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epic is probably better
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** Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand transformed Donovan's 2 1/2 minute single "There Is a Mountain" into the [[EpicRocking monster live improvisation]] "Mountain Jam", a 33 minute version of which appears on the Allmans' classic 1972 album ''Eat a Peach''.
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** Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand transformed Donovan's 2 1/2 minute single "There Is a Mountain" into the [[EpicRocking monster epic live improvisation]] "Mountain Jam", a 33 minute version of which appears on the Allmans' classic 1972 album ''Eat a Peach''.
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** Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand transformed Donovan's 2 1/2 minute single "There Is a Mountain" into the [[EpicRocking monster live improvisation]] "Mountain Jam", a 33 minute version of which appears on the Allmans' classic 1972 album ''Eat a Peach''.
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* CoveredUp: Many of Donovan's interpretations of more obscure folk-era songs are mistakenly viewed as Donovan originals.
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* CoveredUp: CoveredUp:
** Many of Donovan's interpretations of more obscure folk-era songs are mistakenly viewed as Donovanoriginals.originals.
** Conversely, a whole lot of other people have done versions of "Season of the Witch".
** Many of Donovan's interpretations of more obscure folk-era songs are mistakenly viewed as Donovan
** Conversely, a whole lot of other people have done versions of "Season of the Witch".
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of it was, but most of it was actually made after Donovan quit harder drugs.
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* SongAssociation: "Atlantiis" nowadays is almost always paired up with ''Film/GoodFellas'' whenever it's brought up in online discussions.
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* SongAssociation: SongAssociation:
** "Atlantiis" nowadays is almost always paired up with ''Film/GoodFellas'' whenever it's brought up in onlinediscussions.discussions.
** “Riki Tiki Tavi” is pretty much tied to ''Film/{{Barbarian}}'' due the iconic scene of Justin Long’s character AJ, gleefully singing along to it.
** "Atlantiis" nowadays is almost always paired up with ''Film/GoodFellas'' whenever it's brought up in online
** “Riki Tiki Tavi” is pretty much tied to ''Film/{{Barbarian}}'' due the iconic scene of Justin Long’s character AJ, gleefully singing along to it.
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* {{Narm}}: On more than a number of songs, Donovan sings in an inexplicably strange manner, sounding like some sort of Indian native with a shaky grasp on English, paricularly in pronunciation of consonants. Some people view this as alternately pretentious or off-putting, or both, considering Donovan is a native English speaker (albeit with a pea-soup Scots accent).
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* {{Narm}}: On more than a number of songs, Donovan sings in an inexplicably strange manner, sounding like some sort of Indian native with a shaky grasp on English, paricularly particularly in pronunciation of consonants. Some people view this as alternately pretentious or off-putting, or both, considering Donovan is a native English speaker (albeit with a pea-soup Scots accent).
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Tastes Like Diabetes is no longer a trope. Moving examples to other tropes when applicable.
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Some of his altruistic platitudes can go a little too far sometimes. Rather fittingly, his cover of obscure proto-commercial jingle "Coulter's Candy" definitely veers into this.
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* SongAssociation: "Atlantiis" nowadays is almost always paired up with ''Film/GoodFellas'' whenever it's brought up in online discussions.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** "Celia of the Seals" and its themes of excessive, cruel hunting has only become more relevant as more and more animal face mass extinction at the hands of Man.
** "Universal Soldier". Just... that.
** "Celia of the Seals" and its themes of excessive, cruel hunting has only become more relevant as more and more animal face mass extinction at the hands of Man.
** "Universal Soldier". Just... that.
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* EpicRiff: "Sunshine Superman". To the point that it became a go-to soundcheck jam number for Music/LedZeppelin and similar bands of the era. To a lesser extent, this applies to "Season of the witch" as well.
* FandomRivalry: Donovan might've himself been on good terms with Bob Dylan, but the fans of either artist certainly weren't back in them days.
