Electric Prunes

The punkier numbers on this I actually really digged, the first half of the album was really quite good. But this was seriously bogged down with a number of very goofy and immensely grating songs in the back half. 2.5/5 Fav track: I had too much to dream last night

Started off hot, but fell pretty flat for the rest of the album. Mostly fairly standard late 60s psych rock that got a bit boring. Hints of Rolling Stones or The Lovin’ Spoonful here or there, but not really as captivating as the vocalisation and instrumentations of those acts. All just got a little too much for me in its silliness. But I did love the opening track! Fave track: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)

Nope. didn't do anything for me e

I’m usually an easy sell with this style of 60’s psychedelic pop but this album just floated by without making an impression. It’s okay but forgettable.

I dig how it's sometimes experimental while still musical. I like the singers voice. Guitar playing is cool and the super fizzy fuzz is nice. "I had too much to dream (last night)" is a great song title. The songs didn't "go somewhere" enough, they really hung around with the initial idea and didn't evolve or deviate enough for me to love it.

More like electric prune 'em from this list heyooo tbh though, this isn't the first example on here where there was a band contemporary to The Doors, doing very similar things to The Doors, that was also outclassed by The Doors on most levels

You can hear how this was at the start of a bigger movement and whether they led or followed is probably irrelevant. Overall not my cup tea and glad similarly sounding bands moved on, some to become great. But not this lot.

Rip off american beatles?

36/100

Interesting style but didn't land well

Today's album is a 60's psychadelic rock record. The Electric Prunes sound like a shittier Sgt. Peppers era Beatles band. The first half of this album wasn't great, but it is backloaded with a few interesting numbers on the back half of the record. There were a few songs that sounded like they belonged at a renessance fair (The King is in the Counting House, The Toonerville Trolley) Overall, nothing spectacular about this album. Just more generic 60's psychadelica. There was nothing that set this album apart from the droves of other similar artists that sprung up at the back end of the 60's. Favourite songs: Try Me On For Size, Get Me to the World On Time, Luvin' Least favourite songs: Onie, Sold to the Highest Bidder 2/5

mes racines font que j’en attendais plus des pruneaux électriques (ps: chanson de fermeture désastreuse)

Ok but like why? Really feels like guy who made this list had a fun uncle in this quirky band The Electric Prunes

Too Much to Dream is obviously a towering classic of psych/garage, but the whole album? Ok... ...and yeah sadly nothing comes close to the brilliance of that first track.

This album sounds like what the after effects of eating too many prunes, (electric or otherwise) would sound like.

2/12, 17%

If you were to tell me this was a band devised by AI to sound like 1967, I would wholeheartedly believe you. They’re a little bit of this, a little bit of that. They’re a little bit the velvets, a little bit monkees, a little bit Procol Harum, a little bit moody blues. What they aren’t is coherent or cohesive and it sounds like they haven’t found their own voice yet. So it’s difficult to muster any excitement or enthusiasm for something so passionless, disparate and lacking in direction. From the sounds of it, I don’t think they were happy with most of the album either. Started off with some interesting concepts, executed with startling unoriginality.

A 2-star rating is a little harsh, but this was mostly ridiculous, starting with the band's name. At least it was short.

I'll confess that I wasn't able to fully give this my attention, but what I heard didn't wow me in the slightest. It just seemed like a grab bag of late 60s garage-psychedelia. Kind of surprised this was chosen for this list as there are better examples of this kind of music.

Here's the problem - 'I Had Too Much to Dream' is a mighty, mighty track and, if I'm not mistaken, kicks off the revered Nuggets compilation. In common with many of their Nugget confederates, one can't escape the feeling that the Electric Prunes were one-and-done. There's a trio of mid-album songs that pique the interest - the psych-mazurka of 'Sold to the Highest Bidder', 'Get Me to the World on Time' which morphs from murky nod-out into a schizoid Bo Diddley beat for the final third, and the fragrant charm of 'About a Quarter to Nine' all have their moments - but the rest is slurry. Very dated slurry. The final furlong of this mercifully short album is some of the most cringe-inducing music this app has subjected me to. Not quite a bad trip, all told, but not much better.

Onie Sold to the Highest Bidder Try Me on for Size Those are the ones I liked, or liked parts of, and that's it. Daddio.

This really was not that good, right? The guitar on 'Sold to the Highest Bidder' was especially insufferable.

