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While I agree that Dylan's genius made it hard for Donovan, the "classic" scene in "Don't Look Back" didn't quite play out that way. If you listen carefully, when Donovan finishes his song and hands the guitar to Dylan, he asks him to play "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," and Dylan responds, "You want to hear that song?" He did not "lay it on him," but simply honored his request.
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This is an essential album by Donovan and a great introduction to those interested in his music. A great record with some excellent production and performing. Fantastic psycadelic rock, folk rock, beatnick vibes, eastern influenced tracks and Dons own style of folk pop. Rather different when compared to other LPs from 1966. Overall, a must-have for tripped out satisfaction.
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This is an essential album by Donovan and a great introduction to those interested in his music. A great record with some excellent production and performing. Fantastic psycadelic rock, folk rock, beatnick vibes, eastern influenced tracks and Dons own style of folk pop. Rather different when compared to other LPs from 1966. Overall, a must-have for tripped out satisfaction.
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This is a combination of the American Epic label's SUNSHINE SUPERMAN and MELLOW YELLOW which was released in England in either 1967 or 68. Donovan had some record company glitches which prevented his first two Epic releases from getting to the British public until late. This compilation is the result. Great cover, but not the conceptually realized work the artist originally intended.
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There are apparently a number of CD's with the same title, different cover art and different selection. To add to the confusion, ...has moved this review from one recording to the other as these recordings to out of print.
Despite the confusion of three different albums all with the same title, one is the REAL original Sunshine Superman as Donovan wrote it in 1965/66.
A Masterpiece. Starts out with the funky rock title track. His girlfriend's long hair gets caughtup in the Ferris wheel. He moves on through ecstatic Fairy tales and various psychedelic visions; the hypnotic Queen Guinivere, in the royal Court of Arthur moves to the Trip where "the whole wide human race is taking far too much methadrine". The weather changes and Donovan posits the paranoid "Season of the Witch" and then Flies Trans-love Airways (the Jefferson Airplane), who always "get's you there on time". (When he wrote this The Airplane was unrecorded and known only to undergrounders and the hippies in San Francisco.)
This was a revolutionary, groundbreaking album in 1966, following on the heels of Bob Dylan's electric debut "Bringing it all Back Home". These albums (and others) changed Folk, Rock and Pop forever. See my list and my essay.
Sunshine Superman is clearly the best, most coherent, most visionary album of Donovan's career.
Newest releases (finally) capture the sound quality of the original LP.
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