Reviews (page 5 of 7)
Has the Brit-Rock feel, nothing too notable
first listen fun but short and definitely a debut
Was ok
Yup
Never heard of this band before and I think this album has some potential. I will definitely give this a second listen. Decent Physadelic rock.
I actually quite liked this, unlike most of you it seems. Was refreshing to have a nice, tight, short album with all the songs between 2 and 3 minutes. The opener is great, if it had been released by a band with a slightly less silly name it might be better known than it is, and there's a couple of other really good tracks on there. But there are also a couple of stinkers, particularly towards the end. So it's 3/5.
A caramel bomb of putrid villiany. It makes me feel both horny and depressed. Saddle the donkey, Pedro. We're going home.
Like waiting for a boner to go down
S'alreet. Another album on this list that seems to want to cover the bases of all music that was popular in the late '60s. Jack of all trades, master of none vibes.
Okay, this is a fine example of late 60's psychedelic garage rock, but nothing really special either. Not quite sure why it's on the list, but for some reason it has triggered me that one of my all-time favorite bands, Procol Harum, is NOT on this list at all. They were another band that released their debut album in 1967, which included one of the all-time greatest songs ever written, A Whiter Shade of Pale. Their first album could certainly be on this list, but any of their next few albums could also be represented due to their sophistication, blending of classical influences with rock and R&B, their unique instrumentation that included both piano and organ and frequent forays into orchestral music, their drummer (BJ Wilson) who was one of rock's all-time great drummers, their guitarist (Robin Trower) who is one of rock's great guitarists, and their chief songwriter and vocalist (Gary Brooker, RIP) who had a truly special voice and gift as a songwriter and pianist. I love (almost) all of their work, but if I had to pick one album to be on this list it would be their third album A Salty Dog from 1969. The title song is a landmark in progressive rock with one of the most beautiful string arrangements you'll ever hear, but the whole album is excellent. Anyway, I'm done with my rant now. But if you like late 60s/early 70s progressive/classical/baroque rock then you will not be sorry to dive into Procol Harum's catalog. There is a lot there to like. Back to the Electric Prunes - it's a fine album but nothing too special. 3 stars.
Just ok.
Oh how the definition of "garage band" has changed over the years. About half of this I rather liked, about half of it is ... twee? That feels like a ridiculous thing to say but it was the first adjective that came to mind.
ALBUM RATING: 3.3 ALBUM GRADE: C+ TRACK RATINGS: 1. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - 4.0 2. Bangles - 3.5 3. Onie - 3.5 4. Are You Lovin’ Me More (But Enjoying It Less)? - 3.5 5. Train for Tomorrow - 3.5 6. Sold to the Highest Bidder - 3.5 7. Get Me to the World On Time - 3.5 8. About a Quarter to Nine - 3.0 9. The King Is in the Counting House - 2.5 10. Luvin’ - 3.0 11. Try Me On for Size - 3.5 12. The Toonerville Trolley - 2.5
Tried really hard to appreciate it as an entire work, but just couldn’t.
It was fine... I appreciated the softer sound. Went back and forth between typical classic rock to children's album.
Smooth, calming, and melodic at times, a little more rocking at others. Sometimes the songwriting is okay, sometimes it's just weird. This is a completely middle of the road album.
Overall, it was a good album that really felt like a teenage band, albeit a good one. Plenty of easy to listen to tunes with good riffs and hooks. Best: I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) Worst: The Toonerville Trolley
Knew about but never really listened to this band. It was more interesting than I expected. The lyrics are a little hand wavey, does this actually say anything kind of typical of much of the era. And there is some of that odd inclusion of kind of old timey singalong numbers you sometimes got with the old psychedelia. Overall worth a listen though.
A great early psychedelic effort, some real fun use of tremolo, reverb, and drive to get that classic sizzling psych tone. Does lose the plot and wander off into weird genre experiments at the end, but for the most part is a laser-guided, driving LP that gets the job done.
While I don't think the album is consistent from start to finish, there is still some REALLY cool stuff on here.
Pretty dated, but not bad. 3/5
Rock psicodélico
Lyssnade i Gif-Sur-Yvette
Not for me.
3.5 Pretty consistent, garage-y psychedelic rock; thought of another album generated by this website by Paul Revere + the Raiders, “Midnight Ride”- but “The Electric Prunes” is more eclectic and fun in my opinion. 14/07/22
decent psychedelic 60 album, however this is mainly about the first part of the album as the end becomes more tame and has some odd songs
Cos calkiem nowego na liscie, mila odmiana, debiutancki material bandy Electric Prunes, bandy z hameryki zachodniego wybrzeza, z LA, rocznik 67, wiec psychodeliczne rokowanie trwa w najlepsze, tutaj slychac jego garazowa wersje, chociaz dziwnie sie tego slucha, bo czuje sie jakby polowa trakow byla robiona ciekawie i z zangazowaniem instrumentalnym, a polowa wydaje sie byc filerowatymi zapychaczami, a jest to zaledwie pol godzinny krazek, na ktorym zmiescilo sie az 12 trakow, wiec polowanie na hitowe single jak nic, bo w koncu debiutancki material bandy, ktora ma dosc nietypowa strukture, bo pieciu czlonkow jest creditowanych wokalnie i instrumentalnie, ale liryka jest autorstwa duetu pan Annette Tucker i Nancie Mantz, ktore byly wprowadzone do prac nad albumem przez zaborczego producenta Davida Hassingera, ktory nie pozwolil zespolowi tworzyc tego co by chcieli grac i wydaje mi sie, ze slychac to dosc mocno, bo niektore traki maja w sobie to cos, jak openingowy i had too much to dream last night, ktory stal sie takze okresleniem calego albumu chocby na spotifaju, az tak znaczaco wyroznia sie na tle reszty materialu, ale znjadzie sie jeszcze pare trakow wartych uwagi, w tym oni czy sold to the highest bidder, wiec odsluch dziwny, bo z jednej strony pozytywne wibracje roznorodnosc, ale z drugiej wylewa sie mialkosc liryczna i prostota tego bogactwa instrumentalnego na wiekszej czesci plyty, nie zapowiada sie zeby rowniez dalsza dyskografia zespolu miala cos do zaoferowania, bo rowniez wyprodukowana przez tego samego pana, do 69 nagrali jeszcze cztery albumy, czy teraz moze raczej tak krotkie plyty zalicza sie do epkow, a potem disband, choc wydaje mi sie, ze juz w 68 orginalny lineup sie wykruszyl i sam pan producent robil muzyke pod szyldem prunesowym, wiec dosc ironiczna nazwa w tym wypadku, na plejke dodam wspomniany openingowy utwor i onie
Solid old school psychedelic and blues rock
too much to dream last night a psychedelic classic; rest was pretty mundane
Odd album. The first song was a banger but the album was a grab bag of 60's psychedelic rock, songs that were almost 50's bubblegum pop, a medieval song, a silly ragtime song about the Toonerville Trolley (licorice dick anyone?). It's the 1960s, so the songwriter sometimes comes off as a bit of a weirdo when writing about women.
