S.F. Sorrow

I’m not sure I particularly liked this? It’s a strange piece of 60s rock. One I didn’t find all that thrilling. It’s certainly unique but…not great. I don’t think I’d recommend this to others. It’s a bit too obscure.

I really liked the final track Pretty Big Mouth…which turned out to be from another one of their albums that had auto played. Everything from the above album completely washed over me unnoticed.

This was decent. I hear influence of a lot of bands I love. But ended up getting bored with it.

that was okay i suppose?

This website keeps giving me post Beatles bullshit. It’s comparable of all the playboi carti and opium copy cats now.

Really enjoyed this Beatles-eque style.

2.5 Just a Beatles rip off

Nothing special

Started okay but it lost me

May have been pioneers. Sounded like Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band but was released six years prior. 2/5

When I came to rate this I forgot what it sounded like and had to put it on again to remind me.

Late 60s psychedelic rock.

I’d never even heard of this lot even though they’re apparently influential and couldn’t be more 1960s even if they were Twiggy wearing Mary Quant at a happening with Timothy Leary. I did find myself tuning in and out and losing interest quite quickly. There was nothing awful about this and I admire the whole concept album/rock opera vibe. But I wouldn’t say it was in any way memorable. I can’t even pick out one tune… I thought I should listen to it again but by track two my interest had waned again.

To beatleesque

Not really my thing but some pretty cool guitar for before it's time, Balloon Burning is great. 2.5

Fine first track was cool, rest kind of blended. I couldn’t pick up on the narrative themes but I did listen on a busy commute.

Oh god, how much more of this 60’s English rock do we need?

Rock opera... cool

Voelde als een wannabe Beatles album

Not a fan. Sounds like Flaming Lips and Oasis had a love child. Not in a good way. Hippy stoner rock.

ei ehkä syytä olla 1968 albumi joka rekordattu näin paskalla laadulla. mutta myös hyvin erilainen (sanon sanan beatles tähän aikaan) eksperimentaalista ja joo ensimmäinen arvostelu sivulla puhuu tuosta vittu vihaan tätä sivustoa ja myös itseäni montako kertaa pitää sanoa. kiinnostavaa kuunneltavaa annetaan propseja siit mutta toivottavasti unohdan koko homman... death

Like many others, I got a hell of a lot of Beatles vibes from this. I wouldn’t say they have quite the magic that The Beatles have when it comes to hooking people, though. Not a bad listen by any means, but I wasn’t really hooked. Not sure this quite warrants a 3 from me, so gonna leave it at a 2.

gets better toward the middle but overall not that exciting

Meh. It’s like the Byrds and Monkees got together, got high and wrote a musical. I do wonder if I had heard this before Tommy if I’d have a different opinion?

This seems ok, but I was just not in the mood for a 60 psychedelic concept album yesterday.

I was sorry that this was a sorry album

Some good jams hidden throughout. Some very questionable mixing. Overall, I'd rather just listen to the Beatles. Will I listen to again: 0%

Proto Prog Psychedelic Rock Opera, pretty dull despite its best intentions.

Ahead of their time - but the sonic concepts exceeded their engineering capabilities. I can hear a strong late 60's Beatles influence with the psychedelic sound.

Se me ha hecho pesado y solo me ha llamado la atención la última canción del disco: Walking through my dreams.

Another late 60’s album that was trying a lot of things and some were great! The use of the left/right fader on this album is beyond distracting! Every other song was “what wackadoo left/right fading are they gonna do now?” Lots of breathy British singing, but the album crescendos with a could really good songs. 2.5⭐️s

Album très typique du rock psychédélique des années 60. Interchangeable avec plusieurs autres albums de l'époque. Par contre, coup de coeur pour Old Man Going, une pièce proto-metal qui fait penser à du Judas Priest.

I could not enjoy this no matter how hard I tried. All the songs put me on edge… I don’t know how else to describe how I felt listening to it. Parts of it might have made for a cool movie soundtrack. I did not like the over-dramatic vocals.. at all. I could hear a little bit of a Beatles sound, a little Pink Floyd, but way too much weirdness.. it was too prickly to my ears. 2 stars because I’m sure they’re all talented musicians, in their own way.

