@johnkoliwaske8389 So this is where Gene Simmons got the idea of breathing fire. He ripped off Arthur Brown. This is the same guy Arthur Brown that did the reading for the 1968 Pretty Things concept album S.F. Sorrow.
I remember watching Arthur Brown when he made his first TOTP appearance and thinking WOW what was that. He was different and what the charts needed at that time
I'll take even the worst the 60's had to offer than the hateful trash that passes itself as music nowadays. Unfortunately my parents were of a very conservative generation and I had to find my own way through the musical landscape. I love listening to these comments. Some are a little snarky and some are insightful. I just cannot imagine this happening nowadays and it not inciting an all-out war between all involved.
I agree that 60s music is generally better than contemporary music, but there's plenty of great contemporary music. Not necessarily in mainstream pop, but there's great indie, rock, R&B, soul and alternative music, a lot of which is influenced by 60s pop and psychedelia. In every decade, there is shit and there is greatness.
@@rockingbirdey More of the cream used to rise to the top. People want bombastic rock stars who own live performance and play impressive guitar solos. They want to see extraordinary acts and people. They don't want to see uninteresting hipster indie rock musicians who are ashamed of being famous. Machine Gun Kelly is a bigger Rockstar then the vast majority of today's "rock" musicians. That's a sad truth. We don't have quality control and we don't have do it all producers like Bob Ezrin.
The weird part is that outside of really good musicians who were already melding everything with rock and roll people too tended to talk crap on other generes even when they were good, people werent too versitile. From country to soul everything was good, even 40s standards made a comeback in the late 60s and that was parent music.
@@salgarcia8581 Literally every decade there are always older folks who hate the music of the youth generation and youths who hate the music of their generation. There were definitely teens in the 60s who preferred jazz, blues, folk, country and rhythm and blues over rock and roll or rock or 60s pop and soul/R&B.
I became intrigued with Arthur Brown’s work with his Kingdom Come group. It was 1973 when I heard his third album Journey. I read in subsequent articles after that release that he was an early user of electronic drums. It was more of a novelty back in the day. I didn’t know a lot about Arthur Brown as a personality, but was very amused with his review for Blind Date.
I heard "Fire" for the first time about 5 years after it came out, right after watching one of those network documentaries on the state of fire safety in the USA. The song was kind of creepy, but it sounded a lot scarier after an hour of hearing of people roasting alive while trapped in skyscrapers, being suffocated in their sleep and waking up to find their TV sets on fire.
@@pcno2832 I was a thirteen year old when Fire was being played on radio. I remember seeing a few performances on TV and it disturbed me. Who knew that a few years later I would be diving down the rabbit hole of Black Sabbath. What a difference a couple years would make.
Yet another outstanding video - your uploads pay such respect to all these fabulous artists. Love the recognition this channel gives to Skip Bifferty!!!! Thanks as always.
2:00 The Drifters has mostly disappeared from the U.S. pop charts by this time, though they probably had a presence on the R&B chart. This is a surprising turn for them, sounding a little like Sam&Dave. It's a good thing our cousins across the pond kept them going for so long after we'd forgotten them, I'm sure they made a lot of good music.
"Might make number 5 in Italy" sounds funny but not too deserved. Italian listeners were indeed beginning to appreciate quality music from UK. 4 years later they were sending VanDerGraaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull and Genesis in their top 5 album charts
I needed a good laugh today and got it here. LOL.. He's perceptive and got a great sense of humor. Was lucky enough to see his show back in the day. What a trip!!
The funniest prize is still uncontestedly held by Vivian Stanshall and Marty Feldman. Brown is talented but a bit forced sometimes. Let's see if the future brings us a contender
@@mariuspoppFM Strange you picked those two. There's not a single joke in Marty Feldman's reviews. He took the task WAY too seriously. As for Vivian Stanshall, Blind Date caught him on a bad day. He's usually noted for his wacky sense of humour but on that episode he sounds merely grumpy.
Time Captives is one of the greatest tracks EVER...Arthur was less known for his "psychodelic" compositions but they are right up there 👉🎶👈👉☮️👈👉🇬🇧👈ps... It was on the other side to Fire on the "Crazy World of Arthur Brown" LP... nuffink like Fire❗
Another version by Mama Cass* was rush-released very shortly afterwards. Harris lost out in the subsequent chart battle. * Actually by Cass with the Mamas and the Papas, and credited as such in the US.
