The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1968
  • Label: Track
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 57:35
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, James Brown

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Driven by the massive, terrifyingly catchy hit 'Fire', Arthur Brown debuted with a fiercely theatrical, heavily organ-driven nightmare of a rock album. The eponymous record is incredibly manic and deeply infernal, delivering remarkably playful, heavily surreal psychedelic rock dipped in dark occultism and wonderfully quirky, dramatic fantasy.

Genres

Descriptors: occult, fantasy, theatrical, progressive, fantastical

Tracklist

  1. Prelude - Nightmare (3:49)
  2. Fanfare - Fire Poem (2:01)
  3. Fire (3:01)
  4. Come And Buy (5:05)
  5. Time / Confusion (4:57)
  6. Prelude - Nightmare (3:28)
  7. Fanfare - Fire Poem (1:51)
  8. Fire (2:54)
  9. Come And Buy (5:40)
  10. Time / Confusion (5:11)
  11. I Put A Spell On You (3:43)
  12. Spontaneous Apple Creation (2:54)
  13. Rest Cure (2:44)
  14. I've Got Money (3:09)
  15. Child Of My Kingdom (7:02)

Credits

  • The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - primary artist
  • Vincent Crane - arranged by [orchestral arrangements], written-by
  • David King - design [cover design], design
  • Charles Fox - liner notes [new statesman]
  • David Montgomery - photography by, photography
  • Kit Lambert - producer
  • Pete Townshend - producer [associate]
  • Arthur Brown - written-by
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins - written-by
  • James Brown - written-by
  • Adrian Barber - lacquer cut

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