Psychedelic rock. Authors favourite genre. Some forgotten albums should just stay forgotten

Best Song: Loneliest Person. The lyrics were cute and clever. Worst Song: Private Sorrow. The kind of song that just sounds like someone trying to be subversive in the sixties. Overall: Early progressive music can sometimes come off feeling "wacky" as the artists throw dozens of disparate ideas at the wall to see what sticks. That is absolutely what is happening here. Despite this ostensibly being a rock opera, there is absolutely no musical cohesion to tie the whole album together. No idea sticks around long enough to make much of an impact.

I'd never heard of this before... and it's difficult to form a connection with an album like this (one that is totally fresh to you) in just one day. My first impressions are that it sounded like a kind of alternate universe psychedelic-era Beatles, not quite as polished. Some good songs though: Baron Saturday and The Journey being favourites. I've given this a low score, but I suspect it would grow on me... so it has been saved in my Keepers playlists for future work.

Standout tracks: Baron Saturday Defecting Grey I See You Mr Evasion You can hear the influnce they had on Bowie. Their later stuff sounds more up my street so might check that out. I did like the Spoitify follow-on tracks more though... Groovy baby.

klingt wie die schlechten Songs von den Beatles

I’m too young to appreciate thiy

Sometimes I wonder if the Beatles are actually that good, or if their reputation makes them unassailable. Then I hear a band that sounds like them, who while decent, don’t come close to the Beatles. This is one of those bands. Pretty good songs, I really liked the drumming. But it didn’t rise above “pretty good.”

Like the Beatles but not.

Was not into this. Interesting concept. 2/5

Est-ce que c'est plutôt du sous-Beatles, du sous-The Who ou du sous-Pink Floyd ? En tout cas pas très emballé, ça manque clairement du petit je-ne-sais-quoi qui aurait rendu ça mieux.

Tedious Beatles wannabes. 2/5

The first two songs kind of get in there, but there is no follow-up. 2.5/5.

I didn't know what to expect heading into this album, but it was pretty middle of the road for me. There were some things that I thought worked well; the overarching rock opera element and story were interesting, and I enjoyed some parts of the instrumentation. Overall though, this album kind of dragged on for me. Plus, it felt like someone told these guys to make an album that sounded like The Beatles. I really felt like this sound was completely borrowed. It's one thing to draw on influences of a band, but something else entirely to try to duplicate their sound. It's cool that this was one of the first rock operas, but this album was just okay in my book.

Sitar-forward, tinny harmonizing, it's an English psychedelic band from the 60s ladies and germs! fuck outta here.

60's tunes. ok. nothing special

I can definitely see the similarity to Tommy. While maybe you can say that it's unfair that The Who probably ripped them off a bit, at least The Who took the concept and made it a classic album. These songs are just "meh".

The best song is 'Loneliest Person' because it sounds nothing like the rest of the album.

*sigh*

SF Sorrow is born-quite annoying chorus effect, this is fine if a little overblown Bracelets of Fingers- Ahh, the old panning effects, but this is fine overall, I like the refrain 👍 She says good morning- good 4 u i guess Private Sorrow- this was fine, whatever Balloon Burning- finally a little energy, at least in the guitars 👍 Death- decently atmospheric.. surely this is quite early on in the album tho lol 👍 Baron Saturday- kinda hate everything about this The Journey- the set up to a better song next I See You- guitar shines more on this one and vocal effect is something? Well Of Destiny- doesn’t really count as a song init Old Man Going- 👍 Loneliest person i was never gonna like this lol 2/5

Maybe the worst mixing I’ve ever heard on an album.

They really liked their crazy instruments back in the 60s didn't they? Psychedelics. Yeah... Maddening. Some parts sound like Beatles. Some parts sound like beetle dung. Ugh.

Meh, nothing special here at all.

This album has an interesting place in history. It’s one of if not the first concept albums. It sounds like all the sounds of the decade together.

Rock opera. Hade kanske gillat det mer om jag lyssnat lite mer noggrant och läst texterna men nu blir det för konstigt.

Ganska likt Beatles men den psykedeliska stereo-mixen gjorde det nästan olyssningsbart...

