Breakthrough: Underground Sounds Of 1971 / Various Breakthrough: Underground Sounds Of 1971 / Various CD

Four CD set celebrating the so-called "underground" rock music. 1971 was a momentous year in rock and one which would continue to see Progressive music in all it's forms become a dominating force with the album buying public. Much of this music appeared on the "progressive" imprints of major record labels such as EMI's Harvest, Decca's Deram and Philips Records' Vertigo and emerging independent labels such as Charisma, United Artists and Island and led to an increasing presence of underground album music on BBC Radio 1 on it's Sounds Of The Seventies and Top Gear programs. Breakthrough - Underground Sounds Of 1971' is a lovingly compiled collection from this pivotal year in music, featuring a host of key artists plus a host of lesser-known acts who failed to reach a wider audience but produced a wide breadth of music, such as Bb Blunder, Big Sleep, Cressida, Help Yourself, Mighty Baby, Patto, Pink Fairies, Samurai, Colin Scot, Spring and Stray. Turn on and tune in to the gloriously diverse underground sounds of 1971. Includes An Illustrated Booklet With Essay By Mark Powell.

1. Evening Over Rooftops - Edgar Broughton Band 2. Spanish Tide - Family 3. Simple Sister - Procol Harum 4. She Said - Barclay James Harvest 5. Late November - Sandy Denny 6. Mother Goose - Jethro Tull 7. The House on the Hill - Audience 8. Master of the Universe - Hawkwind 9. Bitches Crystal -Emerson Lake ; Palmer 10. I've Seen All Good People - Yes 11. Golden Fleece - Spring 12. City Song - Lindisfarne 13. Summer Time - Pretty Things 14. Time Machine - Beggars Opera 15. Do It (Single Version) - Pink Fairies 16. Eternal Messenger - Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come 17. Lady in Black - Uriah Heep 18. Eire - Think Lizzy 19. Winter Wine - Caravan 20. Virgin Spring (Single Version) - Mighty Baby 21. Blue John's Blues - Barclay James Harvest 22. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic 23. Saving It Up for So Long - Samurai 24. Munich - Cressida 25. Folk Song - Jack Bruce 26. Life Is a Long Song - Jethro Tull 27. Burning Bridges - Family 28. The Seed - BB Blunder 29. Breakthrough - Atomic Rooster 30. Love to Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly) - Caravan 31. You, You Point Your Finger - Patto 32. Nite People - Colin Scot 33. Pantagruel's Nativity - Gentle Giant 34. Glistening Glyndebourne - John Martyn 35. Solitude - Peter Hammill 36. Young Mother - Curved Air 37. The Fakir - Paladin 38. Pieces of Me - Linda Hoyle 39. Call Me a Liar - Edgar Broughton Band 40. Son of the Father - Stray 41. Someone's Learning - Status Quo 42. July Morning - Uriah Heep 43. A Spoonful of Bromide (Helps the Pulse Rate Go Down) - Atomic Rooster 44. Running Down Deep - Help Yourself 45. Theme Song / en Route / Theme Song (Reprise) - Keef Hartley Band 46. Windweaver - Jade Warrior 47. Many Are Called, But Few Get Up - Man 48. Bluebell Wood - Big Sleep 49. Black Cat - Gentle Giant 50. Man-Erg - Van Der Graaf Generator 51. Circus Mind - Pretty Things 52. 10538 Overture - Electric Light Orchestra 53. Song for the Bearded Lady - Nucleus 54. Heart of the Sunrise - Yes