If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
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Performer: The Mamas and the PapasEdition: Music CD
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Free Music Review: One of the premier debut albums of the fun filled Sixties
Hit: 5 Stars
"If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears," the first album released by the Mamas and the Papas, is clearly the group's best album. "California Dreaming" was rocketing up the charts in the spring of 1966 when this album was released and introduced the crisp harmonies that John Phillips had developed through months of rehearsal in the Virgin Islands and hours of polishing the sound in the recording studio. It is hard to imagine what it must have been like when this sound was new and fresh. The album went to #1 on the Billboard charts and won a Grammy in the rather inclusive Other Pop/Rock&Roll/ Contemporary Awards or Instrumental category.
Of course, this is the group's best album (hits collections not included) since it has both of their greatest hits, "California Dreaming" (#4) and "Monday, Monday" (#1). Through into the mix the almost as good "Go Where You Wanna Go," the lovely "Got a Feelin'," and the awesome torch song cover of the Beatles song "I Call Your Name" that allows Cass Elliott to show off her solo skills, and none of their other albums are even close to being this good. Actually, the covers of "Spanish Harlem" and "Do You Wanna Dance" are pretty good as well. Besides, pretty much as soon as this album was released the group started to implode from the interpersonal conflicts.
Consequently, in the end I think that you can make an argument that "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears" should be remembered as a Sixties album on at least the level right next to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Pet Sounds," in terms of the exquisite way in which the songs and album were crafted. My contention would be that obviously you want to have a hits collection of the Mamas and the Papas (and there are several decent ones out there), but that picking up this first album would be worth it as well because this is the one that got everybody excited all their sound in the first place.
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