Reviews (page 8 of 8)
It's very gentle, 60's hippy-folk. It all feels quite painfully sincere and nice. It's not necessarily bad, it's just quite boring in my opinion.
So... Much ... Sitar
There were some surprise songs that I actually liked, and some that I had to skip. You can hear that it is an old album. The music is simple with a lot (or even too much) repetition of instruments and phrases. Opening song was the nicest. Not something I will listen to after this however.
Couple of bangers but most of it was a bit dull.
Psychedelic '60s folk pop. Not something I'd listen to again
Largely fine, couple of big hits....some predictable cheesy hippy tropes. Meh.
Vähän tylsähköä, mutta ihan letkeätä. Menis kesällä taustamusiikkina ehkä
Meh. I enjoyed Season of the Witch and Mellow Yellow, however, didn't take care for this album. 2/5
Encore un nouvel album de psychédéliqueries publié par un parfait inconnu dans les années 60. Ne sont pas les Beau Brummels qui veulent.
Mira que me gusta el folk y la psicodelia de esos años pero el disco no termina de romper excepto por "Season of the witch". Entiendo que hay que escucharlo alguna vez en la vida pero no creo que sea algo imprescindible.
Decent only a couple of standout tracks
This really bores me. Standard 60 psych pop with a healthy splattering of sitars and Indian aesthetics. Not for me
A bit too hippie for me
Boring, weird, problematic at points. Not quite bad enough for 1 ⭐, but just barely scrapes a second one.
A few really good psych-rock songs but they were overshadowed by too many bland songs and medieval-style ballads
Hippy. I dig. Peace man.
если честно, скучновато тут вроде очень неплохая лирика, но музыкально жутко затянуто есть отдельные интересные моменты, но нудность убивает всё
Довольно неплохая лирика, но иногда звучит все слишком нудно + гудеж постоянный у гитарки надоедает
Only a couple of songs that were popular.
I'm familiar with a few of these tracks. I really love "Season Of The Witch" -- that one clicks in well with me. The rest mostly sound too much like the time to me. I do get the importance of this album and some of his other work, but overall it doesn't do much for me.
It would be excellent if listening in the 60s during autumn while on LSD.
Second time with this album, and there's just not much interesting here still. The titular single is a Trojan horse for the rest of the album, as it sounds nothing like anything else on here at all. Favorite track: The Trip
I'm glad I didn't listen to this driving home; I might have fallen asleep and killed somebody.
Hippy nonsense
Wrote a longer review on the tube in to work but it seemingly didn’t save. Psuedo-cosmic drivel with a couple of the tunes having a bit more oomph (Season & Supergirl). I bet he wowed the ‘crowds’ at parties. At least he chose guitar rather than bongos.
Bah, rollo. Cantautor, folk, 60's. Sin más.
Foppish fake flower power. With two decent hits.
*sigh* This album is another one of those pretentious mid 60's hippie folk/pop albums that take themselves way too seriously. It's not a total trainwreck, but there is nothing making me want to listen for more than a few minutes. That some of the songs are rooted in the while-men-playing-the-blues traditon doesn't help. 2/5
There are some interesting arrangements and instruments used, though the majority of this is monumentally boring. I don't particularly care for the hits from this album, and there's little for me to want to listen to again.
