Obscure Music Friday: Kim Fowley

You gotta listen to this one: "The Trip" by rock n' roll impresario and all-around character Kim Fowley. In his lengthy and rather strange career, perhaps the strangest thing he ever did was this bizarre song put out in 1965 (!) Check out these lyrics:

Summer time’s here kitties

And it's time to take a trip, to take a trip

This world's so bad, you feel so sad

You gotta take a trip, into a world so glad

A world of frogs, and green fountains

And flying dogs, and silver cats, and emerald rats

And purple clouds, and faceless crowds

And walls of glass, that never pass

And pictures hanging upside down

You won't ask, where you are, It's another world

You and your girl, and all your friends,

Whoa! Will all be there

Oh yeah!

Let's take a trip, let's take a trip

T.N.T., S.O.S., H.O.B., T.O.P.

It's top, it's top

Hey here we go now, let's climb some mountains everybody

Get on your walking shoes, let's climb some mountains

Here we go

Let's take a trip, let's take a trip

And start to dream, let's close your eyes

It's groovy now, yeah!

Groovy indeed. Especially those silver cats and emerald rats!