The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band was a curiosity and cult favorite group run by Bob Markley, who wanted more than anything to be a pop star and an impresario/producer in the vein of Phil Spector and Andrew Loog Oldham. These recordings aren't of the actual band but of various other projects the group members were involved with in the '60s and early '70s. The early tracks by Markley are more oddities than anything (an easy-listening version of the group's "If You Want This Love," credited to Sonny Knight, shows how conventional some of these songs really were). The Laughing Wind made pleasing folk-rock. An early version of "I Won't Hurt You" is surprisingly straightforward. The Neo Maya version of the same song comes close to the official band release. Rockit's "Blame It on the Pony Express" and "Amblin'" capture smooth soft-rock. "I'll Cry Out from My Grave (God I'm Sorry)," despite its title, sounds like pop music somewhere between The Free Design, Bread, and the early Bee Gees. "Rainbo" is a two-minute experimental piece, while "Leiyla & The Poet," by composer Halim El-Dabh, is equally weird.