It was fine. I do like "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" a little, and the album mostly wasn't annoying, but it wasn't anything special either. 2.75
Sounds like Philly Boy Roy singing the Toonerville Trolley.
3.5
Sort of weird somewhat-psychedelic late 60s guitar rock. Not bad. 3.5 stars, rounded down because I liked the other 3.5 star album I listened to today a little more.
A fun 60s album by a band I had never heard of. A bit like a kinks/ Doors fusion. I guess there were lots of good bands like this and only a few reached the true echelons of legend status. 3 stars from me.
Meh
Ok
Classic 60's psychedelic rock. Doesn't do a lot to stand out from others with the same sound around the same time, but if you like this type of music you're sure to get some enjoyment from this album. 3.5/5
It was alright, but did not grab my attention all that much
Amusing era piece from the 60s. Funny names were all the rage, but if you played an awesome bassline you could sell records
strange mix of kinks, floyd, beatles and and a whole heap of sounds that sounds almost parody 60's now
Didn’t fully listen
Opened up fantastic, but the rest of the album was just ok
not my jam, but groovy
First Listen. Interesting sounds.
The only tracks that are really grabbing me on this are: 1. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) 4. Onie 6. Sold To The Highest Bidder 11. Try Me On For Size The rest is sounding pretty generically psychedelic. It's good, but just not my cup of tea.
Straddling the lines between mid-60s jangle and late-60s hardness, The Electric Prunes do a serviceable job in their twenty-nine given minutes of airtime with provided wisdom and whimsy that provides depth and versatility. Favorites: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), Bangles, Are You Lovin' Me More, Train for Tomorrow, Sold to the Highest Bidder, The King is in the Counting House, Luvin'. *Album was generated in early 2021, wasn't reviewed until July 4th, 2023*
I dig it
It's not bad, but a low 3.
Another almost indistinguishable Summer of Love from psychedelic album. Some tracks play it safe and folky, others try too hard to be far out man.
Ces prunes électriques passent dans le générateur comme un éclair avec leur album très court et auront au moins eu le mérite de ne pas nous déranger, sans pour autant nous avoir fait vibrer. Un trois sur cinq logique, donc.
Cet album ne laissait présager rien de bon, mais c'était finallement pas mal du tout, et pour cause: ces bonnes vieilles prunnes electriques ont bien pris soin de copier un maximum le style des Beatles, que ce soit musicalement ou physiquement. Un tel effort de reproduction est souvent synonyme de bon album dans le générateur, comme nous l'ont prouvé par exemple les Beau Bummels par le passé. 3/5 par conséquent.
Not bad, not great
I Had too Much to Dream, Onie, Are You Lovin’ Me More, Sold to the Highest Bidder 👍🏼 BANGERS. Very plucky guitar work which is kinda fun. The rest feels kind of gimmicky, almost like childrens music. 5/10
Iskreno puno je psihodeličnih rock bandova bilo u drugom dijelu 60ih, ali s obzirom da je bilo stvarno dobrih bendova, albuma, ovaj album je just okay. Nije loš, sasvim okej je, ima boljih u ovom području. Ne dam dvojku jer bi onda bilo baš onak jadno da spada sa nekim albumima kojima sam dao dva koji su to zaslužili, ovima dajem malo respiratorne pomoći pa će ih to držati na klimavoj trojci.
3.7 - More tuneful than psychedelic, this album's a fun blend of musical theater, pop, rock, white soul, with light inflections of psychedelia. It's definitely better than the record cover suggests - once you get past the awful band name, the silly hit track title, the knock-off Beatles hair and the momma's boy outfits, there's actually a lot to like. Standouts: "Onie", "Sold to the Highest Bidder" and a surprising cover of "About a Quarter to Nine."
A very eclectic mix of 60’s musical styles. I could hear Beatles, stones, maybe a bit of the doors as well. Enjoyed it but not something I would rush to listen to
I wanted to love this because it's my favourite period and one of my favourite genres but the quality just wasn't there. Good with a couple of standout tracks but not great. The songs are an uneven mix of psychedelica, baroque pop and whatever you'd class the last track as. The thing that really killed this though was the terrible mastering. Most of the tracks were badly balanced with most of the instruments heavily skewed to the left. Really bizarre and irritating to listen to.
Good mellow listen, but not much more. Favorite track might be Sold to the Highest Bidder
New band and all new music to me. It was easy to recognize the era that this music comes from (60s psychodelia). No tracks stood out as potential additions to my personal playlist, and there wasn't anything that I wanted to skip. This album is officially okay.
I applaud anyone who takes risks and goes outside the box in music. I liked some of what they did in this album but the overwhelming feeling was “other bands did this style better, and I’d rather just listen to that” 2.5/5
Onie sounds a bit VU This is good stuff A good listen
De la época en la que empezó a formarse el rock, mezcla un poco de estilos, aunque sea a antiguo. Sensación de no aportar excesivamente. Se puede escuchar, pero no sorprende
Wild. Eclectic. Decent.
Not my thing... Noisy, psychedelic.
Very weird, very interesting. There’s two really good singles and the rest is kind of a mish-mash of varying quality.
first song was good then it got boring
Decent album. Hit or miss. I liked Onie though
A mosquito was buzzing at me as the insect sounds at the beginning of the album started. I almost turned the flyswatter on Spotify. Perhaps I should have. I really have had enough of psychedelic. I like the stuff that some bands were doing in that time period but what I'll call fringe psychedelic is wearing on me. I always thought I would have enjoyed being 18 - 21 yo in the Summer of Love but now I wonder. Perhaps the brown acid would have made the fringe psychedelic more bearable. When the Electric Prunes leave the Psych Ward they play some fun stuff. Toonerville Trolley, the last track, is a bit of ragtime and quite enjoyable. Final note: They weren’t doing themselves any favours when they chose the band’s name. OK it's the weekend and I'm in a generous mood so, because of Toonerville and, more important, because the album is only 29 min long, I'll give it a +1.
The B Side is great, which makes up for an average A Side. Overall, nothing remarkable, but an enjoyable 60s listen.
