Marmalade Kaleidoscope

This 20-track compilation from Castle focuses on the colorful Scottish progressive rock outfit's lo-fi/R&B-infused late-'60s period. For a band that entered the public consciousness with a cover of the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," Marmalade did fairly well for themselves, scoring a hit with the infectious "I See the Rain," available in both the single and album versions here, as well as maintaining a career that crossed genres more than a few times. That said, Kaleidoscope: The Psych-Pop Sessions is just that, so anybody looking to delve further into the group's history, or are just looking for a copy of the aforementioned Beatles cover, would be better off with Sanctuary's two-disc Ultimate Collection.

Marmalade is one of those groups that just seems to endure. They are best remembered today for one record, their cover of the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," although they charted number one records and even Top Ten American singles into the 1970s. The group, especially as constituted up through the early '70s, had many sides, including white soul, harmony dominated pop/rock, and progressive pop, all very much like the Beatles in their middle years. However, it was their cover of a Beatles song, oddly enough, that weighed down their reputation.
In point of fact, they did somewhat resemble the Beatles musically, having started out as a band of teenagers eager to play hard rock & roll; like the Beatles, they developed a great degree of sophistication in their singing and playing, but they never had the freedom to experiment with the different sides of their music…

Compilation CD's. Those Classic Golden Years - An Essential collection the second half of the sixties and the early seventies…

Pop music in the ’60s and ’70s was a kaleidoscope of sound – a dizzying, diverse wonderland unthinkable in these days of targeted demographics and niche marketing. Whereas Hard To Find 45s on CD Volume 11: Sugar Pop Classics focuses on a specific – if ephemeral – slice of the pop pie, Volume 12: 60s & 70s Pop Classics embraces the cacophony, culling nearly an hour’s worth of wildly divergent Top 20 Hits not commonly found on other collections.

Various Artists - The Rubble Collection, Volumes 01-10 (2007) {10 CD Box Set - Fallout FALLBOX001 rec 1960s-1970s}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 3.20 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 1.29 Gb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 535 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2007 Fallout | FALLBOX001
Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Acid Rock / Freakbeat / Garage Rock / Mod

Originally appearing on LP from the Bam Caruso label in the 1980s, and then on CD on the Past & Present imprint in 2003, these first ten volumes (boxed) in the Rubble Collection were conceived and collected by Phil Smee. For fans of the Nuggets series, both the two American volumes and the British Nuggets, you won't find a lot of overlap. The Nuggets comps were and are for people who want what was at least the stuff of legend, if not readily available. The collection here digs deep and are, for the most part, flawless in what they present. This set, and its companion volumes 11-20 (a separate box), are very different creatures. For starters, they dig a lot deeper into the hopelessly obscure 45s and tapes of Brit psychedelia, freakbeat, Mod, and pop.

Nuggets, Lenny Kaye's original 1972 compilation of garage and psych, loomed large in the record collectors consciousness, canonizing a portion of rock that was originally laughed off while setting the standard for reissues. Rhino's 1998 box set of the same name expanded the scope of that record, replicating most of the original while gloriously spilling forth over three additional discs – and, in doing so, it spurred a minor revolution, becoming one of the most talked-about reissues of the last half of the '90s…