Wonderfully tacky ‘number’ sleeve. It’s a great selection, with lots of Track records artists, and factory-farmed-for-comps (but great) artists like Small Faces -I think a lot of these were on Pye, who seemed like the most remorseless label ever in terms of cash-in reissues and budget comps. from Telstar to Purple Haze is quite a span, but this kind of comp would never be so pretentious as to purport to illustrate the evolution of rock. No concept beyond ‘Flashback! 20 Great Hits’

I often feel that Record Collector mag ought to run an in-depth feature on budget-label re-recordings ‘by the original artist’ – one or two of them are even good! I’d love to know the who, where, when and why. I ownder if the Troggs were trying to get their own back by re-recording a big chunk of their repertoire, which proliferated in a huge number og releases, muddying the water of tehir legacy, but no doubt a nice payday, until REM and Wet x3 come to the rescue. Admittedly, I am prob the only person who is interested …

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