The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967

VA - Let's Go Down & Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 (2016) 3CD Box Set

VA - Let's Go Down & Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 (2016) 3CDs
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Psychedelic Rock, Pop/Rock | Label: Grapefruit | # CRSEGBOX033 | Time: 03:53:10

2016 three CD collection. As that noted hipster Plato once observed, when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. And there was certainly a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in 1967. A distended Summer of Love saw psychedelic pop emerging from the underground clubs to infiltrate the home-grown music scene mainstream, with the vast majority following in the footsteps of perennial market leaders The Beatles in surrendering to the new genre. As the year progressed, it seemed that more or less every element of the British pop world had been swept up in the blissed-out UFOria. Beat boom survivors, R&B stalwarts, sharp-suited mods, Swinging London soul revues, earnest acoustic folkies, Denmark Street hustlers, traditional pop acts… all abandoned or refined their previous identities to make music that reflected the ubiquitous influence of psychedelia in it's myriad paisley-patterned guises. Across four hours and eighty tracks, the all-singing, not-much-dancing Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds anticipates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love to chronicle a tumultuous twelve-month period of music-making within the British Isles.
VA - Too Much Sun Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 Volume 2 (2023)

VA - Too Much Sun Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 Volume 2 (2023)
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3:58:41 | Full Scans Included | Psychedelic Rock | Label: Grapefruit

In 2016, Cherry Red’s psychedelic imprint Grapefruit Records released the 3CD set ‘Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds’, a hugely successful, widely-acclaimed anthology of lysergically- inclined music made in Britain during the epochal year of 1967. In response to the many requests we’ve received, here’s the long-awaited second volume, housed like its predecessor in a clamshell box with a lavishly annotated and illustrated 48- page booklet. Featuring 79 mind-melting tracks from British psychedelia’s key year, ‘Too Much Sun Will Burn’ covers all bases, incorporating the era’s big hitters (The Move, The Who, Small Faces, ISB, Pretty Things, The Zombies), huge singles (Traffic, Procol Harum, The Hollies, Eric Burdon & The Animals, The Troggs), cult 45s (Paper Blitz Tissue, Made In Sheffield, Caleb and many others) and such future legends as Bowie, Genesis, Alex Harvey and Elton John, with a track from his legendary aborted debut LP ‘Regimental Sgt. Zippo’.
VA - Lets Go Down And Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967 (2016)

VA - Lets Go Down And Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967 (2016)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 03:53:10 | 528 Mb
Genre: Rock, Pop, Psychedelic Rock / Label: Grapefruit Records

2016 three CD collection. As that noted hipster Plato once observed, when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. And there was certainly a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in 1967. A distended Summer of Love saw psychedelic pop emerging from the underground clubs to infiltrate the home-grown music scene mainstream, with the vast majority following in the footsteps of perennial market leaders The Beatles in surrendering to the new genre.
VA - Try A Little Sunshine The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1969 (2018)

VA - Try A Little Sunshine The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1969 (2018)
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Psychedelic Rock | Label: Grapefruit Records

1967 was undoubtedly the high-water mark of the era, but the psychedelic genre's influence lingered for some while afterwards. Nevertheless, there were significant changes during that period, and by the end of the decade the British music scene had largely polarised into two distinct camps: the influence of the counterculture saw the burgeoning college/university circuit grow as "serious" pop evolved into rock, while the more exploitative, commercial element of the industry reacted to the success of manufactured bands like The Monkees to instigate a sub-genre dismissively dubbed bubblegum..
Various Artists - Looking At The Pictures In The Sky: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1968 (2017) {3CD Set}

Various Artists - Looking At The Pictures In The Sky: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1968 (2017) {3CD Set}
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© 1968, 2017 Grapefruit Records / Cherry Red Records | CRSEGBOX040
Rock / Psychedelia / Psychedelic Rock / British Psychedelia