This album was hit or miss for me. There were songs that were really great and then there were some that I wasn’t feeling. Pretty good overall, but definitely not their best album. Favorite tracks: “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night,” “Train For Tomorrow,” and “The King Is In The Counting House”
I liked some of the ideas that had worked its way onto this one, but after a hectic day, I wasn’t able to recall most of the album. Which is a problem that keeps it from a higher rating
Meh...
it was alright but i didn't like it that much. low 3
Was okay. Need to give it another listen
Kind of a fun listen--some interesting sounds and songs in there, but not something I'd return to.
Durchwachsen. Der Wikipedia-Artikel über die Platte beschreibt es eigentlich ganz gut: wenn die künstlerische Kontrolle bei den Produzenten liegt, kommt eben solch eine übermäßig gefällige Platte mit merklich Füllmaterial dabei heraus. Dennoch ist der Band ihr kreatives Potential anzumerken. Bisschen viel Tremolo-Effekt.
Was an alright album, nothing super special but a pleasant listen none the less. Highlight: Sold to the Highest Bidder
Cool late 60s drug record.
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!
They kinda suck
Great first track. Not really feeling the rest. Last track was truly awful.
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.
This was very mediocre psychedelia.
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
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 ⭐⭐
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.
Flaccid. Among the many bands in the British Invasion these guys don’t feel worthy of a footnote
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.
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
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.
Meh
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.
# 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.
A very poor mans early Pink Floyd.
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.
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.
Another late 60s somewhat experimental pop album. Can’t say I really enjoyed it, but I’ve heard worse records.
Weird experimental 1960s music, it was all right. Two stars.
We overrate the 60s so much.
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....
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
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
Gar nichts für mich. Schrammelig, langweilig
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.
They blew their wad on I Had Too Much To Dream (a great tune).
Listenin’ more (but enjoying it less)
Aika tunkkaista ja köyhää brittimeininkiä.
So edgy and sarcastic. I dislike this stuff in any genre and any era.
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
2 stars So short but couldn’t quite keep my attention.
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.
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.
I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night just sounds like such a parody track that it was hard to take anything seriously.
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
Not a bad album, but not good
ok psych rock. pleasant enough but unsure if its place on the list is warranted
More like the Boring Ass Prunes
Post-Beatles pop-rock. Catchy and fun.
The Electric Prunes A wind-up to a punchline Toonerville Trolley!!
its the toonerville trolley
2.4 2x not awful just weird and not great
A chaotic mix of all genres from the 1960’s. The first few tracks were cool, psychedelic rock. The other tracks were odd ball mix of ballads and folky songs.
On a blind listen, it sounds like it might have been significant when released, but not of much interst in the present. Simple pop rock with a bit of 'different' production may have been "far out" in the day but now sounds a bit surf rock, a bit pop jazz - a little bit what Cramps did well. Reading Wikipedia, I'm much more sympathetic - the band had two hits and found themselves making a record where nine songs were written by professional songwriters. "Luvin'", the only new original (apart from the singles name-checked on front cover), is catchy musically, but the lyrics are juvenile. The singing generally is often too "yelling young man" for my taste. Overall I'll say it's Pretty Poor, 3/10.
Very Kinks-ish, but not as… engaging?
2/5
Don't think I'll be listening to this again much
I shouldn’t subject myself to this weird shit.
Pretty boring 60s pop
2- Stars (4/15)
Not my kinda thing, very strange
the beatles did it better sorry :/
Een rock album uit de jaren '60, dan gaan toch vaak een beetje de alarm bellen af, maar gelukkig valt dat hier best wel mee! De muziek is behoorlijk afwisselend en voornamelijk instrumentaal zit het echt heel goed in elkaar. The king is in the counting house is dan weer echt geen goed nummer zeg, poeh. Krijg een beetje kinderliedje vibes daarvan, maar dat is misschien wel ook de bedoeling. De nummers zijn sowieso vrij kort, ik ben niet perse een fan van de 'grote' hit op dit album, maar het is grotendeels prima weg te luisteren. Is dit iets wat iedereen moet horen in zn leven? Dat is lastig te bepalen, dit is dermate oud dat wat ik hier van vind ontzettend gekleurd is door de tijdsgeest. Dit is muziek die je al 100en keren hebt gehoord, maar waarschijnlijk komt het grotendeels van na 1967. Moet daarbij wel zeggen dat de afwisseling me wel echt goed doet op dit album. Toonerville Trolley is denk ik het allerbeste voorbeeld van een band die perse nog een extra nummer op het album wilt hebben terwijl ze eigenlijk al een tijdje creatief uitgeput waren. Een meesterwerk in "Je moet je huiswerk inleveren maar hebt geen fuck gedaan dus gaat maar staan en improviseren in de hoop dat je iets goeds er aan over houdt" En net zoals meestal in deze situatie is ook dit echt niet best, laten we het er maar op houden dat ze niet bang waren om te experimenteren. FAVO: Get me to the world on time
The guitars had some cool stuff going, but the lyrics were pretty bad and it wasn’t terribly memorable
Not nearly as good as I had hoped. It felt like faux psychedelic music.
Not really sure what this was tbh, absolutely full 60s crap. Similar sounds to other stuff that has been done better.
Näh
All sounded the same
Favorite tracks: Train for Tomorrow, I Had Too Much to Dream, Are You Lovin' Me More I thought I would really like this based on the first half, but it just kept going downhill. 4 -> 2 stars for me
Kinda wild that for all their sense of psych rock style most of their initial material, hits included, were outsourced to a writing pair. As instrumentalists, they (or someone...) really had an ear for atmosphere, foreboding even. Elsewhere, they are chasing the sounds of the moment (or, more likely the producer who set them up insisted on shit like the harpsichord psychedelia number - why did these chamber pieces become a thing in the 60s?). It’s a real grab bag of Now That’s What I Call 1967! But the 2 psych rock singles, title track and Get Me to the World On Time, stand above the rest.
Similar to the Beach Boys. Some decent tracks, but mostly stinkers. This is supposed to be garage rock, but several of the tracks sound like soft rock. I'm surprised it's rated so lowly by other users. I personally don't like it very much, but I don't think it's much worse than other albums of this type that have higher scores.
This one simply does not stand the test of time. It was mercifully short, though. 1.8
the last song trully got me, it was super unexpected
The two singles are the only good tracks. Toonerville Trolley is heinous.
This reminds me of a radio station in San Antonio called "No Hit Radio". It's like the uncanny valley of 60's and 70's radio - things that in an alternate universe would have been hits but just aren't in our dimension. Close but just not quite there. Somewhere out there this is a 5, but in our little part of the multiverse is a 2. 2/5
This isn’t that great sober.
thank u next
please, in what universe is this a classic album?
