Let'S Go Down & Blow Our Minds / Various Let'S Go Down & Blow Our Minds / Various CD

2016 three CD collection. As that noted hipster Plato once observed, when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. And there was certainly a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in 1967. A distended Summer of Love saw psychedelic pop emerging from the underground clubs to infiltrate the home-grown music scene mainstream, with the vast majority following in the footsteps of perennial market leaders The Beatles in surrendering to the new genre. As the year progressed, it seemed that more or less every element of the British pop world had been swept up in the blissed-out UFOria. Beat boom survivors, R&B stalwarts, sharp-suited mods, Swinging London soul revues, earnest acoustic folkies, Denmark Street hustlers, traditional pop acts... all abandoned or refined their previous identities to make music that reflected the ubiquitous influence of psychedelia in it's myriad paisley-patterned guises. Across four hours and eighty tracks, the all-singing, not-much-dancing Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds anticipates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love to chronicle a tumultuous twelve-month period of music-making within the British Isles. The dizzying breadth of the set incorporates everything from key names such as The Move and Procol Harum, both represented with less obvious choices, to the likes of mondo obscuro West Country quintet T. J. Assembly, who pressed a mere 25 copies of their self-penned November 1967 album as a strictly personal memento of their time together. Along the way, we encounter all aspects of the scene, from the first generation psychedelic bands that took part in subterranean London 'happenings' to the shameless bandwagon-jumpers who were nevertheless an integral part of psychedelic pop's rich and varied tapestry. We also feature a clutch of previously unreleased nuggets, alternative versions, pseudonymous releases, first-ever CD appearances, a couple of inspired novelty discs and even a football supporters freak-out. Housed in a clambox that includes a lavishly annotated and illustrated 44-page booklet, Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds is nothing less than the story of the British rock and pop scene of 1967: music made half-a-century ago that, as can be seen from the number of hitherto unknown recordings featured, is still slowly revealing it's secrets. As some righteously obscure band confidently promised during that epochal year, a splendid time is guaranteed for all.

1. The Alan Bown! - Toyland 2. The Attack - Magic in the Air 3. The Tickle - Subway (Smokey Pokey World) 4. Episode Six -I Can See Through You 5. Dantalian's Chariot - the Madman Running Through the Fields 6. Geranium Pond - Dogs in Baskets 7. The Scots of St. James - Eiderdown Clown 8. George Alexander - Dear Delilah 9. The Sorrows - Pink Purple Yellow and Red 10. The Mirage - Lazy Man (Alt Version) 11. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Give Him a Flower 12. Tintern Abbey - Tanya 13. Fleur-De-Lys - Prodigal Son 14. The Lomax Alliance - See the People 15. Mickey Finn - Time to Start Loving You 16. The Fingers - I Hear the Sun 17. Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Nice 18. Good Thing Brigade - My House Is Burning 19. The Motives - Ice Woman 20. Louise - Look at the Sun 21. Neo Maya - I Won't Hurt You 22. Cliff Ward - Path Through the Forest 23. The Spencer Davis Group - Sanity Inspector 24. The Summer Set - 'Cos It's Over 25. The Fadin' Colours - Try Me on for Size 26. The Slender Plenty - Silver Tree Top School for Boys 27. Guy Darrell - Evil Woman 28. Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera -Flames 29. One in a Million - Double Sight 30. Paul ; Barry Ryan - Keep It Out of Sight 31. The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (Extended Version) 32. John's Children - Desdemona 33. The Doves - Smokeytime Springtime 34. John Williams - Flowers in Your Hair 35. Sweet Feeling - All So Long Ago 36. Rupert's People - Reflections of Charles Brown 37. The Riot Squad Featuring David Bowie - Toy Soldier 38. The Rats - the Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone 39. Circus - Something to Write About 40. Dave Davies - Funny Face 41. The Brood - Village Green 42. Tony Rivers ; the Castaways - Mr. Sun 43. The Peep Show - Your Servant, Stephen 44. The Uglys - and the Squire Blew His Horn 45. The Move - Vote for Me 46. Human Instinct - a Day in My Mind's Mind 47. Murray Head - She Was Perfection 48. Peter ; the Wolves - Little Girl Lost and Found 49. The Bunch - Spare a Shilling 50. Big Jim Sullivan - Flower Power 51. Procol Harum - Kaleidoscope (Extended Stereo Mix) 52. The Searchers - Crazy Dreams 53. The Artwoods - in the Deep End 54. Our Plastic Dream - Someone Turned the Light Out 55. Hat ; Tie - Finding It Rough 56. The Fresh Windows - Fashion Conscious 57. The Game - the Addicted Man 58. Felius Andromeda - Meditations 59. The Honeybus - Delighted to See You (Demo Version) 60. Ice - So Many Times 61. The Flower Pot Men - a Walk in the Sky 62. Five's Company - Friends and Mirrors 63. The Late - Family Tree 64. The Secrets - I Think I Need the Cash 65. Skip Bifferty - Schizoid Revolution 66. The Purple Gang - Granny Takes a Trip 67. The Picadilly Line - Emily Small 68. The Outer Limits - Help Me Please 69. Focal Point - 'Cept Me 70. Jade Hexagram - Great Shadowy Strange 71. The Truth - Busker Bill 72. The Moody Blues - Life's Not Life 73. Don Craine's New Downliners Sect - I Can't Get Away from You 74. The Symbols - Again 75. The Hi-Fi's - Odd Man Out 76. The Marmalade - Laughing Man 77. T. J. Assembly - Ginger 78. The 23rd Turn Off - Michelangelo (Demo Version) 79. The Q.P.R. Supporters Supporters - Support Us 80. Sands - Listen to the Sky