Friday, April 6, 2012

The Turtles - Turtle Soup (1969)


The Turtles' final album, critically well-received but commercially under-appreciated. Inspired by The Kinks' concept album ...Are The Village Green Preservation Society and produced by Ray Davies himself (this being Ray's first non-Kinks production). There's no "Happy Together" or "Elenore" type pop radio hits on this album, which is to say that they weren't in it for the commercial aspect here anyhow. Opinions on this album are pretty split, with it's fair share of detractors and fans alike. I don't think I've ever seen a photograph of Mark Volman without that shit-eating grin.

Turtle Soup


1 comment:

superflash said...

It's a goner. Can you re-up it somewhere else?