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Title: Rhino finds the right mix of the common, unusual & obscure
Review: I bought this record because I have been looking thirty years for a relatively obscure song,"It's Good News Week" and this album had the best mix of songs of the three albums that Amazon.com had in stock with my song on them. The mood ranges from near rage (Eve of Destruction)to quiet desperation (Society's Child), and all the tracks have some special quality to recommend them. For example, change a couple words and update the arrangement and "It's Good News Week" would be a hit today because it captures the superficiality of our connection to a troublesome world so well-- and it applies to today when protest is almost dead better than to the time in which it was written. Admittedly this song was never a big hit, but most of the others are and all except Sonny Bono's wretchedly sung and pathetically written "Laugh at Me" are well worth hearing again.
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