or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
23 used & new from £2.99
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Available to Download Now
 
Buy the MP3 album for £4.98
  
 
 
 
Psychedelia At Abbey Road: 1965-1969
 
See larger image and other views 
Share your own customer images

Psychedelia At Abbey Road: 1965-1969

~ Various Artists (Artist)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
Price: £4.98 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, February 11? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
20 new from £3.36 3 used from £2.99
Buy the MP3 album for £4.98 at the Amazon MP3 Downloads store.

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

Psychedelia At Abbey Road: 1965-1969 + Insane Times: 25 British Psychedelic Artyfacts From The EMI Vaults + Ah Feel Like Ahcid: 24 American Psychedelic Artefacts From The EMI Vaults
Price For All Three: £14.94

Show availability and delivery details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Ah Feel Like Ahcid: 24 American Psychedelic Artefacts From The EMI Vaults

Ah Feel Like Ahcid: 24 American Psychedelic Artefacts From The EMI Vaults

~ Various Artists
5.0 out of 5 stars (4)  £4.98
Insane Times: 25 British Psychedelic Artyfacts From The EMI Vaults

Insane Times: 25 British Psychedelic Artyfacts From The EMI Vaults

~ Various Artists
4.2 out of 5 stars (8)  £4.98
This Is Psychedelia: Over 3 Hours of Mind-Expanding Acid Rock

This Is Psychedelia: Over 3 Hours of Mind-Expanding Acid Rock

~ Various Artists
4.5 out of 5 stars (6)  £5.98
My Mind Goes High - Psychedlic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults

My Mind Goes High - Psychedlic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults

~ Various Artists
4.3 out of 5 stars (7)  £6.48
Take My Tip: 25 British Mod Artefacts from the EMI Vaults

Take My Tip: 25 British Mod Artefacts from the EMI Vaults

~ Various Artists
4.3 out of 5 stars (3)  £4.98
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Audio CD (31 Aug 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: EMI Records
  • ASIN: B00000G6NR
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 46,205 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
1. Sunshine Superman - Donovan (1)
2. My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
3. Delighted To See You - N'Betweens
4. Sunny South Kensington - Donovan (1)
5. Circus With A Female Clown - Fingers (1)
6. Why - Tomorrow
7. King Midas In Reverse - Hollies
8. 10000 Years Behind My Mind - Focus Three
9. Monday Morning - Tales Of Justine
10. Maker - Hollies
11. Kites - Dupree, Simon & The Big Sound
12. Walking Through My Dreams - Pretty Things
13. He's Our Dear Old Weatherman - Wirtz, Mark
14. 10000 Words In A Cardboard Box - Aquarian Age
15. Carpet Man - Nocturnes
16. Barricades - Koobas
17. We Are The Moles - Moles (1)
18. Mr Armageddon - Locomotive
19. Hey Bulldog - Gods
20. Strange Walking Man - Mandrake Paddle Steamer
See all 21 tracks on this disc

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
psychedelic
summer of love

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

3 Reviews
5 star:
 (2)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best single-volume introduction to psychedelia, 12 Aug 2002
By gigidunnit (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
(TOP 100 REVIEWER)   
It's a credit to Abbey Road studio that EMI can release an album of psychedelia recorded at the studio -- a pretty restrictive criterium, you'd think -- and still produce probably the best available single CD introduction to the genre. And that's without anything here by either The Beatles or Pink Floyd. If you grab this CD and Deram's "Psychedelic Scene", you've pretty much got the perfect foundation for a collection of the giddiest, most head-swirling psychedelic pop ever released, on either side of the ocean.

Wow, that's high praise. This really is a superb collection, with hardly a single track I'd have swapped out for another (given that Beatles are seemingly off-limits -- The Gods' version of "Hey Bulldog" seemingly included as a nod in that direction). The first to go would probably be Syd Barrett's "Golden Hair", which is about as psychedelic as a bag of fish'n'chips, but which is placed at the end here, I would imagine, as a kind of salutory warning. "This is what went wrong." That's bull, of course, and it's annoying that people who should know better are still equating Barrett's decline with LSD, rather than the more likely pressures-of-fame explanation. Still, that's a different debate. Given half the chance, I would have swapped "Golden Hair" for Floyd's "Point Me At The Sky", a marvellous and truly psychedelic single which has remained lost in the vaults for far too long. (And incidentally, the two late-Syd-period tracks "Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man" are definitely not worth mention, whatever the rumours.)

