One Night Stand/Brown Eyes/Echo Valley 2-6809/You Don't Have To Tell Me/Rainmaker/I'm On My Way Back Home/Summer Days/I Would Have Loved You Anyway/Twenty-Four Hours A Day/I Woke Up In Love This Morning/Love Is All That I Ever Needed
Sound Magazine provided a further commercial spin off LP from the hit TV series The Partridge Family. Leading star David Cassidy would shortly embark on a highly successful solo career as a teen idol. Includes the US top 20 hit I Woke Up In Love This Morning. (US:9 UK:14)
“This is the best album of pop music ever made in history of music recordings. These songs are pop masterpieces. There will never be an album of original material this good because all of the best melodies have now been used in the rock era. Music can now only be different using production and vocal techniques, not songwriting.”
“This is the Partridge Family's most acclaimed LP. Belying the clunky album cover is a consummately produced, engineered and arranged collection of innocuously derivative and unpatronisingly crooned pop songs for near adolescents. The studio session work is immaculate. Sound Magazine must qualify as the peak of its genre; the tracks all remain hugely satisfying, helped by David Cassidy's theatrically sincere but unusually convincing vocal delivery.”
“Apparently they were writing with more of a slant toward David Cassidy's voice by this time because this album is noticeably better than the debut. I find more than half of this album extremely listenable, and no one is more shocked by that than I am.”
“If there is one non-greatest hits LP that defines a group's sound, then Sound Magazine would be the pinnacle of the Partridge sound. The recording process on this LP is an awesome mix job: the instrumentation is quite strong; the background singers are at their best here with the tightest harmonies ever produced on a Partridge recording. The vocals are crystal clear, the songs are timely and well produced.”
“Well I cannot think of a better collection of songs. This album is a gift from God. David Cassidy does some of the greatest vocals, you'll ever hear. Though one or two tracks are a little slow.”
“Cassidy's mature, expansive voice fully embraces each song, and the backup vocals hit it right out of the park. A self-assured, dramatic, and fully realized album that still sounds great today.”
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