Midnight Ride

I couldn't really get a foot tap to any of the songs. All perfectly fine but nothing that wanted me to explore the catalogue any more.

Not sure what to make of this. It is what it is and sort of nothing special. Why is it even here?

It had a good groove to it. Nothing that wowed me

Kicks is instantly recognizable. Otherwise underwhelming

Estuvo ok, aunque aún no sé por qué está aquí

This really flew by without me even realizing. I was pretty bored listening to it and it just didn't do much for me. I feel like I'm being generous giving it a 2/5 because it might be an OK album but in the context of "greatest albums of all time" it should probably be towards the bottom if it even deserves to be on the list. It's the definition of straightforward classic rock but without any standout features that make the genre great- like great vocals, songwriting and guitar playing. It didn't really have any of that..

It was fine. Generic 60s sound.

its the Beatles but boring

För tråkigt

Good to hear Stepping Stone, but nothing else elevates over other 60s garage rock/pop.

Ja

Eh it's ok nothing special. Sounds all do sound pretty different which is cool I guess.

229 Midnight Ride - Paul Revere & The Raiders Please indulge a lack of concision here. We like music from what Springsteen so aptly named our “Glory Days”. And so, it’s hard to break through that. Its highly personal idiosyncratic and down to taste mostly, or so we think. But if we’re honest and informed about the neuroscience and genetics of our programmed preferences – what we like is also a product of time and environment but is largely beyond our own free will and volition. We like and dislike stuff based on criteria that are largely set for us, not by us. And one of those is familiarity and repetition. Or the known formulae for catchy, and the earworm… And the attention we have given it, the memories associated it with; the film, party, personal or relationship (real or imagined), a special place and time. Or maybe it’s something you find very danceable…. Where is the DANCEABLE music? This list was not, I hypothesize again, made with much input from dancers. Or women. You can tell. It’s a list overweight with introspective, male oriented, sitting on the bean-bag listening guitar rock, experimental, and psychedelic in a U.K. and US 60’s -70s stuff And then there are masterpieces. Which brings me to his album, and its about time I do. The (3) times I listened to this album... and each time it played though without any track truly grabbing me. Oddly, its the 1960s stuff that came on next due to "auto play" on my streaming services, fed by algorithm , that I liked. Every bloody time. Just when I thought, “oh I like this one, what is it?” “I'm not your stepping stone” is ok – but that was familiar because of the Monkeys’s version. So does it count? Its hard to like unfamiliar music. And unless you really have an interest in 1960's music or styles, or good memories linked to it, its risky - its hard to break through and inform our taste anew with an unknown album. And 1960s stuff is going to sound quaint and slow. So this album didn't jump out at me. I don’t dislike the band. This album does nothing special for me. So why is it hear? "Baby Please don’t go"" is not on this album NOTE TO SELF - CONCLUSION / THOUGHT - I am adding this one to the pile to be labelled "Textbook stuff", yes it was part of my musical education and broadening of repertoire. I can now name a band I was COMPLETELY ignorant of.,. I've heard the style and heard their experiments now. Tick that box. And I tried really hard to ‘get’ it. But this album, just ticks the box of making progress on the 1001 list goal. I could regret slowing down and spending hours exploring this slightly featureless flatspot of an album that presses no particular buttons for me, but you now what? I learned: 1. If its not working, after a 2nd glance SKIP the album. As an antidote, listen to a few hits from the decade. there is plenty to like in the 60’s - atime of Singles. Get the taste out… 2. There is work involved to sift and find gold and new discoveries. But it sticks out when you find if. Trust your instant reactions. While it failed to move me.. in a way THIS ALBUM HAS SOMETHIGN FOR EVERYONE. "get it on" soulful on the Hammond Organ (or send up of square culture?) "SHAKE IT UP" . could be called "pretend at home" its background music to a 70's film with a house party - except the sound of people talking in the background has been added in. "Little girl in the 4th row" - it is creepy, is it a lullaby? Is it just trying way too hard, and from an era where it seemed oddly sweet to serenade a fan so shamelessly and exploitatively ? Likewise, "melody for an unknown girl" is like an awkward musician writes a musical Personal's Ad which is innocent and hopeful, but also irksome, obvious, and immature and I dont want to be rude. So I will stop. SS396 – oh boy! a song about a car (Chevrolet Chevelle) it sounds like advertising. An interesting archaeological artefact from a more innocent time when popular music and productions were less polished, hyper aware of criticism and varnished into something indistinct. Its doesn't stand up well today. Remove from list…

