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The Crazy World of Arthur Brown — Fire
Album: Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
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Released: 1968
Length: 2:48
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I am the God of Hell fire and I bring you
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
I'll see you burn
You fought hard and you saved and earned
But all of it's going to burn
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now 's your time burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no
You're gonna burn
Fire, to destroy all you've done
Fire, to end all you've become
I'll feel you burn
You've been living like a little girl
In the middle of your little world
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now's your time to burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
I'll see you burn
You're gonna burn
You're gonna burn
You're gonna burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
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Wow the segue from Tehran 1974 was a bit abrupt. I'm focused now! 
Posted 11 months ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
wow, I went straight to the info board a few seconds after this started. Never heard it or of the artist!  Cool
Posted 11 months ago by Michaeljcovel    [ Reply ]
Straight back to memories of Arthur Brown  on Top of the Pops wearing a burning helmet on his head!  Since tv then was only black and white, the effect was somewhat diminished..but hey, I still remember it!
Posted 11 months ago by WilliDoc    [ Reply ]
He said fire.
Posted 1 year ago by wifesboyfriend    [ Reply ]
This piece was sampled by Prodigy in the 90s, IIRC.
Posted 1 year ago by theirongiant    [ Reply ]
My Grandads face is indelibly linked with this song. I remember his expression when this came on Top of the Pops - a chart show on the television. I was 7 when it came out, so it really was a memorable look of absolute disgust 
Posted 1 year ago by hellsgardener    [ Reply ]
excellent vocal range !
Posted 1 year ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
That'll wake you up in an instant...
Posted 1 year ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
more GARAGE
Posted 1 year ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Amazing how the brain can conjure up lyrics to a song you last heard over 50 years ago, but where I out my keys  is another matter.
Posted 1 year ago by xray38    [ Reply ]
My best party times way back in 68 !
And now, all the sudden, I’m 68 
Posted 1 year ago by Prius    [ Reply ]
Holy cow, Batman!  I remember dancing around, from the bathroom all the way down to the living room and back, when I was supposed to be brushing my teeth, singing snippets from this, and driving my mother CRAZY, while this mad hit was playing on the tinny, tiny little transistor radio in my bedroom at the end of the hall... I musta been about Seven... My head was just floating in the breeze, man...
Posted 1 year ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Summer of 68, yeah !  KHJ and KRLA staples and white Owsley and orange wedge ...

Real nice set you've got going there B !
Posted 1 year ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
Arthur Brown was also the lead vocalist on the cut "The Tell-Tale Heart" on the 1976 album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the Alan Parsons Project.
Posted 4 years ago by Gromit_42    [ Reply ]
 keller1 wrote:
This got to number 2 on CKLW in (I think) 1968.  Carl Palmer on drums.

A real period piece, avec extra fromage.
 
Got to number 1 in the UK. It was the first piece of music I ever bought. I used the money my gran gave me and my father strongly disapproved of using it to buy "this kind of rubbish". 
Posted 4 years ago by ScottishWillie    [ Reply ]
Arthur Brown, Frank and Clare  in 2014 at Lunar Festival UK. He's still a uniquely British eccentric talented entertaining tour-de-force!
Posted 5 years ago by frankgilbert    [ Reply ]
 keller1 wrote:
This got to number 2 on CKLW in (I think) 1968.  Carl Palmer on drums.

A real period piece, avec extra fromage.

 
"Drachen Theaker was the original drummer for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, founded by Arthur Brown, and played on the band's eponymous album, including the song "Fire". Theaker abruptly left the band during a U.S. tour in 1969. Carl Palmer was quickly recruited as a replacement and became a permanent band member."
Posted 5 years ago by frankgilbert    [ Reply ]
I didn't know Radio Paradise did comedy. 
Posted 5 years ago by ubuntourist    [ Reply ]
Radiohead "Burn the Witch" —> Crazy World of Arthur Brown "Fire"  {#Think} {#No}

Sometimes you nail the segue, sometimes the segue nails you. With a pencil. 

Bill Belichick scratching his ear and Matt Patricia talking into headset with pencil behind ear

"Yeah, that's gotta sting. Oh good, some earwax."
Posted 7 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
Man, I hated this in '68, and I still hate it now. Some things never change. 
Posted 7 years ago by FlatCat    [ Reply ]
 parttime wrote:
After hearing this song 1,847 time's one learn's to tune it out ...

 
My first time hearing this song. I'll let you know how I feel about it after the next 1,846 times.  
Posted 7 years ago by Ulises    [ Reply ]
After hearing this song 1,847 time's one learn's to tune it out ...
Posted 14 years ago by parttime    [ Reply ]
Nigel is my favorite.
Posted 14 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
 paulmack wrote:


Good answer. You made me laugh, Chicago dude. And I don't think I fully appreciate the 100K Pyramid reference, either. Still clever even then. Anyway, I just reacted because the local university near me has the same (more cowbell) slogan that they yell at all their football games.