@@Krzyszczynski The Mamas and Papas version was first, released as an album track in April and a single in June, a month before Hariss. And of course there were countless earlier classic recordings of it too. The song was written in the early 1930s and had been a standard since then. It's a beautiful song and Harris sang it well but she didn't add anything new to it. Arthur Brown had heard it a thousand times before and I guess that's why he was underwhelmed. Imagine if somebody recorded a cover of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" today. Would you be impressed?
Thanks for turning me on to Skip Bifferty's single "Man In Black"! Great production by Marriott and Lane. I can also enjoy "Ice In The Sun" by Status Quo. Cool to see "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" by the Small Faces topped the LP Top Ten! Cheers!
the "music was so much better in the good old days" people should take a deep dive through this channel and discover all the absolute drivel that was produced and released then, just as it is now. People only remember the good tracks because those are timeless and will never go away, whereas drivel like the Elmer Hockett's Hurdy Gurdy track here was probably forgotten two days after its release
'Ice in the Sun' is the best thing here, although I would have to give a full listen to Skip Bifferty and Elmer Hockett, both of which are new to me. Arthur Brown's own 'Fire' is a great record! At least the equal of anything here
Wow. I had to do a double take on Sue Nicholls. Turns out that before she became Audrey Roberts she was in Crossroads and sang a song in it which subsequently got into this week’s chart. How Bizarre.😬
An interesting but not terribly exciting mix of songs for Arthur. But then, the Hit Charts weren’t exactly jumping either and for the first time in years, The Beatles are conspicuous by their absence. However, the Albums Charts are an entirely different story with Jimi, The Doors and the fabulous Small Faces’ magical Ogdens Nutgone Flake at No.1. Thank you YP for another enjoyable look at the music of my youth. I think your outro is very cool too, nice work!
@@deementia6796 …..yes, I noticed that, there’s no doubt “Crooners” were popular. I vividly remember my music-loving Mum was a huge Jim Reeves fan in the ‘60’s but that all changed with the arrival of The Beatles.
This was fun to watch. Arthur could have had a successful career as a staff writer for a TV sitcom. He is very funny. On the US charts, I remember all of those songs when they were charted except the Cowsills Indian Lake. Have a nice weekend.
He briefly mentioned Max Baer. Max and the Chicago Setback were performing in a club scene of the 1968 movie “Sebastian”. One of the best scenes of Swinging London.
"Is it Joe Louis, Max Baer, Brian London perhaps...?" He's making a jokey reference to boxers, not the Max Baer Jr who was in The Beverly Hillbillies and who occasionally sang.
@@tomc642 I'm aware of that, but why does he mention Max Baer alongside Joe Louis and Brian London then? They weren't singers. They were boxers and he's making a clever reference, which people still aren't getting sixty years later.
Sorry! I had to stop watching your video to look for Skip Bifferty"s song and listen to it for the first time ever! Such a fabulous treasure! It reminds me of The Aardvark's "50 hertz man"
Gotta see Jane by R. Dean Taylor! I didn't realize it was that old. A song that tries to make you feel like you're driving a car too fast in the pouring rain. I wonder if there are any other songs like that? (I mean similarly evocative, not necessarily rainy :) And I always got a kick out of that song about Greta Garbo's home for wayward boys and girls.
In 1967 at the Woburn Festival Of The Flower People, while onstage, Arthur's fire hat spring a leak and fuel dripped down his neck and he was on FIRE! Someone threw a glass of beer on him and extinguished the flames. He lived to hear this weak selection. Is it me? Or did Jaz Coleman "borrow" his stage makeup from Arthur Brown?
Another enjoyable video. I always liked his Fire and thought he would become a big star, in the Alice Cooper mould, but it wasn’t to be. I don’t share his opinions on any of the material here. A lot of the musicians of that era, had an overly dismissive streak when it came to anything they considered ‘square’.
Fun fact Arthur brown's band went on to become Atomic Rooster ! I still have the first lp ' heavy prog with killer guitar and Hammond organ and baker like drums 'what's not to like ha ha thanks YP cheers
Enjoyed this, one of the best episodes. Mostly dreadful stuff thrown his way. Arthur’s responses are considered, but as the songs get worse and worse he can barely contain his loathing.
