Ptooff!

Mick Farren and Russell Hunter had met 21-year-old millionaire Nigel Samuel who funded the £700 required for the recording of the album.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}

Richie Unterberger of AllMusic assessed that the band were "not much more than amateurs" at the time of the album's recording, saying they "squeezed every last ounce of skill and imagination out of their limited instrumental and compositional resources." He explained that the style present on Ptooff! constitutes a fusion of "savage social commentary, overheated sexual lust, psychedelic jamming, blues riffs, and pretty acoustic ballads."{{Cite web |title=The Deviants Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & Mor... |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-deviants-mn0000818593#biography |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=AllMusic |language=en}} The staff of BrooklynVegan wrote, "For all the whimsy going on in Britannia during this period, there would be rebellion among some. Here was rebellion in all its glory. [...] This debut record was a middle finger to all of that. It conjured an image of distrust in the flower power hooey they saw wherever they turned, as well as in the establishment." The influence of Frank Zappa and The Fugs is apparent in the album's tracks. The album also contains elements of R&B and avant-garde.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=BrooklynVegan |title=The 50 best psychedelic rock albums of the Summer of Love |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/best-psychedelic-rock-albums-summer-of-love-1967/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}}

Ptooff!! was released in 1968 and 8,000 copies were sold on their own Impresario label via mail order through the UK underground press, such as Oz and International Times, before being picked up and released by Decca Records.Motörhead/Pink Fairies Family Tree – Pete Frame, 1982 The album is self-described on the inside cover as the deviants underground l.p.

The album was re-released in the mid-1980s by record label Psycho. The cover came in a six-panel fold-out with extensive notes, including a review by John Peel: "There is little that is not good, much that is excellent and the occasional flash of brilliance".{{cite web |url=http://www.thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk/supermarketfiles/ptooff.htm |title=Ptooff! |website=thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk |accessdate=20 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321045345/http://www.thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk/supermarketfiles/ptooff.htm |archive-date=21 March 2009 |url-status=dead }} There are two quotations in the cartoon drawing that fills three panels; one of them, "When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake!!", is a quote from Tuli Kupferberg.{{cite book|last1=Farren|first1=Mick|title=Get on down. A decade of Rock and Roll posters|date=1976|publisher=Futura Publications|location=London|page=6}} Ptooff! was also re-issued on CD in 1992 by Drop Out Records.

Record Collector called Ptoof! "a compellingly itinerant squall of squat-crashing blues-psych-with- issues; the sound of caries and foetid flares."{{Cite web|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/ptooff|title=Ptooff! - Record Collector Magazine|website=recordcollectormag.com}}

The staff of BrooklynVegan included the album in the site's list of the 50 best psychedelic rock albums, writing, "this is another record that must have made people at the time go “what the hell.”{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=BrooklynVegan |title=The 50 best psychedelic rock albums of the Summer of Love |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/best-psychedelic-rock-albums-summer-of-love-1967/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}}

{{track listing

| headline = Side A

| title1 = Opening

| writer1 = Sid Bishop, Mick Farren, Russell Hunter, Cord Rees, Steve Sparks

| length1 = 0:08

| title2 = I'm Coming Home

| writer2 = Bishop, Farren, Hunter

| length2 = 5:59

| title3 = Child of the Sky

| writer3 = Farren, Rees, Hammond

| length3 = 4:32

| title4 = Charlie

| writer4 = Bishop, Farren

| length4 = 3:56

| title5 = Nothing Man

| writer5 = Farren, Moore

| length5 = 4:21

}}

{{track listing

| headline = Side B

| title1 = Garbage

| writer1 = Bishop, Farren, Hunter

| length1 = 5:36

| title2 = Bun

| writer2 = Rees

| length2 = 2:42

| title3 = Deviation Street

| writer3 = Farren

| length3 = 9:01

}}

• Mick Farren – lead vocals, piano
• Sid Bishop – guitar, sitar
• Cord Rees – bass guitar, Spanish guitar
• Russell Hunter – drums, backing vocals
• Duncan Sanderson – vocals and mumbling
• Stephen Sparks – vocals and mumbling
• Jennifer Ashworth – vocals and mumbling
• John Hammond – acoustic guitar

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