The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

Doors predecessor

When your top song only reached 55 on billboard and another reached 129, it immediately loses credence for me. I still listened to a few songs but very quickly heard all I needed to which was another outdated and out of touch selection for this list. The only thing this has going for it is the album cover which is really cool. Put better albums on here.

Not the worst I've been given here, but still: humanity has moved on

nn

sayer les rolling stones wannabe

Ok

Overrated, and the “jug” gimmick gets old real fast.

The guy making weird sounds in the background really took away from what is otherwise a good album. Sounds a bit like Bob Dylan and other classic rock, but I really can't get over that random dude.

Interesting...the electric jug behind all the songs was semi distracting/annoying. Outside of that I am a decent fan. 2.5/5

Not the biggest fan of this one. Pretty samey and boring, no tracks particularly stood out to me

Not a lot of variety. It was almost like listening to the same song 10 times in a row.

I had definitely heard "You're Gonna Miss Me" but never knew who had recorded it. It's still a fun song. I especially like the 60's surf-rock/garage-rock sound of it. The rest of the songs are okay at best but I had to admit I quickly grew tired of the shrill sound of most of the tracks, and some of the psychedelic gimmicks just aren't really my thing.

This continues to be a very divisive album for me. On one hand, I love how weird and raw it is for 1966. It’s one of the first proper psych rock albums, meaning virtually every band I love owes 13th Floor their due. On the other hand, it’s not very good. I mean, it’s good for 66, when there was nothing else like this happening, but it’s a bit tougher to get through now a days. The mix doesn’t sit right, songs feel rushed but also too long. But mostly, it’s just kind of boring. There were bands doing similar sounds much more successfully imo. Do check out the opener, You’re Gonna Miss Me. It’s a fun track, as well as the bands only charting song.

Weird album. Didn’t really spark anything.

There are a bunch of elements here that I really like. But overall the album never really moves me. And I think I hate that woogie-woogie-woogie sound in the background of a lot of songs. So, a little disappointed, but not bad. I did dig Tried to Hide, so there's that.

Mediocre psychedelic music from an unknown band that will remain forever in obscurity. The music just plain sucked. Nothing interesting happened and I found myself skipping through songs after a minute or two of listening. Not very good and I'll stick to the more well known names.

2/5. This band isn’t bad, although they incorporate this hiccup/laughing sound that they found out how to play on their guitars that they somehow fell in love with. Thus, I can only give this album a suboptimal ranking.

Yet another bland early psychedelic rock album

A quirky time capsule which bounces along with its psychedelic backing sounds but ultimately starts to drag with the repetition.

Less or no electric jug would have made this better.

Classic psychedelic rock but also very one dimensional for my liking 5/10

BL: aware of these guys through the Nuggets compilation. Would’ve listened to them around December ‘20 but never dug deeper into them, I guess now’s the time AL: pretty radical stuff. While it isn’t necessarily mind blowing to listen to for the time it would’ve been boundary pushing. The use of the jug is very cool and adds a dynamic not really seen in any other music before or after. But generally I don’t think I’ll be revisiting this one - it all gets caught up in the 60s psych rock wave, many better and more cutting acts from that time. FT: “Roller Coaster” 2/5

Not enjoyable but not too bad

Highlights: "Don't Fall Down," "Kingdom of Heaven," "Splash 1," "Roller Coaster" Comes a few months after Fifth Dimension and Revolver, by which I mean it doesn't quite get the good faith praise of trying new things. "Don't Fall Down" is the most creative and interesting track, on par with the prescient harmonic forays of the Byrds. It almost sounds like a contemporary lo-fi indie hit. Too bad it's ruined by the constant "electric jug" work that's literally just a guy chattering "doodoodoodoo" nonstop, and the last minute wailing session like every other track. This guy beat Robert Plant to the achievement of sounding like a cat with hernia. Actually, scratch that -- these guys predicted Yoko Ono, which makes them prophetic geniuses.

the 13th floor elevators? more like the 13th bore perpetrators! le epic 😎

Great psychedelic music but would sound better without the jug

holy crap

Ehh, not for me

The Rolling Stones in 2010?

uhhhhh I'm good on this one thanks

Felt like it was trying to be psychedelic for the sake of being psychedelic.

