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The Herd - I Can Fly: Very Best of the Herd (1968)

Track listing:
  1. I Can Fly 3:12
  2. I Don'T Want Our Loving To Die 2:59
  3. Come On-Believe Me 2:49
  4. Our Fairy Tale 2:39
  5. From The Underworld 3:17
  6. Paradise Lost 3:33
  7. Sweet William 2:10
  8. Understand Me 2:30
  9. Beauty Queen 1:55
  10. The Game 2:54
  11. Miss Jones 2:25
  12. Diary Of A Narcissist (I'M So Pretty) 2:11
  13. I Don'T Wanna Go To Sleep Again 2:25
  14. Hangin' From Your Loving Tree 3:10
  15. Something Strange 2:56
  16. Mixed Up Minds 2:40
  17. Sad 3:16
  18. Goodbye Groovy 2:44

Notes

The Herd launched a young Peter Frampton on the road to teen fandom and success in 1967 with the brilliant single "From the Underworld." After that came two lesser hits, the similar "Paradise Lost" (which has a bizarre vaudeville introduction) and the frankly not very good "I Don't Want Our Loving to Die." All three came from the pen of Howard Blaikley, a professional writer who gave them their best material, like the very Kinks-ish "Diary of a Narcissist," the B-side of the first single, "I Can Fly." Frampton and keyboardist Andy Bown contributed the original material, which owes a little to the fading British blues boom and even more to the prevailing psychedelic pop fashion, both in arrangement and execution. Simply, though, nothing they did matched up to the three minutes and 16 seconds of neo-occult pop perfection that was "From the Underworld." As this collection shows, it's the only really essential thing they ever did.