It's All About

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It's All About
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Studio album by
Released26 July 1968
Recorded Olympic, London [1]
Genre
Length37:42
Label Island
Producer Jimmy Miller
Spooky Tooth chronology
It's All About
(1968)
Spooky Two
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Christgau's Record Guide B− [3]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

It's All About is the 1968 debut album by British band Spooky Tooth, [5] released in the United Kingdom by Island Records on 26 July 1968.

Contents

In West Germany the record was released by Fontana. [6] The American version of the album, entitled Spooky Tooth, was originally released on Bell in 1968. It was reissued in 1971 by A&M Records as Tobacco Road.

Critical reception

Robert Christgau reviewed the album's 1971 American reissue in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), preferring it to the band's other records, "before anybody had figured out how to really exploit all these iron zeppelins and lead butterflies". He concluded that it "offers Beatles harmonies, a roundabout song that preceded Yes's, and a straight remake of 'The Weight' in addition to the hilariously melosoulful John D. Loudermilk cover that provides its U.S. title. Ahh, the good old days." [3]

Track listing

Original album

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Society's Child" Janis Ian 4:30
2."Love Really Changed Me"Grosvenor, Miller, Wright3:33
3."Here I Lived So Well"Wright, Grosvenor, Harrison, Miller5:06
4."Too Much of Nothing" Bob Dylan 3:57
5."Sunshine Help Me"Wright3:02
Total length:20:08
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."It's All About a Roundabout"Miller, Wright2:43
2."Tobacco Road" J.D. Loudermilk 5:33
3."It Hurts You So"Miller, Wright3:03
4."Forget It, I Got It"Miller, Wright3:26
5."Bubbles"Grosvenor, Wright2:49
Total length:17:34

1971 Tobacco Road release

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Society's Child"Janis Ian4:30
2."Love Really Changed Me"Grosvenor, Miller, Wright3:33
3."Here I Lived So Well"Wright, Grosvenor, Harrison, Miller5:06
4."The Weight" Robbie Robertson 3:15
5."Sunshine Help Me"Wright3:02
Total length:19:26
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."It's All About a Roundabout"Miller, Wright2:43
2."Tobacco Road"Loudermilk5:33
3."It Hurts You So"Miller, Wright3:03
4."Forget It, I Got It"Miller, Wright3:26
5."Bubbles"Grosvenor, Wright2:49
Total length:17:34

Personnel

Spooky Tooth
Technical

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Anderson, Jason. "It's All About Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
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  4. Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John, eds. (1983). The New Rolling Stone Record Guide . New York, NY: Random House/Rolling Stone Press. p.  481. ISBN   0-394-72107-1.
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  6. Google Image Result for http://www.rock.co.za/files/fontana_stereo_4.jpg