Title: a true underground classic
Product review: I heard this album playing in a boutique on King's Road in London in 1968 and bought it. Its variety of straight and experimental songs give it an underground cachet comparable to Soft Machine and Pink Floyd of that same period, and it throws in some Zappa-like social satire/criticism for good measure. The group's leader, Mick Farren, has gone on to be an influential writer and critic on both sides of the Atlantic. Among other things, the fantastic fold-out artwork is one of my favorite album covers. It's "underground" in the sense that the group obviously weren't trying to be the next Beatles. They were producing a knowing but humorous commentary on life at that time as it paraded down Portobello Road.
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