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... possibly about how great he is? Also about how when he's not great it's because he's being ridiculously Donovan-y, which is sort of cute and charming: you can chuckle fondly and think "Sure, Donovan, Atlantis ... "

― nabisco%%, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

New "well I'm quite fond of this shirt but I wouldn't say I love it" answers.

― nabisco%%, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

doesn't he do that song that goes on about Jennifer Juniper? I hate that fucking song.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

apparently they called him mellow yellow

― Ron, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

donovan rules; fucking rules. a record collection without (at least) "sunshine superman" (the album) is an incomplete record collection.

― your null fame, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Donovan is better than the Beatles and the Strokes COMBINED.

― adam, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

the first rock rockshow i evah saw was yes supported by donovan, d00dz!!

― mark s, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

So that explains why mark s is the way he is...

― Nicole, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

There had to be an explanation somewhere...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

is that "fond of this shirt" line from Don't Look Back? who did you end up hating more after that awful hotel room scene between D and D?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, Donovan's will to be completely silly is rivalled only by Marc Bolan. I wouldn't say I "love" Donovan, but I definitely find him entertaining. Jimmy Page did a good job on a lot of his psychedelic- guitar arrangements... I have a fondness for any lyricist who throws all caution to the wind and just rhyme the first thing that comes into their heads, then sing it as if it's actually deep and meaningful.

First there is a mountain, then there is NO mountain, then there is!

― Shaky Mo Collier, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

shaky we are on the same side!!

i withdraw all mean things i evah said abt you: may donovan's silliness be the basis of our alliance against all hipster scoffers

― mark s, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Tracer the shirt bit was a reference to "I Love My Shirt," the chorus of which runs: "I love my shirt, I love my shirt -- my shirt is so comfortably lovely." (Repeat w/r/t jeans and other items and then close: "In fact, I love my wardrobe.")

NB I have not heard Belle and Sebastian's "I Love My Car" but find it hard to imagine it's not a deliberate reference to Donovan and his shirt. Also NB if Gap marketing campaigns were any more daring I'd like to think they would have used "I Love My Shirt" instead of "Mellow Yellow."

― nabisco%%, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

awful hotel room scene? that scene is a High Noon Showdown classic. Donovan gets the handicap advantage because he doesn't even realise it's happening, even after Dylan's obviously threatened/relieved "hey, that's a good song..." (The battle isn't with songs either; it's naive "ooo"s vs. sly "knowing" nods. And the one you hate more is the winner).

― The Actual Mr. Jones, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

as a viewer, you know bob's been gunning for donovan through the whole tour (making fun of him on stage, asking everybiody if they think he's any good). Donovan seems completely in the dark on this - he doesn't recognize that Dylan sees him as a threat. He wants Dylan to like him. even the lyrics of "to sing for you" are the words of a supplicant - but his eyes go all bleary and skittish when "baby blue" makes it clear that dylan's intent is to hurt him, to drive him out, to expose him as a fraud. dylan needs to prove something we already know and it seems cruel, but I can see why he needed to do it.

― , Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I've never seen a jerking man touch a flower

I've never seen a jerking man touch a flower never seen a fast man dig the slowness never seen the dream-end of the ridiculous state the world is in never seen anger in Joanny when the hate-words of confused minds lap her shores.

I've seen Derroll Addams cry -- so full of us all that he spills over his cheeks (I pray he sees tomorrow's sun) I've seen bewildered rambling streams of blood on black skin I've seen V-Bombers growing in a field of insulated grass daring their masters I've seen the advertisement "IT'S A GOOD LIFE IN TODAYS' MODERN ARMY" beside photographs of mutilated Vietnamese children I've seen the has-been, the could have been an' the should have been in the glazed gaze of "passers-by" I've seen the "LITTLE PRINCE" in many people an' felt happy I've seen people scorn me an' warn me it's never torn me I've seen the dream of Freedom .........

a sometimes fading image. Donovan -- Summer 1965

― Steve K, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't know many songs by Donovan but I like most of the ones that I've heard. The fact that he started out as a Dylan imitator ("Colours", "Catch the Wind") has made it hard for people to realise just how innovative a lot of his songs from 1965 onwards were. In songs like "Sunshine Superman" and "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" he pioneered a lot of the language and sound of British psychedelia. Yes, Donovan's songs were frequently very silly, but it seems strange that he is widely regarded as being a complete joke when similar songwriters such as Syd Barrett are so highly praised.

