Showing posts with label 1966. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1966. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Guess Who - It's Time



Sounds like early British Invasion. Solid Record. Specifically The Animals and The Dave Clark Five come to mind. Plus some garage rock thrown in.


Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Byrds - 5th Dimension



Sounds like Crosby, Stills & Nash doing Dylan songs. It's that west coast (More L.A. than S.F.) folk rock thing. File it with the Mamas and the Papas or even the Monkees. Touching on psychedelic. It's all about the vocal harmonies and that twangy 12 string guitar. They throw in some orchestration once in a while that reminds me of the Moody Blues.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Animals - All About The Animals (Japanese Release)



This is a Japanese only release. A greatest hits type thing I guess. Sounds like early Rolling Stones, but The Animals do a more convincing job on the R&B stuff. A lot of the songs are keyboard driven and it all sounds pretty groovy and not distracting. The Animals are really good at this early blues thing all the English bands were doing, but when the shift went to writing your own songs I guess they got left behind.
Eric Burdon is a good singer and there are some stellar songs like, House of the Rising Sun, Don't let me be Misunderstood and We Gotta Get Out of this Place. I think the keyboard player was the main writer for the band. He left after this and the Animals were left floating like a turn in a bowl.
It's My Life is probably my favorite song on here. Awesome. The blues covers drag this down. Chuck Berry? I'm sure it was all very exciting at the time.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Liverpool Five - Arrive



They don't even sound like The Beatles. They've got that psychedelic guitar sound going on in a few songs.A few songs in slightly different styles aiming for that elusive pop hit. Mostly Yardbirds light.

The Deep - Psychedelic Moods



Psychedelic garage rock that's not very good. Nice effort though.

Oxford Circle - Live At The Avalon



Blues based San Francisco psychedelic rock. A little early on for the full on freak out, but you can tell it's coming. The Animals meet Big Brother And the Holding Company. Nice guitar work thruout. Eighteen songs on here could be trimmed down here to make this a stronger album...but, I think this is a collection of all their stuff.

The Savages - Live ' N Wild



Garage rock.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective: The Best Of Buffalo Springfield




I forget exactly who's in this band, but if you like Crosby, Still & Nash or the Byrds this one is for you. The music is that sort of Americana rock similar to Bob Dylan or even a little like Creedence. Mostly it will remind you of the Mamas and the Papas folk/hippy thing.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde



This is supposed to be one of the greatest rock records of all time. Personally, I can think of a couple other Dylan records I like more than this one. It's got a couple cool blues songs, but is mostly laid back rock. Cool lyrics/stories where I suppose the young folks in 1966 could listen to and reflect and contemplate. The music reminds me of a saloon.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath

1966
Good good stuff. This is when they started writing their own songs. Killer dis-satisfied biting lyrics. The first great Stones album.

Junior Wells - It's My Life Baby


It's the Blues the English bands were copying.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

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.

Friday, December 4, 2009

John Mayall Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton - John Mayall Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton


Urban blues funneled through 60's English dudes. Cranked up distorted Marshall stack overdrive solos. Jimi Hendrix style.
Landmark album.
Groovy Hammond organ too.
Don't forget about the drum solo.
Awesome.

This record makes Sadie dance more than any other.