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The Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today/Feelings Audio CD

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The Grass Roots Band: The Grass Roots
Title: Let's Live for Today/Feelings
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Release Date: 1995-12-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Things I Should Have Said 2: Wake Up, Wake Up 3: Tip of My Tongue 4: Is It Any Wonder 5: Let's Live for Today 6: Beatin' Round the Bush 7: Out of Touch 8: Won't You See Me 9: Where Were You When I Needed You 10: No Exit 11: This Precious Time 12: House of Stone 13: Feelings 14: Here's Where You Belong 15: Sins of a Family Fall on the Daughter 16: Melody for You 17: Who Will You Be Tomorrow 18: You Might as Well Go My Way 19: All Good Things Come to an End 20: Hot Bright Lights 21: Hey Friend 22: You and Love Are the Same 23: Dinner for Eight 24: Feelings (Reprise) 25: Depressed Feeling [*] 26: Midnight Confessions [*] 27: Bella Linda [*]

excellent
Grass Roots had great singers, the greatest session bands of the era, and great writting. Whoever helped splash "Midnight Confessions" and "Live For Today" over AM radio knew potential when they saw it. They were pop, but never maudlin. They had it all over Bobby Goldsboro and Gary Pucket.

What you may not know is that Grass Roots were not always a slick middle of the road hit machine. Listen to Feelings, and you hear pretty stripped down primitive folk rock. Not bad by any strech, but certianly not the dynamic hitmaking to come the following year.

These were the days of hit factories: take a decent band, add some juice and shine up the sound. You had entire staffs on a label making big coin for this. Listening to Feelings, and it is obvious this is what happened to Grass Roots.

This music does not quite have the pop dynamics of a Jimmy Webb or the FM growl I so love, but for what it is, it is quite enjoyable.
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Faceless? Maybe. Listenable? Quite rightly so.
Also, the "Feelings" LP may be devoid of top 10 hits, but some of the misses are pretty good ("Melody For You" and "Feelings" in particular). Not only does this double-record CD have great hits like "Things I Should Have Said To Her", "Let's Live For Today" and "Midnight Confessions" (a bonus track), but it is also chock full of period pop-psych material which benefited from excellent studio treatment (see "Out Of Touch"). I must say that I always considered the Grass Roots a lightweight, manufactured pop group that produced a handful of classics. This collection certainly changed my mind.


Classic pop from USA

Classic pop from USA !
Strongly recommended !. Perhaps the best two Grass Root'LP in one CD.


The Grass stood tall back then
But putting them together here is a bonus for the buyer for one big reason: These recordings showed the band, and their songwriters and backup musicians on the periphery, at their creative heights. I have the two albums, "Let's Live for Today" and "Feelings," on separate LPs bought back in the '60s.
They were all young and hungry then, and given the time, 1967-68, it was a zenith for creativity and taking chances, unlike the early '70s as these recordings came before the Grass Roots, with key lineup changes, sold out to mainstream pop and ultimately fizzled like spent soda.
There are the two album title hits (and other add-ons that weren't on the two original albums) as well as updated versions of "Where Were You When I Needed You" and "Tip of My Tongue" minus P. F. Sloan's original voice. But pay particular attention to the more obscure tracks, notably "You and Love are the Same," which was later the flipside of the 1969 "Lovin' Things" single. The Rob Grill/Warren Entner harmonies are moving. Truly a collective treat for the ears. And rarely have I heard a drummer have as much fun and pound as much passion as Rick Coonce did. I always looked to "Mr. Rhythm" as he was called, as the soul of the group.
What you have here, buyer, is definitely money well spent.


Better Than I Thought It Would Be
I also recommend P. If you love big, beautiful produced mid 60s baroque folk pop with great singing, then you will like this. F. Sloan's Anthology (the producer of this album and writer of many Grass Roots songs). .


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