Yeah, Nerderbeat band Q65 had absolutely nothing to envy in its British and American peers. *Revolution* goes from sixties rock "The Life I Live", "I Got Nightmares" to the -- at the time -- nascent psychedelia ("Just Who's In Sight", not so far from the more experimental cuts of Byrds in 1966), to rhythm 'n blues ("Mr Pitiful"), to the original blues influences that were still prevalent in the mid-eighties (like in "Spoonful", or in that couple of covers of Bo Diddley and Willie Dixon songs). Some of the band's compositions are without a doubt up to the level of their English-speaking models, which is no small feat in that continental context, where a lot of bands just translated American and British hits into their own language. Shirt ballad "Sour Wine" is an extraordinary cut, for instance. So yeah, this record recalls the best of Animals, Small Faces or Byrds. But the band that Q65 can be the most compared with is obviously *Roger The Engineer*-era Yardbirds here, owing to the comprehensive, pot-pourri approach both acts shared from one side of the English channel to the other. And if the record is derivative to a degree, the musicianship still makes the Dutch band stand out from the pack. The interpolation of Ravel's Bolero just as the band jams on that 13-minute of Willie Dixon's "Bring It On Home" had me burst out laughing, for instance. And it's the sort of laugh that gives a timeless feel to this music, as "dated" as it is. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 8.5/10 for more general purposes: 5 + 3.5 ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 50 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 65 (including this one) Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 117 --- Hey, Émile. Tu as déjà dû voir ma dernière réponse sous la review de *Young, Loud And Snotty* des Dead Boys ! J'essaie d'écrire la mienne bientôt
Revolution
Q65
1966
Album Summary
Q65 was a Dutch garage rock and psychedelic group formed in 1965, that is often considered one of the more prominent bands associated with the Nederbeat rock wave that took place in the Netherlands in the 1960s. In early 1965, guitarists Joop Roelofs and Frank Nuyens joined with singer Willem Bieler to start the band. The line-up was completed with the addition of drummer Jay Baar, formerly of Leadbelly's Limited, and bass player Peter Vink. The band was inspired by rhythm and blues traditionals and the songs of Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon, as well as new bands, such as The Kinks, The Animals and The Rolling Stones. They started performing publicly in the Spring of 1965, and later that year, would start using the name Q65. The name is a combination of the songs "Susie Q" and "Route 66", but changed to 65 as that was the year the band was formed
Reviews
Like a review? Give it a thumb up to help us display relevant reviews!Right up my street this one, great 60’s blues/psychedelic rock added to my frequent rotation
I don't know why I should complain, having added like 5 white guys to this list myself- but I can't believe I'm hearing Dutch garage rock covers of "Spoonful" before any actual Howlin' Wolf here. At least I can't accuse Q65 of sanitizing the original, since the fuzzy riffs and decent imitation of Wolf's rasp keeps it somewhat sleazy. The studio album ends with "Bring it On Home" (14 minutes dear Lord), but I'll keep to the bonus tracks since several of their actual charting hits were non-album singles, such as "You're the Victor", and "I Despise You". They brought me back with the Bolero snippet. I was fading. That's a long-ass time without any chord changes As 60's blues rock, I can't really fault it. The singles/bonus tracks are definitely worth a listen, but... it's just the Yardbirds again. If you rearrange the letters of Joop Roelofs it spells Jeff Beck HL: "The Life I Live", "Just Who's In Sight", "Get Out of My Life Woman", "Sour Wine", bonus tracks "You're the Victor", "World of Birds" October 17, 2025
This is good, certainly holds up well compared to other similar music of the same period. 3 stars.
60s-ish stuff. Interesting at times.