The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands

Product Description
Snappy as Fleer's, and equally adhesive in the best sense of the word, the Turtles would rather be goofy musical subversives than legendary popsters! This Sundazed Music release also includes bonus tracks 'Sound Asleep' and 'The Story Of Rock And Roll'.

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Average customer rating: excellent album Surprising Imagine me & u eccentric Eleanor G. Absolutely their best Gee, I think you're swell

The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands The Turtles Manufacturer: Sundazed Music Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Turtle Soup Wooden Head You Baby/Let Me Be Happy Together Memory Almost Full [Deluxe Limited Edition] ASIN: B000003GXZ Release Date: 1994-10-21

Tracks:

1. The Battle Of The Bands
2. The Last Thing I Remember
3. Elenore
4. Too Much Heartsick Feeling
5. Oh, Daddy
6. Buzzsaw
7. Surfer Dan
8. I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're The Royal Maca...)
9. You Showed Me
10. Food
11. Chicken Little Was Right
12. Earth Anthem
13. Sound Asleep
14. The Story Of Rock And Roll

Album Description

Snappy as Fleer's, and equally adhesive in the best sense of the word, the Turtles would rather be goofy musical subversives than legendary popsters! This Sundazed Music release also includes bonus tracks 'Sound Asleep' and 'The Story Of Rock And Roll'.

Customer Reviews:

excellent album.......2007-06-30

I love all the Turtles' albums, but, this one is definitely my favorite. The concept behind Battle Of The Bands really allows the Turtles to showcase their unique talents and diversity. Ridiculously addictive arrangements and melodies combined with a healthy mix of sarcasm and comedy makes for a very memorable listen. You can really hear Kaylan and Vroman's Mother's Era vocal stylings coming into shape on this album (like the high pitched swells at the end of Elenore... goood stuff).

It truly is a rare record that can capture the feeling and sound of a genre(s) whilst simultaneously poking fun at that same sound. You can really enjoy these songs and appreciate them at face value before even getting into the sarcasm and comedy of it all. Zappa and Ween are probably the only other artists I can think of that truly pull this off like the Turtles do here.

I'm disappointed that the Turtles broke up soon after, but, am also grateful for Flo & Eddie's Mother's years as well as their solo work.

Surprising.......2007-05-06

The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands is one of the strangest albums ever made. Amongst some truely awful songs (like "The Battle Of The Bands", "Oh, Daddy" & "Chicken Little Was Right") and novelty/pastiche songs ("Sound Asleep", "Elenore" and "Food") are a couple of monster jams. Surprisingly, "I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're The Royal Macadamia Nuts)" and "Buzzsaw" were sampled by hip hop artists. That The Beastie Boys were even aware of this album (let alone could find anything useful here), is a testament to their brilliance.

This album sounds like a band with nothing to lose and so decided to make a hodge-podge album of various styles. The results are mixed.

Download at iTunes.

[DW]

Imagine me & u eccentric Eleanor G........2004-08-04

I take it that this was the last Turtles album. In a sense I found it refreshing to see the group take on many different forms of music. After all L.A. groups from the 60's can't live on the sunny pop sounds, psychedlia, and folk-rock alone. However, this may have sounded a little too bizarre. Maybe a way to cheese off record executives who wanted the group in a box, or maybe some political groups who wanted to persecute the group( Remember, Flo & Eddie had to go underground from 1972-1983, and not perform with the Turtles, or sing thier songs). After a hot start it was a shame to see them implode here, but all was not lost. I happen to like 4 out of the 5 samples heard here, and if given a chance to hear "Buzzsaw" I may have like that also as I dream of it chock full of fuzz guitars. "Eleanor" was overplayed, and "You Showed Me" you guessed it "Another Rock and Roll Suicide". I feel with Flo & Eddie it may have been a way to just be themselves, and have fun with the music that this would be thier last album. I did hear them do a solo piece I guess around 1970-71 called "Keep It Warm". I found it rather good, and hope to hear more from them besides on everyone from Frank Zappa to T-Rex. The Turtles were one of the groups that showed a rare creative side of rock and roll, and that's the ability to make people laugh while rocking and rolling, but for some that may have been thier death warrant, but they have risen again, and have been playing together again for 21 years. Keep it warm and funny.

Absolutely their best.......2004-05-23

This album even got a good review in Rolling Stone, if you can believe that! A grand and goofy idea in true Turtles fashion: a compilation LP of many different bands, many different styles, but every song written by and performed by our guys! I bought this LP about 1969, and wore it to the bone, it's so good!
Here are some of the "bands" in the battle and their musical styles:
THE CROSS FIRES, which was actually the name of the surf band that the Turtles started out as, performing "Surfer Dan". 27 girls follow wherever he goes, ya know!
THE QUAD CITY RAMBLERS, doing their stone country "Too Much Heartsick Feeling"!
THE BIGG BROTHERS, taking it back to broadway with a little ditty about too much "Food"!
THE FABULOUS DAWGS, laying on the heavy sax of the great Northwest bands with the intrumental "Buzzsaw"!
NATURE'S CHILDREN (note the strategic placement of the fig leaves) with the only Turtlesish tune on the LP, and a big hit, "You Showed Me"!

And who could forget CHIEF KAMANAWANALEA AND HIS ROYAL MACADAMIA NUTS, singing that classic Hawaiian ditty which bears their name?
There are more bands and more styles, and much more fun. The guys had a ball making this LP, and boy does it show!
Ya gotta get this one. And thanks as always to Bob Irwin and Sundazed for doing such a great job on the reish. My only quibble is that the pix of the bands are too small and in black and white. Go to the Turtles' website for big, full-color pix and laugh yourself silly!

Gee, I think you're swell.......2004-04-14

This is a concept album by The Turtles. On each of the songs here, The Turtles take on the guise of a different group. Somewhat surpisingly, the whole thing works. The Turtles get a chance to play several different styles of music that they like, plus they get to display their wacky sense of humor on many of the tracks. In my opinion, this is the definitive Turtles album. The CD re-issue includes as bonus tracks the non-hit (but great) singles, "Sound Asleep" and "The Story of Rock and Roll".

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