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Artist:The Association
Title:Birthday
Label:  Now Sounds
Country:UK
Date:29 May 2010
Catalogue:CRNOW 15
Barcode:5013929061521
Format:CD Album
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Community: 2 Own, 1 Wants
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
01The AssociationCome On InJo Mapes10.0  Rate
02The AssociationRose Petals, Incense And A KittenMcClelland, Yester10.0  Rate
03The AssociationLike AlwaysAlcivar, Ortega, Ramos, Jr.10.0  Rate
04The AssociationEverything That Touches YouTerry Kirkman10.0  Rate
05The AssociationToymakerJeffrey Comanor10.0  Rate
06The AssociationBarefoot GentlemanYester, Carmel10.0  Rate
07The AssociationTime For Livin'Richard Addrisi, Donald Addrisi10.0  Rate
08The AssociationHear In HereTed Bluechel Jr.10.0  Rate
09The AssociationThe Time It Is TodayRuss Giguere10.0  Rate
10The AssociationThe Bus SongTerry Kirkman10.0  Rate
11The AssociationBirthday MorningYester, Carmel10.0  Rate


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The Doors - Topic
2nd Apr 2020
 Deluxe Mono Edition/First Time On CD
This deluxe mono edition features the original mono mix of the album, which has been out of print since its April 1968 release.
Birthday was originally released in April 1968 as W-1733 (Mono) & WS-1733 (Stereo)
 
 
The Doors - Topic
26th Nov 2019
 Review
The six-man band The Association were at their creative and commercial peak (and averaging 250 shows a year) when they recorded 1968’s Birthday with producer Bones Howe and members of the Wrecking Crew. The opener, “Come on In” (written by San Francisco folkie Joe Mapes), power pops alongside a pair of Top 40 carefree groove-fests: “Time for Livin’” and “Everything That Touches You” (the band’s last Top 10 hit). From there, the beautifully arranged musical detours are many (and no doubt influenced by Sgt. Pepper). Guitarist Jim Yester, for example, contributes two gentle psych ditties that sound like David Crosby fronting The Mamas & The Papas: "Birthday Morning” and “Barefoot Gentlemen.” (The latter features a lovely, elaborate mix of French horns, flugelhorns, and tubas.) Singer/guitarist Russ Giguere’s self-serious dreamer “The Time It Is Today” sounds like an intellectual folkster taking on Gene Clark. The baroque and reaching “Bus Song” is told in three musical chapters, complete with an imagined audience, a barbershop quartet, and a plethora of experimental studio ideas worthy of Brian Wilson.

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