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I was thinking that this might be the whitest album we have listened to and then Spanish Harlem came on. WTH. So odd. The whole album is like listening to a choir performance
Monday Monday and California Dreamin are bangers 1000% but for the rest of this album, its the definition of the 60s music. Not a full on Beatles clone but if I wanted to listen to this type of music I would listen to the Monkees Greatest hits.
I only knew California dreamin' from this album. I really like that song but all in all the album didn't impress me.
It was better than that last Willie Nelson album. This seems like an album that was likely innovative at the time, but now it’s just kind of whatever. Fine background music but not worth listening to again.
In my formative years in the 00’s, this is exactly what I thought all music from the 60’s sounded like
Your typical 60’s hippy music. Some good stuff on there but nothing mind blowing
I think I'll feel bad for giving 2 star reviews because in many cases such as this case, I don't think the music is bad at all; but it's just not for me. Monday, Monday and California Dreamin' are the highlights for me. The rest all sounds mostly like the same '60s pop-rock optimistic, inoffensive type of tune. Not bad, but doesn't feel like it's something special.
Quite boring
It’s okay. I’m not really a fan of hippie dippy shit, but California Dreamin’ is one hell of a song.
Not really my jam but I enjoyed the experience
Nothing else holds up to California Dreaming
Doesn't do anything for me
3. Song - süß, in Playlist 5. - recht uninteressant bisher, wenig Abwechslung 9. - kennt man doch von irgendwo, hebt sich etwas ab vom Rest 10. - auch das Blues-Klavier macht das jetzt nicht mehr schmissiger California Dreaming bester Song hier, fands insgesamt recht langweilig
Halfway through. Very ok. Nothing good other than a few tracks and the obvious special one. Really paints the hippie generation as annoying and whiny as fuck. Really just a fad relic of the 60s without any particular staying power lyrically or musically. Only track that really slaps is California Dreamin. Everything else save for maybe Go Where you wanna go is forgettable at best If anything it’s the perfect metaphor for the hippie generation: idealistic, heart more or less in a good place, but ineffective, escapist, and doesn’t really accomplish what it thinks it’s doing.
Other than Straight Shooter (which was a good Beatles rip off) and California Dreamin (which is a class song in its own right) that was a pretty dull set of poor Beatles/Beach Boys rip offs. Disappointing given how great CD is, the only song I knew going into it. 1.5*
A few decent songs. Shame about the abuse
There are a few good tracks on this record, you know the ones, but the rest are so desperately lame that they suck the pleasure out of even them.
California Dreaming levyn huippuhetki, muuten tuntuu että oon kuullut levyn jo aika monta kertaa tällä listalla. 2.5/5, menköön nyt alaspäin.
It's a sort of version of the Beatles but with nicer harmonies. Just as interesting, though. Ie not much.
fav: straight shooter
Only a couple songs I’m jazzed about
crap from an ass
every single song sounds like songs id make up if i was really pissed at eddie rockets over a bad experience or something and was in a conversation with someone being like "cant stand that place and their doo wap wap baaaaaaa ass music". i understand why this is on here. pop music was only 20 years old and electricity wasn't invented so you had to take what you get, but i think it's borderline cruel for the writers of the 1001 albums book so inadvertently subject me to this for 33 whole minutes of my life (im in my prime, i cant really afford to go that long without doing something enriching). truly dont understand what sets them apart from beach boys enough to still have a place in the Conversation besides california dreamin being a good song. sorry for being mean i havent eaten today yet
Not really my thing, some good tracks though
"California Dreamin'" plus 11 of the most generic 60s pop songs known to man. I don't recall anything from this album and I listened to it 3 hours ago. Who cares. 2/5
Sentimental to me, cuz my Mom played it a lot while I was growing up.
Meh. Liked the first few tracks but as i started to learn more about the group from various websites, I can’t say I really enjoyed this album. I definitely will give this album another chance at some point, but This is definitely a time separating the art from the artist doesn’t work
This was like Beach Boys light, or Motown songs that needed more production. There were catchy songs here, but very boring sounds.
