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I was expecting worse, but I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night is kinda slick with it. Some songs hit better than others, but none of them ever hit that peak again. Toonerville Trolley was obviously added as a joke, so it didn't bother me that much.
There's two halfway decent songs and one awful, rest is forgettable. Atleast they had the good sense to clock in slightly below half an hour
Muy buena portada. No entiendo cómo estas canciones están en un mismo álbum. Muchas tienen ritmos totalmente opuestos y me confundió. Onie fue la única que me gustó.
Great psychedelic rock
i love 60s psych forever and ever
What a terrible fucking name for a band. Besides that, its lead track is definitely the standout. It had some nice moments throughout and was the perfect length for what it is.
11/12ths of the album was good, pretty straightforward classic garage/psych rock. 1/12ths of this was a song that I'm sure has a reason for being on the album but I can't say what. Some unusual ?baroque? rock on there too? Overall, I liked it; I would listen again.
It's not bad, I like the flow.
sonics are great - song writing not always as good
fantastisch- wie konnte ich das nicht kennen? 😆
This thing starts off really tight, with some of the best 60s rock I've heard. "I've Had Too Much To Dream," "Bangles," and "Get Me To The World On Time" have interesting production touches and tunes that kept me really engaged. I think it starts to lose something starting with The King Is In The Counting House... the sort of track bands eventually (fortunately) just stopped doing. The last two songs are fairly bad (Try Me On For Size) and downright terrible (Toonerville Trolley). I think side one of the record does enough to get this to a 4/5.
Yeah it deserves a 2
For a 60's psychedelic band, it's pretty heavy and noisy. I really liked the title track, and I was expecting that to be it, but I ended up enjoying a few more. Way better than the average psych oldie we find here. Key tracks: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) Onie Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less) The King Is in the Counting House
I remember telling myself when this album came out I should probably listen to it, but I never did. The only tune I recognize now is "I had too much to dream last night". I didn't like it then and that opinion hasn't changed. Reading the description of the album, it seems their producer didn't allow them to make the album they wanted to make. Too bad and too often what happens when artists are not allowed to realize their vision.
The Electric Prunes have always been an automatic recommendation for psychedelia but I really enjoyed the whole album.
Cool sounds and experimentation, but it didn't really earn that freedom for me. I think all my favourite psychadelia or vaguely experimental music has a good solid core of songwriting or musicality. I'm sure that's there for this record, but it didn't really work for me.
Most of this was fine but demerit for the Toonerville Trolley
Toonerville Trolley brought this down a whole star
kind mid 2/5
Totally awesome garage rock that was before its time. These guys really had a leg up on the music; too bad they got ripped off. The songs are really very psychedelic sounding even if the musicians weren't heavily involved in drug use.
“I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) by The Electric Prunes” might be the greatest song title & band name combo of the 1960s. A fun listen. Some killer, some me filler.
Some fun tunes and a whole lot of filler
Meh. Kind of weird kind of not good enough to get over a 3.
Im probably being uncultured right now but these guys just some like Beatles wannabes
This was fine, fun, lil psychedelica album. Wouldn’t go back but see the influence…
Pretty decent psychedelic garage rock. A few really good songs surrounded by listenable filler.
Feels like psychedelic rock is better represented by other bands like The Byrds
toonerville trolley on its own lowered it by a star
I don’t think I needed to listen to this album before I died
The Electric Prunes – The Electric Prunes (1967) On Day 231, I learned that with psychedelic rock, one day you'll come across the best album you've ever heard, and the next you'll encounter one that sounds like a room where everyone is furiously throwing paint at the walls during a tantrum. This debut sits right in the middle, leaning slightly toward that chaotic paint-throwing side. While a few songs sounded good and hit that classic garage-fuzz mark, others felt so disconnected it was as if they weren't even recorded for the same project. A decent, uneven psych experiment. A middle-of-the-road 3/5.
Came in expecting a straightforward 60's psychedelic album and for the most part that's what I got. But there were a few points where they did something different and I enjoyed those parts a bunch. 6/10
Bad band name, bad music. See folks, sometimes judging a book by its cover works out.
Has that quality of 'a debut album that shows good future potential'. It's a good time that rivals their obvious inspiration The Rolling Stones at its best (Get Me To The World On Time actually rocks), but then it slows down and does that quiet twee ballad track thing that every band seemed to be obsessed with including in the late 60s. *Toonerville Trolley*? It's not a funny bit. At their worst they're a Beatles ripoff without the charm. In the end you'd get the best value out of the album listening to the two singles listed on the dust jacket while safely ignoring the rest. Gets two stars since those two singles are actually pretty good. Fav Tracks: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), Get Me To The World On Time
Not the biggest fan of psychedelic rock but this was palatable Playlist add: "Get Me to the World On Time"
Kind of interesting. I liked it.
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) 3.7 Bangles 3.5 Onie 3.4 Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less) 3.5 Train for Tomorrow 3.8 Sold to the Highest Bidder 3.3 Get Me to the World on Time 3.2 About a Quarter to Nine 3.4 The King Is in the Counting House 3.3 Luvin' 3.5 Try Me on for Size 3.4 The Toonerville Trolley 3.2 Score: 3.433333333
Too much tremolo on the guitars. Too much reverb in general. I didn't completely hate it, but it was not memorable for me. Will not revisit.
I don't know why, but it is somewhat goofy and I like it for that. It is in no way a great album, but it doesn't feel very serious and that is very charming. 3/5
Middling 60s rock. Mostly inoffensive but entirely uninteresting. "Sold to the Highest Bidder" sucks. "The Toonerville Trolley" is kind of annoying too.
Fuzzy psychedelic fun. Will spend more time with!
It’s a least a bit of an unusual approach for one of these “wildly-named”, “far-out” 60s bands that had maybe one or two good songs but got three albums out of them. I actually went back and listened to some tracks; sonically they tried some experiments that were more interesting than grating, though the lyrics were the typical mash of grade-school psychedelia and Feelings. Points for grabbing my ears a few times, but my god these band names were so “””creative”””, ugh
I didn’t mind it. Not sure what the all the hate from the ‘pro’ internet critics is about.
Se han quedado muy anticuados.
Crazy name, and funny I'd never heard of these guys. The album seemed fine, a normal piece of work for that time. But what do I know.
i just don't fucking care about yet another Brit folks with guitars. this album just does exist. that's all I got to say.
