Donovan - Sunshine Superman
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Artist: DonovanEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-05-16
Music Label: EMI Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Sunshine Superman
- Legend of a Girl Child Linda
- Three Kingfishers
- Ferris Wheel
- Bert's Blues
- Season of the Witch
- The Trip
- Guinevere
- The Fat Angel
- Celeste
- Breezes of Patchulie
- Museum
- Superlungs
- The Land of Doesn't Have to Be
- Sunshine Superman
- Good Trip
- House of Jansch
Music reviews of Sunshine Superman
Music Review: significant remix of classic album
Rating: 5 Stars
Donovan was there, he hung out with Dylan, Joan Baez and listened to the Jefferson Airplane before anyone else had. He was at the apartment with Dylan and the Beatles, at THE party that changed music forever. (See Scorcese's "No Direction Home"). Herein are psychedelic fairy tales designed to calm down bad head states. Music exploded with the Summer of Love, this classic was first, more than a year before that, recorded '65 and '66, before the whole thing started. Much of it deals with troubador Donovan's troubled love affair with model Linda Lawrence, sometimes girlfriend of Brian Jones, the golden Rolling Stone. This album is a first in many ways, folk, folk rock, jazz, blues. First to use sitar, table, tambura. It is full of King Arthur, Narnia, knight errant, and Alice in Wonderland themes. Arrangements by Mickie Most and John Cameron are miraculously creative.
"His crystal images they will tell you 'bout a brighter day" as Peter, Paul & Mary once said. And this album is chock full of those crystal images, images that make you weep at their beauty.
Starts off with the psychedelic superhero "Sunshine Superman" who is dealing with Linda, and "could have tripped out easier but I've changed my ways"....
"Legend of a Girl Child Linda" where her Narnian "knight goes to battle with his confused mind".
"Twelve Kingfishers", not Three, the misprint remains, you can see them dive in your minds eye.
The girl who get her hair caught in the "Ferris Wheel" is like the pre_Raphaelite painting of the girl who traps the silver clad knight in her long blonde hair.
"Season of the Witch" full of striking dark Novemberal images that made Steven Stills, Bloomfield and the Jefferson Airplane cover the song years later.
"The Trip", an early acid commercial with Alice in Wonderland imagery, banned on nearly all radio stations, except underground ones, in the sixties.
"...a seagull said, as I looked to way out then/
The whole wide human race is taking far too much methadrine" (it was true in '66, it's even truer now.)
...Girl, you drank a lot of 'drink me', but you ain't in Wonderland"
... Bobby Dylan he sat, the Mad Hatter, broken hourglass in his hand/ and Joanie sat in white lace, looking cool with her black lace fan".
"Fat Angel", talks of the Jefferson Airplane, a then unknown San Francisco group who would "take off" a year later, Fat Angel Mama Cass Elliot, of the Mamas and Papas and Captain High - Jerry Garcia of the then unknown Greatful Dead. "He will bring you happiness in a pipe/ he will ride away on his silver bike...Fly Trans-Love Airlines get you there on time/ Fly Jefferson Airplane, get you there on Time...".
This was the ultimate insiders, hip album in 1966, before the word "hippie" was coined. Original album had not one bad cut. In this version, good until you get to some of the lesser inclusions like the underage "Superlungs, my Supergirl".
This IMPORT, though not perfect, captures the sound of the original LP, much better remix that previous versions. A good trip from beginning to end. Captures the authentic Spirit of the Sixties. Recorded after "Bringing it all Back Home" and BEFORE "Revolver"! Harpsichord, sitar, tabla, and eastern instruments would be used on many other people's future albums, but this one was first.
This is one of the greatest albums of all time, finally presented in a way that does justice to the original LP. One of those albums that never gets stale, fresh as it was in mid 1966.
BTW, in the mid 60's Donovan was considered Dylan's equivalent and then later people put Donovan down because he was more poetic (and fantastic) and didn't involve himself in social commentary. Dylan and Donovan are quite different, there is no earthly reason to like just one!
Description of Sunshine Superman
2005 Digitally remastered re-issue features seven bonus tracks 'Breezes Of Patchulie', 'Museum' (First Version), 'Superlungs' (First Version), 'The Land Of Doesn't Have To', 'Sunshine', 'Good Trip' (Demo), 'House Of Jansch' (Demo). Sunshine Superman marked the coming of psychedelia and utilised the production skills of already established producer, Mickie Most, whose bass heavy style complements Donovan's enigmatic lyrics and their beatnik delivery brilliantly. EMI.Country CDs
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