I never heard Paul Revere & The Raiders on local radio when I was in my teens. They never ever charted on the 2UE Top 40 (I just checked). (Eventually their lead vocalist, Mark Lindsay, had a Top3 hit here in 1970). But I did see them quite often on American pop music shows that were televised here. They were almost regarded as a novelty act because of the uniforms they performed in. They most famously had a regional hit with Louie Louie in 1963, before The Kingsmen had the worldwide hit later that year. Both versions were recorded in the same studio, a week apart, & The Kingsmen recorded it first. Midnight Ride was their 5th album, released in 1966 & produced by Terry Melcher, very much the go-to producer on the west coast, having produced the first 2 Byrds albums the year before (also an associate of The Beachboys & eventually a target of Charles Manson). You can hear The Byrds influence on some of these tracks ( listen to There’s Always Tomorrow). However the 2 most interesting cuts on the album are Kicks & (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone. Kicks was an anti-drug song, co-written by the very recently deceased Brill legend, Cynthia Weill & offered to The Animals, who knocked it back. So The Raiders recorded it first, although it was recorded by many artists in the 60’s & is still being covered. Their version is fine, the jangly guitars reminiscent of The Byrds &, notably, the drummer on this is the Wrecking Crew legend, Hal Blaine - the only track he was called in for. I first heard Stepping Stone in early 1967 - it was the flipside of The Monkees’ smash hit, I’m A Believer, & got considerable radio play at the time. But the only Monkee on the track was Mickey Dolenz, & his vocal is terrific. Once again, some of the Wrecking Crew were called in to play the instruments. The Monkees version is similar to The Raiders’, but Dolenz’s vocal is far superior. (Ten years later, The Sex Pistols version was released on TheGreat Rock’N’Roll Swindle album). The Raiders’ album ends with the corny Melody For An Unknown Girl - spoken word over an orchestral backing - so reminiscent of Davy Jones’s Theme For A New Love, a flop in 1965, but reached #4 on the 2UE Top 40 in 1967 on the back of Monkeemania. Midnight Ride is interesting at best, but not a great record.

Kicks and (I'm not your) Steppin' stone are fun tracks and the rest is forgettable.

Man this did not age well

Standard 60s fare

Nothing special, standard 60's beat combo sounds.

So benign. Would be one star, if not for I'm not Your Stepping Stone, which in turn would be great if not for the band who wrote it changing their name to Liverpool 5, to cash in on Beatlemania. They weren't from Liverpool.

A fine, generic garage rock album. Really not very notable in the slightest, though ‘I’m Not Your Stepping Stone’ is at least pretty good. ‘Melody For An Unknown Girl’ pisses me off. ‘There are no words’ vuvtx GB be am CB I’llc C c I’mcycyf T- but you’re talking RIGHT NOW! (the gibberish was anger sounds i guess) I don’t care about it, but I’d listen to over, I don’t know, dying? Okay that’s a bit far. also this was the last day of school nice

Did not enjoy very much

I stoped listening halfway because it is very long and it didn't meet my interests.

meh

Generic 60s boop bop rock

decent rock album

Huh? 3/10

Meh. 2/5

Psiiiiah

Not terrible, but kinda lame.

Mostly lame as fuck. Uninspiring overall. Might be just a few years ahead of it's time because it's like they are almost getting to a good groove.

Never heard of these before. If I was explaining them to someone who’d never heard of them before, I’d just say ‘1960s pop/rock’. Canny enough, do very well as a US Kinks / Beatles type band. Not enough to keep me bothered though

Is it just me or was every other song about a car

There is a small mercy in the speed that they whip through each song. But that is also part of the problem, seemed like they just wanted to pump some tracks out, nothing much of substance to be found.

More 60s pop. Exactly like the other ten thousand 60s pop albums on this list. Fucking wow. 2/5.

The only song here that I really enjoyed was Stepping Stone and that was actually written by Boyce and Hart who were the songwriters for the Monkees. The rest of the album was fairly unremarkable 60s pop.

All I Really Need Is You was the only real highlight here, everything else was very generic and underwhelming. I also hate the 60s trend of speaking to the audience over the final track, on this song especially it's just aggressively cringe

A rather mixed bag of an album. I loved the garagey uptempo tunes - especially Stepping Stone, which I have loved since I heard the Pistols version all those years ago. And the keyboard driven songs work well. But the mix of styles here got a bit disorienting after a while, and some of these tracks were very of their time. May give it another listen at some point.

