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Can't Seem To Come Down: American Sounds Of 1968 - Can't Seem To Come Down: American Sounds Of 1968

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Format: CD
Rel. Date: 07/19/2024
UPC: 5013929194809

Can't Seem To Come Down: American Sounds Of 1968
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1. Fresh Garbage - Spirit
2. Come Alive - Things To Come
3. The Shoemaker Of Leatherwear Square - The Lemon Pipers
4. Come Ride, Come Ride - The Merry-Go-Round
5. Draft Morning - The Byrds
6. All Along The Watchtower-Bob Dylan
7. Here She Comes Now - TheVelvet Underground
8. No Regrets - Tom Rush
9. Everybody's Next One -Steppenwolf
10. Thing In 'E' - The Savage Resurrection
11. You Can't Erase A Mirror -Children Of The Mushroom
12. Which End Is Up - Diamond Rings
13. Words Of The Raven -Piece Kor
14. Who Needs The Peace
15. Corps - The Mothers Of Invention
16. Pretty Song From Psych-Out - Strawberry Alarm Clock
17. Three O'clock Merrian Webster Time - The Nomads
18. Strawberry Tuesday -Sidewalk Skipper Band
19. Silver Birch - Del Shannon
20. Delilah - Brian Hyland
21. You Are Your Only
22. Mystery - The Baroque Monthly
23. Freaky Girl - Spontaneous Corruption
24. The Garden Of Earthly
25. Delights - The United States Of America
26. Dedicated Music Man -Mortimer
27. Fields Of People - Ars Nova
28. The Setting Of Despair -Crystal Chandelier
29. Dark Star (Single Version) - The Grateful Dead
30. Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down) - Hearts And Flowers
31. When I Arrive - We The People
32. (Poor Old) Mr. Jensen -1910 Fruitgum Co.
33. Just A Taste - The Kaleidoscope
34. The Face - The Human Beinz
35. Eighteen Is Over The Hill - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
36. Summer - Lemon Fog
37. Awake In A Dream - The Critters
38. Rupert White - Eternity's Children
39. Light Your Windows - Quicksilver Messenger Service 10 Three-Part Invention (Too Many Trees In The Forest) - The Phoenix Trolley
40. Laughing Stock - Love
41. Little Bird - The Beach Boys
42. Oscillations - Silver Apples
43. Shadows - The Electric Prunes
44. You're In My Mind - Graf Zepplin
45. Dark Is The Bark - The Left Banke
46. Cowboys And Indians - October Country
47. The Island - The Millennium
48. Wheel Of Changes - The Wind In The Willows
49. Lantern Gospel - The World Column
50. This Wheel's On Fire - The Band
51. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Single Edit) - Iron Butterfly
52. P. S. (Prognosis Stegnosis)-The Truth
53. Green Knight - The Movement
54. Paisley Haze - The Vectors
55. Never Sad - The Sunstone Lollypop
56. Trust - The Peppermint Trolley
57. Can't Seem To Come Down -Mother's Worry
58. Questions - Buffalo Springfield
59. Satisfy You (Single Mix) - The Seeds
60. Maypole - The Children
61. Johann Sebastian
62. Cheetah - The Yankee Dollar
63. Crystal Liaison - The Fugs
64. Everything's Changing -Kak
65. Feathers From Your Tree-Blue Cheer
66. Lasy Day On Earth -Velvet Haze
67. Daystar - Src
68. Mobius Trip - H. P.Lovecraft
69. Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart ; His Magic Band
70. I'll Drive You From My Mind - The Fallen Angels
71. Mr. Tripp Wouldn't Listen - The Little Boy Blues
72. Back Of Your Mind -Nazz
73. Psychedelic Movement -The Ravelles
74. Crowd Pleaser - The Yellow Payges
75. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Alternative Take 2) - The Moving Sidewalks
76. Hell Will Take Care Of You - Brass Buttons
77. Turn Around - The Beau Brummels
78. Johnny Silver's Ride -Glad
79. Rich Man's Fable - Merrell Fankhauser ; H.M.S. Bounty
80. Crimson And Clover - Tommy James ; The Shondells
81. An Elegy - The Free Design
82. Can You Dig It - The Monkees

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Follow-up to Grapefruit's hugely popular US 1967 anthology 'March Of The Flower Children'. Hit singles, cult classics and tracks from 1968's key albums as the American music scene moved on from the Summer of Love. While psychedelia had been the dominant musical force in 1967, the scene fragmented the following year. Although many acts remained immersed in garage-punk and psychedelic pop, a growing number of heavily-amplified, blues-based hard rock bands like Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly - all of whom enjoyed sizeable hit singles in 1968 - emerged to pave the way for what would develop into heavy metal. Manufactured pop in the form of bubblegum dominated the singles chart, The Byrds and other easy riders developed a country/rock hybrid, a phalanx of folk-based singer/songwriters came to the fore, while Bob Dylan and his occasional playmates The Band pioneered a more organic, rustic sound that would come to be known as Americana. Over four hours and 3 CDs, 'Can't Seem To Come Down: The American Sounds Of 1968' weaves together these various strands to provide a fascinating overview of the year. The set encompasses national and regional hit singles, unexpected flops (The Grateful Dead, The Left Banke), subsequently influential mavericks (Velvet Underground, Beefheart, Silver Apples) and vital cuts from many of the year's most keenly-awaited albums (Dylan, The Band, Mothers of Invention, The Byrds, Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, etc). It also feature a number of hugely collectable one-off singles from young provincial bands, who visited local studios to preserve their sound for posterity before the real world - and possibly the increasing conflict in Vietnam intervened. Including a 48-page booklet filled with biographical details, rare photos and quotes, 'Can't Seem To Come Down' is another essential Grapefruit purchase.
        
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