The Deviants (formerly the Social Deviants) were a musical group in the Uni… Read Full Bio ↴The Deviants (formerly the Social Deviants) were a musical group in the United Kingdom. Out of the Ladbroke Grove UK Underground Community, a number of bands would emerge. Perhaps the most anarchistic band of the Underground was the Deviants founded and fronted by singer/writer Mick Farren, the Social Deviants, later just the Deviants, made three bizarre albums in two years. Mick Farren states that The Deviants were a community band which "did things every now and then - it was a total assault thing with a great deal of inter-relation and interdependence". Musically, Farren described the Deviants as "teeth-grinding, psychedelic rock" somewhere between the Stooges and The Mothers of Invention [1].
After the Deviants folded in 1969, Farren recorded a solo album, Mona, with a short-lived Pink Fairies line-up that featured ex-Pretty Things drummer/singer Twink and Steve Peregrin Took. When this first Pink Fairies fell apart and Twink ran off with the name to form Pink Fairies mark 2, Farren initially considered continuing to work Steve Took using the band name Steve Took's Shagrat with Larry Wallis. Took and Farren fell out so it didn't happen.
Many of the band members for the Deviants and the Pink Fairies were interchangeable and both names have been used for various one-offs over the years. In February 1984, Farren was joined by ex-Pink Fairies member Larry Wallis and original Deviant (as well as Pink Fairies member) Duncan Sanderson. They were billed as the Deviants and played a London gig at Dingwalls which was released as the album Human Garbage. Mick Farren's latest incarnation of the Deviants, Dr Crow, in 2002 which opens up with the title track "When Dr Crow Turns On His Radio".
As a lyricist Farren provided the words for 'Lost Johnny', recorded by Hawkwind(1975) and Motörhead(1977); as well as for several songs on Larry Wallis' first ever solo album Death in the Guitarfternoon released in 2002.
THE DEVIANTS STORY
By Mick Farren
From MOJO Magazine October 1999
originally published under the title "We Mean It, Maaan!)
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SHALL WE BEGIN AT THE HIGH END...
I had ingested something. I can't quite recall what. I'm pretty sure it wasn't acid, more likely out of those alphabet-soup fringe psychedelics, ineptly manufactured from some hellspawned combination of nerve gas and horse tranquilliser, that either fried your mind or did nothing at all. In this case, the result was to make me paranoid and jumpy, and it transformed visuals into the cheap colours of a Japanese monster movie. Even though the discontent among we four Deviants was, by that point, growing like a festering boil, we all know that the afternoon's show in Hyde Park was significant and I had sworn that I'd behave myself. And so, being plainly drugged, I was already getting some dubious looks, particularly from guitarist Paul Rudolph and head roadie Boss Goodman.
continuation...
2) Norwegian band: http://www.nrk.no/urort/artist/thedeviants/default.aspx
After the Deviants folded in 1969, Farren recorded a solo album, Mona, with a short-lived Pink Fairies line-up that featured ex-Pretty Things drummer/singer Twink and Steve Peregrin Took. When this first Pink Fairies fell apart and Twink ran off with the name to form Pink Fairies mark 2, Farren initially considered continuing to work Steve Took using the band name Steve Took's Shagrat with Larry Wallis. Took and Farren fell out so it didn't happen.
Many of the band members for the Deviants and the Pink Fairies were interchangeable and both names have been used for various one-offs over the years. In February 1984, Farren was joined by ex-Pink Fairies member Larry Wallis and original Deviant (as well as Pink Fairies member) Duncan Sanderson. They were billed as the Deviants and played a London gig at Dingwalls which was released as the album Human Garbage. Mick Farren's latest incarnation of the Deviants, Dr Crow, in 2002 which opens up with the title track "When Dr Crow Turns On His Radio".
As a lyricist Farren provided the words for 'Lost Johnny', recorded by Hawkwind(1975) and Motörhead(1977); as well as for several songs on Larry Wallis' first ever solo album Death in the Guitarfternoon released in 2002.
THE DEVIANTS STORY
By Mick Farren
From MOJO Magazine October 1999
originally published under the title "We Mean It, Maaan!)
******************************
SHALL WE BEGIN AT THE HIGH END...
I had ingested something. I can't quite recall what. I'm pretty sure it wasn't acid, more likely out of those alphabet-soup fringe psychedelics, ineptly manufactured from some hellspawned combination of nerve gas and horse tranquilliser, that either fried your mind or did nothing at all. In this case, the result was to make me paranoid and jumpy, and it transformed visuals into the cheap colours of a Japanese monster movie. Even though the discontent among we four Deviants was, by that point, growing like a festering boil, we all know that the afternoon's show in Hyde Park was significant and I had sworn that I'd behave myself. And so, being plainly drugged, I was already getting some dubious looks, particularly from guitarist Paul Rudolph and head roadie Boss Goodman.
continuation...
