Pulled out my copy of 1998's
Soul Deep: The Best Of The Box Tops, and here's the exact quote from the liner notes:
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Today, The Box Tops don't get much retroactive recognition; if anything, Chilton's subsequent band Big Star has overshadowed his hit-making outfit in terms of pure coolness quotient. But at the time, some of the most respected rock writers had a more than kind word for the band. Lester Bangs, writing about Non Stop [1967] for Rolling Stone, praised the "beautiful buoyant stretches of pure rolling pleasure, somewhat like The Rascals' sweet-soul songs but more airy". And Robert Christgau said that The Box Tops represented "the highest kind of rock and roll, a music of such immediate appeal that I regard it as a litmus elimination for phony rock fans".
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Speaking of Chilton
and of "Sugar, Sugar", check out Alex's DEMONIC version from
Free Again: The "1970" Sessions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQJRmkKjBM8