Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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.
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