Electric Music For The Mind And Body

I don't really have anything special to say about this album. It is good, feels consistent and has some rock jams. Nothing that shines by its own.

Not sure how I never heard of these guys as they’re way up my parent’s alley, especially my dad. Superbird was certainly an interesting protest song that I haven’t heard.

It's fine for psychedelia -- some pretty decent james on here, but I was more impressed by the "related" stuff that I got served after the album finished playing. Unexpected bangers: Death Sound, Sad and Lonely Times, Bass Strings

Fun and groovy.

A little off to me. I thought this was going to be perfectly made for me. It looked all old-school psychedelic. It kinda is but not to the degree I was expecting. Still good don't get me wrong just not what I was wanting

Honestly, this album doesn't do much for me, but what it does do it does pretty well. For a moment there I felt myself transported to the sixties, hair past my shoulders, wearing nothing but a pair of ripped bellbottoms, just smokin' and orgying my days away.

6/10

Enjoyed it! Never heard of them before

I’d heard of this band as they were about during my formative years when I began to appreciate and listen to music. Must admit the Country Joe bit led me to believe that they produced American Country music which is not to my taste or liking at all. So today was a revelation. Whilst I could hear some Country influence the majority was rather quite good. Not enough to make me go out and seek out their music but something I wouldn’t now reach for the skip button on a random streaming playlist. 3/5 16/3/25

Not bad

Funsies

Great album, got that 60's groove. No wonder this band played in the legendary Woodstock venue. Happy times and lots of acid for sure.

Sorry but I don’t do drugs so the album is mid for me. 3.5/5

I saw country and 1962 and thought this was going to be the worse thing I’ve ever heard but I was wrong ! Will not be listening again but enjoyed; Not so sweet Martha Lorraine Death sound Super bird

I enjoyed - 3.5

a trilha sonora completa pra qualquer variedade de pensamentos que passa pela minha cabeça

Jazz-infused psychedelic rock—what could go wrong? I’ve never heard of this band or album before, so I was looking forward to giving it a listen. Overall, I found the album to be an easy listen with some great moments. That said, it’s not something I’d revisit often. Favorite songs: Flying High and Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine—both are great tracks with some lovely, twangy guitar. Least favorite: Grace felt pointless. Album artwork: Cool cover.

Flying High 3.5 Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine 3.4 Death Sound Blues 3.2 Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth 3.3 Section 43 3.3 Superbird 3.1 Sad and Lonely Times 3 Love 3.3 Bass Strings 3.2 The Masked Marauder 3.3 Grace 3 Score: 3.236363636

bbn

Kinda cool. Sometimes long tracks it’s hard to keep focus and sometimes it starts to seem like multiple songs in one. Some good stuff but nothing that holds memory of interest.

Started really well, very cool psychedelic sound, reckon the Doors must have been fans. Second half the album was so much more straightforward and dull, felt like they front loaded the album. Not as good as Jefferson airplane but enjoyed it enough.

Porpoise Mouth was decent, but it was all a bit try-hard. I've heard better psychedelia in the list.

6.5/10

Not an exciting album but it had a decent vibe to it. I'd go 2.5 but I'll round up.

Average 60s blues psychedelia. Lyrics were a little political which I liked

5/10 1960's NPC music. meh. 2-19-2025

As King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard fan, let me say that Country Joe and the Fish is terrible band name, especially if you don't even make country music. This just sounds like early Frank Zappa without anything that makes it unique, interesting, or clever. This is going to be one of those albums I completely forget I listened to in about a week (looking back at my review a couple of hours later and I already forgot about it). It's not bad, it's just middle of the road 60's music. I also don't think this deserved a spot on this list. Low 3.

Very middle of the road. No real surprises for this one. The standout was the whispers of "L....S....D" in my earholes.

That was a trip. Not my favorite type of psychedelic music (a little too folksy for my taste), but still had some real interesting parts to it.

So the band name made me think of a country group I'd never heard, but this is more like swampy blues with a hit of acid. Some of the riffs and arrangements are neat for like 10 seconds but its so wishy washy and distorted it kinda shoots itself in the foot.

It's okay, it's just fine

"Important" but not very good. This list better include Easter everywhere by the 13th floor elevators because that record actually is important to the history of psychedelic music and it is good.

