Various - Slight Disturbance In My Mind: British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds Of 1966 (CD)

UK three CD set. While the likes of Rubber Soul, 'See My Friends' and 'Still I'm Sad' had served notice in 1965 of British pop's heightened level of ambition, 1966 would prove to be an even more tumultuous twelve-month period as experimentation and innovation grew to new levels. The release that August of Revolver brought the concept of psychedelic music out of the margins and into the mainstream. However, psychedelia had been percolating throughout the year. The word was already in subterranean use in America, adapted by the likes of The 13th Floor Elevators and Hollywood hustler Kim Fowley, who in late 1965 had become the first person to promote a record with the term "psychedelic". Featuring 84 tracks, A Slight Disturbance In My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds Of 1966 examines the experimental pop element of the British music scene during that epochal twelve-month period with a dizzying, dazzling mix of nascent psychedelia, introspective pop and what's been retrospectively labelled freakbeat. We feature vital contributions from some of the era's biggest names (The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Hollies, The Animals etc), a bunch of highly collectable cult classics, a huge stash of unissued-at-the-time nuggets and early outings for such future legends as Bowie, Bolan, Slade and The Bee Gees. Housed in a clamshell box containing a 52-page booklet crammed with biographical information and priceless period photos and memorabilia, A Slight Disturbance In My Mind is a glorious snapshot of British pop storming the gates of a new, strange and wonderful dawn.

Disc 1
1 Making Time - the Creation
2 Shapes of Things - the Yardbirds
3 I'll Keep Holding on - the Action
4 Mud in Your Eye - Fleur-De-Lys
5 Sweet Music - the Koobas
6 Oriental Sadness - the Hollies
7 Play Down - the Bee Gees
8 Am I the Red One (Alternative Mix) - Mick Softley
9 With the Summer Suns I Unseen - the Misunderstood
10 Security (Extended Version) - the 'N Betweens
11 I Dig Everything - David Bowie
12 She's a Girl - the Attraction
13 A House in the Country - the Pretty Things
14 Daddy Long Legs (Brass-Free Version) - Lindsay Muir's Untamed
15 Man with Money - Outrage
16 The Quiet Explosion - the Ugly's
17 Thirteen Women - the Renegades
18 I Take It That We're Through - the Riot Squad
19 Major Catastrophe - Katch 22
20 Hippy Gumbo (Demo Version) - Marc Bolan
21 I Will Have You - Just Five
22 Tomorrow Night - the Times
23 Blow-Up - the in Crowd
24 Simplified - the Majority
25 Back Seat Driver - the Ministry of Sound
26 Baby, You've Got It - the Truth
27 I Just Got Some - Rod Stewart
28 Answers Please - the Luvin' Kind

Disc 2
1 My Friend Jack (Demo Version) - the Smoke
2 Please Please Me - the Score
3 Painter Man (2017 Stereo Mix) - the Creation
4 Why Don't You Smile Now - Downliners Sect
5 You've Gotta Have Love Babe (Demo Version) - Graham Bond Organisation
6 Outcast - the Animals
7 We're Broken - the Moody Blues
8 I've Laid Some Down in My Time - Tony Colton
9 Well... All Right - the People
10 Shapes in My Mind (Us 45 Version) - Keith Relf
11 My Time (Brass-Free Version) - the Pretty Things
12 Fancy - the Kinks
13 You're My Girl - Manfred Mann
14 What a State I'm in - the Tremeloes
15 Turn Into Earth - Al Stewart
16 The Morning After - the Mindbenders
17 Walkin' Walkin' Walkin' - the Favourite Sons
18 Have You Ever Loved Somebody - the Searchers
19 Hungry - the 5 A.M. Event
20 Molly Anderson's Cookery Book - the Artwoods
21 Tax Man - Loose Ends
22 The Ruin - Deep Feeling
23 Kicks - the Wheels
24 You're My Girl - the Kingpins

Disc 3
1 The Love I Thought I'd Found - John's Children
2 Save My Soul - the Wimple Winch
3 Stroll on - the Yardbirds
4 Glendora - Downliners Sect
5 I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (Demo Version) - the Flies
6 It's a Crime - the Kirkbys
7 Let the Live Live - the Sorrows
8 I Go to Sleep - the Fingers
9 Don't Tell Me - Arthur Brown
10 Happy New Year - Beverley
11 I Am the World - the Bee Gees
12 Clown - the Hollies
13 Indication - the Zombies
14 Little Rosy - the Rocking Vickers
15 What Does She Do - Sounds Around
16 My Little Red Book - Episode Six
17 No More You and Me - the Tornados '66
18 Girl Child, I Am An Evil Witchman - the 'N Betweens
19 Hurdy Gurdy Man - the Spectres
20 Summer Leaves Me with a Sigh - Tuesday's Children
21 Advertising Man - the Reaction
22 My World Fell Down - the Ivy League
23 Hey, You Lolita - the Silence
24 I Suppose - the Secrets
25 Different Kind of Love Song - Outrage
26 Tomorrow Never Knows - the Mirage
27 My Mind - the Misunderstood
28 Disturbance - the Move
29 Paint It Black - the Tomcats
30 Sagittarius - the Cortinas
31 Wrong Way - the Brood
32 Holidaymaker - the Key