Consumer Guide Album

The Temptations: Greatest Hits, Volume 2 [Gordy, 1970]
They have declined, it's true. Though my animus against "Ball of Confusion" disappeared the moment I heard four teenaged girls sing it in a doorway on Avenue B, "Psychedelic Shack" and "Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down" are worthy of the Monkees and a couple of the love songs (on the same side, I'm happy to report) are drab. But "Cloud Nine" and "Run Away Child, Running Wild" not only work as pop protest but bear witness to how funky these smoothies have become. And so do such pinnacles of harmony as "I Wish It Would Rain" and "I Can't Get Next to You." A-