I had listened to Too Much to Dream quite a bit before this album and expected a lot more. Toonerville Trolley was surprisingly interesting to me.

- Never heard of the Electric Prunes before - Weird mix of some decent songs, some bad ones and a few absolutely awful ones - The Toonerville Trolley is one of the worst things I've ever heard - Few decent tracks keep it from being a 1* - Fav songs: I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night), Get Me to the World on Time

Thought I had an album to catch up on but it turned out I'd listened to most of this yesterday and forgot. It's Beatlesy, kinksy, a bit doorsy sometimes, didn't really stand out at any point. A weird baroque harpsichord song in the middle as well, the worst signature of this era of pop rock. Not for me.

There were some interesting tracks but overall I didn't like this. Highlights: I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) Get Me to the World on Time

Kinda generic, not a huge fan

Sounds kinda grainy, doesnt seem like its aged well. Dont think I would listen to it again.

Yet another album that's way past its expiration date and with little to offer even before achieving said expiration.

Rudimental and bland music, even for the late 60s. Would make a good wedding band or a pub at the weekend, maybe playing in the background, but there's nothing here that would make you say, that's good, and you want to listen.

Ok album

There are a few good tracks here but this is held back by some like "Onie" "The King Is In The Counting House" and "Toonerville Trolley" that come across a little goofy. The good tracks are great though.

Another great disappointment. I grew up on fuzzy reverb psychedelic rock. Some of my earliest memories are of the '60s listening to this on the radio or TV variety shows. But this album proves that you can have all the elements for great music at the time and still come up with a disappointing record. "I had too much to dream last night" is the only song that I remember. The rest is truly forgettable music. Coming into 1001 reviews, I expected to be a fanboy of all things '60s, '70s, and '80s. But albums like this have shown me that while it was truly an exceptional time in music, many examples just either weren't that good or don't stand the test of time. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - It was ok to listen to but I wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.

Nah

Why is this on the list, they’re just Beatles/stones wannabes, it has nothing original or anything that stands out.

Uhh... weird stuff, written by other folks. Toonerville Trolley? Yeah... 2 stars.

British punk isn’t good

"Electric Prunes" sounds like someone put The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and The Rolling Stones into a blender and puree'd them down to something you could sip through a straw. All the bite, all the good meaty bits, all the crunch is gone and you're just left with a weird, mushy meat-slurry of rock and roll. It's not great. Not a great listen at all.

meeeeh

I just got done reviewing The Doors, describing it as the type of psychedelic I DO like. Well, this is the side of psychedelic I could honestly do without. Was this listenable? Yes. Was it remarkable? Hard no. Also, I'm not positive on this, but it seemed like it was intended to be somewhat of a parody album. Maybe I just get that feeling due to how ridiculously zany and manic it was.

This is a fine mid-60s garage rock album. I really love good psychedelia, though I feel like there's an issue in this era with a cool sounding band putting out an album with a few good semi-hits and then mostly filler tracks. It feels like the popularity of this type of music at the time was also its downfall because labels were quick to sign bands that fit the general vibe but didn't have a deep catalog. That's what this album feels like to me. I can think of a number of other garage/psychedelic bands from this era that I'd go to before ever putting this album on again. This just sounds like a wannabe early Kinks or Sonics album. I think the strongest track is 'Get Me to the World On Time'. Standout Tracks: Onie, Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less), Get Me to the World On Time, Luvin', Try Me On for Size

Meh

The best part of this album was how short it was. Best track: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)

Very typical 60s sound.

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The first track is bloody amazing! One of the best 60’s songs that I’ve ever herd! The rest of the album drags so much in it’s (just under) half an hour run time there’s some tracks that I liked but one of these rather short tracks felt like listening to the white album 100 times it’s so draggy. 2/5

Wasn't really able to get a good read on this. It sort of sounded OK but never clicked.

