Label: Yellow Label (Germany), SPV 42412 CD
Style: Rock
Country: Los Angeles, California, U.S., 1969
Time: 53:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 318 Mb
US #55, UK #29, CAN #49. US - Gold.
The album was written largely in the wake of Spirit's work on the soundtrack to the 1968 film Model Shop. Several of the band members have said that they felt there wasn't enough time for developing the album after releasing two albums in 1968, recording a soundtrack and constantly touring. The album contains "So Little Time To Fly", "Dark Eyed Woman" and "New Dope In Town", as well as three instrumentals.
Reviewing for The Village Voice in 1969, Robert Christgau called Spirit "a talented group with guts of cellophane" and lead vocalist/guitarist Randy California "the rock equivalent of the cool, progressive jazzman of the '50s". He commended the album for focusing the better songs on side one of the LP, saying its "mostly excellent rock" shows Spirit "can be very good", but found songs like "Ice" on side two indicative of how "incredibly empty" the band can be as well.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_(Spirit_album))
01. Dark Eyed Woman (03:07)
02. Apple Orchard (04:02)
03. So Little Time to Fly (02:47)
04. Ground Hog (03:01)
05. Cold Wind (03:22)
06. Policeman's Ball (02:21)
07. Ice (05:33)
08. Give a Life, Take a Life (03:20)
09. I'm Truckin' (02:25)
10. Clear (04:08)
11. Caught (03:12)
12. New Dope in Town (04:26)
13. 1984 (Bonus Track) (03:37)
14. Sweet Stella Baby (Bonus Track) (02:55)
15. Fuller Brush Man (Bonus Track) (03:19)
16. Coral (Bonus Track) (01:59)
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