I'M A Freak 2 Baby: Further Journey Through / Var I'M A Freak 2 Baby: Further Journey Through / Var CD

UK three CD set. Released in 2016, I'm A Freak Baby - Grapefruit's overview of the UK's late Sixties/early Seventies nascent hard rock/proto-metal scene - received rapturous acclaim from pundits and punters alike. And, like all good follow-ups, I'm A Freak 2 Baby expands upon the original while simultaneously tightening the stylistic mesh. In addition to further selections from some of the subterranean stars of the first volume, we feature many of the genre's pioneers, with key tracks from The Jeff Beck Group, Edgar Broughton Band, Atomic Rooster and High Tide. Our scope ranges from Top Five hit singles (Love Sculpture's manic, heavily influential 'Sabre Dance' and the original brass-free demo version of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown's gothic masterpiece 'Fire') to a clutch of bands (Thor, Tonge, Tarsus and several others) that were active during our timeframe but didn't get beyond locally-recorded demos. We also feature tracks from some of the rarest albums of the era (Red Dirt, Leaf Hound, Dogfeet, Bodkin, Human Beast, Astral Navigations etc). During our journey, we stumble across Sabbath acolytes, Zeppelin wannabes, musicians' cooperatives, future legends, Satanism, shamanism, sham-Satanism, industrial-strength levels of reassuringly non-PC attitude and more cowbell than any sane individual could reasonably tolerate. Boasting a lavish 40-page booklet full of rare photos and memorabilia from the era, many recordings making their first appearance on CD and several cuts gaining their first-ever release in any format, I'm A Freak 2 Baby is another essential addition to Grapefruit's ever-increasing catalogue of UK late Sixties/early Seventies genre anthologies.

1. Guts - Budgie 2. Shapes of Things - Jeff Beck 3. Run the Night - Wicked Lady 4. The Man Who Paints the Pictures - Stray 5. Rosie - Slowload 6. Turkish Tram Conductor Blues - the Move 7. Chocolate Piano - Orang-Utan 8. Clawstrophobia - Iron Claw 9. Plastic Man - Bodkin 10. Let's All Watch the Sky Fall Down - Andromeda 11. Mother Grease the Cat - Ancient Grease 12. Rosalyn - Stack Waddy 13. Horse - Sam Gopal 14. Sabre Dance - Love Sculpture 15. Dog Man - Monument 16. Freelance Fiend - Leaf Hound 17. Loud Green Song - Patto 18. Winter of My Love - Sam Apple Pie 19. Woman for Sale - Tear Gas 20. Death Walks Behind You - Atomic Rooster 21. Apache Drop Out - Edgar Broughton Band 22. Turn on, or Turn Me Down - N.S.U 23. Brain Worker - Red Dirt 24. Early in Spring - the Rats 25. Somewhere to Go - the Deviants 26. Armageddon - Dogfeet 27. Down and Out - Pluto 28. Brush with the Midnight Butterfly - the Human Beast 29. R.C.8. (Demo Version) - Dark 30. Wait a While - Purple Haze 31. Daze - Three Man Army 32. Old Father Time - Tonge 33. Ashen Besher - Mouse 34. Fussing and Fighting - Sunday 35. Going Down - Freedom 36. Futilist's Lament - High Tide 37. Yesterday - Lightyears Away 38. Woman - Samuel Prody 39. Confusion - Eugene Carnan 40. So Long I'm Moving on - Hard Horse 41. Fire! (Demo Version) - the Crazy World of Arthur Brown 42. Early Morning Sun - Tarsus 43. Is There Any Doubt?- Natural Gas 44. Back in Time - Warhorse 45. Name of the Game - Little Big Horn 46. Sinister Minister - Bullet 47. I Need Someone - Frozen Tear 48. The Nymph - Sardonicus 49. Hoochie Coochie Man - 9.30 Fly 50. Someone's Been at My Woman - Clark-Hutchinson 51. Big Jim Salter - Stone the Crows 52. Paranoid - Thor 53. Lucifer Corpus - Writing on the Wall