THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,225) Adjéèf the poet, his girl(s), his friend(s) & the rest of the world(s) — “IEEK! I’m a . . . Freak”
Today, let your freak flag fly as this “killer heavy gonzo psych/freakbeat” (Happening45, https://www.45cat.com/record/ac1003) ‘67 A-side by a mysterious Dutchman invades the windmills of your mind!
As the Pebbles comp tells us:
The young Dutchman must’ve been really flying on something when he created this monstrous two-sider. Of the two, [“Freak”] comes closest to recognizable music: you can hear traces of better Dutch fuzz-R&B bands like the Outsiders [see #615, 664, 1,218] or the Zipps [see #378] at work behind the nutty lyrics about mushrooms, green dogs and the collecting of frogs . . . . Was this guy the Kim Fowley of Utrecht?
liner notes to the CD comp Pebbles Vol. 3: The Acid Gallery
The Kim Fowley (see #89, 449) of Utrecht? No greater honor can be bestowed!
Happening45 adds:
[This is a]n amazing 45 and very rare. . . . almost too good to be true. Nice private label, killer heavy gonzo psych/freakbeat A side (with Group 1850 guesting) coupled with even more gonzo psychedelic sound collage B side. This one goes with me into the afterlife, just in case the devil doesn’t have a copy yet.
Who was Adjéèf The Poet? According to funnyfreakparade:
Adjeef, alias Adje Visser started out as producer for a record company, in the meantime making this single for the Action label (The Pop-Arts were the backing up band). In 1969, he was d.j. of the great SUPERCLEANDEAMMACHINE radio show before he turned into a complete other direction: VJ for Dutch weekly Top 40 program TOPPOP.
Visser’s own website tells us the full story:
Ad Visser presented AVRO’s TOPPOP every week from 1970 to 1985. He was number 1 in the popularity polls for many years. The weekly show was a TV hit. Viewing density regularly 4 to 5 million viewers…. He started out as a singer-songwriter and avant-garde pop artist, was presenter of the historical TV program “Toppop” for 15 years, made controversial radio with his “Superclean Dreammachine” and wrote the science fiction novel “Sobrietas”. This internationally published novel was a multimedia project avant-la-lettre, because Ad interwove his own musical compositions into the story and added it to the soundtrack CD of the same name. Ad’s many records and CDs (27 albums) reached the charts in several countries…. 33 sensational, international Art projects, in which he turns a Boeing 747 into a musical instrument, a tram into a Contrambas, a series of cars, The Car Philharmonic Orchestra, etc. For several years now he has been a Singer-Songwriter again with a unique style & depth of Dutch songs. Such as The Parade Of The Heavenly Tragedy, a song of 1050 verses, duration 8 hours 39 min. 39 sec. (published in book form, among others)
https://www.advisser.nl/#toppop, https://www.advisser.nl/#bio
By the way, the B-side is “Sqaufreckleman Comes Back”:
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