Midnight Ride

It's rock n roll. Probably sounded like Cannibal Corpse to the parents in those days.

⭐⭐⭐ Typisk 60-talsproduktion och lite av ett tvärsnitt av 60-tal, här kan man höra lite Rolling stones, Beach Boys, Kinks etc. Låter dock mer som ett typiskt brittiskt band från den här tiden än ett amerikanskt band som de är. Det är inte dåligt men inte fantastiskt heller. Har inget större problem att lyssna på det men kan inte se mig ägna någon tid på detta album i framtiden, det blir en 3a. Bäst är Kicks, I´m not your stepping stone, Get it on, Shake it up, SS396

Good fun record from a band that didn't quite break through

Paul Revere & The Raiders have their own unique sound and space among mid-1960s rock bands, even if I wouldn't count them as a top tier act. There's elements of their sound which are ahead of their time and you can hear in groups that came later.

Paul Revere sneaks into a low 4, i'm surprised this isn't bigger in the canon

A perfectly fun and servicable slab of 60s garage pop, what stops this album from getting a higher score is that one can't help but feel like most of these songs are pastiches of bigger bands of the era - a Kinks knock off here, a Beach Boys there, and then a Who inspired number. Still a good time though, and at half an hour it doesn't outstay it's welcome.

Strong two/low 3 objectively, but not my jam.

Banger first track. The rest was eh.

OBS! Skiva e ferdig etter Melody for an Unknown Girl. Finfin plate. Ikke mye å plukke på. Elske 60-tallet. Tippe 60-tallet snur sæ i graven av mye vi har gjort de siste 40 åran.

The real monkees

Fun 60's rock with a share of filler.

I feel like this album is a parade of 60’s music. You had some Beatles sounds, some Beach boy sounds… That said, nothing particularly stood out to me

Triple blind for me Not bad like a 2, but certainly not memorable. The longer we do this challenge the more these kinds of bands all sound the same, with sitar and organ playing in the background. They reminded me a lot of The Animals. Honestly surprised they weren’t part of the British Invasion, but they were clearly inspired by it

Some goofy 60s tunes with this one. Sort of like a blend of beach boys and hippie 60s rock. They tried but it didn't land for me

It’s perfect.

Leuke muziek in de stijl van The Beatles. ***

Oh look another 60s album what a surprise!

Of course I'm giving it 5 stars! First concert I ever attended. With my dad for my 13th birthday! 🤣

IT was classic, but a little outdated today. Not bad, but there were better bands in the same genre

Starts with the best song on the album and then it's pot luck what style you'll get. Lots of it is forgettable. 2.5/5. Raising to 3.

the album cover SLAPS for spooky season, but the album does not deliver spooky vibes. nice nonetheless

Old garage rock album that softens all it's edges. 1/5

Pretty typical 60s stuff, didnt blow my mind but better than anything out of the 80s

Kicks - 85 There's Always Tomorrow - 76 Little Girl In The 4th Row - 78 Ballad Of A Useless Man - 78 I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - 81 There She Goes - 75 All I Really Need Is You - 73 Get It On - 78 Louie, Go Home - 75 Take A Look At Yourself - 77 Melody For An Unknown Girl - 79 Midnight Ride - 77

First track is pretty good, but then the album kind of disappears for me. Most of it sounds like Beatles-lite, and considering I don't particularly like the Beatles, that's not exactly a winning formula. If they leaned more into the folk side of things I think I'd be on board. “Melody for an Unknown Girl” is easily my favorite track, probably because it's mostly instrumental and doesn't sound much like anything else on the album. Two stars for those two songs, nothing for the rest. 2/5.

A delightful and compact release from a band that was new to me.

When I read Garage Rock as genre, I expected the worst. I wasn't as bad, but not great either. Quite dated, in fact.

I was nervous when I saw another 60s white rock album, but this one wasn't as jaunty or corny (imo) as the others so far. Not bad boys!

It has a fun 60's party vibe. Standard 60's sounds, but I like those so had a blast. Bubblegum.

Classic 60s rock sound. Some decent hits in the mix too.

Mwah een enorme 60sh sounds. Soms klinkt het als The Kinks, dan weer enorm Beach Boys… ik vond het maar matig 2.5 ster

Ja het is prima, niet super bijzonder verdiend geen plekje in de lijst naar mijn mening. Er zijn albums die ik minder leuk vind dan deze die ik toch wel verdiend in de lijst vindt omdat het wel bijzonder is, maar niet mijn smaak. Dit album was niet zo bijzonder ik kan er prima naar luisteren.

