The Mamas & the Papas
Every album we have reviewed, graded S to F.
- Albums graded
- 5
- Highest grade
- Average grade
- Span
- 1966 to 1971
Every album
5 albums, 1966 to 1971, each placed by its grade, then sorted onto the board.
The records
Newest first, each with the line its review opens on.
1971People Like UsA contractual reunion three years too late, recorded largely apart, and it sounds exactly like that.
1968The Papas & the MamasDarker, stranger and more ambitious than the hits suggest, and audibly the work of a broken group.
1967DeliverPleasant, professional and running low on ideas, with one great single doing most of the lifting.
1966If You Can Believe Your Eyes and EarsFour voices, one enormous arrangement and two songs that defined a whole coast for a generation.
1966The Mamas & the PapasThe same formula nine months later, more polished, and short of one truly great song.