I was neither tuned in or dropped out--or for that matter even alive--when this album came out, so I can only read about the context of this allegedly groundbreaking album, and marvel at how unassuming this first psychedelic rock album is. Apparently Country Joe said "If you want to understand psychedelic music, and you haven't heard Electric Music for the Mind and Body, then you probably don't know what you're talking about." That latter part fits me to a tee, although I'll admit to having not all that much interest in psychedelic music in general, and it's only mildly interesting to hear potential antecedent to the Doors, Beatles and others on this album. A fine album overall, but nothing really drew me in either. I can see why "Not so sweet Martha Lorraine" was their only really successful single, and there's something a bit compelling about "Porpoise mouth" (and in turn makes me feel like Ween pulled directly from this song for their album "The Mollusk"). I also like it that Country Joe and the Fish is an obscure reference to Stalin and Mao respectively--a biting reference that's both far more subtle and more piercing than the ham-handed "Super bird" skewer of Lyndon Johnson. And what a shame that the label refused to include "I-Feel- Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" on this album out of political caution, as it's far more interesting than most of this album collectively.

I had a quick listen to the first few tracks on the speaker a few days ago and didn't like it. Listened again on headphones, playing the whole thing and got quite into this! Obviously the same era as The Doors and they are a bit like a quirky, less arrogant (no Jim) version. Some good little tunes early on, then just as my interest was wavering Section 43 came along! What a crazy but cool piece of music. I liked all the songs after that. At times they sound really odd, folky, even pastoral. 'Sad and Lonely Times' is lovely. 'The Masked Marauder' and 'Grace' reminded me of Pentangle which is no bad thing. Music has a time and place and this album got lucky, a relaxed Sunday evening after a walk and a trip to The Albion was perfect.

I was not feeling the psychedelia but then some chunky guitar licks started in about halfway through the disc and gave me a contact high…

Pretty progressive in the 60s I guess

more 60s psy-rock. compared to other stand outs, this one has more of a generic sound compared to the others i've listened to. i don't know why it doesn't speak out to me too much. it has the ambient guitars, cheesy organs, light drums and artsy lyrics, but... it's textbook 60s alternative rock, from structure to instrumentation. is the album good? yeah. but i just don't know why... i don't feel much when listening to it. it's not really... "electric".

Первые треки норм, похожи на Creedence Clearwater Revival . В остальном не впечатлило.

I'm sure it means something to someone. Struggling to find anything to write home about, positive or negative. I got nothin. 3 stars for being straight down the line. Which feels like a sick burn to cool cats who are trying so hard not to be squares.

For what it is, this is average. It may be "new" for its time, but it still has a derivative "garage-band" feel filled with stereotypical 60's hippie-ish angst. Meh.

Side A weed, side B acid.

Some decent psychedelic rock here. Nothing too stand-out, but I enjoyed it.

ok

Totally mid. Done with psychedelic inspired stuff thanks.

I got a special place in my heart for Psychedelic music man. That’s why these records will always slap to me!

Twangy electric blues country

Falls into unexciting but good territory.

Surprisingly good, but not sure I'd listen to it again.

Entertaining early psychedelic album.

not so sweet martha lorraine - i like the trodding and then fractalizing rythmn, with various instrumental sections representing parts of the unfolding narrative porpoise mouth- enjoy for similar reasons section 43- neat odyssey a lot of this album is well performed but not especially notable (to me) psych rock. i like one persons write up where they described it as lysergic rock. thats cute and fits the lyrical surrealist painting being done. and what isnt well performed is grating.

Better than I thought it would be with a name of "Country Joe & the Fish"

funky, 60s, weird 3*

ah, the late 60’s. it was a time when psychedelic music was all the rage, “tune in and drop out” was the order of the day, and it seemed like every popular act of the time had at least a couple of anti vietnam war songs. it was indeed the era of the protest song when music actually had a message and artists actually wanted to make the world a better place. not only did country joe actually name check the president in the song “super bird”, later in the song he actually suggested LBJ should take some drugs to get a different outlook on life. and this was pretty commonplace in this era. what a time it must have been.

Ok. I guess.

Mostly laidback easy listening. I quite like it, which is showing my age, I suspect. I’d heard of Country Joe but never heard him. Until I started rating these albums, I didn't realise how much my musical tastes must have been formed by being a child in the 60s, wistfully missing out the hippie years and instead, being forced to listen to dire disco music by the time I was a teen. Giving it a 3 for nostalgia.

good blues rock but not the best

Helt ok. Helt nytt för mig. Absolut inget fel på musiken. Kommer nog inte söka mig ner i det dock.

Awesome early rock

Solid psychedelia. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine is still a favorite of the era/genre. Some other decent songs, but nothing too memorable.

Hard for me not to get behind some old school psych rock. Really solid all the way through, I enjoyed this quite a bit

🎧Rather generic sounding 60s psychedelic blues rock but as a whole this is by no means bad. David Cohen goes off on the organ on Love, enjoyed that. Grace really drags, what a slog. I get that this album is considered a major contribution to the genre but Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and the Byrds did it a lot better.

