After hearing this song 1,847 time's one learn's to tune it out ...

Nigel is my favorite.

 paulmack wrote: 
Boise State with that wild blue field?

Glad I made you laugh.

DB

 donnyballgame wrote: 

Good answer. You made me laugh, Chicago dude. And I don't think I fully appreciate the 100K Pyramid reference, either. Still clever even then. Anyway, I just reacted because the local university near me has the same (more cowbell) slogan that they yell at all their football games.

 petesoper wrote: 

Hope you can still sleep at night.... God knows the stress you must be under after this revoltin' development.

 paulmack wrote: 
cow — udder — cream — churn — butter — bell

I saw that on The $100,000 Pyramid.

 Dave_Mack wrote: 
I remember hearing that AB on occasion (regularly?) arrived on stage to start his set via crane and had somehow contrived to do so while appearing to have his hair on fire. Remember reading it in some concert review - or maybe that review was part of the liner notes on the original vinyl album cover. Too far back and, well, you know.....

 donnyballgame wrote: 
Chicago dude, what do you know about cowbell?

Shocked and dismayed that RP accepted this into their playlist. I guess this is the other side of "eclectic!"

Is that Will Farrell on lead vocals? Needs more cowbell.

I always thought this was from King Crimson's first release ... or somebody like that.  Not whatever-the-hell-this-band-name is!

No entry yet in Wikipedia for Crazy World of Arthur Brown.  Wow.

 gcrumb wrote: 
Yes indeed.  That REALLY pushes this one over the top.  In a good way.

retire this one!

It's always fun to find one-hit wonders of previous eras on RP.

 keller1 wrote: 
Truth is stranger than fiction!

 keller1 wrote: 

Ageed. Did he do any other music of note ? Or would that be an opinion ?

There was a late-night monster movie host in Cleveland in the 1970s (The Ghoul, on Channel 61) who used to dub this over the soundtrack of that week's B-movie every time Godzilla breathed fire on Tokyo, or a witch was tied to the stake, or the action on the screen involved combustion in any other fashion.

This is a terrible song; I love it!

This got to number 2 on CKLW in (I think) 1968.  Carl Palmer on drums.

A real period piece, avec extra fromage.

I didn't know this song until seeing Hot Fuzz (great film btw)

I get such a kick out of this tune!

Good fun.

Kind of makes me think of a groovier version of Alice Cooper (the band, not the solo artist)

You're going to bu-u-u-u-u-u-r-r-r-r-r-n-n-n-n! He- hee—hah!

Awesome to be able to get away with that.

It's amazing how well this song holds up after all those years.  And yes, as someone already mentioned, Arthur Brown  influenced Alice Cooper a great deal... as well as other of the more theatrical hard rock and heavy metal acts.  I'm surprised he appears to have been a one-hit wonder.

In it's time this song was way out there on the edge.
I'd heard the performances were also ridiculously weird.

 RedGuitar wrote: 
And Ring of Fire by Cash!

uh, no thanks

Next:  "Fire" by Hendrix and "Light My Fire" by the Doors.  

Dig the brass section.

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to say, too, that Alice Cooper got all of his vaudevillian stage show ideas from watching Arthur at Detroit's Grande Ballroom, then a few months later at Cobo when Arthur opened for the Doors (along with the MC5).

That's Carl Palmer of ELP on the drum kit.

Hey Al
I had the 45, too. Do you remember that the leadout groove had some kind of sound effect on it? I can't remember exactly what it was, but it made the record seem even more exotic. Strangely, this 45 was also in the jukebox we had in my church youth group's "teen room". We'd only play it if the grown ups were busy elsewhere, for fear they'd remove it.

Ah, but what about the 5 minute acid-inspired spoken intro to the song? It's just not the same without the kooky intro!