1. Monday Monday
2. Straight Shooter
3. Got A Feelin'
4. I Call Your Name
5. Do You Wanna Dance
6. Go Where You Wanna Go
7. California Dreamin'
8. Spanish Harlem
9. Somebody Groovy
10. Hey Girl
11. You Baby
12. In Crowd
And now, for the special 'Take a bath, you stinkin' hippies!' edition of my blog, we present the Mamas and the Papas. With a name like that, there was no way they were gonna last very long, but during their 2 years of popularity they managed to get a fair amount of hits.
'Monday Monday' and 'California Dreamin'' are by far the most well known tracks here, serving as nice morose slices of pop music to dilute the sometimes all-too-sunshiney sound of '60s pop.
While the 2 big hits are unquestionably the best songs on the album, I was very pleased to find that the album tracks weren't as bad as I thought they were going to be. They're a sort of grab bag of originals and cover songs. 'Do You Wanna Dance?' is surprisingly not danceable at all, but it is much prettier for it. Oh, and 'Straight Shooter' is actually a decent rock song!
Unfortunately, there's not much I can really say about this album other than that it was better than I expected it to be. When you're faced with such staggering pop albums like Pet Sounds with all its intricate vocal harmonies and instrumentation, you can't help but be left a little cold with something like this. It's a good demonstration of the increasing diversification of pop music in the '60s, but it's not worth choking on a ham sandwich over (by far one of the funnier urban legends in rock's storied history) 7.5/10
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