Looking At The Pictures In The Sky: British / Var Looking At The Pictures In The Sky: British / Var CD

2017 three CD collection re-issued with new artwork and revised tracklisting. It goes without saying that 1968 doesn't have the same kind of cachet as 1967 - a year that, in musical terms, will always be indelibly associated with the Summer of Love, Sgt. Pepper and the emergence of psychedelia. But although the major players turned away from the excesses of the previous year in favor of a back-to-basics musical approach, there were arguably a greater number of psychedelic records made in 1968 than during the preceding twelve months. Vital, lysergically-inclined 45s emerged from a whole host of younger groups, with The Factory, Mike Stuart Span, Fleur de Lys, The Fire, The Barrier, Boeing Duveen, Rupert's People and numerous others all releasing singles that have long been widely regarded by psychedelic collectors as genre classics. All these and more are gathered on Looking At The Pictures In The Sky, which provide a fascinating overview of the group scene in Britain (and Ireland!) in 1968, shining a light on unreleased gems, cult classics, choice album cuts, neglected B-sides and alternative versions. As with it's 1967 equivalent Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds, the four-hour, 78-track anthology Looking At The Pictures In The Sky is housed in a striking clambox that contains a 44 page booklet crammed with biographical information and rare photographs of the featured acts.

1. Path Through the Forest - the Factory 2. Father's Name Is Dad - the Fire 3. Gong with the Luminous Nose - Fleur de Lys 4. Mind's Eye - Ramases ; Selket 5. Spontaneous Apple Creation - the Crazy World of Arthur Brown 6. Lullaby (Alternative Version) - Grapefruit 7. I Will Not Be Moved - Circle Plantagenet 8. Sunday Best - Turquoise 9. My Son John - the Onyx 10. The Fantastic Story of the Steam- 11. Driven Banana - Legay 12. Mr. Partridge Passed Away Today - Fortes Mentum 13. Jabberwock - Boeing Duveen ; the 14. Beautiful Soup 15. Haze Woman - Anan 16. Talking About the Good Times - the Pretty Things 17. Sunday Morning - Guy and David - 18. The Five Day Week Straw People 19. Animal Magic - Graded Grains 20. She - Tuesday's Children 21. Mr. Lion - the Marmalade 22. Upstairs Downstairs - Graham Gouldman 23. Festival of the Harvest Moon - Joker 24. So You Want to Be a Rock'n'roll 25. Star - Sun Dragon 26. Never Care - Eyes of Blue 27. Nightmare - the Gass Company 28. In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence 29. Procol Harum 30. Did You Die Four Years Ago 31. Tonight? - the Web 32. Frederick Jordan - the Glass Menagerie 33. Children of Tomorrow - Mike Stuart Span 34. Dawn Breaks Through - the Barrier 35. Mr Pinnodmy's Dilemma - the Attack 36. Trying to Get a Glimpse of You - the Freedom 37. I Can Show You - Rupert's People 38. Locked in a Room - the Poets 39. Bluebell Wood - Wimple Winch 40. Technicolor Dreams - the Status Quo 41. Music Soothes the Savage Breast - the Spectrum 42. Head for the Sun - the Movement 43. Midnight Love Cycle - the Klubs 44. Lovers from the Sky - Contact 45. Jamie's Song - the Deviants 46. Sydney Gill - the Smoke 47. Birthday - Peter ; the Wolves 48. Love Is a Toy - Jon Ledingham 49. Yesterday Was Such a Lovely Day (Elsie) - Sadie's Expression 50. Omnibus (Extended Version) - the Move 51. I Get So Excited - Real McCoy 52. Mr. Golden Trumpet Player - Junior's Eyes 53. Yellow Rainbow - the Picadilly 54. Time Seller (LP Version) - the Spencer Davis Group 55. Pantomime - Tony Rivers ; the Castaways 56. Go and Say Goodbye - Katch 22 57. Cornflake Zoo - Andy Ellison 58. Penny for Your Thoughts - the Alan Bown! 59. Hold on - Jason Crest 60. Girl of Independent Means - Honeybus 61. Rainmaker - Rhubarb Rhubarb 62. Hello Enid - the Mirage 63. Lucky Sunday - Episode Six 64. What's the Rush, Dillbury? - Paradox 65. Cave of Clear Light - the Bystanders 66. Round and Round - Skip Bifferty 67. Come on Down - Motivation 68. Country Life - Blonde on Blonde 69. Virginia Water - Cats Pyjamas 70. Aeroplane - Jethro Toe (Tull) 71. Rambling Boy - Timon 72. Ice Man - Ice 73. Now and Again Rebecca - the U (Don't) No Who 74. Felicity Jane - Writing on the Wall 75. Sycamore Sid - Focal Point 76. Do You Dream? - Circus 77. Maxwell Ferguson - Brass Tacks 78. Pawnbroker (Demo Version) - Barbara Ruskin 79. Soft Winds - the Orange Bicycle 80. Without You - Coconut Mushroom 81. Haunted - Peter Thorogood 82. Which Dreamed It - Boeing Duveen ; the Beautiful Soup 83. Turnstyle - Trot 84. Pictures in the Sky - Orange Seaweed