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Spirit - 1970 - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
This, the last album from the original lineup, is to me one of the the greatest albums ever made. It's got everything- fantastic songs-great production-competent and inspired musicians! The sound is more psychedelic with guitars zooming between the speakers and a lot of backwards tapes. The songwriting is more consistenly mature than on the previous albums. The album was initially a failure commercially, and this sadly led to the group breaking up. Ed Cassidy said in the Time Circle booklet: "There was frustration (...) we had had what we thought was going to be successful, and I think everybody started to think, 'Maybe it's not working. Maybe it's time to move on.' This was sort of like 'The last hurrah', so to speak, and I think that's one of the reasons why it became a classic album. It was advanced for it's times, doing a lot of things electronically that were not being done, and the arranging of songs and how we had initiated the blending of one song into another." 01 - Prelude - Nothin' To Hide 02 - Nature's Way 03 - Animal Zoo 04 - Love Has Found A Way 05 - Why Can't I Be Free 06 - Mr. Skin 07 - Space Child 08 - When I Touch You 09 - Street Worm 10 - Life Has Just Begun 11 - Morning Will Come 12 - Soldier LINK
