Various – We Can Fly

Label:	Psychic Circle – PSYCHBOX1
Series:	We Can Fly
Format:	5 x CD, Compilation Box Set, Limited Edition
Country:	UK
Released:	2008
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist

1-1	The Penny Peeps–	Model Village
1-2	Loot*–	Try To Keep It A Secret
1-3	Moving Finger*–	Pain Of My Misfortune
1-4	Anan–	I Wonder Where My Sister's Gone
1-5	Peep Show*–	Mazy
1-6	The Glass Menagerie–	Frederick Jordan
1-7	The Glass Menagerie–	Looking Glass Alice
1-8	The Neat Change–	I Lied To Auntie May
1-9	Movement*–	Tell Her
1-10	Sands–	Mrs Gillespie's Refrigerator
1-11	Kippington Lodge–	I Can See Her Face
1-12	Infantes Jubilate–	Exploding Galaxy
1-13	The Smoke–	That's What I Want
1-14	QPR Supporters*–	Supporters Support Us
1-15	Trash (9)–	Trash Can
1-16	Orange Machine*–	Real Life Permanent Dream
1-17	Serendipity (3)–	Castles
1-18	Mickey Finn*–	Garden Of My Mind
1-19	Kytes*–	Running In The Water
1-20	Portebello Explosion–	We Can Fly
1-21	Fox*–	Mr Carpenter
1-22	The Mooche–	Hot Smoke And Sassafras
1- 23	Fruit Machine*–	The Wall
1-24	Image*–	Creation
1-25	Episode Six–	Love Hate Revenge
1-26	Peter Cook & Dudley Moore–	LS Bumble Bee
2-1	Shy Limbs–	Trick Or Two
2-2	Brainbox (3)–	Amsterdam The First Days
2-3	Cedars*–	Hide If You Want To Hide
2-4	Pugh*–	Love Love Love
2-5	John Fitch & Associates–	Stones Out Of It
2-6	Lords*–	Don't Mince Matter
2-7	Nite People–	Love Love Love
2-8	Montanas–	Difference Of Opinion
2-9	Julian Kirsch*–	Clever Little Man
2-10	Blonde On Blonde (2)–	All Day And All Night
2-11	Avalanche (24)–	Rabbits
2-12	West Coast Consortium–	Colour Sergeant Lillywhite
2-13	Tages–	Fuzzy Patterns
2-14	Mirage*–	Hold On
2-15	The Petards–	Tartarex
2-16	Bystanders*–	Cave Of Clear Light
2-17	A.P. Dangerfield–	Conversations (In A Station Light Refreshment Bar)
2-18	A.P. Dangerfield–	Further Conversations
2-19	Blinkers–	Original Sin
2-20	Danny McCulloch–	Colour Of The Sunset
2-21	Joy Unlimited–	Mr Pseudonym
2-22	Moonshine (11)–	Garden Of Men
3-1	The Magicians (3)–	Painting On Wood
3-2	Pesky Gee!–	Where Is My Mind?
3-3	O'Hara's Playboys–	The Ballad Of The Soon Departed
3-4	Cherry Smash–	Sing Songs Of Love
3-5	St John & The Crew*–	I'm A Man
3-6	Mick Softley–	Am I The Red One
3-7	Murray Head–	She Was Perfection
3-8	Callan And John*–	House Of Delight
3-9	Tales Of Justine–	Monday Morning
3-10	Brut–	My Kind Of Feeling
3-11	I Corvi–	Sospesa Ad Un Filo
3-12	The Washington DC's–	Seek And Find
3-13	Made In Sheffield–	Amelia Jane
3-14	The Sugarbeats (2)–	Alice Designs
3-15	Mecki Mark Men–	Free
3-16	The League (3)–	Hey Conductor
3-17	The Afex–	She's Got The Time
3-18	Shocking Blue–	Send Me A Postcard
3-19	Jackie Lomax–	Genuine Imitation Life
3-20	The New Generation*–	Digger
3-21	Los Brincos–	Passport
3-22	The Fox (4)–	Secondhand Love
3-23	Excelsior Spring–	It
3-24	Bulldog Breed–	Paper Man
3-25	Daddy Lindberg–	Wade In The Shade
4-1	Brass Tacks (2)–	Maxwell Ferguson
4-2	Neo Maya–	I Won’t Hurt You
4-3	Russell Morris–	The Real Thing
4-4	The Rokes–	When The Wind Arises
4-5	Eire Apparent–	Here I Go Again
4-6	Wimple Winch–	I Really Love You
4-7	Keith Shields–	So Hard Living Without You
4-8	14–	Drizzle
4-9	Lucas Tyson–	Daylight Child
4-10	Hopscotch (7)–	Look At The Lights Go Up
4-11	The Truth (5)–	Sueno
4-12	The Bunch (2)–	We’re Not What We Appear To Be
4-13	Griffin (9)–	I Am The Noise In Your Head
4-14	Five Steps Beyond–	Not So Young Today
4-15	Tangerine Peel–	Trapped
4-16	Los Canarios*–	What Can I Do For You?
4-17	Strange Fox–	Time And Tide
4-18	Mint (15)–	Luv
4-19	Orange Machine*–	Dr. Crippen’s Waiting Room
4-20	The Ferris Wheel–	I Can’t Break The Habit
4-21	The Beatstalkers–	Sugar Chocolate Machine
4-22	The Mindbenders–	My New Day And Age
4-23	Les Baroques–	Love Is The Sun
4-24	Terry Reid–	Fires Alive
4-25	Magnet (14)–	Mr. Guy Fawkes
5-1	Circus (11)–	Do You Dream?
5-2	Harsh Reality (4)–	How Do You Feel?
5-3	The Iveys–	And Her Daddy's A Millionaire
5-4	Old Gold–	Teacher Of Electricity
5-5	Human Instinct*–	Rich Man
5-6	Keith Relf–	Shapes In My Mind
5-7	Episode Six–	I Can See Through You
5-8	Gnomes Of Zurich*–	Second Fiddle
5-9	Saker*–	Foggy Tuesday
5-10	Kim Fowley–	Lights
5-11	The Loot–	Radio City
5-12	The Bunch (2)–	Spare A Shilling
5-13	The Montanas*–	Anyone There
5-14	Groep 1850*–	Friday I'm Free
5-15	Chris McClure (2)–	Meditation
5-16	The Fruit Machine–	Follow Me
5-17	Georgio (7)–	How Much Longer Must I Wait, Wait?
5-18	East Of Eden (2)–	Ballad Of Harvey Kaye
5-19	I Curui*–	Un Ragazzo Di Strada
5-20	Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera–	Salisbury Plain
5-21	The Gibsons–	City Life
5-22	Orange Peel–	I Got No Time
5-23	Mirage*–	And Life Goes On
5-24	The Cedars–	I Don't Know Why
5-25	Cuby & The Blizzards*–	Appleknockers Flophouse
5-26	The Silver Eagle–	Theodore
5-27	Nite People–	P.M.
5-28	The Nocturnes–	Look At Me
5-29	Danny McCulloch–	Smokeless Zone

