DONOVAN ALBUM POLL? GET OUTTA HERE! Are you serious?

I always liked the acoustic Donovan. I don't hear a Dylan clone. He's much more melodic and less lyrically intense. But "To Try for the Sun," "Sunny Goodge Street," "Colours," "Universal Soldier" (Ok, BUffy Sainte-Marie), John Phillips' "The Ballad of the Tin Soldier"...Catch the Wind, Josie, Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do...all faves....later stuff, less consistent, though Legend of a Girlchild Linda, Sunny South Kensington...lots of cool stuff...the Little Ones used to drive me insane. And by Barabajagal I couldn't abide anymore, but have tried....Open Road, really? I've never heard HMS Donovan...where's that one from the 80s? The one with Local Boy Chops Wood...that was pretty awful from what I remember...anyone going to go for Sutras?

Barabajagal by the proverbial country mile, the title track & "Atlantis" rule and reign o'er me

I went with The Hurdy Gurdy Man. The title track is classic, but for me what brings this one to the top is the back-to-back duo of "Get Thy Bearings" and "Hi It's Been A Long Time". Even on CD the drum sound on "Get Thy Bearings" is fierce; I'd love to hear it sampled in a hip-hop song. Great horns too. The drums are also great on "Hi It's Been A Long Time", but the harpsichord (or electric piano or whatever it is) sounds great mixed in with the drums. For those three songs are enough to bring it to the top. I don't go bonkers for Donovan or anything, so I don't expect these views to be standard. I think a lot of people would really go for those two songs but are driven away by the other side of Donovan's sound, which is admittedly a bigger part of his work overall.

Definitely "From a flower to a Tree". Some of his best acoustic stuff is on the "For Little Ones" LP.

Barabajagal for the same reasons as m plus Superlungs My Supergirl and To Susan On The West Coast Waiting. There's better songs on other albums, but overall I'll take this one.

"Sunshine Superman" it is. Too bad no stereo mix of the entire album is available anywhere though.

Barabajagal!!!

man he had a lot of records, I haven't heard half this stuff

Definitely "From a flower to a Tree". Some of his best acoustic stuff is on the "For Little Ones" LP.

OTM. What is "Everlasting Sea"?

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Sunshine Superman

The title track, Linda, Season of the Witch and Celeste!

I really like Sunshine Superman, especially "Three King Fishers," but I haven't heard anything else

Sorry, Bimble, it's SS over here 'cause I've loved "Ferris Wheel" since the day I first heard it.

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Hmm. I'll not comment on the *ahem* number one spot *LOUD COUGH* but I'm pleasantly surprised to see Hurdy Gurdy Man place so highly. Barabajagal is something I really do need to try again, methinks. Not because it won, but because I'd pulled it out intending to play it again recently. I don't have much memory of it, to be honest.

"Sunny South Kensington" off Mellow Yellow is better than anything off Sunshine Superman, which just goes to show how wrong you 9 people are. In truth I don't really like Mellow more than Superman or vice versa, but if I had to choose, I'd choose Mellow Yellow because of that song. So yes, folks in extreme disagreement about music shockah on ILM, etc...

Also I know the people who like Open Road are just not on ILX anymore. There used be some folks like that, here.

Side 2 of Open Road is where it's at! Riki Tiki Tavi > Clara Clairvoyant > Roots of Oak > Season of Farewell > poke @ the pope > new years resovolution!

Sorry I wasn't here to rep for it at the time Bimble of the universe.