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The Yellow Balloon- The Yellow Balloon (1967)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 13 Nov 2010 13:53:21 | Comments : 3

The Yellow Balloon - The Yellow Balloon (1967)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 253MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 118MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Canterbury CTS-1502
This Release- Sundazed 11069

“All Music Review by Cub Coda:
The Yellow Balloon was Don Grady's (Robbie on TV's My Three Sons) rock & roll group, but even more important, the brainchild of California producer Gary Zekley. Not unlike a Gary Usher, Zekley could grab a bunch of musicians and -- filling in the needed holes with his own talent -- produce sessions that rivaled Phil Spector or Brian Wilson for big sound and teen spirit. Grady had already been recording for the same label with his own group, the Windupwatch Band, when Zekley started climbing the charts with "Yellow Balloon," creating a need for a new group to go with the hit. Grady became the drummer and other members were recruited from various bands around the country, but in the studio, it was still Zekley's show all the way. This 20-track compilation brings together the 11 tracks from the Yellow Balloon's 1967 album, along with the Don Grady with the Windupwatch Band singles (also released on the same Canterbury label), a couple of unreleased demos, and an interview with the late Gary Zekley putting it all in perspective.		”
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Touch - Touch (1969)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 17 Sep 2010 10:47:05 | Comments : 5

Touch - Touch (1969)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 456MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 172MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Coliseum/London #DS51004
This Release- The Wild Places WILD011

“All Music Review by Christopher Evans:
Touch's only album briefly enjoyed legendary status during its recording and again shortly after its release, but all too rapidly entered the realm of the well-kept secret. It may or may not be the very first progressive rock album, but what is indisputable is that few bands engineered a more satisfying collision of rock, jazz, psychedelia, and classical music during the genre's heyday. Much of the album's effectiveness stems from the soaring imagination of the band's leader, keyboard player, and principal composer, Don Gallucci, incredibly just 19 years old. Throughout, he plays only piano, clavinet, and what sounds like a cheesy old theater organ -- no Mellotron, no synths -- yet he does so with a virtuosity tempered by the kind of restraint that would become all too rare among bands like ELP, Yes, and other behemoths of the prog era. 		”
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The Neighb'rhood Childr'n - Long Years In Space (1968)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 15 Sep 2010 10:54:22 | Comments : 3

The Neighb'rhood Childr'n - Long Years In Space (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 388MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 154MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Acta A-38005 | This Release- Sundazed SC 11041

“All Music Review by Cub Koda:
From the opening fuzz guitar and Farfisa organ riffs of "Feeling Zero," and this is a definite step back in time to a far trippier era of rock & roll. The music contained here is largely a shamelessly derivative batch with nods to all the then-current trends; the Grace Slick-Jefferson Airplane inspired vocals on the title track and "Changes Brought to Me," the pure British pop of their hit "Please Leave Me Alone," "Happy World of Captain K" and "Hobbit's Dream," the Yardbirds-style raveup of "Chocolate Angel," and the "Paint It Black"-era Stones bounce of "Up Down Turn Around World" are all earmarks of an isolated time in rock history that, although often replicated, can never be truly duplicated. But the minor-key riffing on "Patterns," the dirgelike version of "Louie Louie," and tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top version of "Over the Rainbow" show that there was also some originality to the band's offerings as well. This retrospective includes 24 tracks, ten unissued, featuring alternate takes of "Feeling Zero" and the title track, all from the original master tapes. In light of all the retro hoopla surrounding this kind of sound, this collection stands as a small landmark to the style. Get your lava lamp warmed up for this one. (The album is compilation of self-titled first album released in 1968 plus previously unreleased tracks.)		”
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Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera (1968)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 13 Sep 2010 12:25:18 | Comments : 7

Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 328MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 138MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Direction 8-63300
This Release- Air Mail Archive, AIRAC-1330 (Rapidshare)

“All Music Review by Jo-Ann Greene:
Although labeled a psychedelic band in their day, the Opera never sat comfortably in that strawberry field, partially because of the diversity of their sound, but also due to the simple fact they were just too far ahead of their time even for the psyched-out crowd. In fact, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera continued to sound thoroughly modern for decades, while their myriad musical meanderings took them down wayward byways that later became stylistic highways -- at least in their native U.K.. So it's no surprise then, that this band would have slotted perfectly into the Britpop scene, or going back further in time, into the R&B-drenched mod scene.		”
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D.R. Hooker - The Truth (1972)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 03 Sep 2010 05:28:07 | Comments : 4

