Happy Trails

A little CCR feeling. 60s psychedelic pop/rock-ish.

Cowboys on acid, tanks in space!

Who, when, where, how, which... why????!

Psychnoodle and i wasn't in the mood

Feels like the background music of a film set in the 60s. Might have been better if I was taking LSD but I had work in the morning

Started fine but just devolved into noise

The dictionary definition of background music.

I don’t hate it but not much there.

Very repetitive album. Not for me.

Happy trails is good but the rest was boring.

Dem Album merkt man sein Alter durchaus an. Ist solide Rockmusik, aber nichts, was mich heute noch vom Hocker reißt. 2/5

2 jamming sessions, 0 fucks given

Idk cant even remember it anymore

Interesting

2.5 - Meh

Majority of the record is cover songs, including the 25 minute mostly instrumental opening number, so it loses points right there for that alone. Also, this isn’t really a psychedelic rock album. It’s a blues album that sometimes gets loud. Just because it’s fun to smoke pot while you listen to it doesn’t make it psychedelic rock.

Very jammy. A good mix of Widespread Panic and Grateful Dead.

"Ok band, here's what we do in our next show, as we are really crap in writing songs: we just take some random song, use the basic part of it and then we show off one after another. Apparently the audience just loves our soli, so we'll give them what they want".

Weird mix. Can't hear the lyrics. The "Love" suite is not very interesting prog for how much of it there is. The whole album is meandering and boring. Okay as background music, but I'm not going to come back to any of this to listen to again. At multiple points I was thinking "isn't this over already?" so that's a 2.

What is this album? No one asked for a 25-minute jam session of "Who Do You Love?", or if somebody did, I need to talk with them. I mean, I guess it's a cool interpretation? I just don't know why I was forced to listen to it. On another note, Quicksilver Messenger Service has a great band name, one that works well with folk, psychedelia, and rock music.

All of these questions like "who?", "where?", "how?", and "which?" but nobody bothered asking the two most important questions: WHAT AND WHY? WHAT is this album? Well, it is a multi-track jam session, and not a very good one at that. Half the time, it trails off into the musical equivalent of mumbling. WHY is this album on this project? That one I can't answer, but even if I could, I probably would be disappointed with the answer anyway. I was pretty set on giving this album a 1, but the jam session got a little bit more tolerable on the second half of the album, after all the whos and the wheres.

# Album Name: Happy Trails # Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Hell no brother. I like a good solo as much as the next man but a fucking hour. These guys aint santana ffs. Way too long, boring. Very uninspiring. Not the worst ive heard on the list. But i certainly dont get why they are on the list! # Top Tunes: Fuck knows. The one with the solo? # Would I listen to it again? Nar

When I got my album selection today, I thought to myself, "Wow...this is the second album from this band, and I have never heard of them?!" Then, I listened, and I see why. It's just meh - these guys would be fitting entertainment for the county fair, but not much else.

A-side is almost forgettable for me. "Mona" on the B-side grooves. As always I rate it down just because it is a live album. 1,5

While I love some psychedelic music, this album suffers from these long, introspective instrumentals that end up just being boring and uninspired.

I actually like the opening of this album, but including several tracks of meandering guitar wank and minute long stretches of just noise, really takes away from any illusion that this is a master piece.

I've never heard of this band before. Not that I've heard of every band, but I've heard of many. So that was neat. I got the gist half way through.

Y venga medianías...

This was alright, did feel like it went on forever at times but the fact that half(?) this album is live is pretty fun. Nothing special though

Meh

Another one where you feel you had to be there. Instead of 32 minutes of a Bo Diddley jam just give me four minutes of “Who Do You Love?” by the Jesus and Mary Chain. I think Quicksilver themselves would also be surprised that these live cover jams made this 1001 list.

Based on the terrible album cover, which looks like a terrible western romance novel cover from back in the day, I expected shitty country music. Instead I got shitty psych rock. So in the end I still lost. I never felt like I had to hit stop, so that’s a plus, but still meh overall. 1.5 / 5

interesting... a bit meandering at times

It felt a bit too long and repeated the same chords the entire album

Nothing for me. But you can hear they are good musicians.

if this was playing in the background of a restaurant, i'd be satisfied - that is about the only time i'd listen to this

"Hey guys, I know we just jammed on a Bo Diddley song for 25 minutes, but maybe we should throw something different on the album." "Like what?" "How about a 7 minute jam of a different Bo Diddley song?" The playing is pretty good here, but as an album, it's boring as hell. It's just some guys jamming for 45 minutes and ending with a goofy cover of "Happy Trails". 2.5 stars.

2.5

Experimentellt flum. Lite småcatchy, men inget jag planerat att lyssna mer på

I only had to look at Quicksilver Messenger Service's band photo for one second to know they were from San Francisco. "Who Do You Love - Pt. 1" is an OK song. Nice riffs. "When You Love" had an awesome first ten seconds, and then got a little boring. The riffs are cool, but it's really just riffs. I'm sure it was a lot more innovative and mindblowing in '69. "Where You Love" has not improved much on the last song. There isn't much going on here. QMS have a huge "Past Members" section on Wikipedia. It's the biggest one I've ever seen. A whole lot of people have been in this band. Unfortunuately this album was not interesting, and often boring. 4/10

Rating: 5/10 Meh.

