Oar

Sounds like a demo tape but one of the more interesting folk albums this list has thrown my way

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Oar is the first and only studio album by Skip Spence, originally released in 1969. Skip Spence got his beginning in the early San Francisco psychedelic scene, playing drums for Jefferson Airplane on their first record. He was apparently chosen simply because he "looked the part". His stint with the Airplane was short-lived, and he ended up co-founding the band Moby Grape. He was a prominent contributor in Moby Grape, both playing guitar and songwriting. At the peak of their commercial success, Spence began drifting into a life of hard drug use which soon spiraled into mental health struggles. I won't detail his mental health episodes here, I just think it's important to understand this story before delving into this record. He was fresh out of psychiatric care when he recorded these songs, or should I say, demos. They were released to Columbia without his permission. I'm honestly surprised Columbia even released these on record. They're obviously very rough. Lots of stream-of-consciousness lyrics and meandering and repetitive instrumentals. It would certainly have benefitted from better production. As it stands, it is a capsule that reminds us of those who were never able to make it out of the first psychedelic era.

Weird album that is pretty dark but has some things you want to listen to again

The year this came out should be in my wheelhouse and starts out decent. However, gets mellow, droning and monotonous as it goes on.

An interesting album, I enjoyed Little Hands, Cripple Creek, Weighted Down and Broken Heart.

pijany wyjec

It was fine.

OMG! Little Hands by Flaming Lips is a cover! I had no idea! Why did Wayne hum the melody and not sing the lyrics, particularly when they're so on point for late 90s F'lips? A mystery. Given familiarity with that cover, I'm predisposed to like the opening track here, and the rest of the album follows in a similar arty singer songwriter vein. It gets a bit slow in places and also a bit weird in places. Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: Little Hands Date listened: 10/07/24

I totally understand why Mark Lanegan and Mudhoney are on the tribute album. I wouldn't put this in the class of "Must hear before you die" but that seems to be the case for 80% of what I've heard so far from this generator. Some of these songs also sounded like demos and one sounded like it was recorded at the bottom of a swimming pool

Ok. Will probably never listen to it again

another one of those albums where the story of its creation is more interesting than the music itself.

it made me sad to read the description and there were like two songs with something going on. don't do acid unless you have proper set and setting

This was bad. It was like he was trying to be Bob Dylan, but without any of the songwriting abilities. I didn't even finish it. 1/5

þetta var nokkuð skrítið en skemmtilegt. aðra umferð. 3,5.

This is the first one I've thought about skipping, but I did end up making it to the end. The human story behind the album is sad but I really don't think it should be on the list - it's totally unfinished.

I wasn't the biggest fan but I know someone loves it, it's hard to rate anything less than 5 stars

A surprise rough cut gem. Grey/Afro was a particular standout. Arguably 20 to 30 min too long.

its quiet and introspective, and even though its a little over an hour it seems longer. not really my thing, but overall it was okay.

Eh I didn’t mind it but it got pretty boring and weird after a while

Guitar, c'était agréable, mais sans plus.

Some Hades game ost vibes

If a woman made an album like this, it would never make it on here.

ok da git glaub trurige scheiss. sis einzige album. erste song recht nice. cripple creek cute ööööh diana chli gestöhne über me meeeeega schöne instrumental. ui im solo hets en herte clam drin gha. aber cool lohteren drin. mäggy tiger teppich au wieder irgendwie cute aber nöd meeega viel meh weighted down isch huuuere schön. biooah es ruibt so schön i love war in peacr isch meega psychedelic aber i like it. sehr verspielt d gitarr und so broken heart au super schön. all come to meet her wieder slowjam dings i liike. bitz simon and garfunkel. books of mösers super lawrence of euphoria chli dumm aber no funny? vlt chli kontrovers aber da album isch e swarz elser kris orten.

mal luege, was de bueb chan. gseht cool uus eig meh country als ich iwie denkt han cripple creek tönt sini stimm ganz andersch? aber no cool hä und uf diana stöhnt er halbe ume und tönt wie wenner vorher 5 päckli zigis durregschlottet hett? packt mi na nüt würkli margaret tiger rug tönt chli arhythmisch, na cool, aber d grenze zwüsche "hey no cool, extra chli ungenau gspielt" und "wow es tönt scheisse" isch schnell überschritte ok für mich ass, vill zu apathisch gsunge und iwie leer? weigjed down tönt villversprechend jaa I guess na schön aber s passiert scho nöd vill hie und daa spielt de bass chli seich iwie? aber es chan na cool gsi, je nach dem wiemmers ahluegt war in peace isch sehr cool fürd abwechslig back to country kinda jz singter wieder so gschisse brudi lawrence from euphoria findi au straight ass grey/afro isch wenigstens chli spezieller aber NERVT, di nervöse rums und die apathisch stimm chammer vlt als en spannende kontrast bezeichne, ich finds v.a. ASS und macht ih mim chopf kei sinn, es isch meh en kontrast for the sake of kontrast poah ich schwanke zwüsche 1 und 2 muss ich alli lieder nöd gern haa für es 1? ich han weighed down kinda cute gfunde und war in peace oder wasauimmer hani cool gfunde, de rest hani echt ghasst BRUDER DAS LIED GAHT JA 9 MINUTE lug alsxander ich rwspektier was du da in 7 täg ussegschisse hesch aber für mich ischs nüt

Unless you're trying to go to sleep, this album isn't worth it. That is with two exceptions which use electric guitar as that's just going to wake you up. 3/5

Bounced between a 2 and a 3. Just another one of those feels like it's trying too hard and missing the target.

Really did not enjoy this one. Could not finish.

Tylsäksi jäi. 2/5

Hmh en jotenkin saanut kiinni, vaikka sinänsä kiinnostava tapaus

Tavallaan kiinnostava (ja kiinnostava on syntytarinakin), mut ehkä vähän pitkä. Varmaan jos kuuntelis tekstejä tarkemmin niin vois arvostaa enemmän. Menee listalle "kiva kuunnella uudestaan joskus myöhemmin".

The singing and playing weren't all that great and this sounds more like a demo than an album but it sort of worked for me and I kind of enjoyed it.

Really fascinating. I feel like I have to study this one the next time I listen, but at least it's not dull!

Cool

A little boring

This album has some serious downer vibes!

I read that the guy spent months in a hospital and this is what he made after he came out. It still doesn't make me like it. The only impressive thing is that he apparently played all the instruments himself.