D.R. Hooker - The Truth (1972)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 455MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 164MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- On Records XLP-1029
This Release- Subliminal Sounds, SUBCD-15

“Widely cited as one of the most important private press releases in all 1970s psychedelia, D.R. Hooker's The Truth might actually be one of those obscure lost gems that's worth the customarily inordinate amount of interest such period pieces are afforded. D.R. Hooker was a man slightly askew with his time: from the robes he wears on the cover to the quasi mystical lyrics, he's very much connected to the hippy era, and given that this album was recorded in 1972, in a time post-Charles Manson, he was brave to associate so strongly with all the imagery pertaining to cults. Musically, Hooker looks beyond the parameters of the hippy movement, dipping into a more ambitiously studio-oriented sound than Hooker's half-troubadour, half-prophet image on the sleeve might suggest. The noisy, fuzzy elements are particularly effective, and surprisingly intricate in their arrangement and recording. ”
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SRC - SRC (1968)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 19 Aug 2010 12:24:08 | Comments : 10

SRC - SRC (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 304MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 88.5MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Capitol Records, ST-2991

“All Music Review by Jon "Mojo" Mills:
With the twin leads of Gary Quackenbush and Steve Lyman, the distinctly church-like psychedelic Hammond of Glenn Quackenbush, and the angelic (and anglophile) vocals of Scott Richardson, SRC is a distinctly acidic album unlike anything else from the Detroit scene -- there's not a single soul influence to be heard! Instead, ideas were formed from Procol Harum, the Pretty Things, the Who, and blended with the beauty of the Left Banke. "Black Sheep," "Daystar," and "Marionette" are highlights of this distinct album of cosmic psychedelia and melodic childlike pop. It even sounds fresh today. 		”
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Mad River - Mad River (1968

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 22 Jun 2010 10:35:59 | Comments : 3

Mad River - Mad River (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 239MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 105MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Capitol Records, ST-2985

“All Music Review by Richie Unterberger-
One of the oddest San Francisco Bay Area bands of the late '60s, Berkeley-based Mad River cut two albums that are highly regarded by psychedelic collectors. After releasing a rare EP on a tiny local label in 1967, the band signed with Capitol and released their self-titled debut the following year. Perhaps the most ominous San Francisco band of the time, the group often sounded like an extremely dark version of Quicksilver Messenger Service with a bit of Country Joe & the Fish's minor-key melodies thrown in. Their material veered between drawn-out angst jams and frenetic numbers, spotlighting David Robinson's shimmering, blistering guitar leads and leader/songwriter Lawrence Hammond's mournful, quavering vocals. 		”
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The Charlatans - The Amazing Charlatans (1968)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 08 Jun 2010 03:05:11 | Comments : 2

The Charlatans - The Amazing Charlatans (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 384MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 149MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Big Beat UK - 138

“All Music Review by Richie Unterberger-
After almost 30 years, there's finally a definitive document of one of the first San Francisco psychedelic groups -- or, at least, as definitive a document as surviving tapes allow. This compilation assembles 23 tracks from their demos for the Kama Sutra and Autumn labels, as well as a couple of later sessions recorded at San Francisco area studios. Much of this material has been bootlegged previously, on both vinyl and tape, but here it appears in its best fidelity to date by far.		”
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Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf the Second (1968)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 07 Jun 2010 10:37:45 | Comments : 3

Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf the Second (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 234MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 96MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Dunhill/ABC Records - DS-50037

“All Music Review by Bruce Eder-
The group's second album was virtually a re-creation of its predecessor, only slightly more sophisticated in its range of songs and the manner of playing them, and the in-house writing had improved, though the latter also became highly derivative. Steppenwolf the Second embraces everything from hard rock to psychedelia to blues, and the band is in excellent form.		”
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Captain Beefhart & His Magic Band - Strictly Personal (1968)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 02 Jun 2010 12:01:00 | Comments : 8

Captain Beefhart & His Magic Band - Strictly Personal (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 232MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 99MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Blue Thumb BTS 1

“All Music Review by Stewart Mason-
Considered by many to be a substandard effort due to the circumstances of its release (producer Bob Krasnow, the owner of Blue Thumb, the label which debuted with this album, remixed the album while Don Van Vliet and crew were off on a European tour, adding extraneous sound effects like heartbeats and excessive use of psychedelic-era clichés like out-of-phase stereo panning and flanging), 1968's Strictly Personal is actually a terrific album, every bit the equal of Safe As Milk and Trout Mask Replica. 		”
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Sagittarius - Present Tense (1967)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 10 May 2010 12:35:45 | Comments : 5

