After the success of the first one, Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2 is heading your way very soon.
And that’s a good thing, as the first volume was a cracking set. A glance at this one suggests the follow-up will be just as good. Also, if you want a signed edition, you can get one of those as well. See the link below to get that limited edition.
Sadly, it won’t be here for Christmas, but it might be something to cheer you up not long after.
A slightly different tact with this set, which differs because it isn’t just ‘more of the same’, which is perhaps the way you might expect the label to play it. This time, it is the ‘Freakbeat & Psych Years’, which might scare a few off. But not me. I love a bit of that.
It is, as you might have guessed, curated by Eddie Piller and features 95 original tracks across a 4CD set – described as a ‘deep dive into the post-Mod scene in ’60s Britain’ from early ’65 to the dawn of a new decade.
It’s pitched as ‘What the Mods did next’. The British Mod bands that had made the first half of the decade so exciting were still around, but inevitably their influences had changed. No longer content with re-hashing American R&B, the scene split in multiple directions, not all of it forward-looking – some hardened their up-tempo sound and gradually evolved into what we would come to know as Freakbeat. Others bought in psychedelic, esoteric or Eastern influences. A third strand explored a more pastoral or Folk based route. Simply put, songs and hair got longer.
Volume 2 tracks the development of the original Mod mainstays (the Small Faces, The Who, The Action, The Kinks), with a generous selection of future superstars (David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Steve Howe of Yes are all represented here), alongside a few artists so obscure, so rare, that they never got to release a record in the ’60s, but Eddie has tracked down the tapes nonetheless.
Superbly packaged (which is the Demon way), it comes with a new sleeve note by Richard Norris, author, musician, producer and DJ, who worked at the pioneering psychedelic reissue label Bam Caruso in the ’80s, amongst other things.
And it is available to order now. There is a signed version (limited to 750 copies) and the standard version when that runs out. £34.99 is the price, and the box will be with you on 17th February 2023. Hopefully, you can read the track listings via the image below. I’ll update you with the text ASAP.
Signed Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2 at Amazon
Standard Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2 at Amazon
Update: There is now a vinyl edition of Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2: The Freakbeat & Psych Years.
Again, this is a signed edition and is made up of 91 tracks over six purple vinyl LPs, all pressed on 140g discs. Not only that, but it also has the same sleevenotes as the CD box and again, is a limited edition.
The vinyl track listing is below, and you can pre-order it now. The price is £119.99.
Vinyl tracks:
Disc: 1
1 The Fairies – Get Yourself Home
2 The Birds – No Good Without You Baby
3 The Poets – Call Again
4 The Sorrows – You’ve Got What I Want
5 The Eyes – When the Night Falls
6 The New Breed – Unto Us
7 The Riot Squad – I Take It We’re Through
8 Jan Panter – Scratch My Back
9 Wimple Winch – Save My Soul
10 Loose Ends – Taxman
11 The Ivy League – My World Fell Down
12 Yardbirds – Happening Ten Years Time Ago
13 Fleur de Lys – Mud in Your Eye
14 The Truth – Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)
15 Scots of St James – Tic Toc
16 The Flies – I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone
17 The Move – Disturbance
18 The Craig – I Must Be Mad
Disc: 2
1 The Drag Set – Day and Night
2 Apostolic Intervention – Tell Me (Have You Ever Seen Her)
3 David Bowie – the Gospel According to Tony Day
4 Tomorrow – My White Bicycle
5 John’s Children – Midsummer Night’s Scene
6 Caleb – Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad
7 The Attack – Created By Clive
8 The Gods – Come on Down to My Boat Baby
9 Alex Harvey – the Sunday Song
10 Keith West’s Tomorrow – Excerpt from a Teenage Opera
11 Our Plastic Dream – Encapsulated Marigold
12 The Action – in My Dream
13 Dantalian’s Chariot – Madman Running Through the Fields
14 Kaleidoscope – Flight from Ashiya
15 Sands – Listen to the Sky
16 The 23rd Turnoff – Michael Angelo
Disc: 3
1 The Fairytale – Listen to Mary Cry
2 Felius Andromeda – Meditations
3 Ice – Anniversary of Love
4 Rupert’s People – Dream in My Mind
5 The Accent – Red Sky at Night
6 The Creation – Life Is Just Beginning
7 The Who – I Can See for Miles
8 Fleetwood Mac – Rambling Pony
9 The Cymbaline – Matrimonial Fears
10 Tintern Abbey – Vacuum Cleaner
11 Traffic – Coloured Rain
12 Andy Ellison – It’s Been a Long Time
13 The Micky Finn – Garden of My Mind
14 Warm Sounds – Nite Is a Comin’
15 Mark Wirtz – (He’s Our Dear Old) Weatherman
Disc: 4
1 Mike Stuart Span – Children of Tomorrow
2 Nirvana – Rainbow Chaser
3 Spencer Davis Group – Moonshine
4 The End – Shades of Orange
5 The Fire – Father’s Name Is Dad
6 Turquoise – Tales of Flossie Fillett
7 Billy Nicholls – London Social Degree
8 Aquarian Age – 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box
9 The Montanas – a Step in the Right Direction
10 Status Quo – Pictures of Matchstick Men
11 The Idle Race – the Morning Sunshine
12 July – Dandelion Seeds
13 Family – See Through Windows
14 Icarus – the Devil Rides Out
15 Plastic Penny – Your Way to Tell Me Go
16 Paul West & Compass – Hey You
Disc: 5
1 The Elastic Band – 8 1/2 Hours of Paradise
2 Vamp – Floatin’
3 Sam Gopal – Escalator
4 Sound Barrier – Groovin’ Slow
5 The Apple – Buffalo Billycan
6 Timebox – Gone Is the Sad Man
7 The Troggs – Evil Woman
8 The Californians – the Cooks of Cake and Kindness
9 Ossie Layne Show – Rock My Plimsoul
10 The Koobas – Barricades
11 Locomotive – Mr Armageddon
12 Graham Bond – Love Is the Law
13 The Misunderstood – Children of the Sun
14 Small Faces – Me, You and Us Too
15 Terry Reid – Superlungs My Supergirl
Disc: 6
1 The Fruit Machine – I’m Alone Today
2 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity – Let the Sunshine in
3 Jason Crest – Black Mass
4 The Open Mind – Magic Potion
5 Quiet Melon – Diamond Joe
6 Humble Pie – Wrist Job
7 Mighty Baby – Same Way from the Sun
8 Colosseum – Elegy
9 The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow
10 Satisfaction – My Fixation (Edit)
11 Nucleus – Song for the Bearded Lady
