0750. Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Moby Grape's blues-based rock with psychedelic elements and this eponymous debut is a whole lot more even than a huge amount of its contemporaries.
While that says a lot it's also a warning that it doesn't
have that one song - the one that plain just engulfs
you - though they're pretty close: Sitting By The Window is
right up my alley with its melancholy setting (also, it's one
of those songs that fit the formula of brief lyrics and melancholic
melodies with a repeat of the first as the final verse to make a
great track).
And ending Lazy Me with tossing in a bit of Frère Jaquesmight
not be a revolutionary thing, but it's entertaining.
After this release, the band quickly got into the stupid side of rockstardom, getting arrested for drug possession and "consorting" with undrage girls, as well as one of the members going too far with his acid intake (and who was that, you might ask, well Skip Spence of course).
A couple of albums later their mojo was gone, but this debut still holds.