This CD starts pretty strong, the first two tracks are good. But it loses steam fast after that- generally, the rest of it is too slow and too basic. The random psychedelic sounds kinda cover it up for a bit, but this is basically garage rock. The drumming is especially bad- I think they might’ve been going for this, but there’s a whole songs at a time where the drum pattern is slamming the snare right on every quarter-beat, and really right on the beat. When they’re doing it, I assume it’s some kind of deliberate choice, the drummer’s clearly capable of showing more variety- but it makes it sound like they’ve hired a trainee who only knows how to do one thing to play drums. They also don’t use any vocal harmonies, which is rare for music of this era- and while they do get a little playful with non-standard instrumental sound, they don’t use it for multiple overlapping parts (each is a one-off), and it doesn’t really cover up for the lack of backing vocals. Like imagine how much more lush “Obie” would be if it were performed by The Beach Boys. The big thing though is that beyond the first two songs, which both have interesting harmonic twists (“Bangles” drops into 3/4 too), there’s just nothing unique going on here- it’s just light, stripped-down psychedelic garage rock.

honestly it was just boring, i don’t really get why or how it’s influential in any way.

Generic sounding for the era and overused/cliched effects (tremolo, reverb, hard panning) make this end up a perfect stereotype of boring late 60s psychedelia. It's not all terrible. But it's...not sticking out much for me either (and honestly it really gets worse as the album progresses; oy the last few songs are trash). I'm trying to figure out what the influence is? And by my count 10 of these 12 songs were not even written by the band - the group were forced by the record company to bring in a writing team at the last minute to push the album; even by the band's own admission the album was rushed "...there are definitely songs that I do believe didn't belong on the album" Not the worst but I'll forget this ever existed in about 8 minutes. 3/10 2 stars.

Well this was interesting. I can't say I enjoyed it but I can't say I hated it, but at the end it's quite forgettable and more of a curiosity than anything. 2.5/5

Kinda dated. 2.5/5

T3B 1. Too Much To Dream (Last Night) 2. Bangles 3. Train for Tomorrow

Electric Prunes starts quite well with a song that is very evocatively 60s in a good way, then it doesn't last. One is the other big track off this and it doesn't have the energy or swagger of the opener and it goes back and forth between those styles, so it gets disjointed. I liked Sold to the Highest Bidder the most, 2/5 overall though.

don't be such a square maaaaaaaan. generic 60s, they didn't really bring anything new to the party.

This was pretty boring. Nothing special at all.

Average 60s hippy pop with fuzzy guitars, lots of reverb. Psychedelic. Tremolo on guitars. Style is familiar sounding from old movies and tv shows, but I am no at all well versed in 60s psychedelic pop rock.

Meh

Not a bad listen, but the vocals weren't strong and the music wasn't as crisp as I'd like...a bit too muddy all around - it often sounded like the music and the singing weren't quite in sync

Meh, nothing of note other than it was nice and short.

Generic 60s music

Super quick album which was nice, considering that it wasn't very memorable. Sounds very late 60s which isn't a bad thing, but doesn't really stand out for the era. 4/10

Hmmm some songs are pretty interesting but others are not. 2.5/5

Afgevinkt en hoeft niet echt terug te komen wat mij betreft.

Niet met heel veel aandacht geluisterd. Was wel okisch.

ik maak hier even een 'five-of-a-kind' van en geef het ook 2 sterren. Nergens was er iets in deze muziek wat me positief opviel.

Not as electric as advertised

2.4 - I really like garage rock, but this album was pretty unremarkable. I can see some of the wordplay as being a bit edgy or novel at the time it came out, but strikes me as a bit insipid today. The singles were solid enough, but not enough to get me to come back.

Nada especial

An album from 1967 that I haven't heard of? Impossible, unless it turns out to be this load of old tosh - what on earth am I supposed to take away from this? Derivative and irritating

The music isn't bad and the sound was before their time. I just don't know if this need to be on this list.

It was like bizarre Beatles. Dark and psychedelic, but the sound quality was incredibly poor so I couldn't get into it.

I've never heard of this band before, no idea what to expect. 1. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - Really good song, catchy. 8/10 2. Bangles - Decent song, 6/10 3. Onie - Kind of loved this one, it was slow and sweet-sounding, 8/10 4. Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less) - Didn't like very much, 4/10 5. Train for Tomorrow - Weak song, I feel like the lyrics and the instrumental just really did not fit together well. 3/10 6. Sold to the Highest Bidder - Very interesting... borderline bizarre. But I liked it despite it being a bit of a chaotic mess of a song. 6/10 7. Get Me to the World on Time - Okay, 5/10 8. About a Quarter to Nine -Another of these middling-type songs. This one is totally inoffensive but, as a result, bland. Nothing special. 5/10 9. The King Is in the Counting House - Nursery rhyme? Not a fan. 2/10 10. Luvin' - Certainly better than the previous few tracks, but still nothing special. 6/10 11. Try Me on for Size - More of the same. 4/10 12. The Toonerville Trolley - Dreadful, to be honest. 2/10 A real mixed-bag of songs here. A few terrible, a couple good, many average. Favs: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), Onie Least favs: The Toonerville Trolley, The King is in the Counting House, Train for Tomorrow Initial rating: 2/5.

