Pablo Cruise - The Best of Pablo Cruise: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection
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Artist: Pablo CruiseEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-05-08
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Love Will Find A Way
- Whatcha Gonna Do?
- A Place In The Sun
- Don't Want To Live Without It
- Island Woman
- Zero To Sixty In Five
- I Go To Rio
- Atlanta June
- I Want You Tonight
- Cool Love
- Will You, Won't You
- Ocean Breeze
Music reviews of The Best of Pablo Cruise: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection
Music Review: Good bargain-priced CD
Rating: 4 Stars
One day not long ago I gasped in horror to realize I didn't have "Love Will Find a Way" on CD. The song that haunted my first actual break-up in 1978. I found and bought the antiquated "Classics Vol. 26" without checking the track listing. (For some strange reason the A&M label numbered their first flurry of "best-of" CDs. Vol. 1 was by Herb Alpert, who was only the president of the company.) "Vol. 26" had that song but left off the excellent hit "I Want You Tonight" (top 20 in late '79) and the pretty good hit "I Go To Rio" (top 50 in early '79).
This budget disc is a big improvement over its predecessor by including those songs and all the other hits on "26" (with the minor omission of "Never Had a Love" which made it to #87 in 1978). For chart fanatics like me, both leave off "Slip Away", the group's last chart hit at #75 in 1981.
Another reviewer trashed the sound quality of this CD but it sounds fine thru my speakers, which, and I'm crying as I type this, cost me a couple of thousand dollars a few years ago (I'm still paying them off). I just compared the two versions of "Love Will..." and the sound here is MUCH improved.
From '75 till MTV, many "soft rock" bands featured guitar and drums like "regular" rock bands, but you knew they'd rarely get played on album rock stations. My favorite was probably the Little River Band. Pablo Cruise was funkier than most of these groups. The hypnotic bass intro leading into some punchy drumming on "Love Will Find a Way" and the almost-disco stomp of "I Go To Rio" and "I Want You Tonight" are perhaps the best examples. Many no doubt prefer the big hit "Whatcha Gonna Do" or the fine album track "Atlanta June".
Listening to this brought back a weird "American Top 40" memory: as "Cool Love" was falling off the countdown in 1981, Casey Kasem quoted a band member apologizing that the accompanying LP wasn't its best effort and promising to do better next time. I found it odd that a guy would trash his own record while it was still on its first single. It's questionable whether the next record was actually better. Its single, "Will You, Won't You" (included here), features this really bad chorus..."Will you won't you, do you wanna do it or don't you..." Oy.
By 1983, MTV and the "new wave" obliterated the soft rock groups. Or, "video killed the radio star". I lived it! By late '82, I was a freshman in college. Dorm mates accustomed to my AT40 addiction supported me when a "trendy"-type guy wanted to change the station from America's swell comeback hit "You Can Do Magic". (Also, it was MY stereo.) This victory was of course an exception as Pablo, the Firefalls, the Orleanses, and even the mighty Dr. Hook and Little River Band gave way to the Human League, the Eurythmics, and the Thompson Twins. Nothing against those groups--I have most of their records too. I guess soft rock has made a comeback in recent years with Matchbox 20, Maroon 5, and Nickelback (no number), but somehow it doesn't feel the same. Maybe if one of them covered "Love Will Find a Way"?
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