Top Of The Pops (Best of 1970)

The end of the psychedelic era and the start of the harder cheesier 70s as depicted by the Top Of The Poppers session musicians. This collection includes one of the highlights of the entire TOTP line, that being the cover of Hendrix's "voodoo chile". Although it starts off pretty close to the original it evolves into a guitar wig-out of its own and is pretty damn epic.

The key to a good TOTP album is the selection of tracks current at the time that they could cover and 1970 was a particularly good year, tracks like "Bridge over troubled waters" and "Spirit in the sky" are on here and are fine. "Lola" is a bit anaemic, musically fine but the singing is a bit off.

Best track is the amazing cover of "Band of gold", like many tracks on here it gets you in the mood for dancing. Great year, great covers, great album.