The Spirit Of ’67 - PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS***

Good Thing/All About Her/In My Community/Louise/Why Why Why (Is It So Hard)/Oh To Be A Man/Hungry/ Undecided Man/Our Candidate/1001/Arabian Nights/The Great Airplane Strike

The Spirit Of '67 is considered to be the strongest album from this garage style group that were extremely popular in the US during the mid-sixties, but virtually unknown in the UK. It contains three US top twenty hit singles Good Thing, Hungry and The Great Airplane Strike. (US:9)

"One of the strongest albums by Paul Revere & The Raiders. Good Thing, Hungry and The Great Airplane Strike were all very good single releases in their own right. Also, the supporting cast of songs was fairly strong. They were able to produce good pop/rock without distancing themselves from their garage roots."

"In fact, as far as 60s pop goes, this album is a pretty solid offering. Opening with the almost Stonesy rocker Good Thing it is a varied album - and yes, the material is consistently good, whatever style they decide to tap into. Even the slower, more melodramatic songs like All About Her aren't laughable or corny. Louise is a rocking track that should have been a top 40 single, had it not been behind three others on this album. For my money, their best album."

"Despite this band's rather silly outfits and name, I think you would be surprised at how good this album actually is, I know I was. Rockin' garage and psych pop tunes that would fit nicely with more cool obscure platters."

"There isn't a truly weak song on the album. There are 'weaker' songs, but none of them are just fillers. This is the first album where Mark Lindsay had fully developed the range and power of his vastly underrated male rock voice. The instrumentation on this album kicks things up a notch. There is some very nice and intricate guitar playing, for example, and unexpectedly, on Oh To Be A Man, as well as on many other tracks. By this point in time The Raiders' harmonies were at their tightest and were uniquely their own. The great tragedy is that The Raiders chose not to build on the strength of this album but to go off in a more pop and bubblegum direction for a year."

"There was always a quality gap between their hits and the other LP cuts, but there are some surprises here."