5013929191204

Miles Out To Sea: The Roots Of British Power Pop 1969-1975

Various Artists

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRSEGBOX112

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Release Date:  22 July 2022

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929191204

Genres:  Pop  70's  

  • Description


    • Four-hour anthology of recordings that anticipated the late 70s Power Pop movement

    • Featuring Badfinger, Slade, The Move, Stealers Wheel, Pilot, Dave Edmunds, Brinsley Schwarz, Honeybus, The Kinks, The Who, etc


    While the early 70s musical landscape in Britain was largely dominated by introspective singer/songwriters, Bubblegum Pop and underground Rock bands, a handful of acts bravely continued to pursue the classic mid-60s group sound.


    With the aid of increasingly sophisticated recording studios, they majored in crisp, muscular, hook-laden three-minute pop songs, bursting with chiming Rickenbacker guitars, irresistible choruses and Beatles/Beach Boys-inspired close harmonies.


    A few (Slade, Pilot, the ill-starred Badfinger) found commercial success, but the likes of Starry Eyed And Laughing, Shape Of The Rain and Octopus proved to be the right bands at the wrong time – too late for the British Invasion that had swept America in the mid-60s, too early to hitch a ride on the late 70s Power Pop bandwagon.


    ‘Miles Out To Sea’ assembles the pick of these recordings, with household names and hit singles (including The First Class's classic Beach Boys cop 'Beach Baby') joined by cult Power Pop names (Rockin' Horse, Liverpool Echo, Pagliaro) obscure one-off 45s (Atlantis, Fresh Air, Big Star-soundalikes Rotten To The Core), cuts from privately-pressed or non-UK albums (Rusty, Shakane, Majority One, Ironbridge) and many unreleased-at-the-time tracks (including pre-Records band The Fabulous Ratbites From Hell and a previously- unissued demo by pre-Rusty act Sheephouse, who cut a collectable Decca single).


    Featuring a clamshell box design that houses a lavishly-annotated and illustrated 48-page booklet, ‘Miles Out To Sea’ is a fascinating document of a musical genre that would only really be identified and cherished after the fact. File under Pure-Pop-For-Then-People.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. MILES OUT TO SEA - Slade
      • 2. JUST A SMILE (original single version) – Pilot
      • 3. BIGGEST GOSSIP IN TOWN (single version) – Rockin' Horse
      • 4. SOME SING, SOME DANCE - Pagliaro
      • 5. RAINCHILD - Octopus
      • 6. I'LL BE THERE – Shape Of The Rain
      • 7. GOING DOWN – Starry Eyed And Laughing
      • 8. PLEASE, ELIZA - Shakanea
      • 9. DON'T LET ME WAIT TOO LONG – Rotten To The Core
      • 10. BLACK MOURNING BAND - Honeybus
      • 11. YOU LIED ABOUT YOUR AGE - Bachdenkel
      • 12. (WHAT'S SO FUNNY 'BOUT) PEACE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING – Brinsley Schwarz
      • 13. WHEN WILL I BE LOVED – Dave Edmunds
      • 14. NIGHTINGALE CRESCENT - Unicorn
      • 15. BRIGHTON ROCK - Rusty
      • 16. YOU MADE ME STAND UP STRAIGHTER - Byzantium
      • 17. BICYCLE DRIVER – Neil Harrison
      • 18. TRY ME – The Tremeloes
      • 19. PEPPERMINT TWIST - Sweet
      • 20. SHE WROTE ME A LETTER - Marmalade
      • 21. LOVE'S MADE A FOOL OF YOU – Raw Holly
      • 22. STRANGE AFFAIR – Help Yourself
      • 23. LET YOUR LOVE GO - Paintbox
      • 24. WHERE I BELONG – Gerry Rafferty
      • 25. FRESH AS A DAISY - Ragamuffin

      Disc 2

      • 1. KNOW ONE KNOWS - Badfinger
      • 2. CHINATOWN – The Move
      • 3. GIRL ON THE TRAIN – Liverpool Echo
      • 4. LONELY NORMAN – Jimmy Campbell
      • 5. FORGET HER - Nimbo
      • 6. GET BACK HOME – Majority One
      • 7. DANGEROUS BACON - Stackridge
      • 8. GO AS YOU PLEASE – Stealers Wheel
      • 9. SECOND TIME AROUND – Keith Riley
      • 10. CHAMPION THE UNDERDOG – Sutherland Brothers and Quiver
      • 11. ALRIGHT MA! - Stray
      • 12. I AIN'T GOT TIME - Atlantis
      • 13. SOMETIMES I WONDER – Sheridan and Rick Price
      • 14. SO YOUNG AND IN LOVE – Bo' Flyers
      • 15. SOMETHING'S GOING ON – Ducks Deluxe
      • 16. ORDINARY BOY – Small Wonder
      • 17. LEAVIN' 'OME – The Hammersmith Gorillas
      • 18. ZURICH 17 (BE MY BABY)- Hollywood Brats
      • 19. GIRLFRIEND - Octopus
      • 20. HOLE IN THE SKY* - Sheephouse
      • 21. MONEY MAKES THE WORLD – Billy Bates
      • 22. SPARKLE – The Fabulous Ratbites From Hell
      • 23. THE RING OF TRUTH - Bachdenkel
      • 24. IN A HAND OR FACE – The Who
      • 25. ROLLING HOME AGAIN – Budgie

      Disc 3

      • 1. THIS MAN HE WEEPS TONIGHT – The Kinks
      • 2. DON'T YOU EVER THINK I CRY? - Rockin' Horse
      • 3. WE'RE NOT THEIR BOYS – Shape Of The Rain
      • 4. LET ME TELL YOU – Fickle Pickle
      • 5. BABY (I GOTTA GO) – Simon Turner
      • 6. SMILE (MY SMILER'S SMILE) – Liverpool Express
      • 7. I DON'T NEED YOU ANY MORE – Penny Arcade
      • 8. IT TAKES TOO LONG – Fresh Air
      • 9. WHEN YOU DANCE I CAN REALLY LOVE - Shakane
      • 10. ANNABELLA – Billy Kinsley
      • 11. SALLY WORKS NIGHTS – Liverpool Echo
      • 12. STAY AT HOME - Rusty
      • 13. CHIMES OF FREEDOM – Starry Eyed And Laughing
      • 14. BACK ROOM - Ironbridge
      • 15. NO MATTER WHAT – Black Label
      • 16. GOOD LOVE CHILD – Barclay James Harvest
      • 17. LITTLE BABY WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME, HONEY-CHILD WON'T YOU JUST ALLOW MEONE MORE CHANCE, PLEASE - P. C. Kent
      • 18. SO SAD (NO LOVE OF HIS OWN) – Iain Matthews
      • 19. JEWEL - Wolfe
      • 20. WALKING THE SILVER HAY - Airbus
      • 21. MAYBE TOMORROW – Angel Pavement
      • 22. BEACH BABY – The First Class
      • 23. FROM ME AND FROM YOU – Keith Riley
      • 24. I DON'T WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND – Rupert Holmes