VA - Magic Of The Sixties Vol. 1 [2012] + Magic Of The Sixties Vol. 2 [2015] (8 x CDs) | BUTTERBOY

Magic Of The Sixties Vol. 1 [2012] + Magic Of The Sixties Vol. 2 [2015]

MAGIC OF THE SIXTIES

This is MY music! This is my era! Butterboy says?

"I’ve always thought Magic Of The Sixties volumes one and two make the most sense when they’re treated as a single eight-disc run, even though they were released a few years apart, the first in 2012 and the second in 2015. Played together, they don’t lock the decade into one sound or storyline. Instead, they let it unfold naturally, full of overlaps, detours, and subtle shifts. Familiar hits sit right alongside less obvious choices, and that closeness does the explaining without needing to spell anything out.

The first set leans into movement and lift in a very deliberate way. Those opening discs draw heavily from the early and mid-sixties, when pop, beat, soul, and folk-rock were still sharing vocabulary rather than staking out territory. The sequencing isn’t locked to a strict timeline, and that choice matters. It keeps the set from feeling like a history lesson and lets the music behave the way it originally did, circulating through radios, jukeboxes, and charts at the same time. Tracks slide into one another easily, not because they’re similar, but because they belong to the same listening world.

Volume two doesn’t try to outdo that earlier energy, it works by adding weight instead. The selections lean further into the later sixties, where arrangements grow denser and performances carry more emotional and political awareness. Songs begin to stretch, not just musically but thematically, taking in psychedelia, deeper soul, and a more inward kind of pop writing. The sequencing avoids a clean break between eras. Instead, it lets the shift happen gradually, so the listener feels the decade pressing forward rather than turning a corner all at once.

Taken together, the eight discs reward time and repeat listening. Familiar songs settle back into proportion when they’re heard alongside lesser-known period material, and genre boundaries start to feel fluid rather than fixed. These sets don’t make a case for a definitive version of the 1960s. They behave more like a working listening map, shaped by sequencing and pacing rather than thesis. What lingers is the sense of motion, how quickly sounds changed, how much overlap there was, and how the decade’s real pull comes from that forward momentum rather than any single moment held up as final.” (Butterboy)

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