The Rock Machine Turns You On (sampler)

Infobox Album
Name = The Rock Machine Turns You On
Type = compilation
Artist = Various artists


Released = 1968
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = CBS
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "The Rock Machine Turns You On"
(1968)
Next album = "Rock Machine I Love You"
(1968)

"The Rock Machine Turns You On" and its follow-up, "Rock Machine I Love You", were bargain priced sampler albums, released by CBS Records in the UK, The Netherlands and a number of other European countries in 1968.

Among the first bargain priced sampler LPs, they were both highly successful commercially, at a point when what was then called "underground music" was starting to achieve some commercial success in Europe, bolstered by new radio and tv programmes such as John Peel's "Top Gear". CBS (by which name Columbia Records were known in Europe) competed actively for this new market against other “progressive” labels such as Elektra, Island, Immediate, and the EMI subsidiary Harvest, who followed with similar samplers of their acts.

The albums influenced a generation of music fans.fact|date=September 2008 Although some of the featured artists, such as Bob Dylan, the Byrds, and Simon and Garfunkel, were already stars, others such as Leonard Cohen and Spirit were only starting to become known in Europe, and the albums made major contributions to their success.

CBS followed up these LPs in 1970 with three double sampler albums - "Fill Your Head with Rock" [http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=13013] , "Rockbuster" [ [http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14500 VARIOUS ARTISTS (LABEL SAMPLERS) Rockbuster music reviews and MP3 ] ] , and "Together!".

Some years later, the affiliated company, Epic Records, used a similar format for "The Rock Machine Still Turns You On", Vols. 1 and 2, in 1983. [http://www.vtmusic.co.uk/shop/item/609513969998106.aspx] .

Track listing

ide 1

#"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" - Bob Dylan - from the LP "John Wesley Harding"
#"Can't Be So Bad" - Moby Grape - from the LP "Wow"
#"Fresh Garbage" - Spirit - from the LP "Spirit"
#"I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar" - The United States of America - from the LP "The United States of America"
#"Time of the Season" - The Zombies – from the LP "Odessey and Oracle"
#”Turn On A Friend” – The Peanut Butter Conspiracy – from the LP "The Great Conspiracy"
#"Sisters of Mercy” – Leonard Cohen – from the LP "The Songs of Leonard Cohen"

ide 2

#”My Days Are Numbered” – Blood, Sweat and Tears – from the LP "Child Is Father to the Man"
#”Dolphins Smile” – The Byrds – from the LP "The Notorious Byrd Brothers"
#”Scarborough Fair / Canticle" – Simon and Garfunkel – from the LP "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme"
#”Statesboro Blues” – Taj Mahal – from the LP "Taj Mahal"
#”Killing Floor” – The Electric Flag – from the LP "A Long Time Comin’"
#”Nobody’s Got Any Money In The Summer” – Roy Harper – from the LP "Come Out Fighting Genghis Smith"
#”Come Away Melinda” – Tim Rose – from the LP "Tim Rose"
#”Flames” – Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera – from the LP "Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera"

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