Not bad, but suffers from the pacing and confusion issues all rock operas have

So I can see (hear) how this album influenced a lot of other bands work in the late 60s and 70s and maybe even the 80s, but that doesnt make it "good". Its overwrought and the lyrics are boring and unappealing. All of the albums which were influenced by this are better than the original work itself. All in all, I'd rather be listening to the Moody Blues. 2/5

Normally, I love this kind of music, and although there were a couple songs that I liked, I ended up finding most to be unenjoyable noise.

Bad psychedelics

First of all, the stereo mix on this is SO WEIRD and not in a good way. It's tough to listen to on headphones, as the music is popping from ear to the other and doing all sorts of strange things. Very distracting and unpleasant. As far as the music, it's sort of the Beatles plus the Who - there are some fun catchy tunes in the middle (I liked "Private Sorrow"), but overall it's really not my thing. Apparently this is the first "concept album" and inspired other albums that I like better? So I can appreciate its place on the list but it's not my thing. 2.5/5 but I'm rounding this one down for the horrible production/stereo mix, which was just painful to me.

The first half of this was really interesting - a lot of great ideas and sounds that seem quite ahead of their time. Even though not all of it worked, there was enough ambition there to give a 3 or maybe a 4 too. Unfortunately the album just seemed to tail off towards the end, and the last few tracks were nowhere near as exciting

Its 60s psych rock for sure. Im at a lose for stars

Similar to beatles but worse

Very meh and slow

2.5

another Beatles knock off this one take a lot from sgt pepper era beatles 2.5

It was ok

It might be the first concept album ever but it's late sixties beat psychedelia and the tunes are Europa League.

Alkoi lupaavasti: kiinnostuin tarinallisuudesta ja voimakkaan läsnäolevasta brittisaundista. Alkoi kuitenkin puuduttaa melko nopeasti, ei ollut riittävästi vaihtelua ja levy oli kuitenkin piiiiiiiitkä. Muutama ihanahko biisi välissä.

Eipä herättänyt kummoisia tuntoja. En bändiä juuri tunne, mutta aika geneeriseltä 60-luvun psykeltä kuulosti. Toki ymmärrän vuosiluvun perusteella, että oli varmaan eturintamassa.

It’s a rock opera. Bit jumpy. Good sound but not something you wanna sit down and listen to.

no real stand outs or anything special

Not bad, but not great

This album was like when you make pancakes or something, right? And you put in a little too much salt and little too little sugar or something? It has all the pancake ingredients, but it doesn't taste right. It's not satisfying or enjoyable, but it smells pretty good? Anyway.

Psychedelic rock psychedelic pop. Sin más.

Not a fan here, Sorry

That was strange. Psychodelia from a group that I associate with heavier blues type rock. An early concept album, perhaps one of the first to tell the story of a life. This does not compensate though for the musical weakness of the album. A lot of mediocre composition and nothing really memorable. Fairly innocuous psychodelic pop of the period.

weird.

Very Beatlesy, quite liked it to start but it dragged after the first half

Never heard of these before. Very Beatlesy. I liked the first 2 tracks but the rest didn't really grab me. I like the "sound" of it though kinda

it got worse and worse as i kept listening. basically a rip off beatles-sounding band. perhaps the first song could be described as decent but it got progessively worse after that. no thanks :( BAD!

Good time, little long

Not special, not terrible.

This was a big old bucket of not very much. Sounds ahead of its time, but not in a particularly interesting or exciting way. There's a lot of talk in the reviews and wikipedia about similarities to The Who's Tommy - by all accounts Tommy is a lot better. This doesn't really have any memorable tracks, the story of the album isn't particularly clear and it just all sounds a bit beige. 2/5

An eh album for an week full of ok albums.

It’s like a satire of psychedelia.

Bit trippy. Don't think enjoyable.

Some nifty late 60s Beatlesqye/Who-et tracks, but not my favourite kind of psychedelia. Good to learn about another 60s Brit band that is not so well known.

Deteriorated as I listened

Heavily indebted to the Beatles and Beach Boys. With all due respect, I think if this didn't have the claim of "first ever rock opera", it wouldn't have made the list. Favorite tracks: "Balloon Burning", "I See You"

While I have been known to like bands coming of similar backgrounds during that same era, I find this album rather uninspiring.

Nyt ei kolahtanut ja raskaan päivän jälkeen en kyllä muista levystä juuri mitään...

Ce matin, un phénomène surnaturel s'est produit. En effet, au moment même où je terminais cet album, j'avais déjà oublié ce qu'il contenait.