De curator van de lijst heeft een beetje overdreven met de jaren 60 rock&roll. De lijst had dan korter gekund of plaats kunnen maken voor relevantere albums. Meer kritiek op de lijst dan op Paul Revere & The Raiders. Het is dus ook niet per se dat Paul Revere & The Raiders slecht zijn, maar bij “listen before you die” verwacht ik wel iets uniekers. Het maakt dan niet eens uit of ik het goed of kut vind. Ze waren belangrijk voor de ontwikkeling van Amerikaanse bandjes in de jaren 60, maar dat betekent niet automatisch dat Midnight Ride vandaag een essentieel luisteralbum is. Als je naar de ratinggrafiek kijkt, zie je een opvallende piramide. Alleen maar 3’tjes. Geen fans en geen haters. Geen enkele sterke reactie. Dat is eigenlijk het ergste wat je kan overkomen: je bent totaal niet relevant.

Weer een 13 in een dozijn achtig jaren 60 bandjes. Precies wat Teun zegt, niet slecht, niet kut. Ik kan me voorstellen dat het in die tijd die verschillen groter leken dan dat het nu klinkt. Nou wil ik de 60's niet afbranden hoor, in hetzelfde jaar kwamen o.a. Revolver, Blonde on Blonde en Pet Sounds uit. Dan ben je toch wel een gekke henkie als je je zuurverdiende guldens uitgeeft aan deze plaat.

Fun romp through 60s rock and pop. By switching up lead singers and styles on tracks it felt more like a compilation of different groups. I have no loyalty to Raiders, so that worked out just fine by me.

Kinda spunky and cool

É engraçado como ouvi-los soa um pouco como escutar os Beatles antes de Rubber Soul, com aquele espírito de Please Please Me e A Hard Day's Night. A diferença é que aqui existe uma maturidade que muitas vezes não estava presente nesses álbuns. Eles brincam quando precisam brincar, mas também sabem exatamente a hora de levar as coisas a sério. O resultado é um álbum que nunca soa monótono. Muito pelo contrário: é justamente essa mistura que torna a experiência tão incrivelmente interessante.

619/1089 - It's some decent garage + a little psych. Not sure why it's on the list.

“Kicks” is a great starter, “There’s Always Tomorrow” is a fantastic track with a little Doors in its sound (and a wildly fun guitar section towards the end), but “Little Girl In The 4th Row” is dreadful. I think the slow, deliberate annunciation of the lyrics crushes all room for doubt as to what that one’s about. A back half treat was “Melody For An Unknown Girl” breaking up the sickening monotony of another mid-60’s rock record. “SS 396”. Surely this is a Beach Boys ripoff intentionally. 2/5. Much potential, even more inconsistency

The first song made me think I was going to like the album more than I did. This band sounds like The Kinks if they were also inspired by The Doors and traveled with The Beatles to India.

3.5

my dad grew up in a small farm community and paul revere and the raiders played his prom and that's all i can think about with them

2.3/5

There’s this guy right off my train stop that always is selling his records on the street. He’ll line them up against a building, so you can see them all as you walk by. Two days ago, I saw an album by Paul Revere and The Raiders and thought to myself “man, does anyone actually like Paul Reverte and the Raiders or were they just -around- during the 60s?” I can confirm, now, that they’re not very good. Not as creative as the Beatles, harmonies worse than the Beach Boys, not as garage rocky as The Kinks, not as psychedelic as The Byrds, although they tiptoe into all of those sounds. A band without a defining sound or style, true posers.

Nothing to malign about it, although not too much to get excited about either. It's just alright.

it’s pretty good. “get it on” is a particularly strong song

Really great sounding record for 1966. Amazing vocals. Sounds a little Beach boys, a little beatles, some monkees. 3/5

Middle of the road mid-60s rock

Starts off with a cool riff-driven song. Reminds me of The Animals, but without the excellent voice. A few tracks in and this album is pretty groovy. Right there in the time, and some great songs. 4/5

fun album. Like a more mature beatles-esque pop rock album. There are some doot-doots and doo-wop vocalizations here and there, similar tempos of the pop rock of its time, but there are a few stand outs. I want to point to the "melody for an unknown girl" track, where you essentially get this late 90's fuckin 2:45am ass crack of dawn morning TV infomercial sound palette, with a very aesthetically pleasing, warming and comforting feel. It was extremely interesting amongst the rest of it. Welp, not much to it, though. Very neat early pop rock from the late 60s. I don't think it's a 4, but somewhere around 3.5. It's not bad. They used to dress up in revolutionary war america attire lmfao.

