I love everything about this cover: the lettering (and especially the word TENTACLES falling outside the box), the Sinclair Spectrum rainbow gradient, the Cornishware cereal bowl and the creature stirring what actually looks like quite a healthy looking bowl of nutrients.

Vitamin Enhanced collects together the first six albums by the psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles, who appropriately formed at the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1983. The six albums were originally released on cassette only, and sold at festivals and gigs throughout the 1980s. They were eventually transferred to CD in the 1990s and released as Vitamin Enhanced in a limited edition box set of 5000 in 1993. Kellogg’s muscled in, declaring the cover and box too similar to Corn Flakes and the set was withdrawn, becoming rare and expensive.

Vitamin Enhanced has been re-released a few times over the years, but this year a new deluxe ‘bookset’ edition, remastered by band founder and lead composer Ed Wynne, was released, and it looks and sounds amazing.

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