The Rock Machine Turns You On

The Rock Machine Turns You On and its follow-up Rock Machine - I Love You were bargain priced sampler albums, released by CBS Records in the UK in 1968. Among the first bargain priced sampler LPs, retailing at under 15 shillings (£0.75), they were both highly successful commercially, at a point when what was then called "underground music" was starting to achieve some commercial success in the UK, bolstered by new radio programmes such as John Peel's "Top Gear". CBS (by which name Columbia Records were known in the UK) competed actively for this new market against other “progressive” labels such as Elektra, Island, Immediate, and the EMI subsidiary Harvest, who followed with similar samplers of their acts.
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