VA - Psychedelic Rock Is in My Head Volume 2 (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CD's)

BRITISH PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
VA - Psychedelic Rock Is in My Head Volume 2 (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CD's)

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. Psychedelic rock is intended to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs, most notably LSD. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often used indiscriminately. Originating in the mid-1960s among British and American musicians, the sound of psychedelic rock invokes three core effects of LSD: depersonalization, dechronicization, and dynamization; all of which detach the user from reality. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, and extended instrumental segments.  (Wikipedia)

Although they shared some similar aesthetics and production techniques, British Psychedelia was quite different than its American counterpart. In general, British psychedelia was either more whimsical or artily experimental than its American counterpart, plus it tended to work within the pop song structure. This is not a hard-and-fast rule, however. No matter how many concise, pop singles they released, Pink Floyd still stretched out dramatically on stage, taking songs into uncharted territory with each performance. However, these general rules do more or less apply, particularly to the studio recordings of British psychedelic acts. (AllMusic)

This set of tracks was inspired by the Record Collectors publication of the top 100 psych albums list as they appear in the book "Record Collector 100 Greatest Psychedelic Records - High Times and Strange Tales from rock's most mind-blowing era". The list only includes releases of LPs and singles that are from British artists. They are presented here in chronological order from 1966 to 1970. (Note: Jimi Hendrix is included due to his UK recordings and having a UK backing band). Additionally, where a whole album has been named in the list then I have picked a track for this compilation that best fits and/or represents a true psychedelic experience.

Some time ago I posted VA - Psychedelic Rock Is In My Head (A Butterboy Compilation) which has proven to be one of the most downloaded set of tracks from my compilation series.  I hope Volume 2 is just as pleasing to your ears. Please enjoy these British Psychedelic tracks.

Volume one can be found here: 

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2024/04/va-psychedelic-rock-is-in-my-head.html

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Track lists

CD1

01 Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows 2:59 1966

02 Donovan - Season of the Witch 4:58 1966

03 Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 2:52 1966

04 Cream - I Feel Free 2:51 1966

05 Mick Softley With the Summer Suns - Am I the Red One 2:31 1966

06 Misunderstood - I Can Take You to the Sun 3:39 1966

07 Smoke - My Friend Jack 3:06 1967

08 Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever 3:59 1967

09 Soft Machine - Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin' 2:49 1967

10 Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne 2:56 1967

11 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze 2:37 1967

12 Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow 3:02 1967

13 Tomorrow - My White Bicycle 3:09 1967

14 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Third Stone From the Sun 6:39 1967

15 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale 4:06 1967

16 Traffic - Paper Sun 3:21 1967

17 Beatles - Within You Without You 5:04 1967

18 Pink Floyd - See Emily Play 2:48 1967

19 Caleb - Baby Your Phrasing is Bad 3:16 1967

20 Incredible String Band - Gently Tender 4:49 1967

21 Bee Gees - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You 3:40 1967

22 John's Children - Midsummer Night's Scene 2:34 1967

23 Small Faces - Itchycoo Park 2:45 1967

24 Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive 9:40 1967

25 Rolling Stones - We Love You 4:23 1967

CD2

26 Traffic - Hole in My Shoe 3:04 1967

27 Syn - 14 Hour Technicolour Dream 2:55 1967

28 Dantalian's Chariot - The Madman Running Through the Fields 4:11 1967

29 Peep Show - Your Servant, Stephen 3:01 1967

30 Tomorrow - Revolution 3:50 1967

31 Hollies - King Midas in Reverse 3:08 1967

32 Idle Race - Imposters of Life's Magazine 2:19 1967

33 Family - Scene Through the Eye of a Lens 2:53 1967

34 Who - I Can See for Miles 4:06 1967

35 Accent - Red Sky at Night 3:07 1967

36 Creation - Life is Just Beginning 2:58 1967

37 Eric Burdon & the Animals - Winds of Change 3:59 1967

38 Hollies - Try It 2:43 1967

39 Simon Dupree & the Big Sound - Kites 3:45 1967

40 Blossom Toes - Look at Me I'm You 3:55 1967

41 Cream - Strange Brew 2:48 1967

42 Kaleidoscope (Uk) - Flight From Ashiya 2:40 1967

43 Pink Floyd - Apples and Oranges 3:03 1967

44 Pretty Things - Defecting Grey 4:22 1967

45 Tintern Abbey - Vacuum Cleaner 3:06 1967

46 Tickle - Subway (Smokey Pokey World) 2:41 1967

47 Jimi Hendrix - One Rainy Wish 3:34 1967

48 Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home 4:49 1967

49 Beatles - Blue Jay Way 3:55 1967

50 Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy 5:31 1967

CD3

51 Paper Blitz Tissue - Boy Meets Girl 2:56 1967

52 Nirvana (Uk) - Lonely Boy 2:30 1967

53 One in a Million - Fredereek Hernando 3:18 1967

54 Who - Relax 2:41 1967

55 Art - I Think I'm Going Weird 3:21 1967

56 Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men 3:08 1968

57 Jason Crest - Turquoise Tandem Cycle 3:40 1968

58 Animals - Sky Pilot 7:22 1968

59 Manfred Mann - Up the Junction 4:36 1968

60 Tomorrow - Hallucinations 2:43 1968

61 Mike Stuart Span - Children of Tomorrow 3:15 1968

62 Pretty Things - Talkin' About the Good Times 3:43 1968

63 Nice - The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack 2:48 1968

64 Move - Flowers in the Rain 2:30 1968

65 Fire - Father's Name is Dad 2:32 1968

66 Zombies - Hung Up on a Dream 2:59 1968

67 Billy Nicholls - London Social Degree 2:23 1968

68 Rainbow Ffolly - She's Alright 3:35 1968

69 Boeing Duveen & the Beautiful Soup - Jabberwock 2:29 1968

70 Fleur De Lys - Gong With the Luminous Nose 2:39 1968

71 Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man 3:18 1968

72 Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake 2:26 1968

73 Aquarian Age - 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box 3:27 1968

74 Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Come and Buy 5:40 1968

75 Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light 5:28 1968

CD4

76 Fairport Convention - Jack O'diamonds 3:26 1968

77 July - My Clown 2:31 1968

78 Family - The Breeze 2:35 1968

79 Skip Bifferty - Inside the Secret 3:04 1968

80 Moody Blues - Visions of Paradise 4:15 1968

81 Five Day Week Straw People - Five Day Week Straw People 3:23 1968

82 Status Quo - Sunny Cellophane Skies 2:47 1968

83 Factory - Path Through the Forest 3:58 1968

84 Caravan - Ride (Stereo) 3:42 1968

85 Idle Race - The Lady Who Said She Could Fly 2:22 1968

86 Gods - Misleading Colours 3:42 1968

87 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Have You Ever Been [To Electric Ladyland] 2:10 1968

88 Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping 5:31 1968

89 Apple - Doctor Rock 3:13 1968

90 Pretty Things - Bracelets of Fingers 3:40 1968

91 Second Hand - Mainliner 6:19 1968

92 Sam Gopal - Yesterlove 4:55 1968

93 Procol Harum - Skip Softly (My Moonbeams) 3:51 1968

94 Forever Amber - On Top of My Own Special Mountain 3:13 1969

95 Bobak, Jons, Malone - On a Meadow-Lea 4:36 1969

96 Pussy - All of My Life 4:04 1969

97 Andwellas Dream - High on a Mountain 3:14 1969

98 Arzachel - Queen St. Gang 4:25 1969

99 End - Cardboard Watch 2:54 1969

100 Hawkwind - Hurry on Sundown 4:56 1970

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