Sagittarius - Present Tense (1967)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 358MB | MP3 @ 320CBR | 127MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic | Original Release- Columbia Records #CS-9644


“All Music Review by Jack Rabid-
Though really a studio project instead of a real group, Sagittarius' Present Tense has been whispered about constantly since its release in 1968. It began as a solo outlet for producer Gary Usher when he wasn't making stunning LPs by the Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, ex-Byrds leader Gene Clark, and the Beach Boys. 		”
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John Mayall - Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (1966) [MFSL UDCD 616] RE-UPLOAD

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 26 Apr 2010 00:31:00 | Comments : 22
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JJohn Mayall - Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (1966)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 253MB | MP3 @ 320cbr | 86MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Blues | MFSL # UDCD 616

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“From All Music-
Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton was Eric Clapton's first fully realized album as a blues guitarist — more than that, it was a seminal blues album of the 1960s, perhaps the best British blues album ever cut, and the best LP ever recorded by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Standing midway between Clapton's stint with the Yardbirds and the formation of Cream, this album featured the new guitar hero on a series of stripped-down blues standards, Mayall pieces, and one Mayall/Clapton composition, all of which had him stretching out in the idiom for the first time in the studio. This album was the culmination of a very successful year of playing with John Mayall, a fully realized blues creation, featuring sounds very close to the group's stage performances, and with no compromises. Credit has to go to producer Mike Vernon for the purity and simplicity of the record; most British producers of that era wouldn't have been able to get it recorded this way, much less released. One can hear the very direct influence of Buddy Guy and a handful of other American bluesmen in the playing. And lest anyone forget the rest of the quartet: future pop/rock superstar John McVie and drummer Hughie Flint provide a rock-hard rhythm section, and Mayall's organ playing, vocalizing, and second guitar are all of a piece with Clapton's work. His guitar naturally dominates most of this record, and he can also be heard taking his first lead vocal, but McVie and Flint are just as intense and give the tracks an extra level of steel-strung tension and power, none of which have diminished across several decades.		”
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The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (1993)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 23 Apr 2010 14:32:59 | Comments : 6

The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (1993)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 300MB | MP3 @ 320cbr | 102MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic Rock | Original Release: Warner Bros. Records 45334

“All Music Review by Jason Ankeny:
The addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd recharges the Flaming Lips' batteries for the superb Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, another prismatic delicacy that continues the group's drift toward pop nirvana. In typical fashion, the record's left-field hit, the freak-show singalong "She Don't Use Jelly," bears little resemblance to the album as a whole; the remainder of Transmissions is much more sonically and structurally ambitious -- the towering "Moth in the Incubator" keeps generating new layers of noise before erupting into an amphetamine waltz, "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" dive-bombs with kamikaze recklessness, and the slow-burning "Oh My Pregnant Head" is as mind-expanding as its title. 		”

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The Millennium - Begin (1968)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 16 Apr 2010 13:39:09 | Comments : 5

The Millennium - Begin (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 307MB | MP3 @ 320cbr | 114MB | Full Artwork
Genre: Psychedelic Rock | Original Release: CBS Records 81469

“All Music Review by Matthew Greenwald:
The Millennium's Begin can truly be described as a bona fide lost classic. The brainchild of producers Curt Boettcher and Gary Usher, the group was formed out of the remnants of their previous studio project, Sagittarius, which was preceded by yet another aggregation, the Ballroom. On Begin, hard rock, breezy ballads, and psychedelia all merge into an absolutely air-tight concept album, easily on the level of other, more widely popular albums from the era such as The Notorious Byrd Brothers, which share not only Usher's production skills, but similarities in concept and construction. 		”

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Arthur Brown - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (1968)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 15 Apr 2010 21:04:07 | Comments : 8

Arthur Brown - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (1968)
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | 1- 253MB 2- 158MB | MP3 @ 320cbr | 89MB | Full Artwork (CD2 & MP3)
Genre: Psychedelic Rock | Original Release: Track SD 8198

“All Music Review by Richie Unterberger:
Though a bit over-the-top, this album was still powerful and surprisingly melodic, and managed to be quite bluesy and soulful even as the band overhauled chestnuts by James Brown and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. "Spontaneous Apple Creation" is a willfully histrionic, atonal song that gives Captain Beefheart a run for his money. Though this one-shot was not (and perhaps could not ever be) repeated, it remains an exhilaratingly reckless slice of psychedelia. 		”

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