Was not familiar with him but I liked the sound

I mean... Nice soft voice, but it's pretty boring hour of some guitar and some singing.

I see they don't call him 'skip' for nothing.

3.5 stars. At times psychedelic, at times cowboy folk songs, always with tongue-in-cheek. I actually liked this album a lot. It has the hallmarks of some of my faves, like Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, but the unedited, unpolished feel sometimes overstays its welcome as Skip pauses every few lines to laugh. These are the kinds of weird albums I really like getting recommended tbh.

This is the first album I've come across where I've not heard of the artist. A random mix of 60s styles. A bit of Leonard Cohen low pitch vocals, more psych style reminiscent of early Pink Floyd and maybe a bit of Crosby, Stills and Nash. With 22 songs I got bored before the end. Although I like artists with similar sounds from around this time it did nothing for me 2/5

-0 stars.

Not for me.

I wouldn’t give this album to a depressed individual, might just push them over the edge. It’s a nice smooth listen tho. I wish I had a camp fire to enjoy this album with.

I suspect this album isn’t well received on here, but I think it’s pretty solid. I’ve been listening to it off and in for a few years and it is quite difficult to nail down, but makes me think “what if Tim Buckley dropped tons of acid with Syd Barrett?”

Found it boring. Read the back story after the fact.

I like the guitar but most of the time this dude’s voice is unbearable. He sounds worse than Bob Dylan.

Not sure why this is on here......

Pretty good

Sounded nice and made me sleepy

Bad Leonard Cohen ripoff

More like Alexander ‘skip this album’ spence. I liked ‘Diana’ but pretty much the next hour was an absolute slog and i really wanted to turn it off.

Sounds like another generic folk but it actually has some pretty interesting instrumental bits. It made the entire listen fun.q

No thanks

How did this album make the list?

Sounds like the sixth disc of a seven disc collection that gathers together all the lost studio snippets from a great artist, that only insufferable bores ever buy and no-one listens to. It feels like a collection of work-in-progress song ideas that would be played by a pretty average band in a studio while working on their third album that never gets released, whereas in actual fact it's a full-length major label release that made it onto the list of 1001 albums that I apparently have to listen to. Bollocks.

Sounded like a soft spoken dude noodling at a guitar for an hour.

Skip.

some who wander really are lost

Didn't listen, but first and most popular song was not my vibe so i skip cuz got 2 more albums to listen to today B)

A bit too slow for me I think

Hate this so much

The first half of this album is really interesting folk, but then it rapidly declines.

All over the place. There are moments of greatness like “War In Peace” but the ideas are too disjoint and opaque even for me.

Given the backstory of this album, which seems to hinge on an "ends justify means" 70s-era lack of regard for human suffering if good art is produced .... I liked this quite a bit. Probably not enough to revisit but it was interesting and I loved the way it sounded.

Oh my god, I hated this. Bad voice, weird music. There is so much other better music from the 60s. Why is this here?

I found some interesting tidbits in here but don't imagine myself listening again, so 2.5

Ummmm why

😴

shi was kinda good, I really like folk records, but it was not aaaaallll that, enjoyed it tho !! . 5/10.

Okay so maybe Oar isn't outright bad, it's just boring. Definitely as sad and depressing as advertised but we've had loads worse. Don't really want to give it any sort of a 2 because it's not good but yeah, happy that it didn't make me angry. Weighted Down (The Prison Song) is quite a good song tbf.

Never heard of him or this before, and I can see why. It's a pretty non-descript, folky, singer-songwriter album. Like a low budget Leonard Cohen, similarly dreary and miserable but less clever and interesting. Feeling generous, so will bump him up to a low 2.

Not a fan of this one at all. Quite boring. Songs not that great. I could barely finish it.

Sooo dull

Not really a fan.

Eh. Syd Barrett was better.

Ok

It's a Skip alright

Oar is the sound of a man whose mental decline I feel I should not be listening to. It is as though I'm partaking in the eavesdropping of one's degeneration while seeing glimmers of hope strewn out in bits and pieces. Listening to Oar by Alexander Spence, commonly known as Skip, is the musical equivalent of coming across a dead-end; the unfortunate backstory in a story already rife with legal fuckery and eventual obscurity. One look at the unsettling album cover tells one everything that's needed to be known, the sight of a man approaching vacancy and permanent absence of thought. This is one of the many sounds that encapsulates the end of the 60s dream, albeit one that many didn't take notice of until it was far too late. Favorites: Little Hands, Cripple Creek, Diana, Margaret/Tiger Rug, Weighted Down (The Prison Song), Broken Heart, All Come to Meet Her, Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang), Grey/Afro, Keep Everything Under Your Hat.

Depressing. And very close to the top of the 1001 too long album list. Best song is Fountain (because it’s less than half a minute long.) Glad when this one ended - won’t be back.(0.6*s)

I was a little confused by this album, it sounded like a muddy Jeff Buckley. I only gave it a re-listen after reading the insane backstory (which is likely why it even made this list). It's a lot of fragmented ramblings of a mad man but there's something interesting about his voice and the way you literally hear the breakdown and agony as the recording goes on. It's pretty incoherent by the end but that's all part of the madness.

Makes sense old Skip had just gotten out of a mental institute and recorded this. It is very convoluted but I give credit to Skip for being the solo performer on this album. Some of the lyrics are clever and some songs took on more life in stereo. Skip may have been drug/booze fueled on this album. Sure sounded like he took some Furry Heroine and recorded the last shorties.

I guess I give a guy credit for being able to go into a studio alone for a week and this comes out. I can always respect when a solo artist lays down all the tracks and puts all the pieces together. That being said there's not much here that captured me. At times it felt like a bad attempt at Bob Dylan. The second half I kinda zoned out and it was fine background music but nothing stuck with me. The background story on this album is wild. Does that contribute to the legacy and praise for this album? 1.10 stars

Goed album, beklemmend. Extra’s kunnen heel hard overgeslagen worden.

I appreciate the barebones nature of it and how it reflects his dark mental state at the time. Ultimately it doesn't do a lot to grip me because of that though. I enjoyed it but not something I will likely come back to a ton.

I don’t know. Is this good? Or ‘good’? I don’t think it’s must listen. It’s more of a ‘oh you should hear this because of the circumstances’. Not ‘this album defined 20th and 21st century popular music in this way or that way.’ I mean I like it. But Willis Allan Ramsay, Joe South, late Elvis, the band, credence, the allmans and on and on seem more compelling. I don’t know. I think he needed more help than exploitation. I don’t know.

