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Still one of my favorite albums
All these mid 60s folk rock albums sound exactly the same.
Life is to short to listen to boring music
It's not bad, but just kind of boring and aged. Some nice music and all, but yeah, not much to it.
they really just let anyone be a singer songwriter back then huh
Not even in Donovan's top 3 albums, but I love him so much, I have to give it 4
Verte good!
pretty cool album with some good tracks, but a bit inconsistent. some overstay their welcome. Most 60s music i’ve ever heard.
A little bipolar - Half fairy folk ren faire music, half 60's brit rock
Esse álbum é um espetáculo!
The sound landscape on this album is soo 60’s. It’s pretty good, and there’s even a sitar popping up in Three King Fishers. Donovan’s voice is quite characteristic and suits the music well. This was a nice experience, though the last songs are a little more forgettable. Favourite songs: Seasons of The Witch, Sunshine Superman.
This had a few songs I really enjoyed but most of it felt like filler
Booooring
What a stupid hippie folk rock shit. Absolute garbage in every aspect!
Sunshine Superman, The Trip, and Season of the Witch stood out. I hated the sitar/Indian music on a lot of the album. Season of the Witch was good enough to pull this album from a 2 to a 3. 3/5
Definitely something different! I found the listen to be interesting, but ultimately felt like this would be the soundtrack for a Disney princess movie. Nothing against those, just not typically what I would choose to jam out to.
3.5/5 It's like the beatles but a little better
A good album anchored by Sunshine Superman and Season of the Witch. I enjoyed but I wouldn’t listen again.
This album encapsulates the best of 60s music to me. It’s folk and psychedelic, experimental, interesting lyrics and unusual sounds and instruments. Songwriting it great and Donovan sounds great. I already liked a lot of his songs but never listened to this album through. It’s really great! Top Songs: Sunshine Superman, Legend of a Girl Child Linda, Three King Fishers, Bert’s Blues, Season of the Witch
Scottish folk with sincere lyrics and vocal bliss.
classic old school hippie stuff. scratchy low-fi recording quality, some easy-listening / world music instrumentation. The sound of a musty vintage store manned by a whimsical guy with some wild stories. 3.5/5
Um...stop with the 60's psychedelia already. Is this a conspiracy? Do you all have a contract to play a certain number of these albums?
Surprisingly interesting. Also got a little old.
Yes, I will take more pyschedelic songs about Fantasy and Arthurian Legend.
Mid
Detta var inget för mig, tråkigt och för psykadeliskt på ett irriterande vis. ...Sunshine Superman och Season of the Witch var helt ok men resten... Nej. Kommer inte att lyssna igen.
If you squint a bit while listening it does actually sound a bit like sunshine ☀️
Another great sounding album. Surprised at how many songs I knew.
I would probably be friends with someone who told me this was their favourite album, because I get the appeal and it would fit me. But, I didn't really enjoy the album. It wasn't bad, but it's just a bit below mid for me.
Not too bad, I think I was in the right frame of mind for it...Legend of a Girl Child Linda was the audio equivalent of reading a Michael Moorcock book...
2 stars for 2 highlights, Sunshine Superman and the marvellous Season of the Witch
I'm usually not a big fan of psychedelic folk albums, But there's something about Donovan's delivery here that really endeared me to this album. I wouldn't call it a masterpiece by any money onions, but it's one of those records that I don't think I would have come to on my own and so I'm glad that it's on this list.
Solo había escuchado unas canciones sueltas.Pero muy buenos temas en general, y muy místico.
Really great psychedelic album. Albeit most songs I wouldn't listen on their own without the context of the rest of the LP, but I think it's a very solid album and Season of the Witch is and always will be a banger.
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Honestly just not into this flower power early psychedelia business. This album is alternately just cheesy or like he’s store brand Bob Dylan.
Good one.
interesting, but only a little. 3 *
Pretty boring with the exception of a couple
I really like Donovan. I really like Donovan when he's doing fuzzy, psych-pop songs, a few of which show up here. But he so embodied the sound of the flower power hippy thing, that a lot of this sounds like Maynard G Krebs bongo pastiche. I listened to a lot more Donovan after I listened to this to remind me how much I like him when I like him.
Whimisical
very much of it's time.
When Donovan wants to tap into that Beatles and Stones sound, he can do no wrong. But when it taps into that Simon and Garfunkel shit, nah, homie don’t play that. Like wow, that mellow Joni Mitchell sounding shit is not good. If I could go back in time, screw killing Hitler, I’d go back and tell Donovan to stop with the boring slow shit . It’s clear, judging by my ears that the best stuff has some movement to them. So, to you dear reader, if the song starts slow and isn’t Mellow Yellow, skip it and don’t look back. You’re welcome. Choice cut: Season of the Witch
Did not know he was Scottish. Unfortunately this does not gain him any extra points. A couple of good tracks - particularly Season of the Witch. Unfortunately I really dislike the title track - with the guitar really giving me a head ache - which makes it a 2 for me.
Very cool and nouveau in 1966. Quaint and dated in 2026.
The hits are the hits, but they’re not even that good. I don’t think they’ve stood the test of time.
The instruments in this album were very good, with solos featuring guitar, clarinet and cello. The lyrics and singing, however, were sub-par. It’s a hard one for me to rate, but it doesn’t seem fair to give this a 4.
I actually liked this album a lot. I didn't know any of the songs previously besides Season of the Witch, but this feels like some of the absolute best of the psychadelic rock scene of the 60's. The way he includes harpsichord, clarinet, and cello into rock music, and the way he moves between different song structures made thew whole thing feel unique, engaging, and dynamic. Favorite Track: Three King Fishers
Classic Psych 60s sound
Enjoying this a lot, sooooo sixties
Supposedly "the UK's answer to Bob Dylan", although Dylan never sounded so much like a product of the hippie movement. I like this album. It's low-stakes, fun, and Donovan's voice isn't an acquired taste like his American counterpart. Despite having a long career, continuing to this day, his success very much dwindled throughout the 70's and didn't really have the staying power you'd expect. (Why "Season of the Witch" hasn't become a Halloween classic, I'll never know). I guess being whimsical instead writing protest songs can only get you so far, and certainly doesn't earn you a Nobel prize. Key tracks: Sunshine Superman Legend of a Girl Child Linda Ferris Wheel Season of the Witch
Starts promising, but then a lot of plodding, long ass songs without great lines or plot. Season of the Witch kinda picks it up, but otherwise the world percussion etc can't save it.