Stereo mix is like from the early days of 3d movies where they'd put in pointy fingers etc. just to show off the technology. I was begging for a mono mix halfway through Monday Monday. This is really dated sounding - compare with Aretha from the same era, which sounds fresh. Do yourself a favor and go and listen to Aretha's version of Spanish Harlem (🔥) and compare it with this insipid version.
yksi hyvä biisi tässä jos olisin ensi kertaa kuunnellut mutta heh viideskymmenes kerta joten nollla hyvää biisiä heh mammat ja papat...pystyn uskomaan silmiäni sekä korviani? hehmäistä kommenttia... menkää vessanpyttyyn vieressä, koska PASKA ALBUMI heh pyttyesque california dreamin
Okayish. IMO too hippie. Honestly kinda boring.
Vind California Dreamin’ echt een banger van een nummer maar vind nog steeds al die mensen een beetje eng en de rest van de nummers zo zo..
mid af
Although a staple of that mid-60s LA pop sound, I always felt like The Mamas & The Papas were a singles band. Never put together a solid record but have some amazing singles.
One standout track in "California Dreamin'", which was the most unique amongst the tracklist. But aside from that one, not much I'd listen to again
Estuvo bien, tiene una buena canción y una tremenda. Supongo que eso justifica su ingreso en la lista, pero no para mi.
Nothing offends except the stereo sound and the ubiquitous tunes 😂
So, I understand their importance to the development of pop in the sixties, but wow is it just so very set in a time. There are 3 great pop songs on here and a bunch of medium covers.
Outside of the two big hits, this is really just unremarkable 60’s folk music. The songs aren’t really that memorable except for ‘The In Crowd’. ‘The In Crowd’ sucks. Not very good, but at least better than The Incredible String Band.
Boooring. Too slow. It feels like one song played over and over again.
Besides the singles it's incredibly forgettable.
Couple of classic hits on this album like "Monday Monday" and "California Dreamin'" for a 60s folksy album. Not my style having not been raised on that era of music but I can appreciate the style.
Never really been able to get into the Mamas & Papas. I know most of these songs already and they are ok individually I guess, but hearing them all together was mostly a chore. I wouldn't choose to listen to this again.
Got slightly better on the backend of the album but was ultimately pretty forgettable and generic
pants
BL: Mamas and the Papas known for “California Dreamin’”, nothing else. Will see what I think. AL: Thought this album was chronically ok. The Hammond esque organ was very cool but instrumentally pretty uninspired. Not amazed these guys are only remembered for one ir two hits. FT: “California dreamin’”, “ Spanish Harlem”, “somebody groovy” 2/5
meh 2/5
If my mama and papa were this boring I'd have ran away from home long ago. California Dreaming is solid tho.
Best Song: California Dreaming. Undoubtedly I picked this one because I've heard it used in a hundred movies. Worst Song: You Baby. The definition of saccharine. Gross. Overall: Exactly what you'd expect. 60s drivel with a nauseously "happy" style that never lets up. Music for cults.
Not terrible, but I just don't like this style of music.
Some decent compositions and performances here. A few classic songs in the mix too! Overall not a project I think I'd ever revisit but I'm glad I spent time with it.
it was okay, didn’t enjoy too much. 1-2 songs were good
Recht langweilig und eintönig, sehr den beatles ähnlich (die aber natürlich nicht langweilig und eintönig sind). Hat mir persönlich nicht mega gefallen
Meh
Pretty clunky and in your face melodies. Their hits, including California Dreamin’ here, are good, at least.
became too much
Slow, bubblegum like, too many stretched words to make syllables fit
Impressive harmonizing vocals but not an album I would select.” I call your name” is all over the place with different song styles from doowop and ending with a 20’s-30’s vibe.
It has some hits and isn't bad to hear.
Sounds like your usual 60s folk/pop music, nothing memorable about it for me
Pretty bad. Even California Dreaming gets on my nerves when I hear it. 4/10
Listened Before? N I knew the hits from this one. I don't mind California Dreamin' but the rest of it I just feel is a bit too 60s poppy. I didn't enjoy it a whole lot. It wasn't offensive or obtrusive but I just don't really jive with it. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: California Dreamin'
Couple of greats, rest are sleepy
I got bored.
A situational album, if doing something else in the background it's nice but actively listening it's not great
2.5 Turns out I can, in fact, believe my eyes and ears - this is a very run-of-the-mill slice of the era. The harmonies are nice I guess, but the music otherwise isn’t particularly notable. California Dreamin’ is of course an exception - while not the most creative song lyrically or musically, there’s something beautifully haunting in the vocal harmonies and resolve, which creates an interesting juxtaposition with the supposed light subject matter. Anyway, that’s probably the most I could say about any song on this record. This is the third cover of Do You Wanna Dance I’ve heard after The Beach Boys’ and Ramones’ versions, and I can confidently say it’s the worst of the three. Go Where You Wanna Go was probably my personal favorite outside of Cali Dreamin’, though conversely, the song Spanish Harlem came off feeling a bit patronizing to me (I know it’s a cover but still). A net “okay” all-around.