John Peel is the only public figure I know of who really rates Donovan. Peel has said that in the Sixties he enjoyed Donovan's records more than Dylan's.

― Mark Dixon, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Season of the Witch" is completely amazing.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't mind some of the dylan-influenced stuff myself like "why do you treat me like you do" and especially "hey gyp" but the more psychedelic pop stuff is the best, "hurdy gurdy man" and "season of the witch" are perfect.

― fritz, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Donovan I find infinitely more interesting once he'd given up trying to imitate the Master, and took a few trips. Season of the Witch is fucking great, Hurdy Gurdy is alright, can't remember the other one's off hand but he gets a spin every now and then. He is prone to being piss-poor but I forgive him every time as soon as that scratching guitar kicks in and he starts going on about looking out of his wind- ho.

I always preferred Jason anyway (ouch - sorry 'bout that one)

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Ok, what Donovan CDs should I try and get?
I'm guessing I'll get "Sunshine Superman" first.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 03:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

emi put out a very good best off a few years ago (called "sunshine superman", i guess), you should find it easily at an affordable price. it's a great introduction into his discography.
by the way, he played the benicassim festival earlier this month. i think the show can still be watched at www.emisiondigital.com

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 08:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Well, I'm gonna revive this one and see what happens. There is one other Donovan thread but it doesn't look like either this or the other one are particularly long threads, and I would have expected a little more of a response, frankly.
Probably the only good thing to come from being forced to listen to the oldies station at work all day was that it finally pushed me into giving Donovan a try, which is something I've been meaning to do for quite awhile. I wasn't really expecting to like him, in fact, until Happy Mondays named a song after him, I would have assumed him to be difficult to take seriously. But upon listening to two, three, then four songs (ones that never get played on the radio, of course) I realized there was just something about him that stopped me in my tracks.

While I do feel his early work sounds a little too much like Dylan, luckily he went his own way eventually. People say Belle & Sebastian derive from him and I can see that, and yet he's much more versatile than they are, I think. Not afraid to jazz or blues it up a little here and there. And what a voice!

So far I've got the albums Mellow Yellow (which I played three times in a row - unusual for me, especially in this day and age), Sunshine Superman and Barabajagal. I think the latter might even be my favourite.

Anyone have any comments? Want to tell me something about the latter part of his career which I know next to nothing about? Come to think of it, what is he doing nowadays?

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 14 June 2004 05:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

what is he doing nowadays?

I see him pop up in movies now and then. He played Gerard Malanga in I Shot Andy Warhol and he was in Gas Food Lodging. Other than that, don't know.

Oh, I do remember watching a Simpsons episode that had "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" in it and set me off obsessively listening to that song (on my remastered Donovan's Greatest Hits CD for like a week or two.
All in all I like Donovan very much, and that Don't Look Back scene is priceless.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 14 June 2004 06:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

The only songs of his I'm familiar with are those on Sunshine Superman and the Greatest Hits LP. And so I have nothing to offer but my opinion. "Sunshine Superman" is classic and fantastic, "Season Of The Witch", "The Trip" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man" (featuring 75% of what will shortly become Led Zeppelin) are all pretty great. "Mellow Yellow" is gawdawful, and about the rest, I have no opinion.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 14 June 2004 06:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Especially for you", "Sealed with a Kiss", "Any dream will Do" - Classic.

― Patrick Kinghorn, Monday, 14 June 2004 07:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

If you look closely in "Don't Look Back," after Dylan plays "Baby Blue," you can see Donovan say, awkwardly and to no one in particular, "I used to know a girl named Baby Blue."

