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

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CRSEGBOX112

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Limited edition

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2022-07-22

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929191204

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Classic

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Grapefruit

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.

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

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

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 ME ONE 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 *previously unreleased