I really have no strong feelings one way or other on this album. I guess it's groovy enough. 3/5
One of the first LP’s I ever bought was one by Donovan on the Music For Pleasure (MFP) label. MFP must have been one of the first labels to offer cut price albums from well known artists and generally comprised of their greatest hits. Donovan was one such artist in the 60’s having a string of hits which made up a big part of the hippy movement and the summer of love in the UK. As my cut price album contains all these great songs I prefer it to this album but nevertheless still one deserving to be on the list. Its presence today did prompt me to play my vintage 60 year old album for old times sake. Surprisingly still good even when considering it must have been cheaply made all those years ago. 4/5 27/2/26
obsessed w this album cover first song was fun but then shi slowed down real quick but loving this. already knew season of the witch ofc but glad i got to listen to the whole album also geeeeet favorite song: the trip
This is peak Age of Acquarius hippy bullshit. It has every accouterment of the era, it has the mystical song with sitar. The only song I was familiar with was Season of the Witch. It's still pretty bad. I think Donovan realized that witch rhymes with stitch and wrote the whole song about it.
The first few tracks I can take or leave, but it really hits its stride in the middle and is just fun AF to the end
This was ok, definitely represents the theme of an era. Outside of the two standouts “Sunshine Superman “ and Season of the witch”, nothing else really grabs me. Rounding up because it should be set apart from the 2’s. 2.5/5
Title track and Season of the Witch are the obvious ones to like. The rest of it while pretty forgettable probably deserves some credit for its early use of instrumentation like the bouzouki and sitar which was pretty new for the times. And while it’s hard to take songs like Guinevere seriously, let alone the overall feel of the album that could easily be inserted into Spinal Tap’s Flower People era, there’s enough influence here to go mid rating.
This album has a couple of certified classics, but man does it slam to a halt after the opening track and doesn’t really step back on the gas until Season of the Witch. By that point, it’s hard for me to feel like this is above an avg rating.
What in the holy hippie psychedelic drugs did I just listen to? Maybe a couple good songs but was not in the mood for this. Very droning and meh. 2.25
Sunshine Superman and Season of the Witch (hey, it's Jimmy Page!) are strong enough to anchor this at a solid 3*, but I found the rest of the album a bit boring... 3.25/5
whining noise
Pleasant enough. The big two songs are really good. The rest are standard 60s Psych-Folk fare.
nice
Meh. More like 2.5
already listened to it. pretty good, the title track is an all time classic
woah psychedelic man
Day 194 Really groovy album for just kicking back and relaxing. Highlights Sunshine Superman Season of the Witch
Very much a 60's psychedelia album. Reminds me of the Beatles as they were moving into the Sitar sound. The melodies are decent. I can see this eventually growing to a 4.
I wish I liked this more, because it's definitely a vibe. But, the good 4-star songs are off set by enough 2 and 3 star songs that it offsets to a high 3.
When songs have a ton of energy (which, coincidentally, are also the two big hits: Sunshine Superman and Season of the Witch), this is almost fun. But that's two songs on a whole ass album that mostly struck me as sleepy. Sometimes the sleepiness was accompanied by sitar, sometimes it wasn't - but it wasn't really anything great or memorable. Just chamomile in album form.
I knew Donovan was known to be a great songwriter, but I was not prepared for how ahead of its time this album was. It was so eclectic and enthralling and I could hear so many songs that would come later in the tracks that were clearly influenced by it.
Trippy man!
The only reason I know Donovan is because he shows up in Futurama in the episode The Deep South. Never heard his music before, and I went into this expecting to hate it. After listening, it was actually quite enjoyable. It's definitely a great 60's album. A ton of drug references, some psychedelica, Indian influence, some aspects almost sound medieval folky. There's a lot going on and it's not really a one note album. So this was Donovan's "i'm not a Bob Dylan clone" album. Donovan was famously in India with the Beatles in 1968 studying Transcendental Meditation....but this album predates that. So i'm interested to know where the Indian influence came from with the use of the sitar before he had been there. The album kinda loses me after Season of the Witch though. Season of the Witch is a great song, but the following songs are just a bit flat for me. The songs are good, just for some reason loses my attention right at The Trip each time.
Two good songs
I love this album. Is it dorky at times? Yes. But so am I.
One good one then sitars everywhere. Just get back from your trip to India there, bud?
'sunshine superman' is great, but holy shit Donovan cool it with the fuckin sitar. I get it, you went to India and had a whole 'spiritual enlightenment' and you're friends with the fuckin Beatles and Bob goddamn Dylan. shut up
With the addition of two blues oriented tracks and a rock oriented one, this psychedelic folk pop album is... quite tame, honestly. The record starts strong with "Sunshine Superman" which is charming, has a bit of attitude and is a bit infectious. I wasn't blown away about it, but it is a decent start. Then it slows down. "Legend of a Girl Child Linda" is a beautiful and calm folk song that reminded me a lot to "Sunday Morning" by The Velvet Underground. Unfortunately, it is almost 7 minutes, and towards the end I was losing my interest, which is something that occurred with the rest of the songs. Next two tracks are "Three King Fishers" and "Ferris Wheel", and they introduce the most psychedelic sound of the whole project, mainly thanks to the use of the Indian instrument tambura and the mystic scenes portrayed through the lyrics, which add a lot to the weirdness. However, I thought these songs are way too calm for my taste and also not that immersive. Then comes "Bert's Blues", which in addition with "The Trip", are the blues influenced cuts of the album. They lift up the energy a bit, but that doesn't mean I was a fan of them. "Season of the Witch" is the song between the previous two ones mentioned. It is more rock inspired, keeping the energy among the other two, and has the singer lifting the volume of this voice. Even though the chorus is a bit catchy, the song feels a bit monotonous. Finally, the three last songs of the album return to the folk and psychedelic sound, with the only song that stand out to me is "Celeste", which may have the most ambitious instrumentation in all of the project, and sounds quite wonderful with all the strings. In conclusion, I though the majority of the songs are a bit tedious, monotonous and lacking in emotion.
This was good i'll have to revisit!
Donovan is an interesting one. Probably the most prolific and successful artist to explore psychedelic sounds. I like him.
very chill and three king fishers is gorgeous!
8/10 Best songs: Sunshine Superman, Bert's Blues, Season of the Witch This album is sort of schizophrenic - some songs have such a mid-60s groovy vibe that is kind of psychedelic, kind of singer-songwriter; other songs are folk songs with medieval themes that don't really seem to belong in the same realm as songs with lyrics about "trans-love airways." I definitely like the psychedelic tracks more than the rest, but it's all pretty good. I'd like to hear more by this musician; I appreciate experimental acts.
