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The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, was an English psychedelic rock group.
The band started their career as a blues group under the name of The Edgar Broughton Blues Band, playing to a dedicated but limited following in the region around their hometown of Warwick. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, dropping the 'Blues' from their name as well as their music, Victor Unitt left.
In 1968, the Broughtons moved to Notting Hill Gate, London, seeking a recording contract and a wider audience, and were picked up by Blackhill Enterprises. Blackhill landed them their first record deal, on EMI's progressive rock label Harvest Records, in December 1968. Their first single was "Evil"/"Death of an Electric Citizen", released in June 1969, which was also the first single released by Harvest.
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| France Single 1971 |
The Edgar Broughton Band kept recording, releasing the live performance of "Out Demons, Out!" as a single (b/w "Momma's Reward (Keep Those Freaks a Rollin')") and following it, in June 1970, with the album Sing Brother Sing. This was accompanied by the single "Up Yours!" (b/w "Officer Dan"), a polemic on the 1970 General Election declaring their intention to drop out. The song featured a string arrangement by David Bedford.
Their next single, "Apache Dropout", combined The Shadows' "Apache" with Captain Beefheart's "Drop Out Boogie". It was played (to astonished and puzzled reactions) on the David Jacobs' hosted BBC Television's Juke Box Jury. Jerry Lordan, the composer of "Apache", insisted that the title be "Apache Dropout" instead of the original "Dropout Apache". The single reached No. 33 on the UK Singles Chart, stalling partly due to the then-current postal strike.
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| Germany Single 1971 |
The album was followed by the release of the double A-side "Hotel Room"/"Call Me A Liar". This was played by Tony Blackburn as his 'record of the week' upon its release: Edgar Broughton recalled him saying that "he hated everything that we stood for, but that the single was the best thing he had heard that year". The single failed to chart, but the album sold well throughout Europe, especially in Germany.
With the success of their third album, the Broughtons relocated to Devon to begin recording for their next album, Inside Out, after which Unitt departed.
In 1975 the band signed to NEMS. In the same year, John Thomas joined the band on guitar for the Broughtons' sixth album, Bandages. This featured a softer sound than previous releases. Shortly after the release of Bandages, John Thomas left and was replaced by Terry Cottam. In 1976, having recorded the live album Live Hits Harder (which was not released until 1979), the Edgar Broughton Band dissolved.
However, Edgar and Steve Broughton together with Grant regrouped as The Broughtons to release Parlez-Vous English? in 1979, with Tom Nordon and Pete Tolsen playing guitar and Richard DeBastion on keyboards. These supplementary musicians were not retained after the release of the album, but Tom Norden was used again, along with keyboardist Dennis Haines, for Superchip, released in 1982.
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The Edgar Broughton Band disbanded in 2010, with Edgar Broughton opting to continue to perform as a solo artist. [Wikipedia]
The London ‘underground’ scene welcomed the anarchic, revolutionary and irreverent Broughtons into an active fraternity during the early days of 1969. The band comprised Edgar Broughton (b. 24 October 1947, Warwick, Warwickshire, England; guitar/vocals), Steve Broughton (b. 20 May 1950, Warwick, Warwickshire, England; drums/vocals) and Arthur Grant (bass, guitar, vocals). Edgar’s growling voice was similar to that of Captain Beefheart and they regularly featured his ‘Dropout Boogie’ in their act. Following their arrival in London they played at a number of small club gigs arranged by Blackhill Enterprises. They were given a wider audience by playing at the famous Blind Faith free concert in Hyde Park in June 1969, where the Broughtons incited the crowd to a frenzy with an exhaustive rendition of the favourite, ‘Out Demons Out’.
The band expanded to a four piece for their self-titled third album, employing ex-Pretty Things guitarist Victor Unitt. Despite the exposure that BBC disc jockey John Peel gave the band on his pioneering UK radio show Top Gear, the political and sexual themes of their songs had dated by the early 70s, although the band soldiered on for a number of years, maintaining a defiant political stance that gained acceptance with a loyal core of British and German rock fans. Unitt had left by the time the band recorded Bandages for the NEMS label in 1975. Prevented from recording by managerial problems, the band made a low-key return in 1979 now billed simply as the Broughtons. During subsequent decades, the Broughtons could still be found performing as part of late 60s revival shows and on the London pub circuit.
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| UK Promo Single 1969 |
Establishing themselves as an unholy collision between the still-nascent Pink Fairies and the legendary Fugs, the debut album by British free-festival favorites the Edgar Broughton Band almost literally re-created the spirit of their natural territory -- a muddy field full of sunbaked hippies -- with eight more or less epic tracks that, though their inspiration has long become the stuff of ancient history, remain essential listening to all but the most jaded ears. All maniacal cackle and frenzied riffing, the band's first single, "Evil," and the brutal bellowing of "Love in the Rain" are the most conventional numbers in that they were certainly written as crowd-pleasing stompers in the days before "Out Demons Out" established itself as the Edgar Broughton Band's all-consuming anthem.