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

Okay, but seriously though. What's the deal with this Donovan/Dylan relationship? Someone said there was real animosity on Dylan's part way back when, and then another person said they became friends and had fun playing together. I want the full gossipy story, but the true one of course.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

*xpost*
Umm, I just looked at imdb and it says Donovan's son is in I Shot Andy Warhol and Gas Food Lodging, not himself.

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Danish royal family are fans

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

oops! you're right. they look almost exactly the same, and donovan is only 20 years older than his son. wakka wakka wakka! (jeez aaron do your fucking research)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

I was thinking how well preserved he looked hahahahahahaha! In that case I dunno WHAT the fuck Donovan Sr. is up to.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

In that case I dunno WHAT the fuck Donovan Sr. is up to.

Sheesh folks, is it THAT hard to use a search engine? http://www.donovan.ie

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

Anyway, it looks like he's playing the occasional show and is mainly just wandering about being Donovan.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sheesh folks, is it THAT hard to use a search engine?
oh yeah? well, I'll eat your children!

Seriously, I had no compelling reason to google donovan until just now....

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

So Donovan got a hard time from Dylan in "Don't Look Back", what an achievement on Dylan's part - Donovan was just a 18-19 year old kid at the time, why did the Great Genius feel it necessary to slap him down? Other than the fact that he was acting like a prick to everyone at the time and not only not getting called on it but getting praised for it? Donovan is very underrated - ask yourself how Bolan, Syd Barrett and (even) the Incredible String Band might have turned out if he hadn't been there first? Of course, he's a pop singer, he's like folk's answer to Harry Nilsson, he's a lightweight but often a wonderful one and we all need a little light in our live sometimes. Donovan was a very magic fellow.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

his hair is too fuzzy.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

Marc Bolan's hair was too fuzzy, Syd Barrett's hair was too fuzzy etc etc

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

haha, jeez, I just found out I even had Donovan Jr. confused with someone else! He was Darius in Gas Food Lodging! No way I woulda confused that kid with his pop if I had my shit straight! haha, kindly disregard everything I've said on this thread, I'm out of my element.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is" is actually and old Zen saying.

― Our Rob or Ross, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

Well then some Zen guy deserves kudos because I love that song.

And 'Universal Soldier' I'm diggin too.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

"There is a Mountain" is a fabulous song. I'm currently listening to the Hurdy Gurdy Man album. Nothing calms me quite like the sound of his voice.

A friend told me about a recent interview he did for NPR because he has a new album called Beat Cafe coming out. The interview is archived on www.npr.org

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

Barabajagal is a really good album. Features the Jeff Beck Group.
He used to be Shaun Ryder's father in law.

― everything, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

Shaun Ryder was married to one of Donovan's kids?!? how can this be...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

WEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN is teh bomb.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

Absolutely. And I bought the vinyl just for the sleeve:

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Revive.

"Kiss me once more / Fill me with song"

I love this guy so much.

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

THAT I MAY THAT I MAY WEAAAAAAAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVENNN

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

On the firefly platform on sunny Goodge Street
Violent hash-smoker shook a chocolate machine
Bobbed in an eating scene.
Smashing into neon streets in their stillness
Smearing their eyes on the crazy Kali goddess
Listenin' to sounds of Mingus mellow fantastic.
"My, my", they sigh,

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

LOVE DONOVAN

― reo, Saturday, 13 November 2004 06:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

i saw him join master musicians of joujouka onstage. did his song ok good but then he wouldn't get off. like fer fucks sake it (was) a really great gig and the music was fucking great and this sad old hippy keeps playing his acoustic songs with the master musicians pattering away behind him and all i can think of is you fucking ego maniac get the fuck off the stage i don't want to hear this shit i want the master musicians uncut.

prick.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Anyone hear Beat Cafe yet? I am curious.

