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Track Listings
| 1. God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot |
| 2. Mary |
| 3. Better To Find Out For Yourself |
| 4. The Vampire |
| 5. Adam |
| 6. The Dream Tree |
| 7. Suffer the Little Children |
| 8. The Angel |
| 9. With You, Honey |
| 10. Guess Who I Saw In Paris |
| 11. He's A Keeper Of The Fire |
| 12. Poppies |
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By P. Bryant
VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
A difficult one to honestly recommend. Half of this record is brilliant, and half very dubious. Buffy was moving away from her folky days, and "Illuminations" was supposed to be her "electronic" album at the time (1968). Which it isn't, except for a few tweets and warbles here and there. The good half contains some stunning music, including her spinetingling setting of a piece of prose (you'd never know it) by Leonard Cohen called "God is Alive, Magic is Afoot"; then there's "The Vampire" and "The Angel" and "The Dream Tree", all lovely creepy folky songs, and not forgetting "Poppies", the weirdest thing she ever did, a real horror soundtrack ("his hands two hooks of steel"). Great. But alas, you also get some very lame Buffy-goes-rock things, and the one of the world's twee-est movie songs ever, "Guess Who I Saw in Paris". But hey, it's all sung by Buffy Sainte-Marie, who has The Voice. 5 stars for the good half, 2 stars for the bad.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a guillotine of an album. My husband hates it. I love it. We'll never agree. Buffy screams and screeches like Hecate through half the songs and the rest she lilts and lullabies. Scream melts into lilt and lilt graunches back into scream. It's pretty powerful goddess stuff. I think my husband's just scared.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By M. Lee
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I had a copy of this album on vinyl when it first came out (that's showing my age). It was stolen in a burglary many years ago and I was unable to find a replacement.
I think it is a brilliant album though unlike most of Buffy's work. It wont be to everyone's taste but with the track "God is alive, magic is afoot" it is worth having just for that if you're into old hippy psychodelia as I am.
I think it is a brilliant album though unlike most of Buffy's work. It wont be to everyone's taste but with the track "God is alive, magic is afoot" it is worth having just for that if you're into old hippy psychodelia as I am.
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