VA - I'm A Freak 2 Baby : Further Journey Through The British Heavy Psych /Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1973 [2019]

VA - I'm A Freak 2 Baby: Further Journey Through The British Heavy Psych /Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1973 [2019]
I'm A Freak Baby - Grapefruit's overview of the UK's late Sixties/early Seventies nascent hard rock/proto-metal scene - received rapturous acclaim from pundits and punters alike. And, like all good follow-ups, I'm A Freak 2 Baby expands upon the original while simultaneously tightening the stylistic mesh. In addition to further selections from some of the subterranean stars of the first volume, we feature many of the genre's pioneers, with key tracks from The Jeff Beck Group, Edgar Broughton Band, Atomic Rooster and High Tide. Our scope ranges from Top Five hit singles (Love Sculpture's manic, heavily influential 'Sabre Dance' and the original brass-free demo version of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown's gothic masterpiece 'Fire') to a clutch of bands (Thor, Tonge, Tarsus and several others) that were active during our timeframe but didn't get beyond locally-recorded demos. We also feature tracks from some of the rarest albums of the era (Red Dirt, Leaf Hound, Dogfeet, Bodkin, Human Beast, Astral Navigations etc). During our journey, we stumble across Sabbath acolytes, Zeppelin wannabes, musicians' cooperatives, future legends, Satanism, shamanism, sham-Satanism, industrial-strength levels of reassuringly non-PC attitude and more cowbell than any sane individual could reasonably tolerate. Boasting a lavish 40-page booklet full of rare photos and memorabilia from the era, many recordings making their first appearance on CD and several cuts gaining their first-ever release in any format, I'm A Freak 2 Baby is another essential addition to Grapefruit's ever-increasing catalogue of UK late Sixties/early Seventies genre anthologies. (Amazon)

CD1

01    Budgie    Guts    4:21
02    Jeff Beck    Shapes of Things    3:21
03    Wicked Lady    Run the Night    5:11
04    Stray    The Man Who Paints the Picture    2:35
05    Slowload    Rosie    2:13
06    The Move    Turkish Tram Conductor Blues    4:49
07    Orang-Utan    Chocolate Piano    6:35
08    Iron Claw    Clawstrophobia    5:21
09    Bodkin    Plastic Man    6:03
10    Andromeda    Let's All Watch the Sky Fall D    4:05
11    Ancient Grease    Mother Grease the Cat    5:16
12    Stack Waddy    Rosalyn    2:28
13    Sam Gopal    Horse    3:33
14    Love Sculpture    Sabre Dance    4:52
15    Monument    Dog Man    3:16
16    Leaf Hound    Freelance Fiend    3:11
17    Patto    Loud Green Song    3:55
18    Sam Apple Pie    Winter of My Love    7:11

CD2

01    Tear Gas    Woman for Sale    4:28
02    Atomic Rooster    Death Walks Behind You    7:32
03    Edgar Broughton Band    Apache Dropout    2:45
04    Nsu    Turn on Or Turn Me Down    4:01
05    Red Dirt    Brain Worker    3:10
06    The Rats    Early in Spring    4:11
07    The Deviants    Somewhere to Go    7:24
08    Dogfeet    Armageddon    4:17
09    Pluto    Down and Out    3:12
10    Human Beast    Brush With the Midnight Butter    5:20
11    Dark    R.C.8. [Demo]    4:02
12    Purple Haze    Wait a While    2:19
13    Three Man Army    Daze    4:02
14    Tonge    Old Father Time    3:27
15    Mouse    Ashen Besher    5:31
16    Sunday    Fussing and Fighting    6:53
17    Freedom    Going Down    4:46

CD3

01    High Tide    Futilist's Lament    5:20
02    Lightyears Away    Yesterday    3:09
03    Samuel Prody    Woman    4:20
04    Eugene Carnan    Confusion    4:31
05    Hard Horse    So Long I'm Moving On    2:40
06    Crazy World of Arthur Brow    Fire (Demo Version)    3:04
07    Tarsus    Early Morning Sun    3:39
08    Natural Gas    Is There Any Doubt    4:10
09    Warhorse    Back in Time    7:50
10    Little Big Horn    Name of the Game    3:11
11    Bullett    Sister Minister    3:34
12    Frozen Tear    I Need Someone    4:01
13    Sardonicus    The Nymph    4:58
14    9.30 Fly    Hoochie Coochie Man    3:41
15    Clark-Hutchinson    Someone's Been at My Woman    4:39
16    Stone the Crows    Big Jim Salter    4:37
17    Thor    Paranoid    4:07
18    Writing on the Wall    Lucifer Corpus    5:47

**Enjoy**