The Deviants - Ptooff! (1967)

2014-10-25T15:36:08Z

The Deviants - Ptooff! (1967)


1. Deviants - Opening (0:08)
2. Deviants - I'm Coming Home (5:59)
3. Deviants - Child Of The Sky (4:32)
4. Deviants - Charlie (3:56)
5. Deviants - Nothing Man (4:21)
6. Deviants - Garbage (5:36)
7. Deviants - Bun (2:42)
8. Deviants - Deviation Street (9:01)

    Mick Farren – Lead vocals, piano
    Sid Bishop – Guitar, sitar
    Cord Rees – Bass, Spanish guitar
    Russell Hunter – Drums, backing vocals
    Duncan Sanderson, Stephen Sparks, Jennifer Ashworth - Vocals & mumbling

Talk today about Britain's psychedelic psyxties, and it's the light whimsy of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, the gentle introspection of the village green Kinks, Sgt. Pepper, and "My White Bicycle" which hog the headlines. People have forgotten there was an underbelly as well, a seething mass of discontent and rancor which would eventually produce the likes of Hawkwind, the Pink Fairies, and the Edgar Broughton Band. It was a damned sight more heartfelt, too, but the more some fete the lite-psych practitioners of the modern age, the further their reality will recede. Fronted by journalist/author/wild child Mick Farren, the Deviants spawned that reality. Over the years, three ex-members would become Pink Fairies; for subsequent reunions, sundry ex-Fairies would become honorary Deviants. And though only Russell Hunter is present on Ptooff!, still you can hear the groundwork being laid. the Pink Fairies might well have been the most perfect British band of the early '70s, and the Deviants were their dysfunctional parents. In truth, Ptooff! sounds nowhere near as frightening today as it was the first (or even 21st) time out; too many reissues, most of them now as scarce as the original independently released disc, have dulled its effect, and besides, the group's own subsequent albums make this one look like a puppy dog. But the deranged psilocybic rewrite of "Gloria" which opens the album, "I'm Coming Home," still sets a frightening scene, a world in which Top 40 pop itself is horribly skewed, and the sound of the Deviants grinding out their misshapen R&B classics is the last sound you will hear. Move on to "Garbage," and though the Deviants' debt to both period Zappa and Fugs is unmistakable, still there's a purity to the paranoia. Ptoof! was conceived at a time when there genuinely was a generation gap, and hippies were a legitimate target for any right-wing bully boy with a policeman's hat and a truncheon. IT and Oz, the two underground magazines which did most to support the Deviants (Farren wrote for both), were both publicly busted during the band's lifespan, and that fear permeates this disc; fear, and vicious defiance. It would be two years, and two more albums, before the Deviants finally published their manifesto in all its lusty glory -- "we are the people who pervert your children" -- during their eponymous third album's "People Suite." But already, the intention was there. --- Dave Thompson, allmusic.com

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The Deviants ‎– Disposable (1968/1996)

2018-02-08T12:30:30Z

The Deviants ‎– Disposable (1968/1996)


1 	Somewhere To Go 	7:23
2 	Sparrows And Wires 	0:52
3 	Jamies Song 	3:35
4 	You've Got To Hold On 	3:53
5 	Fire In The City	3:01
6 	Let's Loot The Supermarket 	2:34
7 	Pappa-Oo-Mao-Mao 	2:33
8 	Slum Lord 	2:15
9 	Blind Joe Mcturks Last Session 	1:20
10 	Normality Jam 	4:22
11 	Guaranteed To Bleed		3:46
12 	Sidney B. Goode 	0:54
13 	Last Man 	5:44

Bass – Duncan Sanderson (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B2, B4, B5), M J McDonnell (tracks: A1, B2, B4)
Drums – Russ Hunter (tracks: A3 to B2, B4, B5)
Guitar – Sid Bishop (tracks: A1 to A5, B1, B2, B4 to B6)
Harmonica – M J McDonnell (tracks: A4, A6, B3)
Organ – Tony Ferguson (tracks: A1, B5, B7)
Piano – Dennis Hughes (tracks: A6, B2, B5)
Vocals – Mick Farren (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B1 to B3, B7)

Plenty of psychedelic groups of the late '60s embraced a sunny outlook of peace, flowers, and consciousness expansion, but some took a harder line on upending the straight society they sought to replace, and like their spiritual brethren the MC5, the Deviants (under the first-among-equals leadership of writer Mick Farren) saw their music as a vehicle for a Total Assault On The Culture. The only trouble with this was the Deviants' ideas were often a lot more exciting than their music, and while they created a sonic approximation of the rage and defiance behind the Freak Culture on their debut album, Ptooff!, their second LP, Disposable, lacks focus or direction and sounds like the work of addled would-be revolutionaries who aren't sure jut what they're fighting against this morning. Farren has claimed that he and his bandmates were flying on speed during most of the recording of Disposable, but there isn't much energy (artificial or otherwise) in these performances, and many of the tunes collapse into meandering jams performed by musicians who lack the chops or focus to make them into anything more. There are a few exceptions -- a wacky mutation of "Surfing Bird" and "Wipe Out" called "Pappa-Oo-Mao-Mao," the defiant "Slum Lord," and "Somewhere to Go," the only extended jam on the LP that manages to actually find a groove and move. But "Normality Jam" feels at least twice as long as its 4:24 running time, "Let's Loot the Supermarket" appears to have been recorded by people who lack the ambition to put on their shoes, let alone liberate needed supplies, and short tracks like "Sparrows and Wires" and "Sidney B. Goode" play like comic sketches without punch lines. Disposable is fascinating as a document of the U.K.'s anarchist hippie scene and where it went both right and wrong, but as entertainment, you're a lot better off listening to Ptooff!. Or looting a supermarket. ---Mark Deming, AllMusic Review

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