I'm a Freak Baby...: A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock ...
Various Artists
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Release Date: 06/06/2025
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.
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