I thought most of them were entertaining. Plastic Penny featured Paul Raymond, later of UFO and their family of bands. Skip Bifferty had connections with Uriah Heep and Widowmaker (UK).
Apparently, he's not a fan of ballads sung by singers with very nice voices, as the last two were. I would say that not everyone in the record buying public really cares that a song is or isn't "progressive" or that somebody is irrelevant as an artist because somebody else also is a good singer with a nice voice.
'The Crazy World of Arthur Brown' have a show in Manchester in a couple of weeks, he should invite Anita Harris on to perform 'Dream a little dream of me'.
Well... With songs like, "Yummy, yummy, yummy" and "Indian Lake" on the charts, it could have been an even worse lot! This episode will not find me going out of my way to look up a song. But, Arthur Brown, (The man who set his head on fire before Michael Jackson!), was very funny, and it's another great episode, Y.P.!
Plastic Penny's "Your Way To Tell Me Go" is an amazing 45! The bass led intro crunches like mad and the guitar solo seriously digs in with some amazing tones. Really cool descending chord construct followed by a Who-like chorus. The flip side has more pulverizing bass as well. Did Nigel Olsson sing it? Both sound nothing like their blah hit "Everything I Am".
You really must have to make an effort to find this many songs from 1968 that are so crappy. Poor Arthur! His responses were hilarious. "It might make #5 in Italy."
Not sure if anyone mentioned it in the comments, but Arthur had a cameo in the Tommy movie. It's the scene with Eric Clapton and The Who in the church as they play 'Eyesight To The Blind'. Arthur sings a verse as he's administering whiskey and pills to the parishioners. Disturbing.
The Brit pop scene was in quite the rut at this point. Smart for the Stones to move into Beggars Banquet and the Beatles to do the White album. The sound needed to get a little raw again.
Great to see this is popular, such brilliant stuff that it works well even read by a robot. Recognising Buddy Guy is about as cool as you need, I think. I'd like to say those charts were a trip down memory lane, but I'm running out of ink, so I can only manage " Those charts were a trip "
'Might make number 5 in Italy': as an Italian, I find it very funny 😂 We were known for copying English music, still Arthur was too kind with us if he thought that Plastic Penny could have made it to the Italian TOTP because they were still too avant-garde for us. In 1968 Italian pop music was generally still tied to beat and singer-songwriters, it wasn't until the early 70s with the discovery of progressive rock and hard rock that Italy became recepetive to rock music. We basically skipped the psychedelic phase.
Not really, you had Le Stelle di Mario Schifano, New Trolls and early Orme going psychedelic. I Camaleonti released two excellent psych-pop singles (Applausi and Homburg/L'ora dell'amore) and the great Status Quo cover Il pittore
@@mariuspoppFM still there weren't many... I mean, if you compare Italian prog to the British one, you basically have the same amount of bands, whereas the psychedelic attempts weren't so many as to determine a real phase. I'm glad you acknowledge and appreciate them, though.
As it says at minute 0:40 ''the most boring selection of pop singles known to man''.🤣 It never ceases to astonish me to see how the soundtrack of 'The Sound of Music' resists on the charts.🤯 I'm counting the hours until the Eurovision festival starts.🥳💃🕺 I have Liverpool in my heart.💖 Thank you very much, Yesterday's Papers. 😀🌹👍
Tuned in to see how bad it was..... and it was worse. But to be fair, I'm stuck in the 60s/70s music-wise and keep finding all the new gems on this channel that I didn't know about. Eurovision is a long way from Merseybeat..... 😞 ..... Going now to check out that Plastic Penny single and Skiff Bifferty.
@@SuperNevile After reading your comment, I also looked up something extra from ''Plastic Penny'' and ''Skip Bifferty'', and I think they are pretty good bands… I didn't know them at all. Greetings. 🙂
Arthur has made a point in time. It was July of 1968, and that week's new singles were either from the English school of pop-psychedelia, the American soul-Motown, or the previous generation's solo singers like Andy Williams, Tom Jones, or Alexander Butterfield. It is no wonder he found them "completely predictable, repeats, or rubbish."
