Miles Out to Sea: Roots of British Power Pop 69-75 - Miles Out To Sea: The Roots Of British Power Pop 1969-1975 / Various - CD

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.

Album Tracks

DISC 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. Le