Reviews (page 7 of 7)
From the first lick I knew: this isn't for me. I've listened to the whole thing and concur with my initial impression. I wish this list had less 60s/70s music.
Sorry. Have had enough late 60's Californian psychedelia. Having listened to (and loved) the Hendrix album on the list I cannot see the point of records like this as it so inferior. Would normally give it a 2 but have lost all tolerance.
Who are these guys The Shitles? Maybe Shitty Hendrix? Maybe The Rolling Kidney Stones? The Poors? I guess someone had to crawl (with no arms or legs) before anyone could walk... You know that friend who thinks they can make music? Imagine they were given a studio to record in... THIS is what would result from that nightmare scenario. On a more serious note, the song Section 43 is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. This album is one of the worst I’ve ever heard. If I was being nice I would say the album had a couple of songs on it, I guess? I’m pretty sure if this was the only music around in the 60s the Cold War would have ended in self-annihilation, and it would’ve been the correct thing to do.
So tired of 60's psychedelic rock. Snore.
Tedious
Well at least this isn't as generic and uninteresting as all the other psychadelic slop I've had to listen through, it's just terrible in other ways instead. The pacing is completely all over the place with there being no real sense of structure to the album, as well as the songs themselves are just as much of a mess. It just feels like there are way too many random oddball moments that provide absolutely nothing, making the constant vibe switches really jarring and annoying. What this album really needs is just more polish, in literally every department. If it had that, then we would be in generic psychadelic rock territory, sprinkle in a few actually unique ideas and well written songs, and *then* we are in actually good music territory. So yeah this still has a hell of a long way to go before being anything even remotely worth listening to.
Total stinker. Psychedelic rock that isn't really psychedelic. Protest music that isn't really protesting anything. No thanks!
To the extent that Country Joe and the Fish are remembered at all, they are remembered for one song. And it isn't on this album. This album has the distinction of being the first West Coast Psychedelia album which could go either way, depending on your tolerance for West Coast Psychedelia. Personally, I think it's the sort of album that every musician should hear, if only as a warning to not do this ever again. The best thing on here is probably "Love", but even that dissolves into a mediocre blues jam. The rest are the sort of thing that someone at the time might have looked up from their bong for long enough to say "Wow, cosmic," before drifting off into smokey dreams. The lyrics are unrelentingly "mind expanding", in that they don't make a lick of sense, but they sound like they might mean something. Probably the low point is Section 43, a multi movement instrumental of extraordinary banality that sounds like the sort of thing that a promoter who couldn't afford The Doors might put on and advertise as "A Freak Out". 1 star for being the first and a half for the vocals on "Love". I rounded down.
Psychedelic 60 hippie country music with endless boring guitar solos. Not my thing….
Better than expected. Although not better than The Doors. Or Jefferson Airplane. American Psychedelia as we learned with Big Brother & the Holding Company and The Grateful Dead is often no more than white west coast Blues. Thankfully, the Blues bends that despoil the start of this record give way to slightly more interesting terrain, but there is neither the poetry of Morrison, nor the command of Slick. And the interesting terrain soon becomes desert plain. Really, it’s just some druggies who find their drug-taking amusing. And why not? They sound harmless. I doubt Lyndon Johnson was bothered. 1.5 ‘How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?’ William Blake As Blake points out, this album may well be the undistinguished lump of psychedelic blues poop that it sounds, but you’ll need to take some LSD to be absolutely sure. Even then, quite a lot might hinge on how striking you find the sound of the electric organ, which I worry lost its novelty about 5 minutes after this LP was released 60 years ago. 1/5
Like unseasoned boiled chicken
This is the worst version of this type of thing
Late 60’s/ 70’s Psychedelic rock sounds with some blues vibes. 70’s psychedelic was never my thing. Fav tracks were the ones with blues vibes, (Death Sound, Superbird, Love) and these still weren’t great. If I never hear this album again I would be good with that.
