Count Five - Psychotic Reaction

Fakten The great British blues-rock stars may have flaunted their studied virtuosity, but this quintet of San Jose snots stripped R&B down to a rude, rudimentary swagger - and they also wore Dracula capes. Garage rock doesn't get more essential than the title track, with swaggering verses offset by periodic instrumental freak-outs and John "Mouse" Michalski's guitar buzzing like a ferocious mosquito let loose in your earhole. They serve as psychedelic tour guides on "Double Decker Bus," slobber over a gal with a "Pretty Big Mouth" and more than do right by the two Who songs they tackle. Lester Bangs, perhaps their biggest champion, couldn't help but imagine a series of even further out follow-ups, but in real life, the band members just went back to college.
RollingStone Magazine