Just saw this upcoming release & there's some good hard to find tracks on this new box set. Obviously pre-prog but these songs obviously influenced the genre. There's some real obscurities on here that I have been trying to 'track down' for years.
Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds - The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967 Box set
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. 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 its 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 fiftieth 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 (surely nobody needs to hear 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' or 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' yet again?!), 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.
Disc: 1
1. Toyland - THE ALAN BOWN! - The Alan Bown
2. Magic in the Air - THE ATTACK - The Attack
3. Subway (Smokey Pokey World) - THE TICKLE - The Tickle
4. I Can See Through You - EPISODE SIX - Episode Six
5. The Madman Running Through the Fields - DANTALIAN'S CHARIOT - Dantalian's Chariot
6. Dogs in Baskets - GERANIUM POND - Geranium Pond
7. Eiderdown Clown - THE SCOTS OF ST. JAMES - The Scots Of St James
8. Dear Delilah - GEORGE ALEXANDER - George Alexander
9. Pink Purple Yellow and Red - THE SORROWS - The Sorrows
10. Lazy Man (Alt Version) - THE MIRAGE - The Mirage
11. Give Him a Flower - THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
12. Tanya - TINTERN ABBEY - Tintern Abbey
13. Prodigal Son - FLEUR-DE-LYS - Fleur-De-Lys
14. See the People - THE LOMAX ALLIANCE - The Lomax Alliance
15. Time to Start Loving You - MICKEY FINN - Mickey Finn
16. I Hear the Sun - THE FINGERS - The Fingers
17. Nice - CROCHETED DOUGHNUT RING - Crocheted Doughnut Ring
18. My House Is Burning - GOOD THING BRIGADE - Good Thing Brigade
19. Ice Woman - THE MOTIVES - The Motives
20. Look at the Sun - LOUISE - Louise
21. I Won't Hurt You - NEO MAYA - Neo Maya
22. Path Through the Forest - CLIFF WARD - Cliff Ward
23. Sanity Inspector - THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP - The Spencer Davis Group
24. 'cos It's Over - THE SUMMER SET - The Summer Set
25. Try Me for Size - THE FADIN' COLOURS - The Fadin' Colours
26. Silver Tree Top School for Boys - THE SLENDER PLENTY - The Slender Plenty
27. Evil Woman - GUY DARRELL - Guy Darrel
Disc: 2
1. Flames - ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
2. Double Sight - ONE IN A MILLION - One In A Million
3. Keep It Out of Sight - PAUL & BARRY RYAN - Paul & Barry Ryan
4. Defecting Grey (Extended Version) - THE PRETTY THINGS - The Pretty Things
5. Desdemona - JOHN'S CHILDREN - John's Children
6. Smokeytime Springtime - THE DOVES - The Doves
7. Flowers in Your Hair - JOHN WILLIAMS - John Williams
8. All So Long Ago - SWEET FEELING - Sweet Feeling
9. Reflections of Charles Brown - RUPERT'S PEOPLE - Rupert's People
10. Toy Soldier - THE RIOT SQUAD ft DAVID BOWIE - The Riot Squad
11. The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone - THE RATS - The Rats
12. Something to Write About - CIRCUS - Circus
13. Funny Face - DAVE DAVIES - Dave Davies
14. Village Green - THE BROOD - The Brood
15. Mr. Sun - TONY RIVERS & THE CASTAWAYS - Tony Rivers & The Castaways
16. Your Servant, Stephen - THE PEEP SHOW - The Peep Show
17. And the Squire Blew His Horn - THE UGLYS - The Uglys
18. Vote for Me - THE MOVE - The Move
19. A Day in My Mind's Mind - HUMAN INSTINCT - The Human Instinct
20. She Was Perfection - MURRAY HEAD - Murray Head
21. Little Girl Lost and Found - PETER & THE WOLVES - Peter And The Wolves
22. Spare a Shilling - THE BUNCH - The Bunch
23. Flower Power - BIG JIM SULLIVAN - Big Jim Sullivan
24. Kaleidoscope (Extended Stereo Mix) - PROCOL HARUM - Procol Harum
25. Crazy Dreams - THE SEARCHERS - The Searchers
26. In the Deep End - THE ARTWOODS - The Artwoods
Disc: 3
1. Someone Turned the Light Out - OUR PLASTIC DREAM - Our Plastic Dream
2. Finding It Rough - HAT & TIE - Hat & Tie
3. Fashion Conscious - THE FRESH WINDOWS - The Fresh Windows
4. The Addicted Man - THE GAME - The Game
5. Meditations - FELIUS ANDROMEDA - Felius Andromeda
6. Delighted to See You (Demo Version) - THE HONEYBUS - The Honeybus
7. So Many Times - ICE - Ice
8. A Walk in the Sky - THE FLOWER POT MEN - The Flower Pot Men
9. Friends and Mirrors - FIVE'S COMPANY - Five's Company
10. Family Tree - THE LATE - The Late
11. I Think I Need the Cash - THE SECRETS - The Secrets
12. Schizoid Revolution - SKIP BIFFERTY - Skip Bifferty
13. Granny Takes a Trip - THE PURPLE GANG - The Purple Gang
14. Emily Small - THE PICADILLY LINE - The Picadilly Line
15. Help Me Please - THE OUTER LIMITS - The Outer Limits
16. 'cept Me - FOCAL POINT - Focal Point
17. Great Shadowy Strange - JADE HEXAGRAM - Jade Hexagram
18. Busker Bill - THE TRUTH - The Truth
19. Life's Not Life - THE MOODY BLUES - The Moody Blues
20. I Can't Get Away from You - DON CRAINE'S NEW DOWNLINERS SECT - Don Craine's New Downliners Sect
21. Odd Man Out - THE HI-FI'S - The Symbols
22. Again - THE SYMBOLS - The Hi-Fis
23. Laughing Man - THE MARMALADE - The Marmalade
24. Ginger - T. J. ASSEMBLY - T.J. Assembly
25. Michelangelo - THE 23rd TURN OFF - The 23rd Turnoff
26. Supporters -Support Us - THE Q.P.R. SUPPORTERS - The Q.P.R. Supporters
27. Listen to the Sky - SANDS - Sands
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