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The Seeds is the debut album by American garage rock band the Seeds. It was released in April 1966 through GNP Crescendo Records and produced by Marcus Tybalt and Sky Saxon. After the release of two singles in 1965, "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" and "Pushin' Too Hard", the album was released and charted in the United States where it peaked at No. 132 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. Modern reception of the album is positive, with critics considering the album's similarity to punk rock a decade later.[2]

The Seeds
Studio album by The Seeds
Released	April 1966[1]
Genre	Garage rock, psychedelic rock, proto-punk, acid rock[2]
Length	34:44
Label	GNP Crescendo
Producer	Sky Saxon, Marcus Tybalt
The Seeds chronology
The Seeds (1966) A Web of Sound (1966)
Singles from The Seeds
"Can't Seem to Make You Mine" Released: June 1965 "Pushin' Too Hard" Released: November 1965 "Try to Understand" Released: November 1966

Style

Like many garage rock bands, lead singer Sky Saxon's vocal style was influenced by the vocals of Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger, but have also received comparisons to the vocals of rockabilly acts such as Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran.[3]

Release

The Seeds released two singles ahead of the album: "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" in June 1965 and "Pushin' Too Hard" in November.[1] The Seeds was released in April 1966 and charted in the United States, peaking at No. 132 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart.[4] The first single to follow up the album's release was "Try to Understand", which failed to chart in the US.[1] "Pushin' Too Hard" was re-issued in October 1966 and peaked at No. 36 in the US in February 1967.[1][5]

The Seeds has been re-issued several times in the United Kingdom on vinyl and CD.[1] Several re-issues contain bonus tracks while the album itself has also been re-released as a double album on compact disc with the Seeds' second album, A Web of Sound.[6] Some of the re-issues omit the song "Lose Your Mind" from the original album vinyl release.[7]

In 2012, Big Beat Records re-released the Seeds' debut album as a deluxe edition, with the album in remastered mono form, plus ten new bonus tracks of previously unreleased material.[8]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Uncut	[9]

Modern reception of the album has been generally positive. In their review for the double disc re-issue, AllMusic gave the album a positive rating of four and a half stars out of five, writing "The Seeds is probably the best album by any of the original American garage bands, without the usual time-filling cover versions and elongated jams, and of course it features the immortal 'Pushin' Too Hard' and the even better 'Can't Seem to Make You Mine', two classics of the Nuggets era."[7] The British music magazine Uncut gave the compilation a positive rating of four and half stars out of five, describing the album as "...A brilliantly simple, headlong surge of fuzz-drenched guitar, bubbling organ riffs and Saxon's raw, throat-tearing vocals..."[9] Many of the tracks are featured in The Seeds biopic documentary "Pushin' Too Hard" which had a sold out premiere in London in 2019.

Track listing

Personnel

Musical personnel

• Sky Saxon – bass guitar, harmonica, vocals, producer, concept, cover art
• Rick Andridge – drums
• Chuck Britz – engineer
• Cooker – guitar, bottleneck guitar
• Daryl Hooper – melodica, organ, piano, keyboards, vocals
• Jan Savage – guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals

Production personnel

• Mike Durrough – engineering, remixing, mixing
• David Hassinger – engineering
• Lanky Linstrot – engineering
• Stan Ross – remixing
• Doc Siegel – remixing
• Marcus Tybalt – production, liner notes
• Rafael O. Valentin – engineering
• Alec Palao - Executive Producer
• Neil Norman - Executive Producer

Notes

References

• Strong, M. C. (1998). The Great Rock Discography. Giunti. ISBN 88-09-21522-2.
• Buckley, Peter (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 1-84353-105-4.
• Hicks, Michael (2000). Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06915-3.

External links

• The Seeds at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[ru] The Seeds (альбом)

The Seeds — дебютный студийный альбом американской гараж-роковой группы The Seeds. Был выпущен в апреле 1966 года на лейбле GNP Crescendo Recordsruen и спродюсирован Марком Тибалтом и Скаем Саксоном  (англ.) (рус.. После выпуска двух синглов «Can’t Seem to Make You Mine» и «Pushin' Too Hardruen» в 1965 году, альбом сумел занять 132 место в Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. В настоящее время альбом имеет благосклонные отзывы, и также отмечается его влияние на панк-рок десятилетием спустя[2].

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