Vincebus Eruptum

SETE. CAMINHO ATRÁS DO PREJUÍZO. METADE NÃO SE OUVE, CRL CRL CRL CRL CRL CRL CRL CRL CRL VROOM VROOM POW KABOOM MotA: Out of Focus "Oh Lord, I got to raise a fuss, Lord I got to raise a holler"

I personally hate the summertime blues song because I was forced to sing it over and over in elementary school. Other than that this band kind of rules. I had never heard of them but apparently they kind of started heavy metal. I probably won’t listen to this album much but I respect it. Talented musicians and all that. The drum solo and bass line in Second Time Around are fun.

Never heard before. Nice notes of 70's such rock

really enjoyed this

Loved the tones and production. Great band

Way ahead of their time. The beginning of metal!

Cool getting to know heavy metal origins... Guitar melodies were catchy

Very cool grooves and riffs. I dig the lofi sound

Surprise. An entertaining and ahead of it's time.

Vincebus eruptum, czyli pseudo lacinska translacja blue cheera, wiec pierwszy krazek bandy selftitlledowy w bardzo stonerskim klimacie, bo sam blue cheer to nazwa popularnego na rynku w tamtych czasach LSD, ktore rozprowadzal patronajt od gratefulowych deadow, wiec od tego pewnie wziela sie nazwa zespolu, ewentualnie od proszku do prania, ale to raczej elesdyk zabral nazwe od proszku, a potem banda go zabrala na wlasny uzytek, ale czym muzycznie jest niebieski doping, banda z 67 hameryka kalifornia, wiec klimaty dzieci kwiatow, ale na modle metalowa, sama plyte mozna podzielic na covery klasycznych rokowych trakow, jak sumertime blues cochrana czy parchmanowej farmy allisonona, ktora jednak bardziej kojarze z wersji blues breakersow mayalla i rock me baby b b kinga, wspolnym mianownikiem tych trakow sa ich bluesowe korzenie, to co robi blue cheer na tym materiale, to budowanie pomostu pomiedzy bluesem do metalu, z czego wyszlo acidowe rokowanie o poteznym brzmieniu, nie tylko jesli chodzi o decybele, ale takze o surowy styl granych tutaj rifow, ktore w niektorych miejsach, brzmia wrecz zeppelinowo, a to prawie dwa lata przed ich pierwsza plyta, wiec cheerowcy byli prawdopodobnie pionierami tego stylu grania, prosty z ostrym jebnieciem i energia, ktora czuc takze na wokalu pana petersona, ktory jako frontmen napisal takze 3 orginalne traki, ktore stanowia druga czesc krazka, jesli by go podzielic na covery i orginalne kompozycje, to wlasnie z tych orginalnych kompow mozna w pelni przyznac bandzie miano stonerow, bo tematycznie bardzo lekowo, zwlaszcza na doctor please, ktory brzmi jak litania drugersowa wierzacego kwasiarza, niestety nie moge dodac nic na spotifaja, bo zbyt podziemmna plyta, cale szczescie z pomoca kolejny raz przyszedl soulseek, wiec pobralem sobie dwie wersje, zeby miec porownanie, z 2k03 remaster z dodatkowym trakiem, all night long, oraz projekt audiofilow z nipona z roku 2k17, ktory polega na odtwarzaniu w mozliwie jak najlepszej jakosci zapomnianych a kultowych materialow i roznica w jakosci obu tych wersji jest kolosalna, remaster z 2k03 brzmi jak tanie stereo, bo jest to migracja z mono do stereo, a cos takiego praktycznie nigdy nie jest czyms dobrym dla materialu koncowego, natomiast japonska wersja to wymasterowane mono, ktore genialnie oddaje glebokosc sceny, czy zmiane kanalow, czy fejkowe endingi, zeby wrocic z rosnacym basem jak na second time around, jeden z hajlajtowych momentow plyty w moich uszach, wlasnie takich albumow chcialbym wiecej na liscie, przelomowych, a jednoczesnie niezbyt znanych szerokiemu gronu sluchaczy

Really great guitar work!

Sweet old school, heavy rock.

Good energy. A little short

Some early early punk vibes in here

The Vince Bus is coming

Cool album…like the history of these guys and the whole SF scene .

Cool like proto deep purple

This sounds like every other album.

Very psych rock album, not too bad but compared to a lot of albums around this time the production and style of music really date the sound of this album and it sounds like a 60s album

I think it's like.... "blues metal lite". Which is fine, it wasn't super offensive but it also didn't really hook me at all. I think it's just okay, but very cool that it sounds raw and real, almost like a live album! Songs were just a little too jam-y for me.

Good album. Very interesting. I enjoyed the cover "Summertime Blues" (probably my favourite track), "Doctor Please" or "Second Time Around" . It's in the range between 3 and 4 stars for me. And, in any case, I think it really deserves to be included in this project.

Enjoyed this proto metal time capsule!

Not at the level of The Who , Sabbath et al (low 3)

Some great moments. Must have been dynamite in 67/8

Low 3 for me, helped to turn it up really loud

Highlights: Summertime Blues, Rock Me Baby, Out Of Focus and Doctor Please. 3.5

Rv

This was a pretty cool listen. Touted as one of the first heavy metal albums…I can hear it.

It was noisy but I liked it

Interesting hard rock sound, like Cream and Black Sabbath wrote a mediocre album together. 6 songs and the two best are cover songs.

The two covers are the start are the best. It's loses its way after that. The band are good and it sounds almost like a live recording. I don't mind the production. I think it enhances the music. Would have scored higher if the bands composed songs were better quality.

5 -AVERAGE

Raw, power trio, blues, rock, metal. Sounds good to me.

It was alright, average album from the 60s

We all need a raw 60s heavy blues rock album every now and again. Comparisons abound to Cream, Jimi Hendrix etc. I enjoyed it for what it was. Definitely influential to the development of heavy metal. Reminds me of Wayne's World.

Wait what??? Why did I like this???

This was ok

These guys were doing what Jack White has been trying to do for years and they did it very well on a technical level. But the songs just aren't there and, when the best one is their cover of "Summertime Blues," that says something. This is fine proto-metal or whatever you want to call it but it's no Zeppelin or Cream. One of rhe main reasons is that the drums sound terrible in the mix. No complaints about the guitars, though: this is feedback drenched nirvana.

