Jeez, what a godawful album this is, and from such a great band. As I type, I'm on track 9 of 17, and I will make it to the end, I will not be defeated, but to do that I will have to fight the urge to tear the CD out of my iMac and frisbee it out of the window into one of the neighbours' gardens.
I bought this online in 2001, not realising that it was an album by (as the small print on the back says) "original artists: new recording". God knows when they re-recorded this — clearly after the '60s and the rhythm track has a late '70s/early '80s Stars-on-45 tackiness — but they must have been at a nadir in their career, scraping the barrel.
The album starts with Hawaii Five-O, which is so great that it's hard to mess up. But although the drums are reasonably interesting, and better separated from the guitars in the mix, the performance is still anemic. And things rapidly get worse from there. Terrible, terrible versions of James Bond themes that you might call "sub-lift-music": they would shame the cheapest of casino town cocktail bars.
Fuck, I'm still only on track 14…
I quickly realised that this was an impostor in the Ventures' oeuvre and bought The Original soon afterwards, to take the taste away.
I will never listen to this again.
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