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Good Taste Is Timeless

Album by The Holy Modal Rounders

Good Taste Is Timeless

Studio album by

The Holy Modal Rounders

Released

January 1971

Genre

Psychedelic folk

Length

36:30

Label

Metromedia

Producer

Bob Dorough

The Holy Modal Rounders chronology

The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders
(1968)

Good Taste Is Timeless
(1971)

Alleged in Their Own Time
(1975)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+^[2]

Good Taste Is Timeless is the fifth studio album by the psychedelic folk band the Holy Modal Rounders, released in 1971 through Metromedia Records.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Once a Year"	McCarty	McCarty	2:10
2.	"Black Bottom"	Antonia, Stampfel, Weber	Stampfel	2:45
3.	"Happy Scrapple Daddy Polka"	Remaily	Remaily	2:17
4.	"Spring of '65"	Stampfel	Stampfel	5:52
5.	"Livin' Off the Land"	Antonia, Stampfel	Stampfel	2:16
6.	"Love Is the Closest Thing"	Hurley	Remaily	2:16

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Boobs a Lot"	Weber	Weber	2:52
2.	"Melinda"	Maphis	Stampfel	2:26
3.	"Generalonely"	Weber	Weber	4:09
4.	"Alligator Man"	Floyd Chance, Jimmy C. Newman	Annas	2:33
5.	"City Blues"	Remaily	Remaily, Stampfel	4:18
6.	"The Whole World Oughta Go on a Vacation"	Remaily	Remaily	2:59

Personnel

The Holy Modal Rounders

John Wesley Annas – bass guitar, kazoo, jug, vocals
Michael McCarty – drums, percussion, tambourine, cowbell, vocals
Robin Remaily – mandolin, violin, guitar, clarinet, jew's harp, vocals
Peter Stampfel – violin, banjo, vocals, photography
Steve Weber – guitar, vocals

Additional musicians and production

Bob Dorough – production
Pete Drake – steel guitar on "Once a Year" and "Love Is the Closest Thing"
D. J. Fontana – tambourine on "Black Bottom", percussion on "Alligator Man"
Al Gore – engineering
Michael Hurley – illustration
Bob Irwin – mastering
Scotty Moore – engineering
Tracy Nelson – additional vocals on "Love Is the Closest Thing"
Jayme Pieruzzi – mastering
Ed Rice – mixing
Eric Schou – design
The Sundazed Archive – photography
Richard Tyler – piano, organ

References

^ Unterberger, Richie. "Good Taste Is Timeless". AllMusic. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: H". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 26, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.