This challenge has showed me there seems to be a real quest to find the first heavy metal band. Does it really matter? Seems silly at this point, like these guys dont rock harder than Hendrix, barely harder than Cream even. Anyway, enjoyed this fine, loved their rendition of Summertime Blues. The rest was good but a bit forgettable really, especially when you factor in how much late 60s/early 70s stuff sounded like it. Bay Area Zep with less interesting vocals. Solid shredding though

Like Hendrix lite, I feel it would have been fun live. The recording is dated, which doesn't help, and has a live feeling to the album as it's raw.

3.2 I started off loving this, but it quickly fell out of favour. Firstly the highlight: it seems to have kickstarted Heavy Metal, Stoner Rock, Grunge, and I've never come across it before! On paper - wow. However, reality bites hard. The fidelity is far too poor to properly enjoy. Yes, I get it's 1968, and lo-fi can accentuate some music, but stuff was being released at a similar time with orders of magnitude greater clarity which would have helped this out a lot. The production as well doesn't help. Leaning far too heavily into the stereo set up, with drums entirely on the left channel and guitar entirely on the left channel at times. With headphones on it just sounds a bit shit. All for playing around with the equaliser, but all or nothing just detracts in my opinion. Finally, the songs themselves just run out of steam a bit. Drag on a bit too long, and the self-penned ones just lack some power that the covers provide. Glad this exists, but it got a hell of a lot better after this.

Clearly influential, as an album its pudding

I like rock as much as the next person, but at some point there is no point. Summertime Blues is just a great song and these guys did it justice, but from there I found myself losing interest. They even made Parchment Farm yawning. Better than Tical though...3 "white dudes wailing" stars.

Like if the Beatles "Helter Skelter" got stretched to six songs, and then they all forgot how to play them properly.

Sympa

3.3 Proto-fuzz rock. Pretty cool tone but alot of wanking in the solos. The songwriting for the originals was pretty standard and the rest were covers.

The beginning of the riff for “Summertime Blues” sounded like the inspiration for “The Riverbottom Nightmare Band” from Jim Henson’s “Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas.” Real ones will know.

early heavy

I think it's really hard to rate some other these without the benefit of 'been there' context, or better writing around why its on the list without leaving me scratching my head. Listening to this for the first time in 2026 it feels like a ripoff, with some added distortion - and not unlike a bunch of other albums we've already had in this challenge. Does this add anything for me? No. Did I need to listen to it? Not sure I did. I just don't think we need to listen to EVERY band that was 'almost' heavy. Proto metal? Hard rock? Messy noisey blues if you ask me.

Not heard this band before, ok

These guys walked so Sabbath could warp drive.

It felt like sloppy rock and blues.

Yep...sounds like late 60s rock.

What I've learned about 50s and 60s music from this list is that influence is completely random. I swear I've heard like three other bands do what these guys did two or three years before them and yet these guys are considered the progenitors of Heavy Metal. Sure, I guess. Anyways, this album sure is fuzzy. I'd fully believe that these songs were demos if somebody told me. Bonus points to these guys for actually saying all of the lyrics to Parchment Farm instead of doing that stupid thing The Bluesbreakers did where they got rid of the part about killing your wife and just sang the part about picking cotton on a farm. I really hate Eric Clapton. Anything he touches becomes worse. Be more like Blue Cheer, they can cover a song by a black guy without sanitizing it until it loses the meaning.

Probably amazing at the time of release, but now it just sounds really dated and poorly mixed.

Cool guitar, weird band

3 Can definitely see how influential it's been but really hasn't stood the test of time the way a lot of other 60s stuff has imo

This seemed like it had a lot of promise, and I bet it was super fun when this was new and esp live... man the production left a lot to be desired though and while I appreciate the proto- metal/stoner rock vibe it didn't really click with me. Happy to have discovered this part of history but prob will never listen again.

An interesting piece of musical history that is mixed pretty awfully. Some have called this proto- metal and that seems fair enough. That said, metal moved fast and by 1970 had already evolved far beyond whats on offer here. Worth a visit, but maybe not multiple visits.

Nisam sigurna kako se osjećam oko ovog albuma. Neke stvari su mi ok, ostale mi zvuče kao jeftini heavy metal. Neka sredina vjerojatno. 3/5, 5/10

Fine enough psychedelic garage rock. 3.5 stars

This is another case where an album is included that could've just been a song. Their cover of "Summertime Blues" is essential, but the rest just sounds like the Jimi Hendrix Experience without any songwriting chops. The cover of Mose Allison's "Parchment Farm" is also pretty cool. Saying these guys invented heavy metal is also a stretch. 3 stars

3.5

It was fine. I guess it was innovative for the time, but it seems to be there was a lot of electric guitar based blues rock in the late 60s.

This actually wasn’t bad at all, much better than I anticipated in fact.

Summertime Blues - early 70s blues riff rock

Wikipedia: "this is considered one of the first heavy metal albums" Album: *sounds exactly like every generic rock album from this era* I can appreciate that they were at the forefront of this particular rock sound, but the album itself isn't actually that good. There have been many better covers of Summertime Blues.

Just sounds like your typical late 60s / early 70s rock album. Nothing crazy, nothing special. Just okay

Что-то слишком зло это звучит

Кавер на summertime blues Эдди Кокрэна оказался довольно влиятельным. Многие называют его одной из первых хэви металл песен. Ну он действительно получился очень удачным: и звучит классно, и до сих пор можно услышать на рок фм, ну и для тех времен мало у кого было такой звук. Но в остальном альбом для меня интереса не представил.

Плотно, но ничем не зацепило

Ощущается ли этот альбом влиятельным, учитывая его время выхода? Да. Интересно ли его сейчас слушать? Только как исторический материал.

нравится такое звучание психоделическое, звучит интересно, жаль, что самая известная песня - кавер. это вполне 3.5

Left little impact.

Listened Before? N Neat, early heavy metal I've never heard before. Good stuff. A bit long and sloppy but I'll take it. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Rock Me Baby

Groupe inconnu. Premier constat : le groupe envoie du lourd ! Une guitare très saturée, un batteur qui s'éclate et une basse qui massifie le son. Original pour l'époque ! Par contre la production n'est pas géniale, le son est très crade. Certes il va bien avec l'intention mais il gâche un peu le plaisir. Bonne découverte, je l'écouterais certainement de nouveau, mais il ne rejoindra pas ma collection. =>3/5

This is something I want to like!

Pretty good - mostly forgettable tune-wise for me, but exceptional guitar playing and a fun listen. Cool to hear a sound that hard from the 60s.

Fun early garage rock/proto-punk. I’d never heard these guys before and it was a fuzzy, distorted good time.

