"... there was a time when truly alternative music ("too abstract for the soldiers, too square for the Panthers," states album compiler Tony Harlow, plainly declaring the American perspective) made a mark. It epitomised, of course, artistic autonomy and dissent, and while many of the names gathered here might not mean much to a wider demographic, there is a sense of what it means to be different in an increasingly standardised world ... End result? An intriguing glimpse into an era of turning on, tuning in and dropping out".