Psychedelic State Turds

[Heitkotter77]

these discs aren't for die hards, imho GF comps are good for only a handful of niches of 60's teenbeat/psych/lo-fi fandom:

I found it to be similar with their reissues of "psych" LPs as well. They were good mainly for hearing a rare LP that hadn't been previously reissued, but more for private press neophytes.
At one FMU Fair, I was offering GF CDs I bought from a collection as well as tossing in all the States comps I'd bought. The music reviewer Bruce Eder bought a stack of them and was waxing poetic about how great these were and what a great label this was. His stack included some of the more truly mediocre titles that clogged up the GF catalog. I had known Bruce from college when we were both in a class on 20th Century classical music and Bruce talked entirely about film music as his interest (sort of the same way I babbled on about Van Der Graaf Generator). Most of his rock interest and early reviews had been fairly mainstream, so it was obvious that he was just getting into the world of private presses.

the Psych states comps are also a solid blast for young heads who have grown up acclimated to mp3 glitches/lo-fi ear bud sound; many of them probably hear nothing wrong with the GF mastering flaws

Finally, lo-fi music fans who actually enjoy screwed up recording also probly like these.

I do appreciate good natural lo-fi and even the occasional screwed up recording, but these don't fall into my scope of enjoymentfor such. They're just bad recordings that suck out a lot of the energy of the music. Aside from the glitches, the biggest problem is that pretty much everything I've heard (and I've heard a lot of the comps and the reissues) sounds flat from overcompression.
So that's why they might be good for the generation raised on mp3s because that's what they're used to hearing, but wouldn't it be better if they could have the chance to hear these in their full sonic (low-fi) glory?