Fill Your Head with Rock


Fill Your Head with Rock was the third release in the successful CBS Records Rock Machine UK budget sampler album series. It broke new ground, by extending the format to a double album, and also featured more UK artists than previous samplers.
Compiler David Howell stated that while the earlier samplers were merely aimed at promoting specific full-price releases, this record was part of a major push to establish the label as "the top label in contemporary music" in the UK, and also to establish the market for double albums.

Track listing

;Side one
  1. "Listen" : Chicago
  2. "Savour" : Santana
  3. "Give a Life, Take a Life" : Spirit
  4. "Passing Through" : Steamhammer
  5. "Smiling Phases" : Blood, Sweat and Tears
;Side two
  1. "Tired of Waiting" : Flock
  2. "Come to the Sabbat" : Black Widow
  3. "Dance in the Smoke" : Argent
  4. "Gunga Din" : The Byrds
  5. "Living in Sin" : Skin Alley
;Side three
  1. "Gibsom Street" : Laura Nyro
  2. "You Know Who I Am" : Leonard Cohen
  3. "Stamping Ground" : Moondog
  4. "The Inbetween Man" : Amory Kane
  5. "The Garden of Jane Delawney" : Trees
  6. "A Small Fruit Song" : Al Stewart
  7. "Driving Wheel" : Tom Rush
;Side four
  1. "Try " : Janis Joplin
  2. "One Room Country Shack" : Al Kooper
  3. "Six Days on the Road" : Taj Mahal
  4. "Don't Think About It Baby" : Mike Bloomfield
  5. "Bluesbuster" : Pacific Gas & Electric
  6. "I Love Everybody" : Johnny Winter

Album cover

For once a sampler album cover showed the featured artists, and even provided a key for identification. Laura Nyro can be seen at the top left, Taj Mahal next to her, and Al Kooper & Leonard Cohen at the top right. Four of the artists are not shown: Moondog, Amory Kane, Black Widow and Skin Alley. The front cover features Jerry Goodman of The Flock.

Booklet

The included eight-page booklet featured brief descriptions of the artists, their images, and photographs of the relevant albums. It also included publicity for other CBS Records artists as well as those on related labels such as Dandelion - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Beau, Bridget St John, Mike Hart & Siren; Direction - The Chambers Brothers & Taj Mahal; and Straight - Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Judy Henske and Jerry Yester, Tim Buckley, & The GTOs.

International releases

In Australia, it was pressed and released with unaltered artwork and tracklisting.
In France, the album, retitled Superb Super Pop Session N°2 with different artwork, reached No. 10 in the album chart.
In Spain and Latin America, the title was translated as Llena Tu Cabeza de Rock. It was listed No. 5 in the Hits of the World chart.
Finnish label Finnlevy promoted the record heavily, leading to a "virtual sellout" of a Johnny Winter performance at the Kulttuuritalo.
In South Africa, The Gramophone Co. gave the record "massive" promotion, including booking an unprecedented weeklong exposure on the top teenage programme "The Radio Record Club" on Springbok Radio.