Rating: 3/5
Review:
Great song, undistinguished album
This is a review of
the original 1969 Spirit In The Sky album, not the Best Of
compilation.
Spirit In The Sky is
an amiable late-60s pop album. However, apart from the title track
which is an unarguably monumental piece of pop genius, the rest
doesn’t add up to much. There are one or two quite good tracks on
it, like Alice Bodine, but nothing much that stands out as a track
you’d make an effort to listen to again. It’s a little harsh to
say that this shows why Norman Greenbaum was a One Hit Wonder, but as
an album it fades into the background sound of the time without
leaving much of a trace.
My advice – buy
the single, which is superb, and don’t bother with the rest.
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