VA - Too Much Sun Will Burn, The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 Volume 2 (3 x CDs)

BRITISH PSYCHEDELIC SOUND 1967 Pt2

VA - Too Much Sun Will Burn, The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 Volume 2 (3 x CDs)

The British psychedelic music scene of 1967 was too strong to be contained by one collection. It makes perfect sense that Grapefruit would need to follow up their 2016 collection Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds with another set that explores that insanely fruitful year. It's more of a shock that it took almost seven years for Too Much Sun Will Burn: British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967, Vol. 2 to appear. Stretched across three discs worth of sitars, backwards guitars, phased drums, songs about technicolor dreams, and trippy as you please production, the music here is delightful and sprinkled with moments of genius and absurdity. The difference between the two might depend upon the judgment of the listener. Many of the bands from the first edition are back, both big names like Traffic, the Who, the Small Faces, and the Pretty Things, second-tier heroes like the Creation, Tomorrow, and the Action, along with a big batch of obscure bands only a collector could love (or recognize). It's the perfect mix for a collection like this, one that should please both neophytes and grizzled old heads alike. Alongside the artists and bands one might expect to find, the set's compilers take a few left turns in the name of casting a wide net. That means for every psych pop jam like John's Children's "Go-Go Girl" or the Move's "Wave the Flag and Stop the Train," there's a folky interlude like Sandy Denny and the the Strawbs' pastoral "Two Weeks Last Summer" or a goofy interlude like the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's "The Intro and the Outro." There's also room for outliers like Elton John, whose "Nina" is a striking example of cabaret psych, Lisa & Francesca, who turn in some very witchy, super spooky acid folk on "Silver Man," and Big Jim Sullivan and his sitar freakout "LTTS." There is also a very healthy number of bands included whose approaches intersect with harmony pop to create a softer brand of psych, a sound many collections like this tend to overlook. Some of the best tracks of that ilk are the Orange Bicycle's "Hyacinth Threads" and Marmalade's "There Ain't No Use in Hangin' On." It makes for a heady mixture of wall-shaking hard rock, flower-wielding sweetness, and off-the-wall oddness that's a joy to dip into a bit at a time or take down in one giant swallow. It's clear from the music chosen for inclusion that there was something magical in the air in 1967, definitely more than enough to justify a second collection and as such, Too Much Sun Will Burn is well-chosen, lovingly packaged, and utterly bedazzling. (AMG review by Review by Tim Sendra)

Part 1 can be found here:

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2020/03/va-lets-go-down-and-blow-our-minds.html

===========================================================

Pt.1     Pt.2 

or

ALL 

===========================================================

Track lists

CD1

01 Traffic - Paper Sun (Mono Single Version) 4:14

02 Tomorrow - Revolution (Mono, Early Alternative Version) 3:49

03 Caleb - Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad 3:18

04 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Talk Of The Devil 3:01

05 Alex Harvey - Horizons 2:40

06 Troggs - Night Of The Long Grass 3:04

07 Syn - 14 Hour Technicolour Dream 2:54

08 Blossom Toes - Look At Me, I'm You 3:56

09 Tintern Abbey - Snowman 4:02

10 Elton John - Nina 3:52

11 Strawbs (Feat. Sandy Denny) - Two Weeks Last Summer 2:05

12 Alan Bown - Technicolour Dream 2:53

13 Picadilly Line - No-One Else Can See 2:42

14 Eric Burdon & The Animals - Good Times 3:03

15 Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Two Little Ladies 3:02

16 Genesis - She Is Beautiful 3:48

17 Incredible String Band - Painting Box 4:01

18 Episode Six - Love-Hate-Revenge (UK Single Version) 2:54

19 Marmalade - There Ain't No Use In Hangin' On 2:02

20 Scott Henderson - Saturday Night People 2:07

21 Made In Sheffield - Amelia Jane 2:31

22 Lovin' - All You've Got 2:29

23 John's Children - Go-Go Girl 2:08

24 Smoke - It Could Be Wonderful 2:18

25 Flower Pot Men - Let's Go To San Francisco (Parts 1&2 Mono) 6:17

CD2

01 Kaleidoscope - Dive Into Yesterday 4:46

02 Who - Silas Stingy 2:59

03 Move - Wave The Flag And Stop The Train 2:56

04 Koobas - Gypsy Fred 3:05

05 Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Don't Make It So Hard On Me Baby 3:02

06 End - Lady Under The Lamp 2:35

07 Orange Bicycle - Hyacinth Threads 2:54

08 Poets - Wooden Spoon 2:28

09 Attack - Any More Than I Do 2:04

10 Mickey Finn - Garden Of My Mind 2:30

11 Quik - I Can't Sleep 2:18

12 Paper Blitz Tissue - Boy Meets Girl 2:55

13 Mindbenders - My New Day And Age 3:12

14 Virgin Sleep - Love 2:26

15 Procol Harum - Homburg 3:56

16 Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - The Intro And The Outro 3:03

17 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - The Sun Goes Down 2:54

18 Accent - Red Sky At Night 3:13

19 Our Plastic Dream - A Little Bit Of Shangrila 3:39

20 Nirvana - Tiny Goddess (Single Version) 3:34

21 Living Daylights - Up So High 2:16

22 Spencer Davis Group - Morning Sun (Alternative Version) 3:22

23 Tremeloes - Suddenly Winter 2:23

24 Lisa & Francesca - Silver Man (Original Version) 2:40

25 Mirage - Mrs Busby 2:30

26 23rd Turnoff - Another Vincent Van Gogh (Alt. Version) 2:57

27 Artwoods - What Shall I Do 2:52

CD3

01 Hollies - King Midas In Reverse (Mono Single Version) 3:07

02 Idle Race - Sitting In My Tree 1:52

03 David Bowie - Silly Boy Blue 3:52

04 Pretty Things - Mr. Evasion 3:27

05 Easybeats - Heaven And Hell 2:42

06 Dave Davies - Susannah's Still Alive (Mono Single Version) 2:21

07 Small Faces - Patterns 2:04

08 Herd - I Can Fly 3:10

09 Bystanders - Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day 3:12

10 Zombies - Beechwood Park (Mono Single Version) 2:43

11 Creation - Nightmares 3:11

12 Tickle - Something Out Of Place (Aka Eltiton) 3:27

13 Universals - Green Veined Orchid 2:54

14 Svensk - Getting Old 2:07

15 Great Uncle Fred - I'm In Love With An Ex Beauty Queen 2:48

16 Andy Ellison - Arthur Green 3:41

17 John Williams - My Ways Are Set 2:32

18 Tony Rivers & The Castaways - Turn Of The Century 2:40

19 Normie Rowe - Sunshine Secret 2:57

20 Australian Playboys - Black Sheep R.I.P. 2:44

21 Big Jim Sullivan - LTTS 4:00

22 Lisa & Francesca - Turn Your Face Away 4:51

23 Action - Icarus 2:55

24 Focal Point - Never Never (Baker Street Version) 3:00

25 23rd Turnoff - Lovely Elisa Cope Is Dead 2:34

26 Circle Plantagenet - Rebecca (100 Days) 2:07

27 Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Bedazzled 2:27

=============================================================

=============================================================