― matt riedl (veal), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
No, really, search everything up to Open Road, it's all classic to me, even the most hippy dippy crap. "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "Season of the Witch", and "Barabajagal" are my favorites, though.
― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Seach: "Barabajagel" (Proto T-Rex?), "Catch The Wind" (twee!), "Atlantis", "Lalena", "Hurdy Gurday Man", "Season Of The Witch" (Dr.John made an excelent cover!), "Wear Your Love Like Heaven", "Sunshine Superman"
Destroy: "Mellow Yellow", "Epstile To Dippy"
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 28 November 2002 00:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 28 November 2002 04:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 28 November 2002 08:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bham, Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
you can get it free on the recent 'drugs' issue of Mojo (if you nick the mag)
― jon (jon), Thursday, 28 November 2002 18:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: "I Love My Shirt."
― Burr, Thursday, 28 November 2002 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
The use of 'Season of the Witch' over the closing credits of 'To Die For' almost makes that movie worth watching.
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 28 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 28 November 2002 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 30 November 2002 03:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 November 2002 05:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris sallis, Saturday, 30 November 2002 16:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
hurdy gurdy man, mellow yeallow, sunshine superman, barabajagal.
all with tons of extra tracks.
the ones which aint all airy hippy nonsense are somewhat fab ..
there are some serious grooves hidden throughout, esp the barabajagal track .. whoa.
season of the witch is indeed ace and creepy.
and i'm sure the opening few bars of Get Thy bearings sax line has been sampled ?
if not then why not ..
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Open Road is a real classic - and surprisingly diverse - album.
Hurdy Gurdy Man is nice too, as an album.
― Grabbing Thistle (Bimble...), Sunday, 23 July 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Sunday, 23 July 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 23 July 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 23 July 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― El Duderino (marmotwolof), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 24 July 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link
destroy/dud: his autobiography. admittedly I only skimmed it at a bookstore but it seemed like a weird mix of hippie/showbiz jive.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 24 July 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grabbing Thistle (Bimble...), Monday, 24 July 2006 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Monday, 24 July 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Invincible Donovan University
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks like the Maharishi really set a fire under Donny's butt!
― christoff, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw him stoically limp from one venue to the next, day and night, and do his little stoic one-man-one-guitar-act at the 1998 Pori Jazz fest -- to the largely indifferent -- and (should I say) "spare" -- audiences, as I recall. I also recall staying in front of the stage on at least on a couple of ocaasions to listen to him. (Had never heard him live in my life, up to that point, nor had heard that many of his records - only the one that has the words "gift", "flower", "garden" and "from" in its title, I guess). Must say that he did sing'n'play on autopilot, sort of. Still, for the first few times it was fairly fascinating to hear those pretty well-known titles from the man's own mouth. Even if the wind blew some of it away over the open, and rather desolate, field. Or the words got all quite blurry in those hangars with terrible-some acoustics... And then, not too long after that, I saw on VH1 that little co-operation with ...which girl group was it again? That must've been a first major thing for him, in commercial terms, after ...the Butthole Surfers cover or what?
― t**t, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Is anything worth tracking down after Open Road & Cosmic Wheels?
― Brio, Friday, 25 June 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked Sutras a lot.
― snuh, Saturday, 26 June 2010 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Trivia: Donovan colaborated with German _Popstars_esque girl group No Angels on a remake of "Atlantis".
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 05:05 (one year ago) link
It's not that different from Cat Stevens guesting with Boyzone.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link