The second volume of my trawl through the Psych years and both of these discs have songs taken from ‘The Rubble Collection’ compilations. This was originally a series of 20 LPs released by the Bam-Curoso label, intent on digging up rare gems from the psychedelic period. The series started in 1984 and continued until 2002 before being collected in two rather fine box sets in 2003 (which is where I first heard them). As a side note, the band Argosy could be argued to be something of a supergroup in the making as both songs were written and sung by Roger Hodgson, who would later go on to form Supertramp. Also included on the disc was Elton John, Caleb Quaye (who was responsible for the rather good song ‘Woman of Distinction on Disc 1) and Nigel Olsson. Quaye and Olsson would later become members of the Elton John band.
Disc 1
Faster Than Light – The Mirror
Woman Of Distinction – Caleb
Hold On – Ipsissimus
Cast A Spell – The Open Mind
Tracy Took A Trip – The Executives
Here We Go ‘Round The Lemon Tree – Jason Crest
Lollipop Minds – Wimple Witch
William Chalker’s Time Machine – The Lemon Tree
Barricades – The Koobas
Celestial Empire – Dragonfly
On The Beach – Finders Keepers
Daughter Of The Moon – Sharon Tandy & Fleur De Lys
Matrimonial Fears – The Cymbaline
Anymore Than I Do – The Attack
Anniversary Of Love – Ice
Love & Beauty – The Moody Blues
My World Fell Down – The Ivy League
Tales Of Flossie Fillet – Turquoise
Why May I Now Know? – Waterloo
You Know That I’ll Be There – Peter & The Blizzards
For many year, I didn’t have a lot of Otis Redding records in my collection. A couple of singles and a best of, but this changed in 2015 when Rhino decided to put out the great man’s albums in a box set called Soul Manifesto 1964-1970. This contained all of the albums he released during his life time, and the most of the posthumous albums with the exception of 1992’s Remember Me. What was most surprising about this posthumous releases was the high quality fo the music that was on them. When an artists has died, these releases can be seen as a cash grab for the record label and full of substandard material that the artist had felt was not worth releasing at the time. Not so in Redding’s case. He seemed to have a knack of writing a good tune, but also picking out awesome ones to cover. Hence this three disc set. I set out to make a single or double disc compilation at most, but there was so much good material, it was hard to keep it to three. The story of Redding’s life and untimely death have been told many times so I came going to let his music do the talking, especially as I am still putting the finishing touches to my next post and that one is taking a lot longer to research and put together than all of the other posts I have put together before this put together. Well, that is the way it seems anyway. Enjoy.
Disc 1
Shake
Love Man
Any Ole Way
Pain In My Heart
Tramp*
Chained & Bound (Single Version)
Direct Me (Mono)
Hard To Handle (Mono)
Security
That’s What My Heart Needs
These Arms Of Mine (Single Version)
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Come To Me
Down In The Valley
You’ve Made A Man Out Of Me
Tell The Truth
634-5789
That’s A Good Idea
Your One & Only Man
Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down & Out)
Bring It On Home To Me*
It’s Growing
I’m A Changed Man (Mono)
Don’t Mess With Cupid
Tennessee Waltz
When Something is Wrong With My Baby*
For Your Precious Love
Change Gonna Come
Disc 2
Stay In School
The Boston Monkey
Trick Or Treat
Look At The Girl
Home in Your Heart
A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
I Love You More Than Words Can Say
I’m Coming Home To See About You
The Hucklebuck
Got To Get Myself Together
I Got The Will
Lovely Dovey*
Johnny’s Heartbreak
Remember Me
I’m Coming Home
Open The Door
Groovin’ Time
I Can’t Turn You Loose
Let Me Come On Home
You’re Still My Baby
Free Me
Are You Lonely For Me Baby?*
Give Away None Of My Love
The Happy Song (Dum-Dum-De-De-De-Dum-Dum)
Champagne & Wine
Everybody Makes Mistakes
You Don’t Miss Your Water
Amen
Disc 3
Demonstration
She Put The Hurt On Me
Tell It Like It Is*
Rock me Baby
Don’t Leave Me This Way
I Need Your Lovin’
It Takes Two*Living By The Pund (Take 1)
The Dog
I’m Sick Y’All
Something Is Worrying Me
I Want To Thank You
Keep Your Arms Around Me
You Got Good Lovin’
Mary’s Little Lamb
The Match Game
You Left The Water Running
Sweet Lorene
A Lover’s Question
Nobody’s Fault by Mine
A Little Time
Love Have Mercy
Think About It
The Glory of Love
That’s How Strong My Love Is
My Lover’s Prayer
I’ve Been Loving Too Long
Try A Little Tenderness
* Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
Only Disc 1 could be reproduced on Spotify to some of the songs not being available on that platform.
