Various Artists: Let's Go Down & Blow Our Minds / Various - COMPACT DISCS

Various Artists: Let's Go Down & Blow Our Minds / Various - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Let's Go Down & Blow Our Minds Various Artist: Various Artists Label: Cherry Red Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5013929183308 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2016 10 21 Number of Discs: 3 Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM IMPORT 2016 three CD collection. As that noted hipster Plato once observed, when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. And there was certainly a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in 1967. A distended Summer of

Title: Let's Go Down & Blow Our Minds / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Cherry Red
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929183308
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2016-10-21
Number of Discs: 3
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

2016 three CD collection. As that noted hipster Plato once observed, when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. And there was certainly a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in 1967. A distended Summer of Love saw psychedelic pop emerging from the underground clubs to infiltrate the home-grown music scene mainstream, with the vast majority following in the footsteps of perennial market leaders The Beatles in surrendering to the new genre. As the year progressed, it seemed that more or less every element of the British pop world had been swept up in the blissed-out UFOria. Beat boom survivors, R&B stalwarts, sharp-suited mods, Swinging London soul revues, earnest acoustic folkies, Denmark Street hustlers, traditional pop acts... all abandoned or refined their previous identities to make music that reflected the ubiquitous influence of psychedelia in it's myriad paisley-patterned guises. Across four hours and eighty tracks, the all-singing, not-much-dancing Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds anticipates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love to chronicle a tumultuous twelve-month period of music-making within the British Isles. The dizzying breadth of the set incorporates everything from key names such as The Move and Procol Harum, both represented with less obvious choices, to the likes of mondo obscuro West Country quintet T. J. Assembly, who pressed a mere 25 copies of their self-penned November 1967 album as a strictly personal memento of their time together. Along the way, we encounter all aspects of the scene, from the first generation psychedelic bands that took part in subterranean London 'happenings' to the shameless bandwagon-jumpers who were nevertheless an integral part of psychedelic pop's rich and varied tapestry. We also feature a clutch of previously unreleased nuggets, alternative versions, pseudonymous releases, first-ever CD appearances, a couple of inspired novelty discs and even a football supporters freak-out. Housed in a clambox that includes a lavishly annotated and illustrated 44-page booklet, Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds is nothing less than the story of the British rock and pop scene of 1967: music made half-a-century ago that, as can be seen from the number of hitherto unknown recordings featured, is still slowly revealing it's secrets. As some righteously obscure band confidently promised during that epochal year, a splendid time is guaranteed for all.

Tracks:
1.1 The Alan Bown! - Toyland
1.2 The Attack - Magic in the Air
1.3 The Tickle - Subway (Smokey Pokey World)
1.4 Episode Six -I Can See Through You
1.5 Dantalian's Chariot - the Madman Running Through the Fields
1.6 Geranium Pond - Dogs in Baskets
1.7 The Scots of St. James - Eiderdown Clown
1.8 George Alexander - Dear Delilah
1.9 The Sorrows - Pink Purple Yellow and Red
1.10 The Mirage - Lazy Man (Alt Version)
1.11 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Give Him a Flower
1.12 Tintern Abbey - Tanya
1.13 Fleur-De-Lys - Prodigal Son
1.14 The Lomax Alliance - See the People
1.15 Mickey Finn - Time to Start Loving You
1.16 The Fingers - I Hear the Sun
1.17 Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Nice
1.18 Good Thing Brigade - My House Is Burning
1.19 The Motives - Ice Woman
1.20 Louise - Look at the Sun
1.21 Neo Maya - I Won't Hurt You
1.22 Cliff Ward - Path Through the Forest
1.23 The Spencer Davis Group - Sanity Inspector
1.24 The Summer Set - 'Cos It's Over
1.25 The Fadin' Colours - Try Me on for Size
1.26 The Slender Plenty - Silver Tree Top School for Boys
1.27 Guy Darrell - Evil Woman
2.1 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera -Flames
2.2 One in a Million - Double Sight
2.3 Paul ; Barry Ryan - Keep It Out of Sight
2.4 The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (Extended Version)
2.5 John's Children - Desdemona
2.6 The Doves - Smokeytime Springtime
2.7 John Williams - Flowers in Your Hair
2.8 Sweet Feeling - All So Long Ago
2.9 Rupert's People - Reflections of Charles Brown
2.10 The Riot Squad Featuring David Bowie - Toy Soldier
2.11 The Rats - the Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone
2.12 Circus - Something to Write About
2.13 Dave Davies - Funny Face
2.14 The Brood - Village Green
2.15 Tony Rivers ; the Castaways - Mr. Sun
2.16 The Peep Show - Your Servant, Stephen
2.17 The Uglys - and the Squire Blew His Horn
2.18 The Move - Vote for Me
2.19 Human Instinct - a Day in My Mind's Mind
2.20 Murray Head - She Was Perfection
2.21 Peter ; the Wolves - Little Girl Lost and Found
2.22 The Bunch - Spare a Shilling
2.23 Big Jim Sullivan - Flower Power
2.24 Procol Harum - Kaleidoscope (Extended Stereo Mix)
2.25 The Searchers - Crazy Dreams
2.26 The Artwoods - in the Deep End
3.1 Our Plastic Dream - Someone Turned the Light Out
3.2 Hat ; Tie - Finding It Rough
3.3 The Fresh Windows - Fashion Conscious
3.4 The Game - the Addicted Man
3.5 Felius Andromeda - Meditations
3.6 The Honeybus - Delighted to See You (Demo Version)
3.7 Ice - So Many Times
3.8 The Flower Pot Men - a Walk in the Sky
3.9 Five's Company - Friends and Mirrors
3.10 The Late - Family Tree
3.11 The Secrets - I Think I Need the Cash
3.12 Skip Bifferty - Schizoid Revolution
3.13 The Purple Gang - Granny Takes a Trip
3.14 The Picadilly Line - Emily Small
3.15 The Outer Limits - Help Me Please
3.16 Focal Point - 'Cept Me
3.17 Jade Hexagram - Great Shadowy Strange
3.18 The Truth - Busker Bill
3.19 The Moody Blues - Life's Not Life
3.20 Don Craine's New Downliners Sect - I Can't Get Away from You
3.21 The Symbols - Again
3.22 The Hi-Fi's - Odd Man Out
3.23 The Marmalade - Laughing Man
3.24 T. J. Assembly - Ginger
3.25 The 23rd Turn Off - Michelangelo (Demo Version)
3.26 The Q.P.R. Supporters Supporters - Support Us
3.27 Sands - Listen to the Sky