The Ventures - The Colorful Ventures - VINYL LP

Album Tracks 1. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky 2. Wheels 3. Lonely Heart 4. Bulldog 5. Lullaby of the Leaves 6. Beyond the Reef 7. Raw-Hide 8. Meet Mister Callahan 9. Trambone 10. Last Date 11. Ginchy 12. Josie

Album Tracks 1. Lucille 2. Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes) 3. Hernando's Hideaway 4. Mashed Potato Time 5. Summertime 6. Hot Summer (Asian Mashed) 7. Poison Ivy 8. The Wah-Watusi 9. Instant Mashed 10. Scratch 11. Hully Gully (Baby) 12. Spudnik

Double vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition with new notes from David Byrne. InchWow when did this first come out? 1989? Over 30 years ago! I listened to some of the songs yesterday and, well, they hold up, they're truly timeless songs. In my notes at the time, I wrote about the way this music joined musical sophistication with memorable pop melodies and often social and political commentary. Like Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On', this music mixed sensuality with pointed social engagement. I learned that though we often feel like screaming we can also couch our awareness and frustrations in beauty and rhythm-which often makes a more seductive and effective argument than a scream-though a scream can be pretty damn cathartic for sure. But as beautiful as the songs sound their message was pointed enough that some of these artists were jailed and forced into exile. Beauty can be pointed.Inch -David Byrne, 2021.