Artist: Various Artist Title: Banquet – Underground Sounds Of 1969 Year Of Release: 2021 Label: Esoteric Genre: Rock, Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock Quality: Flac (tracks) Total Time: 03:53:03 Tracklist: CD 1: 01. Yes - Beyond & Before 02. Genesis - In The Beginning 03. Van Der Graaf Generator - Afterwards 04. East Of Eden - Northern Hemisphere 05. Fat Mattress - All Night Drinker 06. Man - The Future Hides Its Face 07. Eyes Of Blue - After The War 08. Locomotive - Mr. Armageddon (Mono Single Version) 09. Barclay James Harvest - Poor Wages 10. Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge 11. Strawbs - Where Is This Dream Of Your Youth? (Original Version) 12. Deep Purple - Shield 13. Mighty Baby - Egyptian Tomb 14. Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments - The Week Looked Good On Paper 15. Ten Years After - Bad Scene 16. Taste - Born On The Wrong Side Of Time 17. The Deviants - Billy The Monster 18. Sunforest - Magician In The Mountain CD 2: 01. Colosseum - Walking In The Park 02. Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Part One) 03. Mighty Baby - House Without Windows 04. Bulldog Breed - Austin Osmanspare 05. Spooky Tooth - Better Be You, Better Than Me 06. Jack Bruce - Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune 07. Free - Trouble On Double Time 08. Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday 09. The Jeff Beck Group - Rice Pudding 10. Procol Harum - A Salty Dog 11. Barclay James Harvest - Brother Thrush 12. Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life 13. Audience - Banquet 14. Moody Blues - Gypsy (Of A Strange And Distant Time) 15. Jody Grind - Paint It Black 16. Michael Chapman - Rainmaker 17. Family - No Mule's Food CD 3: 01. Edgar Broughton Band - Evil 02. Kevin Ayers - The Lady Rachel 03. Deep Purple - Chasing Shadows 04. The Climax Blues Band - Flight 05. Pete Brown & Piblokto! - Living Life Backwards 06. Renaissance - Kings And Queens 07. Third Ear Band - Stone Circle 08. Juicy Lucy - Who Do You Love 09. Jack Bruce - Theme For An Imaginary Western 10. Blodwyn Pig - Sing Me A Song That I Know 11. Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air 12. Manfred Mann Chapter Three - One Way Glass 13. High Tide - Walking Down Their Outlook 14. Colosseum - The Kettle 15. Quintessence - Notting Hill Gate (Single Version) 16. Man - Spunk Box 17. Yes - Survival Three CDs. Banquet - Underground Sounds of 1969, is a clamshell boxed set which gathers together nearly four hours of music from 1969, a year that saw a huge progression in both musically and socially. It was a fine year for creativity in British album-based rock, embraced by the emerging counter-culture. Musical stylistic influences such as psychedelia jazz, blues, hard rock, folk and even classical music melded, all of which championed by "underground" figures of the day such as DJ John Peel on his BBC Radio One show Top Gear and by publications such as International Times and Oz. 1969 also saw bands that would go on to achieve success and influence in the 1970s such as Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Barclay James Harvest, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Family, Genesis, Strawbs, Van Der Graaf Generator, Man and Yes begin their rise to prominence. Aside from featuring better known acts such as Jack Bruce, Thunderclap Newman, Procol Harum, Moody Blues, Taste, Fairport Convention, Colosseum, Michael Chapman and The Jeff Beck Group, this compilation also features lesser-known acts that produced fine work of a wide breadth such as Eyes of Blue, East of Eden, Blodwyn Pig, Locomotive, Mighty Baby, Pete Brown and The Deviants. This collection celebrates a creative period when rock music was evolving into something altogether more serious, moving away from the single as medium to give way to the dominance of the album. Open your ears to Banquet - Underground Sounds of 1969