I really wanted to dig this one, especially with those gritty, fuzzy opening tracks. It’s got some cool psychedelic moments, but the whole thing feels like a total mess. It’s not really a cohesive album... just a bunch of songs thrown together, jumping from solid garage rock to weird, vaudeville-style filler that makes no sense. The second half is a real drag, and the inconsistency is impossible to ignore. Those manic, novelty songs completely kill the dark, cool vibe they started with. I appreciate the few gems buried in there, but there’s just way too much skip-worthy fluff to make it a great listen. Honestly, just stick to the main singles and leave the rest of this headache inducing record alone.
Wow, I hated this. Weird and not at all in a good way. Just terrible
Surprisingly enjoyable. Jangly.
Nah. Better as the acoustic prunes...
Not as good as tinned prunes! An okay album. Not sure why it's on the list though
Painfully boring, an almost complete chore to listen, any vague notions of energy are snuffed out by fade outs and the goofy showtunes add insult to injury
Started out ok. The more I listened the worse it got. Certainly didn't end well.
not bat not great VERY 60s
This has to be one of the most blatant rip off I've encountered on this list. Other reviews here mention The Doors, but "Electric Prunes" is really just three kids standing on each others shoulders disguised as The Rolling Stones' "Aftermath." You have the baroque pop, R&B work-outs, and psychedelic rock of that album, only demonstrably worse. They even have a rock song with marimba on it! (a la "Under my Thumb") There are some nice tracks here, "Too Much to Dream," and as derivative as it is, "Onie." "Train to Tomorrow" is terrible except for the extended coda (a RS signature move, btw). But oh my, does pretty much everything on the B-side not work AT ALL. It just spirals down and down, from the corn-ball pop of "Quarter to Nine" to the laughably overconfident rockers "Luvin'" and "Try Me On For Size." But "The Toonerville Trolley" deserves a special mention as the worst song on the album. Yes, I know it's supposed to be a satire, but satire can also be lame. The more I listen to this, the more it reminds me of the fake songs from a movie set in the 60s when they can't license popular songs from the time. But it isn't unlistenable. So. A regrettable - TWO STARS
What'd you expect from a 60s album. Kinda gave surfy vibes and the beginning song was nice.
Not bad overall, given my deep hatred for 60s music. 2.75 rounded down to 2. Favorite track: Sold to the Highest Bidder
hahahahaha...omg what a way to end an album.
This was entirely unexceptional but not horrible.
Morceau préférée : 3 : Onie Morceau marquant : 6 : Sold To The Highest Bidder 9 : The King Is On The Countie House
Generous 3 mainly for that one song which is epic. B side is so weak in comparison
The a-side of this is approaching 5* territory, there's definitely a fall-off but I kinda appreciate the eclectic nature of all of it? 4* might be a bit silly ultimately but I do like it a fair bit and frankly I'm starstruck by I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night which has to be one of the best psych rock songs of that decade
Not terrible, but just so close to everything else that was being made at the time and doesn’t offer much. Onie was quite sweet though and Get Me to the World on Time was cool.
os cara levaram o conceito de lado B super a sério a segunda metade é realmente péssima, mas a primeira vai ok
a primeira metade eh bem boa, garage psicodélico daquele modelo. já a segunda é fraca demais, credo eh mediano, nada demais não
1/1
Don't know how to feel about this one
Reminiscent of the Yardbirds, but the songs are more advanced, multi-layered, creative, and more listenable. The music sounds a little dated now (and they still revert to British bar song sing-alongs, like the YBs). They’re not as well-stocked at the guitar position as the Yardbirds. But i like them more. A 3 for the album, but I’ll listen to the band again.
Overall: 4/10 I didn't like the way this album sounds, and the songs are truly uninteresting to me. Such a bland, forgettable album that I genuinely have nothing to say about. Fav Song: About a Quarter to Nine
Que cosa tan aburridora
Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) On reading the reviews/comments of another album on the List, on some previous day I can't remember, I discovered a new litmus test for if an album should be on the List: If the album's Wikipedia page mentions being listed in the book '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die' in the overview of the album description, it probably does not actually need to be on the List. The logic being, if an albums biggest claim to fame is being in the book, it might not actually be that good. No one expects to read in the overview of Dark Side of the Moon that it's listed in the 1001 albums book, because on the list of accomplishments, being included in the book is so inconsequential and insignificant. But I digress... This album is whatever. It's pretty mediocre. it definitely has that garage rock style going on. I am reminded of the B62's and The Mama's and The Papa's, except both of those bands are better. This album just exists. I've never heard of the The Electric Prunes and I suspect I will promptly forget about them in the near future.
Put your Bangles on and dance to this one.
This is not bad but I can’t really say I liked it either. There’s a lot of weird albums like this from this era that exist in a void between psychedelic, baroque, and mid-60s boy band pop.
Painfully average…
Me tengo que poner al día, todo lo que está abajo sin review es porque está sin escuchar. Igual si seguí con el "un álbum por día" pero no por esta página. Si puedo editarlos, esto lo borraré y sino como mucho modificaré las notas.
Have too many prunes, and you get the shits. Fitting, as this is shit. 1
There are some solid tunes here, but this album feels dated. Folks were making better psychedelia music before and after this album.
Don’t know why this was made and definitely don’t know why it’s on this list. Every other band from that era did it better.
Groupe inconnu. Encore un album de rock dit 'psychédélique' pas très intéressant et dont le son a très mal vieilli (abus de tremolo et de reverb entre autres). Heureusement l'album est court ! =>2/5
Meh.
REALLY enjoyed this fuzzy rock sound!
Yet another circle jerk entry on this list. The album's only claim to fame is that it's on this list. I saw 'garage Rock" and thought I might be into it. But it's just Lo-Fi, '60S psychedelic bullshit
Wow, I really just do not like this kind of music at all. This sucked. I actually regret taking the time to listen to this album, and I’m just glad it’s only 29 minutes long and not an hour. This album has really earned a one star rating, more than the any of the other one stars I’ve rated. Maybe I’ve been too harsh on them. Allman Brothers Band, Leonard Cohen & Blur, I apologize for putting you on the same level as this dookie. If I could, this would rate this zero stars.
