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Couldn't find a complete version of this album on the 2 streaming services I have access to. From what I heard, it's perfectly decent upbeat sunshine rock. I enjoyed it and wouldn't turn it off if I heard it again despite having a slight personal preference for the more psychedelic sounds from the era (Millennium, Free Design, etc). 3/5
I don't care much for Americana. It's not very interesting to me.
★½
Yeah not bad.
I'm totally unfamiliar with this band and, therefore, this album as well. I was positively surprised, as it gave me strong CCR vibes. However, there were not enough positives on this album to warrant a higher rating. 3/5
DNF sounds good but I got distracted. Will listen again later.
The first few notes sounded like “pale blue eyes”, unfortunately the songwriting wasn’t anywhere near Lou Reed levels. Pretty standard late 60s pop/rock, nothing to get too excited about in my opinion. The version I found was only 20 mins long but that was plenty for me.
2.5 I thought this very solid collection of songs was largely forgettable. Rounding up
The whole album wasn’t available and I only got to listen to three songs. That was three too many!
Fun!
Moby grape was good
Why is this rated so poorly? It’s a fantastic album start to finish. Come In The Morning is a be-boppin jam! These cats should have been more popular, they were definitely cool.
I had never heard of Moby Grape prior to this challenge, but the fact that this album made the “Uncontroversial Albums” list with an average rating of three stars had me a bit worried. Would Moby Grape be one of the weaker entries on this list? Turns out, nope – it really just is a three star album! The reasons why probably vary from person to person, but for me it’s a collection of good rock songs that just don’t do anything particularly unique or interesting. The fact that it incited a bidding war between labels somewhat perplexes me, but I guess they must have been confident fans of this style in the ‘60s were going to eat it up. As with many of my threes, it’s an album I wouldn’t mind being put on, but it’s probably not something I’m going to go out of my way to listen to. The fact that the full album isn’t currently on Spotify makes doing that extra difficult for me anyway! Highlights: Hey Grandma, Fall on You, Come in the Morning, Omaha, Changes, Indifference
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nowhere close to the best of 1967. Sounds like everything else from the era. High 2
Got halfway through. It was okay
Not available
Few good songs. Very oldie. I liked it but didn’t blow me away. Overall: 3.3/5 stars
Good late 60s rock n roll, along the lines of CSNY and Buffalo Springfield.
It charmed me
They mathematically calculated the middle of the road. This album isn't bad but it isn't really interesting, especially next to albums of the same genre and era so meh
1. -Great Guitar 2. -Man am I ready for that washing board to hit 3. -Honestly, for the 60's, this hits well before it's time. I can hear a lot of inspiration from this. 4. -Bangs. Might actually listen to this one on my free time. 5. -First half isn't gettin me. -It's great music but the singer is turning me off still. 6. -My mans sounds a lot better here. -^ Yeah he's killin it. -Shout out to the harmony too. -Guitar reminds me of Hendricks. >FINAL THOUGHTS< Way ahead of it's time. If this came out in the late 70s or 80s, I'd just think it generic. But these guys really paved a road. I'll probably listen to Indifference again, and I'd do the same for Sweet Ride if it didn't have that drawn out instrumental end (that maybe they inspired?). 8/10. Moby Grape ran so we can walk.
Good, sixties rock album
You can hear the building blocks that bands like Love ran away with but there’s not enough to make this truly essential They’re one of rock’s greatest might have beens
Pretty solid psychedelic rock, feels very of the time even though I didn’t know the songs
Were all good over here.2.5/5
Really easy to listen to all the way through. Great 60's rock sound. Can't believe I never put them. While the genre isn't what I tend to reach for much these days and for never having heard them, this really feels like an instant classic to my ears.
Difficult to listen to as most streaming services don’t have this entire album, which is a damn shame because I loved it! My favorite was come in the morning. I liked how each song had its own distinctive feel and none of the songs felt like they were duds
Rating: 0.5 This album commits the worst sin an old album can commit: sounding old. They don’t have ears for a hit at all, they just do the twangy boring Creedence Clearwater thing worse with a fake and more atonal Jim Morrison on vocals. I almost fell asleep and crashed my car listening to this. Stay far away.
Поначалу очень нравилось, ближе к концу поднадоело. Так-то музыка довольно жизнерадостная. 6,5 из 10.
It was decent enough, I’ve never been a big fan of that San Fran scene though. Again nothing I really disliked about it. Rating: 2.9
Spotify seemed to only have outtakes. But I dig it
Really ordinary psych-country music not really memorable or interesting
Decent album; all songs are good. Typical sounds of a late 60’s rock band
Totally forgettable Boomer rock. Not horrible, but certainly nothing special.
spotify only has like 3 of the songs, another reason spotify sucks
This was alright. No songs really stood out for me, though. The music sounded good, but if there had been a good hook or two this probably would have rated higher.
Couldn't listen to all tracks, but what I heard was... fine
Who?
This old 60s psychedelic stuff doesn’t do it for me.
Really good!
