The Small Faces - From the Beginning (1967)

 

Side A:
1. Runaway
2. My Mind's Eye
3. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
4. That Man
5. Hey Girl
6. Take This Hurt Off Me
7. All or Nothing
8. Baby Don't You Do It
9. You've Really Got a Hold on Me

Side B:
10. Something I Want to Tell You
11. Things Are Going to Get Better
12. Become Like You
13. All Our Yesterdays
14. Eddie's Dreaming
15. What's a Matter Baby?
16. I've Got Mine
17. Understanding
18. I Can't Dance With You

In between the Small Faces' first two albums which are both self-titled, the band changed labels from Decca to Immediate but they released a compilation in between called From the Beginning. It was intended to be a collection of outtakes with some being previously unreleased, however two of the tracks came from the first album and two more tracks would later get released on the second album. In fact, on the American version of the second album called There Are But Four Small Faces, they included the two tracks from From the Beginning but cut out a whole side's worth of material from the second album. So the first side makes up all the tracks from From the Beginning that I could include and the second side contains most of the tracks from the second album not featured on the American version. 

The Zombies - Here's What Remains (1967)

 

Side A:
1. She's Coming Home
2. I Must Move
3. I Want You Back Again
4. Whenever You're Ready
5. I Love You
6. Is This the Dream?
7. Don't Go Away
8. Remember You
9. Just Out of Reach

Side B:                              
10. Indication                                           
11. Gotta Get a Hold of Myself                     
12. Goin' Out of My Head                 
13. She Does Everything For Me                   
14. You Make Me Feel Good                           
15. Leave Me Be                   
16. Tell Her No                       
17. Kind of Girl                   
18. It's Alright With Me                   
19. Sometimes                   

The Zombies were a well-known band from the late '60s despite only releasing two albums. Their legendary long-lost album R.I.P. was finally released in 2000, but a couple years before it there was a box set released called Zombie Heaven. It contained tracks from R.I.P. but also compiled non-album tracks from 1964 to 1967 which could be their own album. There's a lot of material here which is longer than the typical Zombies album but I liked most of it. The first side is all from 1965 and the second side is from 1966, 1967, and 1964. 

Pink Floyd - Cambridge Station (1967)

 

Side A:
1. Arnold Layne
2. See Emily Play
3. Apples and Oranges
4. Vegetable Man
5. Candy and a Currant Bun
6. Paintbox

Side B:
7. Lucy Leave                               
8. Double O Bo                                          
9. Remember Me                                     
10. Walk With Me Sydney                                  
11. Butterfly
12. I'm a King Bee                                   

This is a theoretical second Pink Floyd album of 1967. I'm not about to go on a Pink Floyd alternate universe binge like I just did with The Monkees so don't worry about that. The first side is the EP "1967: The First Three Singles" from 1997. It included the song Scarecrow which would later be on their first album so I replaced it with Vegetable Man from the Early Years box set. The second side is the EP "1965: Their First Recordings" also from the box set. 

The Monkees - Evolution (1967)

 

Side A:
1. Carlisle Wheeling
2. All of Your Toys
3. Nine Times Blue
4. Lady's Baby
5. I Didn't Know You Had It in You
6. Through the Looking Glass

Side B:
7. Don't Listen to Linda                   
8. 99 Pounds                       
9. The Girl I Knew Somewhere                     
10. If I Learned to Play the Violin                   
11. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You                 
12. You Can't Tie a Mustang Down                

In 1967, The Monkees made rock history by releasing three albums in a year. Yet wouldn't it be crazy if they released another album that year? Apparently they had enough material to do so! This is similar to the last album in that I took tracks from the band's last three albums as well as the three Missing Links compilation albums. The Hollies also released an album in 1967 called Evolution. I honestly don't know what to call these and thought Evolution would be a funny name. 

Buffalo Springfield - Stampede (1967)

Side A:
1. For What It's Worth 

2. Down, Down, Down 

3. We’ll See 

4. Down to the Wire 

5. My Kind of Love 

6. Kahuna Sunset 

Side B:

7. Sell Out

8. No Sun Today

9. Pretty Girl Why

10. Neighbor Don’t You Worry 

11. Slowly Burning

12. Buffalo Stomp (Raga)

Buffalo Springfield released their first album in December 1966. Their first single called Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing was released in August, but neither the single nor the album sold well. On the same day the album came out, they recorded the song For What It’s Worth and released it as a single a couple days later. It became the band’s first real hit, peaking in March 1967. The label wanted the band to put out a second album to capitalize on their success, but when the band didn’t have enough material to put out a second one, they re-released the first one with the single as the first track, cutting out another song called Baby Don’t Scold Me which resulted in it never getting a stereo mix. (Although a track called Burned also never got one.)

The label made plans to put out a second album called Stampede with material the band was working on at the time, but the band was never made aware of this and their real second album called Buffalo Springfield Again wasn’t released till November 1967, mostly made up of songs the members recorded solo. Also no track listing was made for the album, so fans are left to speculate about which songs would’ve made the cut. Some of the tracks though would be released on the 2001 Buffalo Springfield box set, so we can use some of those tracks. 

Unfortunately the band didn’t record a lot of material between January and March 1967, so some songs recorded for the first album that didn’t make the cut will have to be used instead. Also the box set included a lot of acoustic demos that I’d rather not include and some instrumentals that I’ll be forced to include. I wanna make this a counterpart album to Buffalo Springfield Again so that they don’t use the same tracks. But we’ll put the single as the first track.

Other notable songs include Pretty Girl Why which was originally released on their third album Last Time Around from 1968 but was recorded around this time, but this can be fixed by putting Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? from the box set in its place on the album. Also included is the song Sell Out from Neil Young’s Archives Vol. 1, but it was edited to fade out early.