One hit wonder. Not deserving of this list
Pleasant enough but not very snazzy
Has a vibe, but not my bop. It was a bit hard to listen throuh
This CD is fine, but it's very poorly produced. He's straight-up getting audio clipping on the vocals on "Sunshine Superman", where it damn near ruins the song, and then slightly less distractingly on "Bert's Blues". It doesn't seem like an intentional choice - certainly it doesn't suit or improve those songs - and if so, that's a total novice mistake. The mix is also super-inconsistent from track-to-track - I'm gonna leave "Sunshine Superman" out of this because I think it's so totally botched, but compare how loud the vocals and orchestral instruments are in the mix on "Legend of a Girl Child Linda" against how quiet they are in the mix on "Ferris Wheel" (an otherwise similar light ballad) and "The Trip". Again, I don't think this is an intentional artistic decision, I think it's a mistake. And you could say, that's just how it is, but as a listening experience it's jarring, distracting, and unpleasant - you want to get lost in the music, not be jolted awake and then two minutes later have to struggle to hear. They also get pretty crummy instrumental sound on a few tracks - like seriously what is making that crackle in the background of "Season of the Witch"? That noise appears throughout the song in the background on the 2- and 3-and beats, and I think it's a really shitty-sounding guitar, but I honestly don't know. The guitar and drum sound is weak and thin on a couple other tracks as well. And on several songs here's super-heavy electric bass with no kick drum behind it - e.g. "Ferris Wheel", where's there's no kit at all, or "Season of the Witch" and "The Trip" where there's a kit but either he's not using the kick or it's been totally mixed out - maybe they were going for that, and they kind of get in the pocket on "The Trip", but overall it just sounds thin and out-of-sync. This isn't necessarily Donovan's fault, and this was recorded in 1966 - technology was worse back then, and that's some excuse. But overall this CD sounds more like The Troggs than e.g. contemporary Beatles recordings. Much of that is the actual production, but Donovan is pretty limited as a composer as well - "Bert's Blues" and "The Trip" are basic and kind of weak, and I'm not a huge fan of the vaguely-Eastern stuff either ("Three King Fishers" / "The Fat Angel") - the Beatles at least had the decency to limit the vaguely-Eastern tracks to one per album. And Donovan's got a nice voice, partly limited by the production, but there's just a curious lack of backing vocals anywhere on the record - there's basically none anywhere, and he's not really making up for it with instrumental depth. I didn't outright dislike it though, I'm more just frustrated at how poorly put together it is.
Two hits are alright but again too much hippy bullshit for me
Nice, but by Guinevere I was pretty bored Album cover: 4/5 very nice
Maybe with acid?
Overwhelmingly dull and pointless apart from a couple tracks. Favorite track: Bert's Blues
I liked the music for the first few songs but his voice is rough. Reminds me of a church singer. I got tired of it by the end but it was a short album. Favorite song was season of the witch
Season of the Witch is one of my favorite 60s songs. The rest of the album is either way too flower children or just sort of sounds like slowed down early Beatles.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2/5
Bland
es como los bitles cuando fueron a la india pero sin la salsa
2 great songs.
Too. Much. Folk.
This feels like an artist in transition, whose footing in both folk and psychedelia is somewhat unsure as they find their new place. I feel like 'Ferris Wheel' shows what a really good balance would sound like, which also carries with it aspects of what I enjoyed from Nick Drake's work. On the whole though, I wasn't all that into 'Sunshine Superman'.
Great sound, but post-Beatles it just didn’t feel the best at things it was doing
Meh
Het begon wel lekker relaxed, maar ik vind het op een gegeven moment ook wel een beetje saai worden.
A bit dated for my liking but an enjoyable album. Nothing I found I felt like skipping. Don't think I'll return to it soon though.
aggressively psychedelic. not my vibe at all
An okay album that has heavy 60s psychedelic pop sound. The lead song on the album is pretty good but the rest of the album is much different. It’s pretty simple pop music besides the psychedelic stuff. Nothing too exciting. 5.1/10
Best Song: Season of the Witch. I like songs that slowly build like his one does. Plus it has a cool title. Worst Song: Legend of a Girl Named Linda. I'm sure there's a delightful little story hidden in this ballad, just as I'm sure the lead singer had a +1 with girls named "Linda" for the rest of his life. Doesn't mean I want to hear it though. Overall: Going in, I knew only two of the songs, although I didn't know who had performed them. Coming out, I understand why I knew only those two, as the remainder were a bunch of dry duds. I do respect the audacity of having a song called "Guinevere" be immediately followed by "Fat Angel".
forgettable early psychedelia
Every song sounded the same. One went on forever. Nothing added to a playlist, title track came close but didn't.