Oh I need to open a nice bottle of wine (or a thing ) and sit with this while. Lights off music. Carefully cartoonish whimsical and trippy crazy, like a drunken but very polite walk through Newtown. What. Is happening? that doesnt matter, it just is. They let this be released? thank goodness, yes. I mean, YEAHS. yesh. they did. so 5 aces form me.

Look, I was a Moby Grape fan, & I can’t believe this guy wrote what is generally regarded as their greatest song Omaha. I listened to this twice. I like some of the music. But, generally speaking, I don’t think he was much of a vocalist - something I hate saying after I’ve just favourably reviewed a Bob Dylan album. I’ll never play it again.

I generally have a level of skepticism around late 60s ‘lost masterpieces’. There is usually a good reason that these cult classics, beloved by white boy rock snobs and used as a form of musical gate-keeping: ‘oh, well, you wouldn’t have heard of it’. And I really uncomfortable with the fetishisation of mental health issues, as with similar outsider musicians like Wesley Willis or Vic Chestnutt or Roky Erickson or Syd Barret or even Brian Wilson. And mental health is key aspect of the legend of Skip Spence, who reportedly wrote this album during a six-month institutional stay. He then disappeared into decades of homelessness, mental health crises and drug addiction. He only recorded one more song after this album. It makes for a good story, but poor Skip had to live a pretty unhappy life to provide us with that ‘good story’. In some ways, it is a similar story to Syd Barrett, but without the financial cushion that Pink Floyd’s subsequent success provided. So, there are some red flags before we even start listening. While some songs drift off into psychedelic nonsense similar to Syd’s solo records), this is, overall, a stronger album than either of Syd’s solo records. The deluxe version contains quite a few additional tracks of lesser quality and focus, which shows that there has been some judicious editing here. Noting that Skip played everything and that these were intended as demos, the album is surprisingly strong and sounds spacious and relaxed. Skip’s guitar playing is generally tastefully restrained. I like his voice and his mumbly style was emulated by many an alternative band, with mixed results (I’m looking at you, Michael Stipe). I enjoyed many of the songs, including Little Hands, Cripple Creek, Diana, War in Peace and Book of Moses. I really like Grey/Afro, because it has a weird understated almost krautrock style, which appeals to me, but your mileage may vary. There is a 90s tribute album called ‘More Oar’, which has famous people covering the record, including Robert Plant, Mudhoney, and Tom Waits. These versions show the strength of the songs. I was disinclined to like this record, based on its critical reputation, but I have listened to it three or four times through, and have really enjoyed it. It is actually (quelle surprise) a good album. It is a pity that Skip couldn’t get the personal support he needed to maintain his creativity. I am going to rate it the same as I did Syd Barret's solo record, for which I hold much nostalgic affection, because it is, in fairness, a better record.

La psicodelia y yo no nos entendemos.

Never heard this before. There are some cool songs on here.

Nah fam

Nothing special.

Eh, not that great

I'd never heard of this artist or album before. After the first listen through I was left intrigued. Reading up about it bought the album into focus, which I was lacking before. Now I'm left with an interesting conundrum - I don't know how to rate this. This deserves it's place in rock history, but I doubt it had much impact on future musicians. The demo quality gives it a certain charm, but I can't help wondering what it would have sounded like done properly. I'm glad I listened to it, but I wouldn't seek it out again. I'm torn with this one.

On Oar it sounds as if someone woke Skip Spence up out of a deep sleep and had him record the album on the spot. That being said, Skip’s drowsy delivery was endearing in a way, it was an oddly pleasant listen despite the underlying darkness of Oar. Sudden War hits at the midway point and I was all, “oh shit, Skip can rip a bit” I really enjoyed that track. Finishes super weird with the droney Grey/Afro but it was awesome. This was rad 4 stars!

Absolute junk

This was pure shit. Like Bob Geldof after a three-day bender, strumming his guitar, sounding hoarse at times. Just pure crap.

Better story of making the album than the actual album.

An ok album - most tracks sounded alike

boring doors velvet underground wannabe

needed an editor 2.4

The album ending with songs getting shorter and the very last one ending because he ran out of tape is a lost art

Ever since that first Saturday date I showed up 13 hours late.

I think this aggravates me. How it's another offering of US psychedelic folk rock and I look it up to understand why that one might be on here and it's ... because the guy was fucked up? That's why? Or what? A musical genius, tormented by his demons, that story, or a drug-addled arsehole who happenend to be a not completely shit musician? What's the deal here? Why should I need to care? Because, without that cOnTeXt, much of what comes after the original 12 tracks is fairly laughable. And the world would be fine without 9 of those 12. So what am I reviewing here, honestly?

A little like... Leonard Cohen met the Doors?

not really my cup of tea but it was nice :)

Oh hey I actually know a song from this album. Our boy Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes posted "Weighted Down" on his IG a few years ago. This album is pretty strange. I like the loosely strung together instrumentation (reminds me of early Modest Mouse) and his odd, deep vocals. This doesn't sound like anything else from the time. Seems like the album has a crazy backstory, and he played in Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Moby Grape. I'll have to give them a listen as well. And I mean, what a great last name. I could've done without the last song, but I enjoyed this otherwise.

At times he reveals he has a good voice but I don't think he uses it all that well, and while barely a compliment I can't think of anything else positive to say. Sometimes I felt like I was at a talent show lol, it feels so unfinished and only get sloppier with time. Many out of pocket lyrics, not getting immaculate vibes from Skip. He was the drummer for Jefferson Airplane's first album but then quit the band and made this. They did get popular the year after... but mostly because of Grace Slick. Favorite Song: Weighted Down (The Prison Song) 2/10

Nice and folky but kinda wanted to ‘Skip’ some of the songs lol

Another work with a wild Wikipedia entry lol. A solo project by a man who had just been released from the psychiatric hospital following an attempt to attack his previous band mates with an axe. Sounds like he's struggling at times on the more upbeat songs. I prefer the slower ones. Definitely could benefit from some editing, doesn't need to be over an hour long. Really starts to fall apart towards the end. Top songs: Weighted down

This album makes SOOO much more sense after reading Skippy’s Wikipedia page. He recorded this almost immediately after being released from a mental institution and allegedly it was intended to only be a demo recording, but his producer just released it as is?? It’s difficult to understand what he’s saying most of the time and the music feels disjointed, but there are moments of goodness. Probably won’t listen again though.