* FandomRivalry: Donovan might've himself been on good terms with Bob Dylan, but the fans of either artist certainly weren't back in them days.
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* EpicRiff: "Sunshine Superman". To the point that it became a go-to soundcheck jam number for Music/LedZeppelin and similar bands of the era. To a lesser extent, this applies to "Season of the witch" Witch" as well.
* FandomRivalry: Donovan might've himself been on good terms withBob Dylan, Music/BobDylan, but the fans of either artist certainly weren't back in them days.
* FandomRivalry: Donovan might've himself been on good terms with
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* HilariousInHindsight: Donovan doesn't confirm or deny whether the murderered seals in "Celia of the Seals" were beaten to death with [[Music/FrankZappa lead-filled snow shoes]]...
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound of Donovan's beloved red-hued Gibson J-45 guitar and its warm, distinctive sound. Heard on the majority of his recordings from 1965 to the early 1970s, at Which point it Was stolen, never to be heard from again.
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound of Donovan's beloved red-hued Gibson J-45 guitar and its warm, distinctive sound. Heard on the majority of his recordings from 1965 to the early 1970s, at Which point it Was stolen, never to be heard from again.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Donovan doesn't confirm or deny whether the murderered murdered seals in "Celia of the Seals" were beaten to death with [[Music/FrankZappa lead-filled snow shoes]]...
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound of Donovan's beloved red-hued Gibson J-45 guitar and its warm, distinctive sound. Heard on the majority of his recordings from 1965 to the early 1970s, atWhich which point it Was was stolen, never to be heard from again.
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound of Donovan's beloved red-hued Gibson J-45 guitar and its warm, distinctive sound. Heard on the majority of his recordings from 1965 to the early 1970s, at
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* GatewaySeries: To the more folksy side of '60s psychedelia.
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* GatewaySeries: To the more folksy side of '60s psychedelia.psychedelia, what we know as folk-psych (or psych folk, or acid folk) today.
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* EarWorm: "Happiness runs in a circular motion / Thought is like a little boat upon the sea / Everybody is a part of everything anyway / You can have everything if you let yourself be"
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Wick Namespace Migration - How To Write An Example - Do Not Add Multiple Tropes With A Slash/Adding Multiple Tropes With A Slash Is Bad
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* AwesomeMusic: Is there ever! "Colours", "To Try for the Sun", "Sunshine Superman", "The Fat Angel", "Season of the Witch", "Oh Gosh", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "The Voyage of the Moon", "Atlantis" the list goes on and on for days...!
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* AwesomeMusic: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Is there ever! "Colours", "To Try for the Sun", "Sunshine Superman", "The Fat Angel", "Season of the Witch", "Oh Gosh", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "The Voyage of the Moon", "Atlantis" the list goes on and on for days...!
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound of Donovan's beloved red-hued Gibson J-45 guitar and its warm, distinctive sound. Heard on the majority of his recordings from 1965 to the early 1970s, at Which point it Was stolen, never to be heard from again.
* MisaimedFandom: Donovan doesn't seem much pleased with his concerts attracting the worst and most disruptive kind of drugged-out hippies... particularly as he'd already tried to get away from normal rock band-type crowds.
* MisaimedFandom: Donovan doesn't seem much pleased with his concerts attracting the worst and most disruptive kind of drugged-out hippies... particularly as he'd already tried to get away from normal rock band-type crowds.
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* NightmareFuel: Despite otherwise being SweetDreamsFuel, ''H.M.S. Donovan'' features three spooky cuts, not at all helped by the MoodWhiplash for which there is no preparation:
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* NightmareFuel: Despite otherwise being SweetDreamsFuel, SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel, ''H.M.S. Donovan'' features three spooky cuts, not at all helped by the MoodWhiplash for which there is no preparation:
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* MostWonderfulSound: The sound of Donovan's beloved red-hued Gibson J-45 guitar and its warm, distinctive sound. Heard on the majority of his recordings from 1965 to the early 1970s, at Which point it Was stolen, never to be heard from again.
