Happy Trails

boring as piss

Don't bother

First impressions: How do you open an album with so much meandering guitar? This is hardly designed to draw me in, is it? Three songs in: I'm in the middle of the "Love" part of the album. Not sure if the music matches the thematic concept, as I am feeling the exact opposite emotion. Six songs in: There's no way this guy fucks with barbed wire or has any clothing made from rattlesnakes. Nine songs in: The "love" concept has given way to other tracks, also horrible. Last song: Is this a Western campfire ballad? This also sucks, but an entire album of this would've been better than what I just listened to.

I tried, I really did

# 456 : 24/04/2025 : Happy Trails A two line bio and the first few reviews don't give me much confidence in this LP. Alas it lived up to its hype. Another album which makes you reconsider whether there are as many as 1,001 albums you MUST listen to before you die.

After listening to Live/Dead, I can't condone this white boy behavior. An entire 20+ minutes of a shitty Bo Diddley cover/jam? No fuckin' thanks. The rest of the album outside of that isn't even good to help bring the rating up a bit. The audacity of these '60s jam bands to be so boring while simultaneously thinking they're cool as hell is the only impressive thing about this. If I saw this live I would demand a refund. 3/10

What the fuck is this?? A psychedelic cover band?? We can do without it on this list. 3.7/10

Noodeling, noodeling, more noodeling - I guess you have to be high to enjoy this live recording. As if you get to listen to the same song over and over again. Yawn - incredibly monotonous, tiring and boring.

Ughhhhh late 60s psychadelic rock ughhhhhhh more late 60s psychadelic rock AHHHHHHH I'M SO SICK OF LATE 60S PSYCHADELIC ROCK AHHHHHHHHH

Sorry not for me

infinite jam

Free form psychedelic rock. Instrumental and all over the place. I couldn’t listen to it. Shoot the messenger!

A big gap between QMS and other bands that command this genre so much better. Songwriting is not the most important aspect of the music I listen to but you have to at least try to. Would not listen to again.

Hard listen. Sloppy, musicians must’ve been really high or drunk

Nah.

An album that might be a must for guitar players, but does not need to be heard by anyone else. I was shocked to learn that this still has not been removed from later editions of the book by the authors. Perplexing. So many truly fantastic, amazing, great albums that are not on this list only to waste a spot on something as unworthy as this. /smh

Time I won’t get back

Boring. Every song sounded the same. Hardly any lyrics which was fine because the lyrics they did add was meaningless. Couldn’t wait for this album to end!

Generic run of the mill psychedelic rock. Doesn't add much to the conversation.

This has a clear sound of its time. By that I mean that its music that people certainly loved at the time it was created and people who listened to it back then still have fond memories about it. I would say that for the rest of us this feel outdated. I don't really know what to class this ass, rock? Folk? something in between before the genres were what they became maybe. Perhaps this album was the inspiration that created the albums that I would call timeless? There is maybe a hint of something with the guitar riffs and the style of singing. While a nice snapshot of 1969 its not something I will listen to again.

jam shit! Jeg kunne ikke lide det! Første halvdel var mere til at holde ud end anden halvdel.

Booooooo!

I don't like instrumental songs much. I also don't like music with freaky off-putting sounds. This album is filled with both. There's a few normal sounding songs but most of it is not my cup of tea.

Pointless.

Also not for me

Did not finish… for a very good reason

eh, not a fan

Long and tiresome, unnoticeable background noise.

did not feel it

Experimental rock vamping on the Bo Diddley rhythm, pretty boring

terrible all solo guitars no vocals, i can appreciate it but it just seems like a practicing album which doesn't appeal to me, poor.

Less than half baked jam session exploiting the 60's "Love" theme and riffing off the Bo Diddley song that is infinitely superior to anything on this mess, no need to ever listen again.

Rubbish. More of a jam than an album. It’s like they hadn’t actually written anything before they sat down and pressed record.

Livealbum

I’d much rather listen to Henry Ramsay than this self-indulgent noodly shite.

First time listen is my only time listening to it overly long version of Who Do You Love (there are better versions out there) and the second side is self indulgent wank.

Unfocused guitar noodling. Random noises. God save us from late sixties San Francisco jam bands. If I could give this less than one star, I would.

That was terrible.

Pallosissimo, questo ad ora batte Bert Jansch come album più brutto tra gli ascoltati (ne ho sentiti 21 quindi non tantissimi però rimane brutto)

Dreadfully annoying

Probablemente, uno de los álbumes más aburridos que he escuchado en esta lista. ¿El éxito comercial es lo único que te hace ser digno de pertenecer a este selecto grupo de 1001 álbumes de los miles de millones que se han lanzado en todo el mundo hasta la fecha? Este disco no debería estar en la lista; no influenció a nadie y nadie se inspirará escuchando. Este no es más que una cápsula de tiempo de la psicodelia de finales de los '60s, la cual en muchas ocasiones es excesiva, enfocándose más en improvisaciones que en composiciones. Si puede, sálteselo, no es para nada fundamental en ningún catálogo.

Yesterday's was Creedence Clearwater Revival, then this today... I'm ready to be a conscientious objector.