Strong start but kind of limped to the finish

This was alright. I really enjoyed the first two songs, then my enthusiasm waned after that. Reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix, 60’s rock that was sometimes bluesy. (3)

heck yeah bruther

What is there to say about Vincebus Eruptum? First I'll say their goal as a band is clearly to be loud and they nailed it. They are indeed extremely loud. Their version of Summertime Blues has long been a favorite of mine as a fan of proto metal, the rest of the album was new to me and is stiff, loud, blues rock. They sound a lot like a bar band that your dad might have played in, just a very loud one. The loudest one. I don't hate it, but it's also not all that different from a bunch of kids listening to Muddy Waters' 1960s Live at Newport album and going "we could do that! But louder!" It's loud, it's a vibe, it's decent, it's a 3.

This is largely a "thank you for your service" album. I'd never heard of Blue Cheer before today so I'm not sure if they actually influenced any of the heavier/harder rock bands that came after them, but hey, at least they tried. 2.9

I can see why this may have been a major stylistic development in its time. For me in 2026, it's alright. The production is pretty bad. The bass and vocals often kind of disappear into the mix. The songs are fine. Not likely to leave a lasting impression.

Notable for being first

This was a lot heavier than I expected

The first two songs stick out from the rest a lot to me. The cover to start the album off feels kinda poppy and then the second song is rather bluesy, but then the rest sound like some early heavy metal sounding Black Sabbath.

Normal rock

Noisy, I don’t mind it honestly I think as a whole it goes well it makes sense

Decent enough psychedelia. Nothing to write home about.

Wer sich für die Anfänge von Metal interessiert, wird hier fündig. Viel Gitarre, rockiger Sound. Für 60er geht da ganz schön die Post ab. 3/5

Not bad

better than expected but not an easy listen

First listen

Psychedelic heavy metal. I dug it. Raw.

got that 60s psychedelic rock sound lul

Aight

Priemie

Not bad, but far from great. ★★★

Good album, and I liked their cover of Summertime Blues. However, there's nothing they don't do that I don't think subsequent artists did better.

Cool to hear 60s stuff that sounds like this but the music isn't actually that good

Decent blues rock. Sounds unfinished, none of the songs are particularly memorable.

It was nice I liked it

underwater album, quite ok

Inessential and short. I can see why someone might have thought this was important like decades ago

The album feels too disjunct. I like it overall. Nothing about it stands out though. Of course, it's a good sound for how old it is. Revolutionary for sure. Just doesn't hold up for me today.

Not always is the Beta-Version the better version. Or wait… is it? Was Vincebus Eruptus highly influential and formative for creating heavy psych rock/metal? For sure. And I kind of feel that one misses the point if one were trying to categorise this as bad or good or something in between. I mean the opening duplet is great (two awesome covers) and then there is the guitar solo in Doctor Doctor… You will know from the opening seconds whether this is an album for you. The genre became so refined within a such a short time span after Blue Cheer entered the stages of this world, but still this sorta dilettante vibe, I dunno it rules and it’s just irreproducible.

The first two tracks, which are covers are the stand out on the album. The sound feels muddy and as an album it is a pretty rough and ready experience

It's a cool experience to hear one of the transitions of blues to rock to heavy metal. Outside of the historical context, it's also a great rock album. Gritty enough to played in basement club covered in band flyers and graffiti but paired with piercingly clear vocals.

This is like my third or fourth 60s psychedelic rock album in a row so I was dreading it when I pulled it, but it was kind of a banger. 3.5/5

Of the "knew them from one hit in the late 60s" albums I've heard I like this one the best so far, a bit samey but the rowdy noisiness makes a fun romp. I liked the closing track most

decent

Not a bad listen.

Fine

Not a great album but really interesting as a pre heavy metal influence. This is the type of thing I expected to be on this list. (As opposed to Kid Rock).

Went in with very low expectations - but actually quite enjoyed it despite the dogshit sound recording quality.

Not something I would put on myself but I liked it, glad I heard it.

I should like this. I’m a metal head, and I love blues and blues-rock … but this is just a bit too embryonic. Blue Cheer walked so Zeppelin and Deep Purple could run, but really, they are just dawdling along in my way, like a pensioner in the post office. Also, the stereo mix is horrible on headphones.

Raw. Hendrix-style guitar licks and Joplin- style vocals combined. The problem is that the songs are particularly original.

Listened to the first song and don’t want to ruin my Saturday.

Will listen again

A funny juxtaposition of music that feels ahead-of-its-time and lyrics that are simple and dated (particularly Summertime Blues).

Sounds like a harder rocking Guess Who. These guys aren’t exactly polished but they came with it hard and heavy.

i should re listened to it soon. i loved the sound but was very distracted both times i tried to pay attention to the lyrics.

As others have written of this album, this feels more historically interesting than actually be interesting music + it feels like a bridge between Cream and Black Sabbath. It's a lot of distorted guitars and shouting, bluesy and powerful, yet a bit meandering and with hints of metal. I do with we had more music like this nowadys, but with a bit more suave and groove.

Actually not bad 6/10 Liked how concise it was. Grew on me a bit

una grata sorpresa, no tenía ni idea de su existencia

Was okay, nothing special.

The two covers by far the best songs of the six on the album. Guitar and drums were pretty good. The lyrics and voice not great.

Probably forgettable and it was meh

This was cool. I liked the first two songs but then it swiftly goes downhill. The songwriting is kinda sucky but I love the playing. "Doctor Please" really kills the album imo.

another meh & forgettable album. appreciated the length of the album, and the guitar forward style, but I won't remember listening to it a week from now.

e ovo je vec prijatnije psihodelicno iskustvo od jucerasnjeg. mozda zato sto ne slusam na slusalicama. pesma se zove out of focus i ima totalno nesinhronizovane melodije na gitarama.. okayy theyre cooking lowkey. nekoliko pesama ima fake out krajeve i mislim da je to presmesno, zavrsi se pesma i posle dve sekunde kaze sikkeeee i ponovo krene beat i gitara, ponekad i vise puta u jednoj pesmi, and i fall for it every time. dobar je album, nisam pala na dupe i verovatno ga necu zapamtiti, ali mi ne smeta njegovo postojanje. zanimljivi guitar riffovi, dobar bas, bubnjevi se lupaju na trista nacina, fino! svidja mi se sto ima samo 6 pesama i sto traje samo pola sata.