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I didn't know them and the experience didn't change my life. In particular, this album contains a couple of good tunes and a lot of uninteresting fillers and lame 60s pop love songs. I am not going to listen to it again.

Here's a story: I was in a dual credit collegiate Music Appreciation course in high school. The professor's curriculum went from Ragtime and the Tin Pan Alley to the 2000s. For the psychedelic 60s, he showed Paul Revere and The Raiders. I saw this video of them performing and celebrating their number one hit and I was like "Who the hell are these guys dressed in stupid outfits - show us The Byrds or Cream or Sgt Peppers instead, jackass!" Years later, I'm given this and you know what younger me? Maybe give more people chances. This isn't anything incredible but some of the melodies and the chord choices are damn good. They owe some of that to the Brill Building folks. This is a starter park for the psychedelic harmonic 60s sound, and while it may not be as stylish or groundbreaking as their counterparts, it still holds well for the horse it's riding (7/10, 3/5 on this scale)

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Some fun tracks here. Always liked Steppin' Stone. The Monkees cover is more famous, but this was released before that, and I really like how they do it. Somewhat of a Beatles sound.....then you get to SS396 and I thought the Beach Boys took over. It is catchy. This is either the best 3 I have or the worst 4.

I loved this, what a vibe yet emotional gripping

Was fine

2,5

This made me want to listen to the Monkees. Whereas the Monkees started off like a joke and evolved into a ‘serious’ band, this one started off with a serious tone and evolved into a jokey atmosphere. Maybe that’s the nature of the whole sixties teeny bopper pop genre though.

I love these guys but this kind of a band does not make great albums. They have a few good songs on every album. I know why they don't allow greatest Hits compilations but if they did I would recommend that but I can't recommend this one. Kicks is a really good song, in fact a classic. Stepping stone was done better by The Monkees and Louie Louie was done better by the kingsman. Anyway, forget this album and pick up a copy of their greatest hits.

This was surprisingly good for an album issued in 1966. I mean, it's still not that good. But it's not that bad either (Except for the spoken word bit in Melody for an Unknown Girl. That's legit bad.). I'll never listen to this again.

This is a soft 3, graded on some sort of 1966 curve, but they did have a few great songs, and some stuff that was probably innovative at the time.

2/5 - There's like 2,000 albums that sound like this from the 60s. Sure.

Well constructed 60s pop reminiscent of the Beach Boys or Buddy Holly. Not particularly memorable, but enjoyable nevertheless.

It wasn’t that bad, but it just wasn’t good either. It feels like just another sleepy 1960s rock album thrown together by four to five mediocre men trying to be the next Beatles and the Beach Boys. Well, they should have known by 1966 that they wouldn’t break out and just quit. Would have saved me the trouble of listening to more of this 1960s rock slop today. I know this is pretty harsh for a two star, but I’m getting real tired of these rock, pop rock, folk rock snoozefests that are full of the same crap as the previous one and I know the one after this is going to be the SAME. I feel like (based on my pulls) that 90% of the list is probably just like this. I keep losing faith in the person who made the book and then regain it back every time I hit a gem I hadn’t heard of so I keep going… Anyway, 2 stars for being just good enough for me not to completely loathe it.

65

Solid 60s post-Rubber Soul rock. These boys from Boise weren't no squares.

The 60s are pretty hit or miss. Why they singing about little girls so much? Also "Paul Revere & The Raiders" is such a good band name wasted on a pop-rock band. There's some melodic variety but was still pretty boring. Probably caused by the lyrics and lack of unifying concept for an album titled "Midnight Ride". Favorite(s): Kicks Least: All I really need is you 1.5/5

Fav:All I Really Need is You L: Get it On 3 If this was made today I would go woah that’s like a weird amalgamation of 60’s bands and sounds but with original songs what a funny idea. It being made when it was made just feels like an inferior version of a bunch of stuff made at the same time as it. Dated in a neutral way I guess. Cover: 2.5 vampire cover? Name: 2.5 kind of funny but maybe lazy Minecraft Parody: I’m Not Your Cobblestone

What an obnoxious album. Every track is so bland. Like it's an imitation of music, rather than actual music. Stepping stone is a fine song, but the monkees version is so much better it really drills home how much a waste of time this band is. I was counting down the minutes until this was over. W: stepping stone i guess L: kicks, little girl in the 4th row, get it on, louie go home, shake it up 1/5

Warmed over by 1966

Not too much to say on this one. Its fine enough classic rocky. Oldies whatever you wanna call it. Im not your stepping stone is a great song. Kick is decent too. Everything else is fine but not that memorable. Nothing stands out too much here. Thats what gets me. Im just looking for more. And i dont get it here. I just get enough.

