Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

I had 'Days Of Future Past' and 'In Search Of The Lost Chord' for a while but rather incongruously only really got into the Moodies properly after reading Japrocksampler. The wonderful music of the Far East Family Band sent me back to 'the source' - the sequence of albums made by Hayward and co between 1968 and 1972, so tantalisingly referenced in Cope's book. I find them equal parts sappy and trippy, but the excessive use of Mellotron makes them generally hit the spot for me, and they have their own style of 'rocking out' on propulsive songs such as 'Ride My See Saw' and 'Question'.