VA - Revolution, Underground Sounds Of 1968 [2019] (3 x CD's)

 

1968 UNDERGROUND

VA - Revolution, Underground Sounds Of 1968 [2019] (3 x CD's)

A boxed set celebrating the so-called underground rock music 1968, a year that saw huge changes, both musical and social. 1968 was a pivotal year for creativity in British rock, beginning with some influences of psychedelia still present in work by ground-breaking artists such as Pretty Things, Tomorrow, Incredible String Band, Idle Race, Traffic and The Move, but gradually giving way to styles influenced by jazz, blues, folk and more that would eventually become termed as "progressive", "folk-rock" and "hard" rock, all of which championed by "underground" figures of the day such as DJ John Peel on his BBC Radio One show Top Gear and by publications such as International Times and Oz. The common thread among all of these artists was an emphasis on experimentation and a desire to push the perceived boundaries of popular music. Aside from featuring better known acts such as Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Procol Harum and Pentangle, this compilation also features lesser known acts that produced work of a wide breadth such as Eyes of Blue, Love Sculpture, The Action, Dantalian's Chariot, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, Gun, Second Hand, The Moles and Blonde on Blonde. This collection celebrates a creative period when rock music was evolving into something altogether more serious, moving away from the single as medium to give way to the dominance of the album. Feed your head with Revolution, Underground Sounds of 1968. (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Deep Purple And the Address 4:40

02 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity This Wheel's on Fire 3:32

03 Pretty Things Talking About the Good Times 3:44

04 Dantalians Chariot World War Three 4:09

05 Action A Saying for Today 3:30

06 Eyes of Blue Crossroads of Time 5:05

07 Spooky Tooth Sunshine Help Me 3:06

08 Barclay James Harvest Early Morning 2:33

09 Blonde on Blonde All Day, All Night 3:35

10 Idle Race Happy Birthday/The Birthday Party 3:23

11 Tomorrow Revolution 3:49

12 Moles We Are the Moles (Part 1) 4:33

13 Move Blackberry Way 3:43

14 Genesis One Eyed Hound 2:33

15 Keith West On a Saturday 3:13

16 Pentangle Sovay 2:51

17 Bystanders Cave of Clear Light 3:43

18 Dantalians Chariot Soma 6:14

19 Crazy World of Arthur Brown Fire 2:56

20 Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band I'm the Urban Spaceman 2:24

CD2

01 Jeff Beck Shapes of Things 3:21

02 Fleetwood Mac Black Magic Woman 2:53

03 Traffic Pearly Queen 4:21

04 Van Der Graaf Generator People You Were Going To 2:45

05 Secondhand Reality 8:43

06 Eyes of Blue Love is the Law 5:22

07 John Martyn Dusty 3:03

08 Eclection In Her Mind 3:58

09 Love Sculpture Summertime 4:03

10 John Mayall Fly Tomorrow 9:01

11 Caravan Place of My Own 4:03

12 Ten Years After No Title 8:15

13 Crazy World of Arthur Brown Child of My Kingdom 7:04

14 Gods I Never Knew 5:42

CD3

01 Jethro Tull My Sunday Feeling 3:43

02 Love Sculpture Sabre Dance 4:51

03 Elmer Grantrys Velvet Opera Flames 3:10

04 Deviants Somewhere to Go 7:23

05 Sam Gopal Cold Embrace 3:40

06 Procol Harum Shine on Brightly 3:33

07 Status Quo Paradise Flat 3:14

08 Genesis Thats Me 2:40

09 Giles, Giles & Fripp Suite No 1 5:49

10 Move Mist on a Monday Morning 2:32

11 Aquarian Age Ten Thousand Words in a Cardboard Box 3:27

12 Barclay James Harvest Mr Sunshine 2:53

13 Dave Mason Just for You 2:31

14 Pretty Things Sf Sorrow is Born 3:12

15 Caravan Magic Man 4:03

16 Incredible String Band The Half-Remarkable Question 5:05

17 Gun Race With the Devil 3:37

18 Deep Purple Mandrake Root 6:11

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