It goes without saying that 1968 doesn't have the same kind of cachet as 1967 - a year that, in musical terms, will always be indelibly associated with the Summer of Love, Sgt Pepper and the emergence of psychedelia. •But although the major players turned away from the excesses of the previous year in favour of a back-to-basics musical approach, there were arguably a greater number of psychedelic records made in 1968 than during the preceding twelve months. •Vital, lysergically-inclined 45s emerged from a whole host of younger groups, with The Factory, Mike Stuart Span, Fleur de Lys, The Fire, The Barrier, Boeing Duveen, Rupert's People and numerous others all releasing singles that have long been widely regarded by psychedelic collectors as genre classics.
Various Artists - Piccadilly Sunshine, Volumes 1-10: A Compendium Of Rare Pop Curios From The British Psychedelic Era (2015)

Various Artists - Piccadilly Sunshine, Volumes 1-10: A Compendium Of Rare Pop Curios From The British Psychedelic Era (2015)
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© 1964-71, 2015 Rubble | RUBCDBOX3
Rock / Psychedelia / Psychedelic Rock / British Psychedelia / Pop Rock / Mod

Serving to embrace the floral heavens of British pop, this edition combines the first ten prized volumes of the acclaimed Piccadilly Sunshine series, originally released from 2009 to 2012. Celebrating the obscured artifacts of illustrious noise that emerged from the Great British psychedelic era and beyond, it is the essential guide to the quintessential sound of candy-colored pop from a bygone age. Includes over 200 tracks from 1964-1971, with an enhanced bonus disc containing rare tracks and images. Includes 84-page full-color booklet with rare photos, detailed biographies, and full discographies.
VA - Come Join My Orchestra The British Baroque Pop Sound 1967-73 (2018)

VA - Come Join My Orchestra The British Baroque Pop Sound 1967-73 (2018)
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Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock | Label: Grapefruit Records

When Paul McCartney - who arguably kick-started the whole baroque pop genre when he recorded the likes of 'Yesterday' and 'Eleanor Rigby' with pivotal strings arrangements - made his oft-quoted remark that pop was the classical music of the 20th Century, perhaps he meant it in a more literal sense than anyone realised at the time. In the immediate wake of ground-breaking albums like Rubber Soul, Revolver and Pet Sounds, the British and American music scenes became increasingly ambitious and cerebral. As the major recording studios becoming ever more sophisticated, a new generation of musicians and producers sought to emulate the backroom auteur status of Brian Wilson or the symbiotic relationship between George Martin and The Beatles.
VA - March Of The Flower Children: The American Sounds Of 1967 (2023)

VA - March Of The Flower Children: The American Sounds Of 1967 (2023)
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Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Sunshine Pop | Label: Grapefruit Records

Four-hour, 3-CD overview of the American music scene in 1967. A dazzling cornucopia of psychedelia, garage punk, folk-rock and sunshine pop that acted as the soundtrack to the Summer of Love (US division).
VA - March Of The Flower Children: The American Sounds Of 1967 (3CD, 2023)

VA - March Of The Flower Children: The American Sounds Of 1967 (3CD, 2023)
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Genre: Psychedelic Rock / Label: Cherry Red

By 1967, rock’s eternally restless spirit had moved on from Liverpool, the British Invasion and Swinging London and found a new place to dwell.
Various Artists - New Moon's In The Sky: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970 (2019) {3D Set, Grapefruit CRSEGBOX059}

Various Artists - New Moon's In The Sky: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970 (2019) {3D Set, Grapefruit CRSEGBOX0}
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© 1970, 2019 Grapefruit Records / Cherry Red | CRSEGBOX059
Rock / Pop / British Psychedelia / Prog-Rock / Art Rock / Psychedelic Pop

Having documented the British psychedelic scene with anthologies devoted to the years 1967, 1968 and 1969, Grapefruit's ongoing series fearlessly confronts the dawn of the Seventies with a slight rebrand. New Moon's In The Sky: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970 features (appropriately enough) seventy tracks from the first year of the new decade as the British pop scene adjusted to life without The Beatles. The 3-CD set concentrates on the more song-based recordings to emanate from British studios during 1970, whether from a pure-pop-for-then-people perspective or the more concise, melodic end of the burgeoning progressive rock spectrum.