I really love the period of music that is known as the Psychedelic era. No other time period of music (in my opinion) was so experimental, or interesting on the ear. This was because artists were keen to push the boundaries. The most famous of these is arguably The Beatles. Just look at their output between the 1962 and 1967. Their first single of ‘Love Me’ had the classic two guitars, bass and drums line up. I know there is a harmonica in there as well but the lyrics are not exactly earth shattering. Move forward to ‘Sgt Pepper’ and we have songs about parking meter ladies, victoriana and whatever ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ is about? The instrumentation includes sitars, tambours, swarmandals, piano, organs as well as combs and tissue paper.
Where The Beatles led, others would follow. What we got was songs with modulations, influences from what we would now call World Music (especially India at this time), surreal or whimsical lyrics and extended instrumental passages. The studio also became an instrument in itself, with artists employing panning across the stereo spectrum, tape effects, reverb as well as employing early synthesisers.
So here is my first of a year long set of compilations looking at this era with some of the most well know bands of the era rubbing shoulders with a good deal of those who did not make much headway at the time, but their contributions have been recognised and compiled since. There is even a well known act going under a different name (Idle Hands is really Supertramp).
Disc 1
So Much In Love – McGough & McGear
10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box – Aquarian Age
Granny Takes A Trip – The Purple Gang
Dream On My Mind – Rupert’s People
Imposters Of Life’s Magazine – The Idle Race
Light Of Your Mind – The David
Shine On Brightly – Procol Harum
Strange Walking Man – Mandrake Paddle Steamer
Mind’s Eye – Ramases & Selket
Life Is Short – Billy Nicholls
Hurdy Gurdy Man – Dondvan
Monday morning – Tales of Justine
Am I The Red One – Mick Softly With The Summer Suns
Subway (Smokey Pokey World) – Tickle
Dr. Crippen’s Waiting Room – Orange Machine
Talkin’ About The Good Times – The Pretty Things
Screams In The Ears – Bill Fay
Model Village – Penny Peeps
I’m A Man – the Spencer Davis Group
Relax – The Who
Pools Of Blue – Barclay James Harvest
I Can Take You To the Sun – The Misunderstood
Sky Pilot – Eric Burdon & The Animals
Reputation – Shy Limbs
Disc 2
Path Through A Forest (Sound Effects Version) – The Factory
London Social Degree – Billy Nicholls
Peru – Chimera
Shirley – Cliff Wade
Painter Man – The Creation
Michaelangelo – 23rd Turnoff
The Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Stalinist Regime) – Scott Walker
Run The Night – Wicked Lady
I’d Like To Walk Around In Your Mind – Vashti Bunyan
Time Of The Season (Mono Mix) – The Zombies
Red Chalk Hill – John Pantry
Drop Everything & Run – Thame Russal
The Otherside – Apple
Smokey Wood – Peter & The Wolves
She’s A Rainbow – the Rolling Stones
Forty Thousand Headmen – Traffic
I Don’t Know Where I Stand – Fariport Convention
Julia Dream – Pink Floyd
The Days Of Pearly Spencer – David McWilliams
Hole In His Hand – Jesse Harper
Meditations – Felius Andromeda
Remember – The Idle Hands (Supertramp)
The Bird – Nimrod
The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown) – Fleetwood Mac
The cover is a stock photo, which I believe was on Microsoft Windows but given some effects to make it look a bit more psychedelic.
Disc 1 is made up of tracks from the ‘Mojo Presents Acid Drops, Spacedust and Flying Saucers’ compilation from 2001.
