CD Details
- Released: March 14, 2006
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Collectables Records
- Original Album: Universal MCAD-22015 (1990)
Description by OLDIES.com:
A budget-priced 10-track collection of favorites from Strawberry Alarm Clock. All original recordings.
Tracks:
- 1.Incense And Peppermints
- 2.Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow
- 3.Birds In My Tree
- 4.Sit With The Guru
- 5.Tomorrow
- 6.Barefoot In Baltimore
- 7.Good Morning Starshine
- 8.Bird Man Of Alkatrash
- 9.Strawberries Mean Love
- 10.Starting Out The Day
Product Description:
Personnel: Ed King (vocals, guitar); Lee Freeman (vocals, harmonica, drums, wind); Mark Weitz (vocals, piano, harpsichord, organ, keyboards); Randy Seol (vocals, vibraphone, drums, bongos); Gary Lovetro, George Bunnell (vocals).
Recording information: 1967.
Arrangers: Mark Weitz; Ed King.
A brief budget compilation--named, naturally, after the Strawberry Alarm Clock's only hit--INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS is geared more toward the casual fan or the curious neophyte who might be put off by the import price tag or the much bigger track selection of the other Strawberry Alarm Clock compilations available.
Like all Universal Special Products compilations, the packaging and sound are functional and adequate, but unlike many, the nine other songs on this compilation are an interesting cross-section of the Strawberry Alarm Clock's career, picking non-charting singles, b-sides (the punky "The Birdman of Alkatrash"), and interesting album tracks ("Strawberries Mean Love") from all four of the group's original albums. Serious psych-pop fans may do better with Ace/Big Beat's excellent STRAWBERRIES MEAN LOVE or One Way's ANTHOLOGY, but this is a perfectly reasonable alternative for everyone else.
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