No es mi estilo

Sounds really bad, I don't know if the digital versions are the only thing that suffer from this, but it was basically unintelligible for the most part.

Enjoyed "Missed", but rest is poor garage rock. Sonics and Black Monks are far better.

Hmm viides 2/5 jonka annan putkeen. Onkohan minulla jotenkin stressaantunut viikko. Tässä alkoi tuo "ruukku"-soitin hieman ärsyttämään. Ihan jees noin sinänsä.

I guess credit must be given for their influence on the psychedelic/garage sound but it did not resonate with me.

Maybe it was a little innovative, but it seemed very average to me. So much so that I'm going to give it 2 stars.

They use the same effect in EVERY song. I get it’s novel for the time but every song sounds the same. Very 60s psychedelic tho 2/5

It’s the 60s psych sound with no thrills

Lol, wut? I've heard other groups from later eras messing with sounds and frequencies like this to try and enhance psychedelic experiences, but that fact that if you just removed the electric jug it would just be standard issue garage rock was very strange. Not bad per se, but I don't think I'd listen to this again, on drugs or not.

This album would have been decent, but the goddamn electric jug was so distracting from the decent music underneath it. 1.5/5

Generic 60s hippie junk.

Was OK, 60s music but nothing special. No need for each track three times over though

A wild ride that doesn't make much sense

A bit annoying

Psychedelic is a plus, I woudn't call it bland but it's taking this direction unfortunately

I like psych rock but nothing really stood out on this album and the sound was a bit muddy and some of the vocals became grating at certain points. Probably could have been a 3-star for me because I like this type of music but in the grand scheme of albums I "need" to listen to, it drops to 2-stars

I thought this was going to be a great album after the first song but nothing else really held up to that. It was pretty standard 60s rock for over an hour.

If this album were 45 minutes long I think they would have been onto something but it just draaaaaaags. 1 point for producing the psychedelic rock sound that was so popular in the 60s, I do respect that.

Muddy

Eh. I really like the first song. After that this album is way too long and feels like one long song.

Another 60's psychedelic album... They're starting to blend together at this point! This one didn't impress me and sounded like many others to my ears. I don't even feel inspired to write about it.

Wobble board.

Psychedelic indeed. It was about what I was expecting, I've never heard of this band before, it definitely had that 60s psychedelic sound, maybe it was one of the first, I'm not sure, it sounded very generic 60s to me, not impressive like a Jefferson Airplane, although I could see this as influencing the sounds of other more famous acts. Not very memorable to me.

I actually liked the electric jug. My main issue with this is the fuzziness of the mixing. I mean it's very fuzzy I had to check if my headphones are broken. Setting it aside, I almost believed that the electric jug stuff is the only notable thing that this album did. But alas, it apparently invented psychedelic rock itself. So, kudos for that I guess.

You're Gonna Miss Me was a good opener and a decent tune in its own right. I liked the first half but the music went stale as the album went on. An okay listen and it would be a 3 for average, but that jug playing got on my nerves by the end.

Non male ma un po riptitivo e troppo ispirato a roba vecchia

Heard this in a thoroughly shit mood but I suspect I just don't like psychedelia... the constant spacey guitar sound, the messy vocals, the superfluous noises going on in the background, the lot. If I knew more about music production I'd be able to describe it all better, but it's roughly along the lines of everyone being recorded in an echo-y room, from 20 yards away, with the drummer in the next postcode. I had never heard this album before, but it sounded like something I had already heard a 1000 times. And not in a good way. Mostly horrid, but quite listenable in places. Prime cut: Reverberation.

I recognised 1 song, there was this annoying backing sound that irritated me! Otherwise would have given it a 3

Eh

The electric jug was a mistake. Ruined an otherwise okay album. Best track: You're Gonna Miss Me

Cool title. Sounded like gruel but unlike Oliver Twist I do not want more.

Didn't really click with this at all, none of the songs were especially distinct or memorable

There are so many little short songs! Loved the intro to "Roller Coasters", the psychedelic surf rock vibes really lead you down the spiral alongside the other deeply laid background effects. Singer taking a background to this and the ephemeral tempo shifts are very very enticing. That said, this music that my parents would have dug, for me had its moment and while historically important isn't compelling.

