Spirit - The Family That Plays Together
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Artist: SpiritEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- I Got a Line on You
- It Shall Be
- Poor Richard
- Silky Sam
- Drunkard
- Darlin' If
- It's All the Same
- Jewish
- Dream Within a Dream
- She Smiles
- Aren't You Glad
- Fog [*]
- So Little to Say [#][*]
- Mellow Fellow [#][*]
- Now or Anywhere [*]
- Space Child [#][*]
Free Music Notes for The Family That Plays Together
Free Music Review: Hugely uneven
Hit: 3 Stars
I no longer listen to a lot of music from those days, but Dr. Sardonicus is a CD from that era that still gets an occasional spin. It has no bad tracks, and several great ones. I bought that LP in 1972, played it to death, and replaced it as soon as it was available again on CD. (Which means I don't have the remastered and extra tracks versions.) I bought this LP a couple of years later, and while I liked it, I never warmed to it as much as Dr. S. The sound was thinner, the quality of writing was lesser, the tightly controlled and yet insane creative energy and wacky arrangments heard later had not matured, and there seemed a bit too much self-indulgent noodling around.
I still feel the same way. There are several good tracks on here, and I Got A Line On You is indeed one of the finest pop songs of that (or any other) era, but there is a whiney dirge-like quality that just doesn't attract me. Nothing dreadful, but Dr. Sardonicus is a triumph, and this is not. Listen to "It's All the Same" and tell me you didn't get bored. I sure did..... And "Silky Sam?" Come on, guys, this was hackneyed even in 1968. So, one glorious song, a couple of very good ones, and a few too many dogs. Acceptable, but not eternal.
The Family That Plays Together Poster
One of the most adventurous bands of the late 1960s, Spirit never really found as wide an audience as they deserved for their eclectic blend of rock, jazz, blues, and pop. The closest the group came to mainstream acceptance was this, their 1968-released second album. Propelled by guitarist Randy California's catchy riffing, his stepfather-drummer Ed Cassidy's rock-solid beat, and Jay Ferguson's bluesy vocal, "I Got a Line on You" became a Top 40 hit single, and listeners who were interested enough to buy the LP were rewarded with such broad-horizoned fare as keyboardist John Locke's jazz-flecked "Space Chile," Ferguson's string-aided "Silky Sam," and California and Cassidy's frisky "It's All the Same." --Billy AltmanSpirit wrote the book on the sound they created: a potent synthesis of high-voltage rock, folk, jazz, blues and avant garde electronica. The groundbreaking Los Angeles quintet hit their stride with The Family That Plays Together, whose mega-hit "I Got a Line On You" practically defined underground FM radio in 1968. Spirit's 1969 album Clear found them polishing their art to a fine sheen with dusky jewels like "Dark Eyed Woman and "So Little Time to Fly." Sundazed is knocked-out to present perfect recreations (including Family's striking gatefold sleeve) of both LPs on high-definition vinyl, from the absolute master tapes.
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