VA - Lazy Days (The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1975) (2024)⭐

rtist: VA
Title: Lazy Days (The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1975)
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Grapefruit Records – CRSEG3BOX154
Genre: Rock, Pop
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 03:56:42

Tracklist:
CD1
01. Bad Company - Good Lovin' Gone Bad (3:38)
02. Fox - Imagine Me, Imagine You (3:39)
03. Stealers Wheel - Right Or Wrong (4:45)
04. Slade - In For A Penny (3:37)
05. Thin Lizzy - Wild One (4:20)
06. Nazareth - My White Bicycle (3:27)
07. Moonrider - Riding For A Fall (4:02)
08. The Kinks - Everybody's A Star (Starmaker) (3:00)
09. Stray - Precious Love (3:40)
10. Be Bop Deluxe - Jean Cocteau (2:53)
11. Roxy Music - Both Ends Burning (5:17)
12. Justin Hayward & John Lodge - Blue Guitar (3:40)
13. 10cc - Good News (3:51)
14. Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman (4:17)
15. Alan Hull - Dan The Plan (4:23)
16. Ronnie Lane - Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? (2:11)
17. Richard & Linda Thompson - I'll Regret It All In The Morning (3:37)
18. Al Stewart - Carol (4:33)
19. Ace - Ain't Gonna Stand For This No More (Single Version) (3:18)
20. Pete Wingfield - A Whole Pot Of Jelly (For A Little Slice Of Toast) (3:00)
21. Babe Ruth - Private Number (3:46)

CD2
01. Sweet - Fox On The Run (3:21)
02. David Essex - Won't Get Burned Again (3:43)
03. Sparks - In The Future (2:15)
04. Jet - Nothing To Do With Us (4:53)
05. Bryan Ferry - You Go To My Head (2:44)
06. Phil Manzanera - Frontera (4:06)
07. Hatfield & The North - Share It (3:05)
08. Caravan - Stuck In A Hole (3:11)
09. Ivor Cutler - Go And Sit Upon The Grass (2:10)
10. Tom Newman - Sad Sing (2:23)
11. Shadows - Run Billy Run (3:28)
12. Pilot - Heard It All Before (3:17)
13. Stackridge - Highbury Incident (Rainy July Morning) (4:03)
14. Barclay James Harvest - Titles (3:52)
15. Speedy Keen - Someone To Love (3:57)
16. Kursaal Flyers - Hit Record (2:43)
17. Method - Lonely Eyes (3:12)
18. Clive John - Summer Song (5:24)
19. Heavy Metal Kids - Blue-Eyed Boy (3:08)
20. Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah (5:04)
21. Streetwalkers - Raingame (3:04)
22. Sutherland Brothers & Quiver - Arms Of Mary (2:39)
23. Brinsleys - There's A Cloud In My Heart (3:05)

CD3
01. Ian Hunter - Once Bitten Twice Shy (3:55)
02. Mick Ronson - Play Don't Worry (3:12)
03. Mott - By Tonight (3:46)
04. Brian Protheroe - Running Through The City (3:49)
05. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirits In The Night (3:18)
06. Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery (4:16)
07. John Miles - Highfly (3:49)
08. Kestrel - Take It Away (4:09)
09. Pretty Things - Sad Eye (4:31)
10. Winkies - Trust In Dick (3:40)
11. Peter Skellern - Hard Times (3:51)
12. Neutrons - L'hippie Nationale (3:33)
13. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Mr. Raffles (Man It Was Mean) (4:35)
14. Son - Of-A-Gun - La Maison De L'amour (3:20)
15. John Entwistle's Ox - Mad Dog (3:56)
16. Hawkwind - Kings Of Speed (3:33)
17. Agnes Strange - Odd Man Out (3:55)
18. Ufo - Shoot Shoot (3:38)
19. Oddsocks - Lazy Day (3:43)
20. Dr. Feelgood - Back In The Night (3:20)
21. Peter Hammill - Birthday Special (3:36)

• Latest instalment of Grapefruit's acclaimed year-by-year overview of the British rock and pop scenes of the 70s.

• A compendium of hit singles, intriguing misses, cult classics and key album tracks from 1975.

While received wisdom among pop pundits is that 1975 was merely the calm before the following year's punk-instigated storm, there was plenty of vibrant, vital music being made in Britain and Ireland during that largely overlooked 12-month period.

Roxy Music, 10cc and ELO were still firing on all cylinders, Thin Lizzy and post-Free act Bad Company were emerging as prime contenders for stardom, Hawkwind remained linchpins of the still-thriving free festival circuit, and cult live performers The Sensational Alex Harvey Band unexpectedly achieved Top Ten singles success after covering a melodramatic Tom Jones’ ballad.

The London-based pub rock scene housed the likes of Ace, Brinsley Schwartz, The Kursaal Flyers and the game-changing Dr. Feelgood, successful glam-era bands like Slade and Sweet were still producing the goods, while a handful of 60s stalwarts – Manfred Mann, The Pretty Things, The Kinks – were updating their sound to appeal to a new generation of record-buyers.

All these and more are documented in ‘Lazy Days’, a four-hour, 3CD boxed set that, like every other release in the series, includes a 48-page booklet with photos, cuttings and the story behind each song