 
Boise State with that wild blue field?

Glad I made you laugh.

DB

Posted 14 years ago by donnyballgame    [ Reply ]
 donnyballgame wrote:

cow — udder — cream — churn — butter — bell

I saw that on The $100,000 Pyramid.

 

Good answer. You made me laugh, Chicago dude. And I don't think I fully appreciate the 100K Pyramid reference, either. Still clever even then. Anyway, I just reacted because the local university near me has the same (more cowbell) slogan that they yell at all their football games.

Posted 14 years ago by paulmack    [ Reply ]
 petesoper wrote:
Shocked and dismayed that RP accepted this into their playlist. I guess this is the other side of "eclectic!"
 

Hope you can still sleep at night.... God knows the stress you must be under after this revoltin' development.
Posted 14 years ago by paulmack    [ Reply ]
 paulmack wrote:

Chicago dude, what do you know about cowbell?

 
cow — udder — cream — churn — butter — bell

I saw that on The $100,000 Pyramid.

Posted 14 years ago by donnyballgame    [ Reply ]
 Dave_Mack wrote:

Yes indeed.  That REALLY pushes this one over the top.  In a good way.

 
I remember hearing that AB on occasion (regularly?) arrived on stage to start his set via crane and had somehow contrived to do so while appearing to have his hair on fire. Remember reading it in some concert review - or maybe that review was part of the liner notes on the original vinyl album cover. Too far back and, well, you know.....

Posted 14 years ago by paulmack    [ Reply ]
 donnyballgame wrote:
Is that Will Farrell on lead vocals? Needs more cowbell.
 
Chicago dude, what do you know about cowbell?

Posted 14 years ago by paulmack    [ Reply ]
Shocked and dismayed that RP accepted this into their playlist. I guess this is the other side of "eclectic!"


Posted 14 years ago by petesoper    [ Reply ]
Is that Will Farrell on lead vocals? Needs more cowbell.
Posted 14 years ago by donnyballgame    [ Reply ]
I always thought this was from King Crimson's first release ... or somebody like that.  Not whatever-the-hell-this-band-name is!

No entry yet in Wikipedia for Crazy World of Arthur Brown.  Wow.
Posted 14 years ago by AphidA    [ Reply ]
 gcrumb wrote:
Ah, but what about the 5 minute acid-inspired spoken intro to the song? It's just not the same without the kooky intro!
 
Yes indeed.  That REALLY pushes this one over the top.  In a good way.

Posted 14 years ago by Dave_Mack    [ Reply ]
retire this one!
Posted 14 years ago by More_Cowbell    [ Reply ]
It's always fun to find one-hit wonders of previous eras on RP.
Posted 14 years ago by UltraNurd    [ Reply ]
 keller1 wrote:
. . . Carl Palmer on drums. . . .
 
Truth is stranger than fiction!

Posted 14 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 keller1 wrote:
This got to number 2 on CKLW in (I think) 1968.  Carl Palmer on drums.

A real period piece, avec extra fromage.

 

Ageed. Did he do any other music of note ? Or would that be an opinion ?
Posted 14 years ago by That_SOB    [ Reply ]
There was a late-night monster movie host in Cleveland in the 1970s (The Ghoul, on Channel 61) who used to dub this over the soundtrack of that week's B-movie every time Godzilla breathed fire on Tokyo, or a witch was tied to the stake, or the action on the screen involved combustion in any other fashion.

Posted 14 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
This is a terrible song; I love it!{#Daisy}
Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
This got to number 2 on CKLW in (I think) 1968.  Carl Palmer on drums.

A real period piece, avec extra fromage.

Posted 14 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
I didn't know this song until seeing Hot Fuzz (great film btw)

I get such a kick out of this tune!

Good fun.

Kind of makes me think of a groovier version of Alice Cooper (the band, not the solo artist)

Posted 14 years ago by flatpicker    [ Reply ]
You're going to bu-u-u-u-u-u-r-r-r-r-r-n-n-n-n! He- hee—hah!

Awesome to be able to get away with that.
Posted 14 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
It's amazing how well this song holds up after all those years.  And yes, as someone already mentioned, Arthur Brown  influenced Alice Cooper a great deal... as well as other of the more theatrical hard rock and heavy metal acts.  I'm surprised he appears to have been a one-hit wonder.


Posted 14 years ago by kaybee    [ Reply ]
In it's time this song was way out there on the edge.
I'd heard the performances were also ridiculously weird.
Posted 14 years ago by gjeeg    [ Reply ]
 RedGuitar wrote:
Next:  "Fire" by Hendrix and "Light My Fire" by the Doors.   {#Lol}
 
And Ring of Fire by Cash!