Generic 60s psychedelic
I'd never heard of this band but they are very reminiscent of The Grateful Dead, Buffalo Springfield and CCR. Nice guitar work and harmonies, and bridges the gap between blues and psychedelic rock I'm on the train so I can only listen to the tracks on Spotify. They are good though. Note to self to revisit and listen to the rest, if I remember
Pretty standard guitar pop. Not bad atal'
Indistinguishable bluesy rock and roll, with some nice harmonies but altogether not enough to make me listen to an album on YouTube
Not my style
The whole album wasn’t on Spotify so I went over to YouTube. Honestly - this wasn’t worth sitting through ads to hear. Ho-hum late 60s rock.
Really enjoyed this. Funky, feel-good tunes. Tight harmonies. Mix of country, rock, and soul. Very catchy.
Had never heard of them. This was a great album. Totally surprised me.
60's psychedelia
Good guitar and psych sound
I thought this was OK? It certainly was not bad but I didnt hear anything to make me recommend it or think it should be considered so highly.
Contains the worst that late 60s rock had to offer: ratty guitars, earnest folky harmonies, bloozy faux-tough lead vocals, thin reverb-coated drums - all in service of songs that are strictly also-rans. Stick this one back in the time capsule.
Couldn't listen on Spotify (not all of it any way) So headed over to youtube to catch it. Sometimes you get very ordinary psych bands or examples, this is pretty good! Catchy, good musicianship. I wonder why I hadn't heard of them before? I enjoyed Mr Blues (not on Spotify) 8:05 (is on Spotify). Nice to be surprised and find a hidden gem thanks to this little project. Liked it so much I found a vinyl copy on Ebay.
Meh
Classic 60s pop guitar. Easy to get through in 20 mins
Lame ass sounding The Beatles wannabes
Liked this album. Favourite might be NAKED, IF I WANT TO. I don't think I'll ever listen to it again though, goodbye moby grape boys,
Very well done background music. I enjoyed it but wasn't blown away
Omaha
Cool
Genre: Folk Rock This is one of these albums in the list that seem to be there because the artist/band name was very silly, and he existed around the same time as some other heavy hitters. This is a decent rock album, but it’s totally inconsequential. Just another decent rock album from the late 60s. Note: A majority of the original tracklist is only found on YouTube. Annoying. 3/5
Skip spense
60ies 2,4
This is one of my favourite era vibe albums. Like it’s a solid 60s album but I don’t think was anything special which is probably why it’s more lost to time unlike the other albums of the era. Idk, it was fine
Sounds beatleish
Ok, not my favourite old rock n roll record
Fíjate que no estuvo nada mal.
Correcto
Can’t listen to the whole album it’s “unavailable in my region” It’s giving sad dad album with decent guitar and drum solos, clear inspiration from The Beatles Best listen: Indifference
This album is not on Spotify so I cannot listen to it lmao you gotta be kidding me
Enjoyed it a lot more than was expecting and a lot more than the other 60's pyschadelic/blues/rock one album wonders on this list. Would like to listen to more but unfortunately not all on streaming platforms and lifes too short.
Moby Grape Frustratingly there are only a handful of tracks on Tidal, I assume there are some rights issues, so it was another YT listen, which is always a bit unsatisfying. But the album itself made up for it, mainly as I wasn’t expecting it to be such a breezy collection of country rock/folk rock songs with a bluesy psychedelic edge - I had expected it to be much more in line with the generic West Coast acid rock of other albums from 1967. While it certainly has elements of that sound, the country and folk influences, a great melodic sense, the excellent bass playing, the superb pre-Eagles harmonies, the aversion to long drawn out jams and a lack of acid-philosophy posturing set it well apart from their psychedelic contemporaries, and feels, from 5,315 miles and 58 years distance to evoke the sunshiney Californian hippy scene of my mind far better than, say, Country Joe and the Fish. Hey Grandma, Fall on You and Come in the Morning are the best of the rockier songs, the harmonies and Come in the Morning are particularly nice. Of the lower key tracks, 8.05 is a really lovely little folky tune, but Someday is the standout, a fantastic country-ish folk-ish track, with a lovely melancholic melody and feel I suppose the closest touchstones would be The Byrds and The Grateful Dead. The pacier tempos, driving rhythms and bluesy rock’n’roll differentiate it from the grace of The Byrds, and it, to me at least, has a much better melodic and musical sensibility than the Grateful Dead It’s on the cusp of 3 and 4, I think I’ll stick with a high 3 - I really enjoyed it, there are some excellent songs and I’m sure I’ll come back to it (even more so if it came fully onto Tidal), but I probably won’t seek it out all that often 🐋🍇🍇 Playlist submission: Someday
Firstly, and most importantly, the band name sounds like a Yorkshire term for haemorrhoids. Ooooo I've got a reet moby grape. Rather than all-out psychedelia, It's more of a blues-rock affair, with some eclecticism via alt-country and folk. It took a while to take hold, but there are some fantastic ditties here. Not least 'Aint No Use' with it's busy country-style pickin'. And of course the folkier '8.05', the only one of these tracks I knew previously, which is wistfully magnificent. 'Naked if I Want To' is similar, a nice little interlude. It's an odd album all tolled, it does feel as though each band member has gone away and come back with their style; hence you go from blues to folk to country to psychedelia. It sounds like it was recorded over a period of several years. I think it tops many of the American rock bands we've been listening to in this era; and yet I still cannot fully get to like the album as a whole.
Not good for me. Sounded a bit too psychedelic
It was soulful, but really only liked it’s a beautiful day today.