Favorite Track: Kicks

Fits a certain vibe.

Its alright, not sure I really needed to hear the whole album.

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if pre 1966 beatles and the doors had a baby i enjoyed the first half a lot, but the second half was a snooze fest 3.4/5

Good

New! Fine? Good bits but not stunned

Raimonda Paula “Melodija no k/f “235 milijoni seju”” vai “Melody for an Unknown Girl”

Pirmā dziesma man patika, bet viss tālāk bija ļoti vienveidīgs

Kicks is a great tune, but it quickly becomes derivative of other, better 60s era bands after that.

Another lesser know Psychadelic Rock album. It was okay for me- pleasant enough but no big standouts. Probably in the 2.5 to 3 range

we took a time machine back to 1966, grabbed some random white men off the street, shoved some instruments into their hands, and told them to record a rock album. this is what they made ❤️

Fine 60's pop/rock album. Enjoyable enough but also felt like many other albums of this type.

Was nothing special

I thought these were B-tier British Invasion guys of no great import, but it turns out they're just B-tier American guys of no great import.

I randomly really liked this. It was upbeat and a little bit cheesy

Very dated

I've been putting off listening to this all day as I've been in a good mood and was fully anticipating an abomination from the murkiest trenches of the 60s for whatever reason. That, it isn't, but the twangy vocals aren't a favourite of mine, and whilst this is solidly performed, not much of the musicianship really leapt out at me. "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" is a bit of a banger though.

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great album but it feels like it was made by some other big bands from the decade

ok

This was OK with some good 60’s grooves and it felt quite garage rock in places. However the way it changed its styles across songs made it feel in places like a compilation rather than a coherent album. All in all it felt like the music you might find in the background of a film that was set in the 60’s where the studio didn’t want to license any well known classics so said get me a studio band that can sound like these bands and a writer who can do the “Hey girl” kind of lyrics It also reminded me a little of the festival scene in Carry On Camping

It's a fun album, but not something I'd gravitate towards. I love melody for an unknown girl's saxophone part.

6/10 Yep, 60s pop. It's ok.

Since the album came out in 1966, I’m not familiar with it, of course. But joking aside, it has nothing to do with my age; I really don’t know the record. Before today, I hadn’t heard a single note of it. Right from the start, it reminded me of The Monkees. The style of the intro is classic 60s beat/pop music. It continues with echoes of the Beach Boys and the Beatles—bright, chiming 12-string guitar riffs, and upbeat, catchy, multi-layered vocals. The cover looks a bit dark, but the music isn't like that at all. Almost all the songs are under three minutes long—the classic rule for a pop song back then. Paul Revere’s organ is omnipresent throughout. Although the band is American, some songs have a very European sound. I can also hear traces of The Kinks, even though that band formed much later. Perhaps the musical tastes of the time led to a blend of all kinds of global influences. That’s what makes music so interesting. Tommy James & the Shondells also shared that same spirited, catchy pop-rock and power-pop sound. After watching a few videos, the style reminds me of typical 60s teen pop; at times, the musicians wore uniforms and dressed identically. Without the visuals, it feels like I’m listening to my father’s reel-to-reel tapes. That’s exactly what I used to do in the late 70s, and that’s how I discovered the music I love so much today. It’s like a journey into the past.

Probably the best 60s band you've never heard of. Sure, everything sounds a bit like something a British band did first, but they do it well and it's a really enjoyable listen.

My goodness, that was boring. The '60s saw many musical breakthroughs and upheavals. Great music was created that continues to have an impact today and still holds up. This album is a good example of how things could have been different—in this case, ordinary and boring. 3/5

Man, I really did not want to listen to this. I don’t like this stuff. The first song sounds exactly like what I expected - a Beatles wanna-be clone. But then it got a bit interesting and toe-tappy. It was like every other song was pretty good. So I don’t know what to make of it. The last song was garbage, but there were some good songs on here, so I’ll give it a 3. Probably should be 2.5