From an Eric Clapton-featured album to a band that formerly featured the slow-handed axeman. The Yardbirds always sound great on paper, their guitarists included Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. The band more or less evolved into Led Zeppelin and they're constantly cited as a reference by many musicians. Sadly though, they've never really really blown my mind. I guess there's the historical aspect to take into account, they were possibly much more arresting when they first emerged... but when you know about Cream, Hendrix, Zeppelin etc. and then go back and listen the Yardbirds, it's not quite the same.
The first half of this album just seems a pretty generic '60s rock' sound. Around the middle of the album some more interesting sounds emerge, in songs like "Farewell" "Happenings 10 years time ago" and then a bit later with "Turn into earth" and "Ever since the world began".
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