This seems like something I would have found at a goodwill and brought home simply because I liked the cover (+ they had no other albums worth any interest) and would only listen to because it was one of the 6 records I had

One of a million bands from the 60s psych wave, but on the trippier acid jams side more than the garage rock side. This all starts with a basic blues groove on the Bo Diddley beat and a chugging choogle from the rhythm guitar backing a heap of noodle from the lead guitar, who has the classic psych sound: sticking to blues scales but delivering a deliciously nasty tone from a fuzzy SG through a loud amp, modulated with wammy, wah wah and a whirling Wurlitzer. The bass is the best bit though, ripping jazzy walking lines with a rock swagger. The jams rise and fall and move through a few segments with tonal and stylistic shifts until it disintegrates into a sparse feedback and noise jam before coming back as a rave up. I'm as predisposed as can be to enjoy this sort of thing and only found it only fine. Maybe more accessible but way less exciting than the same year's Live/Dead which does the dark spacey psych and the rave blues both way better. Mainstays of the San Francisco scene, I think they're very much a you had to be there kind of band, eclipse by their contemporaries. Favorite: Cavalry

Unengaging, stopped halfway

Rarely does a record give so much to listen to while being so boring to hear.

A long psychadelic jam session, I found the second side to be far kore interesting, as I actually enjoyed Mona into Maiden of the Cancer Moon into the very Muse-y Calvary. The first half was very boring and way too trippy for me to get into. Overall, ok album but I definitely don't plan on coming back any time soon.

ngl, this was a little boring 2/5

Maybe this just isn't for me but I found what is essentially just 45 mins of guitar solos a bit of a slog to get through

Old psych that the old heads are surely swooning over. Nothing too exciting here, I think.

Difícilmente volvería a oirlos

A little too hippy, jam band, esoteric for my tastes.

It is really hard to record a guitar jam and have make it have any sense without any context. The jam was okay. The rest of the songs were fine.

The first song on the album was a rendition of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love (a 25 minute rendition, broken down into 6 parts). Overall, a mid psychadelic rock album. Founded in good music, but the acid takes a hold of them a few times. I will say, I like their version of Who Do You Love way more than George Thorogood's Favorite songs: Who Do You Love - Pt. 1, Mona Least favorite songs: Where Do You Love 2/5

Guitar blues wankery with a side of acid. It’s boring as shit, goes nowhere, and is mostly only impressive as an artifact more than an actual cohesive album. I don’t really know why we’re supposed to care but at least the guitars sounded cool.

im sooooo high

Sounds like a fun live performance, also quite a bit like The Doors. Not that that's entirely a bad thing, and less organ-y, which is ok by me. Still...y tho?

boring

Nothing to dislike here, but it's just another boring instrumental album that fades into the background.

The first 25 minutes of this is a single track cover of a Bo Diddly song. If that sentence doesn't make you want to Bo Diddly your brains out, then I think we have wildly diverging tastes. The rest of it is actually not too bad, but by then, the damage is largely done.

Boooooring.

It was ok, but it didn't make me go crazy about it.

Not just indifferent, but reminds me of The Doors.

Love the similarly named song titles on side one. I liked the vibe of the album (very cowboy-esque) but it wasn't very interesting overall, which is a shame because the vocals were great and had potential

sub-Band and sub-Allman Brothers. Decent, but not wildly exciting.

Boring and bland. Nothing particularly stood out to me (except for Calvary’s middle section) and everything was a bit too long.

Blind album and artist. This album started do strong and I was ready for the epic journey, and then it just dragged. Hard... sucks but good song out of it I guess.

Too complex for me I'm afraid. And, because of that, basically a bit tedious. Perhaps if I were in the mood for it I'd have enjoyed it a bit more. I can't see myself listening again

Day475 - one of the most forgettable albums i’ve heard

Really good guitar skills, but this album was mostly directionless and honestly didn’t have any moments that stood out.

Just ok

Lyder merst af alt som psykedelisk blues, lidt for jammet til min smag

Kinda weird.

Experimental and interesting, though the attempt does not usually pay off. The first 6 tracks are pretty fun though, an unusual assortment of compositions playing off similar ideas. Everything else is either bland, or in the case of 'Cavalry', too long and unnecessary. Best Tracks: - Who Do You Love (Medley) Worst Tracks: - Calvary Rating: 4.5/10

This was some real acid rock hippie bullshit lol. There was a definite time and place for it, but it seems better to be playing in the background, not something in the foreground that you're focusing deeply on.

it was just noise

It started really really promising and I was excited and then all the improvisation like bits started and I did not enjoy it.

Sounds like one of the original jam bands. Sounded great , songs were meh.

Expected this to be country, but it’s more like hippie soul/rock. Repetitive but not too boring. Feel a bit like I’m in a trance. If I went to a musical festival and they were there, I’d be intrigued and stay for a couple songs, but not for the whole set.

Some good guitar licks but theres so much nothing that it bored me honestly

Ummm I think this just was funny. Who what when where why how to love… I don’t know this just kind of felt pointless and unnecessary to put on this list. Underwhelming, but not horrible.