Experimental, psychedelic rock and the experiment has failed spectacularly. Couldn’t find my songs I like. This isnt my genre at all.

Boh si, non mi pare memorabile

Fine psychedelic rock album. The story behind it is better than the album itself.

Wish I liked it mate.

Crazy how "Guy has a mental breakdown after abusing drugs and proceeds to record a really fucking weird folk album" is a whole subgenre that exists, because this is like the fifth album with the exact same backstory that I've heard. Not as enchanting as Syd Barrett's Madcap, not as completely batshit as John Frusciante's Niandra. Just kind of weird. I wish the rest of this album sounded like "Grey/Afro", because that one made me actually feel like I was going insane, and that's exactly what I signed up for today.

It can’t possibly live up to the back story but it wasn’t bad.

Nothing special

Honestly outraged that anyone would make me listen to an hr long album with 22 songs

1.5 - Damn, this was boring. Sometimes his voice was okay at best, but other times it was annoying. It's been a while since I actually listened to this at the time of writing, but the only word that comes to mind is boring.

Can't help but feel this album made the list due to the mentally unstable- genius romanticism. But this isn't Brian Wilson making Smile. There are moments that album show's some potential, but it is so half-assed in it's production and performance that it makes it very difficult to listen to. I don't enjoy listening to someone having a mental breakdown, it's just sad

Folk bem parado, mas legalizinho. Voz e violão apenas. Bem antigueira, bem lembrou um pouco de longe as melodias de voz do hendrix e até um pouco de Led

Bad Bob Dylan clone

Bad hobo vibes

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Little hands, If I’m good

Yeow, I tried to listen to this album but only made it four songs in before I started searching for Xanax. You should listen to this album before you die just so you feel better about yourself. Credit to him him though for laying his soul out there.

It was a bit of a snooze

So much potential wasted.

liked the sound sorta but overall meh

Raw

I only made it through half of the album, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it doesn't improve much on the back side. He sings about as well as Bob Dylan and mumbles every word, so who knows if the lyrics are good. Lots of boring drum tracks and bass lines. Made me long for Sweet Baby James which is sad.

Kinda boring. May sound better at a bar.

Alexander "Skip Every Song on This Album" Spence. An absolutely intolerable, lukewarm mess. 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable

Terrible Skip really can’t sing smh

album was long and all songs sounded the same, i like folk music some of the time but this was boring in my opinion, light 5/strong 4

Oar? More like B-oar.

I think drugs may have been involved. Despite, or maybe because of that, it’s certainly a rather curious beast: my first thought was that Beck had travelled back in time, maybe accompanied by Nick Cave, to record it. But that wouldn’t fully explain the quirkiness, the weirdness, the pain. “Grey/Afro”, meanwhile, is a mind-fuck of epic proportions. Trippy, man. And worth returning to, I feel.

Poor Skip, it's an interesting back story and, I guess, an important document, 'Weighted down' indeed. You can hear the Thorazine. The original release ended with Grey/Afro, so did I. 2.5*

Sometimes your lone voice crying out in the wilderness is right while all the rest of the world is wrong. And sometimes you’re David Rubinson. According to Wikipedia, the record label said “these are just demos, we’re not releasing them” and the artist himself said, “those are just demos, don’t put those out” but David Rubinson insisted that they be released and now here I am almost 50 years later having to listen to this garbage. Music reviewers sometimes hear a really cool (probably untrue, because artists are liars) story about the making of a record and then tell people they have to listen to the record because it gives the reviewer an excuse to tell the cool story. Yes, yes, fire axes and mental institutions and a motorcycle, it’s all very compelling. But just tell me the story and don’t make me listen to this unfinished, rambling dreck. There is nothing about this album that warrants listening to it. This is out of tune talk-singing over semi-formed quasi-songs for 45 minutes or so. This album is without any merit whatsoever.

Not terrible, but not something that's easy for me to enjoy. There are some psychedelic aspects that I like, but most of the album under delivers.

I wanted it to be over and it was only halfway done. 2.

Goes to show you shouldn't judge an album by its cover. I'm surprised I really liked this!

No, just no. Not a single distinguishable song amongst this mess.

Really loved this! Came of out nowhere! I've never heard of this guy or any of his music. This felt like pre-indie pre-Emo psychedelic. Much Enjoyment

Cool album - raw production , somewhat lazy in some tracks… enjoyed war in peace…. Glad I got to listen to this…

Dark stuff but entrancing

Not really a lot to say except it was dull

This album seemed like I should like it just because of the story behind it and not because of the music. This was some mediocre folk to me. I feel a Townes van zandt album would’ve made a better submission for a folk album with good storytelling. This was not something I would revisit. 4.2/10

Not bad, but soooo loooong

Folksy, trippy, enjoyable listen (for most tracks)

got me in the right mood! liked it more than expected. Loooking forwqard to more psychedelic albums

I don't know. I can tell it's a guy baring his soul, but I don't think the results are all that special.

1001 album generator has really introduced me to a new genre: "You know your uncle made an album back in the days"-Folk is it a bad album, not really... is it a good album, not really... i really don't see why this should be included on this list. after 600, this list feels more like here are 1001 random albums

First listen Saved 3/12 Top track: Little Hands

quite slow

folky, weird, kinda Bob Dylan esq without the lyrical prowess. Didnt love it, but happy to of heard it

Someone needs to take the cotton balls out of this guy's mouth. uh uh uh uh I am in pain? Wow, what lyrics. They perfectly catch the feeling of the listener. This is a no from me. I'm not going to bother finishing it. It's terrible.

Wild ride

Ah geez, depressing tale behind this one. There are a few optimistic moments (guitar solo in War in Peace, interpolation of Sunshine of Your Love), but the generally somber aura matches the struggles Skip was experiencing. The vocals and the songwriting each range from great to terrible, with the lyrics getting a bit of a bump due to the frequent use of double meanings (ha see what I did there!). Listened to: at home. Favorite tracks: Weighted Down, War in Peace

Seltsames Ding...

I did try but found this to be a bit of a folking mess

Was okay, but not very psychedelic.

In a sense, that’s exactly what I expected an hour long demo from a man on a comedown from a nervous breakdown to sound like. Seems like it would have been a good album if it was edited.