Early psychedelia tinged with sitars and tablas. You can practically smell the daffodils, marigolds, weed, and unwashed hippy feet.
Starts well then fades quickly and becomes very dull
Dylan wannabe and the man who seems to have written all The Beatles music - according to himself. It's a pot luck of folk rock, folk and basic sixties cod-psychedelia. It's a pot luck of tunes as well. Best Tracks: Sunshine Superman, Season of the Witch; The Trip
I just found this one a bit too slow
Hippies! Was ok, 15 songs was about 10 too many though
I can see how this was likely pretty influential but I didn’t find it the most listenable. Some cool sounds and songs though. Liked ‘season of the witch’
A little boring.
La première pièce est excellente. Le reste n'est pas mauvais, mais j'aurais préféré la vibe de la première.
Bah, rollo. Cantautor, folk, 60's. Sin más.
Flott lög í plötu sem heldur ekki nægilega vel. Ágætis hlustun í feðraorlofinu en dóttir mín varð pirruð í mestu sækódelíunni.
Sunshine Superman and Season of the Witch are great. Thr rest is kind of droning
Eh
Not really a fan of this. Thought it was a bit boring.
Not my cup of herbal tea. Pleasant though.
Its not bad per se, but its definitely of its era and a bit of a chore nowadays
Folksy 60s music is just not my bag.
Didn't like.
Sometimes I wish I could see the entire 1001 and some breakdowns of the total. Of all the albums released in 1966, this makes the cut, which gets me thinking about what albums didn't. Back in my undergrad days, the girl who broke my heart was an absolute militant Donovan fan. Woe betide anyone who didn't take this seriously. 'Sunshine Superman' is fine as are 'Bert's Blues' and 'Celeste' , but then there's a lot of hey nonny nonny. And at times he sounds a bit like Matt Berry singing something from The Mighty Boosh/House of Fools/Toast, etc, which makes it hard to take seriously
Some okay pysch-folk, maybe a 2.5? Been a bit of a dry patch on the 1001 lately
Interesting that the album that supposedly started flower power and the hippy revolution and influenced so many, now sounds tame by comparison to many albums that came after of a similar type. I usually like this genre, but didn’t particularly like this one. Too middle of the road for me.
what?
Hippy dullness, but with some kooky quirks.
Once again, I find myself in unfamiliar territory. I'm not a big fan of psych, unless it's more on the rock side. This is more folky than rock. I don't think it's bad, but it's not making an impression on me this time around.
Some cool sounds and a couple of memorable hits, nothing that magical for me though
More sitar-y than that album that was entirely sitar, somehow. Had high hopes as Donovan created some of the grooviest tracks of the swinging 60s; bit disappointed he didn't tap into those vibes for the whole album. Too much of a free spirit, I guess. 2.5
The good: Sunshine Superman, Season of the Witch The average: Bert's Blues The bad: everything else
Super hippy 60's music. Not for me.
