Ptooff! 1967 Album

The Deviants

Essentially the Deviants were the British counterpart (or response) to what Frank Zappa and The Fugs were doing, but arguably, their debut goes some ways further. Their aim was to make cultural and political statements by parodying pop songs of the time, playing and releasing music in an underground style. Ptooff is an unflinching document of the time, not afraid to further delve into the dark corners of society which the aforementioned bands had already exposed. It takes some time getting used to, being nearly the direct opposite of mainstream-style psychedelia, but worth revisiting what turned out to be the real underground of the era.