Off thecuff remark: never heard of them at all, which seems a surprise and they sound like a combination of so many other bands, so I suspect there will be a "forerunners to../ big influence on.." thing going on which I don't know about but largely they sound like nice american 60s pop, but pretty forgettable Standout track: none really Revisits?: can't think why I would already forgotten them
Forgettable
Wasn’t too bad. Very 60s. Another band I’ve never heard of.
just fine, pretty generic 60s stuff but not unlistenable
Pretty unremarkable overall - too bad I didn't listen to the abridged version (a Moby Dick joke?)
Caught me on a good day
2 thoughts about this band... one is that san fran seems like it was super super cool in the 60s and that this band has the worst name ever. one of the guys in this band was in a band called The Ducks in santa cruz with neil young in 1977. They tried to just be like a local bar scene band but bc neil was in the band they blew tf up and broke up in 6 weeks. anyways i thought that was cool and neil put out some live recordings thru the NYA in 2023... they did some rock n roll covers of neil songs which are cool but this was actually a helpful reminder to download the full album... anyways i hate blues rock but the more folky songs on this were nice but i honestly think it kinda sucked <3
A taste of 60's rock music. Not bad at all!
If Led Zeppelin never went to Mordor. Really good guitar, Solid upbeat 60's rock classic.
Psychadelic 60s, very beetles. All over the place in terms of style similar to white album
I quite liked these guys. They had an interesting, complex rock sound, incorporating some folk and country elements, without coming across as too pretentious or hippie-ish. I guess for its time it would have been quite a revolutionary album. I'd happily discover more of their discography.
Moby Grape was a game Len Houmous used to play in the bath with a bunch of grapes. It was a lot of fun but quite unusual to the untrained eye. 3.1 4/10 Come In The Morning
Album is only partially available in the USA on Spotify. It was a mix of 60’s HAIR mashed with telecaster sparkle guitar licks.
I'd rather listen to the Band
Moby Grape would have to be one of the stupidest band names on the 1001. Nice guitar twanging but the rest is boring hippy granddad rock.
No bad tracks
Not as bad as I was expecting. More rock than Psych. 2/5
A fun 60s blues rock album.
Great late 60s rock.
Un álbum de rock "suave" que junta con el blues,que no sé queda atrás para ser 1967
++: Hey Grandma, Fall on You, 8:05, Come in the Morning, Ain't No Use, Sitting by the Window, Changes, Lazy Me +: Mr. Blues, Naked, If I Want To, Indifference +-: Omaha, Someday 6,9/10
Maybe more a good example of the genre, rather than innovative, given everything else that was going on in '67? But enjoyable.
Moby Grape is solidly in the late sixties--musically with the psychedelic rock, but thematically with "Naked, If I Want To."
This was an odd one. All stellar reviews by various publications of the time, and yet it was not readily available for streaming, and the entire band has nearly fallen into obscurity. Part of me wonders why we needed yet another psychedelic rock type album on this project. Another part of me gets it, at least from a music history perspective (which, as I have said so many times, does not necessarily equate to being ESSENTIAL listening). This album really seems to straddle between the rhythm and blues of the 50s and 60s, the psychedelic sounds of the 60s, and the heavier rock sounds of the 1970s. You could almost thing of this group (at least on this album) as a proto-Led Zeppelin. The music was not bad at all, though the mixing at times left something to be desired. I think these guys brought something fresh to the table, but other bands ran with it and made it more of a success. This album is something good/okay that helped give way to albums that were great. A weak 3 for me, but a 3 nonetheless.
5/10
It’s an okay album. Didn’t have any songs that were overly interesting, but solid as a whole. 3/5 Might listen again
Have to give it 3 because they dont have the full album neither on spotify or youtube. Bits and bobs here and there. Also, it lacks emotions vs their european counterparts. This could be a 4 but no for those reasons.
i was prepped to be bored out of my mind by this. just another wannabe beatles 1960s psych rock album. but then they started singing about robitussin. these guys would've loved future had they been kicking these days pretty good, whenever they're not doing country stuff it feels like a rougher, more lofi (might just be the rip i listened to on youtube tho) beatles. i liked it a whole lot more than i expected to
Cool late 60’s bluesy rock
Nice and short, nothing to write home about
Not what I was expecting, but I think that's because I might have got them confused with Blck Grape. It was ok, but I was just getting into a song, it was over, and the next one was starting
Maybe it's the flu but I really quite liked this.
Lots of variety in this album. I was thinking it’d just be another rock album but there was a good mix of genres. Shame it’s not fully on Spotify.
Hasn’t aged well. Essential listening? Eehhh 2
Jesus, yet another 1960s West Coast psychedelic band, crippled by bad management, legal entanglements and drugs. I feel like we have had a bunch of bands just like this on the list, and many are just rubbish. Grudgingly, I admit that this is better than most; fair tunes, good harmonies, taut arrangements, and no time wasting. I suspect this is an OK album that I could learn to like if I spent some time with it. But I am just generally sick of this genre.
crappy. 8:05 was alright.
3.5 short but solid.
Find these kinds of albums so difficult to listen to
Not much excitement here. The music was good. But I found myself turning down the volume because it was slow and simple.
