The Turtles Thread (Cuz I Couldn't Find One) A.K.A. I Finally Heard Turtle Soup.

this has been around for a while, but:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JHN5HaUg28

May as well restart this thread to say how much I love this album too. It's like a dictionary of late 60s LA pop styles, I always felt "Somewhere Friday night" has a similar atmosphere to "Riders on the storm" (without the sound effects, and a year earlier too), and the intro to "Love in the city" was a pisstake at the chord sequence of Love's "Laughing stock". But maybe I'm reading too much into it all. "Love in the city" - what a fantastic coda. i remember reading that Ray Davies used all his orchestrating ideas for this album because Pye never gave him the money to do it on Kinks LPs.

just bought the rhino 80s repress of this album. It is quite kinks-y. they even seem to try to sing like ray. the liner notes say that it has been remastered to ray's original vision (track sequence is different too). do people prefer the original?

I know nothing of the 80's repress, but I have to say, as a big Kinks fan, I was kind of underwhelmed by this album when I first heard it a few years ago. Still have it, but haven't played it in at least a year. It wasn't that I disliked it. . . it was just kind of meh.

you crazy. go turn up "hot little hands" again and report back.

I have the original White Whale best-of, the one with the blue cover. Had a chance to buy the second volume (with "Elenore") as a remainder once, stupidly passed it up. ("What do I need Volume 2 for? And if I ever decide I do want it, no problem, records will be here forever!")

I would buy any Turtles record I saw in a store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srj6ISzfw1c

listening to The Battle of the Bands. cool stuff. the Turtles always seemed like a secretly smart band everyone thinks is a one hit wonder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ9VHRDZn8k

"Grim Reaper of Love" (from 3 years earlier in 1966) slays, it's basically a Mercyful Fate song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSnPWkEHyIs

this song rules. strong Zombies-via-Odyssey vibe. that Edwardian Merseybeat stylee.

"Food" must be the song that made Zappa decide to draft them into the Mothers

"Can You Hear the Cows" some proto shoegaze reminds me of "Here Come the Warm Jets"