Ok. Not my cup of tea though. But I do love the song “Do you wanna Dance.” Especially The Beach Boys version. 2.5/5
One amazing tune, some other nice things. Wouldn’t revisit.
Vocally impressive but pretty boring to me
Meh, fine but dull
Liked the big singles from the album but overall thought it was just fine.
its the california dreamin' band with their album, california dreamin' + 11 bonus tracks.
All the hits, but that's it. Classics that never go out of style but I'll stick to them rather than explore their deep cuts.
Most of it is pretty inconsequential, although of course California Dreaming is part of the canon. Towards the end though I did like Somebody Groovy and The In Crowd, both of which had great drumming (and drum sound for the time) and roll along nicely. There are much better versions of the latter mind.
Monday, Monday was a promising opening track and California Dreamin remains as epic as ever. No other songs particularly stood out. Considering 1966 also saw the release of Revolver and Pet Sounds, the album probably sounded dated even back then.
Two stars for the nostalgia, but the album/sound didn't hold together for me like I thought it would.
I am partly convinced this album was only included for California Dreamin' and I'm okay with that. Other than that song this was a very long 30-something minutes. Favorite: California Dreamin'
Zus en zo
very folksy but not enough heart fa me. i liked 3 or 4 pieces from the whole project. 1 i feel i knew b4 all this
Not my style, and I tried but just no.
i like got a feelin’ and california dreamin’, not too much to my taste
Meh
Meh
"California Dreamin'" is recognizable and really good. Otherwise, most tracks were unremarkable, simplistic, and kind of boring. Great vocals.
Beyond the two smash hits this is pretty thin stuff, very standard for mid-sixties LPs that were merely means to extract more money from fans. Five cover versions in 12 tracks...
Robert Dimery really needs some kind of award for fitting 10,000 albums from the mid-late 60s into a 1,001 albums list. Fuck's sake. Ok, I like the idea of these vocal harmonies, but the hippie folk pop context is just fucking blaaaand. No wonder it seemingly disappeared overnight at some point a few years after this - everyone was just as sick of it in 1970 as I am doing this challenge in 2022. Also: a 34 minute album with 4 covers on it. BIN. 2/5.
A couple of classics, but California dreaming was the only really good song. The male lead has a lovely voice. Think the rest were involved because of drugs and shagging? The tinny production/recording did them no favors. No going to come back to this.
Keine akustische Vollkatastrophe, bloß belanglos.
It's your typical 60's pop album. Really nothing special. There was much more quality around at that time. California Dreaming is still a great song though, but rises above the rest of the album.
Stand out songs: Straight Shooter
well, its okay. But I'll probably wont listen to it again intentionally
The stereo mix sounded weird on my AirPods. It was far too stretched - almost like listening to two different albums simultaneously. The album is strongest with the cover versions. Spanish Harlem and The In Crowd stand out. An interesting album from a historical perspective, but it doesn't speak to me in 2022.
2 good songs
Some familiarity and a sound of its era but it's nothing outstanding, just fine background stuff.
A bit disappointing, to be quite honest. I knew nothing other than California Dreamin' (which is spectacular), and the rest of the album couldn't live up to it. It's perfectly acceptable folksy pop music, but it doesn't offer much more than that outside of a track or two. They don't make the most of the girls' voices (which are stronger than the guys). The very last track is great because of this, it's much more powerful and has some proper oomph. Also, the out of place apostrophes on the album cover annoy me. 2/5.
California Dreamin' is great but all of the covers are pretty bad, especially 'I Call Your Name'.
Couple of crackers
3 or maybe a 2. Nothing really sticks out.
Very 60s. Couldn't stand listening to this
Didn't massively grab me, but California Dreamin' is always a joy. Fav new track: Straight Shooter
The hits are the hits, California Dreaming by far the best track. Everything else more mellow folk with Beach Boy harmony.
I like the album cover and I thought this would have some "classic" value. In the end I was disappointed that only "California Dreamin'" is a great song on this album and the other songs are mediocre at most.
great harmonies - but I will try the mono mix as the stereo version was mixed in cinemascope with most things WAY over to one side or the other and not much in the middle.