Some nice moments, but mostly just dull 60s psychedelics by numbers

Not sure why this made it to this list. I was not familiar with the group or the album and there is a good reason for that, it is bad music. Nothing noteworthy. Just no need for you to listen.

Didn’t hate it didn’t love it. 2.5/5

This psychedelic rock has not aged well. The last song, The Toonerville Trolley, left a particularly bad taste in my mouth.

Ho trovato quest'album strano. Ma non so se piacevolmente strano, rimane a metà nel mio gusto.

Toplo ladno

Some good songs but some that are about as silly and novelty-like that it really makes it hard to take it seriously. Three good songs is worth a 2.5 🌟 rating from me

Lo mismo no era mi día para escuchar esto. Me ha parecido un rollo, aunque más o menos se puede escuchar.

why

not for me at all it is very slow and seems a generic 60s album

Decent album, some nice songs but not really my style

???

Pretty meh album. No songs really stood out and at only 30 minutes it still felt like it dragged a bit. The songs feel repetitive and nothing really stood out in quality. 4.7/10

No. Stop. Please no more. How much time left on this album. I'm listening to a band called The Electric Prunes and now know why I never heard of them. 1.5. I turned it off on mid way through the last song.

Interesting

anos 67s, rememba

Probably groundbreaking when it came out but can't say I'm crazy for 60s music most of the time, and this didn't grab me.

I found this album to be a little all over the place, and vaguely reminded me of the Animals - but not as good. Can’t say I really enjoyed it. 2.4/5

Pura canción sin terminar, canciones para niños y canciones de mierda

Best Tracks: I Had Too Much to Drink (Last Night), Bangles, Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less), Get Me to The World On Time, Luvin', Try Me On for Size

Might be sacrilegious but i didnt think this was anything special, kinda sounds like lots of other music of the era, that said i was pleased by onie but thats only one song

More 1960s psychedelia for me. Never heard of this bizarrely named outfit! It's a concise and energetic record. I like the surf / garage rock elements. But I particularly like the noisy guitar and spaced-out warbling sounds on the hallucinatory opening track ("I Had too Much to Dream Last Night"). Unfortunately, the album doesn't consistently deliver on its promises. There are some generic rock tracks where the singer whines about "gettin' some loving". And there are two awful, forced twee folk tracks, one of which involves a dodgy British accent (the band are from Los Angeles...). Overall, some cool moments and I'm glad I heard it. But it doesn't convert me to 60s rock, and I can't see it qualifying as essential listening for many people. 2.5

Meh

Kind of boring. Not sure why this is on the list. Even the band members didn't like it because they weren't allowed to write any of the songs and thought most of them were fillers.

a couple tracks were ok but nothing to write home about

A lot of fucking around that amounts to extremely mediocre songwriting and execution. Impressive that it managed to be wildly weird and different while also being lame as hell.

1st tune decent. Downhill thereafter

not bad, not too good either

I had too much to drink is a classic but the rest was meh

Nothing to eclipse current views on albums from this era

But weird. Couple of ok songs but not really my bag.

Maybe this was groundbreaking when it was released. Today, it's just kind of cringey.

The odd good tune, but not one I'd rush back too. Doubled this up with the Stooges album that I'd missed on Monday, and felt similar about that - two good songs and a shedload of spooky chanting.

Not bad. Not good.

Bit disjointed and bland

meget mærkelig album enkelte gode sange men ellers ikke min stil. Prøver at lyde som Beatles men ikke lige så godt.

Some interesting songs on this album, but I'm not sure I'd revisit it. This is like a 2.5

Not my style. Some catchy riffs on some songs, but the psychedelic movement is not for me. 2.5/5

I didn't know about it, but I don't like it much; I even find it a bit annoying.

Some shitty psychedelic rock.

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

Zou niet kopen

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.

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.

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.

This did absolutely zero for me

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.

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

:/

Hard pass on the American Beatles impersonators

It was boring. Just 60s sounding and nothing else.

Was this included as a joke? It has to be. The Toonerville Trolley was atrocious.

