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I'm a Freak Baby...: A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock ...

I'm a Freak Baby...: A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock ...

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  • Release Date: 06/06/2025
  • Barcode: 5013929183209
  • Edition: Album
  • Genre: Rock
  • Label Family: Grapefruit
  • Subgenre: Compilation
I'm a Freak Baby...: A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock ...

I'm a Freak Baby...: A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock ...

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Although vintage British psychedelia is viewed by many these days as an Alice In Wonderland-style enchanted garden full of beatific flower children innocently gathering flowers or chasing butterflies, there was always a more visceral element to the scene. Pointedly free of such fripperies as scarlet tunic-wearing gnomes, phenomenal cats and talismanic bicycles, the power trio format that was popularised by the likes of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience spawned a host of imitators. As the '60s drew to a close and pop evolved slowly but inexorably into rock, psychedelia gave way to a sound that was harder, leaner, heavier, louder. Across three discs and four hours of music, 'I'm A Freak, Baby: A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-72' investigates that largely under-documented period, incorporating everything from some of the biggest names in the burgeoning hard rock/proto-metal firmament (Deep Purple, Uriah Heep) all the way down to a significant number of provincial semi-pro bands who gigged extensively but were unable to land a recording contract during their lifetime.

TRACK LISTING


  • Disc 1
    1: All in Your Mind - Stray
    2: Cast a Spell - The Open Mind
    3: Hot Smoke and Sasafrass - The Mooche
    4: My Son's Alive - Crushed Butler
    5: Going Down - Chicken Shack
    6: Father of Time - Cycle
    7: I'm Coming Home - The Deviants
    8: Do It - The Pink Fairies
    9: Time Machine - Factory
    10: Cherry Red - The Groundhogs
    11: I'm a Freak - Wicked Lady
    12: Rock My Soul - Charge
    13: Sweet Mistress of Pain - Hawkwind Zoo
    14: Nightmare - Stonehouse
    15: Falling - The Iron Maidens
    16: Apocalypse - Barnabus

    Disc 2
    1: Bogeyman - Writing On The Wall
    2: Fireball - Deep Purple
    3: Primitive Man - Jerusalem
    4: Love in the Rain - Edgar Broughton Band
    5: Trust - Hellmet
    6: Rhubarb! - Second Hand
    7: Dream - Little Free Rock
    8: Skullcrusher - Iron Claw
    9: Zero Time - DARK
    10: Jehovah - The Velvet Frogs
    11: Brontosaurus - The Move
    12: Bring It to Jerome - Stack Waddy
    13: Mr Make Believe - Samuel Prody
    14: Flash - Bare Sole
    15: Street Walking Woman - The Phoenix
    16: Go, I'm Never Gonna Let You - Skid Row

    Disc 3
    1: Race With the Devil - The Gun
    2: Heart Without a Home - Blonde On Blonde
    3: Ascension Day - Third World War
    4: Street - Egor
    5: Escalator - Sam Gopal
    6: Gypsy - Uriah Heep
    7: Garden of My Mind - The Mickey Finn
    8: Think About It - The Yardbirds
    9: Trying to Find My Way Back Home - Morning After
    10: Yellow Cave Woman - Velvette Fogg
    11: Too Old - Andromeda
    12: The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) - Fleetwood Mac
    13: Twisted Trip Woman - Sweet Slag
    14: Occult - The Kult
    15: Born On the Wrong Side of Time - The Taste
    16: Hollis Brown - Fusion Farm
  • ADDITIONAL DETAILS

  • Number of Discs: 3
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