![]() So naturally, I decided to buy the 45-RPM single (since at least this one I could afford). It came as no surprise to me that I liked the song a lot, much like the previous songs by the band. Taking a guess that this was the #1 hit I read about earlier, I decided to listen to it. I asked a good friend of mine if he knew any Strawberry Alarm Clock songs, and he said “I’ve only heard ‘Incense and Peppermints'”. Some time while researching, I noticed the band changed their name to Strawberry Alarm Clock, and that they had a #1 hit (I didn’t know this hit was I&P yet). It’s not every band that I like all of the songs that I listened to, so I hunted for more possible existing songs. Long story short, after listening to all the songs they recorded as Thee Sixpence, I became very interested in the band. I looked for other singles this band released…. It didn’t take long to find “Fortune Teller”, which I also liked a lot. Most songs from this era came in pairs – turns out this was the B-side, so I began to search for the A-side. As I was listening, a song stuck out to me. One fine evening I was listening to random songs on garage/psych compilation albums. I did enjoy Storybook’s take on SAC’s sound for the Psych-Out album, and would play both, because it gave you a different way to look at the music, like an alternative take. As a result, whenever I would listen to a song like say “Strawberries Mean Love” I would exercise a little creative listening technique by imaging different lyrics to the music. Although there are some songs that are truly magical, others while having flashes of brilliance, where dismally flawed (particularly the lyrics). and their music really painted the idyllic picture for me that I was trying to recapture in my mind through my faint remembrances of that era. On a side note: I was going through a time where I had dropped out, and was into anything sixties related Beatles, Hare Krsna, etc. I tried some of their music out on friends, and soon whenever they came over they would ask me to play certain songs again. When listening to the album some of the songs had phrasings & chord changes that gave me goosebumps. Although labeled as The Best of Strawberry Alarm Clock Volume 1, there was never actually Volume 2 put out, and a couple of the tracks on side B appear to be unreleased songs (based on their unfinished roughness). I first came into knowledge (and possession) of SAC music via an interesting looking album compilation put out by some obscure label called Back Track Records. ![]()
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