Das erste Album dem ich am liebsten keinen Stern geben würde :-D

HOLY SHIT THIS SUCKS. Just because a moderately famous musician records an album under the influence of drugs doesn't mean it's a masterpiece.

Oar-ful.

Hm. Manchmal ziemlich cool, manchmal nervig, manchmal komisch. Insgesamt irgendwie witzig, weil anders. 2,7.

Man this was painful to listen to. I can hear the hurt in him and it’s just.. not good. It’s sort of amazing this was green lighted back then. But all being said, glad I got to experience it.. one of the great things about this site.

Terrible singing, rough to get through. Based on the wiki, I can't tell why this is here. Ramblings of a crazy man (for 1 hr!).

Pretty boring - there’s probably a good album in there somewhere. The description sounded good, but the music sounded bad. 2/5

I was quite unsure about this one! I really liked the first half, and it reminded me of Lord Huron. Easy to listen to when writing or working. The second half of the album sounds like someone mumbling with a guitar in their bedroom, but then I checked the Wiki page, and it turns out that tracks 13 to 22 were added at a later date and were in various stages of completion.

Oof, cheer up Skip. This goes on about 25 mins and 11 songs too long. Weirdly I found myself humming along to a bunch of them that I've never heard before because they sort of sound familiar already. So that was quite clever. But blimey, cheer up Skip.

Interesting backstory but it doesn’t make it a good album

Uhhh didn't know half finished songs could be released. Shame he had mental health issues, but the music still sucks. 1.5/5

I have never heard of this ever. Opening track is fantastic!! This album is fantastic. I love the sounds and the openness of it all.

joa passt scho - 3 Sterne. Eigentlich nicht so ganz meine Musik

Meh

Very weird. Great emotions. Very pure and raw. Full of pain. Loved listening to it. I had the feeling I could hear what his brain looks like. Never heard anything like that before

It's difficult to describe. Musically, I don't think this album is really good. Of course, I'm keeping in mind that these are basically only demos. But emotionally... I never heard something like this. Even though these are not perfect songs, Skip seems to have put everything into them. And at the same time, over the course of the album, it feels like a view into his broken mind, and his mental health seems to even be deteriorating slightly towards the end. The voice at the end, saying "We're out of tape" pull him back to reality, as well as the listener. Can't make my mind up. Interesting listen.

Ouch. Skip has an interesting voice and it's a mark of his talent that he wrote it all and played all of the instruments, although other artists have done the same with more ability. But this is a demo - if it had been given a full production, it might have hidden the fact that it's mostly drivel and gets worse as it goes on. I couldn't finish it, and I am a bit of a pursuitist.

Interesting stuff. Relisten.

Didn’t mind this at all. The sounds varied between folk and psychedelic. A little long but I’m putting it into my 1001 albums playlist!

I really didn't expect how strange this album would be. Written during a stay in a psychiatrist hospital and hastily recorded as intended-demos, 'Oar' reminds me in some ways of Van Gogh's final days of life when he was painting frantically. That isn't to say that Spence is the kind of genius that Van Gogh was but there's a similarity in that both men where attempting to do something more conventional than what finally came out. 'Oar' is both uncomfortable and endearing. Unsurprisingly, the record label had no idea what to do with it and it quickly faded into obscurity as a cult classic.

Feel like this is the background music for a movie set in the 60s or early 70s which I suppose is time appropriate. A bit too repetitive and lowkey for me to want to give it a second listen.

OMG LOVED!

3.8 - Dispatches from the backwaters of insanity, somewhat in the vein of “Rock Bottom” by Robert Wyatt, but dwelling in its own rarefied atmosphere. Unlike any other record, a curiosity definitely worth a revisit at some point. Standouts: “War in Peace”, “Grey/Afro.”

Oar is the only album by American singer-songwriter Alexander "Skip" Spence. Recorded over a week in Nashville all by himself, Skip poured his heart and damaged psyche into this album which was only supposed to be demo tapes used for further production. It is a psychedelic folk rock album with mostly nondiscernible lyrics as Skip wrote the songs during a stint at a hospital after a mental break. Although this was the lowest-selling album in Columbia Records history - because of zero promotion - this has been regarded as some of Skip's best musical works. Oar is an interesting album with quite the story behind it. But the music is pretty good and it was a fun listen. Folk rock fans and lovers of Nashville music should enjoy this album.

Good

So skippable

It's fine. Even after listening to the bonus tracks there's not much here. 3/5. Favorite Track: Diana

It makes me wonder what the world would be like if we could opt out of our normal minds from time to time. What would we see? How would we feel differently? Would we consider ourselves or others differently? I'm glad to see some music here from someone who is not in a neurotypical frame of mind.

Weird experimental rock, seems like the Bjork of its time. It was okay, but I doubt I'll ever listen to it again.

What the heck is this? Stoner, prog, psychedelic, flower power, revival, roots, psychotic, blues, dissociative identity, delusion, diphenhydramine, proto-karmakoma, post-pop, pre-paramorphism? Without diving into wikipedia I'll bet this record is included for complicated reasons. I'll just take a break now and go back to reading Naked Lunch or something.

NO MY JAM! It was so discombobulated!!! I

It was ok though I can't understand why it made the list.

Meandering

Now I know why they call him Skip, because that’s what I’ll be doing if his “music” ever comes up on Spotify again

Not really anything grabbing my attention about this one, not unpleasant to listen to though I suppose

At first it sounded like something I'd like. But I didn't. Just noise. The best thing about the album was that the final 6 songs were all under 2-minutes. ⭐️

Honestly though this guy was on his death bead whilst singing the first 3 songs. A couple of songs had weird background noises in them. Also some songs were far too long. Not a fan of this album. One of the songs had a sub title of prison and that made me think I would rather be in prison than listen to this chap again

Man this was a difficult one. There were moments I found interesting and enjoyed but they were just too few and far between. Way too long an album that just rambled on a bit. It just didn’t feel polished at all.

Extremely not my cup of tea. Maybe had this artist gone on to do other albums there would have been a novelty with their freshman effort. A couple of melodies are fine. But he mostly mumbles incoherent lyrics with the urgency of someone who knows they only have access to the recording studio for two hours. Anyway I didn’t like this and won’t revisit it. 1/5

2/5 not to my liking

Ach come on... someones taking the piss with these album selections. It's no coincidence that "skip" is in this artists name... because that's what you need to do to every track if you wish to retain your sanity. His voice is dreadful, the track "Cripple Creek" was bloody awful, nearly drove me to the drink!! Would never in my life consider playing this again.