I found the back ground noise - sounds a bit like a turbo wastegate flutter on a number of tracks just annoying. I get that this was an experimental time for music, but it's just distracting.

Every song has this sound in the background that I can only describe as a pigeon cooing or maybe "underwater" bubbling. I suppose it was the 60's and everyone was experimenting with new sounds and formulas but this one got annoying REALLY quickly. Unfortunately, once heard I couldn't concentrate on anything else

This album was okay. Some interesting sounds but overall it wasn't for me

First song is a hit. the rest is just psychadelia.

I've always heard great things about The 13th Floor Elevators' debut album, "The Psychedelic Sounds of...". From those I've heard mention it, it's been held up as a hidden gem that sowed some very fragrant psychedelic seeds into the late 60's. Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane? All supposedly a few floors behind 13. As it is, it might be one of the most disappointing albums I've heard. Context is everything- yes, it's slightly ahead of the curve and the band may have coined the term "psychedelic rock", but that doesn't necessarily make it any more enjoyable. What I will say for it is that it has a really strong opening track: "You're Gonna Miss Me", at least, deserved to be a hit. It's short, snappy, and comes over like a logical progression from British Invasion style rock into something a little more spacey. The vocalist and guitarist, Roky Erickson, sounds like Robert Plant a full three years before Zeppelin would be blowing up the scene. They recapture the same energy in "Fire Engine", my other choice cut here along with "Monkey Island". It would have been good to hear more along these lines, even if it meant sacrificing some of the more introspective moments. That's just the problem, though: so much of the album is mid-tempo, meandering and shapeless that it's a drag even for 35 minutes. In the slower ballads (like "Splash 1") they sound like a watered-down Moody Blues... and THAT is saying something. The production also makes it a difficult listen: everything's swamped out with no definition ("Reverberation" indeed), there's fairly frequent unpleasant distortion and the electric jug (Tommy Hall) is usually a little too invasive. It works as a gimmick in "You're Gonna Miss Me" and then quickly becomes fairly tiresome. Listening casually, I didn't really pick up on anything spirited, excited or dynamic in the musicianship. For all the lysergic cover art, it mostly defaults to pretty basic blues/garage rock with an electric jug thrown in- no outstanding performances here. Not really any catchy melodies to grab hold of either: it feels a bit like they got so excited with the psychedelics and forgot to inject any pop. Maybe this suffered for the high expectations I had of it. Maybe I'll come back to it another day and fall in love. But for today, it wasn't a good trip. I'll just take the stairs.

Het eerste nummer ken ik van de Foo Fighters docu. Best lekker. Maar daarna is het me toch allemaal iets te zweverig.

Misschien helpt het om te blowen terwijl je dit luistert? Nuchter kon ik er niet echt grip op krijgen.

Not really very psychedelic if I'm being honest. A little grating on the ears, at times weird and uncomfortable, I'm not sure what this album was going for.

I don’t know if psychedelia had a common sound or whether this album influenced a lot of bands that were around either at the same time or shortly after that they does Appear to be a very similar sound to other more mainstream groups within this album. Its a bit too psychedelic for me, I get that this is this album is from 1966, it is very much of that time, sadly it doesn’t translate well into the 2020s

Yksittäisinä biiseinä tai pössyissä saattais arvostaa enemmän, mutta 90 min jamit tämän tahtiin alkoi lähenemään sielun itsetuhoa.

not for me

det var ok

I didn't enjoy this as much as I hoped I might. All felt quite samey. I often am disappointed that psychedelic is often just code for "a bit shit". "The music doesn't have to be good because it psychadelic man!"

This list is giving me psychedelic rock exhaustion 😩

boring, too much, not fun, dont like it

One of the first bands to use the term psychedelic rock - if you couldn't tell by the colourful trip-inducing album cover. The use of the "hillbilly" jug as a sound is thankfully not too prominent and blends in quite well. Overall, a good psych rock album, although there weren't too many standouts. Best: You're Gonna Miss Me Worst: Don't Fall Down 2.5 Stars Note: Spotify had the 2008 Remaster Edition, but I only listened to the original tracks

I liked the album but the constant distortion effect present on most tracks gave me a headache.

It was ok considering it was psychedelic

It was fine. A lot of songs started to blend together. Could be a symptom of production at the time, but it was fine. Favourite Tracks: it was fine.

I find the bubbling of the electric jug distracting. Easy to see how these guys were influencial founders of the psychedelic rock scene.

As far aw psychadelic rock goes this is quite mild but not bad. Howeve the spund quality degrades the experience.

Normally I can dig classic garage rock, and I've been known to enjoy some psychedelic rock, but this combination of the two just did not click for me.

To be quite honest, I just wasn’t in the mood to listen to this. It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever heard, but it just didn’t strike my fancy. So I only listened to a few songs before turning it off.

Perhaps a bit forgettable in a sea of similarly "out-there" releases.

Sounds like pretty basic psychedelic rock from the 60s.

Too loud

It’s a pretty generic 60s album. Has its rock and psychedelic moments but there’s nothing that really stands out. It’s a long album and feels like it. Overall it’s meh. 5.1/10

I can't hear you speak up son

The electric jug was cool for a couple of songs but gets a little irritating the more I hear it. Would of liked it more as an accent than warbling through entire songs.

I have never heard of the artist or any of the music. There was this strange wibble-wobble noise that found its way into the background of ¿half? of the tracks. I think I like some psychodelic music, but the first listen of this album came up with 2 stars.

You can hear the influence of albums like this in all kinds of media when they're trying to communicate someone is on a drug trip. The sound is very big and messy, largely because of the heavy reverb. Also, there's a backing track throughout the album that I really don't like the sound of, it's a synth maybe? Hopping back and forth between notes like somebody messing with their zipper. Irked me.

Fine - but sounded exactly how I thought it would sound. No hooks really. Not for me.

back at the chicken shack leek meer op liftmuziek dan dit. Niet helemaal overtuigd.

annoying psychedelic rock with grating vocals and an overreliance on this electric jug thing that drives me nuts. 2/5

2.7 - Wanted to like this but the recording even after a remaster sounds grimy. No real standout tracks. To me there isn’t that much to distinguish this as a psychedelic record.

You are gonna miss me, and psicodelic circus

reencuentro

Ni me di cuenta como iba pasando

Odd. Not my favorite.

...

psychedelic pop

It’s ok.

It moved back and forth between interesting and odd

Muy psicodélico pero lo que no me gustó fue el exceso de tucutucutucutucutu en todas las canciones, quién les dijo que eso estaba en onda?

ok

2.5

60s-era psychedelic rock, sounds like the Doors again a little.

So, this was the first album to put the word Psychedelic on the cover? Explains some of why I disliked it so much. The rest of why I disliked it was the electric jug. That noise permeated so many songs, and was utterly distracting. I can't find a way to justify more than 1*. I hated this.

shite

Now I know why the electric jug never entered mainstream music. If you ever wanted an hour of the “more cowbell” SNL sketch, boy are you in for a treat.

Just the worst

1.5 Awful week for this project. All 1s and 2s, all new listens as well. I feel like as I enter the final leg of this project I’m getting all the weird leftovers. Absolutely forgettable, bland. I don’t really like psychedelic rock.

favs: thru the rhythm tried to hide rating 0.9/5

Wow, I really disliked this. Every track has this extremely annoying “instrument” sound that I don’t know how to describe—an attempt at a signature sound? Anyway, it’s silly and relentless. Rubber Soul and Revolver came out the same year as this “psychedelic” album. That’s all I have to say.

That sound. Is that the jug? Uh, that is.... unceasing...incessant...relentless...constant... excessive. If I try to imagine this without the incessant vocalized bleepy bloops, it's 60s garage rock. Not really for me. With the jug, I definitely don't want to hear again.

weird

1. mizz - 1.5 2. roller - 1.5 3. zplazh - 1 4 reverb -1 5. douun - 1 6. fire - 0 7. rythym - 1 8. knouu - 1 9. heaven - 1 10.monkey - 1 11. hide - 1

Drogengeklimper.

