104. The Electric Prunes - Stockholm '67 (1997)
A top-notch recording of a performance by garage/psych rockers "The Electric Prunes" on December 14, 1967 from the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, originally taped for broadcast on Swedish radio. The recording was officially released in 1997 by Heartbeat Productions (the version I have and the one shown in the album cover I posted above) and has been re-released twice since then (with different album covers) by Birdman Records in 2002 and by the Sutro Park label in 2012. This is not only my favorite album by The Electric Prunes, but also one of my top 10 favorite live rock albums of all time. The band sounds not just energized but positively explosive in this nearly 44 minute set, playing some high-octane fuzz drenched rock that often sounds more like hard, fast, proto-punk than the garage/psych sounds of their studio albums. The album starts with "You Never Had It Better" followed by what was probably their most well known song "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" and continues with "Try Me On For Size," "I Happen To Love You," "I Got My Mojo Workin'," "Long Day's Flight (Til Tomorrow)," "Smokestack Lightning," and concludes with "Get Me To The World On Time."
This album proves that the band was not only one of the best live 60's rock groups but one of the best live rock groups of any era. Highly recommended if you like loud, powerful, energetic rock music played to perfection!