* MisaimedFandom: Donovan doesn't seem much pleased with his concerts attracting the worst and most disruptive kind of drugged-out hippies... particularly as he'd already tried to get away from normal rock band-type crowds.
* MisaimedFandom: Donovan doesn't seem much pleased with his concerts attracting the worst and most disruptive kind of drugged-out hippies... particularly as he'd already tried to get away from normal rock band-type crowds.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped / ValuesResonance:
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* ValuesResonance:
** "Celia of the Seals" and its themes of excessive, cruel hunting has only become more relevant as more and more animal face mass extinction at the hands of Man.
** "Universal Soldier". Just... that.
** "Celia of the Seals" and its themes of excessive, cruel hunting has only become more relevant as more and more animal face mass extinction at the hands of Man.
** "Universal Soldier". Just... that.
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* {{Narm}}: On more than a number of songs, Donovan sings in an inexplicably strange manner, sounding like some sort of Indian native with a shaky grasp on English, paricularly in pronunciation of consonants. Some people view this as alternately pretentious or off-putting, or both, considering Donovan is a native English speaker.
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* {{Narm}}: On more than a number of songs, Donovan sings in an inexplicably strange manner, sounding like some sort of Indian native with a shaky grasp on English, paricularly in pronunciation of consonants. Some people view this as alternately pretentious or off-putting, or both, considering Donovan is a native English speaker.speaker (albeit with a pea-soup Scots accent).
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** "Little Ben" is about a little child who is taken away by a fairy queen to what is implied to be AnotherDimension the doorway to which is in a Rowan grove. The dark and sparse melody as well as the [[NoEnding lack of any kind of resolution]] makes this a harrowingly creepy listen.
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** "Little Ben" is about a little child who is taken away by a fairy queen to what is implied to be AnotherDimension the doorway to which is in a Rowan grove. The dark and sparse melody as well as the [[NoEnding lack of any kind of resolution]] makes this a harrowingly creepy listen. (Children who long to be "away wi'the faeries" probably love it.)
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* AwesomeMusic: Is there ever! "Colours", "To Try for the Sun", "Sunshine Superman", "The Fat Angel", "Season of the Witch", "Oh Gosh", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "The Voyage of the Moon", the list goes on and on for days...!
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* AwesomeMusic: Is there ever! "Colours", "To Try for the Sun", "Sunshine Superman", "The Fat Angel", "Season of the Witch", "Oh Gosh", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "The Voyage of the Moon", "Atlantis" the list goes on and on for days...!
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You a messed up man, Donnie. Messed up.
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* AwesomeMusic: Is there ever! "Colours", "To Try for the Sun", "Sunshine Superman", "The Fat Angel", "Season of the witch", "Oh Gosh", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "The Voyage of the Moon", the list goes on and on for days...!
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* AwesomeMusic: Is there ever! "Colours", "To Try for the Sun", "Sunshine Superman", "The Fat Angel", "Season of the witch", Witch", "Oh Gosh", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "The Voyage of the Moon", the list goes on and on for days...!
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* EarWorm: "Happiness runs in a circular motion /
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* EarWorm: "Happiness runs in a circular motion / Thought is like a little boat upon the sea / Everybody is a part of everything anyway / You can have everything if you let yourself be"
* NightmareFuel: Despite otherwise being SweetDreamsFuel, ''H.M.S. Donovan'' features three spooky cuts, not at all helped by the MoodWhiplash for which there is no preparation:
** "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is already a creepy poem with a DownerEnding from hell, only now the titular walrus has a borderline demonic voice. In fact, the whole production gives off a vibe of a play staged by inmates in a lunatic asylum... thankfully, on the right side of manic/depressive, but still.