S.F. Sorrow is a mix of early Pink Floyd with late Beatles, but the result is just one more band doing psychedelic rock in the late 1960s. "Baron Saturday", the album highlight, is a good combination of those references.

Voor mij iets te pop-psychedelisch. Blijkbaar een rock-opera (bron:wiki), dus dat verklaard voor mij dat ik al snel kriegelig werd..

Zoals de kolonel in Sjors en Sjimmie altijd zegt: Bareuh.

2.4 - Somewhat unremarkable - no song really stood out to me, despite my general affinity for the genre.

The nostalgia value is strong, and it's pretty easy to consider the sergeant pepper vibes and saucerful of secrets vibes. Unfortunately, for me these comparisons put Pretty Things in an unfair position because it becomes glaring that they're simply not as good as the other bands they influenced and we're influenced by - nowhere near it. Personally it comes down to the lyrics and vocals (musically I think they can keep up, but if your front man only has one tone of voice to bring to the table or makes it difficult to show your diverse ability as a group). The style of lyrics would be fine for one iconic song, but across a whole album you realise the words are just so simplistic and often clichéd or forced while the beatles and the stones were exactly in this period moving away from this sort of canned shit, and Pink Floyd never did it.

Sounds like a mixture of the Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd and the Doors. Some alright stuff but nothing stands out.

S.F. sorrow and Old Man Going are great tracks but overall it was a bit boring. I get its one of the first rock operas but it didn't suit well for me

The so-called "first rock opera?" - I thought I'd be down for this but....ehh? So I didn't want to leave a lame review like the above but so why is, say, "Tommy" (which apparently these guys thought was at least somewhat cribbed from them...ok...) so much better? Not really fair of me to compare the two since I've heard Tommy about 400 times in my life and this exactly once, today. If I had to hazard a guess, there's no anchor - there's no obvious central musical theme, and/or no "killer single" - just a bunch of very psychedelic-sounding nice enough songs, some have some really nice harmonies (e.g. "The Journey"), but it's honestly hard to really remember any of them. i.e. where's the album's "Pinball Wizard" or "Tommy Can You Hear Me?" I might need a few more listens to fully digest the story/opera part and I suppose I could since I didn't dislike it...but I kinda don't want to. Just a touch above boring as an album. Maybe a good long 17 minute epic would have tied everything together, but to be fair that's not so easily well-done. Speaking of which, I'll head over to my copy of "Supper's Ready..." 5/10 2 stars.

First Listen. I am sure back in the 60's this might have been something. but, to hear it now in 2021 for the first time. It kind of loses something. It does have some good sounds, so I'll give it a chance again in the future. 2/5 for now.

A bit too beatlesy and i'm not a beatles person to begin with.

Started off strong, but it got old 3 songs in and it was just irritatingly Beatlesy after that

Interesting from a history kind of thing, but no real stand out songs for me, all just good.

Träger Hippie-Harlekin 68er Psych Rock. Es schimmert etwas die Kaputtheit der späteren Olivia Tremor Control durch. Malo gibt weniger als 1.6

Had no idea what this was when I loaded it up to stream, but I guess this was out around the same time as The Who’s Tommy. That one is a classic. I’d never heard of this one before which suggests it was overshadowed by Tommy then as well as now

Apparently this is the first rock opera and tells the story of a person (S.F. Sorrow) from birth to death. This sounds an interesting concept, but not one I would have noticed had I not read it on wikipedia. I'm sure it would emerge on repeated listens with and/or with closer attention, but I didn't enjoy the music enough to be motivated to do that. Basically this is an just-about-ok 1960s/70s psychedelic rock album. It starts in a fairly accessible way (I like the opening track, 'S.F. Sorrow is born') but becomes harder work later on. I didn't hate it, but didn't really like it much either. 2/5.

Like a watered-down Stones, which not watered-down is cringe enough

I thought I was a sucker for sunshine pop; turns out I'm a sucker for good sunshine pop. Stick to Tommy. Choice Cuts: Bracelets Of Fingers, Defecting Grey

Very much of its time, sounds like Beatles. Some funky tracks but overall not my bag. 2/5

Meh not great but not bad

A curious album. I enjoyed the opening tracks but there were too many silly voices and meandering psychedelic moments for me to truly get into. An album of its time - not one to revisit.