Note to anyone listening: use the stereo version. It's night and day: the mono version I found had distortion and clipping all over the place, whereas the stereo version has so much more clarity and gives the arrangements room to breathe. With that in mind... it's still a bang average album. History seems to want to paint a picture that everything released in the mid-60s was limitless, groundbreaking, as psychedelics kicked the doors down and revealed a landscape of possibilities. A lot of it was, of course... but a lot of it was probably also something like this. My impression listening to this was that Donovan was surrounded by talent and inspiration, but could only soak up so much of it. His voice is plain and unadorned, and doesn't do much for the material. The excellent "Season of the Witch" is an exception, where Donovan suddenly sings like his words mean something, with energy and emotion. It's as though the engineers said to him: "This one will be the single and will make or break you, put your back into it for god's sake." I'd have liked to hear more of his signature finger-picked guitar work: instead, texture takes the front seat and more focus is on shaping mythical, mystic songs to float on water. This isn't always a bad thing, as most of my favourite parts of the record were the ripples flowing around Donovan, including some lovely baroque touches. Harpsichords and flutes abound, and the orchestra comes into its own in several tracks. "Legend of A Girl Child Linda" has some really nice orchestration, and "Ferris Wheel" and "Celeste" are the prettiest offerings. "Bert's Blues" and "The Trip" give some musical variation, but nothing that jumps out too much. Donovan's lyrics are too literal for me, not enough of the abstract and too many medieval references thrown in as though its a shortcut to create the mood he's after. Finally, the decision to insert a pregnant pause after every single phrase in "Guinevere" is a terrible one as it puts a frustrating halt on the song every time. There's something very quaint and optimistic about this record: it's more introspective than the psychedelic freak-outs to come, and arguably also less interesting. Everything about it screams 1960s: the trippy, flower-laden cover. Intermittent sitar and tabla to simulate psychedelia. The fact that someone could be called Linda and be a beautiful young woman, rather than a retired secretary with back pain. It's all aged where Donovan's closest peers (Beatles and Dylan) haven't, and this is mainly on account of the musical and lyrical gulf separating them. Listening to this album fifty-five years on exposes just how vast that was: I don't want to hold that against Donovan too much, but comparisons are inevitable if everyone's reaching for the same tune.
It's just too slow for me personally three songs in. Almost every song is too slow and it makes the album feel boring. The singing is ok and lyrics aren't horrible but it just feels bland besides Bert's blues and season of the witch.
So me good tunes but not enough to save it from the duff ones
2 stars. Worst two tracks are in the beginning, but definitely improves. Much higher energy than some other psych rock on this list. With that said, I likely won’t return to this music
ehhh... A case where the singles are unsurprisingly and not excitingly the best songs on the album ("Sunshine Superman" and "Season of the Witch" are good...although it's possible I'm having some confirmation bias since these are the songs I know) - the rest is ... well, painfully dated. I guess there's nothing wrong with that but rather than a group of good songs it sounds more like a pastiche of what the late 60s were supposed to sound like. Yay here's some psychedelia ... I could picture many of these as background music to any Austin Powers movie. Also the lack of stereo knocks it down a bit more in listenability for me. 3/10 2 stars.
This was OK, the first song is one of my favourites from the 60's, the rest of the album didnt live up to it though.
Surprisingly likeable if a bit dated.
Much of it sounded like a music from a kids tv show or a music teacher making music up off the cuff. A couple of good tracks though.
The pronunciation sounds retro 1. The fade out is kind of weird 2. I really like this. It sounds like a lullaby. It’s a very simple melody. 3. This sounds like ye olde fleet foxes. 4. The Samson line is clever 5. All these melodies are really simple. This song is kinda all over the place. The instruments are pretty. 6. I wonder if this song is the first time this phrase was used. I can see the chorus of this being used in tv shows and movies. 7. Drink me/wonderland lyric is clever. I kind of like this. I can’t deny that it’s interesting. 8. His lyrics are interesting but he really should have gotten some help with his melodies. They’re all so simple and repetitive and almost nothing has a hook. 9. This is really boring. ngl. 10. Last one yay. This has some pretty instrumentals Like - I just can’t get past how slow and simple and repetitive the melodies were. I can’t see myself returning to this and I’m confused as to how it got so popular that it made this list. This just really isn’t for me Favorite Song: Legend of a Girl Child Linda
one okay single
I know I'm supposed to like this because Donovan is psychedelic royalty, but... meh.