I have to say that when this came up, I said.. who the fuck are the Electric Prunes. But this was solid. Reminded me of one my fav albums, Hippies by Harlem, except this came out 40 years earlier
im sure that the testicles of the members of this band are also quite pruned
Believe me classic rock is my wheel house but Jesus some of these psych albums just do not stand the test of time as far as replay-ability goes. And there’s tons of awesome shit from this same era. Idk. Same issue I have with the byrds album we just had. Foundational? Maybe. But damn at least put shit on when people were at the top of their game. This is just so boring. Nothing that sets it apart from any of the smaller bands I enjoy of the era. Knockoff doors POV. Onie was a banger and a save.
Genuinely just a nothing burger I care less for this Toonerville Trolley lowkey kinda a bop if not weird I can’t give it a 1 on that but let’s be honest this will never be bumped and the fact I am listening to this is more than enough merit get away from me
Thought this was okay and had some interesting sounds, however I’m just not really a fan of the overall sound.
If I found this in a bargain bin and took it home I’d be pleased with my find, but I don’t really understand why it’s on here. The kind of album it would be useful to have to book for so you could understand why it’s been included.
1/1
I mean, sure? Feels like Discount Kinks, and I don't even like the Kinks that much. They really let people do whatever they wanted in 1966, huh?
So boring
it's fine I guess
I generally like the 60s, psychedelic rock, and the overall vibe, but beyond the brief nostalgia for all of the above, I just kept wanting better bands. Give me the Kinks on their worst day, and I'm happy.
Seth - 3.8/5 Logan - 4/5
One of the great opening tracks in psychedelic history followed by thirty minutes of increasingly convincing evidence that perhaps they used all their good ideas at once.
Blahhhhhhhhh
Hmm
2.6/5 Favorite Songs: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) Are You Lovin' Me More Train for Tomorrow
I mean, yeah, they were some of the first, but surely not some of the best.
No. No no no. Please, some of the detritus from the 60’s needs to be left in the crate. Yeah, I wanted to give this a 2 for its innovative recording but it’s making me unhappy. It’s short and it’s still too long. 1 Boolean: False
Never heard of this band from 60s, listened to this once on the way to work and honestly - not that impressed! Sounds a bit like your average 60s psych band, I might give it only 2 stars here, it's listenable and not terrible but nothing great either.
Such a great opener, and such a disastrous decline in quality almost immediately. There are some interesting tracks here, but the lows are truly low.
Electrified air
Psychedelia abounds. Some of it sounds like the Byrds. But darker and less light. Man Track 3 sux. Most of the album isn’t too bad, but it feels like they are trying a too hard. Lyrics are very cliche. Also, the band name?! Thought this was gong for be a parody album. Ha!
Super fun!!
Creo que con este album concluí que no me gusta la musica norteamericana de los 60 JAJJAJA. No me gusta nada nadísima en realidad. Opinión objetiva: seria para mi un referente de musica de la época, esta divertido Opinión subjetiva: detesto la musica de los 60
As with most psychedelic garage rocks albums, seek out the mono version. On streaming, it's on the Then Came a Dawn compilation. It hits harder and "Dream" will get your love beads a-swingin'. I love the arc of this record, the cover within the cover, the trippy reach. The sweet songs like "Onie" are a great comedown from the bangers. It loses a star as it gets a little goofy at the end, but that was the style in those days. A rare psyche album that is more than just the handful of singles buffeted with filler.
I like the leadoff track and a couple others, but most of these songs don’t leave much of an impression on me. Which is a shame because I love psychedelia.
Weird that the same songwriting team wrote the majestic "i had too much to dream last night" and the toonerville trolley, which is so corny the Osmonds would have balked at recording it. Even weirder that this is a group that didnt write their own material.
A short, sharp and overall enjoyable album. I had too much to dream (last night) and Get me to the world on time are the stand out tracks, mist be why they are mentioned on the cover. There is a few tonal shifts throughout the album which probably hurt it a little as they aren't as strong. And the final song is quite jarringly bad. 3.5* rounded to 3* because of that final track.
They kinda suck
Great first track. Not really feeling the rest. Last track was truly awful.
Groovy stuff!!!
I wasn’t a huge fan. Quarter til 9 was good.
Unmistakably late 60s and a pleasant one-off listen. But rather stuck in that era.
I didn't know about it, but I don't like it much; I even find it a bit annoying.
Good and easy listening, but kind of also just another 60s English rock band, albeit a bit more crude and vocal about their vices than the pop groups.
The Summer of Love. Remember it well! Alas not this album. Some interesting and diverse songs here and of its time. A nice listen.
Talk about front loading a record. I thought the first two tracks were kind of cool. A dark 60s pop rock vibe. Maybe a little experimental. But man, it just devolves into garbage filler. And it’s only a 29 minute record. Didn’t do it for me. 2/5.
I went into this thinking, man they should've just put nuggets on this, but left feeling like, eh I guess it's fine. Really, really runs out of ideas halfway through
Ik heb het nu een tijdje aan staan en hoewel ik me er niet gruwelijk aan stoor kan ik ook wel concluderen dat dit album m'n leven niet gaat veranderen. Het is een combinatie van Beatles, Stones en een handje vol psychedelische bands. Als dit het 987e album is dat je krijgt voorgeschoteld kan dit geluid je niet meer heel vreemd zijn. Het is lastig om hier veel meer over te zeggen dus ik laat het hierbij. Heel gemiddelde 3 sterren.
Proto-punk almost. 3.5/5
This was very mediocre psychedelia.
Bom, vale a pena ouvir outros albuns
Would’ve been a 5 if not for the very last song. What the hell was that?
Психоделия, повторенная потом в 80-х.
3.75? jazzy, psychedelic, groovy, rocky. enjoyed many songs individually but the album as a whole felt a bit scattered and at times inharmonious. some real stand out songs on here and a really good introduction to the electric prunes, but what the fuck are songs like the toonerville trolley? sadly these odd songs kind of took away from an otherwise great album
I wanted to like this, I really did. I love I had too much to dream last night it really hits that psych/garage sweet spot… but the rest of the album is filler, cod-baroque psych and for some reason a 4 minute long vaudeville fever dream. Starts strong, ends in chaos
Pretty unremarkable late 60s psychedelic nuggets pop from the scene's also-rans. Quite a lot of throwaway songs on here. It's fun enough and doesn't overstay it's welcome. Does what it sets out to do, each song has it's unique elements so it keeps the album sounding fresh. Bang average for it's genre, it lacks the special spark that made its contemporaries into classics. It has some nice songs, it's worth listening to and quite enjoyable.
