The Millennium Collection. (Carousel Corner).Pablo Cruise Pablo Cruise is a Pop/Soft Rock band composed of David Jenkins (guitar and vocals), Cory Lerios (keyboard and vocals), Steve Price (drums) and George Gabriel (bass and vocals). , The Best of Pablo Cruise, The Millennium Collection (A&M). When I offered the list of "Essential '70s Listening" for No. 78's "Recordings to Live For!," I forgot Pablo Cruise's eponymous debut album. Gratefully, this compilation has not, including "Island Woman" and "Ocean Breeze The Ocean Breeze, (formerly Calypso, Azure Seas, and Dolphin) was an ocean liner, and later a cruise ship. Formerly used for many years as a high speed mail and passenger liner (no freight), the Southern Cross ," two essential cuts from the prolific pens of Cory Lerios and Dave Jenkins, keys and guitar respectively for this remarkable band. My Pablo Cruise collection has languished on 20+ year-old cassette tapes, long since Dolby'd into muddiness and stretched beyond listening. (And the vinylheads still wonder why the less-than-elite embraced CDs. Sigh.) I spotted this one on sale at a record store in San Francisco and lapped it right up. Truth be known, for all of the critical brickbats hurled its way, I loved Pablo Cruise then, I do now, and The Best of ... has made it into heavy rotation here at Chez chez prep. At the home of; at or by. [French, from Old French, from Latin casa, cottage, hut.] chez prep at the home of [French] Ancienne. Why? Thought you'd never ask. When "Whatcha Gonna Do?" hit the airwaves in early 1977, rock was mired mire n. 1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. 2. Deep slimy soil or mud. 3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty. v. in Rumours, Frampton Comes Alive!, Boston, and the onset of punk's first wave. What A Place in the Sun reminded us was that you didn't have to be on the side of one faction or another to enjoy rock'n'roll. So what if Lerios' keys were everyman's and his DX7 voicings stock? And who cared if Jenkins ripped off every axeman The word axeman has a number of uses:
n. Slang A marijuana cigarette. [Origin unknown.] Brothers at least seemed to offer similar ambience. Doesn't matter--never did. With this collection you can enjoy Pablo Cruise unadorned, unaffected (well, almost), and unfettered. History has a way of making boobs of its contemporary critics, and one might suggest that Pablo Cruise has its critics eating something less than pate de foie gras pâté de foie gras n. pl. pâ·tés de foie gras A paste made from goose liver, pork fat, onions, mushrooms, and often truffles. [French : pâté, pâté + de, of + . The ironic postscript is that Cory Lerios, along with Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, and Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman, found his niche scoring television series and movies. But while Elfman's oeuvre includes "Nightmare Before Christmas" and Mothersbaugh's first post-Devo hit was the "Rugrats" theme, Cory had to settle with "Baywatch." I guess it's a matter of taste, but which gig would you rather have had? -KE |
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