Artist: VA Title: Can't Seem to Come Down American Sounds of 1968 Year Of Release: 2024 Label: Grapefruit Records – CRSEG3BOX148 Genre: Psychedelic Rock Audio codec: FLAC | lossless Total Time: 03:57:42
Tracklist: CD1 01. Spirit - Fresh Garbage (3:14) 02. Things To Come - Come Alive (3:02) 03. The Lemon Pipers - The Shoemaker Of Leatherwear Square (2:02) 04. The Merry-Go-Round - Come Ride Come Ride (2:50) 05. The Byrds - Draft Morning (2:39) 06. Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower (2:32) 07. The Velvet Underground - Here She Comes Now (2:04) 08. Tom Rush - No Regrets (3:53) 09. Steppenwolf - Everybody's Next One (2:58) 10. The Savage Resurrection - Thing In E (3:05) 11. Children Of The Mushroom - You Cant Erase A Mirror (3:01) 12. The Diamond Rings - Which End Is Up (2:38) 13. The Piece Kor - Words Of The Raven (2:43) 14. The Mothers - Who Needs The Peace Corps (2:36) 15. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Pretty Song From Psych-Out (3:18) 16. The Nomads - Three O clock Merrian Webster Time (3:19) 17. Sidewalk Skipper Band - Strawberry Tuesday (2:49) 18. Del Shannon - Silver Birch (3:09) 19. Brian Hyland - Delilah (3:10) 20. The Baroque Monthly - You Are Your Only Mystery (3:09) 21. Spontaneous Corruption - Freaky Girl (2:40) 22. The United States Of America - The Garden Of Earthly Delights (2:40) 23. Mortimer - Dedicated Music Man (3:27) 24. Ars Nova - Fields Of People (2:55) 25. Crystal Chandelier - The Setting Of Despair (2:44) 26. The Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Single Version) (2:42) 27. Hearts And Flowers - Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down) (4:36) CD2 01. We The People - When I Arrive (3:05) 02. 1910 Fruitgum Company - Mr Jensen (2:19) 03. Kaleidoscope - Just A Taste (2:15) 04. The Human Beinz - The Face (2:44) 05. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Eighteen Is Over The Hill (2:43) 06. The Lemon Fog - Summer (3:48) 07. The Critters - Awake In A Dream (2:25) 08. Eternitys Children - Rupert White (2:10) 09. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Light Your Windows (2:37) 10. The Phoenix Trolley - Three-Part Invention (2:18) 11. Love - Laughing Stock (2:33) 12. The Beach Boys - Little Bird (2:00) 13. Silver Apples - Oscillations (2:49) 14. The Electric Prunes - Shadows (2:23) 15. Graf Zepplin - Youre In My Mind (2:40) 16. The Left Banke - Dark Is The Bark (3:31) 17. October Country - Cowboys And Indians (2:16) 18. The Millennium - The Island (3:23) 19. The Wind In The Willows - Wheel Of Changes (4:03) 20. World Column - Lantern Gospel (3:31) 21. The Band - This Wheels On Fire (3:13) 22. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Single Edit) (2:55) 23. The Truth - Prognosis Stegnosis (3:16) 24. The Movement - Green Knight (3:01) 25. The Vectors - Paisley Haze (2:31) 26. The Sunstone Lollypop - Never Sad (2:40) 27. The Peppermint Trolley Company - Company Trust (2:39) 28. Mothers Worry - Cant Seem To Come Down (2:55) CD3 01. Buffalo Springfield - Questions (2:58) 02. The Seeds - Satisfy You (Single Mix) (2:07) 03. The Children - Maypole (2:50) 04. The Yankee Dollar - Johann Sebastian Cheetah (3:05) 05. The Fugs - Crystal Liaison (3:37) 06. Kak - Everything's Changing (4:06) 07. Blue Cheer - Feathers From Your Tree (3:32) 08. Velvet Haze - Lasy Day On Earth (2:22) 09. SRC - Daystar (4:28) 10. HP Lovecraft - Mobius Trip (2:47) 11. Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (5:30) 12. The Fallen Angels - Ill Drive You From My Mind (4:27) 13. The Little Boy Blues - Mr Tripp Wouldnt Listen (3:43) 14. Nazz - Back Of Your Mind (3:48) 15. The Ravelles - Psychedelic Movement (2:33) 16. The Yellow Payges - Crowd Pleaser (2:25) 17. The Moving Sidewalks - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Alternative Take 2) (3:26) 18. Brass Buttons - Hell Will Take Care Of You (3:00) 19. The Beau Brummels - Turn Around (3:02) 20. Glad - Johnny Silvers Ride (3:24) 21. Merrell Fankhauser And H M S Bounty - Rich Mans Fable (2:21) 22. Tommy James And The Shondells - Crimson And Clover (3:29) 23. The Free Design - An Elegy (3:25) 24. The Monkees - Can You Dig It (3:25)
• Follow-up to Grapefruit's hugely popular US 1967 anthology ‘’March Of The Flower Children’.
• Hit singles, cult classics and tracks from 1968's key albums as the American music scene moved on from the Summer of Love.
• While psychedelia had been the dominant musical force in 1967, the scene fragmented the following year.
Although many acts remained immersed in garage-punk and psychedelic pop, a growing number of heavily-amplified, blues-based hard rock bands like Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly – all of whom enjoyed sizeable hit singles in 1968 – emerged to pave the way for what would develop into heavy metal.
Manufactured pop in the form of bubblegum dominated the singles chart, The Byrds and other easy riders developed a country/rock hybrid, a phalanx of folk-based singer/songwriters came to the fore, while Bob Dylan and his occasional playmates The Band pioneered a more organic, rustic sound that would come to be known as Americana.
Over four hours and 3 CDs, ‘Can't Seem To Come Down: The American Sounds Of 1968’ weaves together these various strands to provide a fascinating overview of the year. The set encompasses national and regional hit singles, unexpected flops (The Grateful Dead, The Left Banke), subsequently influential mavericks (Velvet Underground, Beefheart, Silver Apples) and vital cuts from many of the year's most keenly-awaited albums (Dylan, The Band, Mothers of Invention, The Byrds, Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, etc).
It also feature a number of hugely collectable one-off singles from young provincial bands, who visited local studios to preserve their sound for posterity before the real world – and possibly the increasing conflict in Vietnam - intervened. Including a 48-page booklet filled with biographical details, rare photos and quotes, 'Can't Seem To Come Down' is another essential Grapefruit purchase