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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