Probably important to the history of rock but just not my style
3.1 Of all the 60s albums on here, this was certainly one of them
It's like a British take on Chuck Berry, similar to Joe Cocker. So catchy. Every song could get stuck in your head. Had never heard this before but I'm in love. Hey Grandma, Omaha, 8:05, Changes, Lazy me were the highlights.
On the surface, this sounds so old. Recording quality and style is really old. Hey Grandma evokes thoughts of The Beatles. Fall on You sounds fun and could've been the single? Yep looks like it was the lead single. Makes sense. Come in the Morning is pretty good too. None of this sounds earth shattering or even like it would stand out in its time really, and it certainly doesn't sound psychedelic to me. I don't expect to listen to this again, other than Fall on You.
Som en del af roden for den klassiske psykedeliske rock fra Californien, som jeg elsker, ramte det et kendt sted for mig. Jeg nød albummet rent genremæssigt og musikalsk, men af til bliver det lidt for gammeldags til mig, selvom jeg genkender dets betydning 7/10
Not so great
Pretty decent 60s rock
Sort of plodded along without any stand out tracks.
84% Best: Hey Grandma; Come In The Morning; Changes; Indifference Must-Hear? Sure
basic idk
Spotify didn’t have the whole album, so I listened to a couple of the tracks they did before searching out the whole thing. The 2 tracks I listened to told me enough I wasn’t going to enjoy it, so I didn’t bother.
Not terrible, not great. Just some pretty standard 60s pop. Lazy me is quite good though.
Late 60s rock - it fits the genre. Nothing too crazy about this album.
Just mid only good as background music when you are focusing on something else. Didnt like the vibe that much
8:05 was great, then it went downhill. Just a bit grating after a while
Like the rockiest of the Beatles. I heavily like. Very likely to be added to my rotation. Good summer/Logan Lucky vibes. I only wish the audio was crisper. Not quite as amazing to warrant a 5, but very much up my alley for a random album.
For me this is a typical Rock album from the sixties. There were‘nt any surprises so i find it a bit boring.
god damn this has been my "1001 albums filler" punching bag since i started this, and i get it now? 38 albums in? jeez... not for any musical reason, mind you. just cause Moby Grape sounds dumb. it's a fine enough record. fairly standard for late 60s fare. i'm more excited to listen to Oar once it gets rolled deserves to be one of the 1001? probably not, but if you disagree i won't be mad
Half of this album isn’t even on spotify, and the part that is isn’t that good
3.5
Good musicality
Doesn’t do enough to distinguish itself from the classic rock catalogue. Not a bad listen just not memorable or something I connected with emotionally.
My dad loved to mention them growing up but I never listened to anything they ever did until now. Not sure how this merits getting on a must listen 1001 list though. It was a bit more rockin' than a Dead album but nothing special. The sound carried thru till today, I can think of several bands that have a similar sound, so maybe they had some influence. One positive? Decent harmonies and a few good guitar licks. No hits, miniscule listener counts on Spotify, except for "8:05" with 2.8M, no radio songs, very average vocals, terrible-god-awful album cover in front of an antique store with SPOONS in hand, this one doesn't make the cut! 2 stars for trying and cause my dad was into them.
This is great! 4.5? Could this be a 5 one day?
auto
Pretty generic 60's kind of music. Decent guitar, but overall generic... not sure why it would be on this list.
Yea not bad
It's ok
Decent
3.5
Best Song: Lazy Me. It was lyrically fun, and well-delivered. Worst Song: Rounder (instrumental). This is just a generic jam track. Overall: It's fun enough, but I also would have been okay with this being lost to the annals of history. I'm sure it was a great time for all members involved, but it lacks the kind of importance or interest that I would expect from a list like this.
These guys rip. One of these days I’ll have to purchase a physical copy or something because I’d like to revisit it but I hate listening to albums on Youtube. I didn’t expect to like this as much as I did but they really packed a lot of good riffs and harmonies into short packages and that has an almost psych-punk effect. Very cool. Must-listen #156.
Pretty good. Some blues, some psychadelic rock. Crunchy guitars.
1/5 not a fan
Good prod, leagues above average 1967 album. Gives Kinks but less appealing at first listen. Hendrix minus EPIC shredding. Less rock'n'roll than The Sonics, which is a plus
5/5. Love this mid-60s, early psychedelic sound- it’s right in my sweet spot. Vocals, harmonies, guitars, lyrics, just great. Reminded me of Buffalo Springfield.
Only a handful of song on Spotify and I did not like it enough to seek out the rest
Not that interesting.
I’m not sure the whole album is available on Spotify. Which is fine with me.
Generic and interesting compared to other bands of the time.
Gear: Grado Hemp Artwork: 😐😐😐😐😐 Production: 🎧😐👍 Music: 😐😐😐 Rating: 😐😐/5
I can't quite decide if the complicated process of finding the tracks of this album, in order and on a platform I can listen to them, made for a fun side-quest or a frustrating waste of time. Part of it's on Spotify. Part of it's on Spotify but hidden within a best-of compilation. Part of it isn't on Spotify but can be found on a live album. Physical copies are extortionate, even second-hand. iTunes has all of the tracks, but across multiple albums and priced individually, not as an album. OK fine, I can decide - it was indeed, frustrating. Especially as this eventually turned out to be a really rewarding find. Not a million miles from its late-60s contemporaries, from The Beatles to the Small Faces via the Byrds, CSNY and other reference points in-between. '8:05' is superb. 'Indifference' is brilliant and overall it just hangs together as a great rock album from a golden era. I am going to keep searching for a copy that costs less than my car, as I think I really like it, and I hope whatever legal wrangle has got in the way for so long eventually gets worked out. This deserves to be properly reissued so it can be heard and enjoyed by more people, including those who don't have the patience to stalk every track and put it back together piece by piece. Pause and talk to the rabbit; it's worth it.
boring.
