Outrageous (Kim Fowley album)

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|rev2 = Robert Christgau

|rev2Score = E{{cite web |first=Robert |last=Christgau |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=10838 |title=Kim Fowley: Outrageous |publisher=Robert Christgau.com |date= |accessdate=October 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031806/http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=10838 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}

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Outrageous is perhaps the most renowned of Fowley's solo output and is his only album to chart on the United States' Billboard 200. In January 2003 Julian Cope selected it as the album of the month, calling it "a shamanic rock’n’roll album made by the ultimate chancer/huckster/gleeman."{{cite web |first=Julian |last=Cope |url=http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/kim-fowley-outrageous |title=Kim Fowley: Outrageous |publisher=headheritage.co.uk |date=2012 |accessdate=October 11, 2012}} Rob Fitzpatrick of the Guardian named the album one of the "101 strangest records on Spotify," writing that: {{blockquote|The album sounds like Fowley himself was off his chump on weapons-grade pharmaceuticals – he rants, raves, seethes, spits, burps, curses, declaims, screams and hollers his way across a heavily psychedelic set of knuckle-scraping rock-outs that recall a post-lobotomy Doors attempting an MC5 b-side while piled in the back of a inexpertly driven truck. On ice. And drugs. On the moon.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/20/101-strangest-records-spotify-kim-fowley |title=The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Kim Fowley – Outrageous |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Rob |date=2013-11-20 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2017-12-15 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}}} Less enthusiastic was music journalist Robert Christgau, who rated it "E", his second-worst rating (on a scale of A+ to E−), and stated, "I don't understand how he continues to earn a living, but he does." (Fowley eventually did earn an E− from Christgau for his 1972 release I'm Bad.)

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| headline = Side one

| all_writing = Kim Fowley, except "Animal Man" and "Bubble Gum" co-written by Marty Cerf

| title1 = Animal Man

| length1 = 2:37

| title2 = Wildfire

| length2 = 4:00

| title3 = Hide and Seek

| length3 = 2:07

| title4 = Chinese Water Torture

| length4 = 0:43

| title5 = Nightrider

| length5 = 2:16

| title6 = Bubble Gum

| length6 = 2:45

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{{tracklist

| headline = Side two

| title1 = Inner Space Discovery

| length1 = 4:05

| title2 = Barefoot Country Boy

| length2 = 2:00

| title3 = Up

| length3 = 4:05

| title4 = Caught in the Middle

| length4 = 5:40

| title5 = Down

| length5 = 5:00

| title6 = California Hayride

| length6 = 1:10

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;Musicians

• Kim Fowley – additional vocals, keyboards, record producer
• Michael Allsup – guitar
• Ben "Blues" Benay – guitar, harmonica
• Mars Bonfire – guitar
• Jimmy Greenspoon – keyboards
• Eddie Hoh – percussion
• Orville "Red" Rhodes – steel guitar
• Carmen Riale – bass guitar
• Joe Schermie – bass guitar
• Wayne Talbert – keyboards
• Joe Torres – percussion

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;Production and additional personnel

• David Brand – engineering
• Ed Caraeff – photography
• Bruce Ellison – engineering
• Gabor Halmos – design
• Woody Woodward – art direction

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