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Various Artists - Alphabeat: Pop, Psych And Prog Rock 1967-1970 '2024/2005

Alphabeat: Pop, Psych And Prog Rock 1967-1970
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Album name Alphabeat: Pop, Psych And Prog Rock 1967-1970
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Date 2024/2005
GenrePsychedelic Rock,Pop Rock,Prog Rock
Play time 48 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 193 mb
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Many of the selections on 'Alphabeat' were not even known to exist before the
release of the compilation, and few connoisseurs of obscure late 60s pop, psych
and prog will be disappointed with it's contents. Dubbed from a master supplied
by a Belgian television company 'Foxy Lady' and 'Toad' were recorded live at a
pop festival in mid 1968 and prove The Barrier to be as exciting on stage as on
their best singles from the same year, whilst Mississippi impress with their
heavy bluesy rock which is lifted from their lone and very rare 45 from 1970.
The pigeonholeing of Breakthru as a lightweight pop act through their only
single 'Ice Cream Tree' is devastatingly dismissed by the unveiling of 2
incendiary slices of psychedelically inclined rock recorded at a Birmingham
studio in late 1967, and an unknown group who recorded at R.G Jones' OAK studios
sound uncannily like The Game 3 years on with the slow burning 'First Back From
Heaven'. The Pathfinders' 'Pumpkin Lantern' has appeared before on compilations
on a number of occasions but thanks to the discovery of another acetate copy,
it's presented here in premium quality together for the first time with it's
previously ignored but very special rendering of the Bee Gees' 'To Love
Somebody'. Graded Grains have presented psych collectors with a mystery and an
enigma since their acetate of 'Animal Magic' and ' Lucifer Sam' was unearthed
for 'Chocolate Soup For Diabetics' Volume 3 way back in the early 80s, and such
was their dogged obscurity that some came to believe there was no such band
called Graded Grains at all. Top Sounds however are able to present 4 tracks
recorded on the continent in Paris in December 1969 which beautifully exhibit
authentic pop psych with a marked Barrett era Pink Floyd influence, one of which
is a later (and much cleaner!) take of the famed 'Animal Magic'. And last but by
no means least the legendary blues band Black Cat Bones prove their versatility
and deliver an uptempo psych flavoured rocker called 'The Warmth Of The
Day',which aside from inclusion on a fairly recent bootleg was only previously
been available on the rare 1969 promotional for the QE2 ocean liner'.

Tracklist:
1.01 - The Barrier - Foxy Lady (4:25) 
1.02 - Graded Grains - Gabriel Says Yes (Live) (3:30) 
1.03 - The Pathfinders - Pumpkin Lantern (3:02) 
1.04 - Breakthru - Here Comes The End (3:06) 
1.05 - Graded Grains - Animal Magic (Live) (3:39) 
1.06 - Mississippi - Mr Union Railway Man (2:34) 
1.07 - unidentified artist - First Back From Heaven (4:32) 
1.08 - Graded Grains - On The Dole (Live) (4:38) 
1.09 - The Pathfinders - To Love Somebody (3:02) 
1.10 - Graded Grains - Harry The Hermit (Live) (3:42) 
1.11 - Black Cat Bones - Warmth Of The Day (3:20) 
1.12 - Breakthru - Spoonful (5:05) 
1.13 - The Barrier - Toad (4:25)

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