Back in the dim distant past, or before the internet, finding out information about more obscure bands was a very hit and miss affair. Record Collector Magazine was a good place to start but this did depend on if the editor felt that that particular artists would help sell more copies that month, or the odd reference book. In my case, it was whether I or my family knew someone who had a record collection that they had built up throughout their life and didn’t mind me playing them. Even better was when some of these family friends donated their vinyl to archive. One such occasion happened in 1992. This particular collection contained records that mostly dated from the 70s and was full of bands and artists a good many I had never heard of. One of those is the featured artists in this post, and that is the Pink Fairies.
The album in my hands turned out be part of record label Polydor’s Flashback series. The Flashback series was Polydor mining their back catalogue but in a different way from other labels. Whereas other label would produce Greatest Hits or Best Of compilations, Polydor took a different route and produce a good number of budget priced compilations of big names (Cream, Hendrix), bands that had been on the label, or associate label but moved onto pastures new (Fairport Convention), cult acts (Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa) and half forgotten acts (Pink Fairies). Now, at the time, I knew nothing of this. In front of me was an album with a pink background with three hairy looking musicians giving it plenty on stage and a list of songs contained within. The back cover gave a very short history of the band which included a limited list of records the band had released. As soon as I put the needle on the vinyl and the first song played, I knew I was entering into a different world.
The Pink Fairies came out of the Ladbrooke Groove underground scene of the early 70s. They played the first Glastonbury as well as appearing outside the gates of the Isle of Wight festival. On the second of these, the band played outside because not only were they not on the bill, but felt that music should be free. That being said, they did release three albums on a major label in their first incarnation and people would have had to pay for these. Anyway, it from these early years that this collection is drawn from. The music the band produced was a heady mix of good time rock ’n’ roll from their most self written material with the odd cover in there. Original guitar player Paul Rudolph played a mean guitar and it was wild solo on the opening track of the Flashback album that mesmerised me in the first place. That song was ‘The Snake’, and when you hear it you will see what I mean. Rudolph left after the second album to be replaced with first Mick Wayne, who only appeared on the ‘Well, Well, Well’ single and then Larry Wallis who stuck around for the last album, ‘King Of Oblivion’. After this taster, I was after more Fairies records to add to the collection.
Back in the early days of me collecting records, having to find a record by an obscure artist I was getting into was a very hot and miss affair, and mostly it involved misses. That was down to one simple factor; luck. Not only did the second hand record shop you went to have to have it (which was unlikely), I also had to hope that it was within my merger budget. As it was, on my first trip out I picked up a copy of ‘King Of Oblivion’. That might explain why it has more songs on this compilation that the other Fairies records. The original trio of albums were available in the early 90s on some rather pricey Japanese import CDs, but being a student at the time, I was unable to afford them. I did pick up a couple more albums along the way but these were from one or more of the numerous times the band has got back together down the years. None of them held a torch to what the band had produced before and that was not probably the reason why they were so cheap. You live and learn. There was the odd semi legitimate release (most of which came from Italy) which had some live stuff, especially from he archives of the BBC. Then, in 2002, the original albums were dusted off by Polydor and released on CD with bonus tracks. Finally I was able to hear then all for the first time after ten years of waiting. As with most of these things, the anticipation only lead to the hardest of falls. I had already heard most of the best songs on the records I had in the collection already. it did feel like a bit of a let down, but it was great to hear them finally and I was able to put this compilation together that I present to you here. Enjoy.
Thor – Never Never Land
Johnny B. Goode – BBC In Concert Radio Broadcast 1971
The Snake Single – A-Side
Portobello Shuffle – What A Bunch Of Sweeties
Say You Love Me – Never Never Land
Lucille – BBC In Concert Radio Broadcast 1971
City Kids – Kings Of Oblivion
Chromium Plating – Kings Of Oblivion
Raceway – Kings Of Oblivion
Well, Well, Well – Single A-Side
Do It – Single B-Side
Chambermaid – Kings Of Oblivion
Going Down – What A Bunch Of Sweeties (2002 Reissue)
Right On, Fight On – What A Bunch Of Sweeties
I Wish I Was A Girl – Kings Of Oblivion
Street Urchin – Kings Of Oblivion
Out of all of the bands that I have posted about, I thought that this would be another one in which I would not be able to produce a Spotify playlist. Well, it just goes to show how wrong you can be. Every song is on there, even the BBC In Concert session. I was amazed. What that does mean is that you can enjoy this Pink Fairies compilation as much as I have down the years.