Yup, got all excited about the first couple songs, kept hanging on for the bursts of cool guitar, downhill it went.
I like the title track of the album, but the tracks get progressively weirder from there and end on a terrible note with Toonerville Trolley.
The back half of this album felt like some sort of fever dream...
This album has problems, chief among them the stereo mix. Godawful, terrible, no-good mixing. Secondly, very little coherence. Some songs on the A side, work well together and paint a picture of who this band probably is. Most of the songs on the B side are B side af and probably shouldn't have been recorded by anyone at all. Pretty miserable experience at times on the back half of this album. I think the best I can do is ⭐⭐
I was really pleasantly surprised by this. The Electric Prunes are an *incredibly* unique psych band. On their best tracks, psychedelic ideas are realized with a guitar tone so deeply mauled that there really is some early experimentation in incorporating electronic textures into rock here. I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night), Sold To The Highest Bidder, and Get Me To The World On Time are all basically psych-punk. And legitimately are some of the best songs of the '60s. The other stuff here ranges from decent to kind of stupid though. About A Quarter To Nine, The King Is In The Counting House, and The Toonerville Trolley are all kind of ridiculous, and kind of drop the ball a little. But the good stuff here is *so* good that this weird little album with it's skittery, broken guitars has really sold me.
Real nothing. It must have been influential but I didn't enjoy it
An uneven listen, but a fun and semi-forgotten curio of the psych era with some good tunes and classically spaced-out lyrics. Who can’t relate to having too much to dream last night?
Quite an interesting sounding record. Pretty unique for something released in 1967. I was actually quite enjoying this for the first few tracks but the second half is very hit or miss with a few really questionable sounding songs that didn't work for me at all. Still, this was a pretty solid listen overall, even if I won't return to it
Rather gimmicky sound - I can't say I love it, it is a bit too much all over the place. I dont think it has aged all that well, though I suppose they have some interesting sounds. I just can't imagine how you can be a big fan of this stuff. One song is a progressive rock song, the next one we are firing rennaisance piano sounds, just very confusing to me. It is OK, not much more. Thinking a decent 2.
Wow there, ease up on the tremolo effect on the guitar, buddy! Short and sweet album. Not my style, though. When songs are as short as these there's very little time to actually make a statement. Seems very much like an attempt to differentiate themselves from contemporary music. Today, that sounds more like a parody of their time. Is it absolutely necessary to hear this before you die? I'd rest easy if I hadn't had the chance. 2.0
I wish there was a two and a half. It's odd and short and definitely fun in spots. I just don't care so very much for the folk medieval revival flavor that seeped into everything on that era?
This was pretty dated psychedelic stuff.
Pretty lame album. Nothing in it that makes it worth being included in this list. Thankfully it was short.
solid album!
Reminds me of The Doors and other contemporaries. It's not bad but I don't think it stands out much.
Flaccid. Among the many bands in the British Invasion these guys don’t feel worthy of a footnote
This was a groovy trip man!
Started out pretty strong. I Had Too Much to Dream is a strong song title, and the song itself is fine. I found myself thinking that I was enjoying the album more than I normally enjoy this genre, and then the last four songs hit. The King Is in the Counting House is a template for the worst of this genre. The last two songs undid any goodwill I had towards this album.
Decided to make a joke out of psychedelic rock and ended up with a laughably mediocre album. The ragtime piano is about as enjoyable as listening to a cat crying, and side B might as well be a blank slate for all the attention it deserves. Pass the joint and let's pretend this never happened. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - Onie - Get Me to the World on Time
6 / 10
A 60s psych band that I've never heard of is probably not essential listening, but who the hell am I to judge that? 1960s music as a whole was always kind of a blind spot in my listening prior to this. This is an OK mid-60s rock album. It's not a whole lot more than that, instead being a mediocre and mostly unnotable example of that sound. The lyrics are not good at all, and the vocals are just mediocre Beatles imitations. This is not essential listening because it just treads the same ground as a ton of other rock groups from that period. "Toonerville Trolley" does not generate anywhere close to the same emotional response in me as it does in many other reviewers, though it is the worst song on a rather boring record. Also, "The Electric Prunes" is not a good band name, though "The The" is far worse. Get this off the list ASAP. This album is ranked #28 of 30 for 1967. Other 1967 albums rated by me: Are You Experienced?(2/30)-5 The Doors(3/30)-4 Surrealistic Pillow(7/30)-3 Songs of Leonard Cohen(9/30)-4 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim(11/30)-4
I’d heard the name The Electric Prunes before, but I wasn’t familiar with their music. Their self-titled debut album is exactly what you’d expect from this band name: a wild mix of high-quality psychedelic rock songs and technically well-crafted but completely bizarre jokes. For my taste, however, the outliers in both directions are remarkably few, and overall, the result is almost a cohesive album with perfectly normal highlights and weaknesses. “Solid” doesn't quite capture its character, but in terms of rating, that's actually what it is.
Sounded generic. Like a cover band of The Animals or something.
No private session used for Spotify. If one couldn't tell by the name of the band that the album came out in the later half of the 60's then the music would definitely tell you. Nothing wrong with this music, just not a fan, and yes, that is how I rate things.
Some shitty psychedelic rock.
More enjoyable than I expected. Pleasantly surprised by the showtime cover.
I dimly recall a time when 60's psych was being "rediscovered" and the band name and this album were a regular part of the music conversation for a new generation seeking inspiration from musical history Listening to this for the first time now, it comes over as a dated curio from a marginal element of a lost decade Not for me
Meh
As soon as I saw the band name Electric Prunes, my mind immediately thought we were in for another Pere Ubu or Mothers of Invention. And so it was much to my relief that this was actually really good. I'm surprised both at how much I like this album and that I had not heard of this before. Really like the song Bangles with its alternating time signatures. Are You Lovin' Me More has a nice straight ahead driving rock groove. Love the guitar work in Train for Tomorrow, and the mandolin-like guitar picking in Sold to the Highest Bidder. Strong vocal harmonies in Luvin. There was a nice change of pace in the baroque pop in The King is in the Counting House' and great horns in About a Quarter to Nine. But I think my favorite song on the album is the dreamy downtempo Onie. I'd love to check out more from this group, but from what I can tell the band underwent several big personnel changes and never achieved the success of this first album. It's too bad -- there was a lot here to build on.
