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Title: Nothing Sounds Better to Me
Review: More pretentious "message" musicians would sell their souls to make records as gorgeous sounding as these.It's an encycopedia of styles, sounds and hooks. Beach Boys harmonies and with Phil Spector sound (Out of the Blue), psychedelic latin tinged beatnik jazz (Crystal Blue Persuasion) Herman's Hermit horny teen pop (Getting Together). Every moment is a hook, and there isn't a clinker in the bunch. The production and musicianship are as good as any music from that era. Slick? Yes, and that's a good thing. Commercial? Yup, it made lots of people happpy. Pure musical genius? That too. And totally addictive.
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