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When this LP released in 1971 I was into bands that weren't very mainstream. As a matter of fact, I bought "Captian Beyond's" first LP the same day I think.
Anyway, having seen "The Crazy Wourld of Arthur Brown" live in Detroit in the late 1960's pretty much wet my appitite for his voice/music. Even Atomic Rooster (featuring Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer from the original CWAB band) were a great (also underrated) band. But this LP really hit me hard. From start to finish (including a pre-recorded record player needle (remember record players?)complete with ungrounded hum and needle contact with the record just before the end of side two were just way too cool compared to anything else out there at the time.
Arthur Brown has one of the best voices in rock. He's still a very underrated vocalist and song writer. Check out last year's "Tantric Lover" and you'll see what I mean.
If you like the obscure, you'll love this album. Buy the CD now, before it's out of print again....

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Incredible prog from the guy that gave us "Fire"
If you thought The Crazy World of Arthur Brown album from 1968 (the one that had the hit "Fire") was great, wait until you hear Galactic Zoo Dossier! Arthur Brown had some problems keeping The Crazy World of Arthur Brown together, and there were two albums recorded in 1969 and 1970 that never surfaced until more recently (that is Strangelands and Kingdom Come's Jam). But he finally got things together and assembled Kingdom Come (absolutely no relation to the American heavy metal band), with him on vocals, Andy Dalby on guitars, Michael "Goodge" Harris on organ, Julian Paul Brown on VCS-3 synthesizer, Desmon Fisher on bass, and Martin "Slim" Steer on drums. Galactic Zoo Dossier was originally released in 1971 on Polydor, and the original LP came with a poster that had lyrics to all the songs. "Internal Messenger", the opening cut, shows that this stuff is even wilder than The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. "Goodge" Harris does his best he can to follow in Vincent Crane's footsteps, and Andy Dalby gives us just as equally wild guitar work. The next song is the more mellow, but spooky "Space Plucks", the organ work is especially worth mentioning. There are a couple of twisted numbers like "Metal Monster" and "Night of the Pigs" before going in to a mellow, somewhat acoustic number "Simple Man". "Sunset" is a somewhat bluesy number demonstrating the wild vocals of Arthur Brown himself. "Trouble" is different, because it's a rather acoustic, folky number sung by Andy Dalby, rather than Brown, and it was all written by Dalby himself. The lyrics here seem to be more hippie-oriented than the rest of the album. There are a couple of really off the wall experimental pieces here like "Creep" and "Creation", as well as an ELP-like instrumental piece called "Gypsy Escape". "No Time" brings you somewhat back to earth, after all the wild experiments, and you get to hear Arthur Brown singing again. None of the three albums Arthur Brown did with Kingdom Come sound alike, but this is truly Brown's Kingdom Come at the most raw and aggressive. If you like Arthur Brown, and prog rock in general, this album is a must!