More impressive, however, are the numbers which see the band stretching both their capabilities and their audience's expectations -- the lengthy opus "Dawn Crept Away," the evocatively titled "Death of an Electric Citizen," and, best of all, "American Boy Soldier." Ranking alongside Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" as British rock's finest contribution to the Vietnam War, it is a Mothers of Invention-esque piece that blends sneering spoken word with a delightfully doo wop-ish invocation of all that war really has to offer and all that its servants leave behind. "Shot down from my plane/Never be the same again/I was just 16 years old." As jaggedly metallic as it is theatrically ambitious, Wasa Wasa (an Eskimo phrase meaning "from far, far away") stands alongside early albums by the Fairies, the Deviants, and Hawkwind as a dramatic snapshot of a very special moment in time, as the whimsical hopefulness of the late '60s gave way to the chilled cynicism of the early '70s. And, while the band would certainly produce better songs over the next three years, they never again unleashed such a potent mood.
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| UK Promo Single 1970 |
Sing Brother Sing almost equals the psychedelic cohesiveness and insouciant air of the Edgar Broughton Band's debut album, but, even without doing so, it still stands as their second strongest release. All the songs on Sing Brother Sing wallow in a hippie-ish, kick-backed experimental blues-rock style, extenuated to perfection by Broughton's resonant grumble and vocal staunchness, and surrounded by chem lab mixtures of guitar and bass. The group's peculiar instrumental outputs give odd tracks such as "There's No Vibrations but Wait," "Momma's Reward," and the two parts of "Psychopath" progressive rock-type tendencies with a homemade wit, which would be the band's most daunting characteristic outside of Edgar Broughton's singing.
Although the Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa comparisons are unavoidable, the rest of Sing Brother Sing's facets and odd instrumental avenues emit a distinctness that remains the whole album through. The quaint but humorous English air that encircles "Officer Dan" and "Old Gopher" reflects Broughton's adept satirical approach, maybe without him even knowing it. Held together with elements of jazz, rock, and blues, the music on Sing Brother Sing is captivating because of its raw integrity, and in its refusal to adhere to structure, formula, or to travel a beaten path.
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| Japan Single 1970 |
The most conventional of the Edgar Broughton Band's first (and best) three albums, 1971's Edgar Broughton Band finds the group dispensing with the no-holds-barred mania and theatricality responsible for such classics as "Out Demons Out," "Up Yours," and "Apache Drop Out" and concentrating instead on more musical endeavors. It's an approach that arguably captures the band at their very best at the same time as revealing them at their ugliest. The two-part epic "For Dr. Spock" conjures images of Gong, as it drifts closer to space rock than the Edgar Broughton Band had hitherto ventured, while "House of Turnabout" certainly restates the group's free-freak credentials with its rumbling percussion and scything guitars, a second cousin to the roars that punctuated Wasa Wasa and Sing Brother Sing.
The heart of Edgar Broughton Band, however, lies elsewhere. The lilting chant "Thinking About You," with its spectral reminders of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero," is certainly one of their most rancorous concoctions, while "Evening Over Rooftops" rides an acoustic guitar as pretty as its flowery lyric, but you know there's something rotten squirming just below the surface, even if you can never quite put your finger on it. The pure pop backing vocals, all "sha-la-la" and "doo-be-doo-be-doo," of course, only add to your unease. And, as that is merely the opening number, you can guess what you're in for over the rest of the album long before you actually get it.
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| Uk Promo Single 1971 |
Inside Out is the Edgar Broughton Band's fourth album, following the success of 1970's self-titled release. Although the humor and novel attributions of the group aren't quite as prevalent here as in the band's first few albums, Inside Out still has plenty of distinguishing characteristics, both musically and lyrically, to hold it together. "Chilly Morning Mama" and the tawdry "Gone Blue" add crass humor to instrumental improvisation in perfect Broughton-like style, enriched by Edgar Broughton's vocal snarl. The group's bizarre and sometimes creepy brand of rigid, sonic blues-rock is anything but structured, which makes halfhearted attempts such as "The Rake" and "Totin' This Guitar" relinquish some appeal. "It's Not You" is a singable chant which drips with campy theatrics, while on the other side of the coin "I Got Mad" and "They Took It Away" make for a couple of the album's more conventional cuts. Repertoire's reissue of the album to compact disc includes four bonus tracks, three of them B-sides. Out of the four, both "Call Me a Liar" and "Someone" exhibit the most charm. Inside Out may not be a necessity, but it's good to have if you're a true fan of the Broughton's.