― George, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

saw him tonight

he was pretty good

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 20 May 2005 23:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

he was in an episode of futurama.
the one about the lost city of atlanta.

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 21 May 2005 03:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

I like me some Donovan. Somewhere I read that Wayne coynes favorite album was Donovan's greatest hits and it made perfect sense and seemed so obvious but I never would have thought of it.

― jmeister (jmeister), Saturday, 21 May 2005 03:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Happiness Runs" roolz.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 21 May 2005 12:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

GOO GOO GOO GOO BARABAJAGAL

"Atlantis"/"Barabajagal" could be the best double-sided hit single evah. Paul Macca harmonizes on the A, Jeff Beck burns wire on the B.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 21 May 2005 12:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Could be, except they weren't. "Atlantis" B-Side was "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting". "Barababajagal came out about six months later.

― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 21 May 2005 22:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

thought I remembered my best friend owning that single but I guess my mind was playing tricks on me...again.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

Slsk Get thy Bearings. Great hip-hopish faux jazz.

Greil Marcus should be forced to write a Donovan book. Season of the Witch is a better listen than Like a Rolling Stone.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 22 May 2005 13:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

pulled out Slow Down World last night and it hit such the spot. it's from 76, so by then, he's lost a bit of the fey, hippy dippy vocal inflections and got to a nice singer/songwriter spot even though there's still a bit of mysticism (album's dedicated to the queen of mars or something). "My Love Is True (Love Song)" is a great eastern drony track.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

Beat Cafe is a hell of a lot better than I expected it would be.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

Okay, this is going to sound retarded, but I've been hearing the song "Sunshine Superman" all my life and I never realized what it was until this morning. (A next-door neighboor had given me the album with that title in a pile of other used LPs two years ago, and I never got around to listening to it til now. I always knew Donovan did a song with that name; just never associated it with the song that goes "when I make my mind up you're going to be mine" and "Superman and Green Lantern ain't got nothin on me" etc. Not sure who else thought did it; guess I never wondered one way or the other. And never really checked out Donavan much at all, even though the person I'm married to is named after one of his songs. Anyway, the album -- which also has "Season of the Witch," which I've always loved -- is good. A lot better than the Wear Your Love Like Heaven LP, which the same neighbor gave me, but which I thought was boring since Donavan's voice didn't see pretty enough to support its tweeness, even though he's quite possibly inventing the genre.)

Husker Du covered "Sunshine Superman" once, right? Don't think I've ever actually heard that, either.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 7 February 2009 16:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Donovan's voice didn't seem pretty enough" I meant. (And "Not sure who else I thought did it." Etc.)

― xhuxk, Saturday, 7 February 2009 16:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

What would you say is the modern equivalent of Donovan? I'm trying to find a song with a similar sounf to Mad John's Escape or the same vibe found on the whole 'gift from a flower...' album but can't think of anything good enough.

― Moka, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 05:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

rando request, but does anyone have an mp3 of the re-recorded "colours" from 1968-69? it's on the vinyl of his greatest hits, but was replaced with the original version when they put that LP on CD...

― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Really love Mellow Yellow LP the most, cos a friend did a cover of "Writer in the Sun" that made me seek this one out. I think A Gift From a Flower to a Garden is probably my 2nd favorite just cos there are so many songs and it starts with "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" and just gets more hippy-dippy from there on out. If you're listening to Donovan, you may as well get as hippy-dippy as possible...

There's a Sunshine Superman - The Journey Of Donovan documentary that is the most exhausting thing ever, like 3 hours long, and Donovan either must absolutely LOVE talking about himself, or the editor just didn't feel like throwing anything out. It's a decent way to pass an evening, with lots of funny stories about him doing drugs in the desert and stuff and his friend "Gypsy Dave", but it really is long as hell.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's on the vinyl of his greatest hits, but was replaced with the original version when they put that LP on CD

this totally annoys me too. I have the Troubadour double-CD (which is GRATE) but yeah it has several songs that I knew from the Greatest Hits in inferior versions, including this one

― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

that doc is okay but it's kinda sad how they couldn't afford/bother to get anybody to talk about Donovan besides... Donovan.

― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

guess the 1968 version is on a recent reish of hurdy gurdy man, but can't find a download (legit or not) of it.

― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Do you just mean the 4:10 trippy version from Like It Is, as opposed to the earlier folky original? Or is there a third, later version still?

― clemenza, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

ummm, maybe?
from wiki: When Epic Records was compiling Donovan's Greatest Hits, they were either unable or unwilling to secure the rights to the original recordings of "Catch the Wind" and "Colours". Donovan rerecorded both songs with a full backing band, and the rerecordings were included on the greatest hits album.

― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

The trippy version's one of my favourite songs ever. I'll get it to you now and you can figure out if that's the one you mean.

― clemenza, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

cool, thanks! basically looking for the non-dylanesque, psych version, yeah.

― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

guess the 1968 version is on a recent reish of hurdy gurdy man, but can't find a download (legit or not) of it.

Take it from me, you're not looking very hard!

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

The '68 version is on the old/original (80s?) cd of Greatest hits.

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

you've got to pick up every stitch..

― steady yachting (Pillbox), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

not trying very hard? i googled the hell out of it! anyhoo, clemenza hooked me up! yayyyy!

― tylerw, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

THIS RECORD IS AWESOME. The Music Makers is screaming for dance floore treatment.

― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 20:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Man, it had better rule with a bitchin cover like that!

― 50000000 elves (blank), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 00:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

One of the sun city girl dudes recorded Donavan's incoherent ramblings at a club a few years ago and was talking about putting it out on a 7" but i dunno if it ever happened.

― 50000000 elves (blank), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 00:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh yeah Cosmic Wheels is cool!

― The actor that played Jesus made some odd choices. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 04:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

beatniks are out to make it rich

― picture jean rollin (Pillbox), Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

Creepy Donovan is the best Donovan. Covered by King Crimson too:

― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Sunday, 15 April 2012 11:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

ROFL. We sang "Get Thy Bearings" in church if you can believe it! It is seriously funky with a spiritual theme. I play it all the time now.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

He was inducted into the HoF last night by John Mellencamp. Struck me as pretty random, but apparently John's a massive Donovan fan.

― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

One of the sun city girl dudes recorded Donavan's incoherent ramblings at a club a few years ago and was talking about putting it out on a 7" but i dunno if it ever happened.

oh man I'd like to hear this

I try to avoid telling my donovan story online because I'm a nice fucking guy but he's a piece of fucking work imo

― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 15 April 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh go on

― Number None, Sunday, 15 April 2012 23:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, come on man.

BTW Donovan is so awesome on "Billion Dollar Babies." Kinda wish he and Alice had recorded a whole album.

― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 April 2012 03:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

it is very easy to imagine donovan being a complete dipshit irl
he did make some amazing music for a brief period of time

― buzza, Monday, 16 April 2012 03:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

Bass on "Get Thy Bearings" is one of Danny Thompson's finest moments. As is "Sunny Goodge St"

― bham, Monday, 16 April 2012 08:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

it is very easy to imagine donovan being a complete dipshit irl

In fact he's a monumental egomaniac who claims to have invented and inspired every musical genre from 1965 onwards

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 16 April 2012 11:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

HMS Donovan is a great album. I'd put it up there with the best of ISB.

I don't understand any comparison of the two Ds. It always comes up due to that movie but come on... Apples and oranges. Both have their merits and both have put some dreary shit on tape too.

― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Monday, 16 April 2012 12:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

agree that they're very different animals.

Dylan is the highly superior animal tho lol

― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 April 2012 17:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

SO good.

"Open Road" fans out there? Has a fun ramshackle live feel to it, which is super cool after all the fussy (but brilliant) Mickie Most stuff.
Find that I go back to this one even more than the rest.

― mr.raffles, Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

I don't remember that one - Cosmic Wheels is the cutoff point with him for me

― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

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