Pretty decent, 3.5*

Not too sure what I make of this. I can see the importance of this album in relation to the psychedelic movement in America in the 60's. I must confess I'd not really listened to them before this, just knew them by name and imagined them to be a little bit like the Grateful Dead, which is to an extent true. There's also a touch of the 13th Floor Elevators about them and possibly a smattering of the Doors. I imagine if I stuck with this a bit more I may devlop the same ambigious relationship with it as I do with the Grateful Dead (I'm not sure I like much of their stuff). If I'm being honest I much prefer the UK psychedelia sound to this but it's not without its merits and I enjoyed it more on the second listen. This would've been quite ground breaking at the time so it probably deserves its place on the list.

They always remind me of a bunch of college boys. Good, but not very exciting

3.7 liked it

I liked this more than I thought I would! I loved the instruments and sophomore year of high school me would’ve ate this up!

A psychedelic trip which sounded as if it was recorded in a tent just outside of the infamous Woodstock Festival. A mixed bad from a quality standpoint. Favorite Song: "Love"

This was very hippy. There is a definite mix here of quality. Overall not too bad but I don’t think I would listen again. 3

Good album but somewhat unremarkable. It's a typical late 1960s psychedelic rock album in my view. Heavy on the organ and thin 60s style guitar work.

Not bad. Kind of dated, but I liked some of the music.

mediano apenas

Liked this 7/10

It’s ok, but dated

Starts off really strong, but didn't keep my attention for the second half of the album. Might've been 4 star worthy of I'd had chance to listen more closely.

Solid psychedelic rock from the 60s. Still pretty enjoyable to listen to today but it also doesn't really stand out.

Volvemos al reto con esta banda que sólo ubico por su nombre. El Rock Psicodélico y el Progresivo son parte de mi adolescencia y mis primeros años universitarios: allí tenía una avidez gigantesca por escuchar música. El sonido del álbum me recuerda en parte a bandas como Cream (Flying High), Creedence Clearwater Revival y Jefferson Airplane (sobre todo, Bass Strings) y, citando a mis pagos, a Almendra y a Manal. Hay rock, hay blues, hay canciones más instrumentales y con la fuerte presencia del órgano Hammond. Me parece un disco para ingresar a éste género. Hasta mañana.

After listening to Jefferson Airplane last week, I expected to be disappointed by this album too. It was better than I would have guessed - granted, the usual late 60's bluesy guitars, baroque organ sounds, psychedelic distortions, but it was varied enough that each song had something surprising to offer

Not bad, not great.

Really not bad.

Not bad but none of the songs really stood out to me

I liked the bluesy track, and liked the psych tracks less

Makes me want to drop acid

While this list does have a lot of psychedelia, normally the psychedelia isn't appealing or is redundant. I'm not convinced that Country Joe and the Fish deserve to be here, but this is middle-of-the-road music! It isn't bad!!! The vocals were OK to me, but there was some unexpected charm, too. The unexpected, humorous double-take intro to "Love" is what endeared me to Country Joe. I love a protest song, and "Superbird" maybe hit you over the head, but I enjoyed it anyway. Some songs were just weird, as you get in the psychedelia genre. "Death Sound Blues" (or "Death Sound") created an unnerving death rattle that I only appreciated on my second listen. All in all, an easy enough listen to muddle through.

Fine

Nothing really impressing me too much

Groovy, but a little too jarring for my personal taste. Smoking a doobie may have helped.

It's definitely the sound of the Bay Area during the late 60s. It's not a bad album, and the songs have a variety to them. The problem is that the so many of the other bands of the time.....did the same psychedelic sound so much better than these guys.

3.1 1x

Never even heard of this before. Quite a fun hippy wigout. Bits of Doors-esqe organ.

Some good early, old school, psych rock. The sound is dated but that's to be expected a bit. Vocals are above average and the guitar is good but there's nothing earth shattering. Slightly above average. 5.75/10 (2.875/5)

Very late 60s.

Very cool sounds

Overall- Decent rock album. It was a little on the nose with LSD references, but I guess that was a sign of the times. I could see how it influenced the psychadelic rock genre. 2.5 stars, but i think i can see vumping it up to 3.