Van Halen's version of Happy Trails was exponentially better. So. The entire first side/half is *entirely* an absurdly-extended live version of a Bo Diddley blues bop. This sounds exciting. ... Oh wait as it turns out the "Where You Love" portion meanders into endless Grateful Dead like noodling. Over 2 chords. So there's that, if that's your thing. Lots of chatter about this at least being a great extended guitar solo. Agree to disagree. Maybe it's not the solo's fault but a blues solo over 2 chords for 25 minutes that feels like 50.... eh there's not too much you can do. I'm thinking maybe a flute would have helped. Honestly it's hardly the worst thing I've heard but this sounds infinitely more like a personal recording of one's own band rehearsal/jam for them to listen to later IN PRIVATE to see if there was anything to dig out of the half-hour of directionless psychedelia to form into anything cohesive. I'll answer for them: there was not. Meh. I imagine it may have been a bit more exciting to have "been there" for this but it's truly a(nother) great example of why most live rock (or rock-adjacent) albums suck. 4/10 2 stars.

I found this album lacking. The guitars are cool. But it just felt like the drums and bass were on a boring loop.

I’m generally a fan of 60s rock music, but this was just mindless noodling. Not sure why it would be on the list. Not offensive, just boring

2 - it was ok but the noodling dragged on for way too long

I enjoyed the first side but it became tedious after that.

Not my cup of tea. I don't think psychodelic rock is my kind of thing. All those tracks sounds the same...

Too old school for me

Very Woodstock vibes. Long jam out rock sessions

Ok

I feel like I’ve heard this album 5 times on this list already

4.5/10. To me this is kinda just more mid country/rock from the 60s/70s that didn't really strike a chord with me. I liked who do you love parts 1 and 2 but the stuff in between just blends into one which is probably intentional but I didn't particularly like here. Some of the it was just eerie noises akin to the backing tracking to a suspenseful moment in a film. A couple of the later tracks may have caught my attention but I was already fairly clocked out by then.

I got lost in the jam band of it all. Wasn't my thing.

This isn't for me. I like songs on my albums, not a singular song or two that take entire sides of just jamming. I'm sure it's good, but it's not for me.

2- Stars (4/15)

Generic psych mindlessness. This is a much worse grateful dead Rating: 2.0

Sounds like a very long jam session that goes absolutely nowhere. Meh it was ok

This didn’t strike me as particularly skillful or innovative. It also kind of felt like one long song. I will give it this though, I cleaned house to it and it did the trick.

This album was fine. The first 6 "songs" were alright, but the highlight for me was Calvary. I loved some of the sounds it had, some of the cords, so it being 13 minutes didn't have too much of a bad taste for me. Did get weird at times, but still the best on here for me. That Happy Trails cover was terrible though. And you name the album after it? Buh. Overall, pretty solid listen. 2.5 Favorite Song: Calvary Least Favorite: Happy Trails

really on the fence between 2 and 3

not rly my vibe

Boring late 60s jamming

Концептуально наверное, но мэ

Nothing stood out to me on this album.

Goodish first half , then got tired of the guitar solos

The first half of this is just these guys jamming on 2 chords. Not unlistenable but kind of uninteresting

Another live jam album. Sloppy playing and over-long tracks.

Not my favorite.

I liked this initially, then it started to just sound like one, run-on song. I got bored with it.

Assim que vc coloca pra tocar, você se surpreende com a qualidade do produto. Mas o tempo vai passando e nada muda. Parece uma enorme repetição de tudo.

This sounds like the Doors doing verbose blues covers or the soundtrack to a new “Road House” sequel.

folk

This was just a band jamming. Minus point for the random screaming in the middle.

Постная неинтересная, но слушабальная хуйня. Чисто разный инструментал, считает в себе более старинные звуки, как будто балалайки и мушамуосиус в сочетании с загадочной музыкой, струнными, скрипами, колокольчиками. Звучит в разнобой и неинтересно. Каждый звук себе отдельно брынчит друг от друга. Не один трек не зацепил. Единственное к последней песне "happy trails" мне нравится партия свиста

I had never heard of this, and based on it being a live recording from both Fillmore East and Fillmore West in 1967 I figured it'd be pretty heady. Heady it is, I guess. This type of record certainly serves the purpose of just being an artifact from a specific time and scene, and if you look at it in that context, than it's a fine thing to include and listen to. But this is not nearly as far fucking out as people might think it. It's honestly pretty one note and pretty boring.

Of its time, yeah

I don't really know what to think about this. Sid one is a long jam on Bo Diddly's "Who Do You Love," and it has some fun moments. Overall I was far more irritated than inspired. The little guitar experiments - harmonic tapping, scraping the string, etc. - just annoying sonically. "Cavalry" was rhythmically inventive but, like the rest of the album, lacks energy. Noodling. Self-indulgent and doesn't add any value to the song. I guess this is then the perfect template for every country-rock flavored jam band that came after, so, good job?

This gets an extra star because there are a few good tracks on here. However, the filler between these good tracks is pretty weak.

Wow. What a surprisingly....eh album. Basically just a record of a really short song with an overly extended solo section. It's fine I guess but is really boring sometimes

Listening to this I keep wondering if a jam session of cover songs recorded live is actually an album. To me an album is a thought out, immersive experience. It tells you something about the artist, and the zeitgeist at that point in time. Does this do that? You could argue that they way they have changed the songs tells the story. I really don't know what to make of this one. I'm going to sleep on it and give it another spin tomorrow.

