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Spirit Of Joy - Tales From The Polydor Underground 1967 - 1974 | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Commercial Marketing
Category: Music
List Price: £18.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1157
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 251
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.7
UPC: 600753079928
EAN: 0600753079928
ASIN: B001BG2X70
Release Date: August 25, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Prelude - Nightmare Fire Poem Fire - Arthur Brown | | • | Fire Poem - Arthur Brown | | • | Fire - Various Artists | | • | How Does It Feel To Feel - The Creation | | • | Feelin', Reelin', Squealin' - The Soft Machine | | • | Good Times - Eric Burdon & The Animals | | • | It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft - Fairport Convention | | • | We're Going Wrong - Cream | | • | This Wheel's On Fire - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity | | • | Sunshine Day - Jethro Tull | | • | Born On The Wrong Side Of Time - Taste | | • | People You Were Going To - Van Der Graaf Generator | | • | Dogs - The Who | | • | Grandma's Lawn - Caravan | | • | Reality - Second Hand | | • | All Is One - Eric Burdon & The Animals | | • | Road To Cairo - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity | | • | Magic Mirror - Aphrodite's Child | | • | Firebrand - Van Der Graaf Generator | | • | Deserted Cities Of The Heart - Cream |
Disc 2
| • | Amazing Journey - The Who | | • | Weird Of Hermiston - Jack Bruce | | • | Banquet - Audience | | • | Break-Out - Julie Driscoll | | • | Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman | | • | Extrapolation - John McLaughlin | | • | She Was Naked - Supersister | | • | One Word - Tony Williams | | • | Sinner Boy - Taste | | • | Gypsy Escape - Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come | | • | Let Me Ride - Ginger Baker's Air Force | | • | Can't Believe Its True - Rory Gallagher | | • | No Tree Will Grow (On Too High A Mountain) - Supersister | | • | War Girl - The Pink Fairies | | • | Time Is Passing - Pete Townshend | | • | Sunrise In The Third System - Tangerine Dream | | • | Spirit Of Joy - Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come |
Disc 3
| • | Prologue - The Pink Fairies | | • | Right On, Fight On - The Pink Fairies | | • | Naked Eye - The Who | | • | There's A Forest - Jack Bruce | | • | Morning Story - Jack Bruce | | • | A Better Land - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express | | • | Meadow Meal - Faust | | • | Meadow Meal - Faust | | • | Epic Forest - Rare Bird | | • | Rising Sun - Medicine Head | | • | Are You Receiving Me - Golden Earring | | • | The Great 1974 Mining Disaster - Barclay James Harvest | | • | Hocus Pocus - Focus |
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| Customer Reviews:
Underground???? August 30, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Hot on the heels of "Strange Pleasures" (the second 3 CD Decca/Deram box set of late 60's/early 70's underground sounds) Universal Music has again let Esoteric Records boss Mark Powell loose in its vaults. After issuing similar box sets of Vertigo material and the aforementioned Decca/Derams, Mark (teamed again with maestro Paschal Byrne at the mixing desk and the highly creative Phil Smee in the design room) has produced another excellent offering. As with the aforementioned releases,the packaging is first rate. The 3 cds come in their own mini fake aged LP sleeves accompanied by an informative 48 page booklet with a section per artiste and plenty of rare photos/original album covers. In his introduction, Powell also gives a history of the label and how it came to acquire the MGM Verve catalogue, Giorgio Gomelsky's Marmalade label and its links with Track and Reaction which allow this box set a far wider selection of material than would have applied to the main Polydor imprint alone.
Polydor was not however a label I associated with the "underground". After all it was, at heart, a major German classical label and its pop/rock roster included mega selling bands such as Cream (on Robert Stigwood's Reaction imprint)and the Who (on the Who management's Track label) both of which feature strongly here. This set also boasts top 10 singles by Thunderclap Newman, Julie Driscoll and Arthur Brown - so hardly qualification as an underground label. However the inclusion of material by Ladbroke Grove's Pink Fairies, unknowns like the Web and Second Hand plus obscure singles by Van Der Graaf Generator (slightly manic) and Jethro Tull go a long way to establishing real underground credentials. As a German Label Polydor also had a fair sprinkling of European bands: Golden Earring, Focus, Tangerine Dream, Faust, Supersister and Aphrodite's Child. Although euro bands tended to enjoy limited credibility here in the UK back in the day, the selections here are all worthy inclusions showing highly skilled musicianship and being very light on dodgy english vocals.
All in all, fewer unearthed obscure gems than its predecessors and whilst the selections will inevitably not please everybody (eg I could ask why no Blossom Toes or other Marmalade label bands which would have boosted the underground feel) this is another highly enjoyable, well conceived and executed package. Keep them coming Mark Powell!
A Real Joy August 30, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
In recent years Universal has been releasing a series of progressive and/or psychedlic collections and this one is up there with the best. It has a great balance of hit songs such as Thunderclap Newman's 'Something In The Air', Focus 'Hocus Pocus', Julie Driscoll's 'This Wheel's On Fire' and Arthur Brown's 'Fire' and rarities which are either difficult to track down or you've ever heard of.
It features a roster of great Polydor artists from 1967-1974 such as Cream, The Who, Taste, Jack Bruce and Fairport Convention and there is high quality of material throughout the 50 tracks, which starts of with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown's 'Fire' suite and closes Focus 'Hocus Pocus'.
If you have the likes of Decca's 'Strange Pleasures - Further Sounds Of The Decca Underground', Harvest's 'Breath of Fresh Air' or 'Time Machine - A Vertigo Retrospective' then you will have an idea of what to expect from this collection of well known songs and obscurities from the late 60's/early 1970's. It really is a worthwhile investment if you are into the Prog/Psych music from the era.
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