It was fine. Nothing incredible outside a few songs (e.g. California Dreamin’). The rest kind of just sounds like so many other artists at the time. 4/10
Meh
Sounds a bit dated. A couple of cover fillers that don't stand up.
Not a huge fan of the California pop scene. Not a bad album, just not my thing.
Sounds to me like Beatles-meets-Monkees here and there, could definitely use more of the former as the slow, shambling one-note ballads could use some more lyrical and instrumental variation to move things along.
Really really really really not my kind of thing. However, California Dreaming is a classic, but this is just so not my thing. 2/5
Barely qualifies as an album. The two classic singles and the rousing vocal by Cass on 'The In Crowd' merely serve to emphasise the paucity of the other anaemic covers and the third rate fillers.
Singles and 60’s comps about coverbit for me ... like Bobby’s California Dreaming more ...
It's interesting to listen to this knowing that in my teens or early 20's I would have fucking hated this. Too happy, too peachy, too warm, lot of dated cliches. But that's not to say that I love it. I can just simply listen to it and it's generally unoffensive. But what occurred to me was that even more so I have the ability to enjoy this because I'm totally lost on the cultural context of this album. Not that I'm reaching for it either, this is the fruits of the internet age and also having only been born like 26 years after this album was released. That's how things are recontextualized and are reborn right? Nothing wrong in that. It's more emotionally relatable than the last album but it still doesn't stir anything in me. Not to keep harping on the context of the album, but I also haven't heard enough music from this time period to understand if this transcended or mundanely regurgitated the musical trends of the time. Again, I admit ignorance. Forgive me music gods, for I have sinned. I listen to black metal and experimental hip hop mostly so cut me some damn slack. It's pleasant. There. I said something positive. Fuck you. Ok, California Dreaming I understand why it's such a huge single. The melody is pretty nice. I especially love the descending group vocals on the minor key, that's my shit. Bring on the sadness and nostalgia. Jeez I'm such a miserable fuck. I love how the melody ascends from the "all the leaves are brown" section of the chorus into the 2nd half of the motif. Very dramatic. Spanish Harlem sounds like the sequel to Little Drummer Boy. There's some nice, brown atmosphere here. I have no idea how to explain it. It sounds like old coffee stains on old yellow napkins that have sat in an abandoned diner for 40 years. I can smell it too. Are we all just dopamine exhausted and really sweet and calm music like this doesn't do anything for us? I feel like in order to attach myself at all to this album on an emotional level I'd need to date some vapid wish it was the 70's Nashville transplant white girl and suffer through her taste in music until she left me for a much more handsome, masculine, cowboy looking motherfucker that works at a bar of some bougie hotel downtown, and when nobody's looking I throw on this album and silently weep for the days we used to screw on the 2nd floor of the tall skinny she used to rent with her Lifeway coworkers.
Can’t deal with the California free love vibe.
Dated. More than pleasant by pretty samey most of the way, enlivened by the singles.
That albumcover is awkward af, as is the band's name. Background-listening American Folk. Very uninspiring, as that style often tends to be. Pleasant at first, but got boring real quick. California Dreamin' is still pretty nice, I also liked You Baby. Nothing else caught/held my attention though.
2/5 No song strung any chord. Expected more from the album that has "California Dreaming"
Ameriikan Abba. Hitit hitteinä, mutta kokonaisuutena jäi vähän piippuun. Mikäs se on Kaliforniassa avoautolla ajellessa kuunnella tällaista kepeää popittelua. Saa tulla koittamaan Suomeen, toimiiko lonkeron värisessä maaliskuussa.
Este es un disco sin mucho chiste pero tiene California Dreaming, unas de las canciones MÁS CHINGONAS DE LA HISTORIA, OBRA MAESTRA, HITO, CIMA DE LA CULTURA HUMANA. ¡¡¡AAAAAH!!! QUÉ GANAS DE VIVIR Y MORIR VIVIENDO TU VIDA, PALMERAS, CALIFORNIA, SOL Y UNA TRISTEZA INSONDABLE. Pero bueno, Spanish Harlem está chida también. Su versión de Do You Wanna Dance awanta, Me encanta la portada porque Michelle Phillips me está viendo a los ojos. Es un sueño esa mujer. Grande crush de mi pubertad.
Not really doing anything for me.