The Broughtons' fifth album has never been as well-regarded as its predecessors, although that has more to do with timing than with the record itself -- by 1973, after all, The Broughtons' brand of post-hippie revolution was feeling just a little tired, particularly in the face of the glam scene that had emerged all around, and no matter how strong the songwriting and performances remained, there was still a sense of too little, too late. Which was colossally unfair. No, Oora isn't a patch on either Wasa Wasa or Sing Brother Sing. But it was an improvement on the previous year's Inside Out, and a handful of its contents -- notably "Exhibits from a New Museum/Green Lights" and "Roccococooler" -- could rub shoulders alongside any of the band's earlier, better-feted material. Indeed, the sheer diversity of Oora flies defiantly in the face of anybody hoping to pigeonhole the band with its past reputation, as Oora reveals a tight, concise, and extraordinarily melodic band whose members had clearly been listening to Neil Young as much as the Mothers of Invention, and weren't afraid to prove it. [AMG]
Studio albums:
• Wasa Wasa (1969)
• Sing Brother Sing (1970)
• Edgar Broughton Band (1971)
• Inside Out (1972)
• Oora (1973)
• Bandages (1975)
Singles:
• "Evil" / "Death of an Electric Citizen" (1969)
• "Out Demons Out" / "Momma's Reward" (1970)
• "Up Yours!" / "Officer Dan" (1970)
• "Apache Drop Out" / "Freedom" (1970)
• "Hotel Room" / "Call Me A Liar" (1971)
• "Gone Blue" / "Someone" / "Mr. Crosby" (1972)
Disc 1:
(Wasa Wasa 1969)
01. Wasa Wasa - Death of An Electric Citizen
02. Wasa Wasa - American Boy Soldier
03. Wasa Wasa - Why Can't Somebody Love Me
04. Wasa Wasa - Neptune
05. Wasa Wasa - Evil
06. Wasa Wasa - Crying
07. Wasa Wasa - Love in the Rain
08. Wasa Wasa - Dawn Crept Away
09. Wasa Wasa - Out Demons Out (Single A Side)
10. Wasa Wasa - Up Yours! (Single A Side)
11. Wasa Wasa - Freedom (Single B Side)
(Sing Brother Sing 1970)
12. Sing Brother Sing - There's No Vibrations But Wait!
13. Sing Brother Sing - The Moth - A. The Moth B. People C. Peter
14. Sing Brother Sing - Momma's Reward (Keep Them Freak's a Rollin')
15. Sing Brother Sing - Refugee
16. Sing Brother Sing - Officer Dan
Disc 2:
01. Sing Brother Sing - Old Gopher
02. Sing Brother Sing - Aphrodite
03. Sing Brother Sing - Granma
04. Sing Brother Sing - Psychpath A - The Psychopath B Is For Butterflies
05. Sing Brother Sing - It's Falling Away
06. Sing Brother Sing - Apache Drop Out (Single A side)
(Edgar Broughton Band 1971)
07. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Evening Over Rooftops
08. Edgar Broughtoun Band - The Birth
09. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Piece Of My Own
10. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Poppy
11. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Don't Even Know Which Day It Is
12. Edgar Broughtoun Band - House Of Turnabout
13. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Madhatter
14. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Getting Hard - What Is A Woman For
15. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Thinking Of You
16. Edgar Broughtoun Band - For Dr. Spock (Parts 1&2)
17. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Hotel Room
18. Edgar Broughtoun Band - Call Me A Liar
Disc 3:
(In Side Out 1972)
01. In Side Out - Get Out Of Bed - There's Nobody There - Side By Side
02. In Side Out - Sister Angela
03. In Side Out - I Got Mad
04. In Side Out - They Took It Away
05. In Side Out - Homes Fit For Heroes
06. In Side Out - Gone Blue
07. In Side Out - Chilly Morning Mama
08. In Side Out - The Rake
09. In Side Out - Totin' This Guitar
10. In Side Out - Double Agent
11. In Side Out - It's Not You
12. In Side Out - Rock'N Roll
13. In Side Out - Someone (Single B Side)
14. In Side Out - Mr Crosby (Single B Side)
(Oora 1973)
15. Oora - Hurricane Man - Rock'N Roller
16. Oora - Roccococooler
17. Oora - Eviction
18. Oora - Oh You Crazy Boy
19. Oora - Things On My Mind
Disc 4:
01. Oora - Exhibits From a New Museum - Green Lights
02. Oora - Face From a Window - Pretty - Hi-Jack Boogie - Slow Down
03. Oora - Capers
Live At Hyde Park, London 18th July 1970
04. Love in the Rain
05. Silver Needle
06. Drop Out Boogie
07. Refugee
08. American Boy Soldier
09. Out Demons Out
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