This plodded with some very pedestrian chord changes. The only comfort was the Johnny Cash two chord bass. Stepping Stone came close to rescuing it. But it's one of those rare occasions when so many other covers are better than the original. Definitely of its time, not for me.

cool story, dad

Plutôt bien exécuté mais aucune originalité. Toutes les chansons ont leur équivalent en mieux ailleurs (the Beatles, beach boys, kinks, zombies...). Le temps les a oublié, c'est assez compréhensible. D'autant qu'il est sorti en 1966, et il devait déjà sonner un peu daté à ce moment là.

Beatles influenced for sure. Guitar riffs are completely Harrison inspired, especially the Ticket to Ride-esque, Kicks. Then it devolves into a Beach Boys-ish sound, especially with Little Girl in the 4th Row. Inspiration is in the right place, and the band jives well, but organ chords and derivative songs aren't ingredients in the recipe for greatness to me. Stand out track is I'm Not Your Stepping Stone. I think this is the closest they come to pushing some boundaries. That song really hits. Also, I'm pretty sure the guitar filler in "There She Goes" is identical to the one in "Take a Look at Yourself," by the end they are ripping off themselves!

Just overall boring

I had trouble figuring out what kind of band this was. Which is probably fair given that the band themselves didn't know what kind of band they were. The tracks jump back and forth from genre to genre like the frog in Frogger dodging traffic. And, just like that frog, most of these attempts didn't quite manage to make it across the road.

Alright

2.5

Nothing spectacular about it...generic 60's rock pop. Meh. 1.5/5

Basic bitch 60-tallsshit

Un poco repetitivo. Las canciones lentas son un poco de tortura. Kicks es la mejor del disco. 2.5 que no puedo subir a 3 porque en general no me atrapó.

This album has some good songs but nothing special

Very dated 60's garage rock. No my thing but could see why this stands above similar bands - some good hooks and deviations in the songwriting.

This is blue-eyed something-or-other, not overdone which is a mercy. One of those projects that balances pop with sonic stretches, not so long here, just enough for a half hour.

Mediocre garage pop.

Letkeää ja suoraviivaista useampi biisi autoista :D ei kuitenkaan maailman kiinnostavinta, 2/5

Fun sixties album, but nothing it stands out. It is not a must listen to record.

If '60s rock is a class then this album is that one kid who nobody remembers after graduation. PS. Is it just me or are '60s singers a bit too fond on calling women "little girls"? I guess it's another '60s feature that got mixed in this generic album.

A LOT of filler

I don't know if they are british since their name and discography heavily implies American roots, they certainly feel british. I just googled and they are from Boise Idaho. Regardless, this shouldn't be on the list. One more "rock pop" band banging tambourines and keeping their keel as even as possible is not something to be honored on this list. I can almost guarantee the real Paul Revere was much more interesting and I pray that this midnight ride does not indicate that the british are coming in our next albums this week.

First listen. I really like Melody for an Unknown Girl. Other than that, pretty forgettable. 2/5

My first exposure to music came probably before I could walk as my parents had one of those massive 8000lb stereo consoles - about 7 feet wide, speakers embedded, turntable AND... an 8-track player. Worst music format ever? Some songs would be playing and *CLICK!* right in the middle of a damn song... more of a pause....then another *CLICK* and the song would continue. Apparently it could only play a few minutes (10 maybe?) at a time before clicking to the next "track" - brutal. This long annoying intro is only to state that one of the 8 tracks my dad had was a Paul Revere & The Raiders album. Funny how the band was apparently quite big in the late 60s/early 70s but you never hear of them now. I never really gravitated towards them; I was more into the CSN but I suppose one could do worse for late 60s rock. "Kicks" and "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" are the hits, and I'd be fine hearing another song or two but in the end I'm still not getting a lot out of this - the simple twangy music is just not my bag. I did find the 180-turn funny that just yesterday a live ELP album was the album of the day...just a little different. 4/10 2 stars.

Taustalla soi ja ei oikein millään tavalla jäänyt mieleen.

Viihdyttävää, mut ei maata mullistavaa. Kyllä se sen kirjan vaatis, että lukis näistä miks löytyy listalta

Ok. 5/10

Pure 60s pop. Very much forgettable, so-called "hit song" "kicks" is super weak sauce considering what else was coming out at the time. This is like the Maroon 5 of today, popular but irrelevant long term.

