The Yardbirds - Little Games

Starting to pull away from the blues here. There's still a couple blues songs with some smokin' guitar but the other songs are more in the pop direction like the Kinks or even Pink Floyd. Unfocused.

Yardbirds - For Your Love

Groovy. Good rockin' without all the blues worship. For Your Love is a great song, but by the time this album ends I'm bored out of my skull.

Yardbirds - Roger The Engineer

Anybody who wonders why The Yardbirds never achieved superstardom even though they had Clapton, Beck, Page, Nugent and Van Halen all pass through their ranks, needs to look no further than their singer. The band is already outgrowing his poor Mick Jagger imitation by this release. Still, this is really good stuff. Catchy pop songs (well, they're not that catchy. This isn't the Beatles were dealing with here) with guitar really breaking lose every once in a while. All original tunes here. Jeff Beck playing better than anything I've ever heard him do. Bluesy British invasion type pop. Harmonica too.
Not totally outgrowing their R and B roots, or not really advancing and growing. Little bit though.
Sounds more like early Rolling Stones than anything else.

Yardbirds - Five Live Yardbirds

This is a party!
A Rave Up!
You can feel the energy here and see what got everybody fired up.
1964 Sweaty club.
60's blues rock in it's infancy.
Swaggering.
Frenzied.
Harmonica.
Eric Clapton.
Makes you want to go into town. Get a malt and vandalise stuff.
It gets smoky too.
Raw and Loose.
The seed.

Fun Facts: Whole album is covers. Chuck Berry, Isley Brothers, John Lee Hooker ect...