It's All About

It's All About
Studio album by
Spooky Tooth
Released26 July 1968
RecordedOlympic, London[1]
GenrePsychedelic rock
Length37:42
LabelIsland
ProducerJimmy Miller
Spooky Tooth chronology
It's All About
(1968) 		Spooky Two
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB−[3]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide[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.

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 Ian4:30
2."Love Really Changed Me"Luther Grosvenor, Jimmy Miller, Gary Wright3:33
3."Here I Lived So Well"Wright, Grosvenor, Mike Harrison, Miller5:06
4."Too Much of Nothing"Bob Dylan3:57
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. 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

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 Robertson3:15
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

References

  1. ^ "Spooky Tooth-The Island Years". 4 November 2015.
  2. ^ Anderson, Jason. "It's All About Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  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.
  5. ^ "The first album is coming..." (PDF). Melody Maker: 12. 6 July 1968. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  6. ^ Google Image Result for http://www.rock.co.za/files/fontana_stereo_4.jpg