Sunshine Superman is great and Season of the Witch is good but the wishy washy medieval stylings of most of this failed to engage my interest. 2.5
Buen disco. No conocía. Empiezo a tener la teoría de que me gusta más el rollito folk antes de que empezase a ponerse psicodélico en vías a que todo reventase en Woodstock, y este disco, siendo del 66, parece todo un pionero en lo psicodélico; Season of the witch como claro ejemplo. Por lo demás hay buenos temas, bastante variados, pero mi tema favorito diría que es el que suena más folk del disco: Legend of a girl child Linda. Qué temazo. Desde la primera línea ya me tuvo completamente hooked. Volveré aunque solo sea por ese tema.
Title song is an all-time great psych-folk tune, but the rest of this is just varying levels of diminishing returns. Better than I remembered though, I always kind of thought of this as being pretty disposable and it's not!
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“Superman or Green Lantern ain’t got a-nothin’ on me I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah” I approached this with tremendous caution. “Season of the Witch” is of course a fantastic song but my only other exposure to Donovan prior to this was “Mellow Yellow” which is… yeah. I circumstantially ended up having to restart the album after about 4 songs and was in a significantly better mood the second time round. I’m grateful for this as I think it massively enhanced my experience. “Sunshine Superman” is incredibly ‘60s. It is chilled out, somewhat psychedelic, and very free. There are points where Donovan’s pretentiousness gets the better of him such as on the overly long “Legend of a Girl Child Linda”. There are also awkwardly shoehorned in sitars that can be heard on many Psych albums from the period (see “Three King Fishers”. But, when “Sunshine Superman” is good it is a near perfect snapshot of the movement Donovan was a part of. “Season of the Witch” is Donovan’s biggest hit for a reason and could rightly be included in a top ten list of ‘60s songs. I ended up enjoying this much more than I expected and have revised my preconceptions of Donovan as a consequence.
3.5
Fav: sunshine Superman 5/5
Ok. Bit slow
My type of music, but I don't think that I was in the right headspace if you know what I'm saying. 3.5/5
Amazing 60s album. Not weird, just good
First of all, Season of the Witch rocks - comes close to redeeming the whole album. Second, that sound ... that goddamn sound in Sunshine Superman is the most annoying sound in the history of popular music. Checking online, it sounds like it might be Jimmy Page doing ... something with his guitar -- Wikipedia refers to it as "employing an innovative use of the volume control on his guitar for the repeating figure". I guess that's one way to describe it - another would be "interminable" or "for the love of God make it stop". Anyway, the rest of the album is inoffensive Hippie stuff, kinda meh. 3 stars for Season of the Witch.
Interesting to find that The Beatles and Donovan collaborated and they seemed to have a good relationship. I don't think Donovan does this sound as well obviously, but seeing his apparent influence on an album of the magnitude of peppers, this is undeniably an album you must hear. All that said, I'm not really feeling very drawn to most of these songs. I can't help but listen because it *is* interesting, but I keep wishing it was just... better. I can't help but feel like it just lacks those moments that truly elevate it. Only a couple tracks really have that. But it is a good album. 3.4/5
I think everyone has heard the song "Sunshine Superman" (even if you didn't realize that's what it was). That song is what I think of when I think of Donovan's sound, and I was expecting the rest of the album to sound similar to that song. Actually, none of the other songs sounded at all like that song. They were all quite slow and I found the whole album to be a bit boring. Wasn't really my thing.
I've never listened to this all the way through but it would be hard to have missed some of these Donovan tracks that get featured in films and tv. When they are edited into those contexts you get a brief texture that is applied usually to indicate it's the mid-60s and it works and is catchy. Listening to them all back to back it makes me feel like he would get a really good 10 second hooky chunk of a song and just kind of wear it out. If he added B parts and bridges more routinely there could really be something there. This also suffers from just era tropes of lyrics vaguely talking about medieval royalty and then of course slapping a sitar in there and doing the eastern mysticism phase.
Kändes lite generiskt 60-tal. Forgettable
im just such an easy sell for this period and flavor of sweet psychy folk music. a little frontloaded (at least, thats where the lushest songs that are most easily appreciable with my tastes are) but donovan pens such watery whirling melodies and attaches them to lyrics so detached from reality theyre almost hippie self-parody but man, i find them so soothing. some rly nice arrangements on here too...nothing super new if u know this kind of music but i appreciate the effort to individualize the songs. just a type of album i could hear a couple dozen of and still probably want a few more...patient, and extremely attentive and present, to a world that doesn't exist.
Very swinging sixities, fun, but insubstantial. Pop-psychadelia. To me it sounds like this guy is writing songs to get laid as opposed to because he really has something he wants to express. As a side note, I was surprised to instantly recognise that Imani Coppola's Legend Of A Cowgirl is over a remixed version of the title track.
Groovy baby, yeah!
Sunshine superman is a fun song but it’s the only standout. The rest fairly dull folk music. Unlikely to play again
surprisinglt good. Expected something much more generic but this was actually nice
While it is a dated album, it also sounds so. The music is occasionally nice, but not my style.
There’s some cool vibey guitar riffs that I enjoyed, but other than that this wasn’t for me really. 2.5/5
It wasnt great, I seem to remember Donovan being better than this. Couple of good tracks but generally a bit meh
When it's good it's good, but when it's bad it's absolute bollocks. Plinky toy piano thing is terrible. Season of the Witch is the best on there - I like that one. Hard to decide if it's more good than shite, or vice versa.
Is pretty, but also boring. 40 minute album and somehow too long.
Has an album ever had such a huge dropoff from the first to the second track? Where the opener gave us glimpses of the Nuggets compilation, the second one sucked all the joy out of the afternoon. Something too many of the songs did. Session of the Witch and The Trip give us false hopes before the medieval ballad suit is put back on for one of the dullest songs in the history of mankind.
Not for me
Interesting album. I liked a few of the tracks and the overall mellow, psychedelic vibes. Lyrically, some of the songs were a bit weird for my taste.
Not what I was expecting after the name sake.
A couple of clear winners, but the man otherwise doesn’t move the needle. Sappy, dreary, love-struck pussy. Even my lady thinks he’s a bit of a loser. Such were the times.
Very pretty 60s baroque sound, a tiny bit too much sitar, but still - very respectable, always liked Donovan's voice
Good artist from the 60’s and 70’s . Good music.
Chilled out psych folk. Ironically though the follower stuff is the worst on here, suffering from that annoying medieval sound British psych loves and ultimately very boring. My favorite bits are the drones and meditative tracks that take a lot from Indian music as well as the CSN/Buffalo Springfield sounding bluesy bits with prominent basslines swirly organs and a spacey feel. I assumed this would be much more saccharine sunshine and flower power fluffy hippy stuff, but for the most part it's not really that at all despite being possibly the most 60s sounding thing imaginable. Favorites: Three King Fishers, Season of the Witch, the trip
Underrated. This is a great album.
