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Sorry Venus, this is Shocking Blue’s best song. “What a gorgeous melody for such a melancholy song”, a “number one in Holland and a gold record in Germany and Japan, this mid-tempo track, with its staccato guitar riff and stays-in-your-head vocal melody, somehow didn’t make any noise in America”.

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A Beatlesque ode to, yes, strawberry jam, with “a great melody [and] lyrics that make me smile” that “sounds like it should be the theme to some whacked-out Saturday morning kids TV show”.

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This cool progressive, “jazzy”, “hard rock” tune comes from Norway? No way! Yes way! From “one of two super lead guitarist[s] in Norway. . . . hailed as the Hendrix of Norway” and from “one of the best Norwegian freak-rock albums of all time”.

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“One of the founding fathers of folk in the UK”, he “should be regarded as the best folk guitarist [the UK] has ever produced.” “[T]he intertwined guitar textures . . . along with the unexpected tempo changes make [the song] so compelling”.

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This Scottish band’s “hook driven” and “Beatlesque” number is a “wonderfully miserable” song with session man extraordinaire Jimmy Page and a “[w]histled intro and outro – fairly rare on rock/pop records – Brian Ferry must have been listening[!]”

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Sorry Venus, this is Shocking Blue’s best song. “What a gorgeous melody for such a melancholy song”, a “number one in Holland and a gold record in Germany and Japan, this mid-tempo track, with its staccato guitar riff and stays-in-your-head vocal melody, somehow didn’t make any noise in America”.	21
A Beatlesque ode to, yes, strawberry jam, with “a great melody [and] lyrics that make me smile” that “sounds like it should be the theme to some whacked-out Saturday morning kids TV show”.	2
This cool progressive, “jazzy”, “hard rock” tune comes from Norway? No way! Yes way! From “one of two super lead guitarist[s] in Norway. . . . hailed as the Hendrix of Norway” and from “one of the best Norwegian freak-rock albums of all time”.	2
“One of the founding fathers of folk in the UK”, he “should be regarded as the best folk guitarist [the UK] has ever produced.” “[T]he intertwined guitar textures . . . along with the unexpected tempo changes make [the song] so compelling”.	1
This Scottish band’s “hook driven” and “Beatlesque” number is a “wonderfully miserable” song with session man extraordinaire Jimmy Page and a “[w]histled intro and outro – fairly rare on rock/pop records – Brian Ferry must have been listening[!]”	1