Guys who just wanted to play loud. They were loud, rough, drugged and nasty. And in 67 they went to the Monterey Festival. They say they saw Hendrix so they probably also would have seen rhe bands playing on the same day: The Who and Big Brother and The Holding Company. The fact that those bands could play them into the ground without raising a sweat didn't matter. Blue Cheer wanted to outdo them. Their sound was louder, dirtier and more chemically enhanced. It was like a kick in the head. Forget the Summer of Love. This was challenging, vicious music. Is it the start of heavy metal? Well, no-one had played this hard before, so why not? The trouble was that this came out in 68. In 69 another band that could play them into the ground came along. Led Zeppelin. Blue Cheer faded into memory. But you can't imagine Grand Funk Railroad or Black Sabbath or MC5 or The Stooges without them clearing the path.

Nice guitar tone

I can see why at the end of the 60s people were calling them Metal.

Pretty interesting mix of blues, psychedelia and early roots of metal. It doesn’t match the quality of some of its peers like Zeppelin/Hendrix/Sabbath/Cream, etc., so it’s easy to see why it’s not as well known, but it’s still a pretty good listen. Hard to say it belongs on a list of “essential” albums.

Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5

I never heard of Blue Cheer. Interesting that some people think of this as an early metal album. I can see some connection to Black Sabbath, but just as much I see a connection to Jimi Hendrix. The top song is a cover of Summertime Blues. The other songs also have a bluesy bent, which I like.

When this first started, there was something fuzzy and heavy that made my ears picked up. But once the sing started and the songs settled in, it felt like a ton of other bands from this period. I think the thing Sabbath has that these guy don't is a sense of the evil and verboten. Sabbath since about insanity, dark rituals and wizards, Blue Cheer sings Summertime Blues.

6/10 I enjoyed it the more it went on. Very sludgy and raw, with little of the skill and finesse of the real big hitters of the time, but has something about it's heavy blues riffing

hört sich wirklich interessant aufgenommen an, mag aber die stimmen fav song: summertime blues (ist aber ein cover)

I am beginning to think I fundamentally disagree with the author of the 1001 book about what constitutes essential. Like, yeah, this is fine, but I just don't know what it does that a lot of other albums don't do just as well if not better? 3*

Short and sweet

I understand why Blue Cheer is on this list and the impact they made on the genre of hard rock and eventually metal music. I don't understand why it's this album and I'm too lazy to do find out why. 3 stars because I enjoyed each song and my quick listen, but nothing more.

Fucking fuzzy as fuck, fuck yes. This album does not give a toss as it explodes in a joyous, raucous cacophony of bluesy noise. Not clever, not focused, not varied, but very very strident - would be way more fun live than in record, but I'm glad this record exists!

Kind of mid. Felt pretty basic fuzz rock.

Cool if you consider when it was released.

Nice sound. Me gustaria un poco mas de letra

I found myself wishing I was listening to Led Zeppelin.

Pretty decent proto metal. It might be more notable as a historical artifact than something I simply 'must' listen to, but I can't say I didn't enjoy a lot of it.

The sound of this album is all overdriven lead guitar R&B noodling, heavy distorted drum solos and Woodstock era vocals. Full of freak out, counter culture vibes this is a psychedelic rock album that keeps forgetting what it was doing mid song and uses the opportunity to try out a new song in the middle of the old one. There is definite Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple flavour. Which I always found a little slow paced and bit self indulgent. I dont dislike it. But it wouldn't go on my heavy or medium rotation list. (2.815)

Cool bass parts

Started off a bit boring, but got better as the album went on. Some dubbed this as early heavy metal (combined with blues I guess), which sounds nice, but it also kind of sounds dated to me. The final track, Second Time Around, has some killer riffs in my opinion. 6 / 10.

I appreciate this album more than I enjoy it. I liked some moments on here, but there are definitely moments where it drags on, and it isn’t too interesting outside of just being loud and fuzzy, revolutionary for the time but it’s been done since in better ways (and you can argue it was done better before since Hendrix predates this album). Nevertheless I still see it’s place in rock history, but I probably won’t come back to it.

bem meh das ideia?? claramente um sonho lisérgico, mas meio paradão (uma meiota social mal batida)

bem psicodélico regado a lsd. bacana, tem umas guitarrada bruta mas nao eh nd demais nn

Overall pretty good though no real standouts.

One of those that inspired music that’s better than it is. Not bad, just kinda forgettable really

I don't enjoy heavy metal.

Pretty cool and ahead of its time but it doesnt hold up with the rest of the legends of the era

blue eyed soul again.

I liked this well enough; it was like if the Jimi Hendrix Experience were all a lot less talented. I also had to check to make sure "Parchment Farm" wasn't some adapted slave hymn because that would've been insane, but thankfully it's about being in prison. Like a lot of albums of the time, a bunch of this is covers, done in the style of the band. Thankfully the style is good, fun, and fast enough to make it all sound relatively original.

You dont get it it’s supposed to Sound like shit

Sloppy but not in a good way. Gets bonus points for when it was released though

Better than Coldplay

Another kind of generic 60ish psychedelic rock/british album. Not bad, quick listen, but didn’t really stand out

I've been listening to this in the background all day. Just a tiny bit of context and maybe 4 or 5 listens, it's a fun half hour bit, great for walking around at a mall, driving aimlessly, rolling a doobie. I figure I could see myself -really- into this in 1968 or the early 70s because there's not a lot of this hard rock sound being developed. Now I sit down and realize, these are pioneers. This is potentially the first metal album, the foundation for grunge, and it's got an obvious bluesy background that they definitely make the most of. Can not imagine the extremes this album was used for, psychedelics and the Vietnam war is just a base historical pretext. This one's all about context, and in that sense I really appreciate the album, but I live in an era where there's enough music on streaming services to fit my exact mood, and this will probably never be my mood. 2.8/5

I know from experience that this album sounds great at someone else's swimming pool, three High Lifes in, but outside of that situation, it's ok

3ish

I can see the significance to the sound but still just meh for me.

We have Led Zeppelin at home

I guess these are one of the great granddads of Heavy Metal? I can hear it. This was fine, but I would imagine it was more cutting edge and possibly overwhelming to hear this back in 1968. In 2025, not so much.

The beginning of have metal recorded poorly. This was ok.

Pretty damn cool '60s psychedelic blues rock record. I doubt I'll revisit it but this was more like a "cool, can see how it influenced a lot of music, moving on" kind of thing. I saw a lot of comparisons to stoner rock, I can see that.

Very funny to think of this as heavy metal. I get it though. I’m glad this stuff is on the list but can’t say I enjoyed it all that much.