One hit wonder that makes me wonder why it's on a list of required listens when, after 900 previous albums, I get this as a best example from 1967 instead of something worthwhile like Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues.
First time listen Completely underwhelming psych rock. I don't already have much interest in this era of rock unless it's The Doors, but this album feels especially boring, has all of the worn out tropes you could ask for; the grating harpsichord song, the goofy vaudeville track, a few boring love songs. Listen to the first track and save yourself some time by skipping the rest. At least it was short. Fav Tracks: I Had Too Much To Dream Least Fav: The Toonerville Trolley. The King Is in the Counting House 2/5
It's unfortunate timing for the poor Prunes that I got their lone album right after a Kinks album from the same year. My tolerance for dismal 60s production values is already pretty low (although this is definitely better than the Kinks' "Face to Face"), and then to have a fairly uninspired set of songs (with "Onie" being the nadir, I think), nearly all of which were apparently forced on the band by the producer (who perhaps rightly judged that they lacked songwriting ability and hired a songwriting duo), just makes the comparison between the Electric Prunes and the Kinks even more stark, and not in the Prunes' favor. Their two singles--"I had too much to dream (last night)" and "Get me to the world on time"--are decent enough, and there's something compelling about the ferocity of "Sold to the highest bidder", but I'd have been more impressed if the band had had a hand in the writing; they seem kind of like the lesser cousins to The Monkees, without the stardom or rabid fans, although it's interesting to read that bands like MC5 and The Stooges were partially inspired by the Electric Prunes after buying the apparently widely available secondhand copies of this album after everyone realized that the Prunes weren't actually the next big thing.
Okay enough psychadelic rock album that starts stronger than it finishes. Felt bloated for an album under 30 minutes which is unfortunate. Couple of decent tracks, but failed to really keep me interested. Top tracks: I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night), Onie
A below average 60’s psych-rock album. It starts off quite promising with “I had too much to dream (last night)” which is easily the best song here, but then quickly spirals out into a series of songs that are either forgettable or somewhat annoying (the closing track especially is annoying.) this one just didn’t do a lot for me and there’s a lot of other, better 60’s psych rock I could listen to instead.
Meh
Fine enough album, but -5 stars for "The Toonerville Trolley"! "I Had Too Much to Dream" is a winner, but most of the rest is just ok. If pressed to listen to an album of this time as a representative, I'd prefer to listen to the Zombies. This is a 2 and one of those points is for Too Much to Dream
Not a fan
During the first chorus of the first track, which I’d never heard before, he sings, “I had too much to dream last night … too much to dream.” I knew he was going to sing the second “too much to dream,” and I suspect everyone else listening to the song for the first time did too. What is it about music that conveys that information to us? We all know, from some kind of cultural imprinting, what’s coming next. I thought that was interesting. More interesting than that song or any other song on the album. But it was fine and under 30 minutes. Efficiently average. I wish to time travel to the room where the band discussed writing, recording, and including on this album the final track, so I can encourage better decisions.
This was ok, though how it has managed to make a list of the 1001 albums to listen to before you die is beyond me. Would I listen to it again? No.
Such a moody picture for such a corn ball album. Nothing on this did anything for me. Glad to hear it, glad it’s on the list as something to hear, but just boring eh music. The harpsichord stuff sucks, that last song is awful. 1 is dunking on it but it might deserve it.
Im just not sure this is an album I MUST listen to
2.5 Liked about half these songs so I give it an average rating. The psychedelic stuff is actually the worst parts of the albums, it’s much better when they branch out and get a little varied. Onie is a nice little Bacharach/Sedaka-like tune. Are You Lovin Me More sounds like post-punk hardcore like Husker Du or something. Highest Bidder is some weird Simon/Alice Cooper mishmash. Some interesting stuff here, unfortunately there’s some boring stuff too. Thankfully 30 minutes long tho.
2.0 (29:15, 12 tracks, debut, 1967) Psychedelia, surprisingly American (garage rock) Album was OK some songs really pissed me off, others were decent. Glad I listening to this, won’t be coming back any time soon. There was a lot of drugs going on in the late 60's early 70's in the music seen. "The Strawberry Alarm Clock" (my mom had a lot of them), The Electric Prunes, The Chocolate Watchband, Tangerine Dream, Vanilla Fudge, Sugarloaf etc... food and some random otherness were a theme apparently. I feel like if the band had been allowed to write their own material it would have been a lot better - not going to award the boy band nature of this production and most of those songs blew, With the band having a busy touring schedule, the recording of the album was hurried in an effort to cash in on their recent success. The band was already composing material for what they hoped would be an album of their own design. However, much of the album's content was out of their control, as producer Dave Hassinger brought in the songwriting team of Annette Tucker and Nancie Mantz. They, alone, produced seven of the 12 tracks, much to the frustration of the band. Mark Tulin and James Lowe, the band's main songwriters, were limited to just one track, the song "Luvin'". The band considered some of the tracks to be filler and were disappointed in not having a choice in disclosing them. Tulin stated, "We had nothing resembling freedom, let alone total freedom, in the selection of our songs. Consequently, there are definitely songs that I do believe didn't belong on the album..." Sometimes referred to as the albums opening track “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” a hit single and the band's signature tune. Simply a metaphor for a romantic dream hangover. Very 60’s trippy as most of the songs on this album written by Annette Tucker and Nancie Mantz “Bangles” - “You got what you want, but not what you need” – about some woman with bangles (anklets) and furs and all kinds of material possessions but without love. “Onie” - Lyricist Nancie Mantz revealed in an interview that she actually wrote the song for her daughter, Tracy. She changed the name to "Onie" because there was already a popular song titled "Tracy" at the time. Basically, a warning to not grow up too fast. “Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less)” - Annette Tucker derived the title from a cigarette commercial that used the slogan, "Are you smoking more but enjoying it less?" (I remember this ad in my dad’s Playboys). A female perspective garage rock band sexual tension and exhaustion song. "Train for Tomorrow" – fear of the future – it’s one of the ACTUAL Electric Prunes songs and I like it better than the fluff for sales team. "Sold to the Highest Bidder" somehow slips through my work’s NSFW filter with a full-frontal nudity woman playing a mandolin (or uke?) on Youtube, that’s good as a lot of these 1001 albums are blocked in part or full as NSFW. A lot of imagery from this album definitely fits into the category of ‘weird for weirdness's sake’ psychedelia – many 60’s hippies’ outfits, weird sunglasses, general late 60’s shenanigans. Songs about a gold digger. Has a 60’s take on Greek instrumentation and that damn pseudo-ukuleles sound. The album also contains another notable psychedelic rock composition, "Get Me to the World on Time". High energy sexual attraction (a play on Get Me to the Church on Time from My Fair Lady. “About a Quarter to Nine” – cover of a 1930’s song. Just straightforward looking forward to a date. “The King Is in the Counting House” – emotional neglect of children, you know who did this song better (well aside from “everybody”). . . Harry Chaplin. I hate this song and the stupid Baroque instruments “Luvin’” – Prunes song – sexual energy “Try Me on for Size” – faster more ballsy for Tucker, proto-punk but just another sex song “The Toonerville Trolley" – I fucking hate this song, makes me want to punch them in the face. Kind of a disillusionment about “make America great again” in 1967. I just hate the 1900’s piano bar riff and the lyric “tooting on his licorice stick” Track listing Favorite songs: Both Luvin’ and Train for Tomorrow (only Prunes songs) and I Had too much to Dream 1. "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" 2:55 2. "Bangles" 2:27 3. "Onie" 2:43 4. "Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less)" 2:21 5. "Train for Tomorrow" 3:00 6. "Sold to the Highest Bidder" 2:16 7. "Get Me to the World on Time" 2:30 8. "About a Quarter to Nine" 2:07 9. "The King Is in the Counting House" 2:00 10. "Luvin'" 2:03 11. "Try Me on for Size" 2:19 12. "The Toonerville Trolley" 2:34 The Electric Prunes James Lowe – lead vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5–14), autoharp, rhythm guitar, tambourine Ken Williams – lead guitar James "Weasel" Spagnola – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (tracks 3, 4) Mark Tulin – bass guitar, piano, organ Preston Ritter – drums, percussion Dave Hassinger – producer, liner notes
This sounded like someone describing a fun time instead of actually having one. It’s very: “Bro you had to be there.” No, I did not. I respect the 60s. I do not respect how long some of these songs felt.