An enjoyable ride with it's own set of highs and lows. This felt more like a jam piece than a coherent album, which provided some good vibes but not a ton of substance. I thought everything from Who Do You Love pt1 to pt2 was awesome and the flow of it was magical, but the second half after that doesn't really stand out to me at all. Calvary in the second half and Where You Love in the first both feel FAR too long for their own worth and could have been a lot shorter and just as good. Instead, it makes the album drag on both sides.

This felt less fully formed as an album than just a live recording of a concert. It sounds like it would be a good time and the jamming was pretty good, but as an album experience it was relatively weak. The Who Do You Love Suite had both good and meh moments. When You Love and Which Do You Love I really liked, but I didn’t care for Where You Love.

Jam band. Maybe my least favorite kind of music. Well, maybe not but close.

Not terrible just long

I saw the album cover and was expecting perfection. Alas.

It gets off to a good start with the Cover of "Who Do You Love", its actually really good which I wasn't expecting from an instrumental cover. Second track was ok too but it just starts getting boring the more tracks are played. It delves further and further into noodling on the guitar. They are clearly talented but I'm just not a big fan of long guitar solos. By the time "Who do you love part 2" comes on I was pretty much done with the album.

Not my cup of tea.

Not a bad listen, but not super interesting. Standout song: Mona

There was about 15 minutes of very impressive technically proficient playing on this album and then a whole lot of repetitive droning, sound effects, and far too much actual silence. It’s like a live recording where they were just awkwardly waiting for one another to take the lead, or they didn’t edit out the dead air when one of them left to take a piss. The best moment is the weird 90-second country pastiche right at the end, like the closing credits to a cowboy show - it has nothing to do with anything that came before but is quite fun

It’s like Grateful Dead lite but endless noodling.

All guitar not a lot of variety

What the fuck? It's just the same thing over and over and over again, like the Dead at their most stoned.

Fredagstråd! Det bliver liiiiidt langtrukkent.

Jazzy vibes, but didnt really work for me

S'ok. Didn't think you can get a whole album side doing. cover of BoDiddly. Original stuff not as good

Who could possibly want a 25-minute jam cover of Who Do You Love?

Almost an hour of dumb blues solos.

Okay, this album isn't THAT bad, but... I mean, I can't believe the challenge took this album as a candidate for 1969. I mean, it's not even a great choice for Quicksilver Messenger Service itself. That's a live jam album.

Like the Doors but boring.

It wasn't that this was awful, because it's not. It's definitely music. It's just pretty much a 45 minute jam session, which I'm not really into. If you are into stuff like the Grateful Dead and Phish you might like this a lot more than I did.

Not for me

2,5

This album was fine. It was a fun concept as a jam album but it seemed to not really go anywhere. I was entertained for the first half until "Who Do You Love Pt.2" and then got bored. Calvary is too long. Their cover of Happy Trails was BAD and Van Halen's is WAY better lol

Didn’t find much joy here.

jesus christ that was annoying, I assume i would not have noticed if i were tripping balls

5/10

Well that was something right? The band just riffed on "Who Do You Love". At first, I thought it was a cool outro. Then I thought it was one side. Then I realized it was both sides of the record. It's fine getting into a groove for a little, but I mean, was this entirely necessary? We are three albums away from the end, and I was hoping to end on more of a solid note than this. Favorite track: "Who Do You Love?"

Not enjoying this at all

Pre-listening thoughts: have once again never heard of this band or album. I kinda rock with the album cover though Post/during listening thoughts: These songs seem to lack focus (on anything! But mainly) on lyrics/vocals and instead direct the listener to the guitarist at almost any given moment. Any other member of the band feels like a side piece. I didn’t even notice we transitioned songs between tracks 1-2. Oh Christ this is gonna just be one long song isn’t it. Well f*ck me. Psychedelic rock you always know how to piss me off 3/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: NO STOP PUTTING PSYCHEDELIC ROCK ON THIS LIST! The most pointless genre of music and I’m NOT sorry for that opinion. I would’ve hated Woodstock lol Fav tracks: Happy Trails Least fav tracks: When You Love, Where You Love, How You Love, Which Do You Love, Mona, Maiden of the Cancer Moon, Calvary

Love love love part 3 love do you love? No I didn't

1. you love - 1.5 2. uuhen - 1.5 3. uuhere - 1 4. houu - 2 5. uuhich - 1 6. uuho - 2 7. mona - 2 8. maiden - 1 9. calvary - 2 10. happy - 1.5

Alright but what in the actual fuck is "Where You Love"? Way too experimental with screeching guitars and feedback that never led anywhere. Who Do You Love is fun but still, it's a cover. May have been a more groundbreaking album back in the 60s, but doesn't hold up as well today...and this is a genre that should be right up my alley. 4/10 (2/5)

Much like a zinfandel, this is boring jammy shite.

Why? Why? Why?

Yea whatever.

Sprawling rock jazz jam.

I like the concept of every song bleeding into each other to make one song. I just wish I liked the song it produced here more. A little too slappa da base energy for me.

I don't really know what to say about this album. It really didn't stick with me.

