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The Magic Garden
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Track Listing
- Prologue
- Magic Garden
- Summer's Daughter
- Dreams/Pax/Nepenthe
- Carpet Man
- Requiem: 820 Latham
- Girls' Song
- Worst That Could Happen
- Orange Air
- Paper Cup
- Epilogue
- Ticket To Ride
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #114196 in Music
- Released on: 2008-08-25
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Editorial Reviews
CD Description
Overlooked in its day (unlike most of the Dimension's earlyalbums, this one didn't even crack the top 100), MAGIC GARDEN turns out to be one of the '60s great lost psychedelic pop/rock albums. Composer/arranger Jimmy Webb wrote just aboutevery note here (the one exception is a cover of the Beatles "Ticket to Ride"), conceiving it as an interconnected songcycle, complete with prologue, epilogue, sound effects, andmusical collages between the songs (think sitars - lots of them).
Webb was aiming for something along the lines of Brian Wilson's PET SOUNDS, and, while this is hardly a masterpiece on that level, it's evocative of that album, if only because Webb recorded it with the same L.A. session musicians. The obvious grabber here is the hit single "Carpet Man", which is as close to hard rock as Webb ever got. Other highlights include a lush version of "The Worst That Could Happen"(a hit a few months later for the Brooklyn Bridge), and "Paper Cup", an addictively catchy and period-perfect piece of psychedelic whimsy.
