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Track Listings
| 1. Vine Street |
| 2. Palm Desert |
| 3. Widow's Walk |
| 4. Laurel Canyon Boulevard |
| 5. All Golden |
| 6. Van Dyke Parks |
| 7. Public Domain |
| 8. Donovan's Colours |
| 9. Attic |
| 10. By The People |
| 11. Potpourri |
| 12. Eagle And Me |
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Former child actor Van Dyke Parks had reinvented himself as a songwriter, arranger, raconteur, and budding conceptualist when Warner Bros. bankrolled this brave, baroque 1968 debut, which has achieved true notoriety in the annals of 1960s California pop. More heard-of than heard, Song Cycle sailed against the tide by weaving a conceptual tapestry from folk, Tin Pan Alley, and classical strands. In place of generational anthems or confessional love songs, Parks's coy, modest tenor offered intricate, impressionistic wordplay ripe with puns, multiple-entendres, and geopolitical allusions far beyond the pale of counter-cultural rock. On songs such as "The All Golden", "Palm Desert", and "Laurel Canyon Blvd.", you'll hear poetic links to Brian Wilson's most convoluted, internalised soundscapes, as well as a wily musical intelligence that will either intoxicate or infuriate you. Not unlike a brattier, Californian cousin to Stephen Sondheim, Parks revels in musical and thematic puzzles, and Song Cycle offers his most seductive and challenging ones. --Sam Sutherland
CD Description
When this album was released in 1968 it stood apart from everything else--and still does today. This is not because SONG CYCLE was ahead of its time--rather, it belongs to anothertime and place, a parallel world that draws breath irrespective of calendar, clock, or map. Van Dyke Park's debut carries an apt and simple title. These dozen selections are of a piece, both because of their arrangement and their composition. Parks was already considered a talent to be reckoned with following his collaborative work with Brian Wilson, penning lyrics for The Beach Boys--evocative nuggets of seductive inscrutability. Here again the sounds and the lyrics dart inand around each other like poetic dancers. A song such as "The All Golden" has no clear antecedents. It's musical theatre filtered through a hallucinogenic kaleidoscope. The wholework is rich with a sense of place. It feels quintessentially American, but of the sort that celebrates the strong individual voice. This is an album of singular vision and rare beauty.
Former child actor Van Dyke Parks had reinvented himself as a songwriter, arranger, raconteur, and budding conceptualist when Warner Bros. bankrolled this brave, baroque 1968 debut, which has achieved true notoriety in the annals of 1960s California pop. More heard-of than heard, Song Cycle sailed against the tide by weaving a conceptual tapestry from folk, Tin Pan Alley, and classical strands. In place of generational anthems or confessional love songs, Parks's coy, modest tenor offered intricate, impressionistic wordplay ripe with puns, multiple-entendres, and geopolitical allusions far beyond the pale of counter-cultural rock. On songs such as "The All Golden", "Palm Desert", and "Laurel Canyon Blvd.", you'll hear poetic links to Brian Wilson's most convoluted, internalised soundscapes, as well as a wily musical intelligence that will either intoxicate or infuriate you. Not unlike a brattier, Californian cousin to Stephen Sondheim, Parks revels in musical and thematic puzzles, and Song Cycle offers his most seductive and challenging ones. --Sam Sutherland
CD Description
When this album was released in 1968 it stood apart from everything else--and still does today. This is not because SONG CYCLE was ahead of its time--rather, it belongs to anothertime and place, a parallel world that draws breath irrespective of calendar, clock, or map. Van Dyke Park's debut carries an apt and simple title. These dozen selections are of a piece, both because of their arrangement and their composition. Parks was already considered a talent to be reckoned with following his collaborative work with Brian Wilson, penning lyrics for The Beach Boys--evocative nuggets of seductive inscrutability. Here again the sounds and the lyrics dart inand around each other like poetic dancers. A song such as "The All Golden" has no clear antecedents. It's musical theatre filtered through a hallucinogenic kaleidoscope. The wholework is rich with a sense of place. It feels quintessentially American, but of the sort that celebrates the strong individual voice. This is an album of singular vision and rare beauty.
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