Some fun, interesting moments but some pretty grating ones too. I appreciate some of the switch-ups. Starts much stronger than it ends. 1 listen Favorite Track: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Expectation: -> This is probably an obscure band/album. After listening: -> Umm… am I crazy or is this really good? I could listen to this all day. Took me a little bit to warm up to it but now I just want to find a drive-in restaurant and groove to this in my imaginary convertible. I don't like some of this, I like it all. Track ranking: Onie Sold Lovin' Dream Quarter World Size Tomorrow Bangles Toonerville King Luvin'
Decent 60s music but still not totally up my alley
Day 8: First totally new discovery for me! Nothing really groundbreaking here, but solid, fun psychedelic offering.
This sounds like a generic 60s compilation album by a mix of no-hit wonders. The fact that it's one band is surprising. There is zero artistic voice present. The quality of the songs is fine, if a bit bland. Their single that starts the album is pretty good.
Odd stuff! Pretty enjoyable surf rockish vibes
Garage rock? More like psychedelic rock, and of the pretty good variety, too!
# Album Name: Electric Prunes # Artist: Electric Prunes # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Meh # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? No
This was all over the place. The parts I liked I thought were pretty good and the parts I didn't were terrible.
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A very poor mans early Pink Floyd.
This is actually a really great psych-pop album. The tracks vary a bit and things stay interesting. The weirdness is expected. They may have peaked early but they definitely peaked.
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Aged like milk Or did it ? By 1967 there was already way better rock albums released. Especialy in 1967. This is probably not even in the top 10 of best rock album by an american band release in february of 1967. This year was stacked with great albums. The doors, the velvet underground, the Beach boys and 2 Beatles album were release in 67. Even Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen released bangers in 67 ! Its not that this album aged badly, it was never that good at all. But time dindt helped this album. The songwriting is... of its time for sure (bad). That said, its not that bad. I really liked "Onie" and the oppener. This album does get worse in the 2nd half. I like it as a silly little album of the 60's. Its fun. Doesnt deserve to be a 2.7 on this site thats overly arsh.
No exposure to this artist so let's see what they're like. Eh, not impressed with the first few tracks. Sounds like bog standard 60s pop rock. So, there isn't much here that made me really want to give it another listen. It was fine in the way that most late 60s rock hits me. Why it was essential I'm not going to try to figure out. Doesn't really even warrant a second spin in the moment.
This is about as stereotypical a '60s album as you can get. Most of the songs (mostly written by the label's songwriting team, not the band) are either about "I want to make out with you, girl" or "rich people suck," with the primary exception being the inexplicable "The Toonerville Trolley," which sounds like the theme song to a weirdly nostalgic Saturday morning cartoon. The songs and performances are fine, but not in any way memorable.
This is fine but I didn't really need yet another 60s psychedelic rock album
Shoulda called themselves the Shriveled Prunes for how weak and derivative they sound.
It started out interesting with tremolo-laden guitars. Fun fact, tremolo was one of the first guitar effects to be put in a stomp box. Do I really have to start keeping track of sgt peppers knockoffs or were the beatles not that original after all? Either way I don't appreciate additions like toonerville trolley.
Quick! Barely noticed song to song changes except for the last song. What a wild way to end an album!
For the first couple of songs I thought what an intriguing nugget of psychedelic rock that I’ve never heard of. But the album sorta devolves into basically silliness and by the time you reach the last song, The Toonerville Trolley, I’m pretty sure they aren’t geniuses and I suspect they may be idiots. I’ll give them credit for a few original idea though.
Another late 60s somewhat experimental pop album. Can’t say I really enjoyed it, but I’ve heard worse records.
Not horrible? Trying to decide if it's a 2 or 3. Don't think it's a full 3 but not a 2. Very of the time, didn't love it. Felt gimikey. Most likely will not listen again.
Was this some sort of joke? Instrumentation: B+ some interesting ideas here (the first 10 seconds were good) Vocals: D Lyrics: F There was a chance to give it a 2 until the Toonerville Trolley came on.
kind of what you expect form the name and cover - organs, jangling garage groovy
Love it, me da vibes de playa, volador, soñador
I had too much to dream was such a strong opener and the rest kind of fell a lot less interesting in comparison
Odd
Weird experimental 1960s music, it was all right. Two stars.
Perhaps significant for some historic reason, but not an enjoyable listen at all. Like school kids playing at being an adult band. Couldn't listen to the whole album.
Way more fun than I expected!! I love fuzzy 60s weirdness.
Prune Fun and good
Solide psychedelic album not special
a chill listen
We overrate the 60s so much.
I actually don't care for this at all. The first song was good, the rest was just so aggressively annoying and dragging that I found myself annoyed about halfway through the album.
The Electric Prunes is yet another 60s album I have been dealt on my way through the 1001 albums to hear before you die list and I honestly feel this decade has the most filler as this project is an utter mess for 29 minutes. The first 4 tracks are very solid with Onie being the obvious standout. After that though this album gets really weird and kooky and tries a lot of strange ideas with nothing really sticking like the straightforward and simple Garage Rock in the beginning. I will always give brownie points for being brave and trying new things especially in such an experimental time like the 60s, but for that era specifically so much of it is hot garbage that hippies and other "enthusiasts" will continue to suck off just because the wax is rare. Whatever man, The Electric Prunes have a few nice songs but that is it. Don't even get me started on The 13th Floor Elevators man....
Electric Prunes is just another one of those albums where i am at a loss for things to say about it. I figured that this was gonna be yet another band trying to imitate the Beatles and i was 100% right. I definitely don't think it sounds bad, this was perfectly acceptable for an album from 1967 but overall the songs, despite their attempts at quirkiness, don't really manage to stick out and kinda just blend in with all the other bands doing this kind of thing at the time. On the plus side, this album thankfully is very short at less than 30 minutes so even if it is very generic, at least it never got tedious. This album is okay but with so many others like this, you can do way better. Best Song: Get Me to the World on Time Worst Song: Bangles
All over the place. Some ok tracks and some atrocious. Mix the Kinks, Doors and Love then add no originality whatsoever.