Posted 14 years ago by leaf    [ Reply ]
uh, no thanks
Posted 14 years ago by wrangler    [ Reply ]
Next:  "Fire" by Hendrix and "Light My Fire" by the Doors.   {#Lol}
Posted 14 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
Dig the brass section.
Posted 14 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to say, too, that Alice Cooper got all of his vaudevillian stage show ideas from watching Arthur at Detroit's Grande Ballroom, then a few months later at Cobo when Arthur opened for the Doors (along with the MC5).

That's Carl Palmer of ELP on the drum kit.

Posted 14 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
Hey Al
I had the 45, too. Do you remember that the leadout groove had some kind of sound effect on it? I can't remember exactly what it was, but it made the record seem even more exotic. Strangely, this 45 was also in the jukebox we had in my church youth group's "teen room". We'd only play it if the grown ups were busy elsewhere, for fear they'd remove it.
Posted 14 years ago by ktnsb    [ Reply ]
Ah, but what about the 5 minute acid-inspired spoken intro to the song? It's just not the same without the kooky intro!
Posted 14 years ago by gcrumb    [ Reply ]
 HazzeSwede wrote:
Summer of 68,a burning year in many respects and a crazy one !
                               {#Fire}
  Oh was it ever-still pleased that I can even remember some of it :)~ !


Posted 14 years ago by SanFranGayMan    [ Reply ]
Summer of 68,a burning year in many respects and a crazy one !
                               {#Fire}
Posted 14 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
I love this song! As a child of the sixties, been listening for many years.
Posted 15 years ago by starcloud    [ Reply ]
In the words of Austin Powers.......... Yeah Baby{#Whipit}
Posted 15 years ago by the_jake    [ Reply ]
Play "Spontaneous Apple Creation" in honor of Steve Jobs' presumable retirement!  Plus it's a great song.  Well, "great" might be an overstatement.

Cheers

Posted 15 years ago by imcnaney    [ Reply ]
Sounds like the mother of all Heavy Metal vocals.

Posted 15 years ago by Bleyfusz    [ Reply ]
All these years I never knew where prodigy got the clip from "I am the god of hell fire and I bring you..." until now.
Radio Paradise is both enjoyable and educational.

thanks Bill!
Posted 15 years ago by MusicRookie    [ Reply ]
Now that was fun!
Posted 15 years ago by Peace_tode    [ Reply ]
Songs on RP can be divided into 2 groups: those who urge you to look at their Wikipedia entry and those who don't. 

I would put this one firmly in the first category. 
Posted 15 years ago by palexis    [ Reply ]
Passionate & powerful, Fire still jams!
Posted 15 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
This guy is nuts! {#Beat} ...All right I deserved that beating but you can stop now....


Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
An awesome blast from my past!  This is exactly why I listen to & support RP!
Posted 15 years ago by BGGA    [ Reply ]
Arthur Brown's world is indeed crazy apparently.
Posted 15 years ago by haljordan    [ Reply ]
 Shesdifferent wrote:
I thought you'd already played this Bill. It was pretty weird then, and its gonna bring some pretty weird comments now!
 
Is it more weird now?  I do admit it is a bit strange, but was it more closer to normal in the 60's?

Posted 15 years ago by ch83575    [ Reply ]
Had the 45 of this and just so happens 8th grade science class was about the principles of fire, asked the teacher if we could play and he let us.  The look on his face was priceless.  Great Song!  Been years.
Posted 15 years ago by Al_Koholic    [ Reply ]

Posted 15 years ago by n4ku    [ Reply ]
I've always wondered where that "I am the god of hellfire..." soundbyte came from. I've heard it on so many morning show promos.
Posted 15 years ago by bugleboy624    [ Reply ]
Holy cow!  Wish my teenage son was listening, he'd love this....or he'd be even more worried about me!  Not sure which way it'll go but may have to get a download of this just to find out!  A great surprise this morning!
Posted 15 years ago by WayUpNorth    [ Reply ]

I can't even begin to think how long it has been since I last heard this one!     BURN!


Posted 15 years ago by ronniegirl    [ Reply ]
 hippiechick wrote:
Wow! Flashback to high school! Cool! Love this song!
 
Ditto!

Posted 15 years ago by shutter    [ Reply ]
I thought you'd already played this Bill. It was pretty weird then, and its gonna bring some pretty weird comments now!
Posted 15 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]

Weird, I dig!


Posted 15 years ago by Frater_Kork    [ Reply ]
Wow! Flashback to high school! Cool! Love this song!
Posted 15 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]