First listen Saved 0/11
Joe should go back to the country and go fishing.
#50 Absolutely not
this feels like a self-parody album. i mean i bet this probably went really hard if you had never heard music before and were high on novel drugs, but broadly speaking this sounds pretty horrible. the tracks are actively grating for most of the album and it doesn't seem like quality of any aspect was a consideration at any point. there's mediocre whiny singing with lyrics that are either generic 60s countercultural lines or actively low effort nonsense. run some guitars through distortion, poorly play an organ, and call it a day. exhausting.
Another classic album from Neil. Know this album well - my parents are huge fans and they played this record constantly. It’s not just nostalgia. This album is seriously good.
Tää oli himpun liian psykedeelistä musaa mun makuuni. En tykännyt.
Not really my jam
Not really into that whole San Francisco sound. I’m hippie-ish but not this hippie-ish. This album generator experience is really telling me that I like structured music. Give me verses and choruses. This album doesn’t have many.
1. High - 1.5 2. Sweet -1 3. Death - 2 4. Mouth - 1.5 5. Section -1.5 6. Bird - 1.5 7. Lonely - 0 8. Love-1.5 9. Strings -2 10. Masked - 1 11. Grace - 1.5
Not for me
It was pretty boring. Also the panning messed me up. I know it's old, but it hurt hearing the drums only in the right ear.
It was a mistake giving white people drugs
Incapable de terminer l’album. Juste non.
Nope - this is just annoying! It's like a time capsule containing the worst of the late 60's psychedelic wank.
Urgh - so annoying. Such a Mish mash of sounds. Some bits seemed like they were going into an interesting direction and then straight back to clanging shit again. Too many drugs
"Hey, man, is that Freedom Rock!?" "Yeah, man!" "Well turn it OFF, man!" I've had three Hendrix albums; this album is entirely unecessary. 1 star.
bah.
Sicher gut gemeint, damals.
Not for me
- it's ok .... another "not sure why it's on the list" album .... sure it's of its time but it's just not that good & they're were so many better psych records out there .... -
Meh
Boomer slop
An absolute ordeal.
Man.. I really hate psychedelic rock
nah
Too country for me, Joe
I do not like this. I get that it's important for starting a musical style, but what if it's a musical style I'm ambivalent towards? It's hard to get excited about this and even harder to continue listening to it.
This was rubbish. Blended together in a mediocre mush and at times felt like a Doors tribute band. 1 star.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was in my 12-hour YouTube video Flowstate – Chill and Coffee. It’s basically white noise. Somehow, it carries zero emotion — nothing felt, nothing released
“It’s a shame you grew up in the city and didn’t learn about country ways”. I abhor being preached to in any genre, but I simply will not tolerate it from country artists whose whole shtick is extolling a way of life that is underwritten by dead last rankings in all key development metrics. The psychedelia angle doesn’t work for me either. I just about cringed to death when the singer started whispering “LSD” slowly into the mic. One star: Poor 💫
lol
really aged poorly
no band named “first name last name and the blanks” has ever made good music
If Quicksilver had something, this record has NOTHING. Just absolute hippie horseshit from front to back. There’s no hook, there’s no melodies, there’s no talent from the players. If these were merry weirdos doing some wacky psych experiments I’d be into them but they might be the single best representatives of plastic flower power bullshit ever. I wish I could give it 0 stars.
Okay, that album confirms that not every band featured on Woodstock 69' was good. This record sounded a little bit like a very bad attempt to encapsulate the whole psychedelic rock era, creating a bit of a caricature of the movement. No revival please.
My colleague just walked into my office and asked me "What the fuck are you listening to now?!" Specifically, it was track #10, "The Masked Marauder." Here are the complete lyrics: La la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la
Made it to track 4, which is really 3 tracks later than it needed to be, before I turned it off. Very, very bad.