Levyllä oli pari ikivihreää hittibiisiä, mutta jotenkin tunnelma jäi kuitenkin laimeaksi. Jäi fiilis, tällainen kevyt persoonaton rallattelu on aika kuultu jo. Varmaan ollut aikanaan kova juttu, mutta nyt ei puhutellut.
Gets old quickly. California Dreamin' is a classic though
3.5
Album has that flower power hippie vibe. Didn't expect much but ended up liking "Spanish Harlem" and "Somebody Groovy".
60s shit. Don't love it. Don't hate it. Isn't this the guy who had a sexual relationship with his daughter?
Meh. Pretty boring.
Just not the one for me, it felt like a lot of it blended together and sounded too similar, especially the B-Side! "California Dreaming" was the obvious best imo. "Go Where You Wanna Go" was also pretty good!
I did listen to this.. mostly on my walk with Penny. It’s the record with California Dreaming. This sort of soft rock 70s stuff is typically my jam. Idk
Stupid hippy bullshit. sucked!
Meni vähän ohi koko levy, mutta eipä ainakan vienyt mukanaan.
Not my cup of tea
Kivoja stemmoja ja kaunista musaa, mut ei ihan uppoo
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California Dreamin and an assortment of half assed tunes from a band of weirdos
Creepy hippies
Besides the california dreaming hit not much to listen to
195 / 1089. I loathe "Monday, Monday." (Three of the four members agreed with that assessment.) And for very good reasons, I despise John Phillips and seriously dispute his "reputation" as a songwriter. Guy Webster should have flushed the negative of the cover image down that toilet. And whoever typeset the damn album cover with two incorrect possessives should have been immediately fired. While there are certainly lovely harmonies sprinkled through the 12 tracks, those tracks are some of the most gag inducing music the 1960s had to offer (hence my animus for "Monday, Monday"). The group was just chasing trends left and right better exemplified by their contemporaries. I'd give this a 1/10, except for the fact that "California Dreamin'" is indelibly and beautifully linked to Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express, one of the best films of the 1990s. So I'm giving it a 2/10.
Remember when the Brady Bunch went to Hawaii and Bobby found an evil idol? What a crazy thing to happen. Greg crashes surfing, Bobby almost killed by a painting, and Peter is nearly bitten by a spider. Then Bobby gets rid of the thing only for Jan to bring it back. Then the crazed archaeologist tries to kill them. After that they have a big party, but like the crazy part was that the trip was all expenses paid, and they even brought their maid. That had to cost a small fortune.
PLZ DONT RECOMMED TRASH OK
This is just not for me.
I liked this, realized I kinda like 60s.
1/5 not my cup of tea, refuse to elaborate more.
Definitivamente un estilo musical que no es para mí
Shockingly disappointing, even outside the non-musical reasons this is problematic. Just not good.
This did not hit for me. Several of their songs have made it into contemporary culture and most are fine, but damn I hate California Dreaming so much. It ends up in modern media in the most vapid ways possible. The lyrics were also not my favorite. I'd bet you could assemble the entire album's lyrics by combining various Live, Laugh, Love-type posters from your nearest suburban neighborhood. I barely got through it, unfortunately.
like boring not my favorite. good background music
Non stereo voice/instrument hurts my ADHD brain, got 1 1/2 songs finished. Bit of an unfair rating but it is what it is in that state
Obnoxious, didn't even get as far as California Dreamin.
It's the mixed sex Beach Boys. Monday, Monday is already annoying the hell out of me. This whole album sounds like the soundtrack to Scooby Doo. It's like they kept the harmony and lost any edge the early Beatles had. California Dreamin' is the hit and it is not even close. Monday, Monday might as well not exist. Spanish Harlem is a terrible cover. Aretha is the queen of this song. The original Ben E. King version is vastly superior as well.
respectfully.. fysiek draining om met koptelefoon te luisteren door de mix en kreeg bijna hoofdpijn door sommige vocals. definitely een ‘luister van een luidspreker’ album maar i didnt like it
i wholeheartedly give this record minimal stars, which is 1, which i believe to be one too many. with the exception of "California Dreaming" i'd like to unhear this.