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.

dear God no, a bad idea and a bad album

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.

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.

Not my thing. Listened to first half and gave up. I’m sure was cutting edge for its time!

This isn't special. It's like the Walmart brand of The Monkees. Most of this is just simply outclassed by their contemporaries, some of it is unique and interesting, but also usually not good. I think I was better off before I listened to this album. Favorite Song(s): none

Did not care for this one bit.

1.5/5 I really don't get it

Oh wow, ANOTHER rip-off Beatles album. Getting ridiculous.

Started off great with I Had Too Much To Dream. Loved the fuzzy petal. But it was all downhill from there. And the last song, wtf. Are they just trying to fill the album with crap? The first song was not enough to save this album.

Not for me

If I had to rate this album based on the lead-up and comedic payoff of Toonerville Trolley at the end of this album, this would be a 5/5 album. I was trying really hard not to belly laugh in the metro while I was listening to the song. Great joke, no notes. Unfortunately, however, I have review this based on it's musical styling, and overall this album is entirely pointless. Nothing here is creative or new, it's all a mix of the garage and psychedelic rock popular at the time. While their lyrics were more sarcastic than I expected, and that was appreciated, I will never listen to this album again because there are many other, better artists that do the same things but more interestingly. The biggest question I had while listening to this was "why would an album like this be included on a list like this?" The album never answered my question. It's never really that bad to listen to, and there are some good riffs, and the lyrics can be interesting, but I was barely ever engaged in the album. It never took me into it's world, so overall, as I said, it's utterly pointless. The lead song is pretty good, but that's about it. This felt like homework more than anything else. Anything you hear on this album, there is probably a better version of it somewhere else. Overall, not needed. Highlights include I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night), and the comedic payoff of Toonerville Trolley.

this made me want to die 1/5

Surprised Kenny Logins in this band.

Normal

I enjoy most music from the 60’s, but this album really didn’t click with me for some reason

Helemaal niks aan

Woof this sucks. Even the songs that are okay just sort of feel like a generic 60s song imitating other generic 60s songs. I hate this shit

First time listening to this album, and the last

my unifying theory of 60s rock and roll is undefeated (there was nothing else to do and nothing to compare this to, so it used to be good)

Damn I'm tired of this mid 60s stuff man. Nothing at all of note for me. Several songs I actively disliked. Nah.

Jag förstår inte vad detta album har i boken att göra. Alldaglig 60-talspop. Till råga på allt rätt dålig sådan. Skivan släpps 1967. Hade den kommit 1960 hade det eventuellt kunnat vara lite nydanande. Nu är de ju snarare efter sin tid.

Really drab.

I did not like this album

#9 Interesting instrumentals, but feels like an album I could sleep to...

ehhhhhhhhh

Yikes... That was bad. This album is so dated that it makes early Rolling Stones albums sound like late-era Beatles albums in comparison. This is Everly Brothers levels of aging poorly. I don't like this album very much. The sound is meh. It's fine on songs like the opening track "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)," but other songs like "Sold to the Highest Bidder" just annoy me. The vocals aren't very good. Songs like "Try Me On For Size" show this off. The writing is very bad. This album effectively has two types of songs; dated love songs and annoying weird tracks. The dated love songs are just disappointing. "Are You Lovin' Me More" especially came across as kinda rapey. Not a fan of that. The annoying weird songs aren't good either. "The Toonerville Trolley" is probably this album's worst song. It fucking sucks. I'd say that I'm upset that I had to listen to this album, but not in the sense of anger that I have been for most of the really bad albums on this list. It's more like... apathy? Annoyance. I'm annoyed that I had to listen to this. I mean, there are so many better 60s psych rock albums that are already on this list and had already released by this point. This was 1967! Pet Sounds had already released. Revolver had already released. The Doors released their first album a month before this one and that album still sounds pretty fresh to this day! This? It's short, sure, but I still somehow feel like I wasted my time with this album. I'm not nearly as upset about this as some of the other albums on this list, but I can't call this album good and I would still say that I'm upset to an extent. I thought about giving it a 2, but that trolley song really pissed me off. High 1/5.

Another poor psychedelic rock album, glad I didn't grow up in this era, probably would've been really dull and boring of a person.

It's been a rough week

Not for me.

It’s a no from me, dawg.