As a kid I loved the Country Joe track on the Woodstock soundtrack - I Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die Rag Having left that track off this record (oh no!) the rest was just fine. Cool bluesy guitar, though there was little in the way of 'excellence' on display. Just sounded like some guys having fun. Slight side-note: You can tell this is a record from the 60’ - the lead guitar is panned hard left -> there’s almost zero of it in the right channel. The other guitar is the opposite - panned hard right. Everything is panned one way or the other except drums which are like 70/30 in the right and vocals are dead centre. 60’s idea of how to create a stereo mix

This is pretty nice. It's not obnoxious in a way I thought it might have been. Good instrumentation, nice singing, nice melodies. I had a pretty good time with it.

3.5★. Eclectic and pretty rad.

Very so so 2.8

3 - I was really vibing with it until Section 43. I liked some of the experimental stuff after that, but it was polarizing and inconsistent

Good Not great. Low 3

A decent taste of the burgeoning San Francisco scene.Probably fantastic to get high to.

Unlike other people in my group, I'd recognized Country Joe & The Fish right away: they're one of the bands who played Woodstock. Yeah, these guys were there on the same bill as Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Sly & The Family Stone, Janis Joplin, The Who, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez.. They shared ground with all'a those people. Although, honestly, from what I can remember of the movie soundtrack, I feel like I'd probably put Country Joe & The Fish more on the... Y'know, Arlo Guthrie and Sha-Na-Na side of notability. Which makes it even crazier than Country Joe himself got a solo performance on the album **alongside** his performance with the band, but that's besides the point. Neither song is on **this album**, anyway, so let's get back to the point. This, apparently, is the first psych rock album to come from the Bay Area. Right at the top of the Summer Of Love, these guys were there, and I hafta imagine that's why they were invited to Woodstock. By that same token, I also hafta imagine that's why people today wouldn't be too kind on it. Even accepting its place in history and its importance, it can be hard to go back to the first of something while being actively aware of all of the tropes and clichés it helped spawned. Now, I already made a case in my review of Dr. Dre's THE CHRONIC for why that sort of thing doesn't bother me. In short: I don't think you can blame the originator for everyone else doing its thing poorly or for everyone else tiring its thing out. Although... I'unno. This thing ended up going back and forth for me a lot. On one end, you got the stuff that leans more into acid rock, and that's the stuff that really got me to sit up and go "Yes! I can dig it, man! Tune out, drop in, whatever." But then on the other end, you got tracks where all I can think to myself is, "I've heard this a million times before—so maybe I just didn't like this kinda stuff to begin with? Or maybe they just didn't do it that good to begin with?Especially the song that explciity mentions LBJ, jus', **wow**..." Like, maybe it sounded better back when it was more special; when it existed more by itself and there wasn't as much similar material to compare it to. After being to absorb so much and come to a conclusion, though... Boof. I mean, lucky for them, I'm probably gonna remember this more for the acid rock stuff, but still—boof. And that's why I'm at a 3. "Section 43", by itself, is too good for me to really rate it any lower. And being 100% honest, the psych stuff isn't all **that** bad. Even if it's not very special, I can still be a real sucker for that keyboard sound. On the whole, however, besides the Woodstock notoriety, I'm not sure why you'd come back to these guys **first** over a lot of the other stuff that came out afterwards. At least they had a better set than Sha-Na-Na did.

I’m right at a 3. I really don’t have a lot of praise or critique either way for this album. It just exists, really. I’m sure it hit a little better in 1967, but by 2024, I’ve just heard so many other bands do these sort of styles while trying to effectively mix psychedelic rock with other genres, and a lot of those other bands have done this just as well or way better than what’s on this album. Again, that’s not to say this is bad – I’d say it’s good. It’s just not really feeling like I have to hear this before I die. I liked a lot of the tracks here – some of them have odd mixing choices or emotionless vocals, but as a whole album, I’d say it succeeds more often than it fails. It’s just that the success is sort of equivalent to winning a 100cc race of Mario Kart in that it’s just not as satisfying as it could be. So… yeah. It’s a 3. Fun listen, little long, a little odd at times, but never bad. It’s just kinda there, though.

Quite enjoyed this. 3.5 stars.

This one got pretty boring pretty quickly. I like their sound but I don't like 45 straight minutes from a one-trick pony. Pretty good album, pretty illustrative of the 60s sound but ultimately lacks enough creativity to carry the project. I would have liked to hear them play with their sound, build on some of the concepts a little more. I think they do this in a couple of different tracks but too much of it is too much of the same.

Completely new to me and quite enjoyed it

Very gentle country? Man’s got a voice I’d kill for. Lyrics were impactful and sorrow. 3.2

Reely not bad

Pretty fun and unique, but also not especially good

Far out, man. It was fine.

The “la la la lalalalalala ”in “Masked Marauder” got annoying.

Not terrible, but not that interesting.

