Insight Out

Although this album boasted two massive chart hits in Windy and Never, My Love, the rest of the record was no mere filler; the Association were always more of an album-oriented band than their chart success would lead one to believe, and the other songs here rank among their best work. Producer Bones Howe (Mamas and Papas) some of the credit here, but the band’s ear for material was phenomenal. Includes great covers of P.F. Sloan’s On a Quiet Night and Tim Hardin’s Reputation, plus Wasn’t It a Bit Like Now; We Love Us; When Love Comes to Me; Happiness Is; Sometime, and Wantin’ Ain’t Getting’, before winding up with the ambitious, anti-war Requeim for the Masses. The complete 1967 release.