Portrait / Love's Lines Angles & Rhymes

I love the music in this collection. I primarily bought if for One Less Bell to Answer, This is Your Life, Love Lines Angles & Rhymes, and Sky & Sea. I was slightly disappointed when Never My Love, Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In was not included in this package. However, Living Together, Growing Together, A Love Like Ours, All Kinds of People, and Save the Country took some of the sting away from not having those aforementioned hits. It is a wonderful compilation and so many of the songs brought back memories of my distant youth. The Fifth Dimension's musicianship was absolutely superb, the harmonies, the chord changes they still sound unique and wonderful over forty years later. This was a good investment for me. This music is from an era where lyrics, harmony, instrumentation, and excellent voices meant something. I am sad to say that I don't hear much of this kind of excellence in today's music. I am very pleased with these two CDs. The Fifth Dimension was one our great musical treasures back in the day. They deserve a lot more credit than they received.

Here's a little trivia: What does the Carpenters and the Fifth Dimension have in common aurally? They used the same bass player and drummer in their recordings (Joe Osborne and Hal Blaine). So if you love the Carpenters sound, you will love the Fifth Dimension sound (circa 1970s). You will especially love the 5D's Portrait and Individually/Collectively recordings. I bought this particular CD for Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes but Portrait sounds so much better (less reverb for one thing and better remastering for another).These recordings are very precious to me, so I'm in the process of buying every 5D CD that is available at Amazon. Warning: I suggest you do the same, because Collector's Classics are known to stop issuing CDs (abruptly) after 6 months or so. Scarf them up now, even if you don't like some of them.My Two Cents.

If you are a fan of the 5th dimension, this cd is a no brainer. But it is also a time capsule of that happy 5th Dimension sound. I love this CD; I discover new things in it every listen. Plus it's 2 albums on one CD. Portrait has The Declaration followed by Dimension 5ive---awesome jazz vocal song. And One Less Bell To Answer.Wow, that's all on the first CD. You get another too!

Great collection of 4 of their Bell albums excellent sound quality

This is a collection I was waiting for. There are no bonus songs as with the original re-release of Portrait but it was worth waiting for.

The 5th Dimension's LP "Up, Up and Away" was the very FIRST record I ever bought, way back in the 1960's. I'm very familiar with the media of eight-tracks, cassettes, 45 RPM singles, 33 1/3 LPs and now CD/DVDs.I have been looking for 5th Dimension material for a long, long time.And now I have purchased all five 2 album CDs from Amazon. A VERY WORTHWHILE AND ENJOYABLE SEARCH IS NOW FULFILLED.

My favorite group

One of my favorite groups and this album has all their hits. A great buy.

Excellent compilation of four albums.