― shookout (shookout), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Seriously, I had no compelling reason to google donovan until just now....
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Our Rob or Ross, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
And 'Universal Soldier' I'm diggin too.
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
http://thm-br1r2.search.vip.scd.yahoo.com/image/85735697
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
"Kiss me once more / Fill me with song"
I love this guy so much.
― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― reo, Saturday, 13 November 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
prick.
― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― George, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
he was pretty good
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 20 May 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 21 May 2005 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― jmeister (jmeister), Saturday, 21 May 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 21 May 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
"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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 21 May 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
"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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
cool, thanks! basically looking for the non-dylanesque, psych version, yeah.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Take it from me, you're not looking very hard!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
This is so perfect:
http://www.donovan.ie/en/2014/02/donovan-master-classes-composition-guitar-styles/
MASTER CLASS FEES SUPPORT STUDENT MEDITATIONDonovan invites students for private one-on-one tuition in Compostion and Gutiar style.On a secluded Bahamain Island.There are limited places for 7 persons over one week.Only 6 string acoustic guitarist players and songwriters who compose on acoustic guitar can be considered.No electric guitars can be considered, as the Master Class is an instruction by Donovan for composers and guitarists who compose on 6 string acoustic guitar.No 12 string guitars are considered.The dates and secret location for the Master Class will be given plus the fees when a student is accepted by Donovan. Total privacy will be ensured for the students and the location secret.Only songwriters who have learned basic sets of guitar chords and have attempted songwriting can apply.Students would need to send a simple video of their performance on acoustic guitar and solo vocal of a self-penned song of their own making.An audio recording is not enough as Donovan needs to see you play your guitar also. Donovan will decide on the limited selection of students.Send link to your clip to supp✧✧✧@dono✧✧✧.i✧Send your videoclip link now!The location of the Master classes will be at a small exclusive resort on a secluded Bahamian Island.Accommodations and food included in the Fees.The location will be given to students when Donovan accepts the student and the deposit is received. This is to protect privacy.The Fee information for the 7 days is available only by email to supp✧✧✧@dono✧✧✧.i✧, and only after Donovan accepts the student.Students may bring their wife, husband, partner or friend as the Private Beach Cottage is for two persons.That means sharing a queen size bed not two separate beds in a cottage.The week can be your holiday also.The TuitionThe styles of guitar picking and chord structures that Donovan shared with The Beatles in India for their White Album will be taught as well as many more secret styles and compostion skills that have made Donovan one of the most unique guitarists and composers of this age.“Donovan is all over The White Album”George Harrison quote from The Beatles Anthology.“I will also show you how to access the creative field.”DonovanAFTER EXPENCES, A PORTION OF THE MASTER CLASS FEES WILL GO TO TEACHING STUDENTS TO MEDITATE IN DONOVAN’S HOMELAND OF SCOTLAND.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 May 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link
I saw a film only a month ago that used "Colours"--pretty sure it was Donovan's version from Greatest Hits, the electric version. It wasn't Rules of Attraction, it was something much more recent, within the past couple of years.
What's the movie?! I went through my recent posts on the "Last (x) movies" thread and can't figure out what it was.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
Listening to A Gift From A Flower to A Garden a fair bit at the moment - particularly the second half, which is goddamn lovely, especially Epistle to Derroll and The Mandolin Man.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
xp Tower, animated documentary from last year?
Or maybe the Amazon series Good Girls Revolt?
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Tower, yes--thanks a lot.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
A Gift is really great but Mellow Yellow is still my favorite. esp "Writer in the Sun" and "Young Girl Blues" (and the title track ofc).
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 04:41 (six years ago) link
My safe word is "Barabajagal"
― Moodles, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
heh
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
I had no idea Donovan jumped on the disco bandwagon three years too late. Sadly most of it sounds like bad Bryan Ferry or his usual folky stuff, but this track is kind of a winner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bieyrpNaB-4
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
i've been obsessed w this dude lately. so much of his stuff i had just never heard, but that's been rectified thanks to spotify. well, the 60s stuff anyway. it doesn't appear that any of his 70s records are on there at all, jumping from '70s Open Road (p dope) to '80's Neutronica (which is...something). anything of interest in those intervening years?
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 23 September 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Cosmic Wheels is p good
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 September 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
I see I said that upthread 7 years ago lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 September 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
cool. i'll see what i can find on youtube.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 23 September 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
My antediluvian baby
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
Beatniks are out to make it rich
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 04:54 (one year ago) link
The continent of Atlantis was an island
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 December 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
Now go home and get your shinebox.
― birdistheword, Monday, 12 December 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
Now you’ve been away a long time. I got news for you: I don’t shine shoes no more.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 December 2022 03:45 (one year ago) link
Donovan by Bobbie Gentry. Odd song to choose and it doesn't really work but interesting nonetheless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKgof91goo
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2023 12:55 (ten months ago) link
Part 1 (posted part 2 on the Zodiac thread):
youtube.com/watch?v=eJW6KtvyvDE
I mangle Bret Easton Ellis's name once or twice, and there was something else I egregiously messed up.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 03:21 (one month ago) link
(Donovan's music in To Die For, L.I.E., The Rules of Attraction, and a few other films.)
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 03:23 (one month ago) link