To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original Summer of Love, this 25-track collection remembers the golden era of British psychedelia in/around 1967.Includes classic recordings from some of the 60s' biggest names, fro... more »m The Hollies and the Yardbirds (featuring Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page) to Pink Floyd's late genius, Syd Barrett. A number of the recordings have never before been on CD (example: Mike Proctor's 'Mr Commuter', a popular record on today's Mod/60s scene). EMI. 2007.« less
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original Summer of Love, this 25-track collection remembers the golden era of British psychedelia in/around 1967.Includes classic recordings from some of the 60s' biggest names, from The Hollies and the Yardbirds (featuring Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page) to Pink Floyd's late genius, Syd Barrett. A number of the recordings have never before been on CD (example: Mike Proctor's 'Mr Commuter', a popular record on today's Mod/60s scene). EMI. 2007.
CD Reviews
Psych Comp Done Right
Milwaukee Psych Fan | Brewtown, USA | 09/22/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Excellent. Obeys the two clutch rules of psych comps: 1) provide the best sound possible, and 2) include mostly tracks that are not often comped. And if you are not sure how to label the tracks (e.g. popsike, acid rock, sunshine pop, blues rock) just pick tracks that have one thing in common: they're good! Well done. Compare against "Real Life Permanent Dreams" which sounds terrible with very little there, there."
Excellent Psych Comp
Brian J. Greene | Durham, NC | 05/05/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Compilations are so hit and miss - much more miss than hit. You never know what you're going to get, and you often are gravely disappointed in the end result. Not so with this fabulous collection of UK Psych from the late 60s EMI vaults. A few big names are out there - Syd Barrett, the Yardbirds, the Hollies - and yet those 3 are not among the best tracks on the album. There are 6 or 8 songs that are pretty much throwaway, a bunch of others that are good if not memorable, and then there are several songs that are just jaw-dropping excellent slices of vintage psych. One of those is by the Idle Race -a pre-Move/E.L.O. Jeff Lynne project. Then there's "Model Village" by the Penny Peeps, which is a perfect piece of Mod psych - think "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" by the Move. "Last Cloud Home" by the Orange Bicycle is lazy, sun-drenched acid pop at its finest, and the Rainbow Folly's "Sun Sing" could have been written by John Lennon during the Revolver era. If a compilation gives you 3 or more great songs that you've never heard before and will always cherish, it is a successful collection. This one accomplishes that and more."
Topnotch psych collection!
Peter Sykes | Airlie Beach, Australia | 12/29/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I manage the Psychedelic 100 website and I have to say this is one of the best sounding psych compilations yet released. Some of the big names of psychedelia are here and, even though some of the tracks are hard to get a hold of, these are definitely not obscurities. A great collection well worth having."
Far out , and yet still strangely groovy.
Armchair Pundit | Durham City, England. | 05/29/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Most of these tracks sound refreshingly sixties to me even after all these years.
The late sixties early seventies have long since being my favourite musical era.
The only big names that jumped out at me here were The Hollies, The Yardbirds and Syd Barrett, but it's the lesser names that got me groovin'.
The Idle Race's; "Hurry up John" (with ELO's Jeff Lynn) shows Lynn's precocious talent was emerging even at this time (1968).
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's, Equestrian Statue (1967) does likewise for Neil Innes (The Rutles with Eric Idle).
Take a trip down memory lane and check this album out, it's for all you aging Flower children and Hippies at heart.
Track Listings (25) - Disc #1