The front cover is adapted from their debut release, ‘Never Never Land’.
When I heard that there was going to be a collaborative album between the sweet sounding Campbell with the life lived baritone of Lanegan, I thought it was an April Fool’s. It just goes to show how wrong you can be. The duo produced three albums along with associated singles/EPs between 2006 and 2010. With Lanegan’s passing in 2022, the chance of the pair recording together again has now passed.
Campbell was the driving force behind this pair up, writing most of the songs as well as producing the records but did not want to continue touring. The grind of going out on the road was one of the reasons she had quit Belle and Sebastian back in 2002. The relationship with Lanegan had also become strained but what we got when they did work together, it was a modern version of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood. Enjoy.
Dusty Wreath
We Die & See Beauty Again
You Won’t Let Me Down Again
Snake Song
Shotgun Blues
The False Husband
Deus Ibi Est
Ramblin’ Man
Time Of The Season
Something To Believe
Come On Over (Turn Me On)
Cool Water
Saturday’s Gone
Lately
Rambling Rose, Clinging Vine
No Place To Fall
Trouble
Revolver
Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart
The Circus Is Leaving Town
The cover is adapted from the duo’s third and final album, ‘Hawk’. This play list could not be reproduced with one or more songs not being available on Spotify.
I only started buying Isobel Campbell’s solo records once she had left Belle and Sebastian. This occurred after the release of the bands ‘Storytelling’ LPs and it as though her leaving was one of the reasons why some of the tweeness left the band. What I didn’t realise until much later is that she released two album whilst still a member of Belle and Sebastian under the name of The Gentle Waves. These Gentle Waves albums could even be considered lost Belle and Sebastian albums as members of the band provide backing to her songs. Campbell released a number of records until 2006, when she collaborated with Mark Lanegan on a number of albums, but more on them later in the month. After the release of he last Campbell/Lanegan collaboration, there was silence for ten years. That does not mean that Campbell wasn’t doing anything. She had moved to American with her husband and had recorded an album but when her label folded, she spent a long time trying to obtain the rights to her own recordings so she could release them herself. Luckily for us, she did this and when ‘There Is No Other’ came out in 2020, there was an option to buy the album with a different, acoustic mix. Any songs where I have used these acoustic versions have been listed as such. Enjoy.
Disc 1
Milkwhite Sheets
Bang Bang
Hold Back A Thousand Years*
Solace Of Pain*
Renew & Restore*
Time Is Just The Same
Evensong*
Weathershow*
Song For Baby
Argomenti
This Land Flows With Milk
Beggar, Wiseman or Thief?
Hori Horo
O Love Is Teasin’
Are You Going To Leave Me?
Monologue For An Old True Love
Loretta Young*
The Breeze Whispered Your Name (Part 2)
There is No Greater Gold*
Let The Good Times Begin*
There Was Magic, Then…*
Rose, I Love You*
Thursday’s Child (Coda)*
This play list could not be reproduced with one or more songs not being available on Spotify.
Disc 2
City Of Angels
Rainbow (Acoustic)
Ant Life (Acoustic)
Just For Today (Acoustic)
The National Bird Of India
Runnin’ Down A Dream
Love For Tomorrow
Johnny Come Home
Falling From Grace*
Pretty Things*
Flood*
Reynardine
Tree Lullaby*
Yearning
Vultures (Acoustic)
See Your Face Again
Loving Hannah
Willow’s Song
Hey World (Acoustic)
Emmanuelle, Skating On Thin Ice*
Enchanted Place*
The Heart of It All (Acoustic)
A Chapter In The Life Mathiew*
*The Gentle Waves
Some of these songs are from the acoustic version her last album. This play list could not be reproduced with one or more songs not being available on Spotify.
The cover is adapted from the EP, ‘Time Is Just the Same’.
Before I start talking about the band in this era, I will point out that a couple of the tracks on this compilation come from the bands tenure on the Jeepster label. I quite liked the tunes and couldn’t find a place for them on the Jeepster compilation, so I thought I would use them here. They don’t sound out of place which is a bonus.
