The Lovin' Spoonful

Everything Playing was the last Spoonful album with John Sebastian handling the songwriting. It's his songs that make this album special, despite a few non-Sebastian duds. Tracks like "Boredom" and especially "Younger Generation" are beautiful sunny little flashes of melodic folk-pop that typify the group's greatness.

Despite the beauty of John Sebastian's composing talents and sweet voice there is
something basically disquieting about this recording, especially to old Spoonful fans. It's no
longer the Lovin' Spoonful as we knew it, but something basically much different and not
quite as good. The music that the Spoonful previously made was always intimately involved
with their stance as people. The peculiar feeling they evolved in their music, fro... More >