Track Listing
1. Goodbye Surprise
2. House on the Hill
3. Somewhere Friday Nite
4. We Ain't Gonna Party No More
5. There You Sit Lonely - (bonus track)
6. We'll Meet Again - (bonus track)
7. Makin' My Mind Up - (bonus track)
8. Is It Any Wonder? - (bonus track)
9. Surfer Dan
10. Battle of the Bands, The - (bonus track)
11. Earth Anthem
12. Wanderin' Kind - (bonus track)
13. Almost There - (bonus track)
14. It Was a Very Good Year - (bonus track)
15. Your MAW Said You Cried - (bonus track)
16. Glitter and Gold - (bonus track)
17. So Goes Love - (bonus track)
18. I Get Out of Breath
19. Just a Room - (bonus track)
20. Like the Seasons
21. Outside Chance - (cassette only)
22. Grim Reaper of Love - (cassette only)
23. Eve of Destruction - (cassette only)
24. Guide For the Married Man - (cassette only)
25. Me About You - (cassette only)
26. Lady-O - (cassette only)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 54 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Warren Zevon | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
The Turtles include: Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Al Nichol, Chuck Portz, Don Murray, Jim Tucker, Johnny Barbata, John Seiter.
Additional personnel includes: Warren Zevon (guitar); Joel Larson (drums).
Compilation Producers: Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan.
The CD and cassette versions of TURTLE WAX have significant differences. The CD includes 12 songs that aren't on the cassette, and the cassette includes 6 songs that aren't on the CD.
Where the first Best of the Turtles compilation from Rhino focused on the group's many hit singles, Turtle Wax goes in the opposite direction, spotlighting the singles that just didn't click for whatever reason. In this sense it serves the same purpose as Joni Mitchell's Misses accompaniment to her Hits collection. Not surprisingly, the quality of the tracks here is inconsistent, yet reflective of the Turtles' rapid transformation from imitative folk-rockers to humorous psychedelic popsters. Standout cuts include the should've-been-a-hit "Goodbye Surprise" (which sounds strangely like Uriah Heep), the gentle "Lady-O," and the rousingly Beatlesque "Me About You." The remainder of the album bounces haphazardly from eccentric psychedelia to folk angst to bright pop -- much like the Turtles' career itself. Note: the cassette version of this release has only 14 songs to the CD's 20. ~ Joseph McCombs
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