🎧Lots of boring/annoying/noodling guitar jamming. Not a fan. First part of Who Do You Love cover is alright.

Had never heard of this band. Some of it was ok but most of it was over indulgent noodling. Have not kept it in the library after I listened to it. Enough said.

Nah thanks.

Really enjoyed bits of this. Really hated other bits. It was always so close to being great. Then just got a bit too out there. 2.3

Its ok 2/10

Oh dear, this is somewhat self-indulgent. I guess they had fun recording it - and some excellent guitar. But just quite a tiresome listen.

'Who Do You Love' is a classic tune but there are better versions. Then it's endless bluesy 60s guitar noodling....yawn. It says everything that my favourite song here is the 90 second closer 'Happy Trails', a quirky drunken Cowboy Song.

Some mates sat down and found out they were decent at guitar so found a recorder and got cracking. Sounds alright but there’s no reason to re-listen to this.

Lets say you give a blues rock band hallucinogenic drugs and ask them to paint the sky with the sounds they can make. The result? Intermission music to play whilst waiting for Jim Morrison to return to the stage. .... I kept expecting it to launch.

Scene: interior, wood paneled record company office, 1968. A fat, besuited record company executive chews on a cigar, feet on the mahogany desk. A minor flunky enters the room. "The kids are going crazy for these psycho-deelia bands these days. We should get one for our label. How about the Doors?" "Well, sir, the Doors are already signed to Elektra. And the singer is, how shall I say, not really camera ready these days." "Ok, who else have you got that sound like the Doors?" (Flunky checks notes) "Well, sir, I've got the Quicksilver Messenger Service." "Sounds like a bicycle courier company. Are they any good?" "Up to a point, sir." "Are they cheap?" "Well, yes, they _are_ cheap." "Done. Sign them immediately. Now peel me some grapes." I am angry at having to sit through this record. It has all the worst aspects of 60s psychedelic 'live' albums (interminable solos, including extended bass and drum solos, out of tune guitars, dodgy studio overdubs) but none of the energy or verve. I was stunned to read this quote from Greil Marcus' rapturous contemporary review of this record in Rolling Stone: "They use the infamous Bo Diddley rhythm not as a crutch, not as something for the rhythm section to play with while the lead takes it; Quicksilver finds dimensions of that 'bump buddy bump bump — bump bump' beat that no one has even suggested before, as they stretch it, bend it, move around it, as a motif or a bridge, as an idea rather than as a pattern." This confirms my opinion that Greil Marcus is a pretentious dickhead with absolutely no understanding of rock and roll. The extended workouts on Who Do You Love and Mona show me that QMS also had no idea about what rock and roll really is. Their sloppy, ham-fisted, unfocussed take on the riff demonstrates everything that is wrong with this record. They don't understand that a minute and half of honest 'bump buddy bump bump -- bump bump' does more for the heart (and the hips) than all the wanky solos in the world. I hope Bo Diddley got paid, at least.

This album is pretty much one 50 minute song, which would be kind of cool if that song weren't so goddamn boring.

Packt mich nicht.

hvítingjar spila blús af þó nokkrum krafti. svo sem mér að meinalausu en ekki eftirminnilegt eða skemmtilegt. mjög eftir bókinni.

It had its moments, but just a lot of meandering psychedlic-ish guitar stuff.

Va så kjedelig så eg hørte bare første halvdel

Here we go! Just some good, clean, non-drug induced music. I pretty much let this one play in the background while I worked. Nothing jumped out at me, but I did find myself liking Calvary.

Journalists Quicksilver Messenger Service don't just ask WHO do you love, but they make their English teachers proud by making this intial statement and adding the WHEN, WHERE, HOW, and WHICH supporting sentences before concluding by repeating their main point: WHO. These brilliance of these architects of the essay form ends there though. I wouldn't be surprised if the guitarist was in the mixing room, being sure he was turned up enough. One can barely hear the singer, which may be for the better based on such pedestrian lyrics as "I need you baby and it ain't no lie/Oh, without your lovin' I'd surely die." The skillset of the muscians is evident, but largely uninspired. When they finally break from the exposé on love, they go straight into a song with the same key while the drummer plays the same prevailing Bo Diddley beat as the previous 25 minutes. I believe "Happy Trails" is the best song on here. Though this cover is poorly sung, it IS expertly whistled. At least it provides a much needed change in direction. The next song that auto-played after this album was a banger called "Cobra" by this same group. Evidently they can put together something focused and less meandering, but we don't see it here.

This one was ok. I'd never heard of the band. The sounds on it reminded me a bit of Cream. Nothing ground breaking though, just a pretty basic continuous jam album. Nothing really jumped out at me as being particularly special.

2 stars. was hoping for cowboy ballads based on the cover.

Classic rock and roll - didn't do a lot for me.

Gear: Meze 109 PRO Artwork: 🐎🤠👋 Mix: 🐎🤠👋 Musik: 🐎🤠👋 Wertung: 🐎🤠(👋)/5

non so cosa mi spinga a non dare una stella. veramente. c'è qualcosa di (molto) vagamente salvabile, anche se non riesco a capire cosa sia.

