VA - Miles Out To Sea - The Roots Of British Power Pop 1969-1975 (2022) 3CD⭐MP3

Band: Various

Album: Miles Out To Sea - The Roots Of British Power Pop 1969-1975

Release: 2022

Genre: Pop

Country: UK

Format: MP3  320 Kbps



Three CDs. Four-hour anthology of recordings that anticipated the late 70s Power Pop movement. Featuring Badfinger, Slade, The Move, Stealers Wheel, Pilot, Dave Edmunds, Brinsley Schwarz, Honeybus, The Kinks, The Who, etc. While the early 70s musical landscape in Britain was largely dominated by introspective singer/songwriters, Bubblegum Pop and underground Rock bands, a handful of acts bravely continued to pursue the classic mid-60s group sound. With the aid of increasingly sophisticated recording studios, they majored in crisp, muscular, hook-laden three-minute pop songs, bursting with chiming Rickenbacker guitars, irresistible choruses and Beatles/Beach Boys-inspired close harmonies. A few (Slade, Pilot, the ill-starred Badfinger) found commercial success, but the likes of Starry Eyed And Laughing, Shape Of The Rain and Octopus proved to be the right bands at the wrong time - too late for the British Invasion that had swept America in the mid-60s, too early to hitch a ride on the late 70s Power Pop bandwagon. 'Miles Out To Sea' assembles the pick of these recordings, with household names and hit singles (including The First Class's classic Beach Boys cop 'Beach Baby') joined by cult Power Pop names (Rockin' Horse, Liverpool Echo, Pagliaro) obscure one-off 45s (Atlantis, Fresh Air, Big Star-soundalikes Rotten To The Core), cuts from privately-pressed or non-UK albums (Rusty, Shakane, Majority One, Ironbridge) and many unreleased-at-the-time tracks (including pre-Records band The Fabulous Ratbites From Hell and a previously- unissued demo by pre-Rusty act Sheephouse, who cut a collectable Decca single).



Tracklist:

Disc: 1

1. Miles Out to Sea - Slade

2. Just a Smile (Original Single Version) - Pilot

3. Biggest Gossip in Town (Single Version) - Rockin' Horse

4. Some Sing, Some Dance - Pagliaro

5. Rainchild - Octopus

6. I'll Be There - Shape of the Rain

7. Going Down - Starry Eyed and Laughing

8. Please, Eliza - Shakanea

9. Don't Let Me Wait Too Long - Rotten to the Core

10.Black Mourning Band - Honeybus

11.You Lied About Your Age - Bachdenkel

12.(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding - Brinsley Schwarz

13.When Will I Be Loved - Dave Edmunds

14.Nightingale Crescent - Unicorn

15.Brighton Rock - Rusty

16.You Made Me Stand Up Straighter - Byzantium

17.Bicycle Driver - Neil Harrison

18.Try Me - the Tremeloes

19.Peppermint Twist - Sweet

20.She Wrote Me a Letter - Marmalade

21.Love's Made a Fool of You - Raw Holly

22.Strange Affair - Help Yourself

23.Let Your Love Go - Paintbox

24.Where I Belong - Gerry Rafferty

25.Fresh As a Daisy - Ragamuffin

Disc: 2

1. Know One Knows - Badfinger

2. Chinatown - the Move

3. Girl on the Train - Liverpool Echo

4. Lonely Norman - Jimmy Campbell

5. Forget Her - Nimbo

6. Get Back Home - Majority One

7. Dangerous Bacon - Stackridge

8. Go As You Please - Stealers Wheel

9. Second Time Around - Keith Riley

10.Champion the Underdog - Sutherland Brothers and Quiver

11.Alright Ma! - Stray

12.I Ain't Got Time - Atlantis

13.Sometimes I Wonder - Sheridan and Rick Price

14.So Young and in Love - Bo' Flyers

15.Something's Going on - Ducks Deluxe

16.Ordinary Boy - Small Wonder

17.Leavin' 'Ome - the Hammersmith Gorillas

18.Zurich 17 (Be My Baby)- Hollywood Brats

19.Girlfriend - Octopus

20.Hole in the Sky* - Sheephouse

21.Money Makes the World - Billy Bates

22.Sparkle - the Fabulous Ratbites from Hell

23.The Ring of Truth - Bachdenkel

24.In a Hand or Face - the Who

25.Rolling Home Again - Budgie

Disc: 3

1. This Man He Weeps Tonight - the Kinks

2. Don't You Ever Think I Cry? - Rockin' Horse

3. We're Not Their Boys - Shape of the Rain

4. Let Me Tell You - Fickle Pickle

5. Baby (I Gotta Go) - Simon Turner

6. Smile (My Smiler's Smile) - Liverpool Express

7. I Don't Need You Any More - Penny Arcade

8. It Takes Too Long - Fresh Air

9. When You Dance I Can Really Love - Shakane

10.Annabella - Billy Kinsley

11.Sally Works Nights - Liverpool Echo

12.Stay at Home - Rusty

13.Chimes of Freedom - Starry Eyed and Laughing

14.Back Room - Ironbridge

15.No Matter What - Black Label

16.Good Love Child - Barclay James Harvest

17.Little Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Honey-Child Won't You Just Allow Meone More Chance, Please - P. C. Kent

18.So Sad (No Love of His Own) - Iain Matthews

19.Jewel - Wolfe

20.Walking the Silver Hay - Airbus

21.Maybe Tomorrow - Angel Pavement

22.Beach Baby - the First Class

23.From Me and from You - Keith Riley

24.I Don't Want to Hold Your Hand - Rupert Holmes