"The Rubble Collection" Vol. 8 [10 CD Box Set] 2007

This is: Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock, Freakbeat, Garage Rock, Mod, Pop.
Originally appearing on LP from the Bam Caruso label in the 1980s, and then on CD on the Past & Present imprint in 2003, these first ten volumes (boxed) in the Rubble Collection were conceived and collected by Phil Smee. For fans of the Nuggets series, both the two American volumes and the British Nuggets, you won't find a lot of overlap. The Nuggets comps were and are for people who want what was at least the stuff of legend, if not readily available. The collection here digs deep and are, for the most part, flawless in what they present. This set, and its companion volumes 11-20 (a separate box), are very different creatures. For starters, they dig a lot deeper into the hopelessly obscure 45s and tapes of Brit psychedelia, freakbeat, Mod, and pop.
For every cut by Sharon Tandy & les Fleur de Lys, the Glass Menagerie, Pretty Things, and Flying Machine and the Clique, there is at least one to match from acts like Peter & the Blizzards, Skip Bifferty, Life 'N' Soul, and Factotums. You're getting the idea. This is for the listener who wants to dig down and get virtually everything. There are some things missing here (the second box picked up a lot of that slack), and like other series' that go down into the underbelly of the '60s, some of what's here is drek. But there are real gems, too -- ,check out the Sharon Tandy cuts like "Hold On," on disc nine, or the Velvett Fogg's "Lady Caroline," on disc ten, or Fairytale's "Lovely People" that kicks off volume six. Then there's the completely cracked and whacked, such as Dragonfly's "Celestial Empire," Orange Seaweed's "Pictures in the Sky," and Focus Three's "10,000 Years Behind My Mind." In addition to these ten handsome volumes in a single fold-in case, there is a 93-page booklet completely annotating tracks and offering discographies for artists who actually had them. In 2007, Fallout in the U.K. reissued this box again, in a limited numbered (on the bottom) limited license, limited edition of 1000 copies at a more reasonable price than the previous version. [Thom Jurek, AllMusic. Score: 4/5 stars]
trax:
01. Yellow / Living A Lie 02. Sharon Tandy & Fleur De Lys / Hold On 03. Eyes Of Blue / Prodigal Son 04. Jason Crest / Here We Go 'Round The Lemon Tree 05. Rick Price & Sheridan / Lamp Lighter Man 06. Jigsaw / Tumblin' 07. Skip Bifferty / On Love 08. Methusalah / High In The Tower Of Coombe 09. Norman Conquest / Upside Down 10. Jason Crest / A Place In The Sun 11. Dantalion's Chariot / The Madman Running Through The Fields 12. Sharon Tandy & Fleur De Lys / Daughter Of The Moon 13. Mashmakhan / Days When We Are Free 14. Mike Stuart Span / Children Of Tomorrow 15. Serendipity / I'm Flying 16. Second Hand / The World Will End Yesterday
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