Not a mood

Поки це найгірший альбом з усіх. Це звучить жахливо і не цікаво жахливо, а просто жахливо

Couldn’t get through the full 1hr 30 min album. Every song sounds the same

I think they took "psychadelic rock" a bit too literally, because this is so psychadelic that it's actually annoying. For like half the album I can't even tell what's going on or what instrument is playing because there's too much happening all at once, it's completely mind numbing. This feels more like getting hit by a train than having an insane trip on psychadelics.

I totally get why this album made the curator’s list. I feel like I’ve heard every track before even though I haven’t. It’s just so… 60’s psychedelic rock. Hard pass.

meh not a bit of me

So this is here because it's the earliest known use of the word "psychedelic" on an album title? It's shit.

I’m only giving this one star because you don’t have a choice but to give something one star. If it was up to me it would be removed from the list. I kept waiting for something redeemable in this record and it never happened.

I found absolutely no joy in this at all.

We're on a roll of bad albums it seems. wish.com led zeppelin over here i put a 1 because its the only album so far i cant see myself re-listening to any of it. also, i know its old, but holy the recording quality is atrocious

1/5

Crap

The jug is bad. This much jug is absolute insanity. Does this just make the list because of the audacious amount of jug??

I. Hate. This. It would have been listenable had they never once picked up the gimmicky jug thingy. Thank god I never have to listen to this again. 1/5

Розумію чому цей альбом тут є і його впливовість. Водночас мені здається, що саме така психоделічна музика не не дуже добре постаріла

No. It's like a worse version of the Doors. I feel like Jim Morrison is laughing at them. A lot of drugs probably went into making these songs. There's no depth to any of the instrumentals. They sound like a terrible opener for a headlining concert in 1972. Everyone at that concert went to the bathroom during their set. As they should. The only reason they are probably on the list here is because of their kitschy name, which makes no sense - just like the "music".

Highly overrated. I’ve listened to this album before and didn’t like it. I dreaded having to listen to it again. It was such a chore

Annoying sound effect ruined it for me

If I was going to host a psychedelic party, I’d use this as the soundtrack. Fortunately, I’m never going to host a psychedelic party. This is horrible!

strange

The gibbering jug noises get too annoying after about 3 songs

I really can’t stand the psych rock this list is determined to showcase as something you must hear before you die. So much of it is downright awful. This one tries to take psych rock and blend in some surf and garage rock, and I even heard a lil’ country twang in the instruments on one song. It doesn’t work well, and the singer’s absolute trash voice only makes it worse

Rating this lower than perhaps it deserves becausd it just disappointed me so much. From the description I figured this would be something I would really enjoy, as I like psychedelia overall. Sometimes they sounded like The Doors, sometimes they sounded like The Zombies, and sometimes they sounded like the Flying Burrito Brothers, but it was never good. Also have to shout out the production on this is terrible and the album overall just sounds like shit.

Psychedelic is no lie. Typical, experimental, 60s nonsense. Is the record warped, is Ralf Harris in the background with his wobble board, or did an alien join their band whilst smacked up on opium? In the words of Mr. Mackey "Drugs are bad, m'kay"

I thought I’d like this one much more than I did. Very little in the songs felt particularly interesting. I really dislike the sound that is repeated in many of the songs, and I didn’t really hear an electric jug either. Is it that awful noise on Fire Engine? If it is I am definitely not a fan.

First song was full of promise for the album From there it plummeted.

Guess you had to there.

Psychedelic music is always a bit hit and miss for me but this is just crooning over jangly guitars.

God this was awful. 60s psych rock is really not my thing. And the electric jug really got on my nerves.

Cut the fuckin ropes of this elevator so it crashes

Terrible singing and too long— a perfect formula to make me hate something. I’m hoping this one will get “Psychedelic Rock” booted from my top genres list

So derivative it's insulting to the word derivative

Well, that was certainly an album. The "electric jug" sound effect was sooooo annoying. Nothing stood out except that, and it didn't stand out in a good way.

Bad music for a bad acid trip.

