Everybody's gonna pray on the very last day

Continuing my trip back through the 1965 album charts.

07/11/65 : Hollies - The Hollies


We haven't met The Hollies yet - the closest we've come to them is repeatedly ignoring their best-ofs in both 1968 and 1977. I'm aware of some of their tracks, but can't say I'm an expert so I'm intrigued as to what we're going to get here.

Hmmm - I actually quite liked it, but I have a suspicion it was probably already starting to date - it feels very like the early Beatles stuff. I won't be revisiting it but I enjoyed it and it certainly doesn't hang about at 28 minutes (too much longer and I might have switched off) - I feel I should check out their best-of at some point. I also think it's quite a cool album cover - you can imagine Oasis going for something like that (except that the Gallagher's would never be able to agree who went where).

We're at #10 (double figures already doesn't bode well for the year!) in the charts this week on their seventh week of a fourteen week with it peaking at #8 in its fourth week. The top five this week were TSOM, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Mary Poppins, and Andy Williams and there were no new entries.

Wikipedia tells us it's their third album and not to be confused with their '74 album Hollies or their '69 album Hollies Sing Hollies - I'm guessing imagination wasn't their strong suit. Except that the US version of this album was called Hear Hear! and the Canadian version was called Love N' Flowers - how perfectly random. And that's it for the album entry but their entry tells me they're still going - not with any of their original members but with two of them that joined in '63, so that's a pretty decent effort. Also, their two best-known original members, Allan Clarke and Graham Nash are also still both out there rockin' at the grand old age of 83!

"Customers also listened to" Herman's Hermits, The Monkees, The Kinks and The Who - that list makes less sense as it progresses. I didn't mind this at all and was pleased to experience some Hollies - I was vaguely aware of a track or two, but feel I have more of a handle on them now.

31/10/65 - Good, but could easily have been better
14/11/65 - Interesting, but not great

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