Not that I've paid a lot of attention, but Donovan always struck me as an artist with a handful of great singles going for him and not a whole lot else. Sunshine Superman does nothing to change that impression. Actually, I don't consider the leadoff tune, Sunshine Superman to be all that great. Basically, it's a simple blues form with a descending melody line--nothing special. Donovan blesses the tune with an uncharacteristically gutsy performance, but the lead guitar break is execrable, and the song's claim to be a forerunner of psychedelic is overblown. I'm not even sure what that's based on. Most of the rest of the album is winsome folky trash. I mean, the aggressive bass playing and thin overlay of sitar helps, but can't really disguise the wimpy nature of these tunes. Frankly, it really annoys me when something like Sunshine Superman is held up as a great sixties album, especially by an old fart like me. How on earth is anyone without an AARP card going to take us seriously if we champion garbage like this?
Sounds like something out of Austin Powers
Maybe when it was new it was more impressive, but the whole thing blurs into a generic mess for me.
While there were some enjoyable songs and sections, I definitely enjoy the more established psychedelia that came about from 67 onwards.
Meh
Groovy baby.
Meh.
I can smell this album from 50 years in the future
Eh. It's just alright.
Don't know that I'd go out of my way to listen to this super 60's-feeling album unless I was in the mood for that specific genre
- like im at children recital but the child is talented
terrible fome, se supone que fue como influyente dentro de lo que es la música psicodélica pero no sé, no es lo mío y le daría un 1 de no ser porque un tema me gustó harto
Niet echt goed geluisterd, maar klinkt voor mij toch echt iets te oudbollig. En het doet me ook te weinig. En what's up met die citar de hele tijd.
Een paar wel aardige nummers maar over het geheel toch ook wel echt kabbelend en muzikaal behang.
Eerste nummer leuk, goede stem ook, daarna slappe hap.
Donovan doing Donovan things. Not really my bag maaaaaan. ✌️
Not bad to cook to. But it was a bit one toned all the way through
Meh. Psychedelic 60s stuff, first track was OK, wasn't too interested in the rest.
Guy who hangs out with The Beatles makes an album that sounds a lot like The Beatles. Cool. Season of the Witch is fun. I mean, I guess it's all fun. It just sounds like a copycat who is slightly less competent. It's the Hydrox cookies of The Beatles Oreos.
British guy makes psychedelic rock music but - get this! - he's not a Beatle. Forgettable, IMO.
awesome live album. hardest working man in show biz
No
bad
Not my vibe.
2/5
Recognise Sunshine Superman. Very Mod. Definitely not to my taste.
It was charming enough in a folksy 60s way but I'm not coming back to it anytime soon, this Aussie gives it two bags of macadamia nuts out of five.
One trick pony of an album, really. The off-kilter energy of the opener could've sustained a good chunk of varied tracks, but instead we get a slate of bloated ballads that go nowhere quickly.
Kinda like early Beatles if they were just one man and not as exciting.
Meh
A bit trippy for my liking. Maybe if I was stoned I would enjoy it more 😁
2.5!
Got halfway through the album, really not my thing, kinda droning, Donovan has a weird intonation that I found grating. Bert's Blues is alright.
Not really my thing. Beautiful guitar playing on most songs. Too flowery for me.
Ihan lepposaa menoa, mutta ei koveta.
Better than I looked for but he still looks like Owain from Father Ted.
Pari hyvää biisiä, jotka jo tuttuja olikin, mut ei oikeen tehnyt vaikutusta muutoin
Nope
This wasn't great. Super weird and these were like...stories, but uninteresting? I also didnt love his voice. Super monotone. The songwriting instruments were interested. Actual rating...1.5 Liked Songs: "Sunshine Superman" , "Ferris Wheel" , "Season of the Witch" , "The Trip" , "Celeste" > I didn't really like any of these songs, but they had aspects I liked.
Super boring album that I feel like I genuinely dislike due to there being no willingness to experiment. 1/5
Malo
I don’t really like this sort of music. I’m also not familiar with Donovan.
I don't know much about this guy, but I feel like I would hate him in person in the 60s
Meh
Very hippy coded. Pretty boring to me though. Actually quite hard to finish.