💩

I just don't understand what the point of this project is. It seems like every rock band at the time thought that going for psychedelia was a good idea. And while that may have worked for some bands, it didn't work for others, which is the case here. Besides being boring, forgettable, and unoriginal for its time, this album is pathetic. If that's the sound that plays in elevators, I'd rather have silence.

Blech. I try to make it through every album. With this one, I couldn't.

Wild mix Beatles - Stones - Monkeys and maybe a liitle bit of magic mushroms. What is the sensation of this record?

not connecting with it it’s again kind of generic. might be meaningful as an original influence on later music but i don’t see it.

Dnf bc what the hell

From Wikipedia, "The album's sound ... is notable for its use of the electric jug, as featured on the band's only hit, "You're Gonna Miss Me", which reached number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100" Oh, for fucks sake. I get the feeling that there was a meeting at 1001 Albums HQ, where Robert Dimery (speaking in a Chicago accent) removed his sunglasses and said, "This needs more cowbell, boys. More cowbell. What's more cowbell than cowbell, boys?" There were no girls, there was, however, a lingering silence. The kind of silence that only comes when someone temperamental with obscene amounts of money says something completely guff. Through the fog of cigar smoke, a falsetto junior piped up nervously, "The ... The electric jug, sir?" "Get some electric jug on this list now goddamnit, I don't care if no-ones ever heard of it, they'll hear of it now. More electric jug!"

Nö!

Groupe totalement inconnu. Et très ennuyeux. Encore un album avec un temps ressenti bien plus important que la réalité. La cruche électrique n'amène pas grand chose. =>1/5

I've never heard of this band or album before, but I've seen this album cover on the list site, and it's certainly eye catching. The psychedelic albums from the sixties that I've reviewed so far have been pretty underwhelming in my opinion, so I don't have incredibly high hopes for this album. I guess it's time to hop on the 13th Floor Elevator! I really didn't care much for this album. This might be an influential album, but I didn't enjoy listening to it. That electric jug drove me up the wall the entire album, and the only place I could hide from it was on "Splash 1," which really was a fine song. That electric jug completely hijacked the sound in my opinion. Granted, I didn't think there was a lot of noteworthy things going on outside of the jug sounds, but it certainly didn't help anything. I respect the vision that went into crafting this album, but this is a big miss in my opinion.

I will die happy if I never have to hear the electric jug again in my life. Who let Yoko in the studio??

Nah, man. This ain't it for me. It feels like every band in the mid-to-late 60s was producing this same exact sound. This is just Jefferson Airplane or The Doors with a different singer. It's also why I don't particularly like those bands either.

It all starts the same. I do like the more surf sounding songs, but ultimately, it’s not for me.

man ist das alt, klingt alt- ist alt und diese "gedippe" im Hintergrund nervt auf Dauer

I was scared and uncomfortable listening to this

I’m told this is the first true psychedelic rock so I guess at least I know who to hold responsible for the rest of it

overdosis jug...

middling psych rock as it is but the electric jug pushes this into unlistenable territory...like not even in a gauging the music way it genuinely gives me anxiety jifdufdu 2/10

That “electric jug” sounded like the record had a flat tire - not pleasant. Not surprising that it never caught on. Also not surprising that this band never caught on. Why is it here - because they were the first to use word “psychedelic” in the description of their music? I wound up listening to this album and then three more songs not on this by different bands (purely added by the algorithm) while driving and not noticing a difference. That says a lot.

Not really sure I van say anything positive about this album. It feels underproduced, janky, and disorganized. Very unpleasant listen

...DOOKADOOKADOokadookadookadOOKADOOKADOOKADOOKADOOKADOOkadookadookadookadookadookaDOOKADOOkadookADOOKADOokadookadookaDOOKADOOKADOOKADOOKADookadookadookadOOKADOOKADOOKADOokadookadookadookadooka... shit 1/5

Wtf

Sounds like an Austin Powers music night. Not engaging enough for me.

Whatever they were doing with the second guitar(?) across the whole album was terrible.

Didn’t like the pervasive psychedelic bubbling sound. Some of the songs sounded like a soundtrack for a thriller.