This sticks album sticks out to me due to its lush instrumentation and arrangement. An early psych-folk showing, Donovan was one of the first to bring together British folk music, Eastern music, and rock n' roll. The tracks that stand out to me in this album do this and make good use of his odd and sort of otherworldly vocal stylings (sort of elfish, even, no?). Some tracks don't do this as well, and his vocal limitations cause these to fall flat. Respect where it's due, this is a very interesting early meld of music and a progenitor of the psychedelic records that follow it. Favorite Tracks: "Guinevere", "Season of the Witch" Least Favorite Track: "The Legend of Girl Child Linda" Bong Rips and Acid Tab Hits: At least one, but I'll probably fall asleep.
I like this album a lot more than I expected. The variety of instruments used and non-Western influences made for a cool listen. I really enjoyed the composition of Three King Fishers, Legend of a Girl Child Linda was full of interesting bits, and Season of the Witch is a banger. This isn't an era/genre I find all that appealing personally, but there was a lot to enjoy in here. I think my primary hang-up is in the vocalization. The kinda flat and monotone talk-singing detract from much more interesting stuff going on in the background. My favorite track is Three King Fishers in large part due to the fact that the instrumentals are given room to shine in isolation. And that's not to say Donovan can't sing. Indeed, he shows flashes of prowess for me on Bert's Blues and notably Season of the Witch. Overall a very impressive production from a damn 19yr old. You can understand how he went on to be an extremely successful and influencial figure for decades.
This album is a really solid piece of 60s psych rock that holds up incredibly well. Donovan nails the dreamy, experimental vibe throughout, and the title track is beautiful... that sitar-driven sound is just incredibly catchy and innovative. "Season of the Witch" is a classic re-listen for me, a song often on my top songs of the year lists, and shows that he's got serious songwriting chops beyond just the flower-power aesthetic. Some moments are very much of their era in ways that don't always translate for me today. But honestly, the highs are high enough that the weaker moments don't drag it down.
It's cute.
Cool to learn the background on an artist I’d never known before, although I did know the two popular songs on the album. You can hear the influence of the 60’s, abbey road production, and uk folk.
This is the kind of 60s music that I strongly dislike.Folky ren faire type stuff. By the middle of the awful second song I was begging for this album to be a short one.
not my thing
Synes den der The Olden Days lyd mister charmen efter et stykke tid, men når den rammer, så rammer den (særligt på Season of the Witch)
Synes det var fed nok, og der er et par seriøse bangere på
Second half was really good and psychedelic. And he got his woman back! Good job - Suck it Brian Jones!
sounds like the 60s. 2 hits, the rest was pretty bland though.
1. zunzhine - 1 2. linda - 1.5 3. king - 1.5 4. Ferris -1 5. Blues - 0 6. Witch - 1.5 7. Trip - 1 8. Guinevere - 1 9. Angel - 0 10. Celeste - 1
A little too many lutes for my liking. Season of the Witch is an all timer though.
I think I first became aware of Donovan through D.A. Pennebaker's documentary "Don't Look Back", filmed during Bob Dylan's 1965 UK tour. In one scene, Dylan notices a newspaper headline about Donovan, who at the time was being framed as "the new Dylan", a folk singer who had modelled his look and sound closely on Dylan himself. Curious, clearly irritated by the idea of a clone, and likely high on amphetamines, Dylan arranges to meet him. The atmosphere is awkward. Dylan seems less interested in Donovan the person than in mocking the very notion of his "successor". Donovan plays "To Sing For You", and Bob's response, "That's a good song, man!", seems very genuine. But then there's a moment when Donovan asks him to play "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". The line "the vagabond who's rapping at your door / is standing in the clothes that you once wore" makes an awkward situation even more awkward. It's a line which could be referencing the folk purists he'd outgrown, or people following in his wake, wearing the style he'd already shed. Sitting directly across from him, his clone. Regardless, poor Donovan was caught up in a moment, and ends up looking a little embarrassed, while also incredibly starstruck. I don't know if this series of events was the cause of it, but Donovan did shift his image, and his music, away from folk towards psychedelia and a richer, more interesting sound. And some of the first examples of this "new Donovan" in full flight is on this album, Sunshine Superman. Title track and opener "Sunshine Superman" sets the tone. The iconic bassline that starts things off is quickly smothered in a blanket of instrumentation. What struck me the first time I heard this song was the lead guitar punctuating the verse, sounding like it was beaming in from another dimension. The whole song comes together as a cacophony of sound, and somehow the melody stays coherent and present. It's an absolute classic. A jarring sweep of orchestration slaps you in the face before "Legend of a Girl Child Linda" starts up. At first, it sounds as a return to the folky nature of earlier Donovan, but unusual instrumentation and orchestration start to build and swirl around the song, giving it a psychedelic feel. Donovan's vocals sound a lot like a mix of early Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed here. "Three King Fishers" dives headfirst into Eastern influence, with bongos, modal melodies, and extended sitar passages. You have to remind yourself that this was 1966, early days for psychedelia, and it must have sounded so strange and unexpected to fans expecting the folky Donovan. "Ferris Wheel" continues the exploration, using feedback and electric violin textures before circling back eastward. "Bert's Blues" is another standout track. The descending guitar and bass meet some fantastic, bright organ playing. Donovan's voice works so well with this type of music. The orchestration and harpsichord breaks are glorious, which only heightens the guitar and bass when they come back in again, this time with added sax. These songs are so varied in musicality, you really didn't know what to expect next. And just as well, because next up is the highlight of the whole album, "The Season of the Witch". I was lucky enough to see Robert Plant perform with Saving Grace in my hometown, Galway. Before playing a cover of this song, Plant was gushing about how Donovan had been at the gig the night before in Cork (where he now lives apparently). Honestly, it's one of my all-time favorite songs. Dark, bluesy, and weird in all the right ways. "The Trip" continues the bluesy feel to side two of the album, sounding a little, dare I say it, like electric Dylan 😬. A really great song, and catchy as hell. "Guinevere" moves towards medieval folk. And this was before Syd Barrett was doing similar. Donovan may not have been alone in this territory, but he was certainly among the earliest explorers. "The Fat Angel" keeps blues as its core while surrounding it with sitars and psychedelic ornamentation. Side-note: calling someone a "fat angel" may not be the compliment that Donovan thinks it is, and likely not the homage that Mama Cass wanted. But, different times, different times. "Celeste" closes the album in a wash of blended instrumentation, all merging into a single, luminous sound. It's a great finish to a great album. This is a very different Donovan to the one in that hotel suite with Bob Dylan and his cronies. It's a much more diverse and varied Donovan. Not "the new Dylan", instead stepping out of Bob's shadow and becoming something much more interesting. 4.5 stars.
