The Best Of

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Total Tracks: 20   Total Length: 62:17

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Soft and Wonderful

Bill-ji

I'm inspired to write my first review ever! The Free Design sings a version of "You Are My Sunshine" that is absolutely the most celestial I've ever heard (and softly jazzy). I loved listening to their unusually chorded harmonies back when I was a teenager. Fortunately for me, there are songs on this album I have never heard...it's like finding buried treasure! "Daniel Dolphin" is moving.

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They Say All Music Guide

Drawing from seven 1967-1973 albums by the Free Design, this 20-song compilation overlaps some with the other Free Design best-of (Varese Sarabande’s Kites Are Fun), but each of those anthologies has a good number of songs not on the other. Each one is a reasonable intro to this soft pop/rock band, though, and this does include, naturally, the one song that would be considered essential to any best-of, “Kites Are Fun.” The Free Design’s world is a never-never land of fluffy good times, albeit with extremely accomplished smooth vocal harmonies. Though some sunshine pop fanatics freak out over this stuff, to many it will be too much sunshine and light at once, veering uneasily close not just to easy listening pap, but also to period late-’60s/early-’70s TV/commercial music at times. – Richie Unterberger

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