Human Garbage

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Human Garbage
Live album by
ReleasedMay 1984
RecordedDingwalls, London, 3 February 1984
Genre Psychedelic rock
Label Psycho Records – 25
The Deviants chronology
Screwed Up
(1977)
Human Garbage
(1984)
Eating Jello with a Heated Fork
(1996)

Human Garbage is a 1984 live album by the UK underground artist Mick Farren and friends, released under the name The Deviants.

Contents

Farren had relocated to New York but a return visit to London gave him the opportunity for this one-off performance with Larry Wallis' Previously Unreleased group at Dingwalls on 3 February 1984. In addition, former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, a long-standing collaborator with Farren, flew in for this performance.

Track listing

  1. "Outrageous Contagious" (Mick Farren, Larry Wallis) – originally on Mick Farren and the Deviants Screwed Up EP
  2. "Broken Statue" (Farren, Wallis) – originally a Mick Farren 1978 single A-side, later on Pink Fairies Kill 'Em and Eat 'Em LP
  3. "Ramblin' Rose" (Fred Burch, Marijohn Wilkin) – originally on MC5's Kick Out the Jams LP
  4. "Hey Thanks" (Wayne Kramer) – originally on Johnny Thunders and Wayne Kramer's Gang War
  5. "Screwed Up" (Farren, Paul Rudolph) – originally on Mick Farren and the Deviants Screwed Up EP
  6. "I Wanna Drink" (Farren, Wallis) – originally on Mick Farren's Vampires Stole My Lunch Money LP
  7. "Taking LSD" (Wallis, Duncan Sanderson) – originally on Pink Fairies Kill 'Em and Eat 'Em LP
  8. "Police Car" (Wallis) – originally a Larry Wallis 1978 single A-side
  9. "Trouble Coming Every Day" (Frank Zappa) – originally on The Mothers of Invention's Freak Out! LP

Personnel

The Deviants

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