TGIF Rock-n-Roll Oldies: Donovan 1966

Reaganite Republican ^ | February 18, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

[hoagy62]

Wasn’t Donovan declared “a little too happy” for normal people and shuffled off to a home for the crazed at one time?

[rahbert]

I had all his albums and the calico Nehru jacket that goes with them...

[skeeter]

Here he is on Phenobarbital.

[IronJack]

The Intergalactic Laxative will get you from here to Mars.

[radiohead]

I still play something from Donovan maybe every 2 weeks. It’s good stuff, you can work while it’s playing, and I remember the good old days when I listen to it.

[Stormdog]

“I always thought it was titled “Jenifer Juniper”. I actually liked that song...now, I don’t know, ain’t the same.
: (”

Go back to liking it. It is Jennifer Juniper.

[Condor51]

I HATED Donovan.
And 'Sunshine Superman', it made my skin crawl. The lyrics are insipid clap-trap, the music sucks and so does his voice.

And I don't know what that guitarist is supposed to be playing but I'd have suggested he play more than ONE *%$#ing NOTE.

[Reaganite Republican]

My thoughts exactly

Big Radiohead fan too... little depressing tho lol

[Reaganite Republican]

Look, there’s no need to sugar-coat it for me lol

[Reaganite Republican]

PS- it’s a song of courtship written to American actress Sue Lyon

[RegulatorCountry]

Way down below the ocean
Where I want to be
She may be.

[Reaganite Republican]

Or not, lol

[RegulatorCountry]

I've always loved that one, wacked-out and spacey paganish though it may well be. I played it at midnight on New Year's Eve for many years.

The continent of Atlantis was an island
Which lay before the great flood
In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean

So great an area of land that from her western shores
Those beautiful sailors journeyed to the south
And the North Americas with ease
In their ships with painted sails

To them East Africa was a neighbor
Across a short strait of sea miles
The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of the Atlantian culture
The antediluvian kings colonized the world
All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas
In all legends from all lands were from far Atlantis

Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships
To all corners of the Earth, on board were the
Twelve, 'The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist
The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends'

Though Gods they were
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice and let us sing
And dance and ring in the new

Hail Atlantis!

[Tainan]

I have always like that guy and his music.

[Tainan]

I have always liked that guy and his music. Damn sticky keyboard.

[Fresh Wind]

You can almost smell the reefer when a lyrisist runs out of ideas and writes: deedee dadee da da dee dee da da dee

Maybe it's Morse code. I think it spells out L-S-D.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Radiohead just released their new album Friday;

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1620515.php/Radiohead-release-album-early