This is one that I'm not as familiar with. Created on the brink of or in the throes of a breakdown seemed to bring a unique perspective to the writing. Overall, Spence's story is a sad one, but the music remains.

It's okay. Just okay.

Not really my thing

Overall -recorded after 6 months in Bellevue for attacking Jefferson Airplane with a fire axe and played every single instrument, never heard of anything more iconic -he reminds me of Bon Iver meets Johnny Cash in a way -I love how messy/not sharp the electric is, he’s def hanging out on the pick ups, a fender? Maybe Stratocaster?? -it’s giving the art Van Gogh painted while in the insane asylum energy Little Hands -I like how the electric sounds “messy” -Something that could play in an elevated Starbucks Cripple Creek -the vocal range ??? -reminds me of a folky song I can’t place Diana -It’s giving Johnny Cash Hurt -Is that a sitar ????? War in Peace -His voice is so folky -bro how many guitar tracks did he lay -ooooo the tempo pick up Weighted Down -so he’s a country singer now then ??? -vocal is noticeably louder -it sounds like repentance All Come to Meet Her -who do we think the “her” is? Maybe a higher power? Margaret-Tiger Rug -ladies and gentlemen, her -he hitting those pick ups hard -cowbell?? Broken Heart -finishing out with some more country -again, different vocal sound -this is what my notes app look like after I write shit when I’m blackout -A HONEY DRIPPING SPINSTER WHOSE BEE CANNOT BE BOPPED -oh he’s reformed

I don't understand why this album is so quiet. Is it because he doesn't want anyone to hear how bad it is? There was a good song or two, but most of it sounds like a frail old man on his death bed trying to sing along to his Vietnam war movie best hits soundtrack. Dude should have just stuck with Jefferson airplane.

The story of the album is far more interesting than the album itself. Its basically a collection of bedroom demos

"j'aime pas" 1/5

Not an album I’d probably ever listen to again, but after reading the history and listening with context, it was a worthwhile listen. This kind of stuff is exactly why I love this project.

So, this was fascinating. But it's really not a good album. I love Skip's vocals though. The rest is a sloppy mess.

Kinda blah all around, musically and lyrically. "Grey/Afro" has a nice sound, at least. "Keep Everything Under Your Hat," I think -- one of those around there -- has some silly-sex energy.

Interesting but extremely hard to categorize. Felt more like a personal demo take ofunfinighed songs for the majority of the listen.

I think I agree that this album has to be enjoyed in a specific setting. Although I don't feel like it's my taste specifically, I still appreciate the album.

No está mal para escuchar de fondo mientras trabajas

A bit dark for my tastes but his voice is fantastic.

Oar is a collection of dark songs that Skip Spence wrote while he was confined in a mental hospital. Spence had been a member of the band Moby Grape. During a drug induced melt-down, he tried to attack member of the band with an axe. While committed, he wrote the songs that appeared Oar. The songs were recorded soon after his release. Spence played all of the instruments on the album. The album attracted little notice at its release, neither critically or commercially. In the decades following, the album has collected attention - and romanticized - as the work of a talented, but deeply troubled musician.

The music sounds newer than 1969 but I'm not sure why it's on the list. From purely musical side of enjoyment, it didn't really click with me.

This is an ugly album, and I'm not sure how else to describe it. His voice is annoying, to the point where I was groaning every time in a song that he started "singing," the guitar work (or lack thereof) feels like something picking it up for the first time and randomly plucking notes, and the whole album really gives off that vibe, for that matter. Nothing feels pre-determined, thought out, or even well executed. It isn't even like jazz with its ad-libing, you can tell every note here was planned by some musician, but whether that musician was this Alexander Spence, or a ten year old slamming on a keyboard, is unknown to me. Perhaps I can admit that sometimes a moment here and there is more standable, but there was never a moment I was truly enjoying this. It isn't even psychedelic or folk-y, its just dull and aimless.

As a note: the spotify release does not make it very clear, but I think it's most fair to judge this album as the original release -- the 12 tracks from \"Little Hands\" to \"Grey / Afro.\" Everything after that are bonus tracks from the recording session. Overall, I feel like I want to spend more time with this album, it is not immediately striking me but I feel like there's a lot beneath the surface. I'm going to give it a strong 3 stars for now, and might regret that later if I return to it.

Surprisingly, I really enjoyed this. Great music to have sex too. Very tantric.

This is a singular album that lives in it's own unique space. It's so odd and mysterious and winding. I love it so much. It used to be in very regular rotation for me about 15 years ago and only listen to it once every few years now, but it's always incredibly rewarding. Very happy to pull this today.

Interesting back story and a lot of wondering what could have been. I just couldn't quite get into this album though. The highlights for me were Little Hands, War In Peace, Grey/Afro.

I got turned on to this album a few years ago because it was fairly foundational to a sub genre of dreamy psychedelic folk I'm in to. (Check out Brightblack Morning Light's self titled album for a great example of that.) Oar understandably doesn't have the polish that later artists bring to this kind of thing, but it still has its moments. The backstory around it is fascinating too! Fave track - "Weighted Down (The Prison Song)"

'Skip' indeed. Boooooringggggg.....

“ Described as "one of the most harrowing documents of pain and confusion ever made", the album was recorded after Spence had spent six months in Bellevue Hospital. Spence had been committed to Bellevue following a delusion-driven attempt to attack Moby Grape bandmates Don Stevenson and Jerry Miller with a fire axe.” Sounds like an album I need to listen to… Having read a bit more about Skip I do pitty him, drummer of Jefferson airplane and co-founder of Moby Grape he had the world at his feet but the quote by his biographer really sums it up. “neither died young nor had a chance to find his way out." As expected the album itself is pretty miserable, it is full of haunting and melancholic moments, such as the opening track “Little Hands”, where Spence sings “I feel like a little old man” over a sparse guitar, or the eerie “Weighted Down (The Prison Song)”, where he laments “I’m weighted down by sorrow/I’m weighted down by fear”. Some songs are more upbeat and catchy, such as the country-tinged “Cripple Creek” or the bluesy “Diana”, but they still have a sense of sadness and loneliness underneath. The album ends with the haunting “Grey/Afro”, a 10-minute instrumental that features Spence playing a distorted guitar over a drum machine, creating a hypnotic and unsettling soundscape, this song feels so ahead of its time and is the highlight of the album. Overall the album is just a bit too country for my tastes. But still intriguing. One of those I’m glad Iv taken the time to listen, but won’t be a regular, so 3/5.

