"Few rock singles are as simultaneously experimental and commercial as the Electric Prunes' 'I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)'. That was obvious from the opening hook: a slowly swelling, backwards burst of fuzztone tremolo guitar, announcing the record's arrival like a supersonic bee swooping into your speakers. And few hits jam so many ideas into three minutes. There are those violin-like distorted washes of guitar backing hushed vocals that explode into anguished near-screams; sudden dead-air stops, punctuated by lonely groans suggesting descents through the earth's crust; and spooky guitar reverb complementing the drifts between blissful dreams and waking nightmares." - Richie Unterberger
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[see also: David Axelrod]