Meh. I didn’t love. A couple of the songs grew but can’t say I’m a new found fan of Donovan. Will come back to this
Ik ga stuk. Nee, niet omdat het grappig is. De man trekt mij helemaal leeg. Aan het begin van elke kant zet hij mij op het verkeerde been. Om de rest van het album telkens hetzelfde trucje met de zeurende lange lettergrepen aan het eind van de zin toe te passen.
What a stupid hippie folk rock shit. Absolute garbage in every aspect!
Not for me
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.
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
I think I hate psychedelic rock. This was awful for me. It was somehow simultaneously too weird and too boring.
Not vibing with this. I gave up during Ferris Wheel.
Not my cuppa tea. Next.
It's a sign that little white dot. It means something really, really heavy. It means there's no more telly.
1.5
I imagine if I were high as shit on opium in the 1960s I would dig this more, but as it is not for me
Dull, dreary, repetitive hippy nonsense
This really was a miss for me. It was all very boring and I did not love his vocal delivery. There were some nice guitars here and there but that was all I could appreciate. Also, I hate sitars.
This one…was weird. I sort of liked aspects of it, but am not a fan over all. I found a lot of the songs overly long and generally uninteresting and could not quite bring myself to enjoy it, including the title track. This was the second album in this list I’ve encountered that made me think, “…is this supposed to be good?” It may be that it’s very much a product of its time that just does not translate well today. At least not to me.
reminds me of school , I hated school
While it starts off great, the record becomes a drag after a couple of tracks
This album was a chore. I did not like it at ALL
Donovan? I'm wanting nonofhim. Pretty boring
I checked twice during Legend of a Girl Child Linda to see if it was somehow still the same song. Sheesh. I really disliked this album, with the exception of Sunshine Superman and Season of the Witch. Most of it just sucked. There were a few upbeat, groovy-ish songs that gave me hope, but invariably their lyrics made my brain want to move out. Which is the worse idea, that he's a sheister who thought these lyrics could be passed off as deep, or that he was sincere and thought these lyrics actually were deep?
It’s fine, not bad background music, I probably liked it a tick more than I expected. They used some interesting alternatives to a traditional drum kit, but beyond that it’s kind pretty boring.
That was a slog. Just because you add in some sitar and weird organ parts doesn't make it a good psych album. I wasn't impressed nor will I be back to explore this or anything else in the Donavan catalogue.
Nope, no thank you. This kind of out of place bongo and zither shit is not my cup o' psychedelic mushroom tea.
They could have named this album “Mushrooms or LSD” because you really need to be on one or the other to get this. Other than the title track everything else is a mash of psychedelic noise. Skip it man.
nah
Ich kiffe nicht. Vielleicht kriege ich deshalb keine Zugang zu dieser Platte?
Hippy dippy acoustic folk music can puff my magic dragon.
Some weird 60s mid evil shit
Over the years I've become more accepting of alternative philosophies and can see value in considering ancient mystic mythologies. But I still hate Donovan.
The first track was a fun blend of psychedelic rock and folk. Then the second track started the streak of pretentious folk songs. The Trip was a nice style shift to something more like the opening track and then the album closed out with more pretentious folk.
This list is full of such a specific type of psychedelic hippy folk stuff from the 60s, where they're like deliberately aiming for sparse medieval-sounding instrumentation. I've mostly found these extremely bad and boring, this included, and I've been hunting for a good articulation of what exactly's not working for me. Because back in the Pandora days, I was being served up a lot of stuff like Celtic Woman and Loreena McKennitt, both of which I liked a lot, and both of which I'd use similar terms to describe. So I think there's basically two things going on: 1. Acoustic is totally fine, but I like the arrangements to be on the busier side 2. singer-songwriter stuff puts a lot of onus on the singer to be able to deliver, and I don't think Donovan's all that impressive of a vocalist* (I think I also probably got a bit of bias against being impressed by men's singing. Like idk if I could name a man's singing that I'd call like Conventionally very good. Most of what's memorable to me is like Robert Plant, Bob Dylan, or Tom Waits etc where their voice is just extremely weird and they lean into it. Much to unpack some other time.)
