Magic Bus: Summer Of Love

Yeah, I have to admit some disappointment with this set. I knew prior to purchase that the sub title ‘Summer of Love’ is a bit of a misnomer as many of the songs included here hadn’t been released (or indeed written) in 1967. This collection is simply a sequel to 2015’s excellent ‘Magic Bus: Hits from the Hippie Trail’, so in that context I suppose most of the selections ‘loosely’ fit the tag. I just don’t consider this as strong a collection overall and I can’t somehow visualise a hippie filled bus ringing out to the throng of Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land Is Your Land’ too often (although I may be wrong.)Disc 1 is good but Discs 2 and 3 are very patchy, mainly due to a combination of odd song choices and clumsy track sequencing. ‘Rocky Mountain High’ sandwiched between the Allman Brothers Band’s ‘Melissa’ and Canned Heat’s ‘Going up the Country’… really?Disc 2 might have actually held together slightly more cohesively if copyright licencing had permitted the use of the Beatles and Doors original versions of ‘LSD’ and ‘Light My Fire’ but that would probably be asking too much.Disc 3 doesn’t really work for me either. Although it kicks off with three great songs in ‘Baba O’Reilly’, ‘Free Bird’ and ‘Smoke on the Water’, all three come from a slightly later time period and just don’t sit comfortably alongside authentic psychedelic sixties classics ‘Magic Carpet Ride’ and ‘Somebody To Love’ in this particular collection.However, the compilers should at least be congratulated for including the Moody Blues’ seldom heard and quite superb ‘Om’, which, with its Sitar and Tabla conjures up enough hallucinogenic imagery to ensure this package gets three stars from me… You can Bogart that joint my friend, just pass me the opium pipe…

This three disc compilation album of 54 tracks, of various artists is ok and i mean just ok, don't get me wrong, there are some great tracks on this album, however it is supposed to be sixties tracks from the hippie trail, on this magic bus ride supposedly! But i have to ask the question, where are the Doors, Creedence Clear Water Revival, Scott McKenzie, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles? And that is to name just a few artists that are missing, from this magic bus ride and there are many more i could list. Sadly this bus ride is just a bus ride and not a magical one at all.

Love the sixties music. This cd does have some great old time songs on it that bring some lovely memories to me. Love the cover of the magic bus. Good value for the priceing.

Lots of great tracks and excellent value. There are many well known tracks but a good few I've never heard before. "Summer of Love" is stretching it a bit, there are plenty of tracks that aren't summery or about love.

I bought a previous Magic Bus Compilations which was great so for fathers day I downloaded this one as well. Will look at the series to see what else is available. Very good if you like the sixties(?) why smoke on the water by Deep Purple is in there I don't know wasn't that 1972?Well worth the money.

What a brilliant cd three cds of great summer sixties hippie tunes get a copy it will make you very happy so uplifting definitely recommend

The Summer of Love was when I first started, as a young teenager, to start to listen to music "seriously". This is the best value box set I have found for this era and was just the job for a recent holiday in California. You can't beat this for value.

Listening to these tracks, memories came flooding back. All original performers.