Um, I really have no authority to speak about this one. Blame my friend (again).
STEPPENWOLF
16 Greatest Hits
(Dunhill, 1973)
Battered sleeve, indecipherable front cover photograph of the band, stoned hippy high school collage back. Good condition vinyl, though. Plus, there’s an essay on the sleeve which is the swansong of the band, letting everyone know that this is just the crappy Cash Cow collection to summarize for the jocks something that might’ve happened years before. This album is a modern convenience for sports enthusiasts and fraternity brothers. Contains anthem “Born To Be Wild”, its reprise “Magic Carpet Wild” and the murky origins of all that is heavy metal. And we all know that sports enthusiasts were, once upon a time hippies — at least in their minds. Suitably scratched up from having a thousand joints rolled up on it — or from a thousand bachelor parties. It’s unfortunate then, that Steppenwolf’s 16 Greatest Hits sounds like identikit Southern boogie. “Take the world in a love embrace/I fly out into space”... we know whole underwater communities who’ve taken that as their creed.
Cost 92 cents. Bargain value 3, slip cover 2
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