Well, those releases were pretty much all stinkers, but in the charts was some great stuff, like the Equals at #3, Herb Alpert & Simon& Garfunkel at the bottom of the top ten, and of course Jumpin' Jack Flash as it was leaving the charts. But, there's not much else to choose from.
Space plucks the planets of the universe To play that silent solar symphony Sliding down the time on a path of light Towards the chord of earth is me - however NOT on this turntable's choice!
Seems like a lot of artists were forced to listen to naff records on Blind Date..perhaps on purpose? Still, very much like Arthur's sarcastic, yet articulate responses to this dreck. Well done ! 👍
Arthur scorched his head wearing that headpiece. He suffered for his art! 🧯
@johnkoliwaske8389 So this is where Gene Simmons got the idea of breathing fire. He ripped off Arthur Brown. This is the same guy Arthur Brown that did the reading for the 1968 Pretty Things concept album S.F. Sorrow.
Absolutely hilarious yet surprisingly astute? What a lovely surprise of an episode!
Met Arthur a couple of times, a wonderful man and still a brilliant singer.
I remember watching Arthur Brown when he made his first TOTP appearance and thinking WOW what was that. He was different and what the charts needed at that time
Haha, his commentary is hilarious, great video as always!
I'll take even the worst the 60's had to offer than the hateful trash that passes itself as music nowadays. Unfortunately my parents were of a very conservative generation and I had to find my own way through the musical landscape. I love listening to these comments. Some are a little snarky and some are insightful. I just cannot imagine this happening nowadays and it not inciting an all-out war between all involved.
I agree that 60s music is generally better than contemporary music, but there's plenty of great contemporary music. Not necessarily in mainstream pop, but there's great indie, rock, R&B, soul and alternative music, a lot of which is influenced by 60s pop and psychedelia.
In every decade, there is shit and there is greatness.
@@rockingbirdey More of the cream used to rise to the top. People want bombastic rock stars who own live performance and play impressive guitar solos. They want to see extraordinary acts and people. They don't want to see uninteresting hipster indie rock musicians who are ashamed of being famous. Machine Gun Kelly is a bigger Rockstar then the vast majority of today's "rock" musicians. That's a sad truth. We don't have quality control and we don't have do it all producers like Bob Ezrin.
The weird part is that outside of really good musicians who were already melding everything with rock and roll people too tended to talk crap on other generes even when they were good, people werent too versitile. From country to soul everything was good, even 40s standards made a comeback in the late 60s and that was parent music.
@@salgarcia8581 Literally every decade there are always older folks who hate the music of the youth generation and youths who hate the music of their generation. There were definitely teens in the 60s who preferred jazz, blues, folk, country and rhythm and blues over rock and roll or rock or 60s pop and soul/R&B.
i wonder if our parents had read these reviews would they have had a different view of the artists and the music
Brown has excellent taste and is very articulate in discerning the different elements in all the music. Well done, AB, and well done, YP.
"like a despairing hand disappearing in the water". I have to remember that one.
I became intrigued with Arthur Brown’s work with his Kingdom Come group. It was 1973 when I heard his third album Journey. I read in subsequent articles after that release that he was an early user of electronic drums. It was more of a novelty back in the day. I didn’t know a lot about Arthur Brown as a personality, but was very amused with his review for Blind Date.
I heard "Fire" for the first time about 5 years after it came out, right after watching one of those network documentaries on the state of fire safety in the USA. The song was kind of creepy, but it sounded a lot scarier after an hour of hearing of people roasting alive while trapped in skyscrapers, being suffocated in their sleep and waking up to find their TV sets on fire.
@@pcno2832 I was a thirteen year old when Fire was being played on radio. I remember seeing a few performances on TV and it disturbed me. Who knew that a few years later I would be diving down the rabbit hole of Black Sabbath. What a difference a couple years would make.
KC used drum machine
"Tiptoe through the Tamla" and other gems 😂
The real father of Black Metal
Yet another outstanding video - your uploads pay such respect to all these fabulous artists. Love the recognition this channel gives to Skip Bifferty!!!! Thanks as always.
Cheers, Michael!
2:00 The Drifters has mostly disappeared from the U.S. pop charts by this time, though they probably had a presence on the R&B chart. This is a surprising turn for them, sounding a little like Sam&Dave. It's a good thing our cousins across the pond kept them going for so long after we'd forgotten them, I'm sure they made a lot of good music.