I don't believe I've ever heard of them. This came out before I was born and even my dad didn't own this one. I was shocked to see "I Had Too Much To Dream" had 16M listens, it's never once come on classic rock radio. Miniscule listener counts for the rest of the album outside of "Onie" (agonizing song) with 6M listens, everything else was in the 300K range, which also surprises me because this is so obscure. I found nothing that makes this stand out from any other album from it's time period. It's weak musically, the vocals aren't compelling & the psychedelia sound gets old fast. "Sold To The Highest Bidder", the aforementioned "Onie", "The Toonerville Trolley" and "The King In The Counting House" are just annoying songs designed for someone tripping on acid maybe. Give me Stones, Beatles or Who over this crap any day. It sounds very dated and the production work was sloppy. They lasted 5 years
Ja was ist denn das? Beim ersten Song dachte ich zuerst, die Kinks würden sich an Summer Wine (Lee Hazlewood) versuchen. Der Rest ist und bleibt zu Recht unbekannt.
I mean its rubbish, but it has redeeming features. Mostly humorous sadly
Lowkey anachronistic.
Honestly didn't expect it to be as engaging as it was.
I feel like a younger me would have given this a 4. Loved the music, it's well put together, but it feels as though it's lacking 'something' as a whole.
This did absolutely zero for me
Meh. This didn't stand out to me. It felt a little thrown together, I didn't hear the story come through clearly. Favorite track: Onie
I'm Not Ready To Face The Light 1001 Albums Generator 294 (5/19/2026) The opener had me really excited for this, but nothing else even comes close. the album really falls off the rails around About A Quarter To Nine and never comes back. This very much feels like a random collection of songs rather than an album proper, and the majority of those songs are forgettable or even just bad. However, those few good-great songs keep it at a 2/5. Favs: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) Bangles Get Me To The World On Time Least Fav: The Toonerville Trolley
A bit of a middling dud. There's some good songs on here, but it's a product of its time and struggles with being a good all-round album. The runtime is on the short side, even for its time and even then there's a few filler esque clown songs. That said, I'm a sucker for this era of psychedelic music. There is something to be said for the novelty factor of a Toonerville Trolley and they weren't afraid to try something. The listening is quite varied for what it is. Lands somewhere in the middle for me.
Gar nichts für mich. Schrammelig, langweilig
neat, experimental
It’s alright. Onie is actually kinda pretty. Train for Tomorrow is good. But that’s really it. The rest is just boring. I don’t understand why this was selected for this list. Not enough here.
Quite nice, but is this record so important? 3/5
It's not that it's bad it's just that I don't like it.
Great, more psychedelic rock. This isn't the first time I've said this for an album on here, but at a few different points they sound like when Spinal Tap was a twee folk act.
They blew their wad on I Had Too Much To Dream (a great tune).
Pretty good psychedelic rock.
Solid 60s psychodelic rock. An early entry in the awards race for Most Distasteful Band Name with Butthole Surfers and Meat Puppets.
Listenin’ more (but enjoying it less)
3.2 Felt like a standard 60's underground garage rock album. Maybe because it is the standard
Bad band name
Etwas schrullige Rockmusik aus den 60ern. Passt in die Zeit. Sonst aber wenig erwähnenswert. 3/5
Yllätyin jopa hieman positiivisesti parista biisistä niin kyllä tää jopa kolmosen ansaitsee
Aika tunkkaista ja köyhää brittimeininkiä.
Nojuu tää on tätä rokkimenoo, johon on saatu vähän uitettua lisämaustetta. Vähän kankeeta tuotantoo. Mut iha ok.
Ihan kivaa 60-luvun meininkiä, mutta ei mitään maata mullistavaa. Parempaa tämä silti on kun melkein kaikki nykymusa.
Haven't heard of them. Opened Wikipedia, saw that they're garage rock and said "O nie" ("oh no" in Polish) just like the title of one of the songs on the album. The last song was so bad I'm giving it 1/5
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I really liked it. Super fun
Some decent songs on here and some really weird/drugged out songs. What the hell was the last song even about? 5/10 Top song I Had To Much To Dream
Okay. That trolley song though....
Its fun good vibes but not for me
This is #day638 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I'm not a big fan of the '60s garage rock, but I quite like the late '60s psychedelic rock, and this record strikes a great balance between the two. Also, this is my very first time listening to it, as it happens to be with many albums on the list. This is a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day639.
Ok 3
What? The Electric Prunes? Eclectic mid 60s garage rock mixing surf rock, psychedelic, and elements of baroque pop? Yes, please. And these are local San Fernando Valley boys too.
Light 3,5
Very eclectic-yet-classic ‘60s psychedelia.
Psicodelia de garagem! O som é magnético; ouvi-lo dá uma sensação de hipnose. O cenário era este: jovens da Califórnia querendo entregar um rock cru, enquanto o produtor, David Hassinger, tinha a intenção de levá-los ao experimental. Ele viu o potencial e acertou em cheio, mas é importante notar que, mesmo com essa produção meticulosa, a autenticidade da banda não foi apagada. Isso fica claro na forma de cantar e no uso dos instrumentos: eles pendem para um lado selvagem, mas são devidamente controlados para manter um som coeso e totalmente diferenciado. Não pretendo elogiar tanto o Hassinger, pois o que veio após a obra revela que ele foi um grande babaca com os meninos. Ele quis a marca apenas para si quando percebeu que a banda não emplacava singles comerciais, o que forçou o grupo a tomar rumos estranhos, com os membros originais abandonando o barco já no segundo álbum. Este disco de estreia tem um tom psicodélico e, ao notar as letras, sinto algo meio claustrofóbico. Cada música passa a impressão de uma experiência diferente, como se algo estivesse sempre prestes a acontecer. Felizmente, foram "salvos" pela coletânea "Nuggets", onde foram elevados ao status de cult e apresentados aos ouvidos de grandes músicos. Minhas favoritas foram "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)", "Sold to the Highest Bidder" e "Get Me to the World on Time" É um álbum inteligente em inovação e escuta. Ele se torna único não apenas pela forma como foi construído no estúdio, mas pela essência dos músicos que o compuseram.
Early psychedelic pop rock. One huge song. Same year as Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Some songs are bad and out of place. Good guitar player.
Hard pass on the American Beatles impersonators
Nothing I loved, nothing I hated. Pretty middle of the road for moi.
Half of this was weird children’s music but the rest was good.
Why were all of these British psych bands in the 60s so into Renaissance influences?
Classic of the psychedelic era. “I had too much to dream last night“ is a touchstone. The rest of the album, with perhaps a few slight exceptions, is typical genre but nothing to remember.