** "Little Ben" is about a little child who is taken away by a fairy queen to what is implied to be AnotherDimension the doorway to which is in a Rowan grove. The dark and sparse melody as well as the [[NoEnding lack of any kind of resolution]] makes this a harrowingly creepy listen.
** "Lord of the Reedy River". A woman falls in love with a swan, and transforms into one herself to be with her love. Again, it's the disturbing chords and NothingIsScarier vibes evoked by its lack of resolution of all that gets under your skin. Music/KateBush's cover version does not help.
** "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is already a creepy poem with a DownerEnding from hell, only now the titular walrus has a borderline demonic voice. In fact, the whole production gives off a vibe of a play staged by inmates in a lunatic asylum... thankfully, on the right side of manic/depressive, but still.
** "Little Ben" is about a little child who is taken away by a fairy queen to what is implied to be AnotherDimension the doorway to which is in a Rowan grove. The dark and sparse melody as well as the [[NoEnding lack of any kind of resolution]] makes this a harrowingly creepy listen.
** "Lord of the Reedy River". A woman falls in love with a swan, and transforms into one herself to be with her love. Again, it's the disturbing chords and NothingIsScarier vibes evoked by its lack of resolution of all that gets under your skin. Music/KateBush's cover version does not help.
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* SignatureSong: "Catch the wind" for his pre-psychedelic period; "Sunshine Superman" or "Season of the witch" after.
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* SignatureSong: "Catch the wind" Wind" for his pre-psychedelic period; "Sunshine Superman" or "Season of the witch" Witch" after.
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YMMNV on Donovan's aWesomeness, though.
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* ArchivePanic: See that discography on the main page there? [[LongList Yep.]] And it leaves out some outtake collections and live albums. Needless to say if you wanna catch up on your Donovan you'd better ask for a week off work.
* AwesomeMusic: Is there ever! "Colours", "To Try for the Sun", "Sunshine Superman", "The Fat Angel", "Season of the witch", "Oh Gosh", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "The Voyage of the Moon", the list goes on and on for days...!
* CoveredUp: Many of Donovan's interpretations of more obscure folk-era songs are mistakenly viewed as Donovan originals.
* EarWorm: "Happiness runs in a circular motion /
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Donovan himself as a psychedelic-era folk singer.
* EpicRiff: "Sunshine Superman". To the point that it became a go-to soundcheck jam number for Music/LedZeppelin and similar bands of the era. To a lesser extent, this applies to "Season of the witch" as well.
* FandomRivalry: Donovan might've himself been on good terms with Bob Dylan, but the fans of either artist certainly weren't back in them days.
* GatewaySeries: To the more folksy side of '60s psychedelia.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Americans love Donovan. After he'd stopped charting everywhere else, he continued to to so in the US until the late mid-'70s.
* GrowingTheBeard: "Sunshine Superman", full stop. It's nothing less than a full-scale Kafkaesque metamorphosis from the acoustic guitar balladeer of earlier times.
* HilariousInHindsight: Donovan doesn't confirm or deny whether the murderered seals in "Celia of the Seals" were beaten to death with [[Music/FrankZappa lead-filled snow shoes]]...
* {{Narm}}: On more than a number of songs, Donovan sings in an inexplicably strange manner, sounding like some sort of Indian native with a shaky grasp on English, paricularly in pronunciation of consonants. Some people view this as alternately pretentious or off-putting, or both, considering Donovan is a native English speaker.
* MostWonderfulSound: The sound of Donovan's beloved red-hued Gibson J-45 guitar and its warm, distinctive sound. Heard on the majority of his recordings from 1965 to the early 1970s, at Which point it Was stolen, never to be heard from again.
* MisaimedFandom: Donovan doesn't seem much pleased with his concerts attracting the worst and most disruptive kind of drugged-out hippies... particularly as he'd already tried to get away from normal rock band-type crowds.
* OneSceneWonder: The guest artists on "The Walrus and the Carpenter".
