Beautiful 1982 US Vinyl Reissue From Rhino Records. Still In Shrink With The Custom Rhino Records Catalog Advertisement Poly Inner Sleeve. "The Turtles' First Album Was Recorded In A Frantic Hurry, In Response To The Hit Status Achieved By Their Debut Single, "It Ain't Me Babe." At The Time, The Members Were Barely Out Of High School, A Situation That Might Have Caused A Lot Of Other Young Musicians To Fold Up Under The Strain Of The Moment -- There Was No Time To Write (And Barely Time To Find) The Songs The Members Might Have Seemed Worthy Of So Momentous An Event (Which It Would Have Been) As A Debut Long-player. But The Members Were Smart And They Were Also Lucky -- They Reached Out To More Of Bob Dylan's Songbag, And Also Back To Their Own High-school Past In Folk Music As The Crosswind Singers. Thus, Their Debut Album Led With A Chiming Electric Rendition Of Howard Kaylan's 1963-vintage "Wanderin' Kind." That Genial Opening Number Led Into Their Overwrought, Almost Folk-punk Reinterpretation Of "It Was A Very Good Year," Which Showed Audiences To Expect The Unexpected From This Sextet -- And In Case Anyone Missed That Point, The Almost Garage-punk Style Of "Your Maw Said You Cried" (Which Trod Onto Paul Revere & The Raiders Territory) Brought It Home In High Amplification (For The Time And The Genre). The Rest Of The Record Veered Across The Folk-rock Spectrum In Smoothly Polished Form, As The Bandmembers Successfully Shaped An Artistic Statement Out Of The Flotsam And Jetsam Of Their Past, Anchored By Some Prime Dylan Material And A Surprisingly Un-ironic Rendition Of P.f. Sloan's "Eve Of Destruction" (Which Belatedly Became A Hit Single Five Years Later, As A Posthumous Release By The Record Label). Heard With The Benefit Of Hindsight, This Album May Now Seem A Very Tame And Predictable Body Of Music From This Band, But It Has A Geniality And Polish That Make It An Enduring Classic Of Its Genre And Period, If Not Exactly Representative Of The Turtles' Range Or Their Very Best Work." AMG - Bruce Eder.