Future/Full Spoon of Seedy Blues [Import]

Seeds | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Diablo Records UK
• ASIN: B00005J6TC
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #304,273 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Introduction -- March of the Flower Children

2. Travel With Your Mind

3. Out of the Question

4. Painted Doll

5. Flower Lady and Her Assistant

6. Now a Man

7. A Thousand Shadows

8. Two Fingers Pointing on You

9. Where Is the Entrance Way to Play?

10. Six Dreams

11. Fallin'

12. Pretty Girl

13. Moth and the Flame

14. I'll Help You

15. Cry Wolf

16. Plain Spoken

17. The Gardener

18. One More Time Blues

19. Creepin' About

20. Buzzin' Around

Editorial Reviews

UK 'Two On One' reissue combines the American 'garage' band's third & fourth albums (both from 1967) on one CD, 'Future' & 'A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues'. Tracks include the hit, 'A Thousand Shadows'. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Travel with your mind, December 1, 2006

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Fredric A. Cooper "Hollies fan" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Future/Full Spoon of Seedy Blues (Audio CD)

The Seeds WERE the best psychedelic/garage band of the '60s, and their masterpiece "Future" proves it. Here, the band weaves the sitar, tabla, harpsicord, and even a tuba (!) into their music, and is all the better for it. The opening track with the spoken word intro is a bit hokey, but once past that, the stunning music commences. "Travel with your mind" is a beautiful piece, equalling anything done by groups of the era. The hit-that-got-away, "The Flower Lady and Her Assistant", is an absolutely mesmerising cut, and will haunt you for days afterwards. The melody stays in the brain, a sign of great music. The hit "A Thousand Shadows" was actually a B-side that got airplay; the band's record company was rather clueless at this point when it came to choosing singles, which undoubtedly led to the band's early demise, as did the decision to release the blues album, then credited to The Sky Saxon Blues Band. Something akin to commercial suicide, the band never recovered from this error. Had they been signed to a major label the project would have been nixed.

13 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars interesting material, bad compilation, December 6, 2001

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Socrates (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Future/Full Spoon of Seedy Blues (Audio CD)

The Seeds was not the greatest psychedelic/ garage-rock band. The main problem IMHB was their vocalist who's limited to Mick Jagger-imitation, which get on your nerves after three or four songs. Which is not to say those songs are bad, in fact if you just play the sitar and tabla dominated "Travel With Your Mind," when you're in a trippy mood, it's great, just don't play the whole album at once.

The First half of the album comes from the album "A Spoon full of Seedy Blues" and consists of trashy variation of the early Fleetwood Mac stuff. Some of their spicy musical arrangements of the psychedelic album "Future," which forms the second half on the disc, are truly mind altering.
Only those two albums, obviously combined on one dic for commercial purpose, don't fit together at all. The booklet is not too interesting either, appart from a couple of pictures. On the other hand, the remastering is well done, so in the end the good stuff is there just not very well presented.