Track Listing

1. Catch The Wind
2. To Try For The Sun
3. Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)
4. Colours
5. Josie
6. Universal Soldier
7. Candy Man
8. Summer Day Reflection Song
9. Donna Donna
10. Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do
11. Goldwatch Blues
12. Jersey Thursday
13. Ballad Of A Crystal Man
14. Turquoise
15. To Sing For You
16. Sunny Goodge Street

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205141 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-21
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

PSYCHEDELIC FOLK POP DELIGHT
Donovan didn’t die young like Nick Drake, nor did he ever become as profound as Dylan, so he’s not much mentioned in the lore of rock. (As far as comparisons go - perhaps he could be considered a more trippy Cat Stevens?) Yet here was a unique talent that created some of the most memorable psychedelic folk/pop in catchy, tuneful songs that have a timeless appeal. Songs like the flowing Catch The Wind, the evocative Colours, the yearning Josie and the reflective Universal Soldier contributed to making the late 1960s such a very special time (what with Melanie, Marianne Faithfull and others) and tapped into the same psychedelic vein as the band Love. I think in the early 90s Happy Mondays credited Donovan with a lot of inspiration, but I think his Celtic romanticism probably also subliminally inspired artists as diverse as Enya and The Waterboys, to name just two. Sure he could be really kitschy, as his song Atlantis shows I(mercifully not included here), but overall, he created a solid body of charming classic songs that have been much covered by other artists. Fans of clever psychedelic pop and of artists like Belle and Sebastian would do themselves a favour by (re)discovering Donovan.