Good Taste Is Timeless

{{Short description|Album by The Holy Modal Rounders}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Good Taste Is Timeless | type = album | artist = the Holy Modal Rounders | cover = Holy Modal Rounders - Good Taste Is Timeless.jpg | alt = | released = January 1971 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Psychedelic folk | length = 36:30 | label = Metromedia | producer = Bob Dorough | prev_title = The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = Alleged in Their Own Time | next_year = 1975 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Richie |last=Unterberger |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r96369|pure_url=yes}}|title=Good Taste Is Timeless |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=August 13, 2012}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = B+<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: H|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=H&bk=70|accessdate=February 26, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> }} '''''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 == {{Track listing | headline = Side one | extra_column = Lead vocals | title1 = Once a Year | writer1 = McCarty | extra1 = McCarty | length1 = 2:10 | title2 = Black Bottom | writer2 = Antonia, Stampfel, Weber | extra2 = Stampfel | length2 = 2:45 | title3 = Happy Scrapple Daddy Polka | writer3 = Remaily | extra3 = Remaily | length3 = 2:17 | title4 = Spring of '65 | writer4 = Stampfel | extra4 = Stampfel | length4 = 5:52 | title5 = Livin' Off the Land | writer5 = Antonia, Stampfel | extra5 = Stampfel | length5 = 2:16 | title6 = Love Is the Closest Thing | writer6 = Hurley | extra6 = Remaily | length6 = 2:16 }}

{{track listing | headline = Side two | extra_column = Lead vocals | title1 = Boobs a Lot | writer1 = Weber | extra1 = Weber | length1 = 2:52 | title2 = Melinda | writer2 = Maphis | extra2 = Stampfel | length2 = 2:26 | title3 = Generalonely | writer3 = Weber | extra3 = Weber | length3 = 4:09 | title4 = Alligator Man | writer4 = Floyd Chance, Jimmy C. Newman | extra4 = Annas | length4 = 2:33 | title5 = City Blues | writer5 = Remaily | extra5 = Remaily, Stampfel | length5 = 4:18 | title6 = The Whole World Oughta Go on a Vacation | writer6 = Remaily | extra6 = Remaily | length6 = 2:59 }}

== Personnel == {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} ;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 {{col-2}} ;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 {{col-end}}

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Category:1971 albums Category:The Holy Modal Rounders albums