Psychedelic country blues! While this isn’t something I’ll listen to again, I enjoyed it and can see why it’s on the list.

Wiki says this was one of the first psychedelic albums. It was fine. Nothing really stuck out to me.

I thought this was fine. Another album that probably needs to be on the list due to what it spawned later, but not anything I'll be revisiting anytime soon. But it's okay, pleasant enough to listen to.

Nothing outstanding but a good album

3.5. Quality psych rock

It is an interesting album, but I think that psychedelic people should really enforce some time limit around the 40 minutes of the album. The interesting becomes boring too quickly to support more than that.

With a name like Country Joe & The Fish, I was expecting this to smell like camping and body odor. Thankfully, this was marginally better than that with. the track 'Love' already being added to my liked songs.

A neat little psychedelic curiosity, forgotten but still fun. A little bluesy, a little druggy; it doesn't quite push any boundaries but it's a fun listen nonetheless. It's pretty forgettable though, and I'm not sure it needs to be on this list. The Marvel references were cool. Wish I could give it 3.5 stars.

This album definitely sounds like the 60s, it's not terrible but not really my type of music. It does feel a little long and maybe a little bit samey at times.

Very Doorsy. Probably played well at the time but now it's just fine.

when the rock is psych i literally dont know what else to say

Hørte ikke hele så ble litt repeterende

I can see why it is significant, as it was one of the early psychedelic rock albums which gives it an outsized influence on later albums. It’s a bit odd as a listening experience though; the sings come across less as complete works and more as sketches or vignettes. Not bad overall, but it’s difficult to get into.

Pretty good...kind of reminded me CCR but more psychedelic and less swamp rock. I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this band before.

This was an alright album, bluesy psychedelia

Did I really need to hear this album before I died?

Sounds a bit dated now but was a good play back in the day

Pretty good

Итс окэй. Музыка ровная и в целом приятная, без каких-то нереальных высот, но и ничего плохого сказать не выходит. Лучшая песня - Porpoise Mouth.

I enjoyed roughly half of this and tolerated the rest, so a middling 3 stars it is.

Meh

Mér finnst þetta næs psýcadelía og oftar en ekki hress. Hefði fílað þetta betur fyrir 30+ árum þetta er samt solid þristur.

So 60s it hurts. The band is a hot mess. Experimental, out of tune guitars, drug fueled experience. Not bad.

Not as electrifying as they claim, nor is it a mind-and-body stimulating piece. But it's still pretty fun, despite being a bit generic. Mid psych rock.

I know when i'll be listening to this again hehe

“I hunger for your porpoise mouth and stand erect for love” What?

Actually pretty cool, especially for 1967 and espeically for a band I've literally never heard before. Nice job, y'all!

Some jazz, some blues, even some CW influence on this rock album. Mostly fun with some fine guitar work. Also a couple fillers and a little of the cacophony that seem mandatory for the times.

This album has all the ingredients of something I would enjoy, but it left almost no mark on me. I listened yesterday but forgot to write a review, and at this point I've almost completely forgotten what I thought about it. It's psychedelic rock from the mid-'60s, so it makes sense that it would have that dime-a-dozen feel.

Nice piece of 60s history

Some jams, but not my jam.

Much better than the name suggests, but nothing amazing. I probably didn’t take enough drugs to fully appreciate it though.

Solid three, not much to add. Simpsons: No

Very average. Love the artist name though.

I didn't mind this psychedelic music, but it was a little distracting when I was trying to work.

A Woodstock classic.

I was nervous about the name, but actually pretty good.

La la la la la la

far out man!

Some of the most 60s music ever

They sure are enthusiastic about their little project here. The music is passionate for the most part. The instrumentation and writing are strong. Nothing here that’s very original or particularly exciting, but it’s fun. 3/5

There is something to said in music about timing. This album I imagine was revolutionary in its day. In this day it feels dated. I don’t hate it but I don’t know if I would necessarily look for it. Super Bird, Love and Flying High were my key tracks. You can definitely hear a lot of Brian Jonestown Massacre in here. Maybe headphones and edibles would help….🤔

3 stars

Really classic folk/psychadelic.

Edgy bro music for the hippie set.

Psychedelic rock.

Okay. So this album is called "Electric Music For The Mind And Body." That implies that is some sort of electric album, right? However, this album comes from Country Joe and the Fish, which to me implies that this is a country album. Well, as a matter of fact, it's neither! This is instead the millionth psychedelic rock album on this list. You know what that means! It's fine. I'll give this album some credit. I think the sound is pleasant enough. It's a bit trippy, but it's not painful to listen to. The electric guitar (I guess there is something electric about this music after all) is pretty solid. The sound is pretty raw at times, which is okay. I actually like the singing quite a bit. It's not my favorite, but it's pleasantly surprising. The writing could've been a bit better, but it's not egregiously bad or anything. Overall, while this album gets props for being decent, it doesn't really need to be on this list. Light 3/5.