Non so cosa mi trattenga dal dare 1

I ate some delicious spicy ramen noodles for dinner tonight so I was actually good on noodles ... unfortunately this album delivered almost nothing but noodles. noodles in this style, noodles in that style. unending noodles. a strega nonna pasta pot of noodles. 🍜

A country western light rock album entry

Best Song: Who Do You Love Pt. 1. Certainly the most "alive" part of the album. Worst Song: Where You Love. There's barely any song here. It's just random noises, mostly. Overall: Is it just that I lack the experience/vocabulary for this old prog rock? What makes this album noteworthy over any of the others? From my naive listening, it doesn't go in any particularly interesting direction, it doesn't seek to maintain focus on a particular theme to do something cool with it, it just kind of dithers around for a while and then moves inexplicably on to a new thing. I'm sure if I was in the same (psychoactive) headspace as the musicians I'd have a better time, but this album imply sounds boring to sober ears.

Not really my "jam"

Half the album is a single 25m-long jam with bloated noodly solos over 2 chords. If you're not a superfan of 60s psychedelic bands (or high) this gets old pretty quick. The rest of the songs are mostly equally uninteresting jams (save for a short metal-esque bit in Maiden (appropriate)), ending with a weird cowboy tv show theme w/ bad vocals. Pass.

This album is on the list but nothing by Bo Diddley? Really?

I started off liking but then got confused. It has some interesting jams, but I didn't really see how it connected or how it was really an album. It felt like some guys that are trippin and just playing their instruments. Don't get me wrong they are talented, but I just didn't get it as a collective piece. Which at first isn't a big thing but after looking into the album more the reason it is popular because of what it is as a collective album. I liked Mona and Who Do you Love - Pt. 2, but I didn't get how those really connected with Calvary or Which Do you Love.

Didn't care for this much. There's a term for this type of guitaring that I reserve for only when it's truly deserved. "Wankery"

Didn't really like it

This is a hard album to figure out. On one hand there’s some great musicianship. But most of the vocals I don’t care for. It feels meandering for most of it. It’s not aggressively terrible. But there were long stretches I zoned out completely and forgot I was even listening to an album. 2.5/5

2 stars for this jam. 5 stars for the jar of Guava jam I just bought, so good.

Some cool moments on the A side and in Cavalry, but the most part this is just an album of sound and fury signifying not much of anything, with lots of (improvisational, from the sound of it) instrumentalization that goes nowhere in particular.

I think this album needs some context. Guitar work is pretty sick sometimes. Didn’t know this is where “who do you love” comes from.

This is definitely a 60's rock record.

Rolling stoned.

bo dawdly

Boring, that's all I have to say about it. I expected some nice cowboy tunes, but instead got run-of-the-mill prog rock. Nothing awful, mind. Just unremarkable.

Rambling.

If I were 22, stoned and at the Fillmore, this would be divine. As I'm not, it's just an artifact.

Bleh. A bland, 30 minutes of riffing on Bo Diddley, followed by little of interest.

Bunch of pointless noodling for 50 minutes with no direction. It's like sitting down and listening to the guy playing a guitar at the subway. I guess it's better than the Grateful Dead album I had, but I would still throw rotten tomatoes at them and call them stinky.

The last track is unironically my favorite, not only because it's the only track that delivers what it should deliver, but also it's the shortest one. This is in stark contrast with the rest of the album, composing of excruciatingly long instrumental noodling. Psychedelic people doing this should have known that it only works when it is interesting.

This was just a rambling mess of guitar wankery. I don't mind a bit of guitar wankery, but this was just pedestrian.

Dated.

okay

some highlights but too self-indulgent

They obviously need more LSD.

When the Lone Ranger looking album turns out to be a Psychedelic, you gotta go with it. Not horrible but I wouldn’t seek it out. The band is technical and stiff, they need to loosen up and have some fun.

Started as solid blues-inspired psychedelic rock (great!) which devolved into a long winded jam session. Not my thing.

As far as jam band rock goes, it’s good. As a whole, I grew bored to tears with the riffs on the blues classic.

Just ok for me, nothing stood out.

Not bad but meandering and ultimately kind of goes nowhere.

More prog. Wasn't awful but not what I was in the mood for

2/5

An unknown album from this era and it's alright. But ultimately I don't really get on with instrumentals

Nope. Boring noodling. Why?

I wouldn’t call this one an album, it’s really like a handful of really long songs. It’s not bad or anything, the jam band thing just really wasn’t ever for me. Maybe they’re significant, but I couldn’t tell you why.

hmmm more rock psychadelic rock its ok

I just can't with the jam band stuff.

Not for me

They’re good at what they do, but they only do that one thing for nearly an hour. It’s a good groove at first, then you let it fade to being background music, and when it inevitably hits your conscious thoughts again you wonder very strongly, “How the fuck am I still listening to this same song??” Then you realize it’s track 7 and you were roused from ignoring the music because the six track thematic opening ended. That seems like good news, but it really is somehow still the same song, just called something else. This list is way too 60s heavy. Not every band making 14 minute improvised songs needs to be heard. I would argue most of them absolutely don’t need to be. Like it has its interesting moments, but they’re interspersed with such long periods of absolute dross that the payoff isn’t worth it. Makes for good samples. Makes for decent music in a movie scene. As a whole listen, though? Only if you have the required narcotics.