On the forgettable side of the hippy tidal wave.
I get it. Its got that late 60s Americana feel. If it was on somewhere, I wouldn't necessarily turn it off. It has all of the elements of this kind of rock, but no songs stood out for me to come back to specifically.
really well produced record and some great tracks, really good rock and roll, only thing is that the songs were all on separate albums and 2 songs weren’t on apple music, so not very accessible as a whole
It was ok, but nothing special at all.
Nothing special
3/5
Listened to on Youtube, as the album is absolutely butchered besides the bonus tracks.
Surprisingly better than I was expecting, good playing and songwriting, never overstaying it's welcome. Happy to give it a 3.
Standard fare 60s tunes. Classic 60s-style harmonies & instrumentation with a slightly psychedelic tinge to them. Nothing that particularly stands out in the crowd but perfectly listenable.
Positiv overraskelse
Gilbert must be frothing from the mouth at this point
Incredibly solid "classic rock" vibe. YouTube Music only hosts 6 of the 18 songs from the album, but of those six there wasn't a single one I didn't enjoy. Surprised I never heard of them before, "8:05" is a great song and feel like it should have more than the 499,000 listens it has at my listening time. Feel like the only way I can describe them is "under rated" and I'll have to search out more from them!
I really enjoyed this album, but it’s pretty straightforward late ’60s rock. It’s a mix of psychedelic, blues, folk, country, and garage. One interesting thing about the album is its backstory. Columbia Records decided to release five singles simultaneously before the actual album released, which ended up diluting their impact. Despite that, it’s since been recognized as a cult classic. If I had to compare, Moby Grape is a lot like The Byrds and definitely exists in that same musical world.
This is a great, relatively unknown band that was smartly incorporating many styles. You could compare them to The Who, Cream and many other bands of the era. There is a bit psychdelica, a bit nice rock and roll and harder stuff (like "Sweet Ride"). I enjoyed that a lot.
Perfectly good protocol-psychedelic rock. Assed the time.
Not bad unusual this
Most of the album isn't available on Spotify, not really a genre of music I would listen to. Probably won't listen again.
Uno de los mejores de un año irrepetible. Moby Grape es un deebut que luce décadas después con un brillo que nos hace preguntarnos por qué no triunfaron teniendolo todo para ello. La respuesta es sencilla: el problema fueron únicamente ellos. Fall on you suena a unos CCR más populares, 8:05 y Someday a los Byrds más tranquilos, Mr. Blues a Buffallo Springfield... Omaha es una delicia. Pero sobre todo suenan a sí mismos. Disco esencial, edel mejor rock de la costa oeste. Otros excelentes debuts de ese mismo año fueron los de Jimi hendrix (además de Axis: Bold as love) , The Doors, Experience, Scott Walker, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, y también aunque menores los de Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Bowie, Electric Prunes o First Edition. Otras obras enormes editadas ese mismo año 1967: Sgt. Peppers y Magical Mistery Tour, Forever Changes y Da Capo, The Velvet Underground y White light/White head, Surrealistic Pillow,The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Who Sell Out, Days of Future Passed, Disraelí Gears, Bee Gees´ First, Younger Than Yesterday, Evolution y Butterfly, Safe as milk, I never loved a man the way i love you y Arrives, Something Else, Scott, Bee Gees´ First (en realidad el segundo), Wild Honey, Sunshine Superman o Happy Together...
This one I could have lived without. I guess it is added for the guitar work? The singer doesn’t seem to think staying on key is important.
Solid 60's rock, still not very memorable but points for brevity
not bad just bland
Not that good
Never heard of these guys and likely never will again. Nondescript 60s psychedelic rock. Yawn.
After living in London for a year I decided to return to Calgary. One of my friends at work (a lawyer turned teacher) gifted me this album. I had never heard it and whenever I put it on it brings me right back to the uk. Don’t listen to it often but a great reminder of what a lot of people were listening to and in to.
Fits my personal taste perfectly
The most noteworthy thing about Moby Grape appears to be their spectacular level of failure. The band was barely held together amid tensions and the album's release is a surely now seen as a prime example of how not to market a band (releasing almost every track as a single, all at once, probably sounded like a good plan on paper). If not for these setbacks, we're told, Moby Grape would have been a huge success. Maybe so. They weren't the only ones blending San Francisco psychedelic music with country and blues, for a uniquely American late 60s sound. But they did it pretty well. But this one hasn't worked as an album for me. Maybe because of the singles strategy or because (at the time of writing) there are loads of gaps on Spotify that required me to switch back and forth between services and listen to a lot of ads of online casinos. But I get the appeal and do think they deserved better. I'm not quite sure how to rate this one but I'm giving a generous 4 because I think it's worth returning to.
another cool one, pretty neutral on it, went in one ear and out the other
Cool album from a band I'd never heard. They certainly sound similar in some ways to early Jefferson Airplane, though the songs aren't quite as good it has that same early psychedelic rock feel. I'll probably give this one another try--there were certainly a few tracks I liked. A high 3.
