Saturday, March 13, 2021

VA - Love, Poetry And Revolution (A Journey Through The British Psychedelic And Underground Scenes 1966-72) [2013] (3 x CDs)

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VA - Love, Poetry And Revolution (A Journey Through The British Psychedelic And Underground Scenes 1966-72) [2013] (3 x CDs)

2013 three CD collection, a journey through the British Psychedelic and underground scenes 1966-1972. Housed in a clambox with a lavishly annotated and illustrated 36 page booklet, this important release features much rare material, including previously unissued demo recordings by Tintern Abbey and Blossom Toes. Various heavyweight underground bands (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Hawkwind, the Deviants, etc) rub shoulders with acts who recorded some of the rarest, most valuable albums of the era (Forever Amber, Complex, Peter Howell & John Ferdinando), while the box also includes a number of subterranean bands - Middle Earth regulars Jade Hexagram, Neon Pearl, Respect and others - who failed to release anything during their lifetime. Embracing psychedelic pop the burgeoning progressive rock scene and acid folk, Love, Poetry and Revolution draws on a number of catalogs, including Beacon, the Vic Keary stable and various collector labelsto give a fascinating, all-embracing overview of what was a tumultuous few years in British pop/rock history. (Amazon)

Another great box from Grapefruit Records. Well recorded, the sound is superb, and the songs are all great. I am a fan of the era and have many similar compilations. This is a great one. One thing though, if you are expecting garage quality rock, this is not it. This is very well recorded and sounds really great. Nothing amateur about these tunes or bands.This is a great compilation of British psyche, some familiar items but some of these are alternative versions, genuine rarities.

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Track lists


CD1   

01 Deep Feeling Pretty Colours 3:06

02 Misunderstood Find the Hidden Door 2:17

03 In Crowd Am I Glad to See You? 4:29

04 Drag Set Day and Night 2:17

05 Tuesday's Children A Strange Light From the East 2:26

06 Mirage The Wedding of Ramona Blair 2:14

07 Hi-Fi's Tread Softly for the Sleepers 2:12

08 Spencer Davis Group Mr Second Class 3:16

09 Tintern Abbey Busy Bee 3:51

10 Blossom Toes I'll Be Late for Tea 3:16

11 Crazy World of Arthur Brown Devil's Grip 3:22

12 Sands Mrs Gillespie's Refrigerator 2:06

13 Shame Don't Go 'way Little Girl 3:06

14 Picadilly Line Rosemary's Bluebell Day 3:11

15 Crocheted Doughnut Ring Two Little Ladies (Azalea and Rhododendron) 3:02

16 Mike Stuart Span Second Production 3:44

17 Felius Andromeda Cheadle Heath Delusions 2:46

18 Neon Pearl Just Another Day 3:50

19 John's Children Jagged Time Lapse 2:50

20 One in a Million Man in Yellow 2:29

21 Jade Hexagram Crushed Purple 2:54

22 Denis Couldry & the Next Collection I Am Nearly There 3:18

23 Alan Bown Story Book 3:22

24 Simon's Secrets Naughty Boy 2:07

25 Cortinas Phoebe's Flower Shop 2:45

26 Deviants Child of the Sky 4:27


CD2

01 Spencer Davis Group Morning Sun 3:25

02 Mirage Ebaneezer Beaver 2:18

03 West Coast Consortium Amanda Jane 3:23

04 Jason Crest Teagarden Lane 4:07

05 Flies Winter Afternoon 2:46

06 Deviants You've Got to Hold On 3:53

07 Crazy World of Arthur Brown Nightmare 3:30

08 Sun Dragon Peacock Dress 2:20

09 John Ferdinando; Peter Howell Jabberwocky 3:45

10 Forever Amber Bits of Your Life, Bits of My Life 2:30

11 Please Strange Ways 3:24

12 Liverpool Scene We'll All Be Spacemen Before We Die 5:52

13 Serendipity Castles [Full-Length Version] 5:29

14 Sorrows The Makers 6:25

15 Second Hand A Fairy Tale 2:14

16 Information Oh Strange Man 2:28

17 Shy Limbs Love 2:59

18 Hardin & York Tomorrow Today 3:36

19 Infinity Venetian Glass 1:54

20 Mic Read What the Dickens 2:52

21 Respect Santa Lucia 2:37

22 Fat Mattress Iridescent Butterfly 3:44


CD3

01 Open Mind Magic Potion 3:25

02 Phil Cordell Red Lady 2:30

03 Taiconderoga Whitchi Tai To 3:06

04 Hawkwind Zoo Hurry on Sundown 6:58

05 Principal Edwards Magic Theatre Lament for the Earth 4:50

06 Czar Ritual Fire Dance 7:38

07 Fut Have Your Heard the Word 4:32

08 Paper Bubble Fillin' a Gap 3:17

09 Fox Butterfly 3:26

10 Complex Images Blue 4:30

11 Octopus Rainchild 3:06

12 T2 Careful Sam 5:45

13 Simon Finn Laughing 'til Tomorrow 2:55

14 Beau Creation 4:08

15 Bill Nelson End of the Seasons 2:59

16 Mark Fry The Witch 6:43

17 Kevin Coyne Evil Island Home 5:03

18 Kevin Coyne [Untitled] 3:53

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21 comments:

