Jon Savage's 1967 : the year pop divided

"Savage's choices not only underline how rich and vast the spectrum that pop occupied was, but - thanks to an inspired running order - underline how fragmented it had become in no time at all. It could equally be seen as the year that the term "pop" became a little meaningless. Who cares when it's this good?".

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"On his latest entertaining 2CD survey of Sixties pop, Jon Savage characterises 1967 as the year pop divided ... It's by no means definitive - there's no "Hey Joe", "Whiter Shade", "Itchycoo Park" or "Strawberry Fields Forever" - but there's compensation in the under-exposed early work of such as The Soft Machine and Terry Reid; I, for one, will be eternally grateful for Les Yper Sound's bizarro Gallic oddity "Psyche Rock"".

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