Got some nauseating instruments on this one man
easy listening in het kwadraat...
Didn't really grab me much, I do like the name of the title track alot and the sound of it was pretty good too. Band name is funny
This album is in desperate need for a remaster. Most tracks are dominated by a single instrument, burying everything else. Starts with a psychedelic surfer sound, then we get a jazz/swing song, then a children's song??, then back to rock. It was definitely interesting....
I guess it is an album from 1967, but man this was blander than bran flakes. Prunes is appropriate to be involved in the naming of this band.
Not nearly as interesting as their more famous cohorts of the era
A lot of the reviews say that the album is a mixed bag, and having listened to about half of it, I agree. I don't mind weird, silly, or stylized music, I even like it, but this album ranges from quirky banger to very generic, with the latter being the dominant. I don't know, maybe I had to be on drugs to enjoy it?
You know what? Maybe there should've been a war on drugs. You know what else? Using drugs and writing a song that's "woo i'm on the tooterville trolley xD lolz, my dad paid for my tuition" doesn't make you creative, it makes you a dime a dozen. Much like the culturally confused white people of the 60's who turned to opiates and buddhism, this is a creative dearth, and how this appears on the list is a mystery greater than the infinity of the cosmos. I've written every one of these reviews unencumbered by substances besides cafffeine and SSRI's and I feel i have said more interesting shit than yet another group of white Brits/Americans pretending access to an LSD dealer makes you a creative savant. Booooooooring 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Kaleidoscope Eyes and stepping into the dreamscapes clad in top hat and waistcoat and ZZZZZZZZZ
Didn't really grab me.
#1001Albums Electric Prunes by The Electric Prunes https://album.link/gb/i/655574615 The Electric Prunes were a garage band who were genuinely discovered playing in a garage by a record company exec who happened to be passing at the time. The album opens with a nice bit of late 60s psychedelia in I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) but after that it’s very much diminishing returns with some second rate love songs and novelty numbers, with the whole album clocking in at 30 minutes. File under a historical curiosity rather than an essential listen. Fun game! Find your 60s psychedelic garage band name by combining your favourite dried fruit with a power source - mine is the Solar Sultanas! https://album.link/gb/i/655574615
It's ok, the opener is quite good! 10 on 10
The Electric Prunes was the collective noun used for Len Houmous’ wives 4,8,12 and 21. 1.6 1/12 I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
Just seems like a mid-60s rock album, indicative of the time period but does the one hit justify inclusion on this list? Where was the cultural impact of the Electric Prunes?
Didn't offend my ears, but didn't particularly excite them either. There was some fun instrumentation on a couple of them. That last track though, did someone lose a bet?
Not very good. The best song was the first one. Got bored after the first few songs. I guess they didn’t write their songs but added flourishes. It didn’t help.
Kind of boring. Like a bland version of the animals.
All down hill after the single. Sounds like the band in a sixties youth comedy made by squares.
5.5/10 I found a new song to annoy people with if they ever cross the line. Sounds like background music you might hear in an old 60s movie, like an out of pocket psych rock with a garage fuzzy effect going on highlights: I had too much to dream(last night), try me on for size, Onie
Familiar with Electric Prunes and remember their biggest hit; I Had Too Much to Dream from occasional radio play. They had that early sixties Brit invasion sound, but couldn’t complete with the likes of the Monkees (or the others.) Enjoyed the uke, and thought I heard some xylophone. But got a little goofy by the end. (2.2*s) Oh, by gee, by gosh, by golly…
60's rock just has a different vibe than what the genre evolved into. There was so clearly a formula to crank out a bunch of 2-minute songs and call it a day. It's kinda a wonder that a band could release an album with 12 songs and have it come in under half an hour. Nothing on Electric Prunes stood out to me, but it also wasn't bad. Probably won't ever listen to these guys again but I do like the song title I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night. The Electric Prunes sounds like they should be an offshoot lineup for The California Raisins when brothers AC and Bebop want do a reunion tour in their old age. Following the untimely death of Stretch due to overdose on preservatives years earlier the original lineup disbanded but the fans always wanted more. Red has now retired and enjoys the quiet life owning a vineyard in Italy but is able to be convinced to go on one last ride. In order to not besmirk the original band, they grab some session musicians and backing singers to tour under the Electric Prunes label and enjoy a final farewell. 2.50 stars
This started off well, 60s garage rock apparently, with an interesting fuzzy effect on the guitar and there was something unexpected about the chord progressions in the first couple songs. Are You Lovin Me More is more upbeat, with neat psychedelic touches like a cool organ (?) melody, but nothing after that really connected with me. The songs are all quite different, to their credit. The sound is a bit muffled - maybe that's the point - and I have my usual gripes with the aggressively stereo mix, but this is a bizarre and (at times) cool mix of songs. Not a total dud, but I'm OK leaving this in the past.