Awesome album. 1967, psychedelic rock from San Francisco. This is my thing. Well worth finding on YouTube. Vocally this is outstanding and the lead guitar playing is outta sight. There is a lot of their catalog that isn't on Spotify, which is a bummer, I would listen to them more if there was. This album makes me feel like this band should've been bigger. If they could have strung 4 to 6 albums of quality material like this together they'd probably be a household name. As is, their story is pretty tragic and they slipped into obscurity.
Honestly not a bad album but I never really vibed or got into any of the songs that much
Love this album. Been at least a decade since I've heard it. Mr. Blues: absolutely love the vocals here Fall on You: sounds like a more energetic Grateful Dead tune 8:05: beautiful vocal melody and harmonies. Omaha: incredible guitar work Naked if I Want To: a 10/10 perfect song at 0:58 seconds. This should have been 3 mins. Love the bassline, great vocal melody/harmonies, silly lyrics, nice guitar licks. They showed so much potential with this debut, it's a shame they never really hit it big.
It’s OK
Not bad just boring
Fun very sixties
This was a nice chilled album to listen to on a Sunday morning walk in the sunshine.
Not bad. Some great guitar playing. I quite liked the track Sitting By The Window. None to appreciate some older rock and roll. Touched on some good psychedelic elements I enjoyed.
2.15
This full album is oddly hard to find on streaming, had to search for a custom playlist within YouTube. Anyway, I don't think I've ever heard of this group. Perhaps they were overshadowed by the more mainstream psychedelic rock groups of the 60's. What makes this record somewhat unique I guess is the variety displayed. I immediately saw "psychedelic rock" on this album's review page and sighed, but this is a little more than that. A bit poppier, plus there's some country/blues influence as well, sounding like a less swampy CCR at times. Wasn't super noteworthy when it was all said and done, however. It seems that this group has been lost to time.
Half an album on Spotify is sad
Never really listened to them before. Round up from 2.5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3OjfK0t1XM Have you ever seen Snakes v Iguanas? Sad that these Iguanas were totally screwed over by their manager. But the last laugh went to the band since, based on this album, they were't that good anyway.
Good 60s stuff
Ok, not too catchy though
Good
Pretty good.
Surprisingly excellent album. I wasn't immediately hooked by the opening few tracks, but there is a level of Beatles mixed with Buffalo Springfield that made this a very compelling listen. Incredibly underrated and nice and short. Top tracks: 8:05; Naked, If I Want To; Sitting by the Window
Not bad classic rock. I don't think I have ever heard of this band until today and I'm not sure why that would be. They seem good enough to be more widespread. It's pretty chill classic rock, I would listen to this again.
Standard late 60's rock stuff. Wrong drugs or wrong dose, clearly.
There wasn't anything here to appeal to me. The Monkees are far more fun.
Nice music
7/10
7.5/10
Short n sweet rock n roll good n fun.
Kinda avg nothing special
(Most of the songs aren't available on Spotify)
Underwhelming nand forgettable psycheledic Pop, not necessarly all bad. (Almost?) Fully available in Deezer with bonus tracks.
This was surprisingly entertaining. Took me a minute to get into it but once I did I was there all the way. Album felt sort of jam-bandy, which I normally don't like too much but eventually it hooked me in.
Full album was not available
Very vanilla, not terrible but nothing stands out for me.
Working a lot of shitjobs as a youth, I would meet a lot of ageing longhairs who loved to talk music. Every single one of them would have a slightly obscure rock band that they insisted was the best one, and should have been much bigger than they were. Moby Grape was a fairly common pick. I’ve listened to Moby Grape now. Doesn’t do it for me, sounds like a less chaotic Big Brother + Holding Company, and without a secret weapon. It did make me think of Ross, though, who drove me to the ER when I got cleaning chemicals in my eyes, and offered me a joint in his pizza delivery van, “in case we have to wait there a while.” I liked thinking of that.
uninteresting late 60s blues/guitar pop. The story of the band is interesting though. 1.2
I really liked the album, especially the 2nd listen. You can really hear the San Francisco psychedelic sound--in the guitar leads especially. The band is fascinating to read about as well, a truly bizarre journey. I think it's more of a 3.5 for me and actually dropping to 3 as I did not retain any of the songs the next day.
It's short, simple, solid, but ultimately forgettable. An album this short really benefits from having a major hit on it, and this one just doesn't. It's a fun listen, but I don't think it needs to be on a list like this. I will say that the varying styles are fun, but again, the album isn't long enough for that to play any sort of major role in what's going on. Favorite Song(s): 8:05
Perfect!
Pleasing, positive West Coast blues psych rock. 8:05 makes a pleasant change of pace from the throw-everything-at-the-wall philosophy of the rest of the album. Come In The Morning is a good soul style jam and they sound pretty tight on it. Skip Spence had an amazing voice, such a shame we got to hear so little of it. In places the band’s enthusiasm triumphs over their art but it’s a fun, upbeat listen and kind of a one-off. Annoying fact: Most of the tracks are missing and streaming servers, a rights issue I guess. Had to listen on YouTube.
