VA - Fairytales Can Come True - UK Popsike From The Late 60's Vol. 1-4 (2007)
Artist: VA
Title: Fairytales Can Come True - UK Popsike From The Late 60's Vol. 1-4
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Psychic Circle
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 50:57 + 52:06 + 52:09 + 54:43
Total Size: 642 Mb /1,4 Gb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Fairytales Can Come True - UK Popsike From The Late 60's Vol. 1-4
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Psychic Circle
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 50:57 + 52:06 + 52:09 + 54:43
Total Size: 642 Mb /1,4 Gb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Vol. 1 - Fairytales Can Come True:
01. The Pyramid - Summer Of Last Year
02. Los Bravos - Bring A Little Lovin'
03. Fred Lloyd - Kissed Him
04. The Lomax Alliance - See The People
05. Barry Benson - Cousin Jane
06. Dreams - A Boy Need A Girl
07. Grisby Dyke - Mary Ann She
08. San Fransisco Earthquake - Fairy Tales Can Come True
09. Gallagher-Lyle - Trees
10. The Searchers - Umbrella Man
11. Dave Christie - Penelope Breedlove
12. Promise - Nine To Five
13. Peppermint Circus - Keeping My Head Above Water
14. The Virgil Brothers - Look Away
15. The Snappers - Upside Down Inside Out
16. Katch 22 - Pumkin Mini
17. Brian Connel & The Roundsound - Just Another Wedding Day
18. Darlings - Saturday Town
19. Hedgehoppers Anonymous - Daytime
20. The Roulettes - Help Me To Help Myself
Vol. 2 - Fairy Cakes For Tea:
01. Crackers - Honey Do
02. The Foresters - Mr. Smith
03. The Youth - Meadows Of My Love
04. The Starlites - Good Morning Mr. Milkman
05. Lloyd Banks - Look Out Girl
06. Roek's Family - Never An Everyday Thing
07. Scott Henderson - Saturday Night People
08. Dave Andrews & The Sugar - I'm On My Way
09. Sasparella - Spooky
10. The Factotums - Driftwood
11. The Bats - Listen To My Heart
12. 14 - Umbrella
13. The Guards - Fantastic Fair
14. Fluff - Holly Golightly
15. Peter - Values
16. Mike Quinn & The Breadcrumbs - Fairy Cakes For Tea
17. Peter & Gordon - I Feel Like Going Out
18. Chuckles - I Thought You Thought
19. Oliver Norman - People People
20. Rescue Co. No. 1 - Gotta Find You
Vol. 3 - Let`s Ride:
01. Sight & Sound - Little Jackie Monday
02. Winston G. - Riding with the Milkman
03. Hubert Thomas Valverde & The HT's - We Don't Care
04. Royalty - Let's Ride
05. Les Irresistibles - My Year Is a Day
06. Stoics - Earth, Fire, Air & Water
07. Grand Union - Slowly But Surely
08. Barry Benson - I Can Wait
09. Graham Bonney - Mixed Up Baby Girl
10. Katch 22 - Don't Bother
11. My Kind of People - Nobody Knows Why the Butterfly Died
12. Mike Batt - Mary Goes Round
13. The Chanters - Mississippi Paddleboat
14. Des James - City Street
15. Unit 4 + 2 - Booby Trap
16. Tony Hazzard - The Sound of the Candyman's Trumpet
17. The Newmens - What Ya Doin' Down There
18. Dave Christie - Love & The Brass Band
19. White Lining - Back in the Sun
20. Equipe 84 - 29th September
Vol. 4 - We All Love the Human Race:
01. The Blue Sound of Love - Alan Dell
02. Changes in Our Time - Colin Giffin
03. The Maze of Yesterday - Projection
04. Lonely Man - Justin's Timepiece
05. Hiding Behind My Smile - Iberos
06. Little Maid's Song - Sasha Caro
07. Makin' Love to Him - Tim Andrews, Paul Korda
08. Letter to Josephine - Haystack
09. Heart Trouble - Eyes Of Blue
10. I Feel No Pain - Newby
11. Movie Star - Cherry Smash
12. We've Got a Groovy Thing Going - Ola & The Janglers
13. Latisha - Dave Berry
14. Maker of Mistakes - Chris Andrews
15. Wish You Were Here - Darlings
16. Six Angels & Three Girls - Modus Vivendi
17. We All Love the Human Race - Wayne Fontana
18. She Does - Plastic Penny
19. I Don't Want You (Any More) - John Burness
20. Morning - Jack Carter
The idea of this compilation is to present obscure British recordings from the late '60s that had a definite psychedelic feel, but also had a lot of harmony pop influence
at work as well. Often this led to a particularly precious branch of psychedelia dubbed (long after the fact) by some collectors as "toytown" music,
in part because of a preoccupation with British character sketches, childhood nostalgia, and fantasy that was largely absent from American psychedelic rock.
