Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Turn on a Friend

Title: Turn on a Friend Artist: Peanut Butter Conspiracy Release Date: 11/23/1999 Label: Edsel Duration: 53:50 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 740155162023 Genre: Rock Style: Psychedelic Moods: Cheerful, Happy, Light, Lively, Autumnal, Bittersweet, Bright, Carefree, Delicate, Dreamy, Ethereal, Intimate, Plaintive, Poignant, Smooth, Whimsical, Yearning, Amiable/Good-Natured, Calm/Peaceful, Gentle, Innocent, Laid-Back/Mellow, Melancholy, Reflective, Sentimental, Soothing, Summery, Wistful Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. It's a Happening Thing
2. Then Came Love
3. Twice as Life
4. Why Did I Get So High
5. Dark on You Now
6. The Market Place
7. You Should Know
8. The Most Up Till Now
9. Turn on a Friend (To the Good Life)
10. Too Many Do
11. Living, Loving Life
12. Invasion of the Poppy People
13. Living Dream
14. Ecstasy
15. Time Is After You
16. Wonderment

Year Type Label Catalog # 1999 CD Edsel 620

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This 16-track compilation includes much but not all of the material from the band's first two albums, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading and The Great Conspiracy. Sometimes scoffed at as gimmicky psychedelic bandwagon riders (due in large part to the group's outrageous name), the Peanut Butter Conspiracy was indeed a real band that wrote its own material. The group was derivative, though, with harmonies that often sounded like a cross between the Mamas & the Papas and the Jefferson Airplane (helped by the presence of female singer Sandi Robison). The group's melodies had the sweet-sour blend typical of San Francisco hippie bands, yet the production had a smoothness more typical of Los Angeles artists (of which the Peanut Butter Conspiracy was one). And the guitars had a ring not unlike the Byrds, perhaps because producer Gary Usher was also working with the Byrds at the same time. For all that, the songs, espousing a gentle hippie ethos, were not nearly as distinctive as any of the groups to which the Peanut Butter Conspiracy bore some surface similarities. So this is middling late-'60s pop-psych-folk-rock, though not without some attractive facets. Incidentally, both of the band's first albums have been packaged in their entirety, along with three bonus cuts, on Collectables' single-CD compilation The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading/The Great Conspiracy. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bill Wolff Guitar Brian Hogg Liner Notes Gary Usher Producer Jim Voight Drums John Merrill Vocals, Guitar (Rhythm) Lance Fent Guitar