"Might make number 5 in Italy" sounds funny but not too deserved. Italian listeners were indeed beginning to appreciate quality music from UK. 4 years later they were sending VanDerGraaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull and Genesis in their top 5 album charts
I needed a good laugh today and got it here. LOL.. He's perceptive and got a great sense of humor. Was lucky enough to see his show back in the day. What a trip!!
And the prize goes to Arthur Brown for the funniest and the most insightful reviews of the Blind Date series!
The funniest prize is still uncontestedly held by Vivian Stanshall and Marty Feldman. Brown is talented but a bit forced sometimes. Let's see if the future brings us a contender
@@mariuspoppFM Strange you picked those two. There's not a single joke in Marty Feldman's reviews. He took the task WAY too seriously. As for Vivian Stanshall, Blind Date caught him on a bad day. He's usually noted for his wacky sense of humour but on that episode he sounds merely grumpy.
@@stevecharman8420 Nah, he doesn't. Totally cracked me up. Feldman was serious in his knowledge but his wit wasn't absent.
I am the god of Hellfire!!
And I bring you…
@@Funkybassuk "fire fire!" Beavis.
No, I am!
@@Funkybassuk No, I am!
That was a good week for singles in the U.S. ❤ I especially like Hurdy Gurdy Man.
Time Captives is one of the greatest tracks EVER...Arthur was less known for his "psychodelic" compositions but they are right up there 👉🎶👈👉☮️👈👉🇬🇧👈ps... It was on the other side to Fire on the "Crazy World of Arthur Brown" LP... nuffink like Fire❗
The Anita Harris review is hilarious. "Indescribably Unremarkable"...We'll be using that phrase often now...
Another version by Mama Cass* was rush-released very shortly afterwards. Harris lost out in the subsequent chart battle.
* Actually by Cass with the Mamas and the Papas, and credited as such in the US.
@@Krzyszczynski The Mamas and Papas version was first, released as an album track in April and a single in June, a month before Hariss. And of course there were countless earlier classic recordings of it too. The song was written in the early 1930s and had been a standard since then. It's a beautiful song and Harris sang it well but she didn't add anything new to it. Arthur Brown had heard it a thousand times before and I guess that's why he was underwhelmed. Imagine if somebody recorded a cover of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" today. Would you be impressed?
Thanks for turning me on to Skip Bifferty's single "Man In Black"! Great production by Marriott and Lane. I can also enjoy "Ice In The Sun" by Status Quo. Cool to see "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" by the Small Faces topped the LP Top Ten!
Cheers!
Arthur Brown reviewing ‘Snoopy for President’, what an amusing matchup !
is that a take on the Zombies' "Care of Cell 44" at the end? nicely done.
Yep, thanks!
the "music was so much better in the good old days" people should take a deep dive through this channel and discover all the absolute drivel that was produced and released then, just as it is now. People only remember the good tracks because those are timeless and will never go away, whereas drivel like the Elmer Hockett's Hurdy Gurdy track here was probably forgotten two days after its release
'Ice in the Sun' is the best thing here, although I would have to give a full listen to Skip Bifferty and Elmer Hockett, both of which are new to me.
Arthur Brown's own 'Fire' is a great record! At least the equal of anything here
Elmer Hockett was actually Tomorrow/Keith West producer Mark Wirtz, a madly talented guy
Wow. I had to do a double take on Sue Nicholls. Turns out that before she became Audrey Roberts she was in Crossroads and sang a song in it which subsequently got into this week’s chart. How Bizarre.😬
I remember her in Crossroads but not as a singer? Same with Anita Harris, always saw her on TV in the 70s/80s but had no idea of her hits in the 60s!!
An interesting but not terribly exciting mix of songs for Arthur. But then, the Hit Charts weren’t exactly jumping either and for the first time in years, The Beatles are conspicuous by their absence. However, the Albums Charts are an entirely different story with Jimi, The Doors and the fabulous Small Faces’ magical Ogdens Nutgone Flake at No.1. Thank you YP for another enjoyable look at the music of my youth. I think your outro is very cool too, nice work!
Cheers, Linda. Yeah, the singles chart in 1968 wasn't as good as 1966/67.
@@YesterdaysPapers ……if anything, the music had regressed! It’s amazing the difference a year can make. Thanks again YP.
and yet TWO Andy Williams albums in the Top 10. It's definitely a tale of 2 distinct record buying consumers.