Not a big fan of Donavan so do not appreciate his work sorry
Definitely not a hit with me...
Dreadful. I hate this hippie music.
Add this to the pile of 60s psychedelic folk rock that I don't like. He is horrifically out of tune on "Ferris Wheel" . And you can't sing the word "foreboding" and put the stress on the last syllable (Guinevere).
Boring
Boring
Nothing about this is pleasing. The title track is boring. The only song when the singing is tolerable is Berts Blues which is admittedly an Ok song. The instruments give it any life it has but outside of that its very uninteresting. How is this psychedelic in anyway? Becuase theres some sintar? This would ruin my trip instantly. I cant end this review without saying how dreadful his singing voice can be especially on the title track
Not my cup of tea…
This is just not my kind of music. Feels very monotonous and boring, nothing to hold me one for the ride
The author's review listed their favourite song as Ferris Wheel, my personal lowlight of a song. I did not like Donovan as a singer, and for an album built upon slow, lilting spoken poetry, there was no chance I'd like the album as a result. Objectively, I think this music is alright, but for me personally it's nothing.
Yeah. Right. Keep wondering why is this the album to be listened to before die? Why?
The litany of groups that have not yet graced this list are long, and yet I’m listening to the 199th best album of the 1960s. Uggggggghhh. Eff off with the tales of Guinevere and the harpsichord already.
Too weird for me. Even for this era.
A 20 year old from Scotland, but only the title track is worthwhile. Trippy lyrics.
Meh
No
Christ, this was fucking awful. It started quite promising with Sunshine Superman. But then it became rambling hippy shit. I'm pleased I didn't live through the late 60's and early 70's if this was the music of rebellion. It's about as dangerous as a cold cup of tea.
Poor
60-luku soittelee taas. Tuntuu, että tää vois olla mielenkiintonen albumi, jos kuuntelis tarkemmin. Kirkko-teemaa? Ainakin hidasta on
Hippeilyä + yhden hipin fantasia keskiajasta. Mitä seuraavaksi? Kosminen tanssi, jossa miekka vain sattuu lävistämään sydämen? Tai sormi ajautuu sulkemaan Spotifyn?
People in 1966 hearing a sitar for the first time: "holy shit hoLY SHIT WHAT THE FU-"
I didn't think I knew anything going into this album, but the opening track was a hot that I knew. It drops significantly as the second track screeches to a bore that continues through the end of the album.
Annoying... For anyone who knows the mighty boosh, this sounds like the logical conclusion of retro, but unironically. Put down the sitar, man...
More hippy shit
No
blurs into all the other weird 60s albums on this list.
Even just looking at this album cover makes me annoyed. Look at his ugly fucken elfin head. Look at the stupid renaissance-fair-on-LSD aesthetic. Oh good, it's 1966. Fancy that: the boomers who compiled this shitty book have added yet another album from the late 60s. And big fucking surprise, it sounds exactly as horrendous as it looks. Waify, cringey late 60s psychedelic garbage. I'll give it a point for not pretending to be anything that it isn't... but I have to give it at least 1 point anyway. So there's it's point. 1/5.
This is so so so bad. Shrill voice and uninspiring annoying songs. 2/10.
Feels like I've been transported to the 60s and became a hippie.
I really struggled with this album. Far too British
Not really my bag, very slow and reparative. Like Season of the Witch
Just no.
So boring
Totalno bezveze
That's a no from me.
1/15/21
definitely not for me
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Legend of a Girl Child Linda seemed to overstay its welcome for me and was a lowlight, but the title track, Bert's Blues, and Season of the Witch among others more than made up for it. Donovan as an artist and as a group seem to work best when focusing on full force psychedelia but the troubadour's Medieval crooning also has its place. A solid 4 stars.