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II bought this album a few months ago and I love it even more now than at first. The standout tracks i consider to be the title track 'Haunted' by Peter Thorogood, both Orange Machine tracks (superior covers of 'Tomorrow' songs),'Valley of the Shadow of Love' by Tuesday's Children, Consortium's totally OTT 'The day the Train Never Came' and The Onyx 'So sad Inside.'
Out of the 28 tracks i liked 21 very much. It was a revelation to hear great Psych. tracks by the Tremeloes, and Marmalade!!
the majority of tracks are jolly, whimsical and full of spangled instrumentation. I was impressed by the two tracks by 'Blonde on Blonde', and pleased to discover from the inner notes that they have a back catalogue available (as do The Rockin' Berries, Marmalade, Episode Six, and The Flying Machine.)
I reccommend anyone who enjoys the silly psych. Beatle songs of their later years will find a lot to enjoy on this great compilation..I would also recommend tracking down the 94 same label compilation of 'Paisley Pop' which has other tracks by Anan,The Flying Machine, The Montanas,The Onyx,and Consortium. And if you like Folky rock, i also recommend the superb 'Jingle Jangle Mornings' which has another Montanas track on it, along with lots of other wonderful, quintissentially English, slightly eccentric stuff by other great obscure bands.
Also you may like to check out the 'Tommorrow' CD which has the original (and frankly, not very good) versions of '3 Jolly little dwarfs' on it, and 'Real Life Permanent Dream'. But there are some really great songs on there also, including 'Your time has Come', 'shy Boy' '10,000 words in a cardboard box' and 'hallucinations' which are about as Beatlesque as you could wish for.
... And I play these songs again and again, so it must have been worth it!!Read more ›
3 and a half stars! Good stuff, with some great tracks that may just surprise the Hell out of you - the Tremeloes 'Suddenly Winter' track, as well as Marmalade's 'Kaleidoscope' (check out the US and UK bands by the same name- kaleidoscope)are my personal faves. The opener is also brilliant, as is the finale, the other Tuesday's Children track, and Wicked Annabella (Kinks). Let down I felt (hence 3 and a half stars) by the fact that it seems too plain and normal for my psychedelic tastes - I want my 'psychedelia' more Far Out, trippy, and not just lyrically lysergic! Well, can't have it all I guess - any ideas?
This compilation is not mind - frying acid rock kind of psych but rather pure UK pop psych and in my opinion,one of the very best of its kind. For a comp it has a very high consistency throughout.All the tracks are pretty decent but about two thirds of them are simply delightful.Quality pop psych of the highest order.I'm a huge fan of the Rubble albums and most of the tracks here would sit comfortably amongst the best of the poppier tracks on that series,indeed,a lot of the bands on the Psychedelic Pstones series do in fact appear on Rubble,but there is not a lot of duplication of songs. Again I'll say this is one of the best UK Pop Psych comps, period. HIGHLY recommended. Check out Volume 1 for pretty much more of the same delights [I think I just prefer this one by an inch though]
Track listing 1. Haunted 2. Yellow Rainbow - Rockin' Berries 3. Real Life Permanent Dream - Orange Machine 4. Kaleidoscope - Marmalade 5. Locked in a Room 6. Suddenly Winter - Tremeloes 7. Time and Motion Man - Episode Six 8. Wicked Annabella - Kinks 9. Spinning Wheel - Blonde on Blonde 10. Crazy Dreams - Searchers 11. Haze Woman - Anan 12. Auntie Nellie - Status Quo 13. In the Valley of the Shadow of Love - Tuesday's Children 14. The Flying Machine - Flying Machine 15. Colour Sergeant Lillywhite - West Coast Consortium 16. Only George - Scrugg 17. Stay Awhile 18. She's a Rainbow - Glass Menagerie 19. So Sad Inside - Onyx 20. She Can't See for Looking 21. Roundabout - Montanas 22. Three Jolly Little Dwarfs - Orange Machine 23. The Day the Train Never Came - Consortium Project 24. Country Life - Blonde on Blonde 25. Medena - Anan 26. Plastic Love - Episode Six 27. Phenomenal Cat - Kinks 28. Mr. Kipling - Tuesday's Children
nice collection - full of nice surprises. i thought that the tracks by some of the sedate mid-sixties "has-beens" like the searchers and the rockin' berries would be fillers - not so!they're possibly the best tunes here. (if i remember correctly the searchers had some link to deep purple - as did episode six, also featured). some of the songs are shockingly twee and totally dated - mr kipling especially. some sound pretty unique - country life and medina will be your new favourites!! the silly sleeve notes are a chuckle too.
if you like to sample late 60s obscurities - dive in
