The Nazz - "Open My Eyes" (2:36)
The Easybeats - "Good Times" (3:22)
Can - "Outside Your Door" (4:10)
Captain Beefheart - "Zig Zag Wanderer" (2:33)
The Music Machine - "People In Me" (2:53)
Wynder K Frog - "I'm A Man" (3:10)
Sharon Tandy - "Hold On" (3:04)
The Hombres - "Let It All Hang Out" (2:05)
The Left Banke - "I've Got Something On My Mind" (2:48)
The Seeds - "The Wind Blows Your Hair" (2:32)
The Apple - "Buffalo Billycan" (3:04)
Dantalion's Chariot - "Madman Running Through The Fields" (4:10)
The End - "Shades Of Orange" (2:39)
Warm Sounds - "Night Is A Comin'" (2:59)
The Velvet Underground - "Foggy Notion" (6:47)
The Modern Lovers - "She Cracked" (2:56)
Kim Fowley - "Bubblegum" (2:27)
The Balloon Farm - "A Question Of Temperature" (2:40)
The Starlets - "You Don't Love Me" (2:11)
The Turtles - "Buzz Saw" (1:55)
Lothar & The Hand - "People Machines" (2:36)
The Open Mind - "Magic Potion" (3:28)
The Swinging Medallions - "Double Shot Of My Baby's Love" (2:20)
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - "I See The Light" (2:23)
The Creation - "How Does It Feel To Feel" (2:56)
The Third Eye - "Pass Myself" (4:12)
Review: During the mid 1980s, years before he found fame with loved-up acid house/rave era outfit The Grid, Richard Norris ran a "psychedelic and freakbeat" club night in Liverpool called The Hangout. This fine compilation rounds up some of Norris's favourite 'floor fillers' from that night, joining the dots between the propulsive krautrock of Can, the NYC headiness of The Velvet Underground, the organ-rich Mod quirkiness of The Turtles, the high-octane psych-jangliness of The Seeds, the driving garage-rock of The Seeds, the gnarled psych-pop of Captain Beefheart, the flash-friend hedonism of Sharon Tandy's 'Hold On' and much more besides. An absolute masterclass from a man with an incredibly good record collection.
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