Moby Grape

TEMU Who?

Unremarkable

Three tracks was more than enough to know what the rest of this would sound like. This list is bloated with garbage.

Girl...I'm so glad I didn't have to listen to music in the 60s and 70s. Bullet dodged.

*some songs not included on Spotify (Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdN2o4IVA90) This is just the Byrds right? standouts: naked if I want to* (interlude), someday*

This strikes me as pretty middling stuff of that era. Psychedelic west coast blues without much of a creative force to capture your attention. It’s not bad, just unremarkable for me.

Not in streaming, I listened to as much as I could and enjoyed what I heard. Very west coast.

As I approach the 100 albums I realize that in genres that dominated on different eras there are the greats that everybody knows about even if you have never listened to them, some great unknowns that for some reason didn't get the recognition the others did and then there are some acts that just are not as great but they belong to the same category of music. I've listened to a lot of brit pop, some grunge, some country that is nothing great and this album is precisely that on the blues rock. It's good, every song has the energy and the talent of other rock blues acts but it feels like it's the cheap version, the copy of the copy. It's a good album that surely I won't ever listen to again.

I dunno, it’s not my thing, but I guess it’s not horrible

I was so bored

I didn't like the psychedelic 60's stuff but as it got going, I felt more Chicago blue and Jimi Hendrix influences. 3 out of 5

Not available on streaming and apparently out of print for debatable reasons. Kinda wild if you had a guitar, bass, drums, maybe keys, played them well enough and lived in SF in 1967 someone would eventually come calling with a record deal. Songs? We got a couple. Raw vocal talent? Can do a passable soul or blues impersonation, definitely do harmonies. Play together well? Hey let’s practice a few times and then play some gigs man. That’s a bit short shrift given the pedigree of some of the fellas involved here, but their actual stories outside the band are far more interesting. Not one but two schizophrenic singer-songwriters, quitting music to join the Marines, acid trips leading to hospitalization leading to marathon record creations, getting taken for a ride by a swindler manager, all the usual rock and roll bs. Some of this is quite good and in hindsight maybe gets a bit too much credit for launching entire genres, when it sounds more like a new group still trying to figure out their sound, who was (could) stick around to write songs, etc. But I get it man, I can dig it.

Nothing special

Amazing

Why was this album so hard to find, I liked it though

6.4/10

Very interesting classic rock record. Both with beautifully sounding acoustic guitar and massive elictric guitar action. Very mellow sound at ties, the sound that soothes my soul, but also a. bit of a harsh violent sound. Very interesting lyrics, very intimate and personal. 8/10

chill and inoffensive, not sure why the average score is below 3 honestly

Enjoyed it far more than I thought I would. Energetic, fun, I thought for once I would give it to the British but it turns out these guys are from San Francisco. The brits stay losing. 3.5 but rounding down to 3.

Ok album nothing insane

Another middling 60s psychedelic rock album and one that was surprisingly difficult to find on streaming media. However, what makes this one special, is the Wikipedia history of the band. Their manager, who was fired from Jefferson Airplane, turned out to be one of the most rapacious and litigious agents since Colonel Tom Parker. The debut album was sabotaged by the record company simultaneously releasing five singles (from a 30 minute album!) thus ensuring that none of them charted and also damaging album sales. Subsequently at least two the band had serious problems from the after effects of taking LSD, leading to one of them smashing a hotel door down with an axe in the middle of a psychotic episode. Yikes. After that, things didn’t get any better with a decades long legal wrangle over the name and publishing rights, which is probably why they are now just a footnote in rock history.

Wish washy meh bluesy boring twee stuff, and their name sucks. 2.0/5.0 Best Song: fall on you

Its a bit too soft and soppy, even for me. Just comes across as boring more than anything

Not my style, but it was good enough for background music. ★★★

10/20 Generic 60s rock. Bland, boring, forgettable

Review - I'm always up for a forgotten gem, rock band of a bygone era that never got enough attention. Unfortunately that's not what this is. There's nothing interesting about Moby Grape and everything they do was done better by other bands of their era. What a waste of a list slot. Score - 3/10 Need to listen? NO

There were songs. They played. They were old songs. Supposedly great. I don’t get it.

