Various Artists: Too Much Sun Will Burn. The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967: Volume 2.

​DETAILS ALBUM

TRACKS
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

​Het aantal overzichten van Britse psychedelische muziek begint aardig op te lopen en Cherry Red voegt er dus nog eentje aan toe. Niet dat het ons stoort, want dat label zorgt altijd voor knappe re-mastering, een fraaie box met een waardevol inlegboekje en vooral een uitgebalanceerde keuze. Ook dit keer worden we getrakteerd op de vertrouwde mix van 1) hits van bekende artiesten (‘Paper Sun’ van Traffic; 2) vergeten of onbekende nummers van grote namen (‘Suddenly Winter’ van The Trememoes); 3) sterren-in-wording (Alex Harvey, David Bowie); 4) mindere goden van hoge kwaliteit (The Creation, The Action, Episode Six); 5) de nobele onbekenden met hier en daar ook onuitgegeven werk (Macca zag wel wat in Lisa & Francesca) en tenslotte muziek die voor het eerst op cd verschijnt. In totaal 79 stuks, die je in twee grote categorieën kan verdelen.  Eén: de bekende Britse beat met een laag ‘psych’, zoals Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera of The Syn. Twee: de echte flower power, want 1967 is het jaar van de Summer of Love, waar alles trager, zachter, milder en melodieuzer verloopt, zoals op ‘Let’s Go to San Francisco’ (The Flowerpot Men) en de onterecht vergeten Piccadilly Line die in 1967 een heuse LP mochten opnemen. Uiteraard vallen er nog meer subgenres of moeilijk te klasseren types te ontdekken, zoals Blossom Toes, Dave Davies of The Artwoods. Hier en daar zit er wel veel rek op de formule, bijv. ‘Bedazzled’ van Peter Cook & Duddley Moore. ‘Volume 2’ verwijst naar de eerste compilatie uit 2016, ‘Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds’.  Knap gedaan.
Radio 68  brengt een uitgebreide keuze op zondag 27 februari, dinsdag 1 en woensdag 2 maart.


Eddy Bonte 

​Here’s another compilation of British psych, courtesy of Cherry Red. Not that we mind, since this reissue label can be trusted for proper re-mastering, clamshell box sets with most informative booklets (48 pp.!) and a well-balanced selection. Famous artists are represented by their hits (Traffic, Procol Harum, Dave Davies) or lesser-known tracks (The Move, Small Faces), and are flanked by an impressive series of quality acts that somehow never really made it in comparison, think The Living Daylights, The Creation, The Syn, The Poets or The Action. All these are mingled with the first offerings by emerging stars such as David Bowie, Elton John and Genesis. Last but not least: a nice range of songs that were released before (Lisa & Francesca) and artists who never got any recognition at all whether for the right or wrong reasons, e.g.  Normie Rowe, Made in Sheffield and The Virgin Sleep. At any rate, all were part of the scene, except for the likes of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and … Peter Cooke & Duddley Moore. ‘Too Much Sun Will Burn’ features 79 tracks, so who cares?
Radio 68   plays choice tracks on Sunday 27 Feb., Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 March.