Insight Out

Though 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 & 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.