Trolley
Toonerville Trolley? pfffft
Sleepy album, after listening to it I forgot that I had. Another meh kind of album.
Feels very of the time. 'The King is in his counting house' - brought back so many memories - what a throwback!
Not bad
Who is choosing these albums? There just isn’t a world where that album is in the top 1000.
I dont like the sitar
Again, somewhat sounds like a Beatles copy. Not great. 2.1/5.0
An extremely inoffensive album. Feels like it was trying to pretend to have a personality but none of the tracks ever had enough character to stand out
We’ve been here before
A prune
Apparently the band was very unhappy with most of the songs on this album. I'm with them. 2*.
This feels a lot like one of those albums made to capitalize on a hit single and containing a bunch of filler. I added the only great song, “I Had Too Much to Dream”, to my Generator playlist.
About 1/3 the 'In YOUR MIND!' psych, 1/3 cutesy psych and 1/3 Ucky Ducky psych
Not for me, but the sound is just very "oh I've heard this in the background of movies from the 60s into the 70s" - It vibes I suppose
Pas vraiment mon truc la musique de ces années là
A bit of a classic 70s sound.
Hmmm. This felt like one of those 60s weird bands that think they're being revolutionary, but comes across to me as a bit silly, fairly trite and pretentious. The instrumental felt predictable, although in fairness I'm listening to it like 70 years later, so perhaps they were more original than I am giving them credit for. Generally naff I'd say.
Why not put Nuggets here instead and be done with it? I don't need to here anything other than Too Much To Dream before I croak. There are some ok songs here otherwise, but absolutely nothing important. Two Stars because Dream.
The f was Toonerville Trolley
with a name fit for one of those "Worst Band Names of All Time!" listicles and a roster of extremely kooky songs (mostly written by Annette Tucker and Nancy Mantz), the Electric Prunes and their self-titled album are certainly an interesting glimpse into a certain time and place! psychedelia was all the rage in the sixties, and the Prunes were definitely attempting to strike that iron while it was hot. the band's most successful single, "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)", is a dramatic, multi-phase song in which the narrator laments the beautiful woman in his dreams whom he will never meet. the soft-loud dynamic contrast from the verse to the chorus is accompanied by a sudden increase in tempo, and there's a few fun harmonic moments (check out the two parallel minor chords half a step apart when the band first kicks into that faster tempo). it's a fun, spooky garage rock jam that's become one of the better-remembered curiosities of the psych boom. I thought this might be a bit of a lopsided album experience on the basis that my copy of the album is actually named after this song; and, yes, I can confirm that "I Had Too Much to Dream" is easily the best song here. there's some other serviceable songs—the three tracks following the opener are an enjoyable enough run—but when the deeper cuts aren't uninteresting, they're dated in a way that's totally bizarre. (there's a kind of ironic, shitpost-esque vibe to some of this psych stuff 1001 Albums... has thrown at me.) "The King Is in the Counting House" features lead singer James Lowe (RIP) putting on an English accent over a Baroque arrangement, complete with a harpsichord; "Sold to the Highest Bidder" is some sort of weird auction house narrative; and "The Toonerville Trolley" is a song called "The Toonerville Trolley". so, while I ultimately didn't enjoy this album the whole way through very much, I think it's still worth a glance just for how much of a historical relic it is. the band chose their name as a joke and stuck with it because people would remember it, and they were very right about that. light 4/10.
boah idk:((( es ist halt lowk nicht so herausgestochen aber es ist schon sehr vibey!!
I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night appears to have influenced the Partridge family song Having a Ball. The album is chaotic, loud, and highly derivative. An excellent precursor to bubblegum pop.
Of historical importance if you want hear state-of-the-art recording techniques for psychedelic rock (circa 1967) applied to third-rate pop rock tunes and garage rock numbers where the band tries a *little* too hard to sound tough. If not, feel free to lift up the needle after opening track "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" - you won't be missing out on anything.
There were a few good tracks but I was bored.
Correcto
Quite boring
First track (I Had to Much to Dream) was promising but what followed was a snoozefest.
Proggy rocky 70s
I’m betting that if you’re rocking some LSD, this is probably a banger of an album. I was sober as a church mouse - 2 meh stars
Uneven 60s psych rock. Opener is a ripper, some tuneful mellow psych, some blues rock, some guitar noodling, and one of the worst album closers I’ve ever heard. I’d wager most people just bought the single. Not terrible, but also not necessary. 2.5 if I’m being honest. Probably have the single on a Nuggets comp, but not keeping this lp.
2.0
A bit boring, nothing really caught my attention.
Meh
1,8/5
Didn't find any parts that moved me.
Bis auf ein paar lieder war des jetzt nicht so meins
Eh. Another kind of spooky vibes album, but 60's.
Immediately drawn in by the production on this. Very cool 60s-psych sound, heard a lot of early Pink Floyd type melodies and writing. Fun energy but not super fun to listen to for me. Fav Track: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
I'm torn. I am so ready to completely write off The Electric Prunes, but I can't bring myself to do it. First of all, there is nothing particularly special about The Electric Prunes (dumb name). They are, for all intents and purposes, a very middling garage rock act, but they threw in enough psychedelic flourishes throughout their self-titled debut to almost successfully mask their mediocrity. THowever, I was impressed both by the deliciously psychedelic, "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" and they continue to impress on the slower "Onie". Sadly, the rest of the album pales in comparison to these notable moments. Especially, "The Toonerville Trolly," which is dumb, and I hate it. This is not an era I have particular fondness for, nor a band I have ever, or, at this rate, will ever care about, but they made me care just enough, for just long enough to save themselves from the rubbish bin. Kudos, Prunes. Kudos for doing enough to just scrape by.
Pretty generic surf/Garage rock the would do well as background music for a surf shop in Nor Cal/ PNW. Then Toonerville Trolly came on and the album lost a star.
Pretty men to underwhelming songs
So I enjoyed the music of the first Austin Powers movie - it worked there. Driving around shopping for Christmas gifts? Not so much. Toonerville Trolley was meant as a joke? Don’t need to come back this way again. 2/5
The Electric Prunes were a psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles. Their self-titled debut album was modestly successful, and was the band's most successful work. The album was propelled by the the band's one, notable single, "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)." This is an inconsistent collection of songs that sound derivative - part sappy Beach Boys, part effect-laden early psychedelia. The band was one of the first to popularize the guitar effects in psychedelic pop/rock, but their inconsistent output led to a short career.
