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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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I assume that almost everyone reading this review: (a) already has at least one album by the Incredible String Band, (b) but not this one, and (c) is wondering whether to spend their hard-earned money on it. My advice is: don't hesitate!
The style is somewhat simpler and more acoustic than on their later albums, but it's a million miles from the sort of folk music that was around at the time. Indeed, I'm not so sure I'd classify it as 'folk' at all. It's played on folk-type instruments, but all that really indicates is that they're traditional English/Scottish (etc) portable instruments, used in non-classical applications. Few, is any, conventional folk musicians had the imagination and originality of these three chraracters, and I'd put them much closer to Dylan - whose material seems far more one-paced in comparison.
There's a sort of 'joy of life' that comes over in these songs, and if you could bottle that you'd surely make a fortune... The secret, maybe, is imagination, and that's here in bucketloads. One example of this that comes to mind is the Smoke Shovelling Song, but the album's full of such invention. Maybe the Incredibles were just too imaginative, recording album after album, which tended to result in this particular album getting overlooked. Also, the later line-up was slightly different, and promoting material by a non-current line-up presumably had marketing disadvantages at the time. The manufacturing run was small, and the album was virtually unobtainable - and also virtually unknown - during the band's most successful commercial period. It was almost as if the record didn't exist!
William Blake gave top billing to 'Creativity and Imagination' and that's what you'll find here. Maybe today's equivalents of the ISB are computer games programmers? Whatever the case, this CD makes much of today's music look very mundane indeed.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This album, the ISB's debut, is hugely overlooked and underrated. If you don't know the 'October Song' then there is an ache in your soul you are not aware of yet. This album is one of the essential ones along with the 3 that followed it- 5000 Spirits, Hangman's Beautiful Daughter,Wee Tam and the Big Huge. Joint 1st for Scotland's finest with (the also hugely underraterd and misrepresented) Donovan, but even more original and adventurous. A dream of a better world and maybe a time-dispatch from a better world.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I have adored the Increds since I was a teenager. I have seen them live in their heyday, and they were magical. However it took me longer to discover this first album, which predates Layers of the Onion and Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. It is earlier, and thus slightly less quirky, but fabulous nonetheless. October Song is one of their all time classics, and there are many more beauties besides! If you have ever liked an Increds song, then you will love this!
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I was Clive Palmer's beard on the sleeve of this!
So says the legendary blackferret, but it isn't true! Another surprise-this album came out in 66, not 67, so these lads, then a trio, were well ahead of the game. Read more
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