The collection is arranged in chronological order of recording, a span of about four years, which surprisingly doesn't lead to as pronounced a development as you might imagine. You can't tell, listening to this CD, that psychedelia grew out of the beat/mod movement and turned into prog rock. Neither are there any stylistic constants -- even this small collection, pretty much the pick of the whole crop, covers everything from dreamy ballads to acid freak-outs, and every one of them is at the same time catchy enough to have been a hit -- except that in the late 1960s competition in the charts was amazingly fierce, so some of the finest examples of the genre (The Hollies' "King Midas In Reverse", say) were hardly the chart-topping bullets you'd expect. Not just different days, but a different world.

Those into the soft-psike, pop side of things will find much here to enjoy -- a couple of good Donovan tracks (but then, there's about twenty great Donovan tracks which could have been included), Simon Dupree's magnificent "Kites", Mark Wirtz's teeth-rottingly sweet "Teenage Opera" excerpt "Weatherman", and so on. But there are also some really great semi-obscurities, the best of which is Locomotive's truly classic "Mr Armageddon", a track which to my ears at least soars over all the others on this collection like some sky-swallowing mechanical bird. How this track works is beyond me -- on paper, you'd never believe the mixture of churning electric organ and speaker-swapping brass section could possibly gel -- but the results have a majesty and expansiveness which impresses even now. Only a short distance behind is Twink's original Aquarian Age reading of "10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box", an even more ascerbic reading of the song than on his solo album "Think Pink", and along with "King Midas" perhaps the finest example of the ultra-compressed choir-orchestra-kitchen-sink-and-all psychedelic production which is one third ludicrous and two thirds truly inspired. It's true to say that pop never recovered, and neither would it ever hit these heights again. Pure brilliance from start to finish.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A superb collection, 13 Jun 2001
By Mr. Raymond A. Newman "rayray" (London) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This set of songs walks a fine line between Rubble type obscurity and well-known pop, and succeeds. Donovan and The Hollies have never sounded cooler than when nestled between obscure groups like The Mandrake Paddle Steamer and Tomorrow. I bought albums by almost everyone I discovered through this compilation, and there are some real Pepperisms here for all Beatles lovers.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not very far out, slightly psychedelic, though good, 12 July 2004
As a whole, this will stay in my collection as listenable music, though, as an ever hopeful collector of truly lysergic, trippy, dreamy masterpieces (tracks like: Anthem - Ballroom / Program - Silver Apples / Music - Kaleidoscope / and The American Way of Love - The United States of America) I was slightly disappointed at the choice of so-called psychedelic tracks here. If this is due to my misunderstanding of the genre called 'Psychedelia' then I stand corrected, but the general notion stands, given what I have already said. Having got that off my chest, I love the Donovan tracks, the Eastern-sounding Maker, as well as Barricades by the Koobas, and oh yes, the Kites tune. Well there are others too - perhaps I should have given this a 4 star rating? On the other hand, I was disappointed that a better Barrettt track was not included - and there are plenty! Also, the version of 10,000 Words is not the trippiest I have heard, being second to the album version (Think Pink, by Twink), rather like the second-best version of 'Trip' by Kim Fowley usually evident on other compilations - worth a listen, but miles below the most far out version! For far out, try Timothy Leary, Twink, or the Trance Tripping CD.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Discussion Replies Latest Post
music
Band names that really put you off buying their music 		26 22 seconds ago
pop
Song Ttitle 		1538 1 minute ago
pop
Album Tag 2 ( : = 0 ) 		656 4 minutes ago
rock
Pooper groups 		10 5 minutes ago
music
Stackridge - the best band in the land? 		18 7 minutes ago
music
Flaming Floyd - who would be your choice? 		21 7 minutes ago
rock
the age of rock is back! 		11 39 minutes ago
   
Related forums
  • music  (1023 discussions)
  • pop  (432 discussions)
  • rock  (402 discussions)

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Psychedelia At Abbey Road: 1965-1969
47% buy the item featured on this page:
Psychedelia At Abbey Road: 1965-1969 4.3 out of 5 stars (3)
£4.98
This Is Psychedelia: Over 3 Hours of Mind-Expanding Acid Rock
18% buy
This Is Psychedelia: Over 3 Hours of Mind-Expanding Acid Rock 4.5 out of 5 stars (6)
£5.98
Insane Times: 25 British Psychedelic Artyfacts From The EMI Vaults
13% buy
Insane Times: 25 British Psychedelic Artyfacts From The EMI Vaults 4.2 out of 5 stars (8)
£4.98
Ah Feel Like Ahcid: 24 American Psychedelic Artefacts From The EMI Vaults
12% buy
Ah Feel Like Ahcid: 24 American Psychedelic Artefacts From The EMI Vaults 5.0 out of 5 stars (4)
£4.98
Explore similar items

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject










i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.