I know this is going to be heresy. I first heard this band's record over thirty years ago. The rock press was fallin' all over themselves with praise about how important this band was. They were mentioned in the same sense as the Beatles, Stones, Byrds .ect as major rock influences. I bought this album in the mid sixties, I listened many times, trying to like it and wondering what I was missing. Most garage bands I knew could play and make up better songs. The songs are one or two cords (oK sometimes three), the singers drone on and on, I'm never sure what they are going on about and the whole thing was recorded in a substandart fashion, which makes it unlistenable. I was recently making a late sixties mix and bought the album, I am leaving them off! Sorry, not the Beatles, not even the Iron Butterfly or even Blue Cheer.. Skip this one, if you want a better picture of the sixties and it's wierdness, get the Nuggets box set instead: Relics From the Psychedelic Era..