As someone who generally loves '60s-'70s jam band rock, but had never listened to Quicksilver Messenger Service before, I was pretty excited to listen to this album, and I was all ready to contradict all the other bad reviews. But... they're right. This album is just kinda meh. Kinda boring. It just drags on. Some interesting guitar here and there, but not much else. Maybe I just don't like acid rock? Would much rather the Allman Brothers or Grateful Dead for extended jam tracks.

Jammy background noise.

It’s a mood, great to put on in the background, but it didn’t terribly impress me. I don’t think it particularly stands out against their contemporaries.

Yeah… definitely not my jam. Struck me as second-rate Doors knockoffs but missing that Door’s spark of kooky mysticism and general dark mystery. Came off as just endless long-form psychedelic noodling. Maybe they were better live.

Snoozefest

Meandering

Pretty bad honestly. I hate music that goes nowhere and it sounds like they don’t know where the music should be going either. Went in with high hopes. Rating: 1.9

Interesting enough, doubt I'll listen to it again though.

- On the one hand, I like the sound. I would argue that it is a generic psychedelic rock sound, but this is probably because Quicksilver Messenger Service is foundational to that sound. - But the first half of this album is one jam session that goes on for 30 minutes...I am admittedly done after five have passed. - It may be important. I found it boring.

I enjoyed the first half. A continuous development on a classic song over 5 movements that always monitor their virtuosic playing with the knack for hooks? Sure it somewhat loses its focus but count me in. The second half, however, nosedives in quality. The track mona was pointless and indulgent with no intrigue whatsoever. Then the album completely goes off the rails with the 13 minute cavalry which will leave you with absolutely no recollection of what happened even at its grandiose runtime. Then the album ends with a miserable county pastiche cover which is the records title track. This second half completely derails a great start to the album and sadly leads the album to exemplify everything wrong with 60s psychedelia. Too bad.

60s hippie music…

Gillar man gitarrer så är det här skivan för dig.

Mäßiger Psychedelic Rock.

some good instrumentals but not my thing

"album vo hüt bitz rotz?" - luca denn freu ich mich doch ufs album, wo zumindest funny usgseht han gfunde ich tun albumcover au rate und das isch HARD, ich liebe zeichneti albumcover und weg de rote schattierig han ich gmeint s ross isch es GÜGELI who do you love findi schomal guet und de übergang zu when you love findi sehr geil schad hets mit dem "...love" nöd ganz durrezoge hahaha jaa momentan isches sehr es guets morgealbum sber chanmer au vorstelle, falls das gitarregedudel jz no 45 wiiter so gaht, chönnts au alt werde oke vlt wirds das ja aso moment ischs basically eis lied will d übergäng merktmer nöd oke luca langsam chan ich dier nachempfinde wiso hend mier in letschter ziit iwelchne bandprobe müsse lose? isch ja cool und alles hie und daa aber joa mona findi wieder chli besser, s het chli meh struktur? vlt hani das au s gfühl wegem gsang oke fürs 13 minute lied gits es 2 ich han kei bock meh

Bizarre….

Nurdle - nowhere near baked enough to enjoy this, and not sure I would want to listen to it even if I was

Needed to be tripping on LSD to enjoy

This reminded me of lots of different bands: Grateful Dead, Allman Bros, the Doors,Steve Miller band, CCR… and I kept thinking I would rather been listening to those bands instead. Liked the A-side treated much like 1 long jam, B-side definitely more disjointed. Added ‘Who do you love pt 1’ to my list as I enjoyed the first half more. Unfortunately this album is quite forgettable for me, even though I didn’t hate it

Decent guitar stuff on here. Psychedelic jam band - meh.

I have, at this point, completed 730 albums. Long gone are the days where each morning provided promise of something exciting and new. I now trudge blindly through the endless desert sands of indistinguishable guitar riffs, noodled by equally-indistinguishable men, that dominated the late 60s and early 70s. I hear nothing. I feel nothing. I yearn for water. But there is only Happy Trails.

This type of music is not my cup of tea at all.

At the start of the album it sounded like this might be a unique 60's rock sound, but eventually it kind of just veered into jam band territory and I quickly lost interest.

Didn't think I needed a 25-minute interpretation of Bo Diddley's \"Who Do You Love?\" and I was right. 1.5/5

#95. This shit ain't it. If you're gonna put out an album that's some drawn out live jam band bullshittery, you should at least play your own songs and not some terrible cover of someone else's song, yeah? I think its pretty obvious why no one has heard of this before. What's less obvious is why/how it made it onto this list. 2/5: nah

Albums like this make me wonder about the criteria for inclusion on this list. Does an album have to be popular? Influential? Innovative? Good? Who knows, because this is none of those.

Sounds like teenager, garage band, self indulgent shite.

Waste of time

If enjoy long drawn out guitar jams, shapeless song compositions with endless self indulgent guitar noodling, this is the album for you! I would have to be drunk (or stoned) out of my head to really enjoy this, but I'm not sure it would help unless you were in the mood. You have to admire the effort and clearly these guys have talent, but can't understand why this would be considered essential? Happy trails...on to the next!

Promising start then monotonous twanging.

Not my thing but was a very interesting listening.