The bands time on Rough Trade started with intent as they had Uber producer Trevor Horn to work on their ‘Dear Catastrophe Waitress’ LP. It not only signalled a period of time on a new label, but a newish sound. The songs were not as twee as they once were as the songs had a bit more production to them. The instrumentation more diverse and they also started to release singles that was already on an album, which was a change from what had gone before. With Trevor Horn on board, the fact that the band became louder and more mainstream should not have been a surprise.
This period also produced the ‘God Help the Girl’ project. This was initially an album of songs sung by women but written by Belle and Sebastian’s main songwriter, Stuart Murdoch. Though not classed as a Belle and Sebastian album, I have included songs from this project here because they fit in with the overall sound. These records also had a number of people from the band playing on them so that is close enough for me. The project would eventually lead to a film of the same name and because there was such a focus on this, there was only one Belle and Sebastian album released between 2007 and 2015.
Disc 1
Fiction
I Didn’t See It Coming
God Help The Girl*
Come On Sister
The Blues Are Still Blue
Last Trip
Funny Little Frog
I’ll Have To Dance With Cassie*
Pretty Eve in The Tub*
Your Cover’s Blown
You Don’t Send Me
Song For Sunshine
Calculating Bimbo
Dress Up In You
If You Could Speak*
The Psychiatrist Is In*
Baby’s Just Waiting*
Stay Loose
Perfection Is A Hipster*
Mornington Crescent
Fiction Reprise
Disc 2
Act Of The Apostle*
I’m In Love With The City*
Susie In The Graveyard
He’s A Loving Kind Of Boy*
Stop, Look & Listen
Blue Eyes Of A Millionaire
If She Wants Me
Suicide Girl
White Collar Boy
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Come Monday Night*
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John
Musician, Please Take Heed*
I Just Want Your Jeans*
Roy Walker
We Are The Sleepyheads
Another Sunny Day
I’m A Cuckoo (Single Version)
I’m Not Living In The Real World
Asleep On A Sunbeam
A Down & Dusky Blonde*
I Took A Long Hard Look
Night Walk
The cover of this compilation is adapted from the album, ‘The Life Pursuit’.
This month, I will be focusing on Belle and Sebastian, as well as the solo career of past member Isobel Campbell. I think the first time I heard of this band was when they won the British Breakthrough act at the Brit Awards in 1999. I did ask myself who they were especially as their victory annoyed Pete Waterman who felt that Steps, a group he produced should have won claiming Belle and Sebastian had rigged the online vote to win. The Brits checked the votes and found nothing wrong, but any band that can annoy Pete Waterman is alright with me. It was not long after this that I read that their first album from three years before was going to be re-released. I was also interested in this release because ‘Tigermilk’ which was the name of the first album had only originally been released in a limited edition of 1000. I went down to my local Our Price (remember them?) and ordered it.
‘Tigermilk’ was a lot more twee than the majority, if not all of the records I owned up to that point but I loved it. It is one of the few albums I can put on and play all the way through without wanting to skip over a single song. From the opening song, ‘The State I Am In’, I was hooked. Considering this album was made as a college project, it is better than a lot of more famous albums that had a lot more money thrown into its production. Just goes to show you that money doesn’t buy you everything. After the first play through, I knew had to find out what other records they had made.
At that point, it included three albums and four EPs which rather quickly made their way into the Squire Archive. The first two albums were both originally released in 1996 and the second was called ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’. I found this album a bit hard to get into initially but with perseverance, it paid dividends. The band spent 1997 releasing a number of EPs instead of an LP. The first one was ‘Dog On Wheels’, which is essentially the demos that the college heard which lead to the recording of ‘Tigermilk’. Two more EPs followed, each with a number of classy songs but would show the way forward for the group as they contained songs not written by main writer, Stuart Murdoch. This democratic approach would continue into their third record, ‘The Boy With The Arab Strap’.
With all this great music blaring out of my stereo system, I began to look forward to the next album. I did not have to wait long for. “Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant” came out in 2000 and I remember being very disappointed with it but there were still a couple of good tunes on here for me to enjoy. The band ticked over between this and their last album on the Jeepster label by releasing some singles, none of which appeared on any of the LPs. You cannot accuse Belle and Sebastian of not giving their fans value for money. This view all came crashing down with their last album on the Jeepster label which was called ‘Storytelling’. The album was meant to be the soundtrack to a movie of the same name, but only six minutes of music was used. Without looking at it too much, I’m sure I did not use that much more on this compilation either. It was an album of musical cues and most probably a contract filler. The band would sign with the Rough Trade label for their next release.
