They werent nearly as famous as other invasion groups but The Yardbirds were just as potent in their brief existence. Most people just know them as the starting point for Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page but they should be equally known for;

•popularizing an eclectic use of random ass instruments in rock songs (harpsichord and bongo madness here but lots of other examples);

•supercharging the new style of riff rock the Kinks had just pioneered with a potency no other band could match;

•taking the the guitar solo to absurdly scorching new levels that even Hendrix would have trouble topping several years later... let alone everyone else at the time. honestly think Jeff Beck did a top 3 solo of all time here;

•literally invented psychedelic rock by combining gregorian chants, Becks lyseric lead guitar and an ominous doom laden production to the first song the group ever wrote themselves. absolutely insane how trippy this s*** is for '65 let alone being perfomed on tv;

•again not near as famous as other bands but had a kind of Velvet Underground/Sex Pistols effect where the few people that saw them all ended up starting bands and they probably influenced more american garage bands than anyone. the Nuggets box set is full of more Yardbirds rips offs than anything.

and all of that just in '65

i said bangers could probably swap out Such A Shame for I Need You tho

gotta admit the sustain he uses there might have influenced Peters playing on The Super-Natural

those are bigger bangers than such a shame tho i need you is a good pick too

such a shame never stood out to me as a higlight at all

well Bo Diddley and other rockers even already had concept albums and stuff but i think i mean more deliberately artful music thats more poetic and open to interpretation

yeah maybe the whole lyrics thing is what adds another element tbh. the album as an art form for vocal popular music

ik sinatra did stuff like that but im not familiar enough to speak on what extent it really was. seemed like a collection of thematically related songs more than an "album" in the same way but idk

ive always loved that lazy riff and drum

and rays angst on the bridge

its not a favorite of mine but Milk Cow Blues always struck me as one of their scuzziest. if not the scuzziest

this is accurate and that swhy they get credit for first concept albums but i wouldnt say thats what i meant by album as art form

like historians wont be discussing In subversion and allegory of In the Wee Small Hours in 100 years but they probably will be for Highway 61

@atl @Very_Based @Aruji get in here

Stop! In The Name Of Love is their most iconic song of the year but the groove on this is too mean

@Elric guess who

i already knew from the picture and name lol but i wouldnt have been able to tell from the sound

literal nothing better than a good Gene Clark ballad @HeyFella

thought these were '66 two of the all-time nuggets

more groundbreaking than i thought

another year another one of his best songs doesnt even get released

vimeo.com/182493352

i never really liked Can't Seem to Make You Mine tbh, always just bored me

Pushin Too Hard is amazing but I'm not too big on the Seeds overall

riiiight i think we been over that

both been faves from the moment i got my Nuggets boxset

Realized today it's also the fact that the goats were coming out with less commercial sounding deep cuts that were kinda better than their singles for the first time ever basically

This for instance

knew youd pull up with some Jackson C :datass:

One year later

Don't worry about a list, just hit me with some highlights

one of my favourite bands of the decade in their folk rock phase