Some good songs mixed with some plodding ones where they seemed to be having fun but I wasn't. Maybe groundbreaking at the time?

This album feels a little noodly and not in a cool jazz way, in the way that 4 guys in their garage noodle together. There are some cool parts but it is overshadowed by the guitarist's less than interesting improvisation

Oh good more wonky live bullshit from a non-canon 60s American band. We’ll see if I get through this one. I can’t do it. These fucking sloppy, self-indulgent guitar solos are killing me. Time to listen to Leonard Cohen instead.

not good enough

Decent quality of sound, but not really remarkable

Thunka thunka thunka cow boy music.

kinda boring rock-n-roll

It's fine. Not bad music, but there is no reason this album should be in the book. This is an excellent example of those who chose these albums having fond memories of the band and it influencing their decision on whether to include it. Dropping acid and making out with a girl at a Quicksilver Messenger Service concert, that has to make the band a must-listen? Right? Awful name for a band, bad cover and just generally boring, inconsequential music. They are a jam band who covered blues very competently. Throw a rock and you may hit a similar band.

I found this album quite tough going. It starts off with 20 odd minutes of instrumental music which just sounded a bit repetitive. I don't know where the album was heading and it just kinda meandered with not a great deal of spirit. I saw other reviews which gave it 5 stars and I'm baffled by that. It may have been trying to be quirky and a bit alternative but I just didn't see, or more importantly, hear it.

Le service Quicksilver n'est vraiment plus ce qu'il était... Le fartage de la planche est complétement bâclé, la wax mal aposée, et que dire de la qualité de la pose d'aileron... À fuir

Aika tylsä, vaikka ihan lupaavia loppu-60-luku-elementtejä oli. Instrumentaalisuus oli omaperäistä, tai no ainakin askelta muita edellä. Ihan kivoja fantasiamaisia melodioita. Mutta: tylsä lopputulos.

ganska meh

Very samey, not a word I know

Not a fan of this one I'm afraid. Sounds like a jam band, and I do like them, but this one was just quite rambling and all over the place.

2/5 Really nothing to say.

It felt like one, very long, song.

The extra long jam session of Who Do You Love was fun. That long track in the second half really dragged. I don't know, it was fine

Hippie rock

Kinda jammy but not the worst thing

Does some interesting stuff but gets a bit annoying after a while.

Ik denk: leuk, weer zo'n jaren zestig-bluesrockbandje, maar al snel ontaardt het in kunstzinnig-psychedelisch gesnor. Had voor mij niet gehoeven. De boodschap komt niet bepaald met de snelheid van kwikzilver aan.

This was incredibly dull to the point that I kept forgetting I even had music on because I completely tuned it out. Really bland and generic.

This is a classic psychedelic rock album that I always had managed to avoid, as I thought it would be boring. This happens to be correct. The music is not bad, but the album is a struggle to listen to in one go. Won't play again in the future (necessary condition for a +3 score).

This feels like an endless jam in which all band members are allowed to display their skills. I guess they had a good time but I don't care.

If you read the track titles, its like who, when, where, how, which (do) you love? And it seems like the answer is the name of the next track- Mona. Music is good, however, half of any track is only instrumental. It's almost like the lead singer forgot to sing and remembered only towards the end that he had some lines to sing. Nice, but will I listen to it again? Maybe not

2.75

Niets om over naar huis te schrijven, dus dat doe ik dan maar niet.

Lekker jammen met zijn allen!

Over half of this album is the same song just played slightly differently each time. Almost a quarter of it is a single song/fever dream. Maybe I just don't get it. Track highlight: Maiden of the Cancer Moon

Interesting album. It didn't keep my attention as much as it should have. There's alot of nice noodling on guitar and good musicianship, but overall when I was done with it, I was happy enough. It's a high two. 2/5

This was okay, but not really feeling it.

Concept album about love and happy trails I guess...

52/100

Listened all the way through anticipating the part I had to hear. Finished none the wiser. Definitely could have done without the cover of Happy Trails. Ouch.

forgetable album. here the same style but better. i guess ca la inspiré du monde. 4.5/10

It's hard to get too excited about a 26 minute psychedelic jam band cover of a Bo Diddley song. This is an album that needs to be considered in the context that it was originally performed. It may have been significant at the time for helping to establish the genre, but doesn't hold up compared to some of their contemporaries like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Not a terrible album, but not one that I'd return to.

Not too bad, not too good.

Meh

This felt like one quick song followed by 45 minutes of jams. It was probably meant to be enjoyed live at Woodstock tripping balls in 1971

Eka biisi lupaili parempaa mitä toimitti. Perus yksi kerta riittää, kiitos.

Tämäkin ihan ok, sen suurempia tunteita herättämättä meni taustalla ajaessa

basically butt rock of its time. hippy dippy jam shit. pretty cohesive at pretty compared to a lot of Dead stuff but still pretty boring and forgettable. Moana was probably the dumbest track for sure…..very butt rocky. can i make luurv to you once in a while 😎 gee so creative LMAO. the title track was cute.

So much better stuff came out of San Francisco in the 60s this just ain't it

It was kind of bland.

Alright at times.

Average hippie bullshit

Some amazing moments, but kind of buried in there.

psychedelic tinged blues rock with a jam band sensibility. while they’re very talented, not my thing.