Some highly competent country blues hippie rock

I did like it but probably wouldn’t play it a ton again, definitely my favorite style of the country genre

Not as Psychedelic as I'd hoped

🦶

Groovy. I used to watch the Woodstock Documentary every year, loved his "gimme an F..." leading into Fixin to Die rag. What a time to be alive.

Psychedelic hippie blues. Not bad but nothing amazing

They were certainly committed to talking about drugs. Flirting with a psychedelic sound. I can see where this is going to go within the whole psychedelic genre, but ultimately, these guys weren't going to be the ones to take it there. Honestly, I would think this is a parody album if it hadn't been released in 1967.

Make sure you skip Sad and Lonely. Truly terrible. But the rest of this album is quite decent. You can really see the link between country and psychedelia.

didn’t get blown away by any songs but the songs were respectable, it was just really average, 5/10

Electric Music for the Mind and Body I hunger for your porpoise mouth The only things I know of CJ&TF is their Woodstock Film appearance and that they were quite a big deal in the SF / Jefferson Airplane / psychedelic scene. I think because of the name I was expecting more of a basis country rock sound like the Flying Burrito Brothers, but with some far out 60s flourishes. Flying High is kind of forgettable blues rock, with a very odd and abrupt fade out. No So Sweet Martha Lorraine with the organ and time signature changes feels more like a psychedelic 60s song, I liked it, the bass was good and it had a bit of groove to it. Death Sound Blues. As per title. Quite like the rattlesnake death rattle tambourine and percussion, but not that exciting. Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth - very psychedelic 60s compilation, not unenjoyable (LITOTES). It would go on a 60s psych playlist. I liked Section 43, very Doorsy organ, great bass in the opening section, good raga/Indian guitar. Another one for the psych playlist.
Superbird
Sad and Lonely Times is good, a lovely little slice of west coast country rock.
Love slightly generic sounding, but then I guess this probably was the progenitor of this type of 60s music, so can I truly be generic. Bass Strings. Quite liked this one The Masked Marauder. Despite repeat listens I can’t recall this song at all Grace. Fine Overall it’s fine for what it is, enjoyable enough, decent etc etc, but I find it hard to summon any particular opinions either way. I neither liked or disliked it ultimately. Maybe I preferred it to Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and I. Ron Butterfly but it’s really a 2.5. I’ll go 3 as I quite like the band name ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3-

3.5

Was good, but not something I’ll jam on very often

Interesting period piece. Most likely need to be real stoned to get into it. Somewhat listenable, but I would never listen again on purpose.

This was fairly generic psychedelic rock. I didn't mind it and I'm sure it was important at the time but it doesn't do much for me either.

this is the most ok album that i have ever heard

Too many drugs. Others did this sort of thing so much better

As much as i've been poo pooing psych pop in this list, i can see a world where having this on in the background would be enjoyable. i do think there are better examples of the genre though.

Country Joe et son poisson auront tout pompé de Jimi Hendrix, jusqu'au nom de l'album qui n'est pas sans nous rappeler Electric Ladyland. Malheureusement pour eux c'est un très mauvais choix, une copie étant toujours moins bien que l'original, mais qui plus est l'original est ici assez moyen. Country Joe et son poisson auraient mieux fait par exemple de plagier Adele, Michael Jackson ou encore Kanye West. Nous approchons de la fin du générateur, et donc du spam de notre adresse mail robertestleperedemikeladd@gmx.com. Si toutefois vous souhaitez vous désabonner de notre newsletter, vous pouvez nous contacter à l'adresse mail robertestleperedemikeladd@gmx.com

Title certainly lives up to the psychedelic influence. Got a bit too much for me at the gym but overall not bad

It's cool, and it's creative in the 60s, but it only occupies my brain while it's playing and then leaves almost immediately. I think they're writing style is great, but I can only get so much out of pure drug-infused 60s style beats.

This was fine. I like this style of music but it’s nothing I haven’t heard before. The song about LBJ and Marvel characters was interesting. These guys were on a lot of drugs. Also this does the 60’s stereo thing where some of the instruments are only on one side of my headphones.

I quite like this sound :-)

This is cool. Kinda Jam band ish. Grateful Dead likely pulled some inspo from Country Joe. It was easy to listen to while working. But I don’t expect to come back to it.

