British Pop

VA - Bubblerock Is Here To Stay, Volume 2: The British Pop Explosion 1970-73 (2022)

VA - Bubblerock Is Here To Stay, Volume 2: The British Pop Explosion 1970-73 (2022)
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Pop Rock | Label: Grapefruit Records, Cherry Red Records

Issued in 2020, ‘Bubblerock Is Here To Stay’ shone a spotlight on the lost and often murky world of early 70s British Pop, a scene largely controlled by old-fashioned, Denmark Street- based production/songwriting teams as the Rock world concentrated on the album market. Another four-hour 3CD set, ‘Bubblerock Is Here To Stay Volume Two’ treads the same neglected path to deliver more mouldy old dough from the era's backroom boys: crack songwriting teams (Cook/Greenaway, Carter/Lewis, Chinn/Chapman), hit-or-bust producers (Phil Wainman, Jonathan King), session singers (Tony Burrows, Sue And Sunny), and writers-turned-performers (Lynsey de Paul, Barry Blue, Phillip Goodhand- Tait).

VA - The Weird and the Wonderful: Early British Pop (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at April 1, 2023
VA - The Weird and the Wonderful: Early British Pop (2023)

VA - The Weird and the Wonderful: Early British Pop (2023)
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55:45 | Pop | Label: Dockland Music

The Weird and the Wonderful: Early British Pop, a Various Artists Compilation. Released 31 March 2023 on Dockland Music.
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 - High In The Morning (The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1973) (2022)

VA - High In The Morning (The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1973) (2022)
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Pop Rock, Progressive Rock, Psyhcedelic Rock | Label: Grapefruit Records, Cherry Red Records

Three CD set. 2022 instalment of Grapefruit's popular year-by-year overviews of the more melodic end of the early 70s UK progressive rock scene. A four-hour compilation featuring big hits, key album tracks, cult classics and rarities from 1973. 1973 was another significant year in British pop, with the recent arrival of glam inspiring many underground bands to adopt a more streamlined sound. That more song-based approach helped give the 1973 singles chart a new energy, with memorable 45s from Mott The Hoople, Manfred Mann's Earthband, Faces, Status Quo, Medicine Head and Nazareth.
VA - Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Pop Sound 1967-1974 (2022)

VA - Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Pop Sound 1967-1974 (2022)
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3:57:28 | Baroque Pop, Bubblegum, Glam, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Grapefruit

First-ever legitimate anthology of British toytown pop, a much-loved sub-genre among. Four-hour compilation with 87 tracks including hits, misses, rarities and previously unreleased. Issued at the start of 1967, Beatles’ single ‘Penny Lane’ coupled a widescreen production (bolstered by a phalanx of session musicians on brass and woodwind) with a mildly hallucinogenic lyric populated by mundane characters going about their unremarkable suburban lives.
It proved to be an enormously influential record. For the next year or two, British pop was awash with records that married quasi-classical arrangements with newly-minted fairy tales and character vignettes based around the grey everyday lives of ordinary small-town folk.
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.
VA - Piccadilly Sunshine Volumes 11-20: A Compendium of Rare Pop Curios from the British Psychedelic Era (2018)

VA - Piccadilly Sunshine Volumes 11-20: A Compendium of Rare Pop Curios from the British Psychedelic Era (2018)
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Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop | Label: Rubble

Serving to embrace the floral heavens of British pop, this ceremonious edition combines the first ten prized volumes of the acclaimed Piccadilly Sunshine series. Celebrating the obscured artefacts of illustrious noise that emerged from the Great British psychedelic era and beyond, it is the essential guide to the quintessential sound of candy-coloured pop from a bygone age Pop is NOT a dirty word!
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 - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020) (Complete)

VA - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020) (Complete)
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3:57:57 | Rock, Pop Rock, Prog Rock | Label: Grapefruit

Featuring a 40-page booklet crammed with rare illustrations and the stories behind the songs, Peephole In My Brain is an essential addition to Grapefruit’s acclaimed year-by-year series of late Sixties/early Seventies British rock and pop.
1971 stands as an odd, rather surreal year in British pop history: while American soft-rockers and singer-songwriters were dominating the album charts, the year in which the country ch-ch-changed over to decimal currency saw the homegrown pop/rock scene becoming increasingly eccentric.
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.