El día de la bicicleta. No mucho más para agregar. Está bueno pero para una única pasada. 5/10 ludomatics.

Meh.

Het heeft wel iets, maar ik werd er niet warm van. Het concept van een rock opera spreekt me duidelijk meer aan dan de uitvoering.

Weinig speciaals. In vergelijking is Tommy van The Who, het soortgelijke conceptalbum dat al eerder passeerde, nog net iets beter

2/5

Oh yeah, SF Sorrow... SF Sorrow is the kind of dippy hippy bullshit I think about when I think about dippy hippy bullshit that I'm actually completely unfamiliar with. It felt like it took heavy influence from earlier psychedelic works, but I wasn't really sold on the narrative, mostly because I didn't know what the fuck was going on. Apparently The Pretty Things think that The Who stole the format of rock-opera for Tommy, but that's lame. A rock opera was an inevitability; I think they are sore only because The Who did it better.

The concept was better than the execution. Feel a bit mean to only give it two stars as I felt like they reached for the stars but frankly I wouldn't rush to listen again.

boring

Eh

1.5 meh

It might be my mood, my foot injury, or just all around exhaustion from this existence - but the album of the day is not landing at all. It's a concept album, or like a rock opera that apparently inspired Roger Daltrey of The Who to write Tommy. It feels a bit meandering to me right now and I'm trying to appreciate it's place in the British invasion and psychedelia. It's like this band put together the entire blueprint for something very familiar, and all the music is here and accounted for. But other bands (The Stones, The Who, et al) came and took this music and made it better and more accessible. But the music is here and the purists know.

boring

1968: I See You, Bracelets of Fingers

lol yet another album from the late 60s. Sounds exactly like British rock of the time, goes for an hour. No surprises, no reason to include it in the list. 2/5.

Big too hippy dippy that one.. didn’t quite have the melodies to cut through.

The best (and maybe only positive) thing to come out of wasting an hour listening to this is proof that great songs make Revolver and the Piper at the Gates of Dawn great albums. Package a collection of bad to mediocre musical ideas, with no artistic vision or cohesion, in precisely the same psychedelic studio gimmickery and you have a bad to mediocre album.

Bloated and rambling, didn't complete the life journey of SF Sorrow.

Rambling nonsense

Different, but not good

meh

No. Kind of boring 60's music.

3/10 - another generic 60s/70s album

Coup de coeur pour Balloon Burning, The Journey, Old Man Going et Defecting Grey. Donc plutôt pas mal pour un album dont la première impression n'était pas géniale,

Just when you think you've found a track you'll like they mess it up

Jesus Christ, the panning is giving me seasickness. Sir, SIR, step away from the sitar!

Did not enjoy this albom too much. Most of the first half is really meh, the band seems to try tp experiment, but to no avail. They sounded somewhat Beatles-like, but just worse. In the end, they are better tracks, like "Loneliest Person" or "Talking About the Good Times", but I am not sure if they are really good or just "not bad" as compared with the earlier on the album. An overall disappoinment, gonna rate the lowest because the list should contain the best of the best.

Didn’t like

No wonder I’d never heard of this. Pretty boring. Just because it was the first rock opera doesn’t mean it’s must listen to music.

Did not enjoy at all. Mix was odd and the sound was all over the place

There are many crimes the British have to answer for. Hundreds of years of colonialism, oppression, racism, etc. etc. once we get through the long list of people owed reparations, we should also address their crimes to Music. If I wanted to listen to mediocre British Invasion era rock I would just toss on one of the less well loved Beatles albums. I won’t keep harping on the point about how it’s offensive this album is on the list when so many others aren’t, as I could be saying that for so many other albums. But I very much struggle to understand why this is here so I decided to look into it. Wikipedia mentions this is one of the first Rock Operas, and while that is interesting, it doesn’t stop it from being garbage. In fact that makes the omission of albums like Delton 3030 particularly galling. Please g-d I cannot take anymore average white men being elevated into this list and yet I know there will be. The instrumentation has sparks where it sounds like it could get interesting but never actually achieves anything. Anytime I think a song is about to get good the singing starts and my mood sours. Just because something helped originate a genre doesn’t mean it’s good.

Not my taste at all.