Öppningsspåret är fantastiskt, 60tals garage när det är som allra bäst. Det inleder också den beryktade Nuggets samlingen curerad av Lenny Kane, knappast en slump. Annars är det som med många 60tals album, dom är egentligen överflödiga för 60talet handlar om singlar. Det blir väldigt mycket utfyllnad, lite som låter ditt och lite som låter datt med psykadelian som den enda röda tråden. Och så jag gillar det ganska primitiva soundet som är genomgående. Bäst är EP ju garagestökigare det blir. Men ingenting är i närheten av inledande "I had too much to dream (last night)“, briljant låt!
I och för sig en del rätt snygga arrangemang, som i Try me on for size, Are you lovin me more och I had too much to dream last night. Men låtarna griper inte riktigt tag. Lite tunn ljudbild, det hänger kanske ihop med inspelningstekniken 1967.
Öppningsspåret är helt ok psykedelisk 60-tals pop. Suggestivt. Därefter följer ett par utfyllnadsspår. Inte dåligt men inte heller särskilt minnesvärt. Get me to the world on time låter som en feberdröm. Luvin’ är också helt ok, men i övrigt är det inte mycket som sticker ut.
It's like they tied to combine the stones beatles and the who and failed at doing any of it good
Kind of interesting sound but I'm not too sure what this is doing that I haven't heard before.
Groovy opening track. This one went places. It had me wondering what the criteria is to end up on the list. This might be the closest to a children's music album sound yet. Raffi's album Baby Beluga should probably be on the list.
Groovy, man…NOT! At least it was only 29 minutes long. Two stars.
yeah no
I thought I'd finished with the late 60's US psychedelia as I'm nearly at the end of the list but obviously not. You know what it sounds like before you've even heard the album. Poorly produced sound effects, reverb, cod-philosophical high school poetry lyrics, no real hooks and awful stereo panning production. At least it's mercifully short. There seems to be a trend to this list where the band produced one famous song and so their album gets included (see also: a-ha). Best Tracks: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night); Onie; Try Me On For Size
This might honestly be some of the laziest musical performing I've ever heard. The singing is nothing special, but where it really falls down is the mixing: it's oddly quiet and washed-out, often swept away by the brasher instruments (particularly the guitar). The guitar shies away from using memorable riffs, with the only real freedom of expression being in the mediocre solos. The opener, I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), is far and away the strongest song here, seeing as it's one of the few that's actually catchy. Onie is also strong: it's a mellow, sweetly psychedelic ballad reminiscent of VU's Sunday Morning. Train for Tomorrow is another standout, boasting significantly better vocal mixing than other tracks – but also for mostly avoiding singing altogether. Luvin' and Try Me on for Size are kind of likeable, especially the latter, which is the catchiest and highest-energy track of perhaps the entire album. The 60s were notorious for having these half-forgotten bands that jumped on the summer-of-love bandwagon, creating music that's simple almost to the point of being mind-numbing, and sometimes dropping in a shaker or a violin twiddle to show that they're not messing around. Except most of the time, that's exactly what they're doing: messing around without really going anywhere more impressive than their contemporaries. The Electric Prunes are exactly this kind of band: they're British, they formed in the mid-60s, and they completely ripped off the Beatles' musical style (and possibly a bit of the Doors). Their songwriting is okay, but the performance and production are subpar at best. 2/5 Key tracks: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), Onie, Try Me on for Size
Weird
There's a lot of great 60s psychedelia out there, but this definitely isn't it. Almost every idea is half-baked and poorly performed. Even when they try to do something out-of-the-box it just ends up being nonsense. The exceptions to this rule are "Luvin'" and "Try Me on for Size", which (although incredibly basic) are still great examples of mid-sixties blues-rock numbers. 1.5/5.0: Bad
500/1001
at least the songs are short
I liked a song or two on here, but on the whole it’s just kinda underwhelming.
Not great
I didn't like this one. There was just nothing to like.
Ahhh....too long ago. I did like single "I Had Too Much to Dream, but beyond that they OHWs.
Not another Psych Rock album! I’m sure they’ve inspired a tonne of bands I do like (Looking at you Dandy Warhols) and for that I’m grateful. Some gems. After a slow start, I really enjoyed the middle of the album: Get me to the World on time, Sold to the highest bidder, Try me on for size… but too many wrong turns on the journey. 2.5/5
Like a mashup of The Kinks and The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band without being able to really touch either. Not unpleasant but forgettable.
Dang the albums from this era can vary in quality so hugely. I don't know if the boys were being serious with this one, but it wasn't great. It wasn't even good, for that matter. I'm not sure who this influenced and when, but it shouldn't have.
The first song was pretty good, but was soon followed by a very lousy album. If you ever meet someone and they say that their favorite band is The Electric Prunes, run.
2 musicas salvaram o album pra mim
Some tracks I genuinely enjoyed (6, 7, 10, 11) but I hope to never hear the rest again
"Sold to the highest bidder", what the heck was that?? Felt much longer than 29 minutes. Second 1967 album I've had this week, first was the Monkees and they both show how desperate the world was for the Beatles the Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Who and Pink Floyd.
Cute 60's pop-psych. Nothing to get too knocked out about.
listened to this yesterday ..can't remember any of it. .sorry
Odd, and not really good.
I was quite optimistic about this even though I'd never heard of them. I was wrong
Perhaps I’m missing something but this seems like another album whose only claim to fame was its inclusion on this list. I didn’t hear anything here that I haven’t heard in a number of similar bands of the era and in fact there’s some pretty rubbish stuff on here. For context, The Doors released their debut the month before this and it’s vastly superior to this.
I am reminded of the many basement concerts listening to my friend's great new band. There's nothing wrong with this album, I just dont think they're very good at music...
At least they weren't ripping off the Beatles. 1st song and Onie are the onlie highlights
Erm, not sure what to make of this - 60s light rock vs show tunes?
I liked the variety of genres and sound explored in some of the songs. It wasn't nearly as repetitive as a lot of other music from this era and genre. The vocals sounded a little distant from the mic in most of the songs, but I guess that's a production issue. 5/10
Eh.
This is the most dated mid sixties psychedelic bullshit ever. I did not need to hear this before I died. I know what this shit sounds like without hearing another mediocre 20 year old boomer white guy who just got high for the first time. I get it, you discovered reverb and organs
What is this??? 2.
I'd heard of but never listened to this band. Started off okay, couple of decent tracks but generally degenerated into nonsense. Glad I finally gave it a listen but it wasn't really worth it tbh.