Do we have albums like this because everyone was on drugs in the 60s … or was everyone on drugs in the 60s because we have albums like this? I’m pretty sure if you play “Sold to the Highest Bidder” backwards, it will open a direct portal to hell.

The Electric Prunes, love the band name, but it's crappy 60s psychedelic rock. It's awful. Soooooo.....Ya.....that's pretty much it on this one.

Depending of the song, The Doors or The Stooges came to mind, even if this band is far from having their talent and attitude. In fact, it’s only “garage rock” in the sense of practicing in a garage, and it often struggles to break free from the weight of 60s conventions. Despite some inspired moments, with shifts in rhythm and mood sometimes within the same track, I end up listening to the whole album without much enthusiasm. The mix doesn’t help either with the vocals often pushed too far forward while the rhythm section is too far back, which kills the overall dynamics. I really wanted to like it, but I just don’t.

There was a bus barreling down the road at me and I found myself thinking, what if I got hit and they had to use my phone to try to find my next of kin and discovered that the last thing I listened to was The Toonerville Trolley by the Electric Prunes?

I don't know why this is on this list.

I was going to give this a very, very generous 2 but then Toonerville Trolley came on.

Psychedelic in this case means awash in reverb and tremelo guitars. The songs are at best just okay with a tilt towards quirky and just plain godawful. If I owned this album I would take it outside and bust it up against a rock.

I was going to give it 2 stars and then that last song came on and... what the fuck?

This is shit.

Yes, it is possible for a 29 minute album to feel too long. Was going to give this two stars, but side B knocked me down to one.

This wasn’t great. Did little to hold my interest. Bland, obvious “psychedelic” overtones. Some substance to the music, but it never really goes anywhere. I think this is the bullshit Zappa warned everyone about.

Pretty low grade psychedelia. Why on earth is this on the list?

I don't know why but this gave my dog anxiety while I was listening to it

Not sure much to say. Very forgettable

With that haircut? I ain't listening :3

I am not a child

I found this very boring, it's a very oldies sounding pop album without any of the charm of the Beatles or Kinks or Zombies. And it's not their fault, but I heard this the day after a Genesis album that's only a couple years older, and it left a lot to be desired. The music is boring psychadelia and definitely an album I could have skipped. My favorite is either I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) or Train for Tomorrow.

Boring and slow, weird when not slow. 1/5

Ouch!

Totally forgettable, boilerplate, 60’s psychedelic trash. Honestly, who let these guys into a studio?? These songs make me angry. The most that can be said about these guys is that they’re a late 60’s cautionary tale of the music industry’s insatiable desire to package and sell anyone with an inkling of the Beatles’ or Stones’ marketability. 💫

mostly mid . downloaded 3&10

Painfully average for most tracks except a few really bad ones

Apparently the band weren’t pleased with this album, and I wouldn’t be either. Fairly standard psychedelic (sorta) sixties pop, including the obligatory novelty song at the end.

I'd give zero if poss

Complete non event

Just think how lucky we are that cultural artefacts like this are preserved forever.... to warn us that we, the boomer generation, shouldn't arrogantly think our music was superior to that which has followed. Because these prunes really gave me the shits. This is laughably bad but I can't laugh because it hurts.

Meh

wow. just awful

Oh my favourite, more pointless shit that is far from an essential listen for anyone.

70s rock to soft for what was already out there and had already been recorded before. Nothing really different so not good

I am so sick of 80s punk band keep getting recced here.

just gets worse as it goes on. the electric prunes is such a terrible band name its so fucking stupid just listen to the first and third tracks they're are the only ones worth hearing. the songs are either cool but the mix is so muddy and weird that it actively annoys me, or the just songs sucks and is annoying

bo

Sigh. So I started this project in order to discover some new music, and now I have discovered this album. This is unfortunate, as it undermines the entire purpose of the effort - What if all the other remaining albums that I havent heard of on this album are as bad as this one? 1/5

Not for me. 1/5

Toonerville Trolly makes this an instant one (yeah I said instant like it’s not the last f*cking song on the album - blow me)

1/5

Generic 60s garage. It's fine but it doesn't do anything notable enough to justify its inclusion here in my eyes.

Nah bruh

Goofy, dated, annoying

That is just awful. I guess it takes a special kind of prunes to make this kind of turds.

ненене

1 decent song.. maybe I'm missing something but doesn't seem worthy of this list.

