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Poppy Family - A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 (compilation)

Format: CD
Label: March Records 60017-2 (USA)
Year: 1996
Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia
Genre: pop
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Release Type: Albums
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Playlist: Pop, 1960's, British Columbia

Tracks

Track Name
Beyond The Clouds
Free From The City
What Can The Matter Be?
Which Way You Goin', Billy?
Happy Island
Theres No Blood In Bone
A Good Thing Lost
You Took My Moonlight Away
Shadows On The Wall
That's Where I Went Wrong
Where Evil Grows
I Was Wondering
Tryin'
Winter Milk
Good Friends?
I'll See You There
You Don't Know What Love Is
I Thought of You Again
Another Year, Another Day
Evil Overshadows Joe
That's Where I Went Wrong (US Version)

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A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 (compilation)

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A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 is an excellent best-of collection from the Poppy Family, a great, if largely forgotten, late-'60s Canadian soft rock/psychedelic group. The meticulous songwriting, production, and arranging skills of guitarist/mastermind Terry Jacks (who later had a huge solo hit with the classic pop single "Seasons in the Sun") lift these recordings above the work of many of the group's better-known contemporaries. Singer Susan Jacks has a beautiful voice that sometimes sounds like (but predates) Karen Carpenter, but is eminently more soulful. Although characterized in the liner notes as a "soft pop" band, the Poppy Family was also capable of a somewhat tougher sound that sometimes recalled Surrealistic Pillow-era Jefferson Airplane and folkier material in the Kenny Rogers & the First Edition/Roger McGuinn vein. Throughout, Jacks frames the songs with creative, if often dated, arrangements that compare favorably to his obvious influences, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Phil Spector. In addition to "Which Way You Goin' Billy," the group's biggest hit (number two in 1970) and a generous helping of singles and high-quality album tracks, the disc includes an alternate, wildly psychedelic mix of "There's No Blood in Bone" and two different versions of "That's Where I Went Wrong" (the second of which features some cool country guitar leads). Overall, A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 is a fantastic find — one of those hidden gems that record fanatics always hope to discover.

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