VA - Miles Out To Sea: The Roots Of British Power Pop 1969-1975 (2022) [CD-Rip]

Three CDs. 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).

Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Slade – Miles Out To Sea
2. Pilot – Just A Smile
3. Rockin' Horse – Biggest Gossip In Town
4. Pagliaro – Some Sing, Some Dance
5. Octopus – Rainchild
6. Shape Of The Rain – I'll Be There
7. Starry Eyed And Laughing – Going Down
8. Shakane – Please, Eliza
9. Rotten To The Core – Don't Let Me Wait Too Long
10. Honeybus – Black Mourning Road
11. Bachdenkel – You Lied About Your Age
12. Brinsley Schwarz – (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding
13. Dave Edmunds – When Will I Be Loved
14. Unicorn – Nightingale Cescent
15. Rusty – Brighton Rock
16. Byzantium – You Made Me Stand Up Straighter
17. Neil Harrison – Bicycle Driver
18. The Tremeloes – Try Me
19. Sweet – Peppermint Twist
20. Marmalade – She Wrote Me A Letter
21. Raw Holly – Love's Made A Fool Of You
22. Help Yourself – Strange Affair
23. Paintbox – Let Your Love Go
24. Gerry Rafferty – Where I Belong
25. Ragamuffin – Fresh As A Daisy

Disc 2
1. Badfinger – Know One Knows
2. The Move – Chinatown
3. Liverpool Echo – Girl On The Train
4. Jimmy Campbell – Lonely Norman
5. Nimbo – Forget Her
6. Majority One – Get Back Home
7. Stackridge – Dangerous Bacon
8. Stealers Wheel – Go As You Please
9. Keith Riley – Second Time Around
10. Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – Champion The Underdog
11. Stray – Alright Ma!
12. Atlantis – I Ain't Got Time
13. Sheridan & Rick Price – Sometimes I Wonder
14. Bo' Flyers – So Young And In Love
15. Ducks Deluxe – Something's Going On
16. Small Wonder – Ordinary Boy
17. The Hammersmith Gorillas – Leavin' 'Ome
18. Hollywood Brats – Zurich 17 (Be My Baby)
19. Octopus – Girlfriend
20. Sheephouse – Hole In The Sky
21. Billy Bates – Money Makes The World
22. The Fabulous Ratbites From Hell – Sparkle
23. Bachdenkel – The Ring Of Truth
24. The Who – In A Hand Or A Face
25. Budgie – Rolling Home Again

Disc 3
1. The Kinks – This Man Weeps Tonight
2. Rockin' Horse – Don't You Ever Think I Cry?
3. Shape Of The Rain – We're Not Their Boys
4. Fickle Pickle – Let Me Tell You
5. Simon Turner – Baby (I Gotta Go)
6. Liverpool Express – Smile (My Smiler's Smile)
7. Penny Arcade – I Don't Need You Any More
8. Fresh Air – It Takes Too Long
9. Shakane – When You Dance, I Can Really Love
10. Billy Kinsley – Annabella
11. Liverpool Echo – Sally Works Nights
12. Rusty – Stay At Home
13. Starry Eyed And Laughing – Chimes Of Freedom
14. Ironbridge – Back Room
15. Black Label – No Matter What
16. Barclay James Harvest – Good Love Child
17. P.C. Kent – Little Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Honey-Child Won't You Just Allow Me One More Chance, Please
18. Iain Matthews – So Sad (No Love Of His Own)
19. Wolfe – Jewel
20. Airbus – Walking The Silver Hay
21. Angel Pavement – Maybe Tomorrow
22. The First Class – Beach Baby
23. Keith Riley – From Me And From You
24. Rupert Holmes – I Don't Want To Hold Your Hand