I think that I listened to this one when I first had a flick through the 1001 albums book 8-10 years ago. I remembered not liking it, but I think that I might have been confusing them with the 13th floor elevators, because I quite enjoyed this.
Apparently the band were introduced to a studio engineer who thought that they had potential, but needed some better songs. He hired a couple of songwriters, the band then reinterpreted the songs in their own psychedelic idiom. When I was a teenager I was always suspicious about artists who didn't write their own music (which is ridiculous because I was a Sinatra fan, and besides - good music is good music, regardless).
The band brought their own 'essence' to the music. I think too that it can be quite effective to have an existing band working with other people's material as it means they don't have to think so much about creating the words and music and can focus more on presenting their best version of the material, such as on the covers albums "Renegades" by Rage Against the Machine, or "the Director's Cut" by Fantรดmas.
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