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Artist: Various

Title: The Perfumed Garden – 82 rare flowerings from the British underground 1965-73

Catalogue Number: PAPRBOX7

Label: Past & Present

Details: 5CD box set with booklet

• reissue of the 3 original albums plus 2 newly-compiled volumes of British psych

• each CD housed in its own card wallet

• featuring the original artwork plus 2 original designs

• 5 CD clamshell

• 52-page full colour booklet containing rare photos and notes on each artist

Named in honour of John Peel’s 1967 late-night programme on pirate radio station Radio London, which Peel named after a 13th century Arabic sex manual, the original 3 volumes of Past & Present’s The Perfumed Garden, which many affianados felt set the bencmark for future compilations,  were applauded for the quality of both the content and the sound, but these acolades were often undermined by the lack of information about the tracks and the artists who performed them. This repackaged version of the first 3 volumes, plus 2 additional volumes compiled by a leading expert on British psychedelia, contains a scholarly and informative 52 page booklet complete with rare photographs an exhaustive liner notes. This is full-on UK garage rock and psychedelia and every track’s a winner. Great sound coupled and 82 fantastic tracks over 5 CDs, 3 featuring the original artwork and the additional discs boasting new artwork newly-commissioned for this superb box set

Volume 1

1. Factory/Try A Little Sunshine

2. Eyes/You're Too Much

3. Syn/Grounded

4. Nimrod/The Bird

5. Smoke /Sydney Gill

6. Birds/No Good Without You Baby

7. Shy Limbs/Reputation

8. Game/It's Shocking What They Call Me

9. Frame/Doctor Doctor

10. Mandrake Paddle Steamer/Strange Walking Man

11. French Revolution/Nine Til Five

12. Vamp/Floatin'

13. Syndicates/Crawdaddy Simone

14. Sands/Listen To The Sky

15. Tintern Abbey/Vacuum Cleaner

16. The Craig/I Must Be Mad

17. Open Mind/Magic Potion

Volume 2

1. Kult/No Home Today

2. Eyes/When The Night Falls

3. Poets/Baby Don't You Do It

4. Ace Kefford Stand/For Your Love

5. Rupert's People/Reflections Of Charles Brown

6. Thane Russal & Three/Security

7. Deviants/I'm Coming Home

8. Fleur-De-Lys/Liar

9. Kult/Mister Number One

10. In-Be-Tweens/You Better Run

11. Uglies/I See The Light

12. Glen Athens & The Trojans/Let Me Show You How

13. Gary Leeds & Rain/Francis

14. Les Goths/Turn Over

15. Drag Set/Day & Night

16. Fleur-De-Lys/Mud In Your Eye

17. Accent/Red Sky At Night

Volume 3

1. Longboatmen/Take Her Anytime

2. Miller/Baby I Got News For You (Oak Version)

3. Les Goths/Out Of The Sun

4. Shyster/Tick Tock

5. Majority One/Get Back Home

6. Groundhogs/Sad Go Round

7. Herbal Mixture/Please Leave My Mind

8. Pete Sully & The Orchard/Evil Woman

9. Adams Recital/No Place For The Lonely People

10. Cedars/For Your Information

11. Wolves/Lust For Life

12. Actress/It's What You Give

13. Reign/Line Of Least Resistance

14. Barry Mason/Over The Hills

15. Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup/Which Dreamed It

16. Andwella's Dream/Felix

17. Serendipity/Through With You

18. Rupert's People/Hold On

Volume 4


1. Flies/Magic Train (Demo version)

2. Joint/Dinosaur


3. Blonde On Blonde/Spinning Wheel


4. Magic Mixture/When I was Young

5. Tucky Buzzard/Time Will Be Your Doctor

6. Timebox/Barnabus Swain


7. Simon’s Secret/I Know What Her Name Is

8. Please/The Road

9. Orang Utan/Magic Playground

10. Arcadium/Poor Lady

11. Flaming Youth/Pulsar

12. Monument/Give Me Life

13. Five Day Week/Straw People/Does It Rain

14. John McLaughlin/Siren

15. Animals/Gratefully Dead

16. Arzachel/Leg

17. Deviants/Jamie’s Song
 

Volume 5


1. July/The Way (long version)

2. Pacific Drift/Feelin’ Free


3. Camel/Where is My Mind (UK psych/rock outfit - NOT THE ANDY LATIMER BAND)


4. Bulldog Breed/I Flew

5. Wynder K Frog/Eddie’s Tune

6. Aynsley Dunbar/Warning

7. Will Malone/Love in the Afternoon

8. Dear Mr Time/Your Country Needs You?

9. Complex/Self Declaration

10. Twink/Fluid

11. Eyes Of Blue/Crossroads Of Time


12. Dogfeet/Mr Sunshine
13. Bram Stoker/Extensive Corrosion