Well, I never thought I'd see the day, but someone finally got The Wackers...fortunately, he's now the Senior Editor of Rolling Stone Magazine...

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thewackers/albums/album/9105989/rid/9514686/

5 Stars
The Wackers were an early-Seventies California band of five obsessed with the Sixties' greatest band of four, the Beatles, and blessed with the goods to be as big as Badfinger: sparkling harmonies, triple-guitar chime and two songwriters, singer-guitarists Robert Segarini and Randy Bishop, gifted with the shine and concision of '65 Lennon-McCartney. But these albums, originally on Elektra, didn't chart. Even now, the Wackers don't get the power-pop love ritually accorded Big Star and the Raspberries. These reissues should fix that. Produced by sunshine-pop icon Gary Usher, 1971's Wackering Heights is a dream sundae of Rubber Soul, Crosby, Stills and Nash and the Beach Boys' Wild Honey. On 1972's Hot Wacks, the Wackers wear their Beatlemania proudly: covering John Lennon's Imagine valentine "Oh My Love" with koto and glassy sigh, stitching the last six tracks into a glam-Abbey Road suite. Shredder mixes charm and snafu but ends with the best faux-David Bowie ballad of '73, "Last Dance." There was also a legendary fourth album canned by Elektra, the live Wack and Roll. Can we have it now? Please? 

David Fricke