A Slight Disturbance In My Mind ~ The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds Of 1966

While the likes of “Rubber Soul”, ‘See My Friends’ and ‘Still I’m Sad’ had served notice in 1965 of British pop’s heightened level of ambition, 1966 would prove to be an even more tumultuous twelve-month period as experimentation and innovation grew to new levels.
The release that August of “Revolver” – whose cataclysmic closing track ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ landed amongst the record-buying public like an impenetrable missile from outer space – brought the concept of psychedelic music out of the margins and into the mainstream.
However, psychedelia – condemned by national newspaper The Sun as “the new and dangerous sound in pop music” – had been percolating throughout the year. The word was already in subterranean use in America, adapted by the likes of The 13th Floor Elevators and Hollywood hustler Kim Fowley, who in late 1965 had become the first person to promote a record with the term “psychedelic”.
Arriving in London in March 1966, Fowley became a proselytising influence for the new sound, instructing bemused young British bands to “act psychedelically”. His sojourn coincided with the relocation of Californian band The Misunderstood, whose incendiary sound and stage act was a major influence on a new generation of British acts.
Meanwhile, serial pioneers The Yardbirds were making increasingly audacious music, their new manager Simon Napier-Bell instructed the young John’s Children to become “the first psychedelic group”, while mod band The Creation developed an intriguing pop-art approach.
Featuring 84 tracks, A Slight Disturbance In My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds Of 1966 examines the “experimental pop” element of the British music scene during that epochal twelve-month period with a dizzying, dazzling mix of nascent psychedelia, introspective pop and what’s been retrospectively labelled freakbeat.
We feature vital contributions from some of the era’s biggest names (The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Hollies, The Animals etc), a bunch of highly collectable cult classics, a huge stash of unissued-at-the-time nuggets and early outings for such future legends as Bowie, Bolan, Slade and The Bee Gees.
Housed in a clamshell box containing a 52-page booklet crammed with biographical information and priceless period photos and memorabilia.

Disc: 1
1 MAKING TIME The Creation
2 SHAPES OF THINGS The Yardbirds
3 ILL KEEP HOLDING ON The Action
4 MUD IN YOUR EYE Fleur-De - Lys
5 SWEET MUSIC The Koobas
6 ORIENTAL SADNESS The Hollies
7 PLAY DOWN The Bee Gees
8 AM I THE RED ONE (ALTERNATIVE MIX) Mick Softley with The Summer Suns
9 I UNSEEN The Misunderstood
10 SECURITY (EXTENDED VERSION) The N Betweens
11 I DIG EVERYTHING David Bowie
12 SHES A GIRL The Attraction
13 A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY The Pretty Things
14 DADDY LONG LEGS (BRASS - FREE VERSION) Lindsay Muirs Untamed
15 MAN WITH MONEY Outrage
16 THE QUIET EXPLOSION The Uglys
17 THIRTEEN WOMEN The Renegades
18 I TAKE IT THAT WERE THROUGH The Riot Squad
19 MAJOR CATASTROPHE Katch 22
20 HIPPY GUMBO (DEMO VERSION) Marc Bolan
21 I WILL HAVE YOU Just Five
22 TOMORROW NIGHT The Times
23 BLOW - UP The In Crowd
24 SIMPLIFIED The Majority
25 BACK SEAT DRIVER The Ministry Of Sound
26 BABY, YOUVE GOT IT The Truth
27 I JUST GOT SOME Rod Stewart
28 ANSWERS PLEASE The Luvin Kind
Disc: 2
1 MY FRIEND JACK (DEMO VERSION) The Smoke
2 PLEASE PLEASE ME The Score
3 PAINTER MAN (2017 STEREO MIX) The Creation
4 WHY DONT YOU SMILE NOW Downliners Sect
5 YOUVE GOTTA HAVE LOVE BABE (DEMO VERSION) Graham Bond Organisation
6 OUTCAST The Animals
7 WERE BROKEN The Moody Blues
8 IVE LAID SOME DOWN IN MY TIME Tony Colton
9 WELLALL RIGHT The People
10 SHAPES IN MY MIND (US 45 VERSION) Keith Relf
11 MY TIME (BRASS - FREE VERSION) The Pretty Things
12 FANCY The Kinks
13 YOURE MY GIRL Manfred Mann
14 WHAT A STATE IM IN The Tremeloes
15 TURN INTO EARTH Al Stewart
16 THE MORNING AFTER The Mindbenders
17 WALKIN WALKIN WALKIN The Favourite Sons
18 HAVE YOU EVER LOVED SOMEBODY The Searchers
19 HUNGRY The 5 A.M. Event
20 MOLLY ANDERSONS COOKERY BOOK The Artwoods
21 TAX MAN Loose Ends
22 THE RUIN Deep Feeling
23 KICKS The Wheels
24 YOURE MY GIRL The Kingpins
25 PAINT IT BLACK The Tomcats
26 SAGITTARIUS The Cortinas
27 WRONG WAY The Brood
28 HOLIDAYMAKER The Key
Disc: 3
1 THE LOVE I THOUGHT ID FOUND Johns Children
2 SAVE MY SOUL The Wimple Winch
3 STROLL ON The Yardbirds
4 GLENDORA Downliners Sect
5 IM NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE (DEMO VERSION) The Flies
6 ITS A CRIME The Kirkbys
7 LET THE LIVE LIVE The Sorrows
8 I GO TO SLEEP The Fingers
9 DONT TELL ME Arthur Brown
10 HAPPY NEW YEAR Beverley
11 I AM THE WORLD The Bee Gees
12 CLOWN The Hollies
13 INDICATION The Zombies
14 LITTLE ROSY The Rocking Vickers
15 WHAT DOES SHE DO Sounds Around
16 MY LITTLE RED BOOK Episode Six
17 NO MORE YOU AND ME The Tornados 66
18 GIRL CHILD, I AM AN EVIL WITCHMAN The N Betweens
19 HURDY GURDY MAN The Spectres
20 SUMMER LEAVES ME WITH A SIGH Tuesdays Children
21 ADVERTISING MAN The Reaction
22 MY WORLD FELL DOWN The Ivy League
23 HEY, YOU LOLITA The Silence
24 I SUPPOSE The Secrets
25 DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE SONG Outrage
26 TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS The Mirage
27 MY MIND The Misunderstood
28 DISTURBANCE The Move