Family - Music In A Doll's House (1968) & Family Entertainment (1969)

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Family - Music In A Doll's House (1968) & Family Entertainment (1969)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | PUC 1968 | ~ 580 or 583 or 229 Mb | Scans Included
Pogressive / Psychedelic / Garage Rock | Remastered

This two-CD package is a little more interesting than a typical reissue combination of two albums. Most importantly, it adds two bonus tracks, both from their pre-Music in a Doll's House 1967 single, "Scene Through the Eye of a Lens"/"Gypsy Woman," that had never been legitimately reissued on compact disc before.

As for the music itself, it's good late-'60s British psychedelia, not quite in the first tier, but among the best bands below that level. On these first two albums, Family adeptly combined bits of hard rock, trippy psychedelia, blues, folk, poetic lyrics, and classical music into something fairly whole and coherent, though not as immediately memorable as some other groups the band resembled in some ways, like Procol Harum and Traffic. They were closer to Traffic than anyone else, particularly in their use of some non-conventional rock instruments, especially saxophones, Mellotron, and, above all, Rik Grech's violin. Still, they were more sinister and unsettling than Traffic, though not in a way that prohibited a wide variety of moods. As for the rare 1967 single, the A-side, "Scene Through the Eye of a Lens," is one of the best British psychedelic rarities from that year, moving from a pastoral ballad to a quirky hard psychedelic passage with disembodied vocals and inventive synthesizer effects. However, the B-side, "Gypsy Woman," is a blander affair that's indicative of Family's most blues-rock-oriented roots.

by Richie Unterberger, AMG
Family - Music In A Doll's House (1968) & Family Entertainment (1969):


Tracklist CD1 - 1968 Music in a Doll's House:

01. Scene Through the Eye of a Lens - 2:52
02. Gypsy Woman - 3:30
03. The Chase - 2:13
04. Mellowing Grey - 2:48
05. Never Like This (D. Mason) - 2:18
06. Me My Friend - 2:00
07. Variation on a Theme of Hey Mr. Policeman - 0:23
08. Winter - 2:25
09. Old Songs for New Songs - 4:17
10. Variation on a Theme of the Breeze - 0:40
11. Hey Mr. Policeman - 3:13
12. See Through Windows - 3:43
13. Variation on a Theme of Me My Friend - 0:22
14. Peace of Mind - 2:22
15. Voyage - 3:35
16. The Breeze - 2:50
17. 3 X Time - 3:48

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Family / Music In A Doll's House

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Tracklist CD2 - 1969 Family Entertainment:

01. The Weaver's Answer - 4:56
02. Observations From a Hill - 3:11
03. Hung Up Down - 3:12
04. Summer '67 (Whitney) - 3:19
05. How-Hi-the-Li (Grech) - 4:56
06. Second Generation Woman (Grech) - 3:13
07. From Past Archives - 3:21
08. Dim - 2:31
09. Processions (Whitney) - 2:48
10. Face in the Cloud (Grech) - 2:53
11. Emotions (Chapman, Grech, Whitney) - 5:09

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 27. August 2014, 11:20

Family / Family Entertainment

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