Even though they could not maintain the quality of the songs (what band can?), there was so much great material during the years they were with the Jeepster label that I could produce a three disc compilation. I love this era of the band and I especially love the music contained on the first two disc. It brings back lots of memories of a time in my life and in their win at the 1999 Brit Awards, showed that manufactured groups did not always get their own way. All of these songs were available on Spotify so the playlists are available to listen to.
Disc 1
The State I Am In
Expectations
She’s Losing it
You’re Just A Baby
Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
If You’re Feeling Sinister
I Don’t Love Anyone
Photo Jenny
I Know Where The Summer Goes
Mayfly
I Could Be Dreaming
Lazy Line Painter Jane
My Wandering Days Are Over
Mary Jo
Ease Your Feet In The Sea
Like Dylan In The Movies
Beautiful
The Rollercoaster Ride
Disc 2
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
Is It Wicked Not To Care?
Seeing Other People
The Loneliness Of The Middle Distance Runner
The Model
Don’t Leave The Light On Baby
The Boy With The Arab Strap
Chickfactor
I Love My Car
Seymour Stein
Women’s Realm
Waiting For The Moon To Rise
A Summer Wasting
Marx & Engels
The Gate
Take Your Carriage Clock & Shove It
We Rule The School
The Chalet Lines
Judy & The Dream Of Horses
Electronic Renaissance
Songs For Children
Disc 3
I Fought In A War
Black & White Lines
Storytelling
Wandering Alone
La Pastie De La Bourgeoise
Me & The Major
Nothing In The Silence
Big John Shaft
The Wrong Girl
There’s Too Much Love
Put The Book Back On The Shelf
Simple Things
Dirty Dream Number 2
Winter Wooksie
A Century Of Fakers
Nice Day For A Sulk
Family Tree
The Boy Done Wrong Again
The Magic Of A Kind Word
The Fox In The Snow
You Made Me Forget My Dreams
This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
The front cover is the same as the cover to the ‘Dog On Wheels’ EP.
Looking back, over 50 years since their first album was released, it might be hard for the audience today to get their heads around the amount of albums this band sold. Every single one of their records released in their ten year of recording new material achieved Platinum status in the US and UK markets and their fourth album has sold over 20 millions copies in the America alone. The band have also tightly controlled their output, famously not releasing an official single in the UK until 1997. The 70s were their decade but they did not last into the next decade having decided not to continue after their drummer, John Bonham, died in 1980.
I knew very little about Led Zeppelin before 1990, and then I heard Stairway to Heaven on the radio. Asking around, I found a friend at school had a copy of the album that song came from and lent me the record. I was hooked. This just happened to coincide with my first forays into buying my own records instead of just what was in the house. Coincidently, it was around this time that the band announced that they going to release a 4 CD Boxed Set, remixed by Jimmy Page who had not only played on all of the albums but had produced them the first time around. I had to have it and on Christmas Day morning, there it was.
I seem to remember the set was produced because Page was annoyed with the mastering job that had been done on his music when they first released on CD and felt that he could do a better job. He was not wrong in that respect. The sound is in you face from the moment ‘Whole Lotta Love’ comes out of the speakers. The rest of the first CD is uniformly excellent with enough light and dark in the music to show that they are not just a hard rocking outfit. CD 2 is a bit more folkie and mellow and that was all I could take on the first sitting. It took me a while too warm to the music on the latter discs, especially CD 3. Like most bands I like, the longer they go on, the less I seem to like the music. The CD 4 was the same.
What annoyed me a little bit about this Boxed Set was that at the same time, a two disc highlights set was also released and contained the song ‘Good Times Bad Times’ that was missing from the set I had. With funds limited, there was not way I was going to be able to buy the two disc set just for one song. I was also able to borrow most of the individual albums off of other people to hear the songs that I was missing and I left it at that. However, Led Zeppelin did something that no other band have done to the best of my knowledge. That was, they released another Boxed Set which included all of the songs not on the 1990 set. This meant that I now had every song from their albums including BBC sessions, unique remixes and outtakes. Well done Zeppelin; an excellent example to other bands of not ripping off your fans.
