Happy Ending
Well, not for The Turtles, who had dissolved in a lawyerly haze -- but happily, we have this collection to wrap up their wonderful run. The Turtles sometimes had a hard time connecting the right material with the right audience. But there was so much good material! This "odds and sods" collection works so well perhaps because they're not trying so hard to polish everything to a high sheen, or slip it into an album-wide theme. While there are no real hits here, there are some all-time gems: I Get Out of Breath, Tie Me Down (by David Gates of Bread!), and demo (?) versions of There You Sit Lonely and You Want to Be A Woman. (The latter two are Flo&Eddie extras from 1975.) It's hard to pass up their Greatest Hits of course, but The Turtles were much, much more than a singles band. Much of their best work was elsewhere. So when you need more than the hits, this is a wonderful next stop.