This album is fine, but it's also not for me. It just never really grabbed me and made me take interest in it 3/5

Fun psychedelic rock. Those guys smoked some good green. 3 stars

Better than I expected but there’s been so much like this on the list and it’s not really my thing. Loved the guitar though. Sad and Lonely Times was really good. High 3.

Fun psych rock album, sure there’s better ones, but still a fun listen

I liked the shorter songs better, the jams that went on for 7 minutes... you felt every minute of it. Some of the songs, making fun of Lyndon B Johnson specifically, really fixes it right in that time frame. I don't know if it really makes it more difficult for people not there to "get" the message. But it doesn't help. The band itself seems capable and songs like "The Masked Marauder" really shows off their skill. But those jammier pieces... just go on WAY too long. I wouldn't say it was music for the body, but there you go.

I still don't like psychedelic rock. On first listen I found myself bored, but I think I was listening too closely. On second listen, I was mildly entertained. The musicianship is pretty good, the lyrics aren't bad either - a bit hippie, a bit protest. I'm not going back to more from these guys mind you, but they were true pioneers in the genre. So for that reason I won't go lower than a 3. But I'm also not going higher.

Solid 60s psychedelic rock. I thought the loose, blues/country-flavored rock songs were better than the spacey psychedelic ones. And I got a kick out of the LBJ-dissing "Super Bird."

"Electric Music for the Mind and Body" is the debut album by American pyschdelic rock band Country Joe & the Fish. Acid rock, pyschedelic rock....sure is. The album was one of the first pyschedelic ones to come out of San Francisco. The bandmembers included Country Joe McDonald ( lead vocals, guitars, harmonica), Barry Melton (guitars, vocals), David Cohen (guitars, organ), Bruce Barthol (bass, harmonica) and Gary "Chicken" Hirsh (drums). The album reached #39 in the US charts. "Flying High" opens the album. You notice right away the layered guitars in the front. They're grooving. Sort of a plodding beat. He's stuck on a LA freeway. "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" is softer. The pyschedelic guitar sounds are in free flow. In comes a prominent organ. Trippy lyrics comparing life and death to someone named Martha. The second half of the album really gets into the pyschedelia. "Love" has a growlin" Barry Melton on lead vocals. The organ is carrying the melody. We get a very interesting guitar/organ combo solo. "Bass Strings" slowwwws things down. A haunting and eerie organ. Country Joe does not fool around with the lyric; he's getting high and going to the desert, the ocean and everywhere. The song ends with LSD being repeated. Oh, but they can get even more pyschedelic in the closer "Grace," a tribute to the Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick. There's water dripping, cymbals, bells, echoing vocals and wave sounds and, of course, gong sounds. Nothing more to say. The highlight of this album are the layered electric guitars. The first half of this seems like one long jam. The slow songs are long and quite honesty can drag. But, maybe that's the point. The lyrics are very trippy as you would expect. This album is of its time and place: San Francisco 1967. If you want to go back there, this would be a place to start.

7/10 - 3/5 The intro to Section 43 sounds like Tool. The comic references were really interesting, but didn't really fit. I liked the 60s sound to it, but it wasn't great. Slight elements of Beatles, Stones, and The Doors, but just not as good as any of them.

Apparently these guys were huge in the San Francisco psychedelic scene and leftist circles of the 60s. My initial impression was that it's a less memorable version of Jefferson Airplane. But this album really picks up a few tracks in. The sound becomes muddier and more electronic than their contemporaries. It hasn't exactly survived the test of time and maybe not that many people today know who they are. But I can definitely see an enduring cult following for this group.

Mezcla de country y rock psicodélico. Sin ningún tema reseñable. Da la sensación de haber experimentado con todo tipo (sustancias y músicas). Escuchable de una manera tranquila

If I had taken some mind altering substance I would’ve given it 4 stars

Cactus San Pedro

Fairly standard 60s psychedelic rock. Was grand but it kinda faded into the background while I listened.

Another nice psychedelic album. I think I preferred the last one we got, but this was still nice to listen to.

Interesting psychedelic rock from the 60s. But did not like it very much.

Groovy. I had never heard of them, not had my 72 year old Dad, but typical band from that era and I liked there more popular peers better

Glad I got to listen to this one. Have heard about these guys forever. Played at Woodstock. Good old 60’s psychedelic blues. Reminiscent of early Pigpen days of the Dead.

Just how I thought it would sound

Basic psychrock. But that's not a bad thing. Had a lot of fun listening to this. Others have done this sound better, but it's still worth a listen. A chill time.

