There’s much to enjoy in the free-spirited music that impulse wrought, even if it proved a bit of a dead-end.
That musical response, writes one-time NME scribe Neil Taylor in Another Splash of Colour’s liner notes, "made a curious contrast, as the inimitable Dan Treacy was to later point out on 'She Was Only a Grocer’s Daughter': 'Relax your mind and float downstream/Pretend it’s all a very bad dream.'" Thanks in part to the "second Cold War," as well as the severity of Margaret Thatcher’s conservative politics, many would-be dissidents had drifted into a state of woozy social escapism. Though genre revivalism was hardly novel, New Psychedelia-which, besides this compilation, left few footprints in the British underground-was the first scene since punk to observe the widespread rejection of '60s Britrock, and to reject that rejection. ("It’s a Mystic Trip") to the straight-faced period pieces of groups like Pink Umbrellas ("Raspberry Rainbow").
What connects the groups is their investment in a collective, '60s-themed imaginarium, from Robyn Hitchcock’s inspired nonsense Ancestors of glammy Britpop, nerdy twee pop, playful college rock, and prime-era Creation Records rub shoulders, jostling for attention as each song pulls the rug from under the last. Reissued as Another Splash of Colour, the set has now expanded to three discs, comprising 64 songs recorded between '80 and '85. New Psychedelia, fomented in early-80s England, peered instead into the kaleidoscope of psych-rock-13th Floor Elevators, Traffic, the Nuggets compilations-and saw something momentarily more appealing.Ī Splash of Colour, originally released as a 13-track LP in '81, documented the scattershot fruits of that vision, just as it began to spread beyond clubs and second-hand clothes stores in London’s SohoĪnd Kensington. It antagonized both dreary realists, who were unforgivably bland, and the reigning New Romantics, whose pop-futurist stylings were considered elitist and played-out, stuck in front of the bedroom mirror.
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The Doctor’s heady proclamations, made in the wake of punk and postpunk and at the dawn of Thatcherism, were typical of an idealistic new movement rooted in the mod revival. The fact that they do shows that there is still hope for the world." These are the words of the Doctor, a glammed-up, pylon-haired oddball, speaking to the UK’s Observer magazine in 1981. We put jelly on the floor and ask people to eat it. We’re carrying on where the '60s left off. "We’re a reaction against the violence of London. Psychedelia, which set the scene for glammy Britpop, nerdy twee pop, playful college rock, and more. Its lyrics, which alternate between spoken word and song, include verses opening with such lines as, "Good morning, Mister Blue, we've got our eye on you," "Step softly, Mister Blue, we know what's best for you," and "Be careful, Mister Blue, this phase you're going through. Lasting over six minutes, the rather sinister, psychedelic song is considered a classic of the genre. Blue," a psychedelic version of a folk song written by Tom Paxton and a popular request on underground radio at the time. The album also includes three tracks written by guitarist Bob Seal.Ī notable track from the Clear Light album, was "Mr. The album featured the unique characteristic of including two leading drummers on their tracks. While the album was not a success at the time, it was creative, coherent and competent.
It combined elements of folk, rock, psychedelic, and classical music. Clear Light was released in September 1967 and peaked at number 126 on the Billboard pop albums chart.
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