If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears
by The Mamas And The Papas
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If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears is ranked as the best album by The Mamas And The Papas.
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If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 5 days ago | BurndenAce | 1,292 | 76/100 |
| ! | 08/11/2026 16:21 | wizardalien | 883 | 48/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2026 17:17 |  HoldenM | 1,857 | 84/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2026 15:31 | Jakor | 5,525 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/21/2026 21:26 |  Milhaud | 2,143 | 71/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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California Dreamin and Go Where You Wanna Go are the highlights. Typical 60s sounding album, generally nice but not enough of the 12 tracks captured my imagination
HoldenM 06/04/2026 17:18 | #314782
A killer first half that cannot sustain itself, but it's also too short and pretty to be grating. (Edited)
MCOTho 10/11/2024 01:21 | #305609
On a winter day (Edited)
Good, but kept repeating the same basic stuff. Didn’t really very from track to track. (Edited)
Fantástico debut de The Mamas And The Papas, con un cancionero de calidad similar a la de cualquier recopilación, Monday Monday y California Dreaming, entre otras, son clásicos imperecederos.
the unmistakable sound.
California Dreamin' is the absolute star of the album, it's impossible for the rest to catch up.
2nd-Impressions 10/13/2020 03:24 | #259224
73/100
Best tracks: Monday Monday, Got a Feelin, California Dreamin
Worst tracks: Do You Wanna Dance, Somebody Groovy, Hey Girl, You Baby
mdbaxter 12/04/2019 16:45 | #245360
This is a solid album featuring great vocals. The harmonies on the first half of the album are as good as they can get. The voices combine perfectly on every song. After "California Dreamin'" everything goes downhill. There isn't anything worth listening to on the latter half of the album. Most of the songs are basic but at least the songs at the start of the album have some nice harmonies.
VictorVale 01/12/2019 10:58 | #229520
Marcou a geração flowers power!
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