Skip Spence is another person I haven’t come across before. Apparently the music is psychedelic, which (prior to be album a day journey) is a genre I’ve never really gone out of my way to explore. Not sure what to expect here. Let’s listen and find out! Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Little Hands This started off ok, but I found my attention waning pretty quickly here. After the opening track, I found everything to simply become boring. I’m writing this review the day after listening, and everything after Little Hands has faded from my memory. I think this says a lot about how dull I found this. At least I know now though. Always good to widen the old musical palette.

Dark

So dreary and uninteresting. I feel so many of these albums become acclaimed only because of background factors pushing their exposure.

Really sad to hear all the turmoil he went through with the drug use and mental health issues. Tragic that this was his last musical effort. It makes this a little hard to listen to. Some of the songs are very beautiful, but the album goes downhill toward the end. It's the CD reissue bonus tracks that are the main offenders though, as usual.

I like a good acid-casualty/tortured genius getting back in the studio as much as the next guy, but as Skip himself said, these are really just demos. I feel like it was a pretty cowardly move by the producer to put it out this way. At least Syd Barrett had his old mates come in and back him up on his solo albums, and Roky Erickson got a whole new band. You can see the potential here, but it's so skeletal. For a good example of what can be done with the underlying songs, listen to Beck's cover of "Halo of Gold" from the "More Oar" Tribute album: https://youtu.be/lwU75geuI3o?si=FasVkOC260z93hC1 These tracks are nice for slipping on a mix or a playlist to break things up, but a whole album of it kinda drags.

What a weird and interesting album. I can say a lot of it sounds demo-ish... which apparently it was. It's got some ideas but definitely not ready for prime-time in it's genre. It's more interesting as a musician to hear the raw ideas and think "ok I see what he was going for here...". Overall though, best listened for historical purposes and musically I didn't find it very enjoyable to be quite honest.

"One of the most harrowing documents of pain and confusion ever made" zegt Wikipedia. Zin in. Ik heb niks tegen muzikanten die het moeilijk hebben. Sterker nog: Als ze niet de hand aan zichzelf hebben geslagen of er aan drugs onderdoor zijn gegaan hoef ik ze niet te horen. De beste kunst ontstaat uit lijden. Ik waardeer het dan wel als die muzikanten nog enigszins functionerend de studio in duiken. Deze meneer klinkt alsof ie op moment van opnemen niet in staat was z'n speeksel in z'n mond te houden en z'n eigen billen af te vegen. Een lege, jammerende huls. En dan een uur lang. Je hoopt dat ie in slaap valt of wegzakt, maar dat is ons niet gegund. Ik vind het een taaie zit. "It was at the time the lowest-selling album in Columbia Records history and was deleted from the Columbia catalogue within a year of its release." De mensen waren erg verstandig in die tijd. Ik heb de vervelende gewoonte om elke 1 te wegen tegen Astrud Gilberto en dan kan ik het zelden verantwoorden, maar deze man trekt hem overtuigend binnen. Als je na een half uur nog twijfelt moet je gewoon nog even doorluisteren. Al moet ik zeggen dat 'ie op de drums wel leuke dingen doet.

Keywords: Warm, Chill, Kickback Notable Song: Little Hands

Belongs in the trash.

Would be better with a head full of acid

Blind album and artist. Cool nickname. Fitting for the album. Dude straight up attacked people with a fire axe, went to a hospital for 6 months, and then made this. Im sure the people he attacked skipped this album too.

Well, this won't make it into my New Year's Eve party playlists, but it is a fascinating and haunting document of a musician's rough year. I'm glad to have spent some time with this today.

I think that there is more to this album than met my ear as I listened. Maybe with some additional listens, I can appreciate it more. As it stands now, it is good.

Interesting collection of songs, some quirkier than others, and an interesting back-story. The kind of thing I wouldn't seek out but am glad to know of. Lots to absorb.

I started off very skeptical that this was going to work out. But somewhere around the song Margaret-Tiger Rug I was fully on-board with this strange listen. And now I’m a bit obsessed with this. This is just the sort of thing one hopes to encounter every now and again as one listens to an album every day for more than 3 years. Terrific like a trip into Wonderland. At times wacky, confusing, country, folky, wistful, funny - and entertaining.

Interesting background aside, nothing at all stuck with me from this one.

Skip recorded this as a demo only for his producer handing it to the record company who released it and was unable to sell it. Wonder why. There are a few interesting ideas on Oar but as a whole… Well it just isn’t an actual album.

Je tiens à me féliciter d'avoir mené ma demi-heure de course à pied à bien pendant que ce marchand de sable essayait de m'endormir à chaque seconde.

Quel était cet enièMe album de merde, je me suis tapé 6 chansons bonus sans faire exprès ce qui ne va clairement pas arranger le cas de notre ami Alexander Spencer dit Skip

So freaking slow. I'm not sure how I feel about it, I don't think it's really my thing tbh.

I would like some of whatever drugs he was on at Bellevue.

The kind of album that could be a 1 or a 2. I never hated listening to it, but won’t recall a single thing from it.

Have to check the rest, but I vibed with the first 2.

I fell asleep because this album was so boring.

Rough, sketchy, stoned, but still melodic, memorable and brilliant.

This is a disjointed rambling mess of an album. I'll admit it was an interesting listen. Sounds like this guy is coming apart at the seams which is a pretty captivating. The music's pretty bad though. 6/10.

Wasn’t impressed at all. 1*

Another dull one.

I'm so glad I managed to listen to this. It's incredible. I am struggling to find words to put to it.

If Leonard Cohen and Ween had a baby, it would grow up and listen to this and miss its parents. I can't say I was fully taken in by this. I think I need a quieter time to give this a listen. It's interesting but just didn't grab me.

Oar has enjoyed a degree of notoriety through the years, but until 'Grey/Afro' it isn't half as unhinged as history would suggest. In fact in retrospect much of this works nicely as a precursor to the freak folk movement. There's some lovely guitar playing and interesting vocals approaches - I especially like Spence's deep, mumbled voice on a few of these cuts. Sure, the music is quite stark and takes some odd turns - 'War in Peace' and 'Lawrence of Euphoria' are peculiar - but there's some quality here too, such as the bluesy 'Books of Moses', 'Diana' and 'Cripple Creek'. Nobody said John Martyn was mad when he made music not a million miles from this.

