VA - Looking At Pictures In The Sky, The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1968 [2017] (3 x CD's)

BRITISH PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS OF 1968

VA - Looking At Pictures In The Sky, The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1968 [2017] (3 x CD's)

VA - Looking At Pictures In The Sky, The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1968 [2017] is a three CD collection re-issued with new artwork and revised track-listing. It goes without saying that 1968 doesn't have the same kind of cachet as 1967 - a year that, in musical terms, will always be indelibly associated with the Summer of Love, Sgt. Pepper and the emergence of psychedelia. But although the major players turned away from the excesses of the previous year in favor of a back-to-basics musical approach, there were arguably a greater number of psychedelic records made in 1968 than during the preceding twelve months. Vital, lysergically-inclined 45s emerged from a whole host of younger groups, with Factory, Mike Stuart Span, Fleur de Lys, ire, Barrier, Boeing Duveen, Rupert's People and numerous others all releasing singles that have long been widely regarded by psychedelic collectors as genre classics. All these and more are gathered on Looking At The Pictures In The Sky, which provide a fascinating overview of the group scene in Britain (and Ireland!) in 1968, shining a light on unreleased gems, cult classics, choice album cuts, neglected B-sides and alternative versions. As with its 1967 equivalent Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967, the four-hour, 78-track anthology Looking At The Pictures In The Sky is housed in a striking clam box that contains a 44-page booklet crammed with biographical information and rare photographs of the featured acts.

This is a fantastic British compilation3 x CD clam shell box set very similar to (Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds, The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967) this is basically volume two of that on the awesome grapefruit label, great tracks from the UK that where all released in 1968 52 years ago. (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD1

01    Factory    Path Through the Forest    3:58
02    Fire    Father's Name Is Dad    2:30
03    Les Fleur de Lys    Gong with the Luminous Nose    2:36
04    Ramases & Selket    Mind's Eye    2:42
05    Crazy World of Arthur Brown    Spontaneous Apple Creation    2:55
06    Grapefruit    Lullaby [Alt. Version][Version]    3:07
07    Circle Plantagenet    I Will Not Be Moved    4:01
08    Turquoise    Sunday Best    2:41
09    Onyx    My Son John    2:31
10    Legay    The Fantastic Story of the Steam-Driven Banana    2:56
11    Fortes Mentum    Mr. Partridge Passed Away Today    2:45
12    Boeing Duveen & the Beautiful Soup    Jabberwock    2:29
13    Anan    Haze Woman    2:47
14    Pretty Things    Talking About the Good Times    3:43
15    Guy & David    Sunday Morning    4:37
16    Graded Grains    Animal Magic    3:17
17    Tuesday's Children    She    2:49
18    Marmalade    Mr. Lion    3:01
19    Graham Gouldman    Upstairs Downstairs    2:16
20    Joker    Festival of the Harvest Moon    3:21
21    Sun Dragon    So You Want To Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star    2:00
22    Eyes of Blue    Never Care    3:21
23    Gass Company    Nightmare    2:55
24    Procol Harum    In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence    2:59
25    Web    Did You Die Four Years Ago Tonight?    2:14
26    Glass Menagerie    Frederick Jordan    3:17

CD2

01    Mike Stuart Span    Children of Tomorrow    3:17
02    Barrier    Dawn Breaks Through    2:20
03    Attack    Mr. Pinnodmy's Dilemma    4:26
04    Freedom    Trying To Get a Glimpse of You    3:02
05    Rupert's People    I Can Show You    3:00
06    Poets    Locked in a Room    3:02
07    Wimple Winch    Bluebell Wood    3:32
08    Status Quo    Technicolor Dreams    2:52
09    Spectrum    Music Soothes the Savage Breast    3:01
10    Movement    Head for the Sun    2:56
11    Klubs    Midnight Love Cycle    2:45
12    Contact    Lovers from the Sky    2:38
13    Deviants    Jamie's Song    3:32
14    Smoke    Sydney Gill    3:31
15    Peter & the Wolves    Birthday    3:10
16    Jon Ledingham    Love Is a Toy    2:45
17    Sadie's Expression    Yesterday Was Such a Lovely Day (Elsie)    2:56
18    Move    Omnibus [Extended Version][Version]    4:08
19    Real McCoy    I Get So Excited    2:34
20    Junior's Eyes    Mr. Golden Trumpet Player    2:25
21    Picadilly Line    Yellow Rainbow    2:19
22    Spencer Davis Group    Time Seller    2:51
23    Tony Rivers & The Castaways    Pantomime    3:48
24    Katch 22    Go and Say Goodbye    2:22
25    Andy Ellison    Cornflake Zoo    2:02
26    Alan Bown    For Your Thoughts    3:36

CD3

01    Jason Crest    Hold On    3:31
02    Honeybus    Girl of Independent Means    2:45
03    Rhubarb Rhubarb    Rainmaker    2:41
04    Mirage    Hello Enid    2:11
05    Episode Six    Lucky Sunday    3:42
06    Paradox    What's the Rush, Dillbury?    3:10
07    Bystanders    Cave of Clear Light    3:42
08    Skip Bifferty    Round and Round    3:45
09    Motivation    Come On Down    3:23
10    Blonde on Blonde    Country Life    3:35
11    Cats Pyjamas    Virginia Water    2:56
12    Jethro Toe    Aeroplane    2:25
13    Timon    Rambling Boy    2:38
14    Ice    Ice Man    2:52
15    U (Don't) No Who    Now and Again Rebecca    3:08
16    Writing on the Wall    Felicity Jane    3:17
17    Focal Point    Sycamore Sid    2:40
18    Circus    Do You Dream?    3:06
19    Brass Tacks    Maxwell Ferguson    2:46
20    Barbara Ruskin    Pawnbroker [Demo][Demo Version]    2:18
21    Orange Bicycle    Soft Winds    2:49
22    Coconut Mushroom    Without You    2:42
23    Peter Thorogood    Haunted    3:13
24    Boeing Duveen & the Beautiful Soup    Which Dreamed It    2:29
25    Trot    Turnstyle    3:53
26    Orange Seaweed    Pictures in the Sky    3:02

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