It definitely has a sense of time and space and I listened to it three times to try and see if any of the tracks stood out, but none really did.
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This album was fun. I really liked it. "Rounder" is a standout track. Wow was it catchy. This album was fun. Nothing insane on this, but very solid. Short and sweet! Actual rating....3.5. Liked Songs: "Mr. Blues" , "Fall On You" , "8:05" , "Come In The Morning" , "Omaha" , "Changes" , "Indifference" , "Rounder" , "Looper" , "Sweet Ride (Never Again)"
liked songs: front half This was pretty good. There was some decent songwriting, but I do wish some of the better songs were just a little longer. 3.5
Nice 60’s California folk psychedelia.
There’s a 70s rock sound in there that I like, but only once or twice did it click over into a song I really liked. Too inconsistent overall - the misses really missed.
This is between a 2 and a 3. It doesn't do anything I love, but nothing i hate either. It's just a solid version of what it is. I'm feeling generous so I'll go with a soft 3.
Generic 60s music that wasn’t too innovative
Amazon does not have all the songs in the UK any way, so listened to Best of which has a lot of the songs on. Message to any Americans post Liberation day (Fuck up day) I do feel for you having a demented idiot with no knowledge of global economics, good luck with the recession
I had never heard of Moby Grape before but I had an idea of it might be and not surprisingly it’s an early psychedelic rock band. The stuff I liked I really loved but some of the other parts were just ok. Honestly I thought it wasn’t a perfect album but I really enjoyed a lot of it. I haven’t had enough time with it so go in depth but I’m sure an album like this would really grow on me over time. We will see.
Why is this on the list? One of the many 60's R'n'B/Country/Rock bands. Like listening to several bands, so generic this is.
Iam sure its great...
did nothing for me
Moby Grape is a terrible name btw. first song, banger - playlist worthy. Only half the songs were showing up. For this to come out in 67 is cool. Understandable to be on this list. I hope to listen to all of the tracks eventually.
Sounds to me a lot like Buffalo Springfield, bad recorded also, sound is poor.
1. bluez - 1 2. 8.05 - 1.5 3. indiferrence - 1 4. rounder - 1.5 5. looper - 1 6. difference - 1 7. uuind - 1 8. ride - 1
Nice sound - I have not listened to this one in a while 3/5 #musicsky #albumsky
Never heard of this before but automatically know what it will sound like. This is what im here for. I’ll never go back to this but is cool. It’s Moby Grape. I even listened to the bonus tracks. Now again. I need half stars. This isn’t a four. But it’s better than some of the threes. I have to give this a three.
Way less Moby than expected (I guess he just stole half the band name later in time). The grape is exactly what you would expect. But wait, is that some lemon in the mix? Another fun album but comes across very much as one with its time rather than creating its own sound.
Non-offensive 60s rock. Can't say I loved it or anything like that, but it was pleasant background music. 3 stars.
Getting early The Who fused with Beatles vibes out of this. I've got no song names, but for a complete unknown going in, this was a damned satisfying listen. Some of it felt like pretty standard flower-power rock, but there were some really solid cuts in here. Appreciated the bluesiness of the back couple of tracks as well as the alt-country twang earlier in the record. For me this is a low 4. Only wish it wasn't a YT listen.
Nice morning album.
Solid 60s rock with a nice guitar forward sound
Just FYI I just listened to the whole album this directed me to and it is NOT the same album. Gonna have to go to the ol UTUBE. Not sure if it's like that for Spotify. Either way Moby Grape '69 gets a solid 3. Love the first song with the guitar. Some other songs have some good harmonies reminiscent of CSN. Some pretty solid 60's rock but nothing mind blowing. A solid 3.
Really pleasantly surprised with this one and really enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting to. Some great tracks on here that I will be listening to again.
A real gem to unearth from a band I had never heard of. Some catchy and up tempo songs make up a well balanced album that combines various musical styles. 60s music at it’s best.
It’s right in a sweet spot of a time, place and genre I really like. It’s nice enough and technically great, but I just don’t love the songs that much. I just prefer other artists of the time, I’m never gonna listen to this over Jefferson for example. The interesting wormhole here was reading about Skip Spence, who wrote the best tracks on this album, how he lost the plot not long after this after threatening to kill his band mates, then post sectioning popped out a really interesting solo album, Oar. Then that was his musical career done at 23. That’s a more interesting listen.
Love this album and I love an excuse to listen to it. Moby Grape should have been huge but record company incompetence and mismanagement means they crashed and burned, and not that brightly. The album is at least the equal of it's peers, from the boogie opening of Hey Grandma, the power pop anticipating Fall On You, the beauty of 8:05 (the opening notes of which always makes me sigh), Omaha which betters the best of Grateful Dead and CSN, and the rest, it is 30 minutes of excellence.
Solides classic Rock Album! Hat Spaß gemacht zu hören, aber es ist nicht viel Komplexität oder Überraschung dabei - muss es auch nicht! :-) „8:05“ ist mein Favorit, als interessanter Stilbruch im Album! 4/5
Psych rock, felt kind of british-invasion-ey
A fun, punchy album of 60s rock, not unlike the Beatles.
Typical sixties sound. Just beautiful. Like music to my ears!
1 stern
First listen to this band. Some nice tunes but no real direction
Sounds exactly like you’d expect from the description. Not very exciting and not one I’ll revisit.