This sounded like noise
Well that was annoying. Not just annoying, that was genuinely obnoxious and difficult to get through. I guess if I was a teenager in the late 60’s smoking some terrible dirt weed in my friends older brothers bedroom this would seem like the coolest thing in the entire world. Fortunately, I am not that. 1*
Super bird is good, the rest of this album sucks ass
Never listened to a full album. I’ve heard “I feel like I’m fixin’ to die rag”, are the more than anti-war music? I guess I’ll have to find out.
Do you think the Doors would have been halfway decent if only they got rid of Jim Morrison? Not that simple. Some work can't withstand being removed from its scene slash context.
Section 43 might be the worst song I've ever listened to
I had a real hard time finishing this one. The sound mix is atrocious, that hard panned guitar and organ are so loud over everything else it was an obnoxious listen more than anything else. Might be a better experience listening to a better mix, as I can really see the roots of The Doors here, but in the state I have access to this is hideous.
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It started off sounding like a knock-off Beatles album but then got worse as they went to the instrumental stuff. The 7-minute song that featured the synth and harmonica blaring sounds at the same time was rough on the ears. I literally had to skip over Section 43 and it really didn't get better after that. This shit was bad for my mind and body...
This album is to be consumed when high, even then it could send you west. The final song, Grace, is 7.03 mins. Sad and Lonely times is the only thing worth my time here.
Psych just ain't my thing. I am sure if you were there this would have been the most amazing thing ever. 1.5/5
I don't feel it
This sounds interchangeable with a lot of the jam bands of the time. Not my deal.
Sorry. Have had enough late 60's Californian psychedelia. Having listened to (and loved) the 3 Hendrix albums on the list I cannot see the point of records like this as it so inferior. Would normally give it a 2 but have lost all tolerance. Fun fact I have yet to score above 2 any band or album that features the word fish.
Kill the organist
Not for me. Bit too banjo-ey
This may have been amazing when it came out but I don't think there's enough weed around to make this good today.
Nope
Psychedelic B-team artist whose most famous song isn't even on this album. They sound like a Doors cover band, apparently if you were a band in San Francisco in the late 60s and sounded a certain way they let you have an album and eventually critics found it "important". Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and The Grateful Dead are all on this list...there's no reason to have this album on the list other than some critic showing off how much he knows about psychedelic rock. This album is one more reason to hate San Francisco. Some comical political lyrics, this is the Country Joe and the Fish I was expecting, more comic book references than I would have expected though. Understood, you love doing drugs. This album is going downhill fast, The Masked Marauder is particularly awful. Psychedelic Simon and Garfunkel.
psychedelic isn't interesting for me
C'était du bon psychédélique, rien de mémorable ou qui se distingue particulièrement de plusieurs trucs similaires qui se faisaient à l'époque. Mais malheureusement, la MAUDITE electric jug a rendu l'album tellement désagréable. Jamais en mise complètement de l'avant, toujours en arrière-plan, mais systématiquement présente et incapable de l'ignorer. Comme une petite touche de cumin dans un brownie. On dirait qu'ils ont voulu se démarqué avec cela et ils en ont tellement abusé que ça a complètement rendu cela intolérable. L'un des albums qui a le plus testé ma patience. 2/10
1 you had to be there ??
Fuck. All. This. God. Damned. 60s. Nonsense. Enough already!!!!
Retrospectively this sounds very bandwagonesque, it was preceded by The Mothers 'Freak Out!' The Doors debut and the first 3 Byrds albums, not to mention 'Pet Sounds' and 'Revolver'. It does seem representative of the more San Francisco sound of the time, but to me it sounds like a fairly transparent attempt to cash in on the scene. The songs are dull and corny, and that guitar sound made me want to throw my speaker out of the window. Also I got them mixed up with equally generic Big Brother and the Holding Company, at least they had Janis Joplin singing. Sears catalogue psychedelia for those who don't want to freak out too much.
This is the embodiment of 1960's cringe.
Yep, never learned country ways.