A few songs reminded me a tad of simon & garfunkel, as well as ledzep

Unoriginal

Some echoes of the Beatles and Rolling Stones but no song that really interested me. First album so far that I just wanted to turn off because I couldn't get into it.

Nicht meins...

Honestly couldn’t finish it very boring. It’s not bad music just sounds like Beatles but worse.

Honestly. Stop it. This would only be included on a top album list by that pretentious guy who doesn't like "popular music" and thinks being obscure makes it somehow better.

Listened in the car and while walking in the mall. Imagine The Beatles making a rock opera record. Now imagine it much worse, with much less talented musicians, cringe lyrics, with the worst production you've ever heard (even for the time), and worst of all, it's boring. I don't know what it was with British rock bands at the time but for some reason they thought they were at the pinnacle of musical expression enough to start claiming they've made rock "operas" when they've just boring, forgettable slop. Terrible.

Not for me

It’s ok

The person who thought that pans between left and right ear will sound cool was fucking deaf or smth. There are some good songs, but they aren't memorable.

Nope.

1. born - 1.5 2. fingerz -0 3. morning - 0 4. Sorrow - 1 5. Balloon - 1 6. Death - 0 7. Baron - 0 8. Journey -1 9. See -0 10.destiny - 1 11. Trust - 1 12. Man -1.5 13.person - 1.5 14. Grey -0 15. Evasion - 0 16. Good - 1 17. Dreams - 1

i already don't remember this

First glance - the religious motif in the album art is interesting but the constant changing of tempo and style within each song was a headache.

The first track had me really excited but that excitement went away as the album got more and more psychedelic in a way I don’t find particularly appealing 58 years later.

Wanna be early beatles

If you like the Beatles, you won't like this album. If you don't like the Beatles, you really won't like this album

Ugggghhh, stop it with the obscure, boring old basic British bands. There is so much better music beyond the borders of that island. This sounds like a dime store Pink Floyd

The shittiest Shitty Beatles I have encountered so far.

Didn't really care for this. Silly, goofy, unserious.

Not for me

It’s like the best of the worst of the Beatles after Revolver. Apart from a few rare good vibes and riffs (quickly drowned in hippie nonsense with bloody sitars, boring vocal harmonies, and LSD inspired structures) It’s tough for me. Really tough. And the mix is absolutely terrible, making the whole experience being a bit painful. Do we have listen to every single British band just because they started a thing?

No

Gorsh, this sucked. Completely lacking in any ambition or urgency. There wasn’t a single interesting bit. 1/5

Trash. 1001 albums fails yet again.

Not for me at all

Not for me. All the worst bits about British 60s music including the Beatles. Jumps around from idea to idea with no consistency. No soul to it at all. As a stand alone song I didn't mind balloon burning so was tempted to give it 2 stars, but nah 1 you get

was every band just kinda The Beatles for several years?

Reminded me of the Beatles but not as good. Never heard of them and prob won't listen again.

The first thing I thought was how they sounded a bit like the Who and Queen to me. Later I read that the Who denies any influence. Hmmm Anyway, not something I can to listen to a second time but interesting.

Ponavljam se kao pokvarena ploča, kao i ovaj projekt. Nepodnošljivo dosadno. Ako mi dođe još jedan ispod prosječan britanski rock bend na rateanje samo će pasti 1 bez komentara.

More proggy psych story rubbish

Oh, damn it. I listened to the album while I was cleaning the bathroom and kept thinking, you're lucky, you're close to the toilet. Now I have to recover because that wasn't a 'nice' experience at all. And the band really is called "Pretty Things" - what was pretty about that? The Indian community will definitely agree with me. Now I'm lying flat with my head resting on a rainbow and wondering who I can throw eiderdowns at? If I've understood correctly, the "Pretty Things" are the co-inventors of the rock opera with 'S.F. Sorrow', for that, 'hats off', they get one star. Unfortunately, I have to say, I find the execution awful. So one last word, I knew the line "Sitting alone on a bench with you" from somewhere and I hope I'll quickly forget everything else. But now, as promised, the one star for the rock opera, I don't even want to rate the rest.

This is #day128 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... kudos for being known as one of the first rock operas ever released, but I find it utterly unlistenable. I had to stop in the middle of Balloon Burning. This is a 1 out of 5. Thank you. Next. Looking forward to #day129.

