The Perfumed Garden: 80 Rare Flowerings from the British Underground 1965-73

61T3wnlpPzL. SS500

Summary

Hughesy's assessment:

Appealing    Acceptable    

Track listing:  

Disc 1: Try A Little Sunshine (Factory); You're Too Much (Eyes); Grounded (The Syn); The Bird (Nimrod); Sydney Gill (Smoke); No Good Without You Baby (The Birds); Reputation (Shy Limbs); It's Shocking What They Call Me (The Game); Doctor Doctor (Frame); Strange Walking Man (The Mandrake Paddle Steamer); Nine Til Five (The French Revolution); Floatin' (Vamp); Crawdaddy Simone (The Syndicates); Listen To The Sky (Sands); Vacuum Cleaner (Tintern Abbey); I Must Be Mad (The Craig); Magic Potion (Open Mind)

Disc 2: No Home Tonight (Kult); When The Night Falls (Eyes); Baby (Don't You Do It) (The Poets); For Your Love (The Ace Kefford Stand); Reflections Of Charles Brown (Rupert's People); Security (Thane Russal & Three); I'm Coming Home (The Deviants); Liar (Fleur-De-Lys); Mister Number One (Kult); You Better Run (In-Be-Tweens); I See The Light (The Uglies); Let Me Show You How (Glen Athens & The Trojans); Francis (Gary Leeds & Rain); Turn Over (Les Goths); Day & Night (The Drag Set); Mud In Your Eye (Fleur-De-Lys); Red Sky At Night (Accent)

Disc 3: Take Her Any Time (The Longboatmen); Baby I Got News For You (Oak Version); Out Of The Sun (Les Goths); Tick Tock (Shyster); Get Back Home (Majority One); Sad Go Round (The Groundhogs); Please Leave My Mind (Herbal Mixture); Evil Woman (Pete Sully & The Orchard); No Place For Lonely People (Adams Recital); For Your Information (Cedars); Lust For Life (The Wolves); It's What You Give (Actress); Line Of Least Resistance (Reign); Over The Hills (Barry Mason); Which Dreamed It? (Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup); Felix (Andwella's Dream); Through With You (Serendipity); Hold On (Rupert's People)

Disc 4: Magic Train (Demo Version) (The Flies); Dinosaur (The Joint); Spinning Wheel (Blonde On Blonde); When I Was Young (Magic Mixture); Time Will Be Your Doctor (Tucky Buzzard); Barnabus Swain (Timebox); I Know What Her Name Is (Simon's Secrets); The Road (Please); Magic Playground (Orangutan); Poor Lady (Arcadium); Pulsar (Flaming Youth); Give Me Life (Monument); Does It Rain? (Five Day Week Straw People); Siren (John McLaughlin); Gratefully Dead (The Animals); Leg (Arzachel); Jamie's Song (The Deviants)

Disc 5: The Way (Long Version) (July); Feelin' Free (Pacific Drift); Where Is My Mind (Camel); I Flew (Bulldog Breed); Eddie's Tune (Wynder K Frog); Warning (Aynsley Dunbar); Love In The afternoon (Will Malone); Your Country Needs You? (Dear Mr. Time); Self Declaration (Complex); Crossroads Of Time (Eyes Of Blue); Mr Sunshine (Dogfeet)

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