VA - Creative Outlaws (UK Underground 1965-1971)

Artist: VA
Title Of Album: Creative Outlaws (UK Underground 1965-1971)
Year Of Release: 20 Jul 2009
Label: Trikont
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 75:41 min
Total Size: 110 mb

Dedicated to the memory of John Peel, this compilation from German label Trikont celebrates the more rebellious strains of British music through the mid-sixties to early-seventies, incorporating the first waves of psychedelic music and various other experimental tendencies inherent to British music during the period. The inclusion of big names like Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, The Small Faces and The Yardbirds might seem odd under that premise, but it's not entirely unreasonable to suppose that these artist's were operating at the creative fringes when they first emerged on the scene - certainly, Nick Drake only really found broad recognition after his untimely death.

The most tangibly 'underground' music here though, comes from the likes of the Delia Derbyshire/Brian Hodgson project White Noise (whose always flabbergasting 'Love Without Sound' is included), John's Children, Ansley Dunbar's Retaliation, Lol Coxhill (covering I Am The Walrus'), Deviants, Liverpudlian beat poet Adrien Henri (whose ironic call for Batman to help out in the Vietnam war sort of anticipates Alan Moore's Watchmen) and prog-folkers Comus.

Not everything here will be new to you, but this is a really great, thoughtfully put together compilation with an abundance of top class material. Highly recommended.

TRACKLIST
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01. eric burdon & the animals - winds of change 04:01
02. the nice - the thoughts of emerlist davjack 04:16
03. small faces - whatcha gonna do about it 02:16
04. the aquarian age - 10000 words in a cardboard box 03:27
05. edgar broughtin band - out demons out 04:48
06. harvey matusow's jew's s harp band - wetsocks 03:01
07. the white noise - love without sound 03:08
08. nick drake - day is done 02:27
09. fairport convention - percy's song 06:54
10. arthur brown - nightmare 03:19
11. john's children - desdemona 02:25
12. aynsley dunbar retaliation - watch n chain 02:36
13. lol coxhill - i am the walrus 03:54
14. traffic - forty thousand headman 03:15
15. comus - in the lost queen's eyes 02:49
16. the yardbirds - little games 02:25
17. liverpool scene - batpoem 01:45
18. the deviants - nothing man 04:19
19. julie driscoll, brian auger & the trimity - czechoslovakia 06:22
20. bonzo dog band - we are normal 04:51
21. hapshash & the coloured coat - aoum 03:23

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