![]() The other 2 are mellow pop, not bad but pretty slick, lacking the bite of their better early material. ![]() The third LP is represented by only three songs, the best of which is Love Me Again, featuring some superb lead guitar. At just over 64 minute on this CD, there is definitely room for all three! Listen to all three (Black Butter Past, Present and Future)on You Tube and see what I mean. In my opinion, including 1/3 of the Black Butter trilogy is a misstep. They are all stunners (especially the dreamy single Tomorrow and Pretty Song From Psych-Out )but some of the finest SAC tracks are ignored. I feel Big Beat gave their sophomore effort short shrift by including only 5 tracks on this compilation. The follow-up LP, Wake Up.It's Tomorrow, is even better than their debut. The tracks from this LP are pretty indispensable, but my favorites are Paxton's Back Street Carnival, Birds in my Tree, and the stunning 8 minute psych classic The World's On Fire. I enjoy the various voices, which adds a bit of ragged charm to the proceedings. They reveal a band who could play extremely well, though their vocals aren't quite as strong. This CD includes 7 (out of 10) songs from the debut. Their first LP shared its title with the hit single. Listeners lucky enough to flip the record over heard something quite different: the originally projected A-side Birdman of Alkatrash (also included on Strawberries Mean Love.) It's a punky gem, and other than some superb organ lines, sounds nothing like the hit. The lead vocal was provided by a friend of the band. It's generally considered a novelty number, albeit one with a timeless hook and seamless ensemble playing. The chart topping single, Incense and Peppermints, was both blessing and curse. The Strawberry Alarm Clock burst onto the Sunset Strip scene in 1967, just after the golden age had started to fade with the sun setting in the west. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click "Continue without accepting" to reject, or "Customize Cookies" to make more detailed advertising choices, or learn more. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cookies store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Your choice applies to using first-party and third-party advertising cookies on this service. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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