Yardbirds

conflicted about this one. they can obviously all play, but it sounds to me like 30 minutes of ringo songs. somewhere between 2 and 4.

True hit or miss album.

2.5/5.0: Mixed

ive heard this album before and didnt enjoy it. its been many years but looking on spotify i see a mono version and a stereo version. im guessing i listened to the mono version back then. i listened to the stereo version this time and i enjoyed the album way more. production is still pretty rough around the edges compared to what their contemporaries were doing at the time. the instrumentation is great, especially guitar which makes sense given jeff beck played on every track. overall not a bad listen.

Bit too much boogie for my moody

Blues and psychedelia. So many ideas. Great guitar by Jeff Beck.

This is pretty cool. The Yardbirds are a band most well known for generating iconic guitarists, with links to Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and On Roger The Engineer, Jeff Beck. Due to this alone, The Yardbirds have a space carved out in rock history, but this album is also pretty interesting. I'd say that, broadly, this is another mid '60s psych band, but The Yardbirds have a slant that's just a little lo-fi and earthy, for lack of a better word. The tone is a little darker and less colorful than the '67 summer of love stuff that would follow. Although I think it's made up for through this album's focus on texture. It comes across as accessible and enjoyable rock music, but with something a little arthouse about it. And the songs are good enough to carry it. This one is at least worth a listen, even in a sea of psych records from the time.

Just felt weirdly and not fun bluesy sometimes. Not altogether bad but I wasn't enthused.

That was alright.

A clear example of the older R&B tradition with the more modern electric rock vibes. Is there any other band where the vocalist is essentially an after-thought to the production line of guitarists?

Anyway, I've already listened to way too much "white blokes play R&B" and this barely registered.

Meh.
Clearly technically skilled people, but not sure the it worked as an album for me.

Maybe it's just the Magilla Gorilla pose, but this album cover reminds me of the doodles in my dad's old board games (or, alternatively, the art on the "Navigator" card in Dominion).

OK, time to (re)learn about who the Yardbirds are (I know they're historically significant because my friend took a 60s music class in college and was always talking about the Yardbirds, but not enough for me to learn anything about them). Ah, it's Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page (plus other less famous dudes, sorry to those guys). Though only Jeff Beck is on this album. Eric Clapton also did like 50 other things, none of which I've liked. I know nothing about Jeff Beck. I wonder if Beck is named for him. Jimmy Page may have been involved with starting Google. Or Led Zeppelin. Two great evils.

The music, you say? The music is fine. A lot of guitar stuff. The songs are pretty short, which is a plus. I still don't know what a Nazz is, but I don't think it's a nickname for Jesus as Google suggests. Ultimately, this doesn't stand out. A Beatles-ified 70s rock supergroup (in 1966).

Someone should make a 'I'm Henry the VIII, I Am' x 'I Can't Make Your Way' mashup.

Highlight: 'Farewell' (but confusingly, not the last song)

Subpar psychedelic rock. No standout moments other than Becks guitar solo. 2/5

It's crazy that the Yardbirds launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, AND Jimmy Page. Beck is of course outstanding on this album (the only one of the three to appear here). A lot of the songs take basic rock and roll sounds and pump them up to 11 and then they add new twists and turns. There were a lot of instances on this album where I could hear how The Yardbirds influenced future sounds (did anyone else think the first half of Ever Since the World Began sounds like Black Sabbath?). Admittedly the album sounds pretty dated, but is definitely a good listen (and grew on me with each subsequent listen). Favorite tracks: Over Under Sideways Down, The Nazz are Blue, Jeff's Boogie, What Do You Want (sounds like it could be a Who song).

Das Werk war für mich eine herbe Enttäuschung. Statt innovativem Rock-Klang bietet das Album größtenteils wirres, unkoordiniertes Gedudel, das weder musikalisch überzeugt noch atmosphärisch trägt. Die teils wilden Experimente wirken eher wie planlose Klangspielereien als durchdachte Songs. Zwei Sterne – einer für den Mut zur Eigenwilligkeit, ein weiterer für den historischen Stellenwert. Hören muss ich’s trotzdem kein zweites Mal.

Diverse and groovy 60's rock

It is ok.

Osrednji starinski rock. Pomalo je žalosno što mi ljepše zvuči mono verzija. Ima dobrih stvari, sveukupni dojam nije nešto.

Near the beginning of this album I was ready to give it a three, but it wore on me as it went on and the I try to Ever Since The World Began tipped me down to a two.

Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds because he thought they were getting too commercial, but who wants to be on Clapton’s side in any argument? I’d rather listen to proto-psychedelic pop rock than a load of white English blokes doing blues covers, and this was so much more fun than I was expecting.

Normally with albums I've already listened to in the past like this one, I check it out a second time when it comes time to rate it, that way I get my fully accurate opinion on it and not my opinion from a year ago where I was only half listening. However, with this album I have no doubts rating this album a rather poor score, as I just remember the boredom that came with this rather tepid release. Is it important in the history of blues rock as well as Led Zeppelin, a band I'm rather fond of? Yes, but that doesn't make this any more dull. Only really giving bonus points because of the history surrounding it, but when you listen to What's Going On by Marvin Gaye right after, it's hard to have any thoughts about a release like this.