Pretty good for 66
An interesting album, It got me feeling relaxed and amazed how simple and clean it is 3/5
I have ALWAYS Loved Donovan’s Music It’s Excellent
Great record. Some Beatles vibes. Some folk vibes. Fell off a little at the end but was a ton of fun throughout.
Quite boring hippie stuff
Reminds me of Austin powers. Love this time period for music and the evolution. So much cool stuff came out. Not saying this is one of the coolest things but it fits and makes sense. Season of the witch is a great song. Very psychedelic record. Yeah baby, yeah!
Decent, wanna listen to more of him
Is this the hippyslop that's apparently all over this list
Lovely voice and interesting style - a pretty enjoyable listen!
A couple of very good songs and mostly middle of the road others just about gets a 4 from me.
Sympa !
Les sonorités arabes sont assez intéressantes sinon la voix est chiante. C'est du hippie par excellence
Hilarious and kinda cool! Super 60s but some awesome tracke
Did I enjoy this? Yes! Was it boring most of the time? Yes! Gonna say a low 3 but I’m sure that’s because I wasn’t paying super close attention. Really liked the second song.
It can be influential and also not fun to listen to yes
I always kind of picture Donovan's brand of psychedelic folk to be like, fairy music. And sometimes I'm in the mood for that whimsy. However, the actual folk songs on this album are nowhere near as good as the more rock-type songs. And that one blues song
I liked the psychedelic stuff (Sunshine Superman, Season of the Witch, etc.) but the Renaissance/bard stuff was truly awful. (Legend of a Girl Child Linda, Three King Fishers, Guinevere, etc.) I was getting a Mamas and Papas vibe off of some of this stuff. I think Donovan is just a singles guy for me. 2.5/5
his voice really works very well with the genre - that's my main takeaway from this but i do imagine this was really influential for the psychedelic scene and for that i really respect this album. really relaxing too!
Not a fan
I quote liked this album and actually knew a couple of the tracks
Great songs I knew but didn’t know much about the artist.
This was everything I hate about 60s folk/psych. An absolute chore to listen to.
60s psychedelic rock / folk. The melodies are very simple and repetitive in each song and I found it wasn't really interesting enough to keep my attention.
So repetitive over lame psych instrumentals. Really not for me nor essential. 2/5
I think I hate psychedelic rock. This was awful for me. It was somehow simultaneously too weird and too boring.
Season of the Witch is a great song. It aged well, which is more than you can say for a lot of the psychedelic pop from this era. Donovan is obsessed with royaltyqueens especially. Which is fine for me, I like this sideways take on British folk. And of course there is the requisite Bob Dylan-type tune. Interesting document of the era. About The Trip: I think their LSD was mild compared to what came around later (so I'm told :) )
Cool. Yes it is interesting to hear the work behind the hits that endured. Some repetitiveness but hey we're inventing an idiom here. At least a couple of these are hall-of-famers. 3 for most, but 4 for the superlatives.
I do love Donovan’s singles or famous tunes. Season of the Witch is a banger but he’s inconsistent. I think I’d rather listen to a Greatest Hits but when they’re great, they are Great!
The stuff I liked I really liked. The rest is groovy, but maybe just a hair too groovy. It's better than a 3, but I wasn't quite moved to a 4.
I love Donovan, but he's not really an album artist (although he does have better albums than this one). Also, his poetry is often embarrassingly terrible. But man, when it all clicks, as it does on the title track and especially on the epochal Season of the Witch, he hits some of the highest highs of the decade.
I loved this! Sometimes I think Donovan is a caricature of the 60s psychedelic sound. Maybe he is. But I was hearing Season of the Witch via my 2026 ears and it hit.
I get that he had a major influence on his contemporaries and this is definitely a courageous record to put out. But this did not click with me. It sounded like music made for fairy tale theatre productions. These songs went terribly on my nerves and this album felt like it dragged on for hours. Boring too.
A couple of brilliant songs but an overall inconsistent album with a few too many unmemorable psych folk strummers.
i didn't think i'd like it but ended up liking it, good album to listen to when ur high
This was the era when I was most into music and Donovan, while I enjoyed him, he was not on my list of personal favs. This in my mind was his best album and I do have it in my vinyl collection, but it's good, not great.
The definition of groovy
Unexpectedly enjoyed! :) Extra star for this suprise
Great album, as soon as it finished I put it straight back on
Best Song: Berts Blues Incredible psychedelic album. Such interesting lyrics and instrumentation. Never boring despite being over an hour. Donovans performance is great, I can't believe he is Scottish
Best: Season of the Witch Worst: Legend of a Girl Child Linda I really enjoyed parts of this album, Season of the Witch is one of my favourite songs, I have no idea why I hadn’t listened to the rest of the album before. I wouldn’t say this album is timeless, it’s very definitely 60’s hippy music but psychedelic rock is very much to my taste and I do appreciate that this was one of the first examples psychedelic rock albums to be created. Sunshine superman was a great track and the vocals across the album really surprised me (I’m not sure why). The lyrics on many of the songs didn’t really make much sense to me which I suppose fits the theme of the album. The more minstrel sounding fairytale music definitely was not to my taste and dragged the album out a bit for me. Overall, the songs I liked on the album I really liked but I found some of the tracks boring and nonsensical.
This is an album with exactly one generational classic. The title track, Sunshine Superman is a fantastic of colorful proto-psych which has a life of its own for good reason. But the rest of this album is just fine sunshine pop and obnoxious wizard folk. Most of these songs feel kind of under-developed too: like a lot of these tracks are just 3-4 minutes long, but several of them really feel like they're pushing it. Take for example The Fat Angel, a song with a cool vibe that manages to feel like it goes *nowhere*. Legend Of A Girl Child Linda is also a slog, and I think a couple of minutes could have easily been lopped off. Although, I did like Celeste, an easy pick for my second favorite here. I know how influential this is: when you influenced The Beatles, that isn't the kind of thing I can scoff at. But outside of the fantastic title track, I just don't think the material here has aged all too well. Especially because psych took off in a bigger and better way immediately after. But I also think that Donovan's contemporaries were doing it better too. I enjoyed Da Capo by Love more, and it came out this same year. More damning, The Mamas and The Papas got out California Dreamin' before Sunshine Superman, and California Dreamin' is a much more intensely psychedelic track. Not that that means everything, but point is that Donovan wasn't exactly on his own forging into psychedelia. That being said, as I have asserted, there is some stuff to enjoy here, even if I don't think it comes together.
