Artist	Song
Julian Cope	Sunshine Playroom
Scrugg	I Wish I Was Five
Pink Floyd	Matilda Mother
Timon	The Bitter Thoughts Of little Jane
Zoot	Little Roland Lost
Neat Change	I Lied To Auntie May
Fire	Fathers Name was Dad
Traffic	House For Everyone
Kevin Ayers	Joy Of A Toy Continued
Alan Bown	Toyland
Wild Silk	Toymaker
Billy J Kramer	The Town Of Tuxley Toymaker
Bonzo Dog Band	The Joke Shop Man
World Of Oz	The Muffin Man
Acid Gallery	Dance Round The Maypole
Moody Blues	Ride My see Saw
Hollies	On a Carousel
Montanas	The Roundabout
Idle Race	The Skeleton & The Roundabout
Pinkerton's Colours	Magic Rocking Horse
Donovan	Little Tin Soldier
Small Faces	Tin Soldier
Fleur De Lys	Gong With a Luminous Nose
Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup	Jaberwocky
Skip Bifferty	The Hobbit
Orange Machine	Three Jolly Little Dwarves
Al Stewart	The Elf
David Bowie	The Laughing Gnome

Comment:

Something odd happens when weBrits get mixed up with hallucinogenics: we invariably regress back to infancy. Think of the Victorians, launching on a tide of laudanum all those novels and poems featuring child protagonists. Think of late 80's ecstacy-addled ravers frantically sucking on dummies as they groove to housed-up tunes from kiddie TV shows. And think especially of the lysergic mid-60s.

Remembrances of childhoods lost reached almost epidemic proportions as popsters frantically tried to recapture the pleasures and terrors of childhood. The Scrugg track carries one of the most emblematic titles of the era. Even when they weren't actively trying to be kids again, writers drew on imagery from the playground and funfair or nursery tales. The accompanying music often featured groaning bassoons and parping tubas and cheeky piccolos and pantomime horse rhythms - further serving to trigger memories of pre-school years.

Of course some of the tracks like The World Of Oz & Alan Bown selections were foolish to the point of imbecility but better that than the self-important whimperings of the Coldplays of this world.

(PS even though Julian Cope's outside the time-span he knows his psychedelia inside out and during the early 80s revival he was one of the few who saw past the surface embellishments and cut to the heart of the UK LSD experience)

(PPS I think this mix goes some way to showing tat the Bowie track wasn't the aberration some try to write it off as but a demonstration that even then DB was in tune with the prevailing zeitgeist)

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