There's some of that here, but fortunately this largely steers clear of excessively precious and twee material, though some of it does have the good-time bounce
that leaked down to so many bands from the circa-1967 Beatles and Kinks. None of these were hits or anything close to it, of course, but some general '60s collectors
might actually recognize some of the musicians, particularly the Searchers (represented by a fairly respectable, and seldom anthologized, late-'60s 45, "Umbrella Man");
Jackie Lomax, as leader of the Lomax Alliance; Los Bravos, of "Black Is Black" fame (here heard covering the Easybeats' song "Bring a Little Lovin'"); Ian Matthews,
heard on the Pyramid's breezy "Summer of Last Year," recorded shortly before he joined Fairport Convention; and Hedgehoppers Anonymous and the Roulettes,
both of whom had a little U.K. success on record in the '60s. What's most impressive about this compilation, however, is that there's a fair amount of variety in the selections,
encompassing an obscure Troggs cover (Barry Benson's "Cousin Jane"), almost raw folk-rock (Hedgehoppers Anonymous' "Daytime"), sub-Walker Brothers balladeering
(the Virgil Brothers' "Look Away"), and nearly baroque moodiness with influence from both classical music and Beach Boys harmonies
(Fred Lloyd's "Kissed Him," Dreams' "A Boy Needs a Girl," and Dave Christie's "Penelope Breedlove"). If you want more singsongy sugary stuff, that's here, too, but not so
much so that listening to the CD gets to be an overly sickly sweet experience. It's definitely an anthology for deep U.K. psych specialists, but likely one of the better ones
in this subgenre to ever be compiled.
at work as well. Often this led to a particularly precious branch of psychedelia dubbed (long after the fact) by some collectors as "toytown" music,
in part because of a preoccupation with British character sketches, childhood nostalgia, and fantasy that was largely absent from American psychedelic rock.
There's some of that here, but fortunately this largely steers clear of excessively precious and twee material, though some of it does have the good-time bounce
that leaked down to so many bands from the circa-1967 Beatles and Kinks. None of these were hits or anything close to it, of course, but some general '60s collectors
might actually recognize some of the musicians, particularly the Searchers (represented by a fairly respectable, and seldom anthologized, late-'60s 45, "Umbrella Man");
Jackie Lomax, as leader of the Lomax Alliance; Los Bravos, of "Black Is Black" fame (here heard covering the Easybeats' song "Bring a Little Lovin'"); Ian Matthews,
heard on the Pyramid's breezy "Summer of Last Year," recorded shortly before he joined Fairport Convention; and Hedgehoppers Anonymous and the Roulettes,
both of whom had a little U.K. success on record in the '60s. What's most impressive about this compilation, however, is that there's a fair amount of variety in the selections,
encompassing an obscure Troggs cover (Barry Benson's "Cousin Jane"), almost raw folk-rock (Hedgehoppers Anonymous' "Daytime"), sub-Walker Brothers balladeering
(the Virgil Brothers' "Look Away"), and nearly baroque moodiness with influence from both classical music and Beach Boys harmonies
(Fred Lloyd's "Kissed Him," Dreams' "A Boy Needs a Girl," and Dave Christie's "Penelope Breedlove"). If you want more singsongy sugary stuff, that's here, too, but not so
much so that listening to the CD gets to be an overly sickly sweet experience. It's definitely an anthology for deep U.K. psych specialists, but likely one of the better ones
in this subgenre to ever be compiled.
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