between the explosion of mod/beat/pop bands in the '60s and the arrival of punk in the late '70s, the UK music scene was pretty much a wasteland - that is, except for the numerous smaller bands playing what was essentially powerpop (before the term itself was as prevalent as it later became), and Cherry Red (via sub-label Grapefruit) have managed to cherry-pick 74 songs from the timespan that likely could've been hits, had they been released a few years earlier or later...