@@deementia6796 …..yes, I noticed that, there’s no doubt “Crooners” were popular. I vividly remember my music-loving Mum was a huge Jim Reeves fan in the ‘60’s but that all changed with the arrival of The Beatles.
This was fun to watch. Arthur could have had a successful career as a staff writer for a TV sitcom. He is very funny. On the US charts, I remember all of those songs when they were charted except the Cowsills Indian Lake. Have a nice weekend.
He briefly mentioned Max Baer. Max and the Chicago Setback were performing in a club scene of the 1968 movie “Sebastian”. One of the best scenes of Swinging London.
Great movie
"Is it Joe Louis, Max Baer, Brian London perhaps...?" He's making a jokey reference to boxers, not the Max Baer Jr who was in The Beverly Hillbillies and who occasionally sang.
@@elspencer6334 No, this is not the US. This Max Baer was a black performer with a band at that time.
@@tomc642 I'm aware of that, but why does he mention Max Baer alongside Joe Louis and Brian London then? They weren't singers. They were boxers and he's making a clever reference, which people still aren't getting sixty years later.
@@elspencer6334 More obscure and obtuse than clever
Top! A+++++
Sorry! I had to stop watching your video to look for Skip Bifferty"s song and listen to it for the first time ever! Such a fabulous treasure! It reminds me of The Aardvark's "50 hertz man"
Cool! The Skip Bifferty single is really good.
Hi, you mentioned The Aardvarks' "50 Hertz Man". Thx for that! I gave it a listen right now, never heard it before. It sounds tremendous👌! Cheers!
'I'm too full of love to hate anybody' and 'This might get to number five in Italy' Memorable comments. Brilliant. Who is this geezer?
His song "Fire" was a massive hit in 1968. Big influence on Alice Cooper.
A great comedian!
How can he say such a thing about the Plastic Penny song? It's a very nice tune, in my opinion
Agree
Because he is the God of Hellfire, thats why!
I had to laugh at "number 5 in Italy." Brilliant putdown.
Gotta see Jane by R. Dean Taylor! I didn't realize it was that old. A song that tries to make you feel like you're driving a car too fast in the pouring rain. I wonder if there are any other songs like that? (I mean similarly evocative, not necessarily rainy :)
And I always got a kick out of that song about Greta Garbo's home for wayward boys and girls.
When butterflies were made of IRON
Actually digging the three singles in the middle (Hitch it to the horse, Fantastic Fair and Anita Harris' Dream a little dream of me)
LOVE HIM!!!! This os one i Just clicked right away!
In 1967 at the Woburn Festival Of The Flower People, while onstage, Arthur's fire hat spring a leak and fuel dripped down his neck and he was on FIRE! Someone threw a glass of beer on him and extinguished the flames. He lived to hear this weak selection. Is it me? Or did Jaz Coleman "borrow" his stage makeup from Arthur Brown?
Burzum too
Another enjoyable video. I always liked his Fire and thought he would become a big star, in the Alice Cooper mould, but it wasn’t to be.
I don’t share his opinions on any of the material here. A lot of the musicians of that era, had an overly dismissive streak when it came to anything they considered ‘square’.
Arthur is still crazy, wasn't he at Glastonbury a couple of years back?
Fun fact Arthur brown's band went on to become Atomic Rooster ! I still have the first lp ' heavy prog with killer guitar and Hammond organ and baker like drums 'what's not to like ha ha thanks YP cheers
I love Atomic Rooster.
Jerry Watt Can't remember. Was that Carl Palmer on drums?
@@warrenbridges1891 Yep, he played on the first Atomic Rooster album.
@@YesterdaysPapers Thought so. I'm Aussie and still have a mint copy of "Death Walks Behind You" from after he left the band.
@@warrenbridges1891 some of the people in Rooster the became the band hard stuff I have the first lp pretty heavy !
Arthur Brown....Pete Townshend once called him a a cross between a Wagnerian Tenor and Screamin' Jay Hawkins!!
Arthur Brown had a remarkably hilarious way of coming up with cutting remarks about run-of-the-mill releases.
Enjoyed this, one of the best episodes. Mostly dreadful stuff thrown his way. Arthur’s responses are considered, but as the songs get worse and worse he can barely contain his loathing.