Boring as heck
I have to give this one a low score purely due to the mix being so bad. Virtually every single song has one of the tracks playing 100% in one ear, and another track playing 100% in the other ear. It didn't sound cohesive at all; in Monday, Monday if I turned the volume up loud enough to make out the guitar in my right ear, the vocals in the left ear were painful to listen to. Lowering the volume so my left ear stopped bleeding made it so I could barely hear the guitar in my right ear. It probably isn't fair and it might be a pleasant experience if I was in a room with speakers, but listening to this one all the way through with headphones made me want to vomit. Stereo mixing probably wasn't mature when this was produced...I'm glad that folks figured out if you want to record in stereo you shouldn't pan the tracks THAT hard...
bit "nicey nice" isn't it?
No thanks, I don't want to spend time with this twee garbage. Utter nonsense. Even California Dreaming really pissed me off.
I did not know the Ramones' Do You Wanna Dance was a cover and now I do and I'm biased but that cover was way better than whatever this was.
Just can’t really enjoy listening to the mamas and papas since I read their Wikipedia page
Schlock. Laurence Welk in hippie clothes.
That stereo-thing is maybe a bit to much...
Kind of generic and boring. The guitar in Straight Shooter is good, but it's just kind of mid-level pop. 1/5 stars.
This began grating on me from the word go. Other than country, this type of 60's twaddle is second in my personal pecking order of music which I'd be demanding financial compensation to ever be subjected to. Needless to say, I passed up the opportunity to continue listening at around the halfway point. Life is too fucking short. Plus, after conducting some brief research, I learned of the disturbing lore associated with the members of this band, which makes the album cover all the more uncomfortable to look at.
So incredibly boring and I can’t believe this was ever popular. (Weren’t they the best selling American band from the sixties?) California Dreamin’ is famous but not incredible and not enough ballast to save this sinking ship
Dieser rechts/links Split macht mich über Kopfhörer fertig. Jeder Text hier gibt mir übelste frauenschläger-vibes - da sind die Beatles wesentlich besser gealtert (Revolver kam im gleichen Jahr raus, was macht dann dieses Gedudel auf einer muss-man-gehört-haben Liste?)
9/1001 :: The Mamas & The Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Rating: Light 3 Fav Tracks: Somebody Groovy, California Dreamin’ Aside from Monday, Monday, California Dreamin’ and their cover of In Crowd I had never heard this album before. The Mamas and the Papas are a product for of the time. Feels like there are no original ideas here and it’s just a 60s (or at times 50s) pop album. The music is not offensive and I understand its place in time. These songs are a good backdrop for a movie that takes place in the 60s. Overall it’s fine, but unless I’m missing something it’s pretty uninteresting and I won’t be returning.
The band has a strong technical ability, but their songs are so schmaltzy and syrupy that I just can't stand it.
They weren’t saying anything.
Dire. Just fucking dire. Imagine thinking this was good music.
I find 60s music kinda boring
I immediately hated it because it reminded me of a musical
Today they would have to bill themselves as a Beatles/Beach Boys tribute act featuring a fucking pervert
Worst band name ever.
Obrzydliwa okładka, znane totalnie, choć tylko punktowo. Jest to zle, wesole i nudne
meh there were some good songs
Don’t like the musical vibe of the songs, especially the first song. Had a few decent moments but nothing to write homemade about. Feels like a strange collection of songs that don’t quite work together
Det låter så gammalt,! Första ettan!
This is a prime reason why pop sucks. It gets SOOOOOO dated. 1/5
Trite 60s pop made by at least one absolutely terrible person. California Dreamin' is a pretty good song and I can see why Monday, Monday was popular.
1. monday - 2 2. zhooter - 1 3. feeling - 1.5 4. name - 1 5. dance - 1 6. go - 1 7. california - 3.5 8. harlem - 1.5 9. groovy - 1 10. girl - 1 11. baby - 1 12. in - 1.5
No
Ugh, I have never liked the Mama's and the Papa's. This album is no different.
I was expecting more from such an established name in music history. Regardless can't change my rule that all child-fuckers get 1 star.
Ummm… so, this was an interesting listen! I can totally see how it was popular in the 1960s; it really is twist-your-leg type of music. However, unfortunately, it has not really survived the test of time! California Dreamin’ is iconic and really provided a midway through pick me up. However, the rest of the album was boring, a bit cringe and just not my vibe! I don’t think I’d really mind if I never heard any of these songs again! Feels harsh but #sorrynotsorry 🫣😂
This was 1 star for me when I was 10 and is still 1 star 56 years later, F.
