ALBUM: Knight in Rusty Armour (1967): In London for Tea (1966)
MVC Rating: Rusty, 3.0/$$$; In London 3.5/$$
Okay this is my fence post. This is my going as far out on my likes and dislikes — in other words, the limits of my looking for the good — nay, the great — in what I listen to. Peter and Gordon just go too far in a pop, non-rock way — yet they seem to want to be in the crowd that is making this powerful rock and roll music.
I’m not sure where these Peter and Gordon albums came from, possibly my wife Catherine’s siblings or my foster sister, Cathy, a hippie who loved the Moody Blues. But Peter and Gordon I? i don’t remember her playing, although she did play Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds and of course her Moody Blues.
just no have to say at this time to Peter and Gordon. Nice pop duo; I like ‘I’m Your Puppet.’
There’s a Beatles song or two. but P&G are just just not in my sweet spot of British invasion bands and their American counterparts. They are too poppy for me and think, to be fair, they were already established in the early 1960s as just what they are: pop duo.
And I ‘m a big pop music fan. Got no issues there, except when it is insipid or, worse, sounds lame.
Now I can be sold completely on 1960s invasion bands. The Herman Hermits, much I can live without, but the album ‘Blaze’ by the Hermits is fantastic. The Dave Clark 5, the Zombies, etc. In the United States, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Grass Roots, the Young Rascals, and the Mama’s the Papa’s, are all groovy enough for me. Peter and Gordon, not so much, although they serve as a nice stepping stone from the past late, 50’s early 60s. But as duos from that era, I’ll take Simon and Garfunkel (better songs and vocals); and the Righteous Brothers (better vocals).