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)
Tracklist:
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
Sensational compilation. Thanks a lot. 👍🏻
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