One ‘iconic’ song doesn’t make an album great
best thing about this is the part on Do You Want To Dance sampled on Jens Lekman's Maple Leaves. the stuff that isn't terrible is recorded in a way that sound cool, in that way that bass guitar etc. sounds reliably cool on 60s records. this was supposed to be counterculture. how bout that. downgrading from a 2 for reprehensible behaviour. music: hated. (⌐☮_☮)
This stinks! No wonder all the hippies grew up to be reactionary conservatives. They thought this stuff was the soundtrack to a revolution!
60’s don’t care
California dreaming gives it an extra star.
I dont like it
"My generation? Yeah, we all used to hang out together in bathrooms, taking turns shitting in one over-burdened toilet. We were responsible for ending the war in Vietnam!" Get fucked.
Not my thing. John Phillips is a reprehensible human being.
Couple of good songs but they just sound so old. I can't really get behind listening to them a ton. Appreciate their classics but that's all it is to me.
Not a fan of music to murder to
Plastic people. Oh baby now you're such a drag. This is so shiny and polished and bland and happy and superficial and inoffensive. So much so it made me angry. It is also derivative. Do you find the Monkees a bit edgy? Are the Beach Boys a little subversive for you? This is the album for you. Just the most banal, lightweight, pointless un-engaging sack of piffle. 'California dreamin' is a bona fide hit but still a pretty cheesy and jaded one. And how did they mange to such a gutless, souless, off tune version of the usually crisp and jaunty 'The In-crowd'. They should have all got in toilet not the bath.
100 albums be so US dominant caste. The "In" Crowd: nice Motown sound...another appropriation. Sounds different from the rest of the album. This is another one that can play in the background while I work. Won't 'favorite' this or listen again voluntarily, but don't hate it.
I’ve never been a fan of theirs
Not a big fan
Super derivative of beach boys and other pop sensations of the time. Their songwriting is not nearly on the same on this album. I thought a lot of the songs hit a level of irritating as it’s trying to be sweet. California dreaming is good and a classic. 1.5/5
Boo
The song Spanish Harlem was so fkn bad I couldnt finish the album
Not good to listen to when you are frustrated at work
All the leaves are brown is leuk, de rest een beetje gezeik
Nah
Monday Monday and California Dreaming classics, right? The rest is dreadful. I did like Straight Shooter with its slick guitar riff. That’s it. The rest of this is cheesy. The In Crowd is the cringiest thing I’ve ever heard.
Meh
Remember when all it took to be happy was this?
More like great-grandmama's and great-grandpapa's.
Did not like
It's music so that's good. But it's very same-y to me. I think I'm lacking historical context or something. Too many lose songs.
Niet mijn ding. Zoetsappig close harmony geneuzel, ik luister wel gewoon Rubber Soul
great 1
I've never liked The Mamas & The Papas. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt; but then I heard what they did to "Do You Wanna Dance". In some circles it's considered to be a war crime.
Never cared for them, still don't.
Monday, Monday: 1/5, if every song sounds like this then...yeah Straight Shooter: 1/5 Got a Feelin': 1/5 I Call Your Name: 1/5 Do You Wanna Dance: 1/5 Go Where You Wanna Go: 1/5 California Dreamin': 2/5, like the flute solo Spanish Harlem: 1/5 Somebody Groovy: 1.5/5 Hey Girl: 1/5 You Baby: 1/5 The 'In' Crowd: 1/5 Overall: 1.13/5, definitely not my cup of tea
Not a big fan of the hippie music of the 60's. The 2 most popular songs, I find pretty annoying, California Dreaming and Monday Monday. I liked Straight Shooter. Just seemed to be different. Also liked Do you wanna dance, but because I thought of the Ramones. These clowns managed to fuck it up, but what do you want from a group of hippies? John Phillips is one sick motherphugger or should I say daughter phugger? When I hear Mamas & Papas, I immediately think of how sick that bastard is/was and just cringe when I hear any of their music. I'll give a 1, because they made me think of the Ramones
Meh. Ikkje så veldig fan av slik pop-rock utført på denne måten. Og sangen "Do you wanna dance" fortjener -3000 i score. :P
California Dreamin stands so far and above the other tracks in terms of production, vocals and quality it’s like it’s a completely different band. Holy balls. After reading the controversy, I’m done with them.
couple of songs
I have never felt so physically revolted by the sound of music.
This type of jam just ain't my kind of bag, baby.
Didn’t dig it
i only like california dreaming because of chungking express...but yeah generally not into this vibe..
good vibez
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