Never a good sign if one of those most notable things about the album on Wikipedia is that it, "was listed in the book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die." Quite nice psychedelic sixties stuff: Touches of ragtime and kitsch among pre-Beatles mop-tops. But, even the band seemed to agree large parts of the album were filler rushed out to capitalise on the success of "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" I dug into some of their other stuff, and the band apparently fell apart when they tried to do complex covers of traditional Jewish religious music in a psychedelic way. That should've been on the list rather than this, but it's really not essential listening.
The most psychedelic thing about this album is how it feels like you’re doing drugs when you listen to it. It starts with the actually quite good and normal psych-rock hit “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)” and then over the course of the album gets more strange until you end with a ragtime nightmare ride on “The Toonerville Trolley”. The song order doesn’t make a lot of sense, so the album has no flow from track to track. Since so much of this album feels tongue-in-cheek, maybe they did that on purpose? The band name and inceptional album cover art both feel like an intentional jokes, so I’ll assume they’re leaning in as much as possible.
It's a fine line between clever and stupid, but this is not close to that line. I like to think that if I was a teenager in the late 60s that I would have not been into this, but I probably would have been.
I have to say I'm totally disinterested with albums like this
Kivoja soundeja elektronisia Beatles tyylistä mutta laulajan ääni ottaa välillä aivoon
it sounds like a coffee house soul singer that just heard the beatles for the first time
Completely and utterly meh, I don't know why its hers on this list as other bands have made a similar noise significantly better than this
What is this lol
I’m a sucker for some 60’s Pysch but that last song almost convinced me to never listen to this shit again. Which is a shame cause there’s some rockin songs on here.
Anytime some oldster says modern music doesn’t make any sense, you can ask them to justify this. Both the band name and a lot of the songs are pseudo-creative sounding, but basically meaningless. Nonsense and vapidity in music doesn’t belong to any one generation.
A very bizarre mix. Hasn't aged well
Not really my thing but okay
#DÍA 41: 1001 Discos Que Hay Que Escuchar Antes De Morir (English Translation Below) 1967, ese año en el que se desató una fiebre psicodélica, dio pié a algunas maravillas que han envejecido genial y otras que no extraña que cayesen en el olvido. The Electric Prunes fueron una banda del segundo grupo, aunque no por falta de talento, quizá más por la incompetencias de los sellos discográficos. Aunque con considerable éxito en números, la banda quedó muy descontenta por la poca libertad compositiva y el poco tiempo que se les ofreció. El tema de apertura es el single principal del LP y es sin duda lo más sólido que contiene. Es una canción de rock oscura y cinematográfica en la que destaca bastante esa guitarra eléctrica con sonido de avispa. La estética de garage rock se mantiene durante la mayoría del LP, con algunos toques de protopunk en las vocals y añadidos instrumentales. En general el álbum como mucho consigue ser decente o mediocre. Get Me to the World on Time tiene cierta intensidad y potencia que la hacen más interesante desde luego, pero unos pocos momentos buenos no salvan al LP de ser olvidable. Por un lado, Sold to the Highest Bidder es molesta como ella sola, el predominio en la mezcla de esa guitarra aguda te perfora completamente y le quita todo el tono intrépido al tema, no sé en qué estaban pensando. También, The King Is in the Courting House y The Toonerville Trolley son tan estereotípicamente inglesas que son de risa, pero como un chiste mal contado. No hay prácticamente coherencia, las composiciones dejan mucho que desear, no hay apenas ideas interesantes en cuanto a estribillos o texturas… No entiendo qué hace este álbum en esta lista sinceramente, supongo que me ayuda a hacerme una idea de que en los 60s también había mucha música poco imaginativa. Salvables: I Had Too Much To Dream Peor: The Toonerville Trolley #DAY 41: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 1967, the year psychedelic fever broke loose, gave rise to some marvels that have aged beautifully and others that understandably slipped into oblivion. The Electric Prunes belonged to the latter group, though not for lack of talent, perhaps more due to the incompetence of record labels. Despite achieving considerable commercial success, the band was left very dissatisfied with the lack of compositional freedom and the limited time they were given. The opening track is the LP’s main single and by far the most solid piece it contains. It’s a dark, cinematic rock song, with that buzzing wasp-like electric guitar standing out. The garage rock aesthetic is present throughout most of the LP, with some proto-punk touches in the vocals and instrumental embellishments. Overall, the album at best manages to be decent or mediocre. Get Me to the World on Time has a certain intensity and power that make it more interesting, but a handful of good moments aren’t enough to save the LP from being forgettable. On the downside, Sold to the Highest Bidder is downright annoying, the piercing high-pitched guitar dominates the mix, drilling into your ears and completely stripping the track of its daring tone. I honestly don’t know what they were thinking. Similarly, The King Is in the Courting House and The Toonerville Trolley are so stereotypically British they come off as laughable, but like a poorly told joke. There’s practically no coherence here. The compositions leave much to be desired, with hardly any interesting ideas in terms of hooks or textures. Honestly, I don’t understand why this album is on this list, though I suppose it does serve to remind me that the ’60s also had plenty of unimaginative music. Salvable: I Had Too Much to Dream Worst: The Toonerville Trolley
Were they the first to do psychedelic? Nope Did they do it the best? Not at all Were they interesting or innovative in any way? You gotta be kidding me
Meeeeeeeh
A weird album. The songs are all over the place, with good rock tracks, some nice psych moments and a few crazy experiments. There’s even a soft ballad... It’s like they were still struggling to find a clear identity. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t memorable either. The whole thing sounds like a pure product of its time (right before the Summer of Love), and it didn’t necessarily age well. "I Had To Much To Dream" and "Sold To The Highest Bidder" are good songs, but the B-side lacks inspiration. I’ll give a 2* to the album as a whole. But I respect the effort. They made me curious though, so I checked their other albums. Their later works are somewhat more interesting. "Just Good Old Rock and Roll" is exactly what it says it is, and "Mass in F Minor" is pure psychedelic insanity. Both would probably have been a better choice for this list. It’s a pity the 1001 list is so obsessed with first albums, even when they’re clearly not the best.
It’s maybe famous for some reasons … but I didn’t find it at the listening. But it’s not bad => 2 stars
Some decent psychedelic songs but mostly forgettable
Credit for the inventive production and consistent songwriting craft here, but I was really disappointed with this one. With hardcore experimentation being the word of the day when this record was made, it seems as though the people in charge of this project knew they had to make something experimental but had no idea why more successful records in the same mould were so good. These songs superficially inhabit psychedelic clothes but don't take that sound to heart.
pretty much just a bad beatles ripoff with terrible production. not sure why i had to hear this