Revolution

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

Right up my street this one, great 60’s blues/psychedelic rock added to my frequent rotation

An interesting surprise to see Revolution on the list, and fun to revisit. Q65 were one of the big Nederbeat bands from The Hague in the 60s, right at the heart of that scene. Listening now, it’s still a good, enjoyable album, clearly inspired by the British and American rock of the time. It doesn’t really stand out from its international peers, but as far as 60s rock goes, it’s a solid, well-made record. Just a good, fun listen and a nice reminder of that Dutch rock era. Wondering if I'll now also will see the Golden Earring, Shocking Blue or Cuby + the Blizzards on this list.

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.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: The life I live, World of birds

This goes pretty hard for 1966. The more interesting part is reading on Wikipedia about the Dutch Rock boom of the mid-1960s (Nederbeat!) and its predecessor Indorock

Could swap one of the original list's 60s psych acts for this, for the sake of getting some Dutch representation in there, but imo it doesn't bring much to the table that the other 60s psych acts didn't

Interesting Dutch rock from the 60s. Certainly not something that is super unique sound-wise as a lot of bands from the 60s sounded like this. However I would be cool replacing an album on the original list with this because, hey, other places also had rock and roll. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Slight yes.

Quite refreshing contrast to hear something from the 60's. These guys were pretty good- varied and not too generic. They certainly had stiff opposition at the time but held their own.

60s-ish stuff. Interesting at times.

As far as Dutch bands go, I would say this band was pretty good. Lump them in with other psychedelic rock bands of the 60s and these guys are pretty much in the middle. There are some strong points with the guitar work. The 13 minute instrumental song in the middle of the album was an odd choice. This wasn’t bad but not good enough to revisit. 5.0/10