Wednesday, May 25, 2005

wear your love like heaven

I can't believe I didn't know about donovan sooner
everything this guy has made is fucking unreal
and he doesn't sound anything even remotely like dylan
he is like a acid drenched nick drake playing with
an early sixties version of led zeppelin as his backup band

for the longerst time I despised and made fun of donovan
for being a dylan psuedo-cheesball rip off with repeated
scenes from "don't look back" without even listening to any
of his music, besides a couple of radio songs here and there

and although I do know that he actually wrote a song that
was exactly the same as "mr. tamborine man"
called "my darling tangerine eye"
he never knew dylan wrote it and thought it was a traditional song
and was probably just too stoned or high
to even know that dylan had already wrote that song

dylan even told him "that song sounds familiar"

it reminds me when jim morrison wrote a whole book of poems
that he said he wrote that were already written by a ton of famous
poets from the past.

I digress

the point of this is that donovan wrote simple trippy love songs
that were catchy, melodic, and beautiful and explored early psychedlics
before anyone even thought of it.

if you haven't heard him start with the albums
"sunshine superman" and "hurdy gurdy man"
not just the songs, but the whole album,
they will blow your lid off

1 Comments:

At 7:41 PM, Blogger Sprague said...

"Saw the super bowl and drank the beers advertised during the game. I got way more drunk than the dudes on TV. Mcnabb is a choke artist. His first name is donovan. Wasn't Donavan a new wave group in Britian in the early eighties? They were choke artists too, or they just sucked or they never existed except in my head." 2/7/05
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