The sixty-eighth album: #68 Paul Revere & The Raiders - Midnight Ride
For most of the songs, Midnight Ride feels fairly conventional for its era, rock songs with some harmonies and a clear country bend in places. There's quite a bit of (early) Beatles, with some harder songs like, in fact, Kicks, that having more of a Stones influence. Stepping Stone is a clear and fairly well known example of that.
Those songs are part of what saves the album. Leading the B-side is All I Really Need Is You, a song with its own different sound, experimental and more interesting to listen to. It's that, and some of the songs that follow, thart really create something distinct here that make the album a standout for me. Not all the tracks held up after that, but the few experiments are what saved the album for me. It's still not the best and ultimately feels like a forgettable album.