British Pop

VA - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020) (Complete) Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 18, 2022

VA - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020) (Complete)
FLAC (tracks, scans) - 1.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 560 MB
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.

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VA - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020) Music

Posted by Rtax at June 15, 2024

VA - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 1.5 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 737 MB
3:57:57 | Rock, Pop Rock, Prog Rock | Label: Grapefruit

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VA - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020) Music

Posted by Rtax at June 15, 2024

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VA - New Moons In The Sky (The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970) (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 26, 2020

VA - New Moons In The Sky (The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970) (2019)
FLAC tracks | 03:57:40 | 1,45 Gb
Genre: Rock, Pop / Label: Grapefruit

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.

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

Posted by Designol at Oct. 29, 2024

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.

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VA - Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Pop Sound 1967-1974 (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 4, 2025

VA - Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Pop Sound 1967-1974 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 616 MB
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.

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VA - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 21, 2020

VA - Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sound Of 1971 (2020)
FLAC tracks | 02:01:30 | 704 Mb
Genre: Pop, Rock / Label: Grapefruit

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. Peephole In My Brain documents the progressive-pop sounds of the year as the underground rock scene crossed over to the mainstream. The 71 tracks from ’71 include major hits for the likes of Curved Air, Atomic Rooster and John Kongos as well as a selection of key album cuts from Procol Harum, ELP, Magna Carta, Barclay James Harvest, Cressida, Help Yourself, Legend and many others.

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VA - Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Pop Sound 1967-1974 (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 4, 2025

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VA - High In The Morning (The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1973) (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 20, 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.

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Various Artists - Piccadilly Sunshine, Volumes 1-10: A Compendium Of Rare Pop Curios From The British Psychedelic Era (2015) Music

Posted by ruskaval at May 31, 2018

Various Artists - Piccadilly Sunshine, Volumes 1-10: A Compendium Of Rare Pop Curios From The British Psychedelic Era (2015)
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Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 289 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 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.

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