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The Deviants (formerly the Social Deviants) were a musical group in the United Kingdom. Out of the Ladbroke Grove UK Underground Community, a number of bands would emerge. Perhaps the most anarchistic band of the Underground was the Deviants founded and fronted by singer/writer Mick Farren, the Social Deviants, later just the Deviants, made three bizarre albums in two years. Mick Farren states that The Deviants were a community band which “did things every now and then - it was a total assault thing with a great deal of inter-relation and interdependence”. Musically, Farren described the Deviants as “teeth-grinding, psychedelic rock” somewhere between the Stooges and The Mothers of Invention [1].

After the Deviants folded in 1969, Farren recorded a solo album, Mona, with a short-lived Pink Fairies line-up that featured ex-Pretty Things drummer/singer Twink and Steve Peregrin Took. When this first Pink Fairies fell apart and Twink ran off with the name to form Pink Fairies mark 2, Farren initially considered continuing to work Steve Took using the band name Steve Took’s Shagrat with Larry Wallis. Took and Farren fell out so it didn’t happen.

Many of the band members for the Deviants and the Pink Fairies were interchangeable and both names have been used for various one-offs over the years. In February 1984, Farren was joined by ex-Pink Fairies member Larry Wallis and original Deviant (as well as Pink Fairies member) Duncan Sanderson.
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  • silknot

    Genial! http://wp.me/p3lkiw-R

    2 Apr 12:39am Reply

  • Who_Scared_You

    the singer reminds me of ozzy osbourne :DDD

    7 Jan 7:03pm Reply

  • kattyplazas

    so good!

    18 Dec 2012 Reply

  • azachel

    Deviants #3 - probably one of the best albums cover ever!!

    22 Sep 2012 Reply

  • iconan

    The Deviants - 1969 - No. 3 - final Deviants album is also, according to frontman Mick Farren, the record that they should never have made. No. 3 can in no way be compared to either of its predecessors. A few of the songs are indeed as unrehearsed. But it's also a considerably more coherent album, "Billy the Monster," the sinister Zappa-chant with which the album opens, captures the archetypal hippie-freak. Culturally, however, it is a brutal reminder of that moment when the '60s dream teetered on the brink of the precipice, and the planet went to hell. - - -.-.-.-. om hari om ..... ॐ

    2 Jul 2012 Reply

  • badat35

    The music band is lesser known but worthwhile

    25 May 2012 Reply

  • zhanat89

    заебатая банда!

    7 Feb 2012 Reply

  • ReptilPSY

    Zarpada banda!

    6 Sep 2011 Reply

  • eSpinoza88

    "let's loot the supermarket" of Disposable is great compliance of bass and piano line/

    1 Jun 2011 Reply

  • TREMOLO69

    i don't really get why ptooff! gets more plays than s/t (no.3). they're both great albums, but the 3rd album is way more consistent and just better imo. although if poeple are just getting into them i can't blame them for going chronologially... well, listen to no.3 or give it a chance damn it! :D

    30 Apr 2011 Reply

  • arab0nradar

    one of the greatest 60s bands

    7 Apr 2011 Reply

  • micronantes

    Excelente banda.

    18 Feb 2011 Reply

  • mynameisjoehann

    Very good

    25 Sep 2010 Reply

  • LucasManiesi

    I'm a Police Car

    7 Jun 2010 Reply

  • kaioshimanski

    Mix the irreverence of Mothers of Invention and the dada humor of The Bonzo Dog Band with the psychedelia of 60's! We are "Os Freakadélicos" a brazillian band formed by teenagers with 15 and 17 years old! Listen our music on myspace! www.myspace.com/freakadelicos

    28 Apr 2010 Reply

  • Ton87

    this is awesome and great man

    6 Apr 2010 Reply

  • imdact

    play with fire is such a great cover

    22 Aug 2009 Reply

  • LaxATivvz

    just as good as the Pinks

    21 Jul 2009 Reply

  • Amondroid

    It's a shame they became the Pink Fairies, or maybe not! It's bloody good music! You just have to love this band, I do.

    4 Jul 2009 Reply

  • HLLLYH

    is anything else as good as Ptooff! is?

    30 Jun 2009 Reply
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