The eighty-second album: #82 Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Take the Beatles' harmony - still a touchstone for me - and add heavier guitars to it. Moby Grape isn't a household name anymore, in part to a number of legal difficulties, but there is a definite feel listening to the start of this album that they fall effortlessly in the ranks of their contemporaries, with peppy and blues songs that are similar to what we heard elsewhere. I think it's difficult to discover an exact voice in here still, but there's something between the voices, slower speed and use of guitars that makes feel it's there - I just need to go through more albums. What's still clear is that they are accomplished - the song writing is good, it's performed well, it all sounds good andworks for me. There didn't seem to be any really weak songs.