2) Norwegian band: http://www.nrk.no/urort/artist/thedeviants/default.aspx
Let's Drink To The People
The Deviants Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by The Deviants:
Let I think I better I think I better let it go I…
You've Got To Hold On See the sun go down Unfamiliar city As the leaves turn brown…
Youve Got To Hold On See the sun go down Unfamiliar city As the leaves turn brown…
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@Alinoe67
00:03 Billy The Monster
03:28 Broken Biscuits
05:38 First Line (Seven The Row)
08:22 The People Suite
10:46 Rambling B(l)ack Transit Blues (16:01 outrageous interlude)
16:23 Death Of A Dream Machine
19:13 Playtime (20:23)
22:19 Black George Does It With His Tongue
23:40 The Junior Narco Rangers (If We Gotta Get Raleigh From Chicago, We're Gonna)
24:28 Let's Drink To The People
25:40 Metamorphosis Explosion
@rogertemple7313
Band:
the Deviants.
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Origin:
United Kingdom;
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Genres:
Garage Rock,
Acid Rock,
Psychedelic Rock.;
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Years
Active:(1967-69;with brief reunions-78;84;96;02;11-13);
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Labels:Sire.
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Associated
Acts:
Pink Fairies,
the Lightning Raiders,
Hawkwind,
Motorhead
UFO,
MC5,
Axis of Justice.
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Past
Members:
(Below are the more notable
members,some may have
been touring members
only,others may have
only been in the band briefly.):
Mick Farren(lv,kybds);
Mike Robinson(gtr);
Pete Munrob(b);
Clive Muldoon(gtr);
Benny Collins(Dr);
Russell Hunter(dr);
Cord Rees(b);
Sid Bishop(gtr);
Duncan Sanderson(lv);
Paul Rudolph(gtr,lv);
Andy Colquhoun(gtr,back v);
Larry Wallis(gtr);
Alan Powell(dr);
Wayne Kramer(gtr);
George Butler(dr);
Doug Lunn(b);
Ric Parnell(dr);
Michael Simmons(lv);
Jack Lancaster(sax);
Garry Chamberlain(b);
Alex Stowell(b);
Ralph Hodgson(sax);
Michael McDonnell(kybds,h,bck v);
Dennis Hughes(kybds);
Tony Ferguson(kybds);
Dick Heckstall-Smith(tromb)
Brock Avery(b);
Tim Rundall(trump);
Jaki Windmill(kybds,bck v);
Stephen Sparks(kybds,bck v);
David Goodman(gtr,kybd,bck v);
Jennifer Ashworth(per,bck v);
Pete Brown(trump);
&:
Tony Wiggens(kybds,bck v);
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Albums:
1967--Ptoof!;
1968-Disposable;
1969-the Deviants 3;
1984-Human Garbage;
1996-Fragments of Broken Probes,Eating Jello
with a Heated Fork;
1999-the Deviants Have Left the Planet,Barbarian Princes;
2000-This CD is Condemned;
2001-On Your Knees Earthling!
2002-Dr. Crow.
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@Alinoe67
00:03 Billy The Monster
03:28 Broken Biscuits
05:38 First Line (Seven The Row)
08:22 The People Suite
10:46 Rambling B(l)ack Transit Blues (16:01 outrageous interlude)
16:23 Death Of A Dream Machine
19:13 Playtime (20:23)
22:19 Black George Does It With His Tongue
23:40 The Junior Narco Rangers (If We Gotta Get Raleigh From Chicago, We're Gonna)
24:28 Let's Drink To The People
25:40 Metamorphosis Explosion
@rohanjimmy3510
InstaBlaster...
@peterpandemonium3336
The Deviants 3 is the third and final album by the UK underground group the Deviants, released in 1969.
Lead vocalist Mick Farren regards the album as the beginning of a divergence between himself and his fellow musicians, stating "I had one idea and the rest of them wanted to be a kind of Led Zeppelin guitar band". Soon after the band would split, with Farren going on to record the Mona – The Carnivorous Circus album. Farren eventually left the music business, while his ex-bandmates continued as the Pink Fairies.
Trouser Press called 3 "harder-rocking and spacier" than the previous albums. Perfect Sound Forever called the album "a much more consistent collection of songs than Disposable", writing that "musically, it tends to be more focused and you can hear that the playing is more solid, which can be good at times, but it also means that the musicians occasionally slip into bland '60's electric blues formalities". Uncut wrote that the Deviants "were beginning to sound like just another heavy rock band". - Wikipedia
@Brutusque
The bass player is my spirit animal
@chrispark8713
Mick farren , genius , well ahead of his time , nearly a rival to zappa , I think ,.,, but more glued to his funky wunky bluesy pop genre , different , the deviants , great album , strange album .
@cliveabbey8587
First heard this Beautifully free flowing album in late 79 I think 🤔 ❤️ and I just Loved 😍 it from the off 😀 ❤️ 🌟 ✌️ ⚖️ 💪 🎖 🌟 ❤️ 🧜♂️ 🦄 👽 ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘 🌟 🤩 ⭐️ 🌠 💫 ✡️ 🎉 🥳 🎉 🪅 🎊
@guitargalaxy6645
A lifetime favorite concept album by one of the most inventive and powerful english band of the late sixties. So fresh ! Iconic.
@johnhardybelgium
One of the best albums of what we used to call "underground music". I am 67 now, too late to change my mind now... ---- And less than 6,000 views??? What has this world come to???
@DAP-mi7ck
You sound cool. Kids today have had real music stolen from them, instead they get what the corporate world deems profitable.
@Itsa6stringthang
I'm almost 40 and grew up outside of Detroit, love the Stooges, the MC5 and Rock and roll, period. I've never listened to these guys before. They are fucking great. I guess it's better late than never lol.