Ok

First track was actually OK. Became mildly to extremely irritating soon after that.

A bit like root canal fillings, you want rock operas to be handled by experts. This wasn't. I found it uninteresting. And a bit shit really.

If S.F. Sorrow had a baby with the Beatles, it would be Oasis.

Dreadful.

Dull

This project has revealed to me just how little patience I have for psychedelic rock. It’s at a zero. Didn’t really enjoy this at all. 1/5

No

I don't care much for rock operas

The Beatles didn't influence everyone artistically. This group missed the mark. Pretty awful.

60’s

What a load of shit that was, thank God it's over.

First two tracks got me curious and smiling a little. It's like they just discovered the LR function and took full advantage. It quickly became self absorbed, repetitive and fucking annoying. If I could go back in a time machine I'd go to their concert only to take his guitar and hit him over the head with it.

For no one

Back at the dawn of L.S.D. when the "electric" guitar was young, this was novel and exciting. Burroughs was busy creating at the shredder and Waterman had yet to perform a rock opera. Heady days that anyone who was REALLY there cannot remember.

Painfully awful. The music was okayish but the vocals and lyrics were just so so SO damn bad.

Terrible

Nö

I can appreciate it for what it is, but it's not my thing.

Muck.

Not my thing 💩

If ' Tommy' took any influence from this it would have been ‘well that’s not what to do’. ‘Tommy’ (which wasn’t Townshend's first attempt at a rock opera btw) has catchy tunes and a sense of humour. This has neither. Not worth listening to. 1.5 rounded down

O.O scuffed

Constant odd audio coming in and out. Maybe they thought it was cutting edge at the time? Shit though.

I’m with Lester Bangs on this one. Over-produced (for the time) and under-cooked. I can see how LSD was the fulcrum on which this album was balanced.

Yeah this was a no from me. I liked some of the beginning songs in a vague sort of way, but it quickly begun feeling like an interminable slog of rote 60s psychedelia that I, as a non-drug user, will never be able to understand or enjoy. Some of the songs were dreadful, notably Defecting Grey, which made me want to drown myself rather than finish listening to. It was followed by three similarly bad songs which I truly HATED listening to. Concept albums are cool and all… but I need the music to be enjoyable to care about the concept. A 1 might be harsh but it’s how I felt by the end so I think it’s deserved.

I guess I’m just not a psychedelic rock fan. It wasn’t “bad”, but it isn’t something I would ever choose to put on. The beginning half seemed to drag on for a long time and blend into one really dull song. Favorite is Track 15: Mr. Evasion.

The album primarily suffers from things that are present from the 60’s. For one, the songs feel oddly slow-paced, making them a slog to get through. They just drag on and on. The songs also are plagued by terrible, weird, and confusing mixing. The songs are just so annoying to listen to due to these issues. There is a semblance of a good rock album underneath the problems, but every song feels papery and without substance, mainly due to the horrible mixing. I would’ve rated it higher because it’s on the edge of being good. Alas, here we are.

This is just a lamer Piper at The Gates of Dawn. It might be sacrilege to compare the two, but this is just really lame compared to that album. The mix is pretty bad, and it's all around not for me. A lot of this is just annoying. Very disappointing.

No

Interesting art work on cover. Felt like I was listening to a Beatles 💿 Wonder what patents were infringed upon when putting this together

Bland, late sixties "concept" album in which a myriad of excuses seem to be made about why it didn't sell well. I'll tell you why it didn't sell - it's shit; it's boring; it's like being stuck in the corner of a party with some numpty who wants to tell you about the fucking awful quasi-philosophical novel they're writing as they've glanced at Pynchon and Foster-Wallace. Best Tracks: She Says Good Morning; Baron Saturday; Trust

Couldn't finish it. Got half way, and it started to grate on my nerves. Might be among the first rock operas but I still didn't enjoy it. Didn't add, obviously.

As a long-time fan of what some categorize as "hippie music," I find it interesting that quite consistently I dislike this kind of music, which I understand is often labelled "psychedelic rock." Nothing wrong with it, and the musicians on this album are great, but I just never seem to enjoy this style of rock. It grates on me.

More perfectly adequate mush for the white man mill.

1.5

Nope, nope, nope.

who doesnt love dire straights

Pretty decent for chilling and listening to while working.