"4 speed tranny" *sniggers*. 60s pop with harmonies and Hammond Organ. It is incredibly unlikely I will ever listen to this again

Weird 60z rock

Nice but nothing to write home about

Haha these are the anti-drug losers. "Kicks" sounds ok, nothing great, but it's just an anti-drug message written by producers for the public to nod in approval. Lame. The Monkees did "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" better. A generic 60s album that sounds like they're copying the top pop rock and garage rock bands of the era, like The Sonics and The Kinks. Bad songwriting, but there is diversity in the tracks, and only a little more than half of them sound truly awful. I really liked their "Indian Reservation" song from several years later, but not much else.

Took me a while to get into it but eventually I zoned out and made do through 1.8

Bluesy rock from the 60s. Sounds at times like The Beatles, Doors, Beach Boys, Animals..... super unoffensive, moderately enjoyable.

Quando è partito il primo pezzo (Kicks) un po' mi sono acceso perché l'ho trovato interessante e moderno, soprattutto la costruzione della voce. Ho anche pensato subito che però ormai ho capito per esperienza che spesso questo tipo di musica non regge un album intero e in effetti penso che anche questo album non faccia eccezione. Una volta tanto mi trovo d'accordo con la popolarità e penso che Kicks è probabilmente il pezzo più interessante dell'album. Il fatto che è il primo sicuramente non aiuta. Gli altri pezzi sono sicuramente godibili ma molto meno originali e passano un po' sullo sfondo. Ci sono vari tentativi di fare qualcosa di diverso (All I Really Need Is You) ma non sono sicuro che siano riusciti. Ho fatto anche un'eccezione alla regola e mi sono sentito la versione italiana di Little Girl in the 4th row, cringe! E' un 2.5 che non mi sento di promuovere a 3 (devo ammettere che la batteria pannata quasi hard left ha contribuito).

Some pretty good 60's songs mixed with some pretty mediocre 60's songs. This is punctuated with the strange smooth jazz instrumental with a spoken word piece in the beginning and end about some random girl. Weird.

Just not really my thing. Dated and not particularly good. 4/10.

I'm more familiar with the Beach Boys, and maybe that's why, but this album seems like a Beach Boys knock-off, down to the "car" songs. I dug it, but all I could think of was this was like K-Mart Beach Boys. Nothing wrong with that, but not exactly sure why this album is included in the list. 2.5/5.

When aliens arrived on planet earth in 1965, they listened to the top forty and thought, yeah we could have a crack at that. And that ladies and gentlemen is how Paul Revere and the Raiders were formed. A band so devoid of originality but what do you expect from an algorithm from outer space.

nope

Not terrible, but also not that enjoyable

N/a

Displayed some themes that other bands would build on later but despite that this album didn’t do much for me on its own. Repetitive melodies and trite lyrics.

ehhhh

Kinda boomer-y, like the kinds of songs my uncle has been jamming and singing to himself for 20 years. Not terrible though.

I’ve heard the Beatles. I don’t need another one.

I've got a horse right here / his name is Paul Revere / and he's amply supported by The Raiiiiiiiders / They're gonna sing some songs / in as many 60s styles as possible / and some of them are going to be fiiiiiiiiiine.

Only listened to "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone". I didn't like it but I like the singer's voice

It was ok, and I learnt a little bit about 18th century American history.

Melody for an unknown girl ruined this for me. Solid 3 star except for this song.

Not to be revered

Mid-sixties pop. How were groups like this meant to keep up with The Beatles and Bob Dylan at this point? They couldn't so the produced bog standard stuff like this. BT: Kicks, (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone, Louie Go Home

Meh.

Generic 60's pop rock. I love/hate how often they committed to the Paul Revere/minutemen costumes in performances and other promos tho.

Beach boys vibes, without the fun. 60s vaguely psychedelic pop/rock. Not my jam.

ok.. niente di che

This is terrible. Derivative (even for 1966) and bland. White folks were driven to this nonsense in the mid-60s because the true artists of the day weren't played on radio or sold in record stores. What excuse could there possibly be for continuing to lionize this cynical hokum in 2026??

An ok album

1. kickz - 1 2. tomorrouu - 1 3. girl - 2 4.man - 1 5. ztone - 2 6. goez - 1 7. Need - 1 8. Get - 2 9. Louie -1 10. Look - 0 11. Girl - 2 12. Shake - 1 13. Row - 2 14. 396 - 1 15. Baby - 1

Very well of an era

A completely unnecessary album on the list. Nothing on here was worthy of listening to, and the whole thing was forgettable. It's a bunch of love songs, a boring instrumental, and a couple of car songs. gimme a break. My Rating: 0/5

Kicks (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

you really gonna give it to this one over any Weezer album Will I listen to again: 0%

Yy

ein weiteres album aus den 60ern, dass es heute nicht mehr braucht. und damals vielleicht auch nicht?

