Album: Various artists, East of Underground: Hell Below (Now Again)

More historical curiosity than essential listening, EOU gathers four acts (East of Underground, Soap, The Black Seeds, and the Sound Trek) made up of US draftees stationed in Germany as the Vietnam War fizzled to an end.

The results, though used to recruit, are often anti-propaganda covers ("Backstabbers", "Smiling Faces Sometimes"). Those in search of stoner breaks will find parts of this three-CD set groovy. Fans of Neil Young will be less forgiving of Soap's "Southern Man".