LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

The title kind of gives the game away here, it being somewhat a game of two halves! A semi concept follows the title of the exquisite baroque cover of the Joni Mitchell tune...The Tokens are pictured on the cover in off-duty mode, casually dressed and with a cigar on the go. Side one consists of more baroque re -workings of modern folk rock standards, covering label mates Melanie and The Lemon Pipers creditably, as well as doing a stripped down beauty of a cover of ‘Don't Worry Baby’, which surely influenced The Beach Boys later live revamps of their early repertoire. "

Side two revisits The Tokens past in the manner of their later ‘Oldies Are Now!’ project, with their first two hits ‘Tonight I Fell In Love’ and ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’, and their soft-pop masterpiece ‘I Hear Trumpets Blow’ among others, being reinvented in the style of side one."

Track listing:"

Both Sides Now
Brandywine
Green Tambourine
Beautiful People
She Lets Her Hair Down(Early In The Morning)
Don't Worry Baby
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Tonight I Fell In Love
I Hear Trumpets Blow
He's In Town
If I Were A Carpenter
Some People Sleep
Bonus Track
Oh To Get Away
I Could See Me (Dancin' With You)"