LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• 5 CDs
• Over 90 rare acid punk tracks
• 32 page full colour booklet with rare photos, detailed biographies and full discographies.

In 1979 a Berlin Record shop issued Acid Dreams a compilation of American psychedelic garage punk in a simple op-art sleeve design pressed in an edition of only 77 copies that disseminated amongst hard-core collectors. It was inspired by the Nuggets compilation that appeared on Elektra in 1972 but dug much deeper into US ‘60s pop culture than even that brilliant double LP set had dared to venture. Its emergence was only slightly predated by the first Pebbles compilation which had appeared in Australia the year before.

Acid Dreams was an instant classic. It defined the perfect garage psych compilation and went on to spawn sequels over the following decades. These included Acid Dreams Testament, Acid Dreams Epitaph (both on compact disc) The Return of Acid Dreams, the triple LP set Acid Dreams, and the last vinyl instalments Acid Dreams Volume 2 and Acid Dreams Volume 3. Confusingly these albums bore not only similar album titles but often duplicated tracks between them whilst adding new ones.

Now, 36 years after that first volume, every recording that has ever been issued under the banner Acid Dreams has been brought together on this The Ultimate Acid Dreams; a 5CD collection that captures the sound of frustrated ‘60s American youth in its rebellious glory, either revved upon on teenage angst, high on LSD and marijuana or all three at once… enjoy!

This long-awaited 5-CD box set compiles all five volumes of this legendary 1960s US acid punk compilation series. Featuring many legendary 45s, some of them worth upwards of a thousand dollars apiece, it is presented here with remastered sound and a deluxe booklet including background notes and rarely-seen pictures, making it an essential addition to any psych connoisseur’s collection.

Track Listing:

DISC ONE

1. The Balloon Farm Question Of Temperature
2. The Music Machine You'll Love Me Again
3. The Painted Faces Anxious Color
4. Velvet Illusions Velvet Illusions
5. The Unrelated Segments Cry Cry Cry
6. The Outcasts Set Me Free
7. Murphy & The Mob Born Loser
8. The Sparkles No Friend Of Mine
9. The Painted Ship Frustration
10. Mouse & The Traps Maid Of Sugar, Maid of Spice
11. Macabre Be Forewarned
12. The Calico Wall I'm A Living Sickness
13. Velvet Illusions Acid Head
14. White Lightning William
15. The Outcasts 1523 Blair
16. The Zakary Thaks I Need You
17. The Painted Ship Little White Lies
18. The Swamp Rats Louie Louie
19. The Unrelated Segments It's Unfair

DISC TWO

1. The Shy Guys Black Lightning Light
2. The Bourbons A Dark Corner
3. The Mind's Eye Help I'm Lost
4. The Stereo Shoestrings On The Road South
5. Zakary Thaks Can You Hear Your Daddy's Footsteps
6. The Caretakers Of Deception Cuttin' Grass
7. The Remaining Few Painted Air
8. Teddy & His Patches Suzy Creamcheese
9. Indian Puddin' & Pipe Hashish
10. The Rogues Train Kept A Rolling
11. The Shag Stop And Listen
12. The Fabs Dinah Wants Religion
13. The Crystal Chandelier Suicidal Flowers
14. Larry & The Blue Notes Night Of The Sadist
15. Phil & The Frantics I Must Run
16. Richard Alvey & The Green Fuz Green Fuz
17. The Electric Prunes Vox Wah-Wah Commercial
18. The Regiment My Soup Won't Float
19. Godfrey & Friends Let's Take A Trip
20. The Keggs To Find Out

DISC THREE

1. Beaux Gens She Was Mine
2. The Elite My Confusion
3. Soul Inc. I Belong To Nobody
4. The Driving Stupid Horror Asparagus Stories
5. The Journey Men She's So Sorry
6. The Tree No Good Woman
7. The Satyrs Yesterday's Hero
8. Phil & The Frantics Till You Get What You Want
9. The Alarm Clocks Reason To Complain
10. Yesterday's Children Wanna Be With You
11. The Grodes Cry A Little Longer
12. The Spades We Sell Soul
13. The Avengers Open Your Eyes
14. The Dearly Beloved Flight 13
15. The Preachers Who Do You Love
16. The Sweet Acids Creature
17. The Wilde Knights Beaver Control
18. The Split Ends Rich With Nothing
19. The Beautiful Daze City Jungle

20. Faine Jade It Ain't True

DISC FOUR

1. The Little Bits Spoofin’
2. Kandy Kolored Konspiracy One Million People
3. Red Crayola Hurricane Fighter Plane
4. Cellars Look Out Now
5. The Undertakers Searching
6. Astral Projection Rosa Lynn
7. Owen B Mississippi Mama
8. The Invicta Way What Am I To Do?
9. The Humane Society Eternal Prison
10. Majority One Get Back Home
11. The Survivors Midnight Mines
12. The Muffetts Lost
13. Tomorrow’s Keepsake Eat Your Hot Dog Boy
14. Twas Brillig Dirty Old Man
15. Black River Circus A Ritual Melody
16. Lemon Fog Summer
17. Kindred Spirit Blue Avenue

DISC FIVE

1. Los Belmonts No Creas En La Mujer
2. Charlie Brown's Generation Fast Retreatin' Female
3. The Regents Worryin' Kind
4. The Skunks Don't Ask Why
5. The Flower Power You Make Me Fly
6. The Stained Glass A Scene In Between
7. The Purple Haze Shades Of Blue
8. The Growing Society The Red Fuzz
9. A Little Bit Of Sound Incense And Peppermints
10. The New Life Ha Lese (Le Di Khanna)
11. John Does One Kind Favor
12. The Flower Power Sunshine Day
13. The New Arrivals Let's Get With It
14. Fox & The Roadrunners Illusions Of A Party
15. The King Biscuit Entertainers Take My Thoughts Away
16. Unrelated Segments Where You Gonna Go?
17. The Vejtables Shadows