LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Psychedelic is the third in the series of Mike Alway compiled and designed theme compilations on El Records. Following on from a resurgence of interest in the Psychedelic movement, the album features contributions from the King Of Luxembourg, Loveletter, Would Be Goods and Bad Dream Fancy Dress. The style of the el artists dovetails well with the fascinating historical eccentricities of the RPM label, who are represented here by artists including Harmony Grass, Tony Rivers and the Castaways and Spencer Davis. Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn also appears with her beautifully downbeat and sensuous performance of the Nico / Velvet Underground masterpiece "Femme Fatale" and her cover of the Bid / Monochrome Set composition "Goodbye Joe", released here or the fist time in 15 years and for the first time ever on CD.
Track listing: HARMONY GRASS I’ve Seen To Dream TONY RIVERS & THE CASTAWAYS Pantomime SPENCER DAVIS Virginals Dream (from Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush) SPENCER DAVIS Sanity Inspector JOE MEEK Love Dance Of The Saroos (from I Hear A New World) FABULOUS FLEE RAKKERS Sunday Date (Joe Meek Production) MARK WIRTZ Festival Of Kings (from A Teenage Opera) MARK WIRTZ Theme From A Teenage Opera (end titles) (from A Teenage Opera) TRACEY THORN Femme Fetale TRACEY THORN Goodbye Joe BAD DREAM FANCY DRESS Dali’s Diet BAD DREAM FANCY DRESS Choirboys Gas WOULD BE GOODS Cecil Beaton’s Scrapbook THE KING OF LUXEMBOURG Poptones LOVELETTER Barbarella WALLPAPER Dreams That Money Can Buy WALLPAPER Sun