Dark-Dark Round The Edge (1972)

"Dark Round The Edge" is another one of those 1970s albums highly coveted by collectors. Of this first and only album by the British band Dark, only about fifty copies were released; most of them ended up with friends and family of the band, and only a few were officially sold. In the mid-2000s, this album was listed as the seventeenth most valuable record of all time, with some collectors paying astronomical sums for an original copy, reaching a price of £2500 on one occasion in the mid-1990s. Dark was a psychedelic rock band founded by guitarist Steve Giles, who, along with drummer Clive Thorneycroft, bassist Ron Johnson, and second guitarist Martin Weaver, recorded a dark and powerful rock album under the production of Alan Bowley. The album featured a strong emphasis on visceral and psychedelic guitar riffs in the purest style of The Jimi Hendrix Experience or Grand Funk Railroad. The album contains powerful hard and heavy blues rock tracks such as "Darkside", "Maypole", "Live For Today", "Cat", and "Zero Time", but despite their enormous quality, they were relegated to obscurity due to poor post-production planning and a complete lack of promotion by the band. Due to the significant demand this album has generated in recent years, it has been reissued several times on vinyl and CD.