Yellow & Blue/The Loner/This Is The Time Of The Year/Big Tree Blue Sea/The Wall Of Dolls/Back Home/See See/I'm Going To Send My Pigeons To The Sky/As Long As The Wind Blows
Golden Earring were one of the premier Dutch rock bands from the late 1960s through to the mid 1970s. Despite being eponymous this was by no means their debut album, although it did herald the start of their classic line-up.
“It is full of guitar oriented blues rock with nice vocals. Like most of their albums it is well produced and full of quality material. There is a little psych, a little prog and a lot of rock and roll.”
“This is very psychedelic in approach with some progressive elements thrown in, the result is pretty great, even the progressive rock term is very pale here in contrast with other bands from that period. They performed something between psychedelic rock with more edged rock arrangements here and there, but also some progressive elements.”
“This really is a corker. There are no weak tracks and it comprises their usual mix of slow, bluesy numbers, often building to crescendos (but certainly not to be termed ballads) and hard driving rockers, all done in their inimitable style.”
“Known popularly among collectors as "The Wall Of Dolls" LP, based on the cover art and the excellent track it contains. In fact, I was startled to discover that it is eponymously titled, so well established has the nickname become. As far as the sound goes, their particular brand of progressive hard rock, with substantial psych influences, truly kicks hard and consistently so. It's my favourite of their discography, and represents the pinnacle of their output.”
"Golden Earring stood as one of the band's more adventuresome and enjoyable releases. Musically the LP found the band shifting musical gears towards a heavier guitar based rock sound. That said, the collection remained stylistically diverse, The Loner and This Time Of The Year sounding like Free.”
“Every song on this is solid and engaging, Big Tree, Blue Sea is the best tune here, and does more with the Jethro Tull sound than even they could muster themselves. It rocks hard and the flute playing is great, adding an eerie atmosphere. I think personally that flute sounds great in rock, especially from the 70s.”
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