search and destroy: The Young Rascals

In fact it was years before I heard "Good Lovin'", I only knew the Residents' version on "Third Reich 'n' Roll"!

Which, infuriatingly, keeps going through my head!

I love the Rascals & given their saturation on oldies stations in the USA (at least back in the day, now they play as much soft rock from the 80s as 60s pop) I'm surprised how little critical discussion there is of them (yeah I know, lol @ me for wanting such discussion but w/e). These songs were huge to me growing up, as huge as the Supremes' hits, or CCR, & yet the Rascals are hardly ever talked about anymore (whereas the Supremes & CCR obv still get attention). What's the score?

"People Got to Free" I heard with fresh ears the other day. Great stuff.

Their biggest problem is overexposure over the years on oldies radio and being used for scenes in all sorts of boomer-geared comedies and commercials in the 80s and 90s.

"Beautiful Morning" is an all-time classic too -- but there's the boomer thing again: it soundtracks a memorable scene in "Kingpin," also.

just sent a song to a friend, his response.

"I am never around my computer anymore, but I do love Kingpin."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrpLpbqBYsw

I've really enjoyed the later jazzier lps but do like their soully garage or garagey blue-eyed soul earlier stuff too.

Pretty exciting band...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mlj8nuJbNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDLxmOxWjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5r7pGZRGQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWqTfIHTLfM
RIP, Dino.

One of the few things I hold against Tom Dowd is that he dissed The Rascals.

Dino's fun to watch in this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNJbVFW5Pw

Just got ambushed by "Good Lovin'" on satellite radio oldies--I've heard it a million times, but really struck now by how hard it goes for an across-the-board smash in early '66.

oh yeah, if this song had come out 20 years later, you'd see videos of people destroying furniture to it.

hell this was them going hard at the Tonys in 2013!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7qSos2-D5M