The Mamas The Papas If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears

In the spring of 1966 if you can believe your eyes and ears represented a genuinely new sound as fresh to listeners as the songs on meet the beatles had seemed two years earlier.

The mamas the papas if you can believe your eyes and ears. If you can believe your eyes and ears is the debut album by the mamas and the papas released in 1966. Leader john phillips visionary producing arranging and songwriting abilities combined with the quartet s breathtaking harmonies to make music that was both effortlessly accessible and creatively adventurous. The stereo mix of the album is included in its entirety on all the leaves are brown a two cd retrospective compilation of the band s first four albums and various singles as well as on the mamas the papas complete anthology a fo. Rather it s the quartet s dreamy vocal interaction that is the highlight here.

Back in 1966 if you can believe your eyes and ears ushered in a genuinely new sound one that was filled with radio friendly songs that were polished and bright filled with brilliant hooks and imagination that embraced blues pop and folk rock. American fans could believe their eyes and ears and filled them with the mamas and the papas. In 2003 it was ranked number 127 on rolling stone magazine s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time with its rank rising to number 112 in the 2012 revision. Even the cover tracks found here have a sound that sets them squarely at the feet of the mama s and the papa s allowing even the casual listener to be swept away by the warm glow of unforced honest spontaneousness that seemed to nearly roll of.

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