* SignatureSong: "Catch the wind" for his pre-psychedelic period; "Sunshine Superman" or "Season of the witch" after.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped / ValuesResonance:
** "Celia of the Seals" and its themes of excessive, cruel hunting has only become more relevant as more and more animal face mass extinction at the hands of Man.
** "Universal Soldier". Just... that.
* {{Squick}}: "The Pee Song". There's just something extremely off-putting about grown adults singing a song that includes references to urination in every line. Donovan's uncomfortably evocative onomatopoeia and dog noises do little to assuage this.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Some of his altruistic platitudes can go a little too far sometimes. Rather fittingly, his cover of obscure proto-commercial jingle "Coulter's Candy" definitely veers into this.
* TearJerker: "Celeste".
--> ''I wouldn't like to try / the changes she's going through...''
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of it was, but most of it was actually made after Donovan quit harder drugs.
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* AwesomeMusic: Is there ever! "Colours", "To Try for the Sun", "Sunshine Superman", "The Fat Angel", "Season of the witch", "Oh Gosh", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "The Voyage of the Moon", the list goes on and on for days...!
* CoveredUp: Many of Donovan's interpretations of more obscure folk-era songs are mistakenly viewed as Donovan originals.
* EarWorm: "Happiness runs in a circular motion /
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Donovan himself as a psychedelic-era folk singer.
* EpicRiff: "Sunshine Superman". To the point that it became a go-to soundcheck jam number for Music/LedZeppelin and similar bands of the era. To a lesser extent, this applies to "Season of the witch" as well.
* FandomRivalry: Donovan might've himself been on good terms with Bob Dylan, but the fans of either artist certainly weren't back in them days.
* GatewaySeries: To the more folksy side of '60s psychedelia.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Americans love Donovan. After he'd stopped charting everywhere else, he continued to to so in the US until the late mid-'70s.
* GrowingTheBeard: "Sunshine Superman", full stop. It's nothing less than a full-scale Kafkaesque metamorphosis from the acoustic guitar balladeer of earlier times.
* HilariousInHindsight: Donovan doesn't confirm or deny whether the murderered seals in "Celia of the Seals" were beaten to death with [[Music/FrankZappa lead-filled snow shoes]]...
* {{Narm}}: On more than a number of songs, Donovan sings in an inexplicably strange manner, sounding like some sort of Indian native with a shaky grasp on English, paricularly in pronunciation of consonants. Some people view this as alternately pretentious or off-putting, or both, considering Donovan is a native English speaker.
* MostWonderfulSound: The sound of Donovan's beloved red-hued Gibson J-45 guitar and its warm, distinctive sound. Heard on the majority of his recordings from 1965 to the early 1970s, at Which point it Was stolen, never to be heard from again.
* MisaimedFandom: Donovan doesn't seem much pleased with his concerts attracting the worst and most disruptive kind of drugged-out hippies... particularly as he'd already tried to get away from normal rock band-type crowds.
* OneSceneWonder: The guest artists on "The Walrus and the Carpenter".
* SignatureSong: "Catch the wind" for his pre-psychedelic period; "Sunshine Superman" or "Season of the witch" after.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped / ValuesResonance:
** "Celia of the Seals" and its themes of excessive, cruel hunting has only become more relevant as more and more animal face mass extinction at the hands of Man.
** "Universal Soldier". Just... that.
* {{Squick}}: "The Pee Song". There's just something extremely off-putting about grown adults singing a song that includes references to urination in every line. Donovan's uncomfortably evocative onomatopoeia and dog noises do little to assuage this.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Some of his altruistic platitudes can go a little too far sometimes. Rather fittingly, his cover of obscure proto-commercial jingle "Coulter's Candy" definitely veers into this.
* TearJerker: "Celeste".
--> ''I wouldn't like to try / the changes she's going through...''
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: A lot of it was, but most of it was actually made after Donovan quit harder drugs.
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