Honestly was dreading listening to this when I saw it was 60's psychedelic garage rock. What's crazy is I think I've found a 60's psychedelic album that I think I somewhat like? Either this album is good, or something's very wrong with my right now. But yeah. Can't really place my finger on it, but I'm enjoying this quite a bit more than something like Pet Sounds, Odessey and Oracle, or Disraeli Gears. It's got everything I dislike about psychedelic rock. The thin production, vocals, sharp and piercing notes. But something's just clicking. Still not an album I'd likely go back to, but yeah. One of the best psychedelic rock albums I've come across so far. Although The King is in the Counting House does suck though. I don't know why psychedelic bands insisted on making really tacky "royal" ren faire music.
Decent album, if a bit tame. Starts of with a banger but cannot stick to that level. 3/5
So edgy and sarcastic. I dislike this stuff in any genre and any era.
I bet people in the sixties loved this, until they heard the Toonerville Trolley and invented better music.
4.5/5
I was pretty disappointed by this album. I have a real soft spot for US garage bands of the 1960s, and the opening track is a real classic. Of course it wasn't written by the band (along with another 6 of the 10 tracks). I really only enjoyed a couple of the tracks, I think both were singles. I'd rate this 2 except I think it may have been quite influential (probably more so than it deserved), so I'll bump it to 3.
I was pretty excited about the prospect of this. I have eclectic tastes that span the timeline of the 1001 and earlier so there aren’t too many albums that will be completely new to me but this one was. I hadn’t heard it before at all. As a result, I was routing for it and though it didn’t really let me down, I couldn’t get particularly excited about it. It’s a perfectly fine 60s psyche-pop album and I respect the hell out of them for recording this as early as ‘66. But I’m scoring it on how I enjoyed it. Maybe if I’d heard it as a teen when my experience of music was more limited, I might have got into it and by the time I was writing this review it would be tinged with my own nostalgia of a more formative time in my musical life. Really good for its time, but the harsh truth is that time is gone, and I am unlikely to go back to this.
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I'm not a real fan of this type of psychedelic pop, but I can see the appeal for some people, especially if there is nostalgia involved.
Day845 - if this was the first dumb named, generic late sixties rock band i had to hear maybe i wouldn’t be so salty. boring and forgettable
Not an unenjoyable listen at all, but an uneven one. It captures a raw, proto-garage rock type energy whilst combining it with the in-situ experimentation which was common for psychedelic albums of the time. The oscillating guitar swell of the opener "I Had Too Much To Dream" provides an instant highlight, and the production on here is genuinely excellent, channeling a fairly "dark" vibe through its heavy reverb, tremolo and distorted, fuzzy guitar sound. The vocals also often have a vitriolic quality to them, especially on "Get Me To The World On Time" which is another banger. The momentum doesn't remain a constant throughout the album, however - the back end becomes a bit forgettable as the album drifts further into baroque territory, and it doesn't always feel entirely stylistically aligned from track to track.
2 stars So short but couldn’t quite keep my attention.
Bastante sorprendente para los 60, no esperaba ese tipo de sonidos
This felt like fairly down-the-middle 60’s psych rock until it became super goofy/corny in the second half.
Late 60's early 70"s rock... not a big fan
Starts off with some very solid psychedelic rock, but about halfway through it devolves into granny pish. Not too impressed.
It was boring. Just 60s sounding and nothing else.
Forgettable 60s rock keyboards.
I’m sad.
I like how they made almost a solid album and then decided to stick an absolute stinker right at the end to sour the whole experience. Absolute wet fart of a song. I Had Too Much To Dream and Get Me To The World On Time are good songs but most of the other songs feel generic to me.
Was this included as a joke? It has to be. The Toonerville Trolley was atrocious.
Starts really strong with "I Had Too Much to Dream" and "Onie" but then it becomes just another 60s psych rock album. What a bummer. Favorite track: Onie
I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night just sounds like such a parody track that it was hard to take anything seriously.
Cool for the 60’s, I guess
fine but i wouldnt listen again
Tortureville Trolley Fave track: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Unremarkable, then gets incredibly stupid and silly. Skip the second half. 2/5
West coast psychedelic, Doors Too much to dream
Kinda weird but also kinda cool
Not a bad album, but not good
Solid 60 rock
Felt generous enough through most of my second listen to give this a 2 - there's some real heat to the camp of I Had Too Much to Dream, and Onie is a sweet ballad for a strange name. That was surely enough to excuse the abominable diversion of a song like Sold to the Highest Bidder. Then I went on a work assignment that went startlingly badly and resumed the album when I sat back down, and found I had lost all goodwill I once possessed. If The Toonerville Trolley was somewhere in the middle, instead of tacked onto the end of this album, perhaps this would have gone differently. As is: one star, I hope to never hear a second of this again.
Another useless 40 minutes spent on rubbish that by no mean has a place on this list. May have heard of them... even if not,I am no better off for listening to them now. Move on
dear God no, a bad idea and a bad album
Never heard of this before. It was alright I guess, but nothing really jumped out at me.
This album mostly sucks, but has I Had Too Much to Dream and Get Me To The World On Time, two psych rock classics. But it also has a lot of hokey shit on it like the Toonerville Trolley. Come for the singles, and leave before dessert.
Proof, if proof was needed, that not everything recorded in 1967 is a classic worth remembering. Here we have an album that even the band thought was disappointing. Rushed into the studio to cash in on the moderate success of their two singles, they had their own songs sidelined and were given a set of songs by commercial songwriters and, inexplicably, a cover of a 1932 show tune. It seems to be a story of a band thinking they were important artists and the label seeing them as the songwriters vehicle. The album is all over the shop. There's some Psychedelia, a protest song, some soft, chart friendly love songs, a couple of novelty hits and the one song the band did write pretty much convinces you that they were better off with the label's writers. Probably the best things on the record are the two singles and Try Me On For Size, which is musically fine, although, to be honest, the lyrics are of the 60s, creepy, just-a-bit-rapey variety that passed for manly, tough guy that the girls can't pass up in 67. So its a bit of a label cash on a sort of successful band, with the singles, some future singles and a bit of filler. To be clear, for every Revolver, or Blonde on Blonde, there were probably 50 albums made like this. The question remains, of course, why is it on this list? I pause for a reply.