Really, really hard rocking power trio. I bit of psychedelic sound included

Inessential garage rock. Never heard of these guys before but have heard almost all of the songs (by others)

Soooooooooooooooooo...not entirely sure what Blue Cheer is doing here that no other 60's blues bands weren't doing. They are even from America, so I can't blame any British bias on their inclusion. It's not bad music. Jimi Hendrix was doing what they do fairly well and Black Sabbath is right around the corner. It appears Blue Cheer is included because they did bluesy-metal first, while other artists invented the genre really. I think this is a fun album that I will probably never revisit again. What Blue Cheer is doing here has been done by better artists. Do they deserve to be in the book because they did it first? Possibly but I don't see as much of the heavy metal influence here, or if I do, I see as much in The Who's work during this same time. I am glad I listened to this album and now I am satiated and can die in peace while never hearing this one again.

It can't always save itself from coming across one-note, but it's a respectable endeavor into a new world of heaviness and weight

fun!! very hendrix coded though it sounds a little like it was recorded underwater. good songs just wish the production was better

Blues rock that is hard enough to be metal before metal was a thing. Too bad the somgwriting is bad. I see how they could have influenced early metal bands, but Hendrix was doing the same thing at the same time, only better.

Not every early blues rock album needs to be on this list. At some point it’s okay to let go and not include every album that was important in the development of Metal.

Sure there are hits. But is this really something that special? Numerous Beatles albums suffices

A fuzz tsunami

Yeh alright, it probably slapped in the 60s

"Jimi! Jimi, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Hendrix. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!" Good shit

Good

Super grungy. Made me feel like I was listening to them in a back alley for a free concert. Cool but wouldn’t go back for it

I can see this album is probably trailblazing but it doesn’t entirely pass the test of time. It has been superseded by much better music, songwriting and recording. Still it’s only 35 mins which is fine to listen to a bit of musical history.

I wonder if this band is one of the reasons to make people think that psychedelic 60's rock is boring...

Awesome heavy 60s, a full frontal assault in your living room.

Das Debüt der US-Band wurde in den Amigo Studios in North Hollywood aufgenommen. Blue Cheer stammen aus den Vereinigten Staaten und gelten als frühe Vertreter eines rauen, verstärkten Rockansatzes. Bekannt sind vor allem „Summertime Blues“ und „Doctor Please“, die den aggressiven, verzerrten Sound des Albums prägen. Musikalisch bewegt sich die Platte zwischen schwerem Psychedelic Rock und Proto-Metal. Insgesamt wirkt das Album direkt und kompromisslos, mit einer klaren Haltung zu Lautstärke und Energie.

Summertime Blues

Fun evolution of heavy rock. It’s rough and raw and I imagine likely to have turned a lot of folks off at the time. 3/ 5

A 60s psych-rock band that wears its hard rock influences on its sleeve, all two of them. Also, can we stop conflating hard blues rock with metal already?

Blue Cheer is a cool band and I'm happy that they have a record on here. Their sound is impressive as they are one of the first bands that got this heavy; some of the pioneers of heavy metal itself. I enjoyed listening to this record though at times I did think that they are probably more enjoyable live compared to on a recording. Distortion and panning and how to mix the two wasn't really "figured out" yet and it leads to a record that is pretty muffled and muddy at times, and it's funny to me how every song has essentially the same exact tones.. but the energy is still there.

I’ve not heard of this band, but man do they love feedback and distortion.

It’s okay but doesn’t stand out for the era

alright

Does this push harder in a direction that no one is already doing at this time? Maybe. Is it raw? Definitely. It's as if the whole album is based on Hendrix's You See Me.

Blue (Man Group) Cheer has dropped into my beleaguered web browser and I’m kind of excited actually. Of course, these guys get thrown around in the “metal pioneer”conversations that are always held by complete and utter morons. I’m not expecting metal of any sort, but a nice guitar fuzz? That’ll go down nicely. Fire up the tube amps fellas and do that thing with the production where it’s not very good. My ears are baying for blood. Summertime Blues - Rumbling guitar? Summer hating? Count me in. I don’t know what the congressman has to do with this, but I suppose I’m not very swift on the ol’ uptake. Rock Me Baby - Sometimes you gotta switch up the rocking dynamics on infants. For too long, we’ve rocked babies to sleep when a role reversal would be most welcome. Just imagine a gentle rocking to sleep. Would go down a treat. Perhaps I yearn for the seas. More introspection to be done. Doctor Please - I don’t think there are any appeals to medical professionals during this extended guitar solo. I believe the doctor would be very uncomfortable as the band unloaded all their gear in that tiny office and set up. Wait a second! This is about intravenous drug use. I can’t abide by that. Get out of my practice. Out of Focus - This is the song about how I got kicked out of focus because I thought we should stop playing “Hocus Pocus.” What?? Why are you booing me? Parchment Farm - Sweet riff. Lyrics about spousal murder. Old school justice (?). Second Time Around - Inna Gadda da Vida honey. Oh it’s not that song. Close enough. Welcome back Iron Butterfly. This was fun. It feels very jam band in its buzzy chaos. I usually don’t really care for records of jam band material, but this was just short enough that it scratched certain itch. Nothing blew me away here and Lo and behold, metal was still to be discovered but this was a good time filled with distorted guitars, loose bass and thunderous drums. I could even listen to this again sometime! Crazy. Lay back, hand roll a left-handed cigarette and turn off the moon landing as it is a publicity stunt for a fascist regime and you are but a crusader for freedom and love. It’s the 60’s baby. That’s kind of all we’ve got. 3 HIGHLIGHTS: Summertime Blues, Parchment Farm

60s garage rock. nice

No. 326/1001 Summertime Blues 3/5 Rock Me Baby 3/5 Doctor Please 3/5 Out Of Focus 2/5 Parchment Farm 2/5 Second Time Around 3/5 Average: 2,67 Didn't really enjoy this one. Really grating at times.

not mine

23/1001 First listen. A good occasion to listen to and read up on an album I’ve known about for a long time but just never got around to. You can hear who they inspired here. Maybe another star if I played it more than a day.

Well here it is- the birth of heavy metal. Dude LOVES a fuzz pedal. Holy cow. And it seems like they REALLY didn't know how to record a super-loud drummer back in 1967. This guy reminds me of Mitch Mitchell - if he were slightly brain damaged. Sounds so much like the heavy bits of Cream if they were cranked up even louder. I would say the style and the sound are really fun to me - but the songs are kind of lacking.

