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The Best of Pablo Cruise: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection

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This is a good mix of their big hits and album cuts. All 7 of their albums are represented (including the non-charting 1983 album "Out Of Our Hands"). The liner notes are 2001 up-to-date and the sound is excellent. At a tad over an hour and budget priced this is an excellent sample of Pablo Cruise's sunny Pop music.

I have been a real long time fan of this band.I can remember these guys when I was a medic at letterman Hospital in the early seventies.These guys were real people. not rock stars. I went to so many shows all over to here this band now I can hear Ocean Breeze.Bud had a great voice. David really could cut loose.Steve price kiked but on the rythym stuff. Corey well what can I say other than Great Keys. These guys had a magic that is hard to describe.Time has done its thing thats why we have not heard anything in years from such a great group. This CD is about the best of the best.Until some old live stuff comes out to capture what this highly underated band could or can do we have to settle for this.This CD is done well and is worth every penny.
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Bet you didn't know that there really is no Pablo in Pablo Cruise... What there is though, is some really dynamite music. The Millenium Collection of Pablo Cruise gives us "the best of" their music.

This album shows that Pablo Cruise's music holds up to the test of time. With slick guitar, synthesiser, and drums, the music has a transcendent feel to it: definitely West Coast. The vocals are perfect if not always comfortablely within range. This isn't some manufactured Boy Band of the 1990's. This is a group talented enough to not only play and sing their own music, but write it as well. You won't find a BackSync Boy or a Christina Spears doing that.

If you've got a convertible, slip this CD in the deck and take a nice evening drive - if you have no convertible, then stick on your headphones and listen while you're by the pool - or just listen while you drive. The beat is infectious and the album will have you smiling.

Whether it's "It's Alright" or "I Go to Rio" you'll feel like your living the summer of all times while you listen to these great Bay City musicians.

I don't care if you're too young to remember Pablo Cruise in their heyday or just recapturing some of your youth - this album is a definite winner!

If You Do Not Want To Buy All Of Their Albums, This Is the Shortest Path Of Resistance. This CD Contains All Of Their Best And It Is Indeed A Good Collection. The Masters Collection Has Turned Out Some Very High Quality CDs. I Have Several Other Artists In This Collection. None Of Them Are Disappointments! Go Ahead Try The Sample Bars Above. Good Music. AAA+++

Considering this is the only Pablo Cruise compilation available anywhere, one should not complain. Also considering that all 7 albums are represented and the FM favs, which weren't really hits, are also included makes this a really nice CD. And I do listen to it often. The only problem I have is that it doesn't include "Never Had A Love" from "A Place In The Sun." NHAL was a single and a hit and a very good song. Any true Pablo fan will notice the omission. Other than that, excellent collection, worth the money and really good 70's tunes.

One day not long ago I gasped in horror to realize I didn't have "Love Will Find a Way" on CD. The song that haunted my first actual break-up in 1978. I found and bought the antiquated "Classics Vol. 26" without checking the track listing. (For some strange reason the A&M label numbered their first flurry of "best-of" CDs. Vol. 1 was by Herb Alpert, who was only the president of the company.) "Vol. 26" had that song but left off the excellent hit "I Want You Tonight" (top 20 in late '79) and the pretty good hit "I Go To Rio" (top 50 in early '79).

This budget disc is a big improvement over its predecessor by including those songs and all the other hits on "26" (with the minor omission of "Never Had a Love" which made it to #87 in 1978). For chart fanatics like me, both leave off "Slip Away", the group's last chart hit at #75 in 1981.

Another reviewer trashed the sound quality of this CD but it sounds fine thru my speakers, which, and I'm crying as I type this, cost me a couple of thousand dollars a few years ago (I'm still paying them off). I just compared the two versions of "Love Will..." and the sound here is MUCH improved.

From '75 till MTV, many "soft rock" bands featured guitar and drums like "regular" rock bands, but you knew they'd rarely get played on album rock stations. My favorite was probably the Little River Band. Pablo Cruise was funkier than most of these groups. The hypnotic bass intro leading into some punchy drumming on "Love Will Find a Way" and the almost-disco stomp of "I Go To Rio" and "I Want You Tonight" are perhaps the best examples. Many no doubt prefer the big hit "Whatcha Gonna Do" or the fine album track "Atlanta June".

Listening to this brought back a weird "American Top 40" memory: as "Cool Love" was falling off the countdown in 1981, Casey Kasem quoted a band member apologizing that the accompanying LP wasn't its best effort and promising to do better next time. I found it odd that a guy would trash his own record while it was still on its first single. It's questionable whether the next record was actually better. Its single, "Will You, Won't You" (included here), features this really bad chorus..."Will you won't you, do you wanna do it or don't you..." Oy.

By 1983, MTV and the "new wave" obliterated the soft rock groups. Or, "video killed the radio star". I lived it! By late '82, I was a freshman in college. Dorm mates accustomed to my AT40 addiction supported me when a "trendy"-type guy wanted to change the station from America's swell comeback hit "You Can Do Magic". (Also, it was MY stereo.) This victory was of course an exception as Pablo, the Firefalls, the Orleanses, and even the mighty Dr. Hook and Little River Band gave way to the Human League, the Eurythmics, and the Thompson Twins. Nothing against those groups--I have most of their records too. I guess soft rock has made a comeback in recent years with Matchbox 20, Maroon 5, and Nickelback (no number), but somehow it doesn't feel the same. Maybe if one of them covered "Love Will Find a Way"?

I like grooving to some Pablo Crusie around this time of the year.very laid back breezy cuts that still feel good. like a cut like "i go to rio" and of course "Love will find a way". always dug there harmonys and there Musical Instrumentation and they had a cool way of arranging there harmonys and the Background vocals are on point. this is a good deal for there hits and other tracks. good stuff in here.

20TH CENTURY MASTERS- THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION: THE BEST OF PABLO CRUISE is the ultimate album by this wonderful West Coast rock band. Formed out of the ashes of It's A Beautiful Day and Stoneground, this band continued to act on the liberal socio-political philosophies of their predecessors, yet their songs are mostly about love and a laid-back lifestyle. As a young kid in the 70s, I heard many of these songs on WABC-AM and have enjoyed them on oldies, classic rock, and classic hits radio stations. In fact, even the more adventurous classic rock radio stations on the East and West coasts still play at least one song by this band. The members' opposition to Indonesia's trumped-up 2005 drug-smuggling conviction of a young Australian tourist makes this anthology an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.

A birthday gift for my husband. He wanted Pablo Cruise's Greatest Hits but I couldn't find that CD (if there is one by that title). This one is good. He liked it. That's what counts. It arrived in a prompt manner and arrived in time for his birthday.

The title is somewhat misleading for this package. The best of Pablo Cruise would easily fit on a double disc set. This covers all their chart hits except for "Never Had A Love" and "Slip Away", and it is the best price for finding the tracks "I Want You Tonight" as Part of The Game is very hard to find and "Zero To Sixty In Five" from Lifeline which also draws top dollar. If they would have rounded this set out with the other two chart hits and thrown in another track from Lifeline such as, "Good Ship Pablo Cruise" they could have raised the price on this. Still this is a great bargin and good way to round out Pablo Cruise's hits if you don't already have them.