yup .. "Snake" and "well Well Well" etc ..totally essential..
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 23 February 2008 05:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Do it! Do it! Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it!
― Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre, Monday, 25 February 2008 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
yup, which is why I'm glad to own the CD versions! Fairies vinyl is apparently as elusive as Stairway assured us. (I did find Never Never Land way back in the '80s but that was luck.)
Kings > Never > Sweeties is my ranking
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I've got a 3 sided lp of BBC sessions called "Uncle Harry" (one of the sides of the 2lp set is etched with flying pigs). Has a totally shredful version of "The Snake" on it. I think it's probably a bonus on one of the cd releases or something. Also has a nice cover of "lucille" and a couple takes of "Uncle Harry" and "DO IT."
― Trip Maker, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Fairies vinyl is apparently as elusive as Stairway assured us.
Wait, so does that mean my LP copies of Kings of Oblivion and the Flashback comp are worth $$$? How much? (As usual, I'm clueless about such record-collecting details. And I even more cluelessly sold my copy of What A Bunch of Sweeties after I wrote Stairway, along with most of the other albums in the book, undoubtedly for a fortune less than it is now worth. I've only ever owned Never Never Land on a cassette someone made for me.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 25 February 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
from popsike recently, these are probably mint copies to...
PINK FAIRIES Kings of Oblivion UK ORIG LP NM PRISTINE 40 GBP PINK FAIRIES: Never-Never Land Orig UK/71 Psych Prog 192 EUR
― sleeve, Monday, 25 February 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Great band. Only got the cd reissues though, never seen any vinyl about.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 25 February 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Polydor replica reissue of Masters of Oblivion all over the place a couple years back. Dunno if it's still around.
― contenderizer, Monday, 25 February 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't miss their unusual version of "I Saw Her Standing There" which turns into an S&M party in which the girl hits the singer with her broom.
― Gorge, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i think this is more or less the same as "mandies and mescaline round at uncle harry's" - though if it contains those really ass-fidelity covers of "tomorrow never knows" and "3/5ths of a mile" it might be split between mandies and that cleopatra comp. so annoying that you have to get both of those if you want the best quality glastonbury and bbc sessions, since they're radically different in sound on those two discs.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
best band ever
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 21 March 2010 07:07 (fourteen years ago) link
are these drunk revives? be honest.
― DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 21 March 2010 07:17 (fourteen years ago) link
yes. yes they are
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 21 March 2010 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXQGxkiCcYA&feature=rec-fav-watch-cur_emp-farside_rn
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 21 March 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"What a Bunch of Sweeties" deserves way more props I think. Everything about their version of "Walk Don't Run" is killer! The lazy, just on the right side of sloppy feel, the amazing guitar tone, deep, heavy drums, and the bit where it goes into sort of ragarock mode at the end, crank it up on a decent set of speakers and it feels like it could move stuff around the room. It's one of my favouritest records.
― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Sunday, 21 March 2010 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Was just talking about Pink Fairies with someone the other day funnily enough.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
DO IT DO IT DO IT
srsly watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C18LKOI81Kc
― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"What a Bunch of Sweeties" deserves way more props I think.
This is true. It's really pretty good, just a little too self-indulgent at times.
Also "Chambermaid" from Kings is so fucking good.
― this fucking guy that i speak to you about (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 11 March 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
Bought some time ago the Finland Freakout cd that contains insanely massive versions of Tomorrow Never Knows and The Snake - hippy-punk at its best.
― Marco Damiani, Sunday, 11 March 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
Finland Freakout and one song on a Stiff Singles comp are the only PF material on Spotify
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 March 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Keep-It-Together-Deviants-Fairies/dp/190048661X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1331488779&sr=8-5
Anyone read this book? Worth reading?
Keep It Together!: Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and the Pink Fairies [Paperback]Rich Deakin (Author), Mick Farren of The Deviants (Introduction)5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews) |
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 March 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
I have and it's definitely worth reading! Pretty basic history of the time, but very interesting if you're into the Pink Fairies or the Ladbroke Grove bands, free festivals, etc. Not being British a lot of that was new to me.
― this fucking guy that i speak to you about (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 12 March 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Namechecked in this awesome advert from the 70s... Larry Grayson and Larry Wallis together at last!
http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/529121_389905447736525_1663748630_n.jpg
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
so if I love Kings of Oblivion, which Deviants album do I need? (I've never knowingly heard the Deviants and only I know of them via their connection to the Fairies)
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 6 June 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
hmmmm
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 9 June 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Ptoof! Is absolutely insane, everybody should own it
― brimstead, Monday, 10 June 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
You have to dive into the Deviants, 'cause there's no real direct analogy with the PFs.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 10 June 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link