I listened to a lot of Black Keys growing up. This sounds like the stuff the Black Keys listened to a lot of growing up. This sound is one that I've always enjoyed. There's that rawness to it that makes the whole album feel like it's just some dudes recording at home. The instrumentation is messy and I dig it. This is the kind of stuff that I love playing on guitar, but it's not something that I really listen to much anymore. I enjoyed this album thoroughly, but it's one of those albums that I probably won't be relistening to much, if at all. I really liked Out of Focus and Parchment Farm. Second Time Around sounds like a Jack White song (you can take that how you will). Apple Music said this album is credited with inventing heavy metal. I always credit that to Sir Paul McCartney with Helter Skelter. Maybe they both deserve some credit idk. This felt more like a blues album to me. The tone of the guitar is very similar to Hendrix's, and while I have nothing bad to say about that, I wouldn't consider it "heavy metal."

I've gone back and forth about this one, but I think I overall liked it. I'm a huge fan of the blues, so I might be a little biased. I am having to alter my perceptions of heavy metal a bit and do some learning, thanks to this list. I would in no way classify this or Zeppelin as heavy metal -- it's just blues rock, in my opinion. Maybe it's just that no one understands what genre is or means (*insert Simpsons "No it's the children who are wrong" meme here) I think the disconnected aspects of the songs are a bit hard for the listener to fully appreciate the final product. The mixing is pretty terrible but I think that also contributes to what they were trying to accomplish with this sound. "Doctor Please" was my favorite track. The midpoint of the song kicks and I went back to the song as a whole a couple of times just because of the jam.

Reminds me of being in a power trio, great nostalgic vibes and just the right amount of rough around the edges. Probably a good thing that 70% of the lyrics are fairly indistinguishable.

Nochmal anhören

Ah, "Vincebus Eruptum", rien que le titre, on sent le mec qui a ouvert un dictionnaire de latin au pif en buvant une bière. "Je vaincrai par l'éruption", ou un truc du genre. C'est pompeux, c'est ridicule, et c'est absolument parfait pour ce disque. Nous voilà donc en 1968, San Francisco, l'amour libre, les fleurs dans les cheveux, le "Peace and Love", Jefferson Airplane, le Grateful Dead... Et puis il y a Blue Cheer. Blue Cheer, c'est le "bad trip" auditif de la bande. C'est le mec qui débarque à la soirée hippie, qui vomit sur le tapis en poil de chèvre, insulte la meuf du taulier et met le feu au canapé avant de repartir en rotant. On va mettre les choses au clair tout de suite. Cet album n'est pas "bon". Il n'est pas "mauvais". Il est... Il existe. On m'a vendu ça comme "l'album fondateur du Heavy Metal". Du "proto-metal", du "proto-stoner", du "proto-tout-ce-qui-fait-du-putain-de-bruit". La légende dit qu'ils étaient "plus forts que Dieu" ("Louder than God") et quand tu lances le disque, tu comprends pourquoi. Ce n'est pas de la musique, c'est une agression physique. C'est fort. C'est saturé. C'est... primitif. Bon, on va être honnête deux minutes, si comme moi, tu as bouffé du son lourd, tu as écouté Godflesh, tu t'es pris les murs de drones de Sunn O))), tu as disséqué la lourdeur tectonique des Melvins. Alors, "Vincebus Eruptum" en 2025... ça sonne presque... propre. Et c'est là tout le paradoxe de ce disque, il n'a "plus rien d'exceptionnel" aujourd'hui. Il a été tellement copié, dépassé, digéré, que son pouvoir de nuisance originel s'est émoussé. Ce n'est pas la lourdeur calculée et maléfique d'un Black Sabbath. Ce n'est pas le chaos nihiliste des Stooges. C'est juste... du bruit. Le jeu est approximatif, voire carrément bordélique. La guitare de Leigh Stephens... le mec a découvert la pédale Fuzz, et il a décidé que c'était la seule note qui existait. Il ne fait pas des riffs, il fait des vibrations. C'est un tremblement de terre. La basse de Dickie Peterson... elle n'existe pas. Elle est fusionnée avec la guitare pour créer une seule, énorme, masse sonore saturée qui te décolle le papier peint. Et la batterie de Paul Whaley... le mec ne joue pas, il TABASSE. Il se bat contre ses fûts comme s'ils avaient insulté sa mère. Et la voix. Oh, la voix. Peterson "chante". Non, il hurle, il éructe. Il sonne comme un Lemmy Kilmister qui aurait avalé du gravier et qui serait en train de le vomir. Et pourtant... Je veux bien admettre qu'à l'époque c'était une petite révolution. En 1968, Hendrix et Cream avaient déjà commencé à pousser les potards, mais Blue Cheer, eux, ils n'ont pas poussé les potards : ils les ont arrachés. L'album est surtout connu pour sa reprise du "Summertime Blues" d'Eddie Cochran. L'original est un petit bijou de rockabilly sur la frustration adolescente. La version de Blue Cheer, c'est la frustration adolescente qui a muté en rage thermonucléaire. C'est brutal, c'est gras, ça déborde de partout. Ils ont pris la chanson, l'ont tabassée dans une ruelle sombre et l'ont laissée pour morte, couverte de fuzz. Et c'est juste brillant. Le reste de l'album... c'est un peu plus compliqué. "Doctor Please", "Parchment Farm"... c'est la même recette appliquée en boucle. Du blues lourd, lent, poisseux. Ça fonctionne, mais ça manque cruellement de... dynamique. Car en tant que fan de Sonic Youth ou des Pixies, on sait apprécier le "calme/tempête". Blue Cheer, c'est "tempête/tempête/tempête/pause clope/tempête". Il n'y a aucune subtilité, c'est un bloc de distorsion. Et c'est là qu'arrive mon 3 sur 5. C'est "loin d'être une purge", absolument pas. C'est même un disque fascinant, c'est un document historique. C'est le son d'un groupe qui, par accident ou par génie (probablement les deux), a ouvert une porte que des légions de mecs chevelus allaient s'empresser de franchir. C'est un disque "important", et comme beaucoup de choses "importantes", c'est un peu chiant par moments. Mais il fallait qu'il existe car sans lui, pas de Sabbath, pas de Motörhead, pas de "grunge". C'est l'homme de Neandertal du metal. Il est indispensable à l'évolution, mais on est quand même contents d'avoir inventé le feu et la roue depuis. Il ne rentre pas "par la grande porte" dans nos discothèques. Il rentre "par la fenêtre", comme un cleptomane un peu bourré qui viendrait juste piquer les bières avant de repartir faire du bruit dehors.