Not bad. 2.5/5
Uh . . . I don't know, man. I don't like it very much, but is it a 2? Or maybe 3? I can't tell anymore. I'm questioning everything.
This album was mostly disappointing. There's some excellent 60s psych buried among the dross, including Season of the Witch and The Fat Angel, but I found it otherwise unremarkable. On a marginally related note, the Butthole Surfers did a fantastic cover of Hurdy Gurdy Man on their Pioughd album. I had never heard of Donovan before buying that album, and every time I listen to a Donovan song now, I wonder what it would sound like if the Buttholes covered it. Much better than the original, I suspect.
Donovan is really more of a singles artist. His greatest hits I can recommend unequivocally and you can find it used and inexpensive on vinyl. I have a pretty high tolerance for his hippy dippy bullshit, but this album really pushed that. I have a double album called A Gift from a Flower to a Garden which is more listenable than this when he goes Raga. Celeste was a nice discovery beyond the singles here and The Trip was pretty good. The lows are too low and obsessed with production. Strings, now clarinet, triangle?, bang, motherfucker, HARPSICHORD!
I know Donovan was kind of important, and I know I like at least one of his songs (First There Is a Mountain), but this is a dull album. Except for Legend of a Girl Child Linda, which is awful -- sounds like the boring type King Crimson songs that I don't like. (I do like King Crimson and prog generally, just not the pseudo-Renaissance ballads.)
3/5 - Season of the Witch is the really great. Sunshine Superman is an iconic 60s pop tune. I liked most of this, so I'll give it a 3.
Nice ! It has aged a bit especially as he was one of the pioneers, people have done better since then.
Pretty innovative album. Honestly, I've got a soft spot for psychadelic rock. Here, the folk influences are obvious and quite enjoyable, as folk is one of my favorite genres. Not crazy about the vocals. Highlight: "Season of the Witch."
Folk rock, with psychedelic hints. "Season of the Witch" is an interesting song, although repetitive, but the rest of the album doesn't really do much for me.
Really eclectic stuff. I didn't care as much for the sitar Norwegian Wood-esque stuff but for the most part I enjoyed it. Favorite track: Season of the Witch
Season of the witch is so so good. The rest of the album has some great tracks as well but this one in particular feels so timeless
Pleasant but didn’t really stand out
Not super crazy, but not super bad
Two really good songs and some boring ass stuff.
A beautiful trip through the birth of flower power by an incredibly talented young person. The lyrics relating to British mythology combined with the Indian & Middle Eastern influence were delightful.
Very much a time machine to the mid 60s psychedelic rock movement.. this was great. Extra points for Zep members involvement.
This is a good example of where psychedelia and its hippie overtones took a turn into that other sub genre, absolute hippy bollox. I can just barely tolerate the singles from Donovan when they turn up, the whole album with filler tracks, dear god, what drivel. Listened, that’s one ticked off, 2 Star
It’s like the Beatles but only the boring parts.
Highlights: Sunshine Superman, Season of the Witch
Short and sweet, very calm for my taste, nevertheless, songs were okay and I'm pretty sure there was influence that stemmed from this.
From the overall stoned dolt-y-ness of the portrait on the front cover, to the liberal usage of sitars and bongos, this album has rich white boy tries acid once written all over it. You know what else it has written all over it? Bitchin' songs. I mean it also has songs like "Fat Angel" for which the appeal lives and dies in the song title. Sure a rotund celestial being who packs dank Afghan Kush in the totes of his vintage motorcycle SOUNDS like a vision, but do you have the patience top listen to the chorus of that song 67 times while waiting for the inhaled divinity? Just say no to drug peddling bible characters. Or write cooler songs about them. Psychedelia can be a major hit, or a large miss. I think Sunshine Superman has enough going for it to fall in the category of a hit. There were; however, enough lousy songs to make me a little angry. The dopiness of Donovan's face is enough to make up for the tripe, and reminds me of the face I might make, zooted out of my still developing mind, while hallucinating an obese agent of the lord delivering more drugs. 3 HIGHLIGHTS: Sunshine Superman, Bert's Blues, Season of the Witch
Donovan definitely has a distinctive sound. It's not my favorite, it doesn't rock my world, but it's gentle and inoffensive ... like vanilla soft serve.
Sannfærði mig ekki í byrjun en varð svo fjölbreyttari
Bjóst ekki við svona góðri plötu. Það var helvíti næs að hlusta á hana yfir yfirferð á stærðfræðiprófum. Þetta var ekki innihaldslaus froða eins og ég hélt að það yrði.
Such a fun vibe and the cadence of each song is just that right amount of funky fun that isn't overdone.
If I was an elderly Englishman, living in the West Midlands in the 1960’s, tending to my sheep, I’d imagine I’d like this album. Since I’m not those things, I don’t.
Donovan is an interesting musician. There are times he writes great music and other times I have no idea what just happened.
The Season of the Witch was fun but as a whole its a pretty slow album.
There's something to be said for this whimsical-fantasy-nature style of music. It's pretty fun, can reach huge heights (Queen II, some Led Zeppelin tracks, and tons of other early-70s bands that I can't remember the names of. We first encounter the style (as interpreted by Donovan) in Legend of a Girl Child Linda, and the fairytale springtime feel continues into various others. The sitar is a big factor here – something clearly nabbed from the Beatles – and it definitely dates the sound. In a bad way. Generally, the acoustic guitar is favoured unless its replacement is especially groundbreaking – but in songs like Three King Fishers, Guinevere, and Ferris Wheel, it just isn't that interesting. The harpsichord, also a recurring instrument, fares better here. Fortunately, Donovan's singing is pretty good – like Greg Lake from King Crimson, especially in the folkier tracks – and the basswork is good too (The Trip being a highlight). And the compositions, while a little on the improvisatory side, are good enough that the songs could kind of pass as catchy. Bert's Blues is almost unfairly catchy, following a standard chord progression while kicking the groove and (arguably) soul up a notch. Sunshine Superman and Season of the Witch are also highlights. It's easy to see why they're the crowd favourites. The former boasts The Who likeness (pre-70s) and has a bright, driven sound. The latter is very Doors-esque, with a slow, lilting i-V chord progression. Pretty good. But some of the later tracks (Guinevere, Celeste) are uninteresting enough to stop the album from reaching "great" status. 3/5 Key tracks: Sunshine Superman, Bert's Blues, Season of the Witch
Feeling a bit Donovan Doffovan with this guy..... anything there?
I think of this guy as basically the ultimate dirty hippie and kinda hate him for that fact but he also seems chill enough lol...?