I have never heard of this band or any of the tracks before so I am looking forward to some 60s Psychedelic rock. This album has some great songs but goes on a massive decline as you go through the album. Songs like the king is in the counting house and toonerville trolley are just awful! This should be a short 6-8 track album of just the good stuff. Favourite song: Get me to the world on time and Are you loving me more but enjoying it less. Least favourite: The Toonerville trolley, what on earth is that all about. Album artwork: Standard 60s classic cover.

Nicht meine Richtung

• 1/5 • Curious why this made the 1001 list. Maybe as an exemplar of psych-era manufactured pop? • Should be the soundtrack to a mockumentary . . .

Shit sandwich

1960 electric flower power - not for me

All over the place. Every song is more confusing than the last. These guys sound like they have a loose grip on reality and are trying hard to be something they're not. Someone needs to fire whoever mixed the audio too.

I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)

Meh

Not for me. Softcore kinks.

Schrecklich. Nicht hörenswert.

Odd. Not my cup of tea.

I hear The Doors. I hear The Monkees. I hear a bunch of different stuff from the 60s, with that distinctive sound. It feels like I'm on a history trip, or if I'm listening to the soundtrack to a Vietnam War movie. But it ain't the stuff of classics. Occasionally, there's a glimpse of sophistication, but ultimately it feels like fool's gold. Mostly, it's tedious and lumbersome.

Someone needed to get all of these 1967 bands and gently suggest that their personal and unique journeys into acid-induced psychedelia had...left them all sounding the same. This was a total pastiche tbh.

Complete and utter dogshit. No musical quality that I can discern.

I want to get off the Toonerville Trolley

yikes. Ranges from generic 60s poprock to basically children's music??

I'm glad this album exists for the people who love it. I'm just not one of them. It was painful earbleed music.

Not at all my cup of tea. I had a hard time listening through, to be honest, and I got bored with it fairly quickly. If saying anything positive, the lyrics to \"Try me out for size\" was kind of clever and the best one of them in overall composition for my taste.

A couple of interesting tracks on here, but mostly forgettable. In fact, I listened to this over a week ago (before going on holiday) and the only song I remember is the horrific closing track. Never again. One of my main takeaways from this challenge is that I have surprisingly low tolerance for psychedelic music. I think you had to be there!

Not good at all.

"Train For Tomorrow" had a nice hook. It was the only track that sounded like they really put their hearts into the writing rather than just being caught up in copying the "sound" of the time. Very unoriginal and unremarkable.

They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. So I tried to put aside my prejudices when I saw their stupid name. I shouldn’t have. Would have saved me a half hour listening to this garbage.

Just sounds like so many other things from this era, but none of it is memorable.

Awful album. Did they rent a cheap studio? The music sounds underproduced.

Not for me 1/5

Excluding The Monkees who were proper musicians despite being a manufactured group jumping on a bandwagon - I guess at this time there must have been a dozen American Poundshop Beatles like these getting pushed by record companies eyeing an easy buck.

Why did I have to listen to this before I die?

Was gonna rate this a 2 until I got to Toonerville Trolley which ruined my day. Also borderline rapey lyrics throughout. Big fat 1.

There was novelty in some of these song lyrics but I didn’t find their psychedelic sound of the late 60’s different or better than other bands known for those vibes. The album got stale by the 3rd song.

This one really confused me. I don’t know anything about this band and I didn’t hear anything special on the album that would make me even slightly believe it was one of the top albums of all time. Musically it was fine but nothing overly stood out.

Dumb drug music

In a nutshell: "The Monkees on acid" YouTube user. Overall: 1/10

Knew the title track so I went in with anticipation of discovering another gem. OH WELL. In large parts, an amalgamation of early ersatz Stones/Beatles/proto-Doors - the ratios shifting on a per-song basis - rehearsing random B-Side material, while you're listening from across a long hallway. It's not *all* terrible, and I've tried to make the likeable bits count, really, and there's some interesting ear candy occasionally, but especially considering how this mess apparently came to be by a producer shoving songs down this band's throat - Yes, I can hear that - I am at loss as to what it's doing on this list.

