| View Larger Image | Insane Times: 25 British Psychedelic Artefacts from the EMI Vaults | Audio CDby Various Artists
| List Price: | $12.98 | | Price: | $21.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 3 to 5 days |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Import | | Studio: | EMI Europe Generic | | Release Date: | August 20, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 25,511th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Song for Insane Times
- Track 2: Dandelion Seeds
- Track 3: Real Lfe Permanent Dream
- Track 4: Hold On
- Track 5: Strange Walking Man
- Track 6: Towards the Skies
- Track 7: Model Villlage
- Track 8: The Dog Presides
- Track 9: Hurry Up John
- Track 10: Last Cloud Home
- Track 11: Is It Love?
- Track 12: Nightmares in Red
- Track 13: Equestrian Statue
- Track 14: Sun Sing
- Track 15: Castle in the Sky
- Track 16: Monday Morning
- Track 17: Mr Commuter
- Track 18: All the World Is Love
- Track 19: World of You
- Track 20: William Chalker's Time Machine
- Track 21: World Spinning Sadly
- Track 22: Please Leave My Mind
- Track 23: Barricades
- Track 24: Think About It
- Track 25: No Good Trying
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original Summer of Love, this 25-track collection remembers the golden era of British psychedelia in/around 1967.Includes classic recordings from some of the 60s' biggest names, from The Hollies and the Yardbirds (featuring Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page) to Pink Floyd's late genius, Syd Barrett. A number of the recordings have never before been on CD (example: Mike Proctor's 'Mr Commuter', a popular record on today's Mod/60s scene). EMI. 2007. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 5 reviews)
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Far out , and yet still strangely groovy. by Armchair Pundit (Durham City, England.)  5 Stars
May 29, 2008
Most of these tracks sound refreshingly sixties to me even after all these years.
The late sixties early seventies have long since being my favourite musical era.
The only big names that jumped out at me here were The Hollies, The Yardbirds and Syd Barrett, but it's the lesser names that got me groovin'.
The Idle Race's; "Hurry up John" (with ELO's Jeff Lynn) shows Lynn's precocious talent was emerging even at this time (1968).
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's, Equestrian Statue (1967) does likewise for Neil Innes (The Rutles with Eric Idle).
Take a trip down memory lane and check this album out, it's for all you aging Flower children and Hippies at heart.
Love, peace and sugar lumps man.
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Excellent Psych Comp by Brian J. Greene (Durham, NC)  4 Stars
May 05, 2008
Compilations are so hit and miss - much more miss than hit. You never know what you're going to get, and you often are gravely disappointed in the end result. Not so with this fabulous collection of UK Psych from the late 60s EMI vaults. A few big names are out there - Syd Barrett, the Yardbirds, the Hollies - and yet those 3 are not among the best tracks on the album. There are 6 or 8 songs that are pretty much throwaway, a bunch of others that are good if not memorable, and then there are several songs that are just jaw-dropping excellent slices of vintage psych. One of those is by the Idle Race -a pre-Move/E.L.O. Jeff Lynne project. Then there's "Model Village" by the Penny Peeps, which is a perfect piece of Mod psych - think "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" by the Move. "Last Cloud Home" by the Orange Bicycle is lazy, sun-drenched acid pop at its finest, and the Rainbow Folly's "Sun Sing" could have been written by John Lennon during the Revolver era. If a compilation gives you 3 or more great songs that you've never heard before and will always cherish, it is a successful collection. This one accomplishes that and more.
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Topnotch psych collection! by Peter Sykes (Airlie Beach, Australia) 4 Stars
December 29, 2007
I manage the Psychedelic 100 website and I have to say this is one of the best sounding psych compilations yet released. Some of the big names of psychedelia are here and, even though some of the tracks are hard to get a hold of, these are definitely not obscurities. A great collection well worth having.
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great blasts from the past by 1967 dreaming (UK) 5 Stars
November 02, 2007
Really nice to go back to the 60's and listen to some of the other songs - some which should have got played more often at the time - like The Yardbirds, Bonzo D D D Band, The Penny Peeps and The Idle Race.
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Psych Comp Done Right by Milwaukee Psych Fan (Brewtown, USA) 5 Stars
September 22, 2007
Excellent. Obeys the two clutch rules of psych comps: 1) provide the best sound possible, and 2) include mostly tracks that are not often comped. And if you are not sure how to label the tracks (e.g. popsike, acid rock, sunshine pop, blues rock) just pick tracks that have one thing in common: they're good! Well done. Compare against "Real Life Permanent Dreams" which sounds terrible with very little there, there.
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