 64 track collection featuring the halcyon days of the legendary London venue.
Format: CD / Cat No: CR3JAMBX39 / PRE-ORDER Release Date: 21/03/2025
Track Listing: CD 1: 1. Family - A Good Friend Of Mine / 2. Soft Machine - I Should Have Known / 3. The In Crowd - Am I Glad To See You / 4. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - A Kind Of Love-in / 5. Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Salisbury Plain / 6. Fairport Convention - Time Will Show The Wiser / 7. Paper Blitz Tissue - Grey Man / 8. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Devil's Grip / 9. The Riot Squad ft David Bowie - I'm Waiting For My Man / 10. The Flies - House Of Love / 11. Keith Dangerfield & The Way Ahead - She's a Witch 12 Graham Bond - Strange Times, Sad Times / 13. Tales of Justine - Monday Morning / 14. Denny Laine - Too Much In Love / 15. Picadilly Line - How Could You Say You're Leaving Me / 16. Third Ear Band - Raga No. 1 / 17. Mabel Greer's Toyshop - Images of You and Me / 18. The Action - Climbing Up The Wall (See Me) / 19. Blossom Toes - Telegram Tuesday / 20. Eyes of Blue - Prodigal Son / 21. The Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band - Canyons Of Your Mind
CD 2: 1. The Incredible String Band - Way Back In The 1960s / 2. Traffic - Feeling Alright? / 3. Ten Years After - Portable People / 4. The Knack - (The Man From The) Marriage Guidance And Advice Bureau / 5. The Pretty Things - Balloon Burning / 6. The Electric Prunes - Long Day's Flight / 7. Dr. K's Blues Band - Pet Cream Man / 8. Eclection - Mark Time / 9. Dantalion's Chariot - Soma (Parts 1 & 2) / 10. Blonde on Blonde - All Day, All Night / 11. The Yardbirds - Drinking Muddy Water / 12. The Deviants - Garbage / 13. Captain Beefheart - Yellow Brick Road / 14. Spooky Tooth - Sunshine Help Me / 15. Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman / 16. Tim Rose - Dim Light A Burning / 17. Champion Jack Dupree - I Haven't Done No-One No Harm / 18. Tim Buckley - Wings / 19. Amalgam - Prayer For Peace / 20. Chris McGregor Septet - Up to Earth
CD 3: 1. The Byrds - Artificial Energy / 2. The Mindbenders - Uncle Joe, The Ice Cream Man / 3. Small Faces - Yesterday Today and Tomorrow / 4. Free - I'm A Mover / 5. Junior's Eyes - Black Snake / 6. Edgar Broughton Band - Evil / 7. Killing Floor - Forget It! / 8. Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation / 9. Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments - The Week Looked Good On Paper / 10. Canned Heat - On The Road Again / 11. Chicken Shack - Worried About My Woman / 12. The Fugs - Crystal Liaison / 13. The Who - Magic Bus / 14. Liverpool Scene - Baby / 15. John James - Maybelle Rag / 16. Yes - Sweetness / 17. Sleepy - Love's Immortal Fire / 18. The Gun - Sunshine / 19. Arcadium - Woman Of A Thousand Years / 20. Barclay James Harvest - Poor Wages / 21. Love Sculpture - Wang Dang Doodle / 22. Steamhammer - Lost You Too / 23. Vamp - Floatin'
More information: Starting out briefly as The Electric Garden, Middle Earth opened its doors in 1967 and immediately became the most happening club in London. More than just a home for UK bands that were pushing the boundaries of rock music, Middle Earth also attracted some of America's finest exponents of psychedelic rock such as Captain Beefheart, The Byrds, The Fugs, Jefferson Airplane, and many more.
Fledgling UK acts that would go on to great things such as Soft Machine, Tomorrow (The In-Crowd), David Bowie (The Riot Squad), Yes, The Incredible String Band, Ten Years After, and Free were joined by more established acts like Traffic, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, The Pretty Things and The Yardbirds.
Cult favourites, who would never attain the commercial success of those just mentioned but are revered by those that know, include The Deviants, Dantalion's Chariot, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, Third Ear Band, and Mabel Greer's Toyshop, among others.
The club only lasted a few years but it's timeline coincided neatly with the rapid and ever-developing rise of psychedelic rock in the UK and as such this compilation serves as the perfect guide to how the genre evolved. The definitive document on the UK's ultimate psychedelic rock club.
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