5/5
I enjoyed it. But I also can’t remember anything about it.
Fine, but forgettable.
Rockin
Some really evocative moments - esp. 8:05 - but the whole time I kept thinking I was listening to a really adept pastiche/re-creation of that moment. A totally unfair perspective, I realize. I bet their shows were fantastic.
Kind of an average hippie band, but not bad.
I like this better than the Dead, but it still strikes me as a bargain-basement Band (or Byrds). But I listened to 8:05 three times.
Never heard of this band before. Really good album. Giving fours stars but it’s razor thin between 4 and 5. Just lacking that one track that pushes it over the edge.
Fine
I have no real opinion on this.
It's nice but nothing too special
De onde surgiu isso que nunca ouvi falar? É bom demais!!!
Turns out that the majority of the songs from this album have been removed from streaming services, so I am not able to review it in it's entirety. Considering this, I will give the album the middle, 3 stars. Out of the songs I managed to listen to, the album fits in with the sonicscape of the late 60s, but doesn't quite have the quality of some of it's contemporaries. There are some nice guitar solos and melodies on here, as was the style of that time, which I liked. What I didn't like as much is that none of the songs were memorable, there are no hits or singles which stood out to me.
So much guitar. Too much. Sounds like a 4th of July picnic and not in a good way. Kinda groovy.
Interesting early rock group, reminds me of the Beatles. I like some tracks like "8:05" and "Rounders" with a good instrumental mix, particularly the bass and guitar.
It was fine. I think there’s a reason I hadn’t heard of Moby Grape, and a reason my brain doesn’t remember a single song from their generic sounding psychedelic album. This is another one of those albums that doesn’t actually feel like one you need to hear, just one that people think is important because it’s old.
The album was fine, but reading the band's Wikipedia was much more interesting. If it was just based on that, I'd give it a perfect score. 6/10
I like Moby, and I like grapes. Would you call me crazy if I said I didn't care for them together?
A competent psychedelic artifact with undeniable harmonies and textural richness offering more historical significance than genuine musical revelation.
Realmente um garage rock, USA. Queria ser um cowboy nos anos 60 indo para os bailes e depois ir dormir pensando na amada. Gostei de 8:05, Omaha, Sitting By The Window e Indifference. Me lembrou um Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Jimi Hendrix - late 60’s feel
Folky album
Moldy Grape
solid album, sucks that most of it isn’t on streaming. but Moby Grape has to be one of the worst band names i’ve ever heard lol
Adequate late 60s rock. No more, no less.
This was just fine for a late 60s rock album. Better than I was thinking it would be.
Solid late 60s Bay Area psychedelia.
My second album in a row where I had to go crawling off to YouTube to hear the thing in full. I was pleasantly surprised at how good this is. It's unfortunate that it's not more accessible to a modern listening audience. It's concise, strong late 60s rock music. I like the layering of the vocals and the lead guitar performance, and there's enough sonic variety to keep me engaged. I can hear the San Fransisco on it, especially on tracks like "8:05". A shame this band didn't get their due. I wish the sound quality was better. Some enterprising engineer should get to work on a remaster. And get it away from YouTube's awful audio compression, please.
Maybe I'm lucky enough to have been born at a time where I've only been exposed to the good artists and albums from the 60s and 70s, but I just find this so generic. Nothing stands out, the vocals are fine but not distinctive.
Perfectly competent, but why would I ever listen to this when pretty much every contemporary is so much better?
01/03/25 I have never heard of this band before and it's a shame that didn't produce much more.
Pretty run of the mill 60s rock.
I believe there is a modern artist called moby, so I was expecting something connected to that. Couldn't be much further from the truth. Started similar to The Greatful Dead, and was later reminiscent of the Mamas and Papas. On the whole I really liked it. Got to be worth a 4
A solid 2.58 rating from me. Which is 0.01 higher than my average across the first 425 albums I’ve reviewed. I’m glad I went to the relative effort of finding it on YouTube and was rewarded by some lovely blues guitar work as the album rocked along nicely. Unspectacularly likeable.
This was quite hard to find, and had to listen on YouTube. A couple of my favourite albums aren't on big streaming sites, people are missing out on so much music because of this. So I was expecting great things from this potential forgotten treasure. It was ok, nothing particularly outstanding. The back story was probably the best thing about it.
Really liked it!
8:05 is a lovely track. Moby Grape is a name I've heard, but never really knew their music. It seems pretty clear that the Grateful Dead were certainly picking up what these guys were throwing down. Excellent album. I wonder why I can't hear it in its entirety on Apple Music? Something weird going on with the song rights. Found it okay on Youtube.
Good album I'd never heard of these guys. Liked a few of the tracks good older guitar based music for sure
Pretty good! Enjoyed listening
Just not my style of rock, pretty dull and over before it even starts.
I thought it started strong, the first couple tracks I enjoyed a lot (at least, on the version I listened to: 8:05, Rounder), a nice mix of psych-folk rock and classic late 60's rock. As I'm writing this I now realize the version of the album I listened to (YouTube Music) is missing a majority of the tracks (copyright?), so it's hard to give an accurate assessment of the whole record. What I heard was good, though some tracks sound a bit too generic to the genre, so do I need to hear more?
Loved it. Mellow psychedelic rock from the 60s.