In a completely predictable fashion Mr. Brown torched every song that he heard.
Love the theme music, but I can never get the timing right for the needle scratch lol
This guy Arthur Brown was Way ahead if his time and way better than frank zappa & captain Beefheart ! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I love how the English express themselves. For a people supposedly so reserved and concerned with appearances, they are the kings of zing.
I thought most of them were entertaining. Plastic Penny featured Paul Raymond, later of UFO and their family of bands. Skip Bifferty had connections with Uriah Heep and Widowmaker (UK).
SB had connections with Clash and Ian Dury's Blockheads too
@@mariuspoppFM: Thank you. Interesting links.
I think there might be a typo in the screencap?
Yep, corrected now.
Apparently, he's not a fan of ballads sung by singers with very nice voices, as the last two were. I would say that not everyone in the record buying public really cares that a song is or isn't "progressive" or that somebody is irrelevant as an artist because somebody else also is a good singer with a nice voice.
Loved your Zombies-alike music over the chart pages 👍
Arthur brown and his coven killed all these artists look it up now😮
I was unaware of the skip Biferty track. Thanks for that.
Well Arthur brown does has a sense of humor. I’ve give him that.
Yeah that was interesting & as good as it got this week 😂
Bifferty
Yeah, the Skip Bifferty single is great.
His review of Anita Harris made me LOL 😂
'The Crazy World of Arthur Brown' have a show in Manchester in a couple of weeks, he should invite Anita Harris on to perform 'Dream a little dream of me'.
Well... With songs like, "Yummy, yummy, yummy" and "Indian Lake" on the charts, it could have been an even worse lot! This episode will not find me going out of my way to look up a song. But, Arthur Brown, (The man who set his head on fire before Michael Jackson!), was very funny, and it's another great episode, Y.P.!
Plastic Penny's "Your Way To Tell Me Go" is an amazing 45! The bass led intro crunches like mad and the guitar solo seriously digs in with some amazing tones. Really cool descending chord construct followed by a Who-like chorus. The flip side has more pulverizing bass as well. Did Nigel Olsson sing it? Both sound nothing like their blah hit "Everything I Am".
Agreed; good single.
True
According to Arthur, Plastic Penny coulda reached no. 5 in Italy. Well, I didn't happened.
Skip Bifferty! Skip fucking Bifferty! You make the coolest videos! And the Zombies are your outro music! Care Of Cell 44!
Cheers, Buzz!
Dave Davies was Arthur Brown?
After he reviewed some of the songs I wasn't sure if he liked it or not.
Costermongery? I was flummoxed!
You really must have to make an effort to find this many songs from 1968 that are so crappy. Poor Arthur! His responses were hilarious. "It might make #5 in Italy."
Wow,brutal-
I'm sure Melody Maker always found the worst singles they could find, for their guests, just for a laugh. Fire was one of the greatest hits ever.
They indeed wrote that in this column intro
His review of Anita Harris's record was lit! AB was a very entertaining get.
Arthur Brown comes off as a bit of a satirist. Surprised he didn't get into comedy writing.
I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE!!!!!!
Remarkably no Beatles songs or albums in the listings.
When the review is way better than the music …
The Buddy Guy was my favorite of a mediocre lot of MOR yawners 🥱
Oh god. Those snoopy songs. How embarrasing.
AUGHH! I've been kissed by a dog! I have dog germs! Get some hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine!
Not sure if anyone mentioned it in the comments, but Arthur had a cameo in the Tommy movie. It's the scene with Eric Clapton and The Who in the church as they play 'Eyesight To The Blind'. Arthur sings a verse as he's administering whiskey and pills to the parishioners.
Disturbing.
True. Disturbingly good
but do you understand why he does it and do you understand the general message of the movie?
The Brit pop scene was in quite the rut at this point. Smart for the Stones to move into Beggars Banquet and the Beatles to do the White album. The sound needed to get a little raw again.
Arthur Brown the original Alice Cooper before there was a Alice Cooper
Screaming Lord Sutch might have something to say about that.
@@Krzyszczynski true
I would have expected nothing less from Arthur Brown! Love it!
