SPIRIT OF JOY - TALES FROM THE POLYDOR UNDERGROUND 1967 - 1974

CD1
1. ARTHUR BROWN - Prelude: Nightmare Fire Poem Fire (3:29)
2. ARTHUR BROWN - Fire Poem (1:51)
3. ARTHUR BROWN - Fire (2:55)
4. THE CREATION - How Does It Feel To Feel (3:06)
5. SOFT MACHINE - Feelin', Reelin', Squealin' (2:52)
6. ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS - Good Times (3:01)
7. FAIRPORT CONVENTION - It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft (3:14)
8. CREAM - We're Going Wrong (3:27)
9. JULIE DRISCOLL, BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY - This Wheel's On Fire (3:33)
10. JETHRO TULL - Sunshine Day (2:25)
11. TASTE - Born On The Wrong Side Of Time (3:57)
12. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - People You Were Going To (2:46)
13. THE WHO - Dogs (3:04)
14. CARAVAN - Grandma's Lawn (3:24)
15. SECOND HAND - Reality (8:42)
16. ERIC BURDON - All Is One (7:48)
17. JULIE DRISCOLL, BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY - Road To Cairo (5:16)
18. APHRODITE'S CHILD - Magic Mirror (2:53)
19. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - Firebrand (4:08)
20. CREAM - Deserted Cities Of The Heart (3:38)

CD2
1. THE WHO - Amazing Journey (4:28)
2. JACK BRUCE - Weird Of Hermiston (2:21)
3. AUDIENCE - Banquet (3:35)
4. JULIE DRISCOLL - Break-Out (5:16)
5. THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN - Something In The Air (3:56)
6. JOHN McLAUGHLIN - Extrapolation (3:54)
7. SUPERSISTER - She Was Naked (3:44)
8. TONY WILLIAMS' LIFETIME (3:46)
9. TASTE - Sinner Boy - Taste (5:29)
10. ARTHUR BROWN'S KINGDOM COME - Gypsy Escape (7:35)
11. GINGER BAKER'S AIR FORCE - Let Me Ride (4:24)
12. RORY GALLAGHER - Can't Believe It's True (7:16)
13. SUPERSISTER - No Tree Will Grow (On Too High A Mountain) (7:39)
14. THE PINK FAIRES - War Girl (4:34)
15. PETE TOWNSEND - Time Is Passing (3:27)
16. TANGERINE DREAM - Sunrise In The Third System (4:22)
17. ARTHUR BROWN'S KINGDOM COME - Spirit Of Joy (3:09)

CD3
1. THE PINK FAIRES - Prologue (1:22)
2. THE PINK FAIRES - Right On, Fight On (7:59)
3. THE WHO - Naked Eye (5:28)
4. JACK BRUCE - There's A Forest (1:46)
5. JACK BRUCE - Morning Story (4:56)
6. BRIAN AUGER'S OBLIVION EXPRESS - A Better Land (5:32)
7. THE WEB - I Spider (8:38)
8. FAUST - Meadow Meal (8:03)
9. RARE BIRD - Epic Forest (9:12)
10. MEDICINE HEAD - Rising Sun (4:44)
11. GOLDEN EARRING - Are You Receiving Me (9:32)
12. BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - The Great 1974 Mining Disaster (4:40)
13. FOCUS - Hocus Pocus (6:41)

Multi-artist recording

A triple box set sampler taking 50 tracks released by Polydor Records between the 1967 and 1974, including songs by by Audience, Arthur Brown, Jack Bruce, Cream, Pink Fairies, Soft Machine, The Who, Tony Williams' Lifetime, John McLaughlin and many more, including some early recordings by familiar names. Oddly, arguably the major innovator of the period, Jimi Hendrix is not included! Packaged in a clamshell box also contains a 48 page booklet containing sleevenotes by Mark Powell, biogs and rare photographs.

3CD Universal Records 0600753079928 (2008)
3CD Polydor 5307992 (2008, UK)