VA - Looking Through A Glass Onion (The Beatles' Psychedelic Songbook 1966-72) (2020) [3CD-Set]

Three CDs. Looking Through A Glass Onion assembles these disparate strands into one cohesive package, with the studio day trippers, the cultural pranksters, the genre-benders, the folk club stalwarts and the hair-down-to-his-knees prog-rock brigade all grooving up slowly to the starting line. Though largely forgotten now, Liverpool quartet The Beatles were the toppermost of the poppermost in the Sixties, responsible for some of the biggest-selling singles of all time and a series of ground-breaking albums that dictated musical trends until their next LP emerged. With those albums containing numerous potential hit singles, it was inevitable that producers and groups would wait impatiently for the latest Beatles LP to land in order to rush into the studio and clone a track with the aim of scoring a cheap hit single. That process continued unabated for the rest of the band’s career, but the results became more interesting with the arrival of the psychedelic and progressive era, when rock started to take itself more seriously and a more self-respecting, artistic approach was called for. Suddenly the cheap imitations were joined by more adventurous interpretations of Beatles material, including some startling re-imaginings of songs that dated back to the salad days of the Lennon/McCartney writing partnership. The result is the proverbial Magical Mystery Tour, a Fab Four parallel universe, a Looking-Glass world in which ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ can be an Elizabethan garden party madrigal or a churning slice of Fudged-up sludge, where a spaced-out Duffy Power takes the lyrics of ‘Fixing A Hole’ perhaps a little too literally, ‘Penny Lane’ becomes avant-garde easy listening, the likes of Nick Lowe, Alex Harvey and Ritchie Blackmore try out early identities, and the Walrus was Lol. Containing nearly four hours of music and a 40-page booklet, Looking Through A Glass Onion features 68 tracks from various UK acts, with tons of memorabilia and rare photos as well as the usual verbose smartarse annotation shamelessly passed off as informed musical commentary. A splendid time is guaranteed for all. Well, almost all. ― Amazon

CD 1
01. Camel – Mystery Tour – 05:27
02. Deep Purple – Help – 06:00
03. Yes – Every Little Thing – 05:44
04. Affinity – I Am The Walrus – 04:05
05. Rainbow Ffolly – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – 03:11
06. The Hollies – If I Needed Someone – 02:20
07. The Mirage – Tomorrow Never Knows – 02:36
08. Kippington Lodge – In My Life – 03:22
09. Eyes Of Blue – Yesterday – 04:27
10. Sounds Nice – Flying – 03:55
11. Design – Strawberry Fields Forever – 02:29
12. Episode Six – Here There And Everywhere – 02:11
13. Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers – Got To Get You Into My Life – 02:33
14. Hair Rave-Up – Birthday – 02:32
15. Blonde On Blonde – Eleanor Rigby – 03:17
16. Atlantic Bridge – Dear Prudence – 07:57
17. Jawbone – Across The Universe – 03:49
18. Duffy Power – Fixing A Hole – 02:32
19. Trucial States – Oh Darling – 03:42
20. The Tremeloes – Good Day Sunshine – 01:59
21. Infinity – Taxman – 03:00
22. Orange Bicycle – You Never Give Me Your Money – Carry That Weight – 02:37

CD 2
01. Spooky Tooth – I Am The Walrus – 06:26
02. Plastic Penny – Strawberry Fields Forever – 04:23
03. Rainbow Ffolly – The Continuing Story Of Bungalow – 03:26
04. Big Jim Sullivan – Within You Without You – 03:12
05. The Gods – Hey Bulldog – 03:17
06. Freedom – Cry Baby Cry – 03:44
07. Don Fardon – Day Tripper – 02:54
08. The Frugal Sound – Norwegian Wood – 01:57
09. Penny Arcade – The Two Of Us – 03:11
10. Andy Ellison – You Cant Do That – 02:49
11. Grand Union – She Said She Said – 03:05
12. Davey Graham And Holly – Mother Natures Son – 01:57
13. Cliff Bennett And His Band – Back In The USSR – 02:40
14. The Young Idea – With A Little Help From My Friends – 02:33
15. The Shadows – Paperback Writer – 03:07
16. Phillip Goodhand – One And One Is Two – 02:06
17. The Majority – A Hard Days Night – 03:34
18. Trucial States – Birthday – 02:13
19. Linda Peters – Get Back – 02:04
20. Bo Street Runners – Drive My Car – 02:28
21. The Good Ship Lollipop – Maxwells Silver Hammer – 03:20
22. Stone The Crows – The Fool On The Hill – 04:06
23. Young Blood – I Will – 01:52
24. The Hi-Fi s – Yellow Submarine – 02:30
25. The Tomcats – Yesterday – 02:06
26. Lol Coxhill – I Am The Walrus – 03:53

CD 3
01. Jason Crest – Come Together – 03:04
02. Tomorrow – Strawberry Fields Forever – 04:00
03. Circus – Norwegian Wood – 07:19
04. Big Jim Sullivan – Shes Leaving Home – 02:38
05. Deep Purple – Exposition-We Can Work It Out – 07:08
06. Affinity – A Day In The Life – 06:06
07. Andy Ellison – Help – 02:29
08. The Score – Please Please Me – 02:43
09. Loose Ends – Taxman – 02:29
10. The Eyes – Good Day Sunshine – 02:04
11. The Wilson Malone Voiceband – Penny Lane – 02:27
12. Young Blood – The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill – 03:34
13. The Real McCoy – I Will – 01:39
14. The Spectrum – Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da – 03:06
15. Brian Bennett – Rocky Raccoon – 02:46
16. Ice – Day Tripper – 02:06
17. The Sorrows – We Can Work It Out – 04:20
18. Octopus – I Am The Walrus – 05:04
19. Hardin And York – Northern Medley – 10:15
20. Vera Lynn – Good Night – 03:20

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