Name: | [pop, psychedelic rock] (2020) VA – Looking Through a Glass Onion The Beatles Psyc... |
Description: Review: In 2020, covering the music of the Beatles is still a relatively common occurrence, but in the late 1960s artists were churning out their own versions of Fab Four tunes almost as quickly as the band themselves could release them. What is now considered a globally familiar songbook of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison favorites was being cemented practically in real time by acts ranging from emerging greats still finding their identity to minor one-off oddities. In another feat of archival extremism, the always-thorough Grapefruit division of Cherry Red Records offers up Looking Through a Glass Onion: Beatles Psychedelic Songbook 1966-1972. As its title suggests, this 3-disc anthology is focused on the Beatles’ influence on the burgeoning U.K. psych and progressive scenes that occurred from the 1966 release of Revolver until two years after the band’s breakup. There’s quite a lot here, and of course the results vary in quality and taste. Right out of the gate, Deep Purple and Yes take their respective cracks at “Help” (heavy, plodding, and occasionally grandiose) and the relatively minor Beatles for Sale cut “Every Little Thing” (intricate, dynamic, and sounding very much like early Yes). As with those two acts, a trend of massive growling Hammond organ swells and frenetic guitar solos plays throughout much of the collection, often with less impressive results like Welsh combo Eyes of Blue’s over-the-top reading of “Yesterday” and Spooky Tooth’s dirgey Sabbath-like “I Am the Walrus,” which while interesting wears out its welcome. Elsewhere are tighter renditions that hit their mark like the Gods’ punchy, brass-driven “Hey Bulldog” or pleasing folky tributes like Linda Peters’ (later to find success as Linda Thompson) spare version of “Get Back.” Tonally, Glass Onion runs the gamut of the era’s exploratory trends from outright jammy psych-rock and prog-rock to buoyant sunshine pop, jazz, and soul-inflected pop, some of which were pioneered by the Beatles’ original versions. Not all of it is great or even good, but there are enough diamonds in the rough to keep it interesting and the liberties taken occasionally lead to some fascinating places. Tracklist: CD1 01 - Camel - Mystery Tour 02 - Deep Purple - Help 03 - Yes - Every Little Thing 04 - Affinity - I Am The Walrus 05 - Rainbow Ffolly - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 06 - The Hollies - If I Needed Someone 07 - The Mirage - Tomorrow Never Knows 08 - Kippington Lodge - In My Life 09 - Eyes Of Blue - Yesterday 10 - Sounds Nice - Flying 11 - Design - Strawberry Fields Forever 12 - Episode Six - Here There And Everywhere 13 - Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers - Got To Get You Into My Life 14 - Hair Rave-Up - Birthday 15 - Blonde On Blonde - Eleanor Rigby 16 - Atlantic Bridge - Dear Prudence 17 - Jawbone - Across The Universe 18 - Duffy Power - Fixing A Hole 19 - Trucial States - Oh Darling 20 - The Tremeloes - Good Day Sunshine 21 - Infinity - Taxman 22 - Orange Bicycle - You Never Give Me Your Money - Carry That Weight CD2 01 - Spooky Tooth - I Am The Walrus 02 - Plastic Penny - Strawberry Fields Forever 03 - Rainbow Ffolly - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow 04 - Big Jim Sullivan - Within You Without You 05 - The Gods - Hey Bulldog 06 - Freedom - Cry Baby Cry 07 - Don Fardon - Day Tripper 08 - The Frugal Sound - Norwegian Wood 09 - Penny Arcade - The Two Of Us 10 - Andy Ellison - You Cant Do That 11 - Grand Union - She Said She Said 12 - Davey Graham And Holly - Mother Natures Son 13 - Cliff Bennett And His Band - Back In The USSR 14 - The Young Idea - With A Little Help From My Friends 15 - The Shadows - Paperback Writer 16 - Phillip Goodhand - One And One Is Two 17 - The Majority - A Hard Days Night 18 - Trucial States - Birthday 19 - Linda Peters - Get Back 20 - Bo Street Runners - Drive My Car 21 - The Good Ship Lollipop - Maxwells Silver Hammer 22 - Stone The Crows - The Fool On The Hill 23 - Young Blood - I Will 24 - The Hi-Fi s - Yellow Submarine 25 - The Tomcats - Yesterday 26 - Lol Coxhill - I Am The Walrus CD3 01 - Jason Crest - Come Together 02 - Tomorrow - Strawberry Fields Forever 03 - Circus - Norwegian Wood 04 - Big Jim Sullivan - Shes Leaving Home 05 - Deep Purple - Exposition-We Can Work It Out 06 - Affinity - A Day In The Life 07 - Andy Ellison - Help 08 - The Score - Please Please Me 09 - Loose Ends - Taxman 10 - The Eyes - Good Day Sunshine 11 - The Wilson Malone Voiceband - Penny Lane 12 - Young Blood - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 13 - The Real McCoy - I Will 14 - The Spectrum - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 15 - Brian Bennett - Rocky Raccoon 16 - Ice - Day Tripper 17 - The Sorrows - We Can Work It Out 18 - Octopus - I Am The Walrus 19 - Hardin And York - Northern Medley 20 - Vera Lynn - Good Night Media Report: Genre: pop, psychedelic rock Format: FLAC Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM Bit rate mode: Variable Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz Bit depth: 16 bits | |
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Language: | English |
Total Size: | 1.25 GB |
Info Hash: | 0513B55279D0FD6FB0C737A7ECAA82EE12BADC37 |
Added By: | DarkAngie |
Date Added: | 2021-04-23 03:08:13 |
Torrent Status: | Torrent Verified |
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