Rating: 3/5
Review:
Pleasant but rather ordinary
I’m afraid I can’t quite share the enthusiasm of some reviewers
for Jimmie Spheeris’s music. It’s perfectly OK of its type but
for me it doesn’t really stand out from the huge wash of dreamy
psychy-folky stuff which was around in the late 60s and early 70s.
There are some nice
songs here with decent music, good production and rather Moody
Blues-y lyrics. I can imagine this being played in student rooms
late at night while smoking non-proprietary cigarettes – indeed, I
might have done just that myself if I’d come across Jimmie Spheeris
during my mid-70s university days. Coming to it now, though, it
doesn’t do much for me really; I find it a pleasant haze of rather
generic-sounding stuff but not much more.
Plainly, Spheeris
has a devoted following and others may get more from his music than
me, but personally I can only give this 2-in-1 set a lukewarm
recommendation.
