Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
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Artist: TrafficEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-29
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Heaven Is in Your Mind - Traffic, Capaldi, Jim
- Berkshire Poppies - Traffic, Winwood, Steve
- House for Everyone - Traffic, Mason, Dave [1]
- No Face, No Name, No Number - Traffic, Capaldi, Jim
- Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic, Winwood, Steve
- Dealer - Traffic, Winwood, Steve
- Utterly Simple - Traffic, Mason, Dave [1]
- Coloured Rain - Traffic, Winwood, Steve
- Hope I Never Find Me There - Traffic, Mason, Dave [1]
- Giving to You - Traffic, Capaldi, Jim
- Paper Sun - Traffic, Winwood, Steve
- Giving to You - Traffic, Capaldi, Jim
- Hole in My Shoe - Traffic, Mason, Dave [1]
- Smiling Phases - Traffic, Winwood, Steve
- Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush - Traffic, Capaldi, Jim
Free Music Notes for Mr. Fantasy
Free Music Review: Was good way back when
Hit: 3 Stars
Most songs on this album are psychedelic curiosities. Many songs lack the melody and tunefulness that Steve and the gang can produce in droves. I liked this album when I was in college and was exploring all sorts of late sixties albums and...lots of other things. Many of those albums from the era did hold up over time. This one doesn't.
Mr. Fantasy Poster
It's a rather druggy record, Traffic's debut; in fact, decades later, it's still possible to get a decent contact high off of it. From the stuttering, lyrically ponderous "Heaven Is in Your Mind" to the awe-inspiring psychedelic soul of "Dear Mr. Fantasy," this is Traffic's most reverb-saturated and elliptical release. This 2000 reissue is in mono, but it does finally bring the American and British versions of the record together, so that you get "Paper Sun" and other singles from 1967. Dave Mason-era Traffic was nothing if not eclectic. On Mr. Fantasy, they mix and match the art-prog of Caravan and the goofy psychedelia of Sgt. Pepper's with the mellow groove of Procol Harum, the jazz-blues fusion of Graham Bond with the blues-rock of Cream. All that and sitar, too--not to mention Stevie Winwood's riveting vocals. A sheen of silliness covers at least a third of the album; faux-frumpy songs like "House for Everyone" and "Berkshire Poppies" are not-very-witty vaudeville spoofs that are sung in stuffy British accents. Overall, this is an engaging period piece that makes one give thanks for the Program function on the CD player. --Mike McGonigalClassic Rock Music CDs
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