A perfectly serviceable acid folk record. Loses me in spots. The vocals can be a little too quiet at times. Favorite tracks: "War In Peace", "Little Hands"

I was about to give this a 4 but around halfway through the album it REALLY started to drag and became really uninteresting. First half of the album is a 4, second half is a 2. 3 overall.

Real solid album, saved it. A lot of songs

It's a haunting experience, and frankly the experience of listening to Skip over the course of an hour certainly merits this being on the list as an 'album to listen to before you die'. That said, it's a ramble of music (likely because this was meant as a demo), and was a struggle for me to listen through. As someone else has said - it's tortured genius. Unfortunately, I just don't think it's for me, but I'm glad it's included.

It was ok near the end but overall, I found it to be torture

Starting off, I didn’t think I’d give this a four, but this was a very enjoyable listen. Spence has a very nice voice and the slow but good instrumentals match it very well.

The background of this album is fascinating, but I did not find that it translated to the music very well.

4.25

1/5 I felt this album really wasn’t for me after a couple of songs.

I’m not sure about this. Calling it neutral. There’s some good work here. But it’s a little hard to listen to. A little too mumbly and meandering for me, but I can see the influence it had on music. It’s fine. It’s probably a lot better with a head full of acid.

I guess this was influential to some artists that are more recognizable, but honestly this was just a depressing listen. Written during a 6 month stay at a mental institution following a violent mental breakdown, these recordings were intended by the artist to be demos, but ended up getting released. I guess it offers some insight and history, but I feel the impact was solely on its influence of others, rather than it being something tangible; honestly I just struggle to accept that this is somehow an essential listen.

How in the world did this end up on this list? I can understand how some artists might find this influential or inspiring because of its raw nature. There is talent there for sure, and such a sad story of mental illness… I’ll probably have to listen to it again to know how I really feel about it.

having been obsessed with moby grape's first album in college, and looking online to find more of their stuff, I saw how widely acclaimed this one was, and this was my next venture into the moby grape-verse. that was over a decade ago and I was really disappointed by this album then. no more was the frenetic energy, the harmonies. I didn't get it. now a decade later, my second listen. I think I appreciate the sound of this one a little bit more than back then but I still find it pretty disappointing. every once in a while you get a glimpse of what I love about moby grape's debut, but it's few and far between. maybe I should be listening to it more like it's outsider art or something but I can't help to still be a bit let down by this one.

Really interesting arrangements and different styles in this album. Seems almost experimental. Really interesting to listen to as a whole rather than individual tracks. Probably not something I'd choose to listen too usually but this was an enjoyable journey. Doors and Johnny Cash vibes from some tracks. The drumming instrumentals were coo l, although a bit long

Good for him for having pkayed all instrument. But it seems just too incoherent to me. 2 stars

It was fine. Interesting sound just didn’t do it for me

Not great. And becomes uncomfortable when you find out you're listening to a psychotic break. Like watching footage of a car crash.

Strašan album

this is what haters of psych folk think what psych folk sounds like. These experiments sound kind of lazy and not really well thought out :/ uhhh 6.0/10

This was a great find - very diverse vocally, some tracks sounded Cohen-ish while others were more like Nick Cave, and just a very strong collection of maudlin songs

Best Song: Weighted Down. Has a sort of mid-career Leonard Cohen vibe going for it, which I like. Worst Song: Grey/Afro. Lightly whispered rock is not for me. And what was that cacophonous, scattered ending? Overall: Mediocre early rock that at best feels half-baked. Nothing particularly coherent or interesting here.

Nah.

Syd Barrett's brother

Bob Dylan except you could understand what he was singing. Meh.

I have a couple of bones to pick with this album. First, calling it psychedelic feels awfully inaccurate. It’s closer to a major depressive episode in which the only cure would be a huge spray of ketamine up the nose. I found the songs boring, and if not boring then annoying, save for a few select bits that actually were psychedelic— but these were so few and far between, so much more than the distance between the Sun and Jupiter. I don’t quite (note: at all) understand why the album had to be over an hour long. Why it had to be over 20 minutes long. It was like a guy on his first drug trip forcing you to sit in his basement while he played you ‘some tunes he’s been working on’ but you can’t get up and leave because then he might do something dangerous, like smash his head through a drum kit— or worse, make a whole album of songs from his experience. Ah, so maybe this album WAS psychedelic after all. Anyway, I didn’t enjoy this album. I gave it an extra star because of those rare moments where it was good and fun, but that star was given very, VERY reluctantly.

Now I see why Beck covered Halo Of Gold. That was my introduction to Skip Spence. Beck has a similar voice and musical styles.

Like Bob Dylan but boring

Haunting. Not into 60's psychedelic, but this is different. Learning the story behind the album while listening made it more powerful. Will never listen to it again.

I recommend reading about this album, the story is fascinating and heartbreaking. The album itself is...unique. It's quite experimental in some places, especially the songs on the back half of the remastered/extended version. Some songs hold up wonderfully, some are painfully anachronistic, and some are just, well, bad. Overall, It's a decent album for what it is. Using my star rating system of very bad/bad/good/very good/epic, I'll say it's a firm 3 stars

This reminded me of syd barret, mostly that lost, sad feeling i got from listening to this. 60s folk filled with darkness, very out there and no easy listening. But i'm sure there is are people who are really down for this.

The story around the album is a lot more interesting than the album itself, reminds me of the Syd Barrett album I had to sit through, in more ways than one. Feels like another instance of the tag of "psychedelic folk" just being an excuse to cover up mediocre songwriting with some weird production trickery. Once you look behind that though, there's really nothing there.

I am usually a fan of psychedelic rock from the 60s, but this album was really boring. I only enjoyed one track and the rest were pretty forgettable. Favorite Song(s): "Little Hands"

Really hasn't aged at all

3.5

I wasn't a massive fan of the album. Going into the album knowing nothing about it, it didn't appeal to my more modern ears. However, I can imagine it having wide influence on those had heard years ago. Given it's legendary status I will have to listen again.

Kind of proto folk. That was cool enough I guess.

needed more time in the oven, feels half-baked

This album fucking sucked

3/10