE

12. ROOSTER STEW

13. WE‘RE GONNA GET MARRIED

14. LIMBO

15. SAD SACK

16. GREASY SPOON

17. YAKKY DOODLE

18. CHEYENNE

19. PUT THE SHOES ON WILLY

20. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE

21. BABES IN THE WOOD

22. MR. KHRUSHCHEV

23. GET OUT OF MY LIFE  

24. DO THE ROBOT

25. bonus track THE WOOLIES: who do you love 

 

 

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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