The first in a serie of CBS budget samplers issued in Europe up to the late seventies. Initially a marketing strategy by US Columbia, mainly to push for rising American arists, but also including a few English - all for under £1. Back then it sold well, still far from the huge successes of "Fill Your Head With Rock" and "Rock Buster" a few years later. This has fewer cuts - fifteen sqeezed into a single album - and humbler package with less info, but musically as strong as any of those. From today's perspective it's a fantastic blend of well known top numbers and ones from albums that can be very hard to find. All songs are available on re-issues on various CD-compilations, but this was pressed at about the same time as the originals with similar audio and that means something - at least to me. Favorite tracks - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera "Flames", Electric Flag "Killing Floor", Spirit "Fresh Garbage", "Blood Sweat & Tears "My Days Are Numbered" and Zombies "Time Of The Season". Original release also in Holland and Germany. Later issues omitted Simon & Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair" due to contractual problems. Columbia 1996 CD came as fourteen track. Castle Communications 1990 2-LP set coupled this with the follow-up "Rock Machine - I Love You" as "The Best Of The Rock Machine Turns You On" (CCSLP 224). Also as UK mono (PR 22). Early UK had label as shown here and fully laminated E.J. Day cover. (SÄM*)
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