Alter Sound, nicht meines

Lyrics are obnoxious but instrumentation is OK. Pretty bland in general. Listened to only the first few tracks in full and previewed the rest.

I could not finish this. It's so bland and generic 60s that it's unbelievable.

How'd this end up here?

At first listen I thought this was pretty decent but the more I came back to it the more it bored me. An album of iconic sounds from iconic bands that never meets the quality of what it's copying. The band are absolute masters of saying absolutely nothing with their lyrics. Vague, meaningless rubbish that's so general it's impossible to feel a connection to what's being said. Just because an album is influential, doesn't mean it's good.

Annoying

Top track: I'm Not Your Stepping Stone

Not going with this one. The opening song Kicks is the only one that slightly holds up due to some nostalgia. The rest of this album showcases mediocre talent and a lead singer who can't hold a note. Does not belong on any lists of great albums.

L Songs 1-4 Stepping Stone is Aight Very boring for me 😴😴😴

Idk, nothing special to me. I hate songs about cars.

Nothing particularly sticky about this album. It is fun, but probably should not have made this list

I don't care if you wrote the passable Steppin' Stone. You wrote Melody for an Unknown Girl. There is no redemption from that abortion of a song.

I’m not even 200 albums into this list and I've come to realise that ‘influential’ on the list just means ‘had a hit’ or ‘had a song written by someone who had a hit’ or ‘appeared on tv or video’. Another generic 60s-sounding band with lots of little nuthin’ much tracks. Pass

Knew this album, it’s okay but not my favorite

Do I give this more than one star because it has "Stepping Stone"? No, I do not.

This has not aged well

This was pretty bad, very 60s boys bandy, many creepy lyrics about little girls, didn't really enjoy any of the songs.

Very brave to put "Little Girl" so early on. I almost didn't make it any further. I would bet I'm not alone in that aspect. If I HAD turned it off I would have missed out on such hits as the SECOND version of Little Girl - this time con espana! Mierda !

Pretty boring.

Not even remotely into this album. Has the 60’s organ, but they aren’t The Who or The Doors

This is what I hate about pop music.

1.5 Didnt write their own songs. Wore dumb costumes. Others did it better

Boring 60’s rock. Best song is stepping stone. I can’t believe he has the spoken word part of “melody for an unknown girl” twice. I did not need to listen to this album 1

Really didn’t enjoy this. Theres always tomorrow might be the worst guitar solo of all time. There were tolerable moments but I hated most of it. 1.4

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I wasn’t impressed. I saw them in Chicago when I was a young teen. Didn’t care for them then either

Pff, wat een slaapverwekkende zeikmuziek.

Alter und langweiliger Sound. Simpel konstruierte Songs.

Nothing great.

Not for me.

Least fav: Little girl in the 4th row/ss396 Fav: there she goes Cool

So long ago, so dated, so much ear bleeding.

I find it amusing that a band with a name linked to Paul Revere and dressed like American revolutionaries would be cashing in on the British Invasion. When I started listening my gut reaction was “Kicks” is a great song, and oh, so is “Stepping Stone”. But those are Brill Building songs and it was The Monkees (due to marketing dollars, maybe), not these guys, who made the latter a hit. The Raiders’ original compositions have few redeeming qualities, the ballads with “Girl” in the title brought my score from a 2 to a 1.

What an odd collection of songs…can’t tell what this band wants to sound like because they’ve replicated all the styles of their day.

Pure bubblegum pop. Which is fine, I guess. But most of it doesn't really move you the way it did in the 60s. There's more than a little Beach Boys influence here. But the Beach Boys definitely do it better. I guess this KINDA makes sense if you think of this list as 1001 historically significant albums. But not 1001 of the best albums. Because this isn't it.

why is this here

cheese

Total bubble gum bullshit. I didn't like them in the 0's, still don't.

Never heard of it before today. not surprised. wont be returning to it.

Disco mediocre, puro filler. Sin embargo, Kicks, There's Always Tomorrow, Louie, Go Home y Stepping Stone son clásicos del garage y la verga.

Nein

borrrrringgggg

How many songs can you write about cars. Paul Revere Dick was the founding fathers' favorite pick-up line, right after "the Brits aren't the only ones who will be coming"