Das Debütalbum der amerikanischen Garage-Psychedelic-Band aus Los Angeles entstand 1966/67 in den American Recording Co. Power House Studios in North Hollywood und erschien auf Reprise Records. Produzent Dave Hassinger diktierte weite Teile des Projekts: Sieben der zwölf Tracks stammten vom Songwriting-Duo Annette Tucker und Nancie Mantz, was den Bandmitgliedern um Sänger James Lowe und Bassisten Mark Tulin deutlich missfiel. Das Ergebnis ist trotzdem ein kompaktes Dokument des US-amerikanischen Garage- und Psychedelic-Sounds der Mittsechziger. Der Titeltrack „I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" brannte sich mit seinem verzerrten Gitarrenriff und dem wolkenschweren Arrangement sofort in die Chartgeschichte – eine frühe Visitenkarte für den Sound, der bald Nuggets-Compilation-Status erreichen sollte. Kaum weniger wirkungsvoll ist „Get Me to the World on Time", das zweite chartrelevante Stück der Platte: roher, hastiger, mit einer Energie, die die Kürze der Produktionszeit spürbar macht. Der Rest des Albums schwankt zwischen soliden Garage-Nummern und Füllmaterial, das Hassinger mehr zu verantworten hat als die Band selbst. Man hört dem Album die Spannung zwischen kommerziellem Kalkül und künstlerischem Eigenwillen an – und gerade das macht es interessant. Die Prunes steckten mehr in sich, als hier abgerufen wurde; das Folgealbum Underground sollte das belegen. Dennoch: Als Zeitkapsel des amerikanischen Psychedelic-Garage-Moments 1967 sitzt dieses Debüt präzise. Das Album ist ein raues, aufschlussreiches Frühwerk, das zwischen Hitpotenzial und Fremdbestimmung changiert und dennoch zwei der eingängigsten Psychedelic-Singles der Ära enthält.
ok psych rock. pleasant enough but unsure if its place on the list is warranted
Meh, on dirait les doors en lent et sans paroles sympa Sensation de déjà entendu sur des chansons de la même époque Qui ressemble à qui je ne sais pas, mais vraiment pas exceptionnel, j'aurais pu vivre sans 3 étoiles
More like the Boring Ass Prunes
Bit of whimsy
Surprisingly good for being so old and psychedelic.
Post-Beatles pop-rock. Catchy and fun.
At its best it’s pretty good, there are some really bad tracks on here though, especially in the second half. 5/10
Belle découverte. Bons morceaux! Solide!
This was fine! I would rather listen to the stones or something. 5/10
Definitely unique…kept me on my toes
Hear of, never heard before. Enjoyed. Good 67 music. 3 Star
In a very 60s way it combines silly merriment with an eerie dark vibe
One of the earlier and better pop psychedelic records, fronted by the improbable hit single “Too Much to Dream”. I’m an outsized fan of this band and therefore of this record - but would rate their second album “Underground” ahead of this, given its focus on band-penned songs, and a more consistent mellow psych sound. This has a few beauties and showcased production effects that changed the game in their day….very good stuff and important in its day.
They sound like Jefferson Airplane with a male lead singer. Or maybe like The Doors trying to do pop instead of blues rock? I'm surprised that Tarantino hasn't included these guys on one of his soundtracks. I bet these guys got along great with the Grateful Dead. This is like the most nondescript 60s band ever. Some of these songs I'd swear were the Monkees. The Toonerville Trolley is by far the worst song on the album...another ragtime homage. Not good.
The Electric Prunes A wind-up to a punchline Toonerville Trolley!!
i don't understand why this is on the list. "i had too much to dream (last night)" is decent but then the band apparently hit the beatles pack too hard for the rest of the front half, only sobering up for "sold to the highest bidder", which i guess i'd call my favourite track even if the dogshit stereo mix puts the lead guitar entirely in my left ear and makes it physically uncomfortable to listen to. "get me to the world on time" gets the back half off to a start that at best i would describe as "just barely enjoyable", although i'm probably going too easy on it out of respect for the unhinged levels of delay and reverb they put on it, then to round out the experience we get 4 tracks of absolutely nothing followed by the worst song i've heard in any album on this list so far. "the toonerville trolley" just absolutely fucking sucks. i'm not even sure what the songwriters were intending here. it seems like a half-assed attempt at some kind of ragtime musical number, which they then gave to a psych/garage rock band for some reason? and the band clearly did not want to play it, for reasons that feel like they should be obvious but apparently weren't to the folks responsible. the result is what i imagine it'd sound like if rogers and hammerstein had just absolutely stopped giving a fuck. a truly miserable listening experience. just absolute shite. honestly i feel bad for the electric prunes. it sounds like the label picked them up more or less on a whim and then took away their creative control for almost the entire album, so it's hard to blame the band for how much it sucks. you can even hear it in their performances, the vocals on the last track in particular are absolutely (and justifiably) brimming with malice. i'm hoping that's why it's on the list in the first place cos the alternative is that the critic responsible genuinely thought this was a good album, and if that's the case idk what to say other than like, i hope they got better. fucking hell. even if this album is bad for an amazing reason, it's still bad. you really don't gotta listen to this one before you die. no one who's heard it will judge you for giving it a miss.
what the hell man
That was the most half-hearted 60s psych-rock I've ever heard in my life. Even funnier with the context of a third party songwriting team brought in and the band ending up pissed of with the final result. "I Had Too Much to Dream" *is* a good song, and while it does not prop the rest of the album up enough into something great, the experience *is* something to behold. There's no denying the fact that most of the tracks are inferior mimics of other bands that were hot in the era, and the poor production doesn't help either. In spite of that, "Sold to the Highest Bidder" is kind of catchy and different, and I think and what this album offers in place of quality is a variety sampler. Having this to play at home on record as a teen in the 60s would maybe seem like a value. Especially in light of the knowledge that this album got so many vinyl presses that it flooded the market and ended up in every secondhand record store. Or maybe that just made it uncool. And OK had to listen to The Toonerville Trolley 3 times before the bafflement wore off. I'm no stranger to goofy 60s ditties, but there's this insane manic quality to it where it's lacking an element of irony to feel truly tongue-in-cheek, & the malice in the singer's voice becomes completely detectable halfway through the song. You got me... this album might truly be an experience worth listening to before you die. It earns my milestone first 1/5 in a so-bad-it's-good honor.
its the toonerville trolley
A surprise like. Felt The Doors like.