At the time of its release in 1992, this 16-song CD was especially welcome for offering some of the better songs by acts, including the Byrds, the Grass Roots, and the Mamas & the Papas, whose catalogs had not yet been upgraded in terms of sound, and such bands as the Electric Prunes, the Chocolate Watchband, Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, the Hombres, Sagittarius, the Sunshine Company, and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, who really weren't represented well (or at all) on CD in the early '90s. It had its programming shortcomings, ...
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At the time of its release in 1992, this 16-song CD was especially welcome for offering some of the better songs by acts, including the Byrds, the Grass Roots, and the Mamas & the Papas, whose catalogs had not yet been upgraded in terms of sound, and such bands as the Electric Prunes, the Chocolate Watchband, Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, the Hombres, Sagittarius, the Sunshine Company, and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, who really weren't represented well (or at all) on CD in the early '90s. It had its programming shortcomings, but the latter acts made this such a solid release that it was impossible not to buy -- the Chocolate Watchband's "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" overpowers most of the competition, although not so severely as to throw the balance of the disc off. Following it with Donovan's "Epistle to Dippy" was actually an inspired choice, the tripping Scotsman's sound on this particular track meshing very neatly with the psychedelic punk, psychedelic folk-rock, and pop-psychedelia that comprise most of this. On the other hand, it's not exactly clear -- even to annotator Barry Alfonso -- why Sonny & Cher's "The Beat Goes On" is here (Sonny's "Pammie's on a Bummer" would have been a more apt choice, though that epic track might have unbalanced the load on this disc); "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" by the Hombres seems like a quasi-relevant space filler; and Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," great record though it is, seems a little ridiculous as the only British psychedelia represented, in the wake of the fuzzed-out "It's a Happening Thing" by the Peanut Butter Conspiracy and the glittering Curt Boettcher-produced "My World Fell Down" by Sagittarius. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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