Season of the witch and sunshine Superman are the obvious standouts. This is what I imagine the 60's sounding like. It's a bit all over the place but some songs are phenomenal.
Ehh pretty alright, pretty forgettable.
Season of the witch and the trio don't make up for the annoying guff on the rest of this album. Poorly playd sitar and bongos coupled with nonsensical lyrics with weird timing. If I didn't know what a hippie was in the 60's and they were playing some of those songs I too perhaps would want to come up with schemes to jail them like Nixon did.
It starts off promising with "Sunshine Superman", but it's all downhill from there. Actively disliked most of the songs apart from that one. "Season of the Witch" is not a good song. Have to imagine the only reason it's somewhat popular is because of it's connection to Halloween.
dobro, lijepo, solidno, no na kraju krajeva ništa posebno. pojedini dijelovi malo usrani ustrajanjem na sintaru
I can’t keep repeating this but really this is a 3.5. i mean some real classics here. i just am not particularly blown away by it but the talent is there for sure. he has a dylan-like voice. like his actual singing voice. man i feel so bad giving this a three because it’s closer to a four but not quiiiiite there for me personally. a lot of it is very beatles esque but the instruments are not as strong. i think if there was stronger instrument use id jump this to a four. damn me for not putting my email and therefore not having the ability to edit past reviews. thrown off this whole system. whatever. favorite song off the album is very predictable, sunshine superman.
Two iconic songs and eight bland ones equal a forgettable record.
It has kind of a medieval sound to it. I like the vocals, but the songs are too hippie for me. Very 60s.
The name of the artist and album, and above all the music, in my mind perfectly embodies the white young American mainstream of the 1960s. 3.5/5
Sometimes bored me but sometimes caught me very intently listening.
Good, but overall, loses steam a bit. The raga psychedelic parts hurt the album, and the backside doesnt bring anything new. It DOES boast a few heavy hitters tho, which we all know.
“Season of The Witch” is a great song. The rest is okay. Cool that Green Lantern gets a mention in the title track.
Ehhhhh. I mean, parts of it are cool. It just feels too slow for me. Maybe it’s meant to be heard while on a substance. Trip might be required (5/10, 2/5 on this scale)
Couple of stellar tracks here, the rest gets tossed into the "old music no one listens to anymore" bucket.
Fantastic blend of folk and psychedelia. Love it!
“Sunshine Superman” is a classic song! Definitely one of the tracks I would pick to define the 60s. I love the swagger of it and the touch of psychedelia. But man, what a letdown of a second track. I kept checking to see how much time was left on the 7-minute “Legend of a Girl Child Linda.” It’s such a repetitive, boring song. I can’t imagine why anyone would pick that as their second track, especially after an absolute banger of an opener. The album slowly picks up after that, but it’s not really until “Season of the Witch” that the album delivers another truly strong song. In the end, about half of this album is enjoyable rock (including two 5-star tracks), and the rest of it is pretty boring. The last song, “Celeste,” is lovely though.
This is a pretty nice sorta psychedelic sorta classic rock-y record. "Sunshine Superman" is the standout, and I bet most people who listen to rock or pop music have heard it but don't know the name "Donovan". The second track is pretty but I can't say enough how much I hate when albums have a second track that is slow and kind of boring, regardless of the genre. I really liked the song "Bert's Blues" a few years ago, it ended up being one of my most listened to songs of the year. Great album cover, I love that the primary graphic is offset a bit and not centered.
Some of these songs were really good. I hated Legend of a Girl Child Linda with a burning passion. Overall, it's dated. But it's also a snapshot in time. They don't make music like this anymore!
It's got a unique vibe, and I kinda like it. Mostly forgettable, but not a bad listen.
приятный с поползновениями в разные жанры, меланхолично кого-то напоминает
I've heard it before. Great album. Very enchanting
This was pretty dull. Good for what it is, but certainly nothing amazing. Plenty more interesting musics happening around the time of this release.
Songs I knew were great. The rest... not super great.
The musics on their own are good, but listening to the whole album as a whole speaks to me much more, honestly surprised that I liked it as much as I did. It does sound a bit dated too, but comparing it to the last album I reviewed, Billion Dollar Babies, which was released later, this one feels much less so. I can't properly describe why that is without sounding like a snob!
Had a couple moments
Nice enough, fairly dull. This was revolutionary, apparently?
“Season of the Witch” is the clear star. The rest is good, if a little campy.
Some good hits. Easy listening
I'd only heard the title track but this Donovan album is worth a listen. I prefer some of the more psychedelic tracks even thought Mickey Most seemed to want to produce a big bass sound on those. Blues Bert and Season Of The Witch are good but longer tracks ramble a bit.
A great folk album. I should’ve visited Donavan during my 60s phase, somehow I missed him!
Was nice, enjoyed it
An album ver of its time. I have always loved the title track
Rating 6. Solid album, but nothing memorable after the title song.
One hit then the most generic 60s music that could have possibly been produced during the 60s. 5/10
I'd never heard of this guy before but I embedded up enjoying this. Nothing special, but overall good.
Good listen. Would round up to 4.
sure wish we could get some beatles
There are some great songs on this, those are the songs that are more well known. But… most of the others made me feel like I was at a Renaissance Faire.
6.5/10
Un poil trop folk, mais quand même fort sympathique.
I knew Season of the Witch and the title track and liked the song Giunevere but overall this wasn't for me. I don't much care for Donovan's voice or the mix of instrumentation
Good record.
Decent representative of the era. There are a couple bangers here, but for the most part better version of the same sounds have been done by his contemporaries
Not really my type of jam. The more upbeat songs I did like, but the slow ones did not scratch any itch. I know of other Donovan songs that I really like, and none of them were in this album. Not bad, but Not at all aligned with my personal preferences.
Burn the Witch was good. For the rest I would call it minstrel music. I can see how it was far out in its heyday, like a hipster version of a more toned down hippie Led Zeppelin. Overall I was just kind of bored with it.
I talk a lot about albums setting moods for activities. Some albums are perfect for cooking, some for working out, sexy time... you get the gist. I can say with confidence that this album is not good for hanging christmas lights on your house. I can see this being good for just about anything else, though.
Superb tunes
Surprisingly good album for me. It took me a couple listens to get into it.
the fact that it's a 1966 record makes it seem particularly cool. mostly contemporary sleepy songs with a couple of bangers. i like Sunshine Superman, but Season of the Witch is just dope
Rating: 8/10 A nice little collection of eclectic folk pop songs, which is my shit. I don’t care as much for the straightforward stuff. Another one of these albums to keep in mind that this guy wrote these songs when he was basically a young kid 60 years ago. I’m just impressed when people make cool art, like I could never conceive of writing any songs this good even now
I almost like it, this dude has like 29 studio albums so Im sure we let him cook and he's bound to release some bangers in his future, but for this one spoken epics to the strums of a citar weren't doing it for me Season of the witch went kinda hard though 5.6/10
Not bad, not bad at all. Crazy that Ogden's Nut came out two years after this. 7 kryptonites out of 10 lizard wizards
Not for me
Bob was right.
