The Deviants 3

The Deviants 3
Studio album by
The Deviants
Released October 1969
Recorded 1969
Genre
Label Transatlantic
Producer Mick Farren
The Deviants chronology
Disposable
(1968) 		The Deviants 3
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Deviants 3 is the third and final album by the UK underground group the Deviants, released in 1969.

Lead vocalist Mick Farren regards the album as the beginning of a divergence between himself and his fellow musicians, stating "I had one idea and the rest of them wanted to be a kind of Led Zeppelin guitar band". Soon after the band would split, with Farren going on to record the Mona – The Carnivorous Circus album. Farren eventually left the music business, while his ex-bandmates continued as the Pink Fairies.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called 3 "harder-rocking and spacier" than the previous albums. Perfect Sound Forever called the album "a much more consistent collection of songs than Disposable", writing that "musically, it tends to be more focused and you can hear that the playing is more solid, which can be good at times, but it also means that the musicians occasionally slip into bland '60's electric blues formalities". Uncut wrote that the Deviants "were beginning to sound like just another heavy rock band".

Track listing

All tracks arranged by The Deviants and composed by Paul Rudolph except where noted.

  1. "Billy the Monster" – 3:26
  2. "Broken Biscuits" – 2:10 (Duncan Sanderson, Paul Rudolph, Russell Hunter)
  3. "First Line (Seven the Row)" – 2:44 (Duncan Sanderson)
  4. "The People Suite" – 2:24 (The Deviants)
  5. "Rambling B(l)ack Transit Blues" – 5:37
  6. "Death of a Dream Machine" – 2:50
  7. "Playtime" – 3:06
  8. "Black George Does It with His Tongue" – 1:20
  9. "The Junior Narco Rangers" – 0:28
  10. "Lets Drink to the People" – 1:32
  11. "Metamorphosis Exploration" – 8:57 (Duncan Sanderson, Paul Rudolph, Russell Hunter)

Personnel

The Deviants
Additional personnel
  • Tony Ferguson – organ
  • Tony Wiggens – equipment, lead vocal on "First Line"
  • David "Boss" Goodman – equipment, backing vocals
  • Jenny Ashworth – vocals
Technical personnel
Recording

Release history