A fine slice of psychedelic garage rock, from a band who should have had more success.

This was a struggle to find and listen to. Eventually, I located it on YouTube, which worked fine. Interesting sound, a bit on the harder side of the psychedelic rock of the time. Mr. Blues reminded me of something Hendrix might have come up with, which is a positive for this record. Pretty full sound throughout, guessing they had a bunch of fun constructing this record. Good stuff, right out of the box.

Listen my friends! The Spotify link doesn’t give the full album, so make sure you seek out the missing tracks (I could find all but one).

Yeah um No the worst

Every late 60's cliche. I had to make sure this wasn't some weird super group. Guess the sound had to come from somewhere. It was listenable.

why this on the list

Not my favorite, they sounded like a less composed version of Velvet Underground or Blue Oyster

Þetta var bara fínt.

18. oktobar 2026. 17.31h bukv nikad u zivotu nisam cula za ovaj bend ali classiqueica 60s rok, nothing wrong with that best: 8:05

This album is fire

Not the biggest fan of the San Francisco 60s scene but this stays just the right side for me. A step down from their obvious influences Springfield/Byrds especially in the song department but a nice surprise this morning. Wondered why hadn’t heard but the cd is £87, vinyl £67 today on Amazon, slightly less on discogs so that might be why, and from the reviews hasn’t been on Spotify until recently, rights issues after this long? 3 star

Favorite Track: Indifference

Pretty solid, saved one. Went by quick

One of the better psychedelic albums in this list. These guys actually know how to write and perform songs and don’t just rely on bizarre studio tricks.

Half the album wasn’t available on Spotify so listened to this and what was available from ‘Wow’ in ‘67. Very CSNY sound; good listen.

Of all the 60s albums on this list, I cannot fathom why this is on it

Ok

Spotify seems to have deleted most of this album but of what I could listen to wasn't very distinguishable from most other 60s music to me.

Know their name, that's it. Nice and short. Pleasant but not exactly mind-blowing. Nothing bad either. 3.5 rounded down Heard before? No Owned: No, 110/440 (25%) Will I get: No

i listened to this album this morning and now i'm reviewing it tonight and can't remember a thing from it. i was really locked in this morning when listening to this so i wasn't the most focused. just more 60s rock, there's so many albums like this....not bad but not distinct either.

I like short albums!

Good album, had some pretty solid classics. 7.3/10

Pretty good. I didn’t think it was anything overly special but I thought it was decent. 3.5/5 ⭐️ 280/1081

Loved the energy of it.

I didn't get to hear this properly, because weirdly, You Tube's version only has the extra bonus tracks. What I heard has an appealing energy in the instrumentals and some nice harmonies, bit it's not outstandingly different from all the other Country/Blues/Rock Made by Hairy White Men in the Sixties that I've heard on this list.

I don't really remember this which means it was fine

A rather enjoyable slice of 60s pop-rock and all that entails, even if some tracks are missing on Spotify (and this was the Extra Tracks version - oh the irony). Worth a listen for sure.

Super-groovy mostly uptempo psych rock without the scariness of Pink Floyd, or the stupid country leanings of someone like the Dead. Draws from a lot of sources for a satisfying variety, executed with outstanding vocals. Some interesting, novel songcraft,, especially "Sitting by the Window," "Omaha," "Hey Grandma," and "Indifference" (kind of an odd way to end the disk). Not much to complain about here unless you don't like the genre or era.