Whenever anyone says about an album, “this is so timeless, it could have been released today” I always think that’s bullshit. Music almost always sounds of its time. But I think I’ve found the exception. Jam bands have not advanced one iota in 55 years. The very few times I have heard Phish or Goose or moe or Umphreys McGee by accident or morbid curiosity, they have sounded exactly like this. And I don’t mean, quite similar to this. I mean, I think jam bands might get on stage and pretend to play instruments but are actually just playing records from other jam bands over the sound system and their tapioca-brained fans don’t realize it. I’ve heard the theory that lawyers and accountants and middle managers aren’t really necessary to an economy and are really just make-work to ensure that mediocre children of rich people have jobs. I’m starting to think that jam bands are that for 20 to 50-year old bandnerd potheads. Nobody needs these bands to make new records because it’s just the exact same shit that every other jam band has made for the last 60 years, but who’s going to let an unemployed smelly nerd who won’t stop talking about polyrhythms crash on their couch for a decade? Nobody. So those dudes have got to have some kind of job and so we keep needing jam bands to scoop up 6 of them and put them on a bus to travel around taking drugs and sleeping with a parade of hairy foul-smelling whippet-addicted women and playing the exact same songs that every other jam band has played for the past fifty years. This garbage may have sounded good in the Fillmore East to people tripping on acid, but I’m in my kitchen eating Frosted Mini-Wheats, so it sucks.

This is definitely a 60's rock record.

Another self-indulgent wankfest like Allman Brothers. Not my sort of music

No idea how this made the top 1001. I can think of so many albums that are better than this. Tracks 1-3 were confusing. I felt like I was waiting for something to happen. Very odd jazz with guitar solos. I will score this a 2 though as I loved the cover of Mona, the album got better after track 6 Favourite song: Mona Least favourite: All of them Album artwork: Odd

If you like jam bands you can jam this record up your ass. That is where it belongs.

These guys were definitely seeing trails. There is a cliche that some of the best music is made by people on drugs. Sometimes that can be very true. For this album, that popular Verve song springs to mind. Didn't work for this album

Why, exactly, do I "need" to hear this album? There's nothing interesting about this. I couldn't force myself to pay attention and gave up about six minutes in.

How did this make the list?

boring ahh hell

Not good

Mais um que escutei para seguir com a lista, só que nem lembro quase nada do som.

Had to turn it off after 20 minutes of a very poor cover of who do you love.

I don’t like it

1.5

I thought this was going to be a country album. It wasn't. It was fucking boring. That little Happy Trails cover at rhe end rubbed me the wrong way. I wanted some country gold that I had never uncovered before and this was just not anything that I wanted.

Most of this sounded like the stoner group's band at a high school talent show.

I'm not familiar with this album or artist, but judging by the cover, I assumed this album was country our country-adjacent, and I was excited for something a little different. Well, I got something different, but not in the way that I'd hoped. I was not expecting this album to be psychedelic rock. Psychedelic rock is pretty hit or miss with me, and this album was a pretty big miss. I'm not a big fan of George Thorogood, but I much prefer his rendition of "Who Do You Love?" to the suite that the band has on this album. It was completely drawn out, and not even that interesting to listen to. The side two songs weren't much better, but at least "Calvary" was somewhat interesting. I really don't understand why this album is on the list, and I can't find any redeeming qualities in it. Pretty much a bore from start to finish.

This HAS to hold the record for most guitar wanking on an album of all time. Total 100% wank fest. Nothing happens except the wank.

What? How is this album on this list?

An album where there are 4 mic checks bookending the 2 actual songs on the album. The psychedelia here is manufactured at best too. There's simply no reasonable way to consider this a foundational album to recorded music. There are plenty, plenty of early psychedelia albums that can take the place of this boring mess.

- i love the happy trails song but it was not enough to redeem this one for me

ok experimentelle bluesrock? ok s publikum macht mit? sie mega jammy bois. ha irgendwie wenig z sege finds nöd scheisse aber au nöd super, sie jammed afoch und da findi nöd soo spannend.

Not my thing - prog rock but too slow & boring

Nobody needs a 22 minute jam on the Bo Diddly Beat.

whoever decided on the 1001 albums list is in love with jam bands. I am not.

Not worth the time of day.

Just didn't really vibe with it

01) Who Do You Love Suite - 4,5 02) Mona - 5,5 03) Maiden Of The Cancer Moon - 4,0 04) Calvary - 3,5 05) Happy Trails - 4,0 TOTAL: 4,30 (43/100)

Tietävät, mikä on Bo Diddley-biitti, mutta häpeävät salaa sitä, etteivät kykene säveltämään biisin biisiä.

Not relevant to anything at all. Just a group of guys practicing their instruments. I could do better myself. No thank you.

By the time I got to the 5th song that was titled “____ you love” I said “Oh fuck you” out loud and was resigned to not enjoying this album. Boring hippie jazz bullshit.

Nuuudy

According to Wikipedia this band was hugely influential in the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene. I’ll have to take their word for it, because this album doesn’t live up to that reputation.

Could not get into this at all.

