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New Moons In The Sky - The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970 (Clamshell) Limited edition
Multiple Artists
New Moons In The Sky - The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970 (Clamshell) Limited edition
Multiple Artists
UK three CD set. Having documented the British psychedelic scene with anthologies devoted to the years 1967, 1968 and 1969, Grapefruit's ongoing series fearlessly confronts the dawn of the Seventies with a slight rebrand. New Moon's In The Sky: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970 features (appropriately enough) seventy tracks from the first year of the new decade as the British pop scene adjusted to life without The Beatles. This set concentrates on the more song-based recordings to emanate from British studios during 1970, whether from a pure-pop-for-then-people perspective or the more concise, melodic end of the burgeoning progressive rock spectrum. We acknowledge the end of the road for some bands who'd achieved a modicum of late Sixties success (Honeybus, Love Sculpture, Plastic Penny) while also charting the arrival of various acts like Curved Air, Atomic Rooster (about to score two major hit singles in the space of six months), Stray, future heavy metal major leaguers UFO, Affinity and Cressida, all of whom were able to combine underground rock credibility with an appreciation of the three-minute pop song. We also feature a number of successful late Sixties acts attempting to stay relevant in the new decade and adapt to a changing musical landscape (The Hollies, The Move, Status Quo, Procol Harum, The Tremeloes etc). But as always, we also shed light on the lost and buried: the studio-only creations, the Beatles disciples, the psychedelic folk adventurers, the one-shot-and-you're-out releases, the pseudonymous pranksters and the backroom duckers and divers that littered the industry at the turn of the decade. Housed in a clamshell box containing a 52-page booklet that's crammed to bursting point with group bios and obscure photos/memorabilia, New Moon's In The Sky is a fascinating document of a febrile period. It's also yet another essential Grapefruit package.
.. THE SKY - THE BRITISH PROGRESSIVE POP SOUNDS OF 1970
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 3 |
Released | August 23, 2019 |
EAN/UPC | 5013929185906 |
Label | GRAPEFRUIT CRSEGBOX059 |
Genre | Rock |
Dimensions | 132 × 135 × 17 mm · 157 g |
Track list
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1. CD
- Piggy Pig Pig - Procol Harum
- Good Love Child - Barclay James Harvest
- Good Year - Five Day Rain
- Hurry on Sundown - Hawkwind
- Around the World in Eighty Days - Stray
- All the Best People Do It - the Humblebums
- Give Me No Goodbye - Magna Carta
- Winter is Coming Again - Cressida
- Tiny Goddess - Tim Andrews
- Jennifer - Angel Pavement
- I've Seen to Dream - Harmony Grass
- The Two of Us - Penny Arcade
- California Here I Come - River
- My Mind's Eye - Canticle
- Celebrity Ball - Plastic Penny
- Time to Die - Patto
- Mr. Mcgallagher - the Sweet
- I Will Be There - the Seychelles
- Call Me Lightning - the Good Vibrations
- Me and My Life - the Tremeloes
- Singing a Song in the Morning - Kevin Ayers & the Whole Wide
- The Flying Machine - the Flying Machine
- In the Land of the Few (Single Edit) - Love Sculpture
- Climb That Tree - She Trinity
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2. CD
- Kaleidoscope - the Marmalade
- Under the Silent Tree - Honeybus
- What's It All About - Putney Bridge
- Across the Universe - Jawbone
- Devil's Answer (Demo Version) - Atomic Rooster
- Lovely Day - the Fox
- Castles in the Sky - Blonde on Blonde
- Blind Man - Curved Air
- Rowena - Meic Stevens
- Bridge - Lifeblud
- Goodbye - Rusty Harness
- Time to Die - Ancient Grease
- Treacle People - U.f.o.
- Playing with Magic - the Smoke
- Mr. Dieingly Sad - the Others
- In the City - David & David
- Levinia - Steamhammer
- Sam and Sadie - Fickle Pickle
- Mr. and Mrs. Franklin - the Regime
- Mad Professor Blyth - the Hollies
- Anna Laura Lee- Yellow Taxi
- Mother, Mother, Mother - Paper Bubble
- Step This Way - Andromeda
- Have You Heard the Word - the Fut
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3. CD
- St. Louis - Warhorse
- An Appointment with the Master - Bachdenkel
- Shy Fly - Status Quo
- Tarot - Andrew Bown
- Thief - Octopus
- United States of Mind - Affinity
- Umbopo - Doctor Father
- Together in the Night - This Side Up
- He's Growing - the Gods
- Through a Window - Hard Meat
- Ned Kelly - the Iron Maiden
- What? - the Move
- Lightning Never Strikes - Sheridan & Price
- Hard Selling Woman - Flashman
- Alias Oliver Dream - Airbus
- Soon There Will Be Everything - Killing Floor
- Rock and Roll Woman - Love Street
- Your Mother Thinks I'm a Hoodlum - Savwinkle & Turnerhopper
- Flies Like a Bird - Fire
- Colour of the Sunset - Danny Mcculloch
- Indian Maid - the Ghost
- On Ilkla' Moor Baht'at - Bill Oddie