3⭐️

Really, really strong 4. Surprising soulfulness/complexity for a band that got buried in the record cabinet. Only thing holding me back is that I don’t think I’ll return to this often, but it sure made for a pleasant morning

does the job

65

Another 60s album with basically no staying power or seemingly influence on anything after? We are really skimming the bottom bc I don't get how this is essential to me at all

Sadly the complete album is not available on Spotify I don't know if this is only for my country or if it's a general thing. Gladly I was able to find every song other than one in some Moby Grape best of compilation and went to YouTube for the last one. I wasn't familiar with the band at all but music from the time is typically my type so I'm looking forward to give it a listen. The album opens with a raw loud bluesy guitar which stays through the first songs until 8:05 comes around and suddenly it changes to a somewhat beatlesque psychedelic sound for a moment before it gets energetic and more rock n roll again with the next songs. Every few songs comes a slower song and that runs through the whole album which makes it have a really cool flow. I loved the vocal harmonies throughout the album taking big part in giving Moby Grapes self titled debut that typical 60s sound alongside the bluesy psychedelic guitars. The record has a lot of diversity due to all members taking part in the songwriting process and also switching members singing leadvocals on different songs. Quite an enjoyable album that has a lot of things I like but annoying to listen to it as a whole because of the lacking accesability on streaming platforms. Of course this won't effect my scoring I only judge the music. 4,1/5

I don't need to say much about this album. All you need to know is that the first song is literally about grandmas.

Pretty standard rock for the time. Would probably have some real popular stuff if you could listen to them anywhere besides YouTube rips.

Good old '60s San Francisco-core... Or psychedelic rock if you prefer

Look, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. I really hope that it is just chance that I have gotten a mess of 60s rock albums over my first 300 albums and that I am done with them, but I have a feeling that won't be the case.

This album is not on Apple Music. So, it’s a good thing that I had it on vinyl. I liked the harmonies. “Omaha” has been stuck in my head for days. The whole album was pretty good.

Enjoyed this. Good rock sound.

sounds dated

There's nothing bad about this album. It's like a lot of other late 60s album. It does nothing to stand out from the rest either.

Made of fuzzy pop concoctions and folksy soul musings overlaid with beautiful vocal harmonies, early 60s psychedelia in its prime.

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Dit was wederom zo’n WMvML plaat. Werkelijk generieke ‘60 muziek. Een match van Beatles, The Stones, Beach Boys en noem ze maar op. Eigenlijk voelt deze plaat een beetje als al die Nederlandstalige klote volksmuziek van nu. Iedereen probeert het te maken omdat het populair is, maar je wordt overspoeld met dezelfde sound en bleh… elke dag patat is gewoon waardeloos, hoewel VanGogh (Beatles) toch wel echt een klasse apart blijft.

Ja, jaren 60, vijf mannen met harmonieetjes. Lekker facking boeie...

Niet de hele versie staat op YouTube Music, het begon met het nummer 8:05, daar waar ik dacht dat dat het eerste nummer was. Ik was blij verrast, mooie harmonieën, melodieën en een fijne akoestische gitaar. Ik kreeg er zin in om de rest van het album te luisteren. De rest leek een beetje rock ‘ n rollig, en ik was door The Who al enigzins verzadigd wat betreft mid-jaren 60 bandjes. Ik had graag een paar frisse oren willen hebben om het met volle aandacht te kunnen beoordelen. Maar t streeft weer af op een typische 3 sterren plaat. 8:05 is wel een pareltje, die heb ik wel opgeslagen.

A nice short album that encapsulates what good bands were doing in 1967. Fuzzy tone, arp guitar riffs, bouncing bass. This feels like a bridge between The Beatles and The Who, in all the right ways. Having said that, i am not sure what it brings to the table that makes it unique or ground breaking in any way and ask myself why this band is not as well known as the others making noise in 1967.

Never heard of it before, don't know the significance of this band or this album. But really fun to listen to! Detailed choices in production. And love the guitar work on 8:05! Short and sweet, will be revisiting this.

really cool beach rock album! had a fun time listening to it and can see myself listening to it casually when the weather gets warmer very kiwiana even though it's obviously not.

So this is Moby Grape. Remember hearing about them but apparently made no impression this side of the Atlantic. All pretty standard late 60’s US stuff. Could have easily had a track on the Easy Rider soundtrack to fill out the big songs appearing on that album. Recognisable and instantly forgettable at the same time. 2/5 14/9/26

419/1001 Moby Grape - s/t Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ✅ This is a solid bit of psych rock that I can see myself returning to at some point. I will say it's not blown me away, but equally it absolutely flew by.