Immediately the vocals made me think of The Sonics. I hated the Sonics. Hard pass for me - mono aggressively-jangly-garage-rock with stereotypical arrangements (other than an electric jug which adds....nothing?) is something I'll never listen to again. I suppose I've heard a lot worse but this was wholly unspectacular and wholly unenjoyable. 3/10 1 star

Are we surprised that the generation that liked this album also has poor taste in politicians

Terribad!

No thanks

I’m discovering that I have little patience for psychedelic music. I didn’t enjoy any of this. I could barely finish it. Yes there’s some interesting instrumentation. But I’m never listening to this again. 1.5/5

Psychedelic rock

Definitiv kein Album, welches zu den 1000 gehört, die man in zu Lebzeiten gehört haben sollte. Aber mit der Freigabe von Cannabis wieder hochaktuell, da nur bekifft zu ertragen... wie schon 1965 zur Erscheinung des Albums. Der Bandname verweist auf den 13.Buchstaben des Alphabets, M, für Marihuana. Leider muss zur Bewertung ein Stern vergeben werden....

Nice cover. Underwhelming music. A bit of a mess. A couple of funny sounds (electric jug!) in the background - over-used though across multiple songs. Lots of full-on drumming and frenzied singing. Not particularly mind-bending, though. I suspect it felt more psychedellic to them than it does to listen to. It's a messy Rolling Stones or Big Brother and the Holding Company. The weirdness of Fire Engine's vocal could be intriguing but the actual music is quite basic rock and roll. Nice vocals though and jazzy drumming on that track. Overall, a bad trip, really.

A double disc set of this? Please no. The electric jug was old 10 seconds into the first song. But 90 minutes of jug? Ga-barf.

Not my Cup of Team

Nah

Feels old man

Mid

päätettiin siis kahdenkymmenenseitsemän kokoisen setin kasata... halutaan lisää toistoaikaa.. ei pidennetä biisejä...lisää vaan biisejä... low quality...noh onneksi vaan jotain eri mixauksia.. jos albumin nimessä on että tämä on psyke, psykedeelistä :OO varaokaaa!! niin tietää että paska albumi. jos kuuntelen niin kyllä mä tajuan mitä se on..... jos tarvii kertoa niin prkl jotain päässä vikana.. ihan pimee.. SÄ OOT NIIN VITUN PIMEE!!! PIMEEE... tota sanaa käyttivät...kotona...abuse... ei silti tarvitse huume hörhöilyyn sortua... ja mikä vitun dugudugudugudugu kokoajan taustalla. joku electric jug jooh siitä vittu lähtee pois kaikki vähäinen nautinto mitä tässä oli roller coaster

The jug just ruins what is a pretty good album

What a bore. All of this sounds the same.

Another bland classic/alt/psychedelic rock album to throw on the pile

What the hell is that annoying noise? If it's the vaunted electric jug, I never want to hear it again.

Every song is ruined either by their favorite annoying instrument the electric jug or the singer caterwauling.

No sir. Did not like. Experimental…should have spent a bit more time gestating in the garage. Poop-de-doo

Nope. Just nope. Not the worst music I've ever heard, but seriously, I'm drifting off to sleep.

Good lord. So much of this was a pain to listen to. Nothing exceptional about the music, and the wailing vocals sucked.

Crap.

Shit was ass

Favourite track(s): Splash 1 Dukedukedukedukeduke. No wonder my favourite track is one without the brain-piercing vocal-bass-mishmash. I can acknowledge that the album was probably very influential. However, I am not currently under the influence of any psychedelic drugs and thus its influence on me is rather limited. Also, the stereo mixes are somehow worse than the monos.

Well, I'm sure it was a thing, but it's not a thing now. I'm glad I listened to it and some bits I remembered but...

Nope. Really enjoyed nothing about this.

Consign to history Cover art: 3/5

Visionaries with no talent. Bill - 1/5 Shannah - 0.75/5 Conor - 1/5 (1/5)

No gusta

Ett enda långt gnällande.

This is a psychadelic bore

Psychedelic, i'm not big fan of this style. :(

Umm... No. This was weird and not good weird. I understand why these guys never made it. I mean, electric jug? What???

I couldn't get past that weird bubbly beeping? What the hell was that?