Strawberries Mean Love

• Artist: Strawberry Alarm Clock
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• Release Date: 1992
• Type: Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Rock

Review

For a little more money, this 21-track CD compilation is a better deal than its American counterpart (One Way's Anthology), offering a slightly more extensive selection and extensive liner notes, and including almost all of the cuts contained on Anthology. Drawn from their four albums (with the accent, properly, on the first two), it also has a clutch of non-LP singles. "Incense and Peppermints" and the small follow-up hit, "Tomorrow," are by far the best things on here; much of the rest is trendy period pop/psychedelia, sounding at various times like a bush-league Doors, or a really spaced-out Association, with a bit of garage raunch tossed in on the B-side of "Incense" ("The Birdman of Alkatrash"). The two hits were included on Rhino's Nuggets compilations, which might be a better context in which to appreciate the group's fairly minimal contributions to psychedelia. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Incense and Peppermints	John Carter, Tim Gilbert	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:50)
Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow	George Bunnell, Strawberry Alarm Clock	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:07)
Sit With the Guru (Lyrics)	Ed King, Mark Weitz	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:03)
Tomorrow	Edward C. King, Ed King, Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse, Mark Weitz	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:16)
Black Butter-Present	Lee Freeman, Ed King	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:08)
Love Me Again	Ed King, Lee Freeman	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:30)
Pretty Song from Psych-Out	Ed King, Lee Freeman	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:20)
The World's on Fire	Strawberry Alarm Clock	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(8:26)
Birds in My Tree	George Bunnell	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(1:54)
The Birdman of Alkatrash	Mark Weitz	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:14)
Small Package	Ed King, George Bunnell, Lee Freeman, Mark Weitz	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:56)
They Saw the Fat One Coming	Lee Freeman, Ed King	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:27)
Strawberries Mean Love	George Bunnell, Strawberry Alarm Clock	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:02)
Desiree	Mark Weitz	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:03)
Barefoot in Baltimore [Mono][*][Version]	Lee Freeman, Ed King	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:27)
Paxton's Back Street Carnival [Mono][*][Version]	George Bunnell, Strawberry Alarm Clock	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:05)
Hummin' Happy [Mono][*][Version]	George Bunnell, Strawberry Alarm Clock	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:28)
Sea Shell [Mono][*][Version]	John Carter, Tim Gilbert	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:05)
(You Put Me on) Stand By [Mono][*][Version]	Ed King	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:24)
I Climbed the Mountain [Mono][*][Version]	Unknown	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(3:02)
Three [Mono][Version]	Lee Freeman, Ed King	Strawberry Alarm Clock	(2:19)

Credits

Ed King (Arranger), Howard Davis (Vocal Arrangement), Mark Weitz (Arranger), Duncan Wowell (Post Production), Frank Slay (Producer), Brian Hogg (Liner Notes), Bill Holmes (Producer), Brian Hogg (Compilation), Phil Smee (Original Sleeve Design)