any love for Arthur Brown?
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Topic: any love for Arthur Brown?
Posted By: mithrandir
Subject: any love for Arthur Brown?
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 16:38
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and Im thinking more along the lines of Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, while The Crazy World is probably what most people are familiar with due to the infamous song "fire", I think his later band from the early 70s Kingdom Come is a little more up my ally, namely the 3 albums "S/T" "Galactic Zoo Dossier" and "Journey", all fantastic quirkly and adventurous Prog with a great sense of humor, some of this stuff even reminds me of proto-devo-new wavy wackyness, especially the album Journey where they use a drum machine, and I especially love the song "A Scientific Experiment Lower Colonic Irrigation" off the S/T which is pretty much a song in praise of taking a dump! they use fart noises during one part of the song too, so anyone else like this nutty band who dressed up as traffic lights? |
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Posted By: Clark Ashton
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 18:12
| I'm a fan. I've been hooked ever sinse 2003 when they were re-released. This is some very progressive music. I would love to know what happened to the guitarist, Andy Dalby, he had alot of talent. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 19:36
I don't know about love, but The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (such a lame name, though), and Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come are quite a thing to listen. Very strong and wild imagination. Sometimes, it sounds like Tom Jones's progressive relative or something  ... ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 19:52
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I remember hearing the "listening to the rumbling of my bowels" song in a record store about 10 years or so ago. Verrrrrry strange stuff.
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Posted By: Forkface
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 20:53
One of my favorite bands ever!!! And Mr. Brown is one of my heroes. Kingdom Come's "Journey" is one of my favorite albums of all time!! Songs like "Gypsy" and "Time Captives" are still 10 years ahead of their time. If you don't know Kingdom Come, you don't know dick!!
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 21:31
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I don't know much about Mr. Arthur Brown but the things that I heard are just great specially Crazy World and Kingdom Come... there are a few songs that I really love like Time Captains... Anyway I think that Mr. Brown is another underrated great artist... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: lordoflight
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 05:56
| I like most of his work especially his work with hawkwind, which nobody has mentioned yet |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 06:56
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I cannot wait to see this guy on the 27th in Verviers (eastern Belgium)
I have seen him three times and the man is a born entertainer his actual shows are semi-medieval acoustic folk , but he loves to tease his audience with Fire and I Put a Spell on You ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 08:43
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I really wan't his album 'The Crazy World of Arthur Brown'. -------------  
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 10:04
| I still wonder what Pink Floyd would have sounded like if close friend Alan Parsons had asked Arthur to be lead singer after Syd's departure. I am pretty sure the idea got tossed around behind the scene. |
Posted By: The Rock
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 10:27
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He also played with Klaus Schultz.
I wonder,is he Sam Brown's father? ------------- What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop" |
Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 10:49
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I've recently bought "Journey" and I too feel it was ahead of its time, pre-dating electronic new-wave... as well as containing some of the most beautiful mellotron sounds ever!
one of my next picks is gonna be Victor Peraino's "No Man's Land" - a really weird mix of Kingdom Come, Jethro Tull, Hawkwind and David Bowie! |
Posted By: kev2307
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 11:00
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To the Rock - Sam Brown's Dad is Joe Brown a sort of Rockabilly type pop singer from the sixties - nice chap. Forkface - You have hit the nail on the head - Journey is an album years ahead of its time - god I love the stuff. You had to use a machine though to replace the great Carl Palmer.
Those of you who have not listened then I urge you all to listen to songs like 'time captives' etc - Journey is a masterpiece.
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Posted By: kebjourman
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 11:07
diddo, but i cant find it anywhere
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The Wizard wrote:Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: May 14 2006 at 16:13
| Crazy World.... shouldn't be that hard an album to find, I its available in most the big online CD stores, the Kingdom Come reissues are easy to find as well, they're very cheap too averaging about $10 a piece, they all come with bonus tracks and great liner notes with tons of great pictures of the band, show flyers. magazine clippings, etc. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: September 17 2006 at 13:17
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Ha, I just got Galactic Zoo Dossier and I think I might like it more than his debut! It's like a mix of The Crazy World, King Crimson, and Hawkwind. Pretty awesome stuff, complete with great songwriting and hallucinatory experimentation. -------------
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: September 17 2006 at 14:37
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The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (The album, not the band that ried to exploit the name of the album) was an icon of Proto Prog, surely oone of the best side A I ever heard and side B is strong, he goes from frantic Psychedelia as in Fire (He claimed to be "The God of Hell Fire" to beautiful and interesting arrangements into the classic Screamin' Jay Hawkins Blues hit "I Put a Spell on You".
His screams could make any song vibrant. Sadly I never completely got in his other projects like Kingdom Come or the band named after his first solo album.
Really a masterpiece by own right.
Iván
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: September 17 2006 at 16:22
I love Arthur Brown albums... really good stuff and takes me back to
the late 90's when I live really good moments listening their albums...
many thumbs up for him!!!
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 17 2006 at 16:23
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I ... just know him by his collaboration with Schulze.
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: September 17 2006 at 16:50
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