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==Reception and legacy== {{Album ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Erlewine" /> }} Upon release, ''[[Record Mirror]]'' ran a positive track-by-track review of the album. Reviewer Richard Green noted "all the tracks have been produced well and there's nothing I can think of to fault them on", before concluding the importance of Jeff Beck to the group and predicting it would be a hit.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Columbia 33SX 6063 |date=July 23, 1966 |page=2 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/66/Record-Mirror-1966-07-23.pdf |magazine=Record Mirror}}</ref> In a retrospective [[AllMusic]] review, [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] considers the album to be "the Yardbirds' best individual studio album, offering some of their very best psychedelia", though not "among the great albums of its era".<ref name=Erlewine/> In the liner notes to the box set ''[[Beckology]]'', Gene Santoro notes that the band had "forged a new musical synthesis of Eastern sounds, jazz, blues, rock and noise. The rave up section of "Lost Women" rides out on a recurring feedback-and-whistle sound of power chords; the first section of the "Nazz Are Blue" solo closes out with a single sustained note spiraling into feedback--and this before [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s revolutionary ''[[Are You Experienced?]]''.<ref name=crazy/> Writing for ''Ultimate Clsssic Rock'', Michael Gallucci similarly touts it as a "monumental work of the era" which "takes the Yardbirds into eye-opening, and mind-expanding new worlds. ''Roger the Engineer'' helped set the template for the psychedelic-based hard rock that would emerge over the next couple of years."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gallucci |first1=Michael |title=How The Yardbirds Took a Creative Leap with 'Roger the Engineer' |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/yardbirds-roger-the-engineer/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |access-date=May 7, 2025}}</ref> Overall, the album is praised for providing a blueprint for the styles of [[hard rock]], [[acid rock]], [[psychedelic rock|psychedelia]] and [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] months before the first releases by [[Cream (band)|Cream]] and [[Jimi Hendrix|The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]. The album is included in Robert Dimery's ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref> {{cite book | last = Dimery | first = Robert | year = 2010 | title = [[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]] | publisher = [[Universe Publishing]] | isbn = 978-0789320742 }}</ref> In 2012, the album was ranked number 350 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'''s list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time]].<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-yardbirds-roger-the-engineer-a-k-a-over-under-sideways-down-20120524 |title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Yardbirds, 'Roger the Engineer' |work=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> The American band [[Nazz]] (featuring [[Todd Rundgren]]) were named after the song "The Nazz Are Blue".
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