Great to see this is popular, such brilliant stuff that it works well even read by a robot. Recognising Buddy Guy is about as cool as you need, I think. I'd like to say those charts were a trip down memory lane, but I'm running out of ink, so I can only manage " Those charts were a trip "
Running out of ink? You're typing digitally!
@@canesvenatici4259 Think about it .......
Critique of last melancholic song: "the mood of this is like a despairing hand disappearing into water".
Anita Harris review was devastatingly hilarious. I'M BURNING !
Let’s be honest folks can anybody name one song of his beside ”Fire”?
Yes. Time, Confusion, Spontaneous Apple Creation, Child of my Kingdom and Vampire Suite.
@@mariuspoppFM Most people will have to Google that
@@michaelrochester48 that's not my problem 😏
'Might make number 5 in Italy': as an Italian, I find it very funny 😂 We were known for copying English music, still Arthur was too kind with us if he thought that Plastic Penny could have made it to the Italian TOTP because they were still too avant-garde for us. In 1968 Italian pop music was generally still tied to beat and singer-songwriters, it wasn't until the early 70s with the discovery of progressive rock and hard rock that Italy became recepetive to rock music. We basically skipped the psychedelic phase.
Not really, you had Le Stelle di Mario Schifano, New Trolls and early Orme going psychedelic. I Camaleonti released two excellent psych-pop singles (Applausi and Homburg/L'ora dell'amore) and the great Status Quo cover Il pittore
Equipe 84's Stereo Equipe is not to be overlooked too
@@mariuspoppFM still there weren't many... I mean, if you compare Italian prog to the British one, you basically have the same amount of bands, whereas the psychedelic attempts weren't so many as to determine a real phase. I'm glad you acknowledge and appreciate them, though.
The amazing Arthur Brown! Shame he got a lot of crap to listen to.
not that amazing in retrospect
Lonnie Donnigan gone psychedelic? HAHAHAHA!!!
As it says at minute 0:40 ''the most boring selection of pop singles known to man''.🤣
It never ceases to astonish me to see how the soundtrack of 'The Sound of Music' resists on the charts.🤯
I'm counting the hours until the Eurovision festival starts.🥳💃🕺 I have Liverpool in my heart.💖
Thank you very much, Yesterday's Papers. 😀🌹👍
Tuned in to see how bad it was..... and it was worse. But to be fair, I'm stuck in the 60s/70s music-wise and keep finding all the new gems on this channel that I didn't know about. Eurovision is a long way from Merseybeat..... 😞 ..... Going now to check out that Plastic Penny single and Skiff Bifferty.
@@SuperNevile After reading your comment, I also looked up something extra from ''Plastic Penny'' and ''Skip Bifferty'', and I think they are pretty good bands… I didn't know them at all.
Greetings. 🙂
Everybody is going thumbs up dancing...
Arthur has made a point in time. It was July of 1968, and that week's new singles were either from the English school of pop-psychedelia, the American soul-Motown, or the previous generation's solo singers like Andy Williams, Tom Jones, or Alexander Butterfield. It is no wonder he found them "completely predictable, repeats, or rubbish."
Oh wow Skip Biferty, Dammmnngg. Mental crotchet or 4. Again ha. Cheers ^^^^
Nice to know that america wasn't the only country releasing outdated pop schmaltz as well. Alexander Butterfield being the main example in this video.
Interesting how there were a lot of American songs at the top of the British charts when he did this review. A lull perhaps?
Well, those releases were pretty much all stinkers, but in the charts was some great stuff, like the Equals at #3, Herb Alpert & Simon& Garfunkel at the bottom of the top ten, and of course Jumpin' Jack Flash as it was leaving the charts.
But, there's not much else to choose from.
Space plucks the planets of the universe
To play that silent solar symphony
Sliding down the time on a path of light
Towards the chord of earth is me - however NOT on this turntable's choice!
Seems like a lot of artists were forced to listen to naff records on Blind Date..perhaps on purpose?
Still, very much like Arthur's sarcastic, yet articulate responses to this dreck. Well done ! 👍
Good ear, that Arthur. What a dismal group of singles, and in the summer of love to boot. Seems like they were poking the bear.
Oops, not the summer of love! My bad. Still a better summer than anything we're likely to have this year.
Brown sounds like a pompous hot air bag.
Wow, Arthur got a huge helping of cheese. Whomever picked the songs is a cruel person.
Yes, they were just rubbish