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Pablo Cruise, The Best of Pablo Cruise, The Millennium Collection (A&M).
When I offered the list of "Essential '70s Listening" for No. 78's "Recordings to Live For!," I forgot Pablo Cruise's eponymous debut album. Gratefully, this compilation has not, including "Island Woman" and "Ocean Breeze," two essential cuts from the prolific pens of Cory Lerios and Dave Jenkins, keys and guitar respectively for this remarkable band. My Pablo Cruise collection has languished on 20+ year-old cassette tapes, long since Dolby'd into muddiness and stretched beyond listening. (And the vinylheads still wonder why the less-than-elite embraced CDs. Sigh.) I spotted this one on sale at a record store in San Francisco and lapped it right up. Truth be known, for all of the critical brickbats hurled its way, I loved Pablo Cruise then, I do now, and The Best of ... has made it into heavy rotation here at Chez Ancienne. Why? Thought you'd never ask.
When "Whatcha Gonna Do?" hit the airwaves in early 1977, rock was mired in Rumours, Frampton Comes Alive!, Boston, and the onset of punk's first wave. What A Place in the Sun reminded us was that you didn't have to be on the side of one faction or ...