This is a mess. None of the band seem to know how to keep together, it's a shambles. At times un-listenable. Usually I find I can bear to get through every album here. This one I had to take a break halfway through to rest my ears.
I don’t feel this has aged very well.
Hyvä ensimmäinen kappale. Sen jälkeen levy degeneroituu ei-paskaksi ja lopulta melko lähelle turhuutta. Miinusta pop-historian yököttävimmästä lainista: "I hunger for your porpoise mouth."
i actually hate psychedelic rock and every time i force myself to listen to it for more than a minute i become suicidal NNN
Didnt know what to expect, but given this released in the 2000s I assumed it would be decent. It was not. This is old timey music with no material modern flares/additions and I did not enjoy this album.
The sounds hurt my brain.
This album isn't special and not particularly worth listening to. Standard 60s content.
didn’t feel it
It was all over the place, hard guitar riffs then “Monkee” style bops and then a slew of other styles.
Stupid name. Stupid songs.
I didn't hate it, but not for me. 1/5
Not abrasively bad but left my brain two seconds after I listened to it
Not my favorite
Definitely a 60's psychedlic blues rock record for sure.
Not for me..
Is half the list psychedelia?
Weird psychedelic music
Stupid generic music. With such great songs as your silvyourer silvstreakyourer or some crap in ‘Grace’, ‘what if there was a comic book about Lyndon B Johnson being stupid?’ in ‘Super Bird’, and more songs which I didn’t care to pay attention. Hippy dippy bullshit.
So boring. Why do these 60s bands have so much lead guitar and why is it so loud, bad,and noodley? Sounds like a guitar center.
This might be the worst album of all time
Ooh I thought this was boring and then he whispered LSD in my ear and I got creeped out. Keep your drugs to yourself. The Masked Marauder?! No.
Awful, just awful. Hippie music is dreadfully bad. This should not be celebrated. This shit should be wiped from history.
Experimental with no statement. Ambient with no mood. Music with no reason.
laaaaame fave : none least fave : all
one of those 'you had to be there albums' to appreciate. I wasn't so don't appreciate this at all
country electronic music... didn't know I could hate country more
I did not want to listen to this based on the first notes of the opening song, but I persevered and then nearly gave up again during a 7 and a half minute instrumental. KILL ME. After that (and before that let’s be real) most of the songs sort of blended together. I can appreciate that it was probably really great and transformative for its time. I actually liked the more psychedelic songs but mostly couldn’t get past how dated it was. I kept willing it to end which was… not a great sign.
Amazingly boring hippie psychedelic crap
ah my old nemisis, the blues. still pretty boring. yep.
😶. No. I am speechless, just no. It was like comically bad?
The album might have been mind-blowing for 1967 but wow there's really not a lot of "there" there. Psychedelia in the lamest-sense - not really even a collection of songs, just more of a soundscape that does not resonate at 7am to be sure. I'll take their Woodstock performance for a one-off humor trip but this is easily forgotten at best and kinda awful at worst. 3/10 1 star.
No bueno
Really bad 2 Eh fuck it 1
Meh
Lo- Grace This is some bluesy/psychedelic/swampy-rock, or at least that's what it presents itself as. "Electric Music" in that it's mainly guitar/organ...Nothing really sticks out as exceptional, just mainly average, except for the last track "Grace", which meanders and is kind of pointless...pretty much like the rest of the album.
It was boring.
Meh, kind of uninteresting.
Relisten almost brought it up to a 2, but everything post Porpoise Mouth is so sleepy I couldn't do it. There's only so many foundational psych rock albums we need on this list and I can't say I would've included this one Saved: Flying High, Porpoise Mouth*
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Super Bird, Porpoise Mouth Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: I appreciate the influence this had on the genre, but if you are under the age of 65 and/or not a psych rock junkie there is no reason for you to sit through this album. Just listen to the bands who did it better later.
Honestly just fuck this. Fuck it.
Not a fan
'60's Psychedelic rock - not really my thing at all. 2/10.