This compilation is my own best off of Zeppelin songs over three discs as they produced so much good music that it had to be that long. Enjoy!
Disc 1
Good Times Bad Times
Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman)
Whole Lotta Love
Heartbreaker
Communication Breakdown
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
What Is & What Should Never Be
You Shook Me
Boogie With Stu
Tangerine
Baby Come On Home
Thank You
Gallows Pole
Ten Years Gone
Kashmir
When The Levee Breaks
Disc 2
Black Dog
Over The Hills & Far Away
Immigrant Song
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Black Country Woman
Rock & Roll
Four Sticks
Misty Mountain Hop
The Battle Of Evermore
Hey Hey What Can I Do
Going To California
Down By The Seaside
That’s The Way
Ramble On
The Rain Song
Stairway To Heaven
Disc 3
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Black Mountain Side
Travelling Riverside Blues
The Girl I Love She Got The Long Black Wavy Hair
The Lemon Song
Since I’ve Been Loving You
How Many More Times
South Bound Suarez
Bring It On Home
The Rover
Poor Tom
Houses Of The Holy
Custard Pie
I’m Gonna Crawl
All My Love
Bron-Yr-Aur
I used the artwork from that 1990 box set for this collection. To me, it was perfect.
And so we reach August. This is the time of year when the majority of schools in the UK and therefore the general population are on holiday. What better time to share the third and last (so far) of my compilations looking at the wonder of the Sunshine Pop genre. There are the usual suspects in here (The Association, The Millennium and the 5th Dimension) but also some more obscure artists such as Griffin, The Parade and The Arbors with their rather fine cover of ‘Touch Me’ by The Doors. Remember folks, the night are now drawing in and it will soon be Christmas.
Disc 1
Someday Man – Paul Williams
Rumours – Eternity’s Children
Sweet Pea – Tommy Roe
Hands Off The Man (Film Flam Man) – Peggy Lipton
Sugar Town – Nancy Sinatra
Odds & Ends – Dionne Warwick
Sweet Blindness – The 5th Dimension
Hotel Indiscreet (Mono Single Version) – Sagittarius
I’ll Never Find Another You – The Seekers
It’s Getting Better – Mama Cass Elliot
Frog Prince – The Parade
Don’t You Care – The Buckinghams
Kissin’ My Life Away – The Hondells
Along Comes Mary (Single Version) – The Association
Sunday Will Never Be The Same – Spanky & Our Gang
(They Long Top Be) Close To You – Josie & The Pussycats
Touch Me – The Arbors
So Many People (Mono Single Version) – Paul Williams
Oh What A Lovely Day – Twinn Connexion
Master Jack – Four Jacks & A Jill
Don’t Sleep In The Subway – Petula Clark
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Dionne Warwick
You’re So Good For Me – Twice As Much
She’s Not Coming Home – Ohio Express
My Sentimental Friend – Herman’s Hermits
Share With Me – The Millennium
Sister Marie – Chad & Jeremy
Always You – The Sundowners
Disc 2
Come To The Sunshine – Van Dyke Parks
Green Tambourine – The Lemon Pipers
Early In The Morning – Vanity Fare
Baby, It’s Real – The Millennium
Luckie (Mono) – Laura Nyro
Cynthia At The Garden – Sidewalk Skipper Band
Yours ‘Till Forever – Griffin
If You Don’t Want My Love – Robert John
From You Unto Us – Eternity’s Children
Sweet Sounds – Tommy Roe
Flying On The Ground – Summer Snow (feat. The Peppermint Trolley Company)
Brandy (Doesn’t Live Here Anymore) – The Eight Day
My World Fell Down (Stereo Single Version) – Sagittarius
There’s Got To Be A Word – The Innocence
Beautiful People – Kenny O’Dell
Riding A Carousel – Petticoat & Vine
Come On In – The Association
She’d Rather Be With Me – The Turtles
Hey Baby (They’re Playing Our Song) – The Buckinghams
And Suddenly – Cherry People
I Can Make It With You – Pozo-Seco Singers
Neon Rainbow – The Box Tops
Pageant – Blades Of Grass
Mornin’ I’ll Be Movin’ On (Mono Single Version) – Paul Williams
Make You’re Own Kind Of Music – Mama Cass Elliot
Living Together, Growing Together – The 5th Dimension
