Consumer Guide Album

The Rascals: The Island of Real [Columbia, 1972]
You can hear Felix trying to get back as side one begins--he sings "Feel good to be alive" as if the phrase had just occurred to him. On "Saga of New York" he goes into high gear--catchy, funny, sexy, simple-minded--and he holds his own against "Be on the Real Side." But as Buzzy Feiten starts tricking up his own "Jungle Walk," you wonder whether jungles are coy. And then you realize that there's a pink horse on the cover for a reason. B−