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• Four-hour, 79-track CD devoted to the British psychedelic sounds of 1967.
• Follow-up volume to Grapefruit’s much-admired anthology ‘Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds’.
In 2016, Cherry Red’s psychedelic imprint Grapefruit Records released the 3CD set ‘Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds’, a hugely successful, widely-acclaimed anthology of lysergically- inclined music made in Britain during the epochal year of 1967.
In response to the many requests we’ve received, here’s the long-awaited second volume, housed like its predecessor in a clamshell box with a lavishly annotated and illustrated 48- page booklet.
Featuring 79 mind-melting tracks from British psychedelia’s key year, ‘Too Much Sun Will Burn’ covers all bases, incorporating the era’s big hitters (The Move, The Who, Small Faces, ISB, Pretty Things, The Zombies), huge singles (Traffic, Procol Harum, The Hollies, Eric Burdon & The Animals, The Troggs), cult 45s (Paper Blitz Tissue, Made In Sheffield, Caleb and many others) and such future legends as Bowie, Genesis, Alex Harvey and Elton John, with a track from his legendary aborted debut LP ‘Regimental Sgt. Zippo’.
With numerous rare mixes, key album tracks, first-ever CD appearances, a clutch of previously-unissued gems and Peter Cook & Dudley Moore supplying the laconic final word on our groovy little scene, Too Much Sun Will Burn is yet another vital release from British psychedelia’s premier reissue label. You’ll be bedazzled…
Tracklist
DISC ONE
1 PAPER SUN (mono single version) – Traffic
2 REVOLUTION (mono, early alternative version) – TOMORROW
3 BABY YOUR PHRASING IS BAD – Caleb
4 TALK OF THE DEVIL – Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera
5 HORIZONS – Alex Harvey
6 NIGHT OF THE LONG GRASS – The Troggs
7 14 HOUR TECHNICOLOUR DREAM – The Syn
8 LOOK AT ME, I’M YOU – Blossom Toes
9 SNOWMAN – Tintern Abbey
10 NINA (band version) – Elton John
11 TWO WEEKS LAST SUMMER – Strawbs (featuring Sandy Denny)
12 TECHNICOLOUR DREAM – The Alan Bown!
13 NO-ONE ELSE CAN SEE – The Piccadilly Line
14 GOOD TIMES – Eric Burdon & The Animals
15 TWO LITTLE LADIES (Azalea And Rhododendron) – Crocheted Doughnut Ring
16 SHE IS BEAUTIFUL – Genesis
17 PAINTING BOX – Incredible String Band
18 LOVE-HATE-REVENGE (UK single version) – Episode Six
19 THERE AIN’T NO USE IN HANGIN’ ON – The Marmalade
20 SATURDAY NIGHT PEOPLE – Scott Henderson
21 AMELIA JANE – Made In Sheffield
22 ALL YOU’VE GOT – The Lovin’
23 GO-GO GIRL – John’s Children
24 IT COULD BE WONDERFUL – The Smoke
25 LET’S GO TO SAN FRANCISCO (Parts 1 and 2, mono version) – The Flower Pot Men
DISC TWO
1 DIVE INTO YESTERDAY – Kaleidoscope
2 SILAS STINGY – The Who
3 WAVE THE FLAG AND STOP THE TRAIN – The Move
4 GYPSY FRED – The Koobas
5 DON’T MAKE IT SO HARD (ON ME BABY) – Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
6 LADY UNDER THE LAMP – The End
7 HYACINTH THREADS – The Orange Bicycle
8 WOODEN SPOON – The Poets
9 ANY MORE THAN I DO – The Attack
10 GARDEN OF MY MIND – The Mickey Finn
11 I CAN’T SLEEP – The Quik
12 BOY MEETS GIRL – Paper Blitz Tissue
13 MY NEW DAY AND AGE – The Mindbenders
14 LOVE – The Virgin Sleep
15 HOMBURG – Procol Harum
16 THE INTRO AND THE OUTRO – The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
17 THE SUN GOES DOWN – Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich
18 RED SKY AT NIGHT – The Accent
19 A LITTLE BIT OF SHANGRI-LA – Our Plastic Dream
20 TINY GODDESS (single version) -Nirvana
21 UP SO HIGH – Living Daylights
22 MORNING SUN (alternative version) – The Spencer Davis Group
23 SUDDENLY WINTER – The Tremeloes
24 SILVER MAN* (original version) – Lisa & Francesca
25 MRS. BUSBY – The Mirage
26 ANOTHER VINCENT VAN GOGH (alternative version) – The 23rd Turnoff
27 WHAT SHALL I DO – The Artwoods
DISC THREE
1 KING MIDAS IN REVERSE (mono single version) – The Hollies
2 SITTING IN MY TREE – The Idle Race
3 SILLY BOY BLUE – David Bowie
4 MR. EVASION – The Pretty Things
5 HEAVEN AND HELL – The Easybeats
6 SUSANNAH’S STILL ALIVE (monovsingle version) – Dave Davies
7 PATTERNS – Small Faces
8 I CAN FLY – The Herd
9 ROYAL BLUE SUMMER SUNSHINE DAY – The Bystanders
10 BEECHWOOD PARK (mono single version) – The Zombies
11 NIGHTMARES – The Creation
12 SOMETHING OUT OF PLACE (aka ELTITON) – The Tickle
13 GREEN VEINED ORCHID – The Universals
14 GETTING OLD – Svensk
15 I’M IN LOVE WITH AN EX BEAUTY QUEEN – Great Uncle Fred
16 ARTHUR GREEN – Andy Ellison
17 MY WAYS ARE SET – John Williams
18 TURN OF THE CENTURY – Tony Rivers & The Castaways
19 SUNSHINE SECRET – Normie Rowe
20 BLACK SHEEP R.I.P. – Australian Playboys
21 LTTS – Big Jim Sullivan
22 TURN YOUR FACE AWAY* – Lisa & Frances
23 ICARUS – The Action
24 NEVER NEVER (Baker Street version) – Focal Point
25 LOVELY ELISA COPE IS DEAD – The 23rd Turnoff
26 REBECCA (100 DAYS)* – Circle Plantagenet
27 BEDAZZLED – Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
*previously unreleased