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Various Artists - Rubble 13 - Freak Beat Fantoms

Track listing:
  1. You're Holding Me Down - The Buzz 3:00
  2. Gong With A Luminous Nose - Fleur De Lys 2:34
  3. Take A Heart - The Boys Blue 2:47
  4. Blackeyed Woman - The Deejays 2:32
  5. Just The Same As You - Southern Sound 1:54
  6. Just A Little Bit - The Act 2:47
  7. Yea, I'm Waiting - Force Five 2:05
  8. Just A Fear - The Answers 3:16
  9. 9 'Til 5 - French Revolution 2:28
  10. Train Keeps Rollin' - Arizona Swamp Company 3:02
  11. I Don't Wanna Go - Southern Sound 2:23
  12. She's A Girl - The Attraction 2:36
  13. Help Me Mummy's Gone - The Game 2:40
  14. You Got What I Want - The Boys Blue 2:07
  15. Mazy - The Peep Show 3:08
  16. Dawn - George Gallagher & White Trash 2:41

Notes


The second box in as many years of a truckload of obscure British psychedelia. Here are ten more CDs' worth of serious rarities by some bands that barely scratched the surface of the British freakbeat scene during rock's golden era, and a few who went on to other things. In all, there are 128 cuts here, all compiled and annotated by Phil Smee -- of Perfumed Garden fame (also issued by Past And Present). While some of these acts, such as the Poets, the Human Instinct, Outer Limits, and Denny Laine left marks on the scene, as did mod bands such as les Fleur De Lys and the Buzz; many others came from the swamp and returned with only these few minutes of glory for all of their efforts. As one would imagine, this is a mixed bag, with some of this material being absolutely sublime, while some never should have been recorded at all, with the vast majority falling in between the two poles somewhere. Nonetheless, for those who have been bitten by the Nuggets bug, and procured the highly sought after Perfumed Garden volumes, this second set of Rubble will no doubt feed the jones in you like nothing else.