Theatrical perpetrators John and Terence Boylan were certainly aware of the musical changes that were going on around them in the late 60s, and tried to include a majority of them in this strangely beguiling album originally released on Verve.
It’s essentially a mixture of folkish pop and some Greenwich Village social commentary/satire, with the latter having been covered better on The Four Seasons’ Genuine Imitation Life Gazette. The songs here are punctuated by stoner references and outside influences, often overtly referencing them, with songs such as Hightower Square drawing from The Beatles’ Penny Lane. You’re The Biggest Thing In My Life, supposedly a pause among the rest, is actually one of the most effective songs, which leaves us wondering whether the Boylans simply didn’t have the confidence to make a straight album, opting instead to go with wackiness. Charming, weird, questionable, interesting – though not to all.
