Good as some of these Top Of The Poppers covers albums are, a few were not up to par. The "Best of 1972" either reflects the weakness of the charts in that year or simply the "best of" from that year was badly chosen. Some songs are pretty good such as the versions of "Telegram Sam" and "You wear it well" and a few songs fall just the right side of listenable kitsch such as the cover of "Puppy love".
However a lot of the covers are just... bad. But then again a cover of a bagpipe version of "Amazing Grace" is always going to sound pretty off next to glam rock and teen pop. "I'd like to teach the world to sing" is also pretty awful, just like the original then. Make mine a Pepsi out of sheer spite.
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