BLUE CHEER — Vincebus Eruptum (review)

BLUE CHEER — Vincebus Eruptum album cover Album · 1968 · Heavy Psych Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
Warthur
Blue Cheer's debut album is one of those pieces which is more innovative than it is actually successful in its own right. With its cranked-up amps and distorted guitar, it clearly hit a new bar for heavy psych music and helped pave the way for metal to come - but as for actually being pleasant to listen to, well, that's another story. The cover of Summertime Blues it opens with is excellent, no doubt about it, but the covers of Rock Me Baby and Parchment Farm don't accomplish much beyond demonstrating that Led Zeppelin weren't the only ones plundering the blues for material.

As for the original material, that really highlights the band's shortcomings - they just weren't that good compositionally, and their improvisations get a little dull and interminable. The end result is perhaps the most important and influential two-and-a-half star album ever.
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Nightfly wrote:
more than 2 years ago
One of those albums that had legendary status and i was aware of for year's before finally hearing it and found myself somewhat underwhelmed. You've hit the nail on the head.

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