I don't think it was really bad or anything but it had absolutely no juice whatsoever

A collection of random thoughts that came to me as I listened to this collection of random songs. I don't want to call it an album because there is no coherence to it. * The Electric Prunes? Were they playing Mad Libs to find a band name? * Is there a mosquito is buzzing around me? * The band veers from a Beatles sound to a Doors sound to a Stones sound, complete with fake British accent on The King Is in the Counting House. * This song collection is a product of its time, preserved in amber. It should have stayed there. * The Toonerville Trolley? WTF? Now that my listening experience is blissfully over, I can say that I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) is the only track worth listening to, barely. I like the word play of the song title and the transition to the chorus, but that's about it.

No.

I appreciate the "economy" of pumping out 12 songs in less than 30 minutes, but this isn't all that great. That opening track is pretty dang good, and so is track 7, but this is exactly the kind of album that turned me into a "singles" kind of guy in my youth. Record companies tend to churn out "product" (albums) with one to three good/great songs on them, and then add a whole bunch of "filler" to pad the album. This is a pretty typical example of that. That last track sounds like a companion piece to Dr. Hook's "Freakin' At The Freaker's Ball." This probably should not make the list of the 1001 albums you should hear before you bite the dust. Mediocre at best. Meh.

Did not like. Like experimental but also early british pop music. Did not like.

This is just awful. I’m sure it’s probably great if you’re stoned, but it’s just not my jam.

Crap

Inconsistent jumble. Nothing too special. Some good songs, some very poor

1. i had to much to dream lazt night - 1.5 2. banglez - 1 3. onie - 2 4. are you loving me more - 1 5. train for tomorrouu - 1 6. zold to the highezt bidder - 1 7. get me to the uuorld on time - 1 8. about a quarter to nine - 1 9. the king iz in the counting houze - 0 10. luvin - 1 11. try me on for zize - 1 12. the toonerville trolley - 0

Pure 1960s psychedelic rock - it hadn't aged well.

Bad

Didn't find much joy with this one.

did not get it at all.

Skil ekki alveg hvað þessi plata er að gera á þessum lista. Ekkert sérstaklega áhugavert í gangi þarna.

Jesus christ these song titles are insufferable. Any chance that's tongue in cheek? Let's find out. Yeah, I think they all nodded at these titles solemnly and said things like "Yeah, daddio. That's heavy." or something. More than that, though, I don't like the choices they make in these songs. The left turns are all sour in some way that never takes me anywhere new or even somewhere old that I'd like to go. I want to say I appreciate that they take any turns at all, but that's not really true. I do marvel, though, at the fact that living in the age of streaming you can listen to the entire catalog of a band called The Electric Prunes just anytime you want. That's kind of crazy.

Thankfully, they kept it brief.

V poor

Sucked!

Weird

Hmmm... So what did I listened to actually? Few songs vaguely resembling unspecified subgenre of rock, but most of the time being so unlistenable, I didn't recognised that another song came on. I've heard few elements of psychedelic rock, with very gentle guitar sounds in the background, but mostly it was something experimental, which in my opinion didn't work at all. I have hard time to find anything positive to say about this album. Clear candidate for the worst rating on this list.

Quiet

This psychedelic hippie bullshit is giving me a headache this morning.

No go.

I was at a 2 with this until the last song. That was awful

What the hell is this

Whack

Strange, perhaps in a good way, but really far too strange

I’m sorry, are they singing about a fucking Tuna Melt Trolley?? Huh? Ohhh Toonerville. Oookay. This whole thing is nonsense garbage. It’s crap.

Completely forgettable.

1.5

wow this was bad and boring. 1/5

This is awful, I didn't listen to much

Best Song: Sold to the Highest Bidder. Best song musically, although it does have some woefully misogynistic lyrics. Worst Song: Quarter to Nine. An utterly failed attempt at sounding suave. Overall: Lyrically dated songs that sound like they were written by a bunch of high school horndogs, all backed by pretty ho-hum instrumentation. Feels like a waste of the otherwise cool phrase "i had too much to dream last night". The album's best quality is its brevity.

Holy shit, that was terrible. Like a parody of 60s psychedelic rock.

Pain

Shite sandwich

Zeitgeist of the time. Maybe you're meant to take LSD to enjoy it.

The worst album I've ever heard. Would have given 0 stars if it had been possible.

Forgotten it already

Really fucking annoying! Did not enjoy

Found the songs and the voice annoying.

Grup absolutament desconegut. Rock psicodèlic de finals dels seixanta inofensiu. Hi ha un parell de temes interessants, però el disc se m'ha fet fins i tot llarg, malgrat no arribar a la mitja hora de durada. Oblidable.

Not for me