Bluesy, heavy rock

Mixage weird (hard panning). Pas inintéressant.

Hard classic rock pretty good

Blues metal, huh? Decent but kinda samey. It makes sense to include this for its historical value. Their cover of Parchman Farm is spooky and ominous.

Honestly felt like a long 32 mins HOWEVER for early days Psych rock I really enjoyed it and was toe tapping whilst working at the email factory. Favourite track: Rock me Baby

As crunchy as fall leaves. 3/5

Found this interesting! Definitely very raw and the guitar soloing kept me hooked.

hahahah okee jaa schono cool aber au eifach LUUT GSPIELT we vomit all night long?? doctor please SLAPPT, het mich ziitewiis au sehr ah black sabbath erinneret de proto-grunge ghöri jz weniger usse hmm musses glaub nomal lose, iwie hanis schona cool gfunde, au dass so roh und chräftig gspielt wird aber joo jz am morge au mengisch chli sehr ahstrengend zum lose hahaha oops maybe I forgor ich weissss nöd, ah sich ischs scho cool aber teilwiis ischs echt eifach DUTUDLUDULTUDLUDLU jo es 3. schono fun aber jo (summertime blues schochli en banger)

Not my music but interesting as a precursor to punk

Enjoyed the non-radio songs as much as the well known radio hits.

Noisy

Decent, quick, rock with a side of blues. Doesn’t feel like a predecessor of heavy Metal though

Reminded me of The Doors. Don't know if this came first or the doors did. I quite liked it. Never heard of the group before.

This is interesting. Some of these songs are like a prototype of heavy metal, with the heavier and grittier guitar sounds. That said, being a prototype, it isn't totally there, and some of it sounds a bit samey. The overall blues rock isn't bad, though, and it's interesting to hear seeds that would grow into heavy metal later.

Pretty solid album. Not sure if I could listen to a much longer on. 3/5

Pretty cool

Kinda boring

Heavy. Duty. Heavy duty rock and roll.

Cool album, short but impactful. Enjoyed the sound 3/5

Pretty average 60s psychedelic rock. Favorite track: Summertime Blues

3.5

A few catchy songs, sadly strewn amidst a lake of generic songs

early signs of people starting to figure out the whole rock n roll thingn

-yaaay i fucking love heavy psych -aside from being a little bit aimless and hard to pay attention to it went hard as shit, i gotta give it points for that -definitely felt like a Hype Moments and Aura album but in a much more stimulating way than most. idk what i’m talking about i’m high as shit -Favorites are Parchment Farm and Second Time Around

I give a three. I wish I could go back and change a number of past 3’s to 4 ———————————— My non-musician scoring system. 5 - Love it. Would play anytime, buy, see live… 4 - Good music. 3 - Average playlist. Depends on time and setting. 2 - I can’t listen to entire songs…skipped ahead on all of them 1 - No.

It was like a cross between Cream and Mountain. In fact, immediately afterwards I wanted to listen to Mountain instead of more of Blue Cheer (that's never good). I didn't realize Rush had used the Blue Cheer version of "Summertime Blues". Hearing the original take of this version doesn't make me like the version any better. I guess I shouldn't rag on it so much. But the Who (and the original version, of course) are just so... iconic. It's tough to get over that. It's decent hard rock, bordering on heavy metal. The drum solo in the middle of the one song didn't help much, it just made them feel like they were out of ideas. (I loves me a good drum solo, but not as much on studio tracks). Top tracksw: "Rock Me Baby," "Second Time Around"

One of the first heavy metal albums, but it is and it isn't metal. It's heavy in that the guitar/bass is fuzzy and dense, with thudding drums. But it's still San Fran acid rock, which isn't heavy but more wandering and trippy. Their Summertime Blues cover is heavy - loved it. Rock Me Baby is acid rock - could've been Janis Joplin singing. Doctor Please is both - the first and last third acid rock (so-so) and the middle heavy (from about the 2:20 to 4:45 mark, so good). Out of Focus sounds like Jimi Hendrix while Parchment Farm is too acid-filled for me. But Second Time Around is a good closer - heavy, pumping. Feels like a 3.5. Part of me wants to round up for it being early heavy metal but part of me feels like it didn't really define the genre because it's too rough and too close to acid/psychedelic rock than heavy metal. Heavy metal sounds like Sabbath, not these guys.

Ok, a lot of sources say this is the first heavy metal album. I hear the Who, Cream, and Jimi in this (all of which came first). What makes this heavy metal then? Louder? More distorted? Honestly, it sounds to me just like sloppy playing and amateurish recording quality (even for the 60s). I can acknowledge their influence - heck, about 4 minutes into Doctor Please there's a riff that Rush clearly ripped off (I mean, adapted!) in the instrumental break in Working Man. Plus, I really hear Deep Purple in this album. I feel like I should give them an extra star for historical significance, but honestly I have no urge to ever hear this again, making it a 3 at best. Tracks I liked best: Summertime Blues, Parchment Farm (cool groove).

This is a historic album that any fan of heavy metal should listen to.

Proto Sabbath

Cool blues rock record! The singer has a cool voice, lots of sprawling guitar and bass lines, very sludgy mix overall. Pretty fun listening!

Short. Had a Rolling Stones vibes. I’m surprised at the length of this album

Didn’t do much for me, just heard it mainly in the background whilst driving. Very of it’s time.

Lyden af noget som godt kunne. Inde i en meget poleret Iggy. Godt, fint, og kort.

Man kan godt høre at det er banebrydende for metal musikken. Men det læner sig stadig for meget op af den klassiske blues-rock.

Probably the first full proto heavy metal album - it was recorded in 1967 and released early 1968, it's really mindblowing how new this sound must have been at that time. It's also a mix with psychedelia thanks to the amount of LSD they were using while recording this album. However, there was still a lot of refinement to do and it's distorted and heavy without much directions - the album lacks in good songwriting. As much as I wanted I didn't really enjoy it. It gets one extra star because of its influence.

Clearly several artists I love loved Blue Cheer, reminds me of loads of other groups.

I think this is one of those that because it's the first album to do what it did, it's more influential than it is actually enjoyable to listen to. Don't get be wrong, I still really liked hearing an album that was so important to the history of heavy metal, but I think that considering how primitive it is there is still a hell of a lot of refinement that still needed to happen.

Cool record that many think started the heavy metal movement. It's early and it's rough, but it's still a good time.