Neatly managed transitions can't make me care about this. Note: Competent studio techs were at work in '69. Note: The coda makes a fun listen appropriate to the list.

I will never complain about how indulgent, noodly and length that Allman Brothers double live album is. Imagine all the skill, fire and interest removed from it and that's what we have here. How is this on this list when 90s scenesters EMF are Unbelivably not?

Nah. I do not like blues jamming in the slightest. At least this had sections, and it didn’t actively bother me, but it’s just jamming, and not unique. Having an entire side be a 25-minute version of a two chord song was a fun idea that never should have gotten past that phase. Not very good at not at all memorable, the only reason I’m not extremely mad about getting two one stars so close is because in between I had Pet Sounds.

Well, I listened to it. They seemed to be enjoying themselves. Probably. Another of the list of very American albums that don't travel, certainly not as far as these ears.

How to make Bo Diddley sound terrible. Listen to side one of this dreck. I have to imagine the consortium who made the choices of which album appeared in this book took a whole whack of drugs back in the day. The only explanation why this monstrosity made this list. Ugh!

Nah, I'm at the point where o just can't be bothered with any more jam bands. Buhbye

I have no idea what to expect Boring psychadelia That's a no from me dawg 1

What even is this?!

If I want Bo Diddley I'd get out a Bo Diddley album. I think they mis-spelt 'Trails' here. The beauty of Bo is that he gets straight to the point. This sounded like an extended jam session on some not very interesting stimulants. It didn't really work in the Thursday evening post-work downtime slot. The Morricone-esque tune near the end warrants one star, though.

Oh joy - another pub rock outtake. This album dragged. Complete nonsense and nothing to draw me back in. CHANGE IT.

This album is basically. An embarrassment to the general huge fan of psych and all sixties and seventies rock however this. Has terrible writing terrible production. No arrangement intricacies whatsoever and doesn't. Really offer anything above what can be described as musical sound

A rock band that disappoints isn’t too common for me but this is what happens when you have an album consist of mainly just one song. The same guitar riffs the same beat. It just continued. How many times can someone ask who do you love. I don’t quite get why this album is on this list. This was repetitive and not worth a listen. 3.2/10

It was okay, not one I'll go back to.

This stupid site skipped right over Public Enemy for me and instead showed me this mofo all day for the past 2 days. Grrr. Intellectually speaking I like the experiment of what is essentially an album consisting of one single extended song. (See: Sleep's "Dopesmoker.") Emotionally, I just wish it was any song other than this one. And the sloppy cover of "Happy Trails" doesn't count. Some good guitar playing here and there, and then some utterly obnoxious guitar playing there and here. This is not my jam.

I did not need to hear this album.

this is the first album in over 400 where i had to skip a track because of how much i wanted it to be over (calvary) fuck this boring trash

Guitar dumb diddling

Wanky

Not the worst thing I’ve listened to, but what’s with this cover stuff? Nothing special at all. Listening to unoriginal music like this…. again, all I can ask is, “why no Rammstein!?” I mean, come on. Easy 1 rating for QMS.

Greta Van Fleet of 1969. In case you are wondering, that is not a compliment.

truly dreadful. First song is one verse of a Bo Diddley song then 20 minutes of uninspired blues noodling. And that's the highlight! Each track gets steadily worse, with awful hippy grunting on top of amateur guitar riffing. 2nd to last track is literally 13 minutes where nothing happens at all, but even this is preferable to the final track which is as brief as it is awful. might be one of the worst albums I have ever endured.

Awful jam band stuff. No need for it to be on this list. Definition of inessential.

Back to psychedelic rock. When it’s not us new wave from 1979 NY, it’s the summer of love. Someone on Spotify is wondering when they will ever get to archive this stuff, if 1001 keep make people listen to it. Would drugs even help? Cover art: love the cover tho 😂

Sick of these uninspiring 60s psychedelic albums. Nothing remotely interesting going on in this album. 1/5

wow- terrible. just noise, and not good noise at that

Really weak I thought. I like some jammy psychedelic rock but this didn't go anywhere

Album live d’un jam-band. Pas vraiment rien d’intéressant ici pour moi. Je ne me suis pas rendu à la fin.

When I hear the term jam band, this, unfortunately is what comes to mind. Mindless noodling by the guitarist in search of an interesting groove. here they take the class Bo Diddley beat, Who Do You Love and try many different versions, one more boring than the next. My question is, why?

Dull

Boring, repetitive, unlistenable.

There are times when bands jam with each other which is fine, however there’s no need to record and release their dicking about to inflict on innocent passer-bys

1.5

If I was on LSD I'm sure this would have been excellent and would have flown by but sadly I was not and it seemed to last 3 weeks.

No pude, de verdad lo intenté. No me parece un buen disco. No me atrapó. Lo escuché unas 5 veces durante el día y no. Será el primer 1 estrella que voto.

How very boring. Really couldn't see where this was going - or why the band had gone into the recording studio

Huh. well I listened to this on the walk to class with zero distractions and still couldn't identify a song I enjoyed. It is definitely music, and it definitely played into my ears, and that's about all I know. I guess the fact that much of this was recorded live might contribute to the fact that *snore*

Go Schwurbel yourself

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