Notes

1000 copies pressed.

TRACK LIST ERROR (DISC 2): Disc 2 completely omits Track #5 (John Fitch & Associates "Stoned Out Of It") as printed on the back sleeve. This error then causes Tracks 5 - 22 to be off by one (Track 12 is actually now Track 11, etc...). There are actually only 21 tracks on this disc.
TRACK LIST ERROR (DISC 3): The tracklist does not match with the actual artist/songs, e.g. Pesky Gee (Where is my mind) is not track 3-2 but track 3-14 (as shown on booklet). For comparison look here: https://www.45worlds.com/cdalbum/cd/psychbox1

Reviews

Bradx Sep 30, 2014
Edited 4 years ago
The usual bootlegger's potpourri of fragrant '60s offcuts that've been been thrown into the air and compiled where the pieces landed. As always with this type of affair you get vital stuff (The Bunch, Penny Peeps, Peep Show, Mirage, Wimple Winch) alongside no-hopers and the frankly bizarre.

Nice to see stuff from continental Europe included and oft-booted bands being represented by lesser-known tracks from their catalogue (although quite a lot of these type of bands only had one good track, so whether you want to hear the not-good ones is a moot point). Plus - some of these tracks are from the 1970s which is a bit of a graveyard for true psychedelia which, as most people know, ceased to exist after September 1967.

Sound quality is, again, a bit of a russian roulette situation but with 128 tracks it's reasonable value IF (big if) you can get it cheap enough. Currently there's 3 for sale from £40 which I think is massively steep. I got mine for £10 sealed/ brand new from a record fair which I think is a much fairer deal.

I'm a sucker for these type of comps and if you strip away the lame '70s tracks, the no-hopers and the dodgy b-side brigade there's still enough tracks left to make a good double album quite easily.
I've heard it said that the most expensive thing to manufacture with this type of boxset is the actual cardboard box itself.... everything else is gravy.