Guitar rock at its best

Started very rough but half-way through I was loving this! Early start of psychedelic rock!!

Sounds cool, didn’t like the overtly blues second track, but otherwise thought this was texturally good

Reminds me of Cream but maybe a little heavier. The quality is pretty bad and the playing is very loose. Probably stood out much more at the time than it does now.

3.0 - Ok

Psychedelic rock blues, with fuzz - sound reminds me of Cream. With some newer (what must have been cutting-edge) electric guitar techniques. Experimental compositions with extended/improv sections. It's quite avant-garde. Sounds like a drunken mess at times in Doctor Please. Best track - Parchment Farm (nothing stands out really) 3 stars

Metal my universe. Not hit song too big a target.

Psychedelic Rock with a tingle of fuzzy distortion, so much fuzzy distortion... Great cover of "Summertime Blues" kicks it off and it's probably the highlight, again I struggle with album who blow their creative load right off the bat.

Sounds like where the doors got the basis of their sound before adding the carnival keyboards

No cóż, protoplaści mocnego grania, czy coś. Taki mocny rock dla ludzi, którzy kiedyś byli młodzi. Kiedyś może nowatorskie, ale teraz traci myszką. 5/10

Buen blues y algo más

It's not a bad album - just not something i listened to and will listen to :)

Nice enough blues rock, but it lacks the insane amount of aura the Black Sabbath self-titled has to be coined the origin of heavy metal. The songs are quirky and memorable considering this is blues rock we are speaking of, but it doesn't immediately demand a relisten. Just fun jams for your summer if you ask me.

Raw blues that sounds a little like what Sabbath would eventually become, fun listen.

Solid blues rock album, quite liked it

Old time 60’s rock - like The Doors

I enjoy fuzzy guitar and raw production as much as the next gal, but I just hear a band influenced by Hendrix, Cream, etc. and not really innovating anything further.

Would not have described this as hard rock, but it was 1968 so I guess it was. Kind of cool and different.

it's always interesting hearing the really early attempts at heavy, rebellious rock music from the late 60s. i probably have said this before but it's a pivotal point in history when it came to how rock music evolved, and definitely for the better. this album is really scratchy. you've probably heard plenty of blues albums, but this one feels a lot more AGGRESSIVE than most. lots of tracks are very messy in terms of production. these guys aren't going to hold your hand, they're going to overdose you on LSD and make you vent out your frustrations... a reviewer states that it's more about feeling than form. while imperfect, it stands out pretty well and serves as a massive inspiration for artists to come, like zeppelin and ozzy. i feel like a lot of people would rate this lower. oh well.

precurseurs!

3.5 stoner rock!

Not fully my vibe

Half the songs on this album are cover songs. Admittedly well done covers, but I can't give high rankings to albums that benefit so much from the work of others. So I'll be docking a point for that reason. The songs they wrote themselves though are pretty dang good. I would have liked them to have swapped out a few covers for more of their own stuff. They give off Zeppelin vibes.

This music must have been so fun to make. I can feel myself *feeling myself* on that whammy bar. To be young and bluesy and amplified! The nostalgia is almost enough to add it to my library.

This album was nice to listen to. Early hard rock distortion at its best.

Ein lautes, rohes Debüt, das als Proto-Metal-Meilenstein gilt. „Summertime Blues“ kracht mit Energie, doch das Album leidet unter mangelnder Vielfalt und chaotischem Sound. Mehr Wucht als Feinschliff – historisch wichtig, musikalisch durchwachsen.

5/10

Short and sweet! The album didn’t immediately smack me in the face with its greatness but I still enjoyed the listening. Perfect example of a 3 star album.

Pretty hard rock, not moving the needle

Cool

groovy

Itse asiassa aika hyvää metallia! Tässä oli mukavasti huumoria mukana, vaikka oltiin tosissaan.

I feel like my rating system still needs to be adjusted a bit since I gave some albums high grades a bit too easily. This one is an excellent album but I am not sure if I'm ready to give it anything about 4. It is in many ways a precursor of stoner rock and some of the metal and that does give it a lot of credence. The performances are wild and incendiary but it does lack a bit more substance.

Inoffensive and boring and I barely remember it now, 16 hours later. I see this was an early pioneer in heavy metal. I was surprised to read this came out in 1968 as it sounded newer than that.

Prima album, maar ook niet geweldig. Vond het veel van hetzelfde, wel echt anders voor die tijd.

Of course I like The Who’s version of Summertime Blues better, but the one here is quite good. The rest of the album was fine, nothing spesh (Momma White-speak for “special”).

This might have been remarkable during the last millennium, but now it's just another Proto-metal-psych-blues-hard-rock band.

Es interesante para los que gustan de la distorsión y más aún para quienes buscan el origen del hard rock y el heavy metal.

A chaotic burst of fuzzed-out energy that straddles the line between psychedelic rock and something heavier. It’s easy to hear why some call this the birth of heavy metal, but it still feels more like a raw, overdriven take on acid rock than a genre blueprint. Loud, aggressive, and occasionally thrilling — but also messy and repetitive. Interesting more for its influence than its consistency.

Chunky, blaring blues/psych/proto-metal rock. Nothing crazy amazing, but not too shabby. The guitars are seriously intentionally super loud and saturated, I think that’s a quality that would snowball into the metal that would come years after this project. The end of “Doctor Please” is the best example of how it’s just loud guitar city. Zero variance in the structure and delivery of these songs (other than the break in “Parchment Farm”), not that it was something Blue Cheer was concerned about at the time. “Rock Me Baby” is probably my pick from the album. Personally a 2/5, but I recognize the good things this album has going for it, so maybe a soft 3/5

Lo puedo apreciar en su contexto.

Listened in the truck via YouTube music. This was surprising and fun garage rock to the max. You can see where everyone from Kyuss to Fuzz were definitely influenced by this. Fun long jams.

Good, but I can’t help but feel that this is very boring at some points. The only true standout for me was the great end with each instrument going at full 1968 force. That was excellent. The rest is ok. Solid 3

While undoubtedly a very important and monumental Psychedelia/ Heavy rock record, it really just doesn't have the same punch now as it probably did almost 60 years ago. 6/10

Very bluesy. Kinda like a rougher creedence. Solid 3.

This is the definition of meh... Really not my thing and close to annoying... Barely 3 stars

Første låta er knall. Resten høres ut som gutta står i garasjer og baller. Rangerer etter første :)

Ikke ille, men begynner å bli lei prosjektet. Bare gubberock fra 60-70-tallet...