Never heard of this band. Quite surprised

Wasn’t familiar with this artist but it didn’t take me long to buy into what they were providing. Some flawless psychedelic rock with a good blend of pop rock, but they didn’t go overboard with the peppiness which some 60’s artists would tend to do. It was a fairly quick hitter and I believe that worked in their favour. Solid performance here by Moby Grape. 4 stars

2.5/5 because Spotify doesn't have the full album and I'm way too lazy to listen to it on YouTube

Boring hippies stuff.

Big fan of the 1960s sound, and yet I somehow missed that band and album. It does sound very much like 1967 but I could not find anything remarkable about it: no melody that would live inside your head for the day. Not bad but there are better albums from that period.

I have not heard this before. I think I’ve heard some of these songs on oldies/classic rock radio over the years but I’m not sure. I’ve always been meaning to check out their music because I like the name Moby Grape, but I never got around to it, also my dad doesn’t have any of this in his record collection. This is pretty standard heavy blues psych rock from the late 60s with lots of guitar solos and several folk influenced ballads, it’s all pretty good but nothing in particular stands out. I feel like most of these songs could get confused with other less good bands from the era like Blind Faith or Poco (although they’re much better than these two). Nothing here is bad but I won’t go out of my way to listen to it.

Nothing stood out

Cool? Fine? I don't have much to say. Not egregious!

#463/1001. Ever had that feeling of vuja dé, a strange feeling that none of this has ever happened before. And then it is gone, just like the review I wrote which was wiped out by accidentally refreshing the page (watch those phone edges kids). Anyway the main beef was that this is a second album from 1967 San Francisco in three days. And somehow the vuja dé feeling, you think this is something new, but then you realise it really is the same sound and the same songs and the same old same old project.

I’m annoyed. First of all, don’t listen to this on Spotify. The have what they are calling Moby Grape (with bonus tracks) but it only features 3 songs from the original album (not even the best ones) and 8 of the bonus tracks. I have to imagine that a lot of people listened to this and rated it thinking they heard the actual album. That sucks. I’m sure this happened to many other albums on this list. Take a few minutes to check if what Spotify is offering is the actual track list of the original album before you listen and rate. YouTube is probably the best alternative. This concludes the public service portion of my review of Moby Grape’s first album. Moby Grape was a late 60s San Francisco psychedelic rock band and they very much have that sound but, despite not having the success and popularity of contemporaries like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and Holding Co. etc… they were one of the best bands to come out of that scene.They were blending genres like rock, blues, folk and country before any of their peers thought to do so. I’m not just Blowin’ smoke. Multiple songwriters, quick and tight songs that should’ve been hits and no long, boring “jams”. Opener Hey Grandma cooks like Truckin’ 3 years before the Dead released that song. Omaha is one of the greatest songs of the era. Written by Skip Spence, whose solo album Oar is on this list and one of the most incredible albums I’ve ever heard. 8:05 is a nice ballad with harmonies that rival CSN&Y. The whole album is great. There were some behind the scenes drama that may have derailed their momentum but, pretty interesting to say the least. Very solid thoughout. 3.9

Super 60s…supongo que en su momento habrá sonado innovador pero vaya que envejeció.

Not even interesting enough to write about

Really didn't like the first few songs as they were a bit too frantic and grated on my tired brain. Fortunately the album grew a lot with some very pretty songs, like Naked, Aint no use, and Bitter Wind. Ended up being a nice album, but not one I will listen to again.

The instrumentation is pretty solid for the most part. Not all the lyrics were that great, but I've definitely heard worse. Otherwise, just kinda forgettable.

Cool 60's vibe, a bit rock n roll, nothing memorable though

Not really bothered by this. The weakest of the Skip Spence story found in this book

⭐⭐+ Psykedelisk rock. Det är ok men saknar It. Har inga problem att lyssna på det men det är inte heller något som jag tänder fullt på. Bäst är Mr. Blues, Fall on you, 8:05, Rounder (inte en del av ursprungliga albumet), Sweet ride (inte en del av ursprungliga albumet)

Like the Grateful Dead with more life.

No me gustó mucho

58

3.3 3x short and sweet (youtube)