3.5
2.5
So much flower power. 3 stars
Not vibing with this. I gave up during Ferris Wheel.
Ok Donovan
Mixed feelings on this one. Season of the Witch is fantastic, but overall I’ve grown out of Donovan and 60s psychedelia. Seeing him live also highlighted the flaws in these songs. It’s not the best of the genre, and I rarely revisit this album. 3 out of 5.
I hear “Season Of the Witch” at least 5 times every October so I’m very familiar with that one. “Sunshine Superman” is also one I’m pretty familiar with. I know I’ve listened to this album before but it’s been a while. It’s a cool psych folk/rock album with some interesting studio experimentation. At times it feels like a sunnier Velvet Underground. I dig it, I’ll go with a 3.5 for this one.
I like the first few songs here, then it trails off the path. Bert's Blues was also cool. I added some of these to my 60's Playlist. I'll give this a 3 overall.
This felt familiar, but I never knew the artist. Enjoyed it.
Not bad at all. I was familiar with "Sunshine Superman" before, but there other tracks are so evocative of the late sixties.
Pretty solid, but not super compelling. Good instrumentals and vocal work. Bonus points for having an earworm with 'Season of the Witch'!
I bought this album on vinyl when I was 16 years old at a flea market on the Ventura College campus with my friend Grant Ensminger, along with Hendrix and Cream live at the Fillmore West and a few others in the same vein. We spent two months every day between swim practices lying on the floor of his living room listening to these records spin and crackle, most of the time high on mushrooms and mescaline, or blasting them in his makeshift art studio out back while he drew psychedelic posters for our friends’ band Milkwood and I did the coloring. Then I started tapering for senior nationals and the spell was broken. We stayed friends, but the liquid light mind-expansion sessions were over and so, honestly, was my relationship with Donovan. Grant makes his living as an artist now, still doing a lot of very psychedelic shit, and I’m doing whatever it is I’m doing. One star for the album as a whole, one star for the nostalgia, and the third for Season of the Witch.
Distinctive and interesting blend of psychedelic rock, peculiarly British folk music and jazz influences. Never boring to listen to but never especially undeniable either. Thoroughly pleasant.
Peak 1966. You've got everything: sitars. Acid trips. Medieval revival.
This one was pretty hit or miss for me. The title track is great, of course, and one of the many songs I've heard a million times on classic rock radio but didn't know the name of the song or artist. I'm a sucker for fantasy lyrics, so I appreciated those as well on songs like Legend of a Girl Child Linda and Guinevere. Season of the Witch is also great, of course, although I prefer Karen Elson's version better. Most of the rest of the songs were pretty forgettable to me. 3/5
Sunshine Superman is definitely a different direction from Donovan’s prior albums. This album is one of the first to fully embrace the psychedelic sound that was beginning to take shape. The music is a blend of folk, rock, and baroque pop. One of the elements I really enjoyed about this album was the percussions. During the production, they brought in an expert percussionist to add more layers and rhythms, giving the album a richer and more textured sound.
Two big hits, plus a couple more trippy grooves, but the rest just falls flat. 2+
Great record, always been a fan
Eh…I can take it or leave it
Fun album to listen to with a couple hits. Very classically psychedelic 60's. 3.5/5
There were some songs I loved ("Ferris Wheel" and "Bert's Blues") and some songs I couldn't stand ("Legend of a Girl Called Linda" and "Guinevere"), but most I felt pretty mid about.
Boy. I’m listening to this right after My Generation and am now thinking that I should have given it a 4 if this is what else is what was happening in 1965-66. Quite enjoy the title track and season of the witch fucking rips, but besides that we have a directionless stroll down hippie dippy lane.
Truly the year I discovered I am much lower on the music of the hippies than previously believed. Presumably Donovan did a lot of yoga in this sitar phase because it requires immense flexibility to crawl this far up one's own asshole. The title track is a heater on an otherwise unremarkable project.
Sunshine Superman and Season of the Witch are the shining towers of this album, but the filler is mostly good too. As opposed to anything the Doors produced, I think this album really represents the peak flower-power music scene, with a rock spine and then folk, sitar, and medieval influences. Also fun fact: this would have beat the contemporary, similar, and much better Revolver and Pet Sounds to the shelves, but alas, business disputes
Its a lovely album, great for breakfast. Its enough movement to get you going , but with enough spacey sitar for you to chill
Sunshine Superman, a cute name for an album, contains a big Indian influence but it was released before it was overdone. But by the end of the album, the Indian influence was tired--and I'm saying this as someone who loves Indian music!--because Donovan couldn't stop making songs with a sitar. Despite that, this is straight sixties pop. An OK album, and at least Donovan gave us "Season of the Witch," which Lana Del Rey perfected decades later.
I really love "Season of the Witch", but was not familiar with any of the other work on this album (the other Donovan songs I know hail from other albums). I was intrigued to dive in and hear more! After listening, this album was okay. It wasn't bad, but I didn't find it to be great, either. It's a pretty good take on psychedelic rock and psychedelic folk, and I wanted to like it more, but I just wasn't super captured by the album.
Enjoyed some songs, rest was ok. Standout songs: Sunshine Superman Berts Blues Season of the Witch
Heck yeah. Early psychedelic rock it's where it's at. I'm only familiar with his 'hits' and I've been missing out. This stuff is pretty fantastic. I need to dig deeper into his catalog. Extra stars for having half the mighty Led Zep playing on the title track.
Man, one hit and a bunch of other boring stuff.
Slow, old, but warm
“Sunshine Superman” and “Season of the Witch” are slap-daddy all-time bangers, so it’s no wonder that those are the two that have stuck around. The rest of it is pretty good 60s pop, idiosyncratic but listenable. Nothing that really knocked me over.
Really only familiar with the title track, but this whole album was super solid. Enjoyed the variety, seems quite random in song selection but you can tell he’s doing his thing with sincerity. 3.5/5
- não conhecia, parece que esse álbum influenciou o sgt pepper e o começo da psicodelia - além de elementos psicodélicos, de art rock e folk, também tem muita influencia de música indiana e barroca
This guy somehow managed to make a song about witches boring.
nice enough
Great
2.5
Yeah pretty chill
A good one
Good
Beyond a couple singles, this ended up being a little too much barding for my liking.