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| 1. Peculiar Hole In The Sky - The Valentines | |||
| 2. Imagine This - The Iguana | |||
| 3. Still I Can Go On - The James Taylor Move | |||
| 4. I Can't Help Thinking Of You - The Bucket | |||
| 5. Going Home - Normie Rowe | |||
| 6. House Of Bamboo - Peter Wright | |||
| 7. Gained For A Fall - 1863 Establishment | |||
| 8. Emily On Sunday - Clapham Junction | |||
| 9. Unforgotten Dreams - King Fox | |||
| 10. Long Live Sivinanda - Inside Looking Out | |||
| 11. Girl In The Garden - Hugo | |||
| 12. Moving In A Circle - The Executives | |||
| 13. Eastern Dream - Jeff St. John & The Id | |||
| 14. Zoom Zoom Zoom - The Cam-Pact | |||
| 15. King Of The Mountain - The Proclamation | |||
| 16. Upstairs, Downstairs - Jon | |||
| 17. Krome Plated Yabby - The Wild Cherries | |||
| 18. Magic Eyes - The James Taylor Move | |||
| 19. Brass Bird - Lloyd's World | |||
| 20. Walking & Talking - R Black & The Rockin' V's | |||
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Probably 80% of stuff you would like from this era is totally unfamiliar. Australia was the Bee Gees right? Well yes but take a listen to these tracks and see what you were missing. From the time when pop was still seemingly pop and not prog but then something wonderful happened. Its psych Jim but and how we've come to know it. Dip your toes in and enjoy my favourites, Brass Bird, King of the Mountain, Moving in a Circle Going Home Sunshine Day and Unforgotten Dreams. It's Oz ok and certainly not cricket.
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Big Beat's 'Peculiar Hole In The Sky' is number 4 in their Australian chronicles and contains 27 tracks of the pop/psych & freakbeat variety and of the 4 is the strongest at least to these ears. Most of it is hard to find, especially on CD and quality wise compares favourably with what was happening in both the U.S. and UK.
A few mentions then: 'Peculiar Hole In The Sky' by The Valentines is regarded by connoisseurs as the finest piece of Australian psych and is notable for featuring future AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott. The genuinely disturbing, Doorsian 'Eastern Dream' (Jeff St. John & The Id) with it's final refrain of 'I'm Going Insane.' The brit sounding heavy rock of 'Morning Sun' by Inside Looking Out. The Bucket's 'I Can't Help Thinking Of You' is Cream in all but name only. 'Goin' Home' by Normie Rowe is essentially a pop ballad given a psyche make-over. The madder than mad vocal affectations of Peter Wright on the otherwise groovy 'House Of Bamboo'. The female fronted 'The Executives' whose haunting 'Moving In A Circle' has a folky vocal dissolving into a cacaphony of music played backwards. The Proclomation's epic psychedelia and choral grandeur of 'King Of The Mountain' is knocking on the door of prog. The James Taylor Move's raga rock of 'Still I Can Go On.' The Dave Miller Set's 'Mr Guy Fawkes' (originally by Eire Apparent) - a genuine psych classic with phased vocals and an explosive (quite literally) middle.
Sleeve notes are of the highest order and includes many rare pics.
A few mentions then: 'Peculiar Hole In The Sky' by The Valentines is regarded by connoisseurs as the finest piece of Australian psych and is notable for featuring future AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott. The genuinely disturbing, Doorsian 'Eastern Dream' (Jeff St. John & The Id) with it's final refrain of 'I'm Going Insane.' The brit sounding heavy rock of 'Morning Sun' by Inside Looking Out. The Bucket's 'I Can't Help Thinking Of You' is Cream in all but name only. 'Goin' Home' by Normie Rowe is essentially a pop ballad given a psyche make-over. The madder than mad vocal affectations of Peter Wright on the otherwise groovy 'House Of Bamboo'. The female fronted 'The Executives' whose haunting 'Moving In A Circle' has a folky vocal dissolving into a cacaphony of music played backwards. The Proclomation's epic psychedelia and choral grandeur of 'King Of The Mountain' is knocking on the door of prog. The James Taylor Move's raga rock of 'Still I Can Go On.' The Dave Miller Set's 'Mr Guy Fawkes' (originally by Eire Apparent) - a genuine psych classic with phased vocals and an explosive (quite literally) middle.
Sleeve notes are of the highest order and includes many rare pics.
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Oceanian psych!! Amazing!
20 Aug 2006
By David Parkinson
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This collection of psych-pop from Australia & New Zealand is a great one... I guess it's fair to say that maybe it's not the most essential psych collection out there these days, but damn it's a solid one nonetheless. Any collection that kicks off with a pre-AC/DC Bon Scott on vocals has to be worth something. And this is one of those rare compilations that really has no filler. Standout tracks: "House of Bamboo", "Moving in a Circle", Bee Gees cover "Upstairs, Downstairs", "Magic Eyes" (tries to out-Cream Cream and does a pretty good job of it). Seriously, though, they're all good.
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21 Feb 2011
By deceasar
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The product arrived in excellent shape. The music has a catchy sound to it. The interpretation of me and my partners song was excellent.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Just OK......
2 Mar 2009
By Gretchen Martorano
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Not to knock the "Down Under" Psychedlic scene..not knowing/hearing much from Australia during this era, but when I saw 27 tracks listed I figured I couldn't go wrong. I was somewhat disappointed as I found, unlike a previous reviewer, quite a bit of filler. Australia unfortunately was not an undiscovered gem of a scene that is being discovered and finally being exposed to the world. I could hear 3 quality songs; Eastern Dream, Magic Eyes, and Sitting by a Tree...about 4 other tunes would start out with promise..but then take a quick left turn off the road into deserved obscurity..
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