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It's All About

Studio album by

Spooky Tooth

Released

26 July 1968

Recorded

Olympic, London^[1]

Genre

Psychedelic rock

Length

37:42

Spooky Tooth chronology

It's All About
(1968)

Spooky Two
(1969)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	B−^[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.

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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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Society's Child"	Janis Ian	4:30
2.	"Love Really Changed Me"	Grosvenor, Miller, Wright	3:33
3.	"Here I Lived So Well"	Wright, Grosvenor, Harrison, Miller	5:06
4.	"Too Much of Nothing"	Bob Dylan	3:57
5.	"Sunshine Help Me"	Wright	3:02
Total length:			20:08

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"It's All About a Roundabout"	Miller, Wright	2:43
2.	"Tobacco Road"	J.D. Loudermilk	5:33
3.	"It Hurts You So"	Miller, Wright	3:03
4.	"Forget It, I Got It"	Miller, Wright	3:26
5.	"Bubbles"	Grosvenor, Wright	2:49
Total length:			17:34

1971 Tobacco Road release

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Society's Child"	Janis Ian	4:30
2.	"Love Really Changed Me"	Grosvenor, Miller, Wright	3:33
3.	"Here I Lived So Well"	Wright, Grosvenor, Harrison, Miller	5:06
4.	"The Weight"	Robbie Robertson	3:15
5.	"Sunshine Help Me"	Wright	3:02
Total length:			19:26

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"It's All About a Roundabout"	Miller, Wright	2:43
2.	"Tobacco Road"	Loudermilk	5:33
3.	"It Hurts You So"	Miller, Wright	3:03
4.	"Forget It, I Got It"	Miller, Wright	3:26
5.	"Bubbles"	Grosvenor, Wright	2:49
Total length:			17:34

Personnel

Spooky Tooth

Mike Harrison – vocals, keyboards, harpsichord
Luther Grosvenor – guitar
Gary Wright – vocals, keyboards, organ
Greg Ridley – bass
Mike Kellie – drums, percussion

Technical

Produced by Jimmy Miller
Engineer: Glyn Johns
Liner notes: Alan Robinson
Album photography: Gered Mankowitz

References

^ "Spooky Tooth-The Island Years". 4 November 2015.
^ Anderson, Jason. "It's All About Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
^ ^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.
^ 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.
^ "The first album is coming..." (PDF). Melody Maker: 12. 6 July 1968. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
^ Google Image Result for http://www.rock.co.za/files/fontana_stereo_4.jpg

External links

It's All About at Discogs (list of releases)
Official Spooky Tooth website

v t e Spooky Tooth
Luther Grosvenor Mike Harrison Mike Kellie Greg Ridley Gary Wright Andy Leigh Henry McCullough Alan Spenner John Hawken Steve Thompson Bryson Graham Ian Herbert Mick Jones Chris Stewart Val Burke Mike Patto Joey Albrecht Michael Becker Steve Farris Shem von Schroeck Tom Brechtlein
Studio albums	It's All About Spooky Two The Last Puff You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw Witness The Mirror Cross Purpose
Other albums	Supernatural Fairy Tales Ceremony
Related	The V.I.P.'s / Art "Better by You, Better than Me"

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