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Album Review

America fully recovered from Hat Trick's dismal results with 1974's Holiday, with producer George Martin's influence rubbing off on both of the album's Top Five singles. With "Tin Man"'s wonderfully polished soft pop ease and the wispiness of "Lonely People," the band was able to recapture the same formula that put early hits like "A Horse with No Name," "I Need You," and "Ventura Highway" in the Top Ten. The difference with "Holiday" is that their light and breezy melodies and attractive folk-rock sound filtered through more than just the two hit tracks on the album. "Another Try," "Old Man Took," "In the Country," and even the cliché-sounding "Baby It's Up to You" contain a sturdy enough mixture of guitar and harmony to rise them above inessential filler, at least as far as America's material is concerned. Cuts like "Mad Dog" and "Hollywood" suffer somewhat from trite lyrics and a seemingly hurried compositional formula, but this album as a whole ascertained that the group was definitely showing their true potential once more. The album that followed Holiday, 1975's Hearts, showed even stronger improvement, taking the overly catchy "Sister Golden Hair" to number one and scoring a Top 20 hit with the Sunday morning frailty of "Daisy Jane."

Customer Reviews

4th.....

After a hiatus, America came back under the helm of Sir George Martin to conceive a brilliantly rich "concept" album. "Miniature" (in particular) shows the depth of the group's ability to stretch successfully and reach into other genres. Of course you have the hits "Tin Man" and "Lonely People", but take a listen to the beautiful "Old Man Took". You won't be disappointed.

A Holiday Masterpiece

Another great LP comes to I-Tunes from the past. I'm sure many people born in the 60's know the hits from this album (Tin Man, Lonely People). But if you just settle for the hits, you'd be selling yourself short. I know that it is said way too often and applied too loosely but every song on this album is worth listening to. My personal favorites are "Another Try", "Baby It's Up to You", "What Does it Matter", "Glad to See You", and "Mad Dog". "In the Country" is a nice little rocker - something you wouldn't expect from the mellow sounds of America. George Martin's production of this LP is imaginitive and progressive. An excellent album I could never grow tired of.

Brilliant

One of my favorite records...Best of America's Career Best songs 1. What Does It Matter 2. Old Man Took 3. Tin Man as well as Miniature 4. Lonely People 5. Another Try 6. You 7. Baby It's Up To You 8. Glad To See You 9. Mad Dog 10. In The Country 11. Hollywood... but all of these songs are classics in my opinion.

Biography

Formed: 1967 in London, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

A light folk-rock act of the early '70s, America had several Top Ten hits, including the number ones "A Horse with No Name" and "Sister Golden Hair." Vocalists/guitarists Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, and Gerry Beckley met while they were still in high school in the late '60s; all three were sons of U.S. Air Force officers who were stationed in the U.K. After they completed school in 1970, they formed an acoustic folk-rock quartet called Daze in London, which was soon pared down to the trio of Bunnell,...
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