Album Review: Shocking Blue - At Home
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Album Review: Shocking Blue - At Home
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Alain took us on a psychedelic trip back to 1969 with this month’s album selection, At Home by Shocking Blue. The Dutch rock band is best known for blending psychedelic rock, pop hooks, and a slightly roughened garage‑rock edge, anchored by Mariska Veres’s unmistakable, smoky vocals. While they’re globally remembered for the massive hit “Venus,” it’s on their second album At Home that the band’s true identity comes into focus—rawer, groovier, and more adventurous than their singles might suggest. The group would go on to influence artists as varied as Nirvana, John Mayer, and Bananarama, while drawing heavily from American and British rock, folk, and psychedelic music—a lineage we unpack in the episode
At Home captures Shocking Blue stretching beyond radio‑friendly pop into bluesy psychedelia and proto‑hard rock, making it an essential snapshot of late‑’60s European rock and a key reason their influence quietly rippled far beyond the Netherlands. But did that influence shape our opinions as we lived with the album over the month? And did we feel this is a band worth making a fuss over? Tune in to find out.
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