#472 Clap - Have You Reached Yet?

This is something of a cult classic, found on some 70's lists.

Time for another of my sounds-like-track-by-track smackdowns. Ready?

Only Just an Act: The Kinks' Nothing to Say
Get it While You Can: A watered down Stooges' Raw Power
Have You Reached Yet?: The Stones' Soul Survivor*

Ok, now that that's out of the way, maybe I can proceed. Look, I get that this is something of a 60's revival, but these guys really ape countless riffs and structures and chords and it ends up sounding like pastiche, never achieving much of a voice of its own. I admire its garagey charms, the ragged vocals, the glammy touches, the jangling guitars and rombling bass, but at the end it just ends up sounding like a garage band. Not like a band making garage-style rock, but rather an actual band playing covers and near-cover originals in their garage.

What interview was it? Or was it a movie? A band talks about some advice they got, about how they should learn to play their favorite songs and then give them their own twist. That's more or less what's happening here, and with admirable aplomb, but it needs less favorite song and more actual twist - too few of the songs here actually differentiate themselves for my taste 2.5/5

You might like this if: you really have heard all there is to hear from 60's rock and just have to have to have more, and don't mind that nothing on here will really break that mold

*This album actually came out the same year as Exile, to be fair, but this is emblematic of a generally severe case of Stones-copping