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October 30, 2008 | By Doug In Pop Music |

94 Baker Street: The Pop Psych Sounds of the Apple Era 67-69
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Customer Review: Early thoughts
I have just recieved this today and it is an impressive package. The tracks have good sound, given the origin of some of them. The sleeve notes are excellent, especially the good news of further Iveys tracks to follow. However there is one problem, there only appears to be 18 tracks on this disk, not the 21 stated. The missing tracks are by Misunderstood. If there had been a problem with these tracks, perhaps this could have been dealt with before the disk was released. Consequently a star is lost.
Customer Review: Psych Sounds From Apple
Beatles collectors, jump on this one if you have not already. This CD fills in some Apple-related gaps nicely. Apple Publishing was kept busy in the late 60’s with several tracks by Grapefruit, Focal Point, Ways and Means, Misunderstood, Paintbox and John Fitch and Associates. Some of these saw the light of day and others not but there is not a bad track here. I think this is the perfect example of the fact The Beatles were juggling way too much at the time to really give much time to the publishing arm of Apple but these tracks will show the listener that the groups involved deserved much more. Some of the shining moments of the CD include five demo recordings by The Iveys later to become Badfinger. Much has already been said about them so I will only add that these tracks add to the list of truly great and under appreciated songs from this incredible band. The packaging is done very well with several band pictures and a previously unpublished photo of John, Paul and Ringo with Grapefruit. Additionally anyone who is into 60’s British Psychedellia would live this collection as well. I would not hesitate to buy this one.

Baby Pop
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Pop Ambient 2007
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About Time: the Definitive Mod-Pop Collection 1967-1968 Customer Review: Misleading
I agree with Mauricio from Brazil – The Attack are no ‘Mod’ band, not sure what they are but whatever it is, it’s pretty average.
Customer Review: Mod??
Why people nowadays have this obsession to call everything from the sixties as “mod”? They surely fooled me. There’s nothing mod about this guys or their songs! Nothing!
Calling this cd as “the Definitive Mod-Pop Collection” is simply a way to cash in the growing mod scene. So pretentious.
Putting that aside, it’s rather an average band, some songs are just good, nothing exceptional.
If you’re thinking about buying this cd, thinking it’s something like The Who’s “My Generation” or the Small Faces debut, you’ll be very disappointed.
Their sound, overall, is much more similar with the early 70’s hard rock. They did try some psychedelic tricks, but not very successfully.