  1. Hi Butterboy

    I haven't been able to complete one single download ever since you've switched to krakenfiles.com. Every time I get "Failed - Server unreachable". I've tried with different providers: Firefox and Brave.
    Anyone else has that problem?


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    1. Hi peerke.
      I am frustrated for you but I am also a t a loss why you cannot download KrakenFiles links.
      I assume you are clicking on the small icon in the links section. Assuming that, then have you tried a VPN. I believe this has worked for a few with your issue. Opera browser has its own VPN built in and may work well for you. Just a suggestion.
      Additionally you may have a set up issue on your device. That I cant help with either.
      There have been thousands of downloads from the KrakenFiles links to date, so they do work. I test every link before I post it. I don't notice any issues at my end

      If someone can help Peerke, please offer some assistance to him.

      Cheers.

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    2. Try Tor https://www.torproject.org/download/

      Failing that, IDM internet download manager, it allows you to resume the download if your connections goes

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    3. Hi peerke,

      The above from Butterboy and thingybob is all good information that may be useful.

      It would help to know a few more details about exactly when you get that message.
      Are you getting to the Krakenfiles web page with download button, at all?
      If so, are you able to start a download?
      If so, do you get that message before downloads actually start or after it has been going for awhile?
      Does it fail in the same way, at the same point, every time?

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    4. Yeah Krakenfiles doesn't work well with big files & really hates any parallel downloading. GoFiles, Mediafire, zippyshare more reliable.

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    5. Hi CrimzonHorizon.
      Thanks for the information, Appreciated.
      I test all the links and they work fine for me.

      With regards to the download bar, I cant say it is wrong or right, but it is all I have to say what dl's have been made. When I test the link I download it and the result is always 1 view + 1 download.
      So it seems to work. ???

      Cheers

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  2. An other great post once again!
    Many thanks.

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    1. Hi Racati.
      Thank you and enjoy the music you find.

      Cheers

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  3. Hi!

    Thanx for this set. Looks interesting & should be some "new" artists & "new" hears here.

    Cheers!
    Ciao! For now.
    rntcj

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  4. Hi!

    @Peerke. Find kraken files one of the easiest to use here. No probs. at all. & D/L'ing these now. For here: click on link which opens a separate page for kraken files. Then scroll down a bit & find GREEN box "Download File" & click on that which opens an option bar, select "save as" & D/L.

    Cheers!
    Ciao! For now.
    rntcj

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  5. Hi BB,
    Thanks for another nice psychedelic comp!
    Have a happy weekend!
    Cheers

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    1. Hi Il Commendatore
      Glad you are pleased.
      Cheers

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  6. I think number of downloads bar might be misleading Butter-Boy as I think it prob counts only initiated downloads, not completed one as I don't know if it can track to see if download successful. Maybe most people, perhaps like me just shrug shoulders & move on. People rasing issue might only be tip of the proverbial iceberg.

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    1. Hi CrimzonHorizon,
      I think I answered that previously.

      Cheers.

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  7. Happy to report I'm having zero issues with Krakenfiles. And of course what a knockout comp this is! Grapefruit/Cherry Red consistently knock it out of the park, and this was their very first one; they couldn't have asked for a better template to work from than this.

    One li'l request, however - any way to include the booklet as a separate DL?

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    1. Hi S D Joe.
      Glad you are enjoying KrakenFiles and this post as well. Its a great set that I also get great enjoyment from.
      At the moment I have a lotto do with re-upping lost files due to KrakenFiles error. so booklet will take a long while. For the moment you can get the booklet and other artwork from here.

      https://www.discogs.com/Various-Love-Poetry-And-Revolution-A-Journey-Through-The-British-Psychedelic-And-Underground-Scenes-/release/5509737/image/SW1hZ2U6MzI5NzgzNzg=

      Cheers

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  8. Thank you for this great British psychedelic compilation.
    Is it possible to post any Laurel Canyon compilation from 1966 to 1976?
    Bye

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    1. Hi dr.bigsound
      Hope you enjoy it.
      I have a compilation due for next month being all about music from the Laurel Canyon.

      Cheers.

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    2. Hi Butterboy,
      I am really looking forward to for this compilation.
      Greetings

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