Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle. 1968 (Pop Rock)

Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle. 1968 (Pop Rock)

Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle. 1968

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by Jason Ankeny

Van Dyke Parks moved on from the Beach Boys' abortive SMiLE sessions to record his own solo debut, Song Cycle, an audacious and occasionally brilliant attempt to mount a fully orchestrated, classically minded work within the context of contemporary pop. As indicated by its title, Song Cycle is a thematically coherent work, one which attempts to embrace the breadth of American popular music; bluegrass, ragtime, show tunes -- nothing escapes Parks' radar, and the sheer eclecticism and individualism of his work is remarkable. Opening with "Vine Street," authored by Randy Newman (another pop composer with serious classical aspirations), the album is both forward-thinking and backward-minded, a collision of bygone musical styles with the progressive sensibilities of the late '60s; while occasionally overambitious and at times insufferably coy, it's nevertheless a one-of-a-kind record, the product of true inspiration.

Tracklist:

01. Vine Street

02. Palm Desert

03. Widow's Walk

04. Laurel Canyon Boulevard

05. All Golden

06. Van Dyke Parks

07. Public Domain

08. Donovan's Colours

09. Attic

10. By The People

11. Potpourri

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