Monday, January 21, 2013

Various Artists - A Breath Of Fresh Air - A Harvest Records Anthology 1969-1974 (2007)




Various Artists - A Breath Of Fresh Air - A Harvest Records Anthology 1969-1974 (2007)

Label: Harvest – 0946 3 88613 2 4
Format: 3 × CD, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Classic Rock

At last EMI/Harvest Records release a cheap triple compilation boxset sampling their output and range of underground and progressive music at the end of the 60's and early 70's. This compliments those excellent sets issued by Island, Vertigo, Castle and Decca over the last 4 years.




Tracklist:

CD 1

1-1 Edgar Broughton Band, The – Evil 2:34
1-2 Deep Purple – Listen, Learn, Read On 4:04
1-3 Third Ear Band – Druid One 3:44
1-4 Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments* – Station Song 3:24
1-5 Michael Chapman (2) – Rainmaker 3:41
1-6 Kevin Ayers – Singing A Song In The Morning 2:53
1-7 Shirley & Dolly Collins – A Foresaking - Our Captain Cried 2:53
1-8 Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe, Eugene 8:50
1-9 Tea & Symphony – Armchair Theatre 3:55
1-10 Bakerloo – Big Bear Ffolly 4:00
1-11 Panama Limited Jug Band – Round And Round 3:15
1-12 Syd Barrett – Octopus 3:44
1-13 Deep Purple – The Painter 3:52
1-14 Pete Brown & Piblokto! – Country Morning 6:49
1-15 Roy Harper – Francesca 1:19
1-16 Forest (4) – Bad Penny 2:34
1-17 Chris Spedding – Backwood Theme 2:04
1-18 Greatest Show On Earth, The – Real Cool World 4:48
1-19 Ron Geesin & Roger Waters – Breathe 2:54
1-20 Barclay James Harvest – Taking Some Time On 5:31

CD 2

2-1 Edgar Broughton Band* – There's No Vibrations, But Wait 4:13
2-2 Michael Chapman – Soulful Lady 4:14
2-3 Quatermass (3) – Entropy 1:10
2-4 Quatermass (3) – Black Sheep Of The Family 3:36
2-5 Pretty Things* – Grass 4:20
2-6 Shirley & Dolly Collins – Salisbury Plain 2:40
2-7 Pink Floyd – Embryo 4:41
2-8 Dave Mason – You Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave 6:00
2-9 Deep Purple – Speed King 4:24
2-10 Greatest Show On Earth, The – Magic Woman Touch 5:11
2-11 Pete Brown & Piblokto! – Aeroplane Head Woman 6:38
2-12 Syd Barrett – Baby Lemonade 4:11
2-13 Roy Harper – Don't You Grieve 2:32
2-14 Pretty Things* – October 26 4:52
2-15 Kevin Ayers – Song From The Bottom Of A Well 4:37
2-16 Michael Chapman – The First Leaf Of Autumn 4:10
2-17 Edgar Broughton Band, The – Call Me A Liar 4:27

CD 3

3-1 Barclay James Harvest – She Said 8:21
3-2 Roy Harper – South Africa 4:02
3-3 Edgar Broughton Band* – Evening Over Rooftops 5:01
3-4 Move, The – Do Ya 4:03
3-5 Bombadil – When The City Sleeps 4:15
3-6 Kevin Ayers – Lady Rachel (1972 Version) 4:51
3-7 Electric Light Orchestra – 10538 Overture 5:29
3-8 Mark-Almond – The City (Part Three) 7:37
3-9 Spontaneous Combustion (2) – Spaceship 3:29
3-10 Third Ear Band – Overture 4:20
3-11 Jan Akkerman – Fresh Air (Excerpt) 6:02
3-12 Roy Harper – Twelve Hours Of Sunset 5:06
3-13 Babe Ruth – Wells Fargo 6:12
3-14 Electric Light Orchestra – Showdown 4:11
3-15 Be Bop Deluxe – Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus 4:10

A Breath Of Fresh Air - A Harvest Records Anthology 1969-1974 (2007)




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A perfect mix of the huge and the obscure, of blues, prog, and all points in between.