Not the Freeze

The Penny Arkade | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 21, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B0002PUHHO
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #340,334 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lights of Dawn

2. Country Girl

3. Color Fantasy

4. Thesis

5. Swim

6. Voodoo Spell

7. Not the Freeze

8. Love Rain

9. Century of Distance

10. Sparkle & Shine

11. Face in the Crowd

12. Woodstock Fireplace

13. Year of the Monkey

14. Give Our Love (to All the People)

15. Split Decision

16. Sick And Tired

17. No Rhyme or Reason

18. You Couldn’t Conquer Me

19. Swim (early version)

20. Lights of Dawn (early version)

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

With a throb of excitement matched only by finding King Tut’s OTHER tomb, Sundazed has recently unearthed a long-forgotten treasure from the seminal mid-’60s Los Angeles rock scene: the previously unreleased album by the Penny Arkade! Spotlighting singer/songwriters Chris Ducey and Craig Smith along with bassist Don Glut and drummer Bobby Donaho, the Penny Arkade--with its jangley melange of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and Moby Grape—was a potential pop-rock goldmine in the making. But its only album was inexplicably shelved... Produced by Michael Nesmith, the original, unreleased Penny Arkade album is now expanded to contain extra material from the sessions, revealing demo recordings, and much more. With the addition of longburied photos and a detailed band history penned by Ugly Things-editor Mike Stax, this is an astounding tape-vault discovery of the first rank!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Music that should have been heard a long time ago., March 4, 2005

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Dan Reynolds - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Not the Freeze (Audio CD)

This is a treat for anyone who digs the late '60s psychedelic folk-rock sound. Penny Arkade captured the essence of that sound and this disc is the first chance for many people to hear them. While some of the tracks aren't quite as good as others, they're all surprisingly listenable and a couple really stand out. "Lights of Dawn", for example, should have been on the radio. "Country Girl" is another one I particularly like, and it's here that you can really feel the folk-country crossover influence of Mike Nesmith.

Anyone with a fondness for Byrds/Donovan/etc. (and the later Nesmith-influenced Monkees songs) should give this disc a try. It's a shame the world never knew of the potential this group had.

4.0 out of 5 stars Jackpot!, March 16, 2009

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Brian J. Mcmahon "Flex" (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Not the Freeze (Audio CD)

I liked it a lot. Not really really hearing the Nesmith influence, sounds more like Boyce/Hart on acid (Out and About?). Good harmony sound, pretty good quality production, (not overproduced though), guitar, bass and drums meld well in this LA sunshine rock. This is a fine album, they did not have a hit single in them however, probably why nobody has heard of them.