It’s decent, I had no issues with listening to it. A few tracks I enjoyed, the rest felt a bit same-y and didn’t do much for me.

Not very electric

7.3/10

I already knew of this act through their legendary sardonic, anti-Vietnam war protest song " I Fell Like I'm Reading To Die Rag" as they played it at the Woodstock festival. The studio version of this song would only be recorded for the eponymous album after *Electric Music For The Mind And Body*, even though the tune had already been written by 1967 -- cowardly label executives were too scared of the shitstorm that could have ensued if said protest song had been included in the band's debut. Too bad it's not in this particular record. This would have given it an extra point for sure. Reading the reviews, I mostly expected a second-tier, self-indulgent sort of early psychedelic / white blues record. But I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by some of the cuts in this album, as messy and/or sloppy as the songwriting and performances can be at times. I found most of the the slower, moodier cuts endearing for instance--cuts such as "Section 43" and "Bass Strings"--the latter being almost a caricature of a hippy song, from its first line mentioning a reefer passing around, to its last whispers praising "LSD". Laughable, probably. Yet I can live with this auditory version of patchouli scents in my living room once in a while. Feels like being in a period movie if you don't take any of this too seriously. And it's still more fun and more interesting than most of the Grateful Dead tracks I know of. Most of the lively cuts are fine as well, from opener "Flying High" (with its infectious chorus), to "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" and 'shaggadelic' "Love". Instrumental "The Masked Marauder" sums up what's both good and not-so-good in this record. It starts off just great, with an intricate guitar part filled with rich harmonies, but then segues into a novelty-inspired, ternary waltz-like bridge section that turns everything into parody, once again. Maybe without that cheesy organ--fine elsewhere--I could have taken the end of that track seriously, who knows? Not giving any conclusion to this review because this album has none to speak of ("Grace" just... goes along). Call that a marijuana-induced memory lapse. 3/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums.Which translates to a 8/10 grade for more general purposes.  Number of albums left to review: more than 300 (I've temporarily lost count here) Number of albums I'll include in my own list: half so far, approximately Number of albums I *might*  include: a quarter, approximately (including this one) Number of albums I'll never include: another quarter (including this one, many others are more important to me)

Ya think these fellas liked their LSD? 3/5

Started off to be way better than - and not at all - what I was expecting. Eventually evened out and fell off a bit, but still pretty good. 3.5/5

Heard of this because of Woodstock I believe. Had never heard the album, it’s good. 60s psychedelic feel. It’s interesting if nothing else

This album was better than I expected - some of the songs are quite strong, but I am not a big fan of these San Fransisco 60s psychedelic rock albums - dont care about the lyrics and the style of singing. Three stars seems to be about right.

не е лош, ама не е кой знае какво

Nota: 6,7 Flying High - 7/10 Not so Sweet Martha Lorraine - 8/10 Death Sound - 7/10 Porpoise Mouth - 6/10 Section 43 - 5/10 Super Bird - 7/10 Sad and Lonely Times - 6/10 Love - 7/10 Bass Strings - 8/10 The Masked Marauder - 7/10 Grace - 6/10

Pretty wild stuff for the time, I bet.

Album 251 of 1001 Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body Rating : 3 / 5 Good listen. Everybody needs to know about Country Joe & The Fish, Not the most earth shattering album but I do like their music.

This wasn’t as fun as I expected it to be based on the name. But still good music

Spacey, trippy, bluesy psych rock. You can tell the genre and its conventions, and particularly its experimental elements, are still up in the air as this isn’t the most exciting album in a lot of ways, but it’s a fun and approachable listen.

Best Song: Love. This one had that hectic energy that I like from early rock. Worst Song: Porpoise Mouth. I've never really liked a waltz. Overall: Respectably decent early rock. Sounds no different from most of the genre and I am all but guaranteed to forget both the band name and album title immediately after listening. But while it was here, it was alright.

meh

Pretty by-the-numbers 60’s psych/blues rock. Can’t *quite* beat contemporaries like Jefferson Airplane or Big Brother and the Holding company. Still, the Lyndon Johnson track is a bit highlight.

God I wish doctor strange and the fantastic four would help me force lbj back onto the farm.

Fine, just kinda...boring?

Generic 60s hippie stuff, was ok

Country Joe ken ik eerlijk gezegd enkel van Woodstock dvd's. Zijn iconische 'What's that spell? -FUCK!' moment met daarop volgend I-Feel-Like-Fixin'-To-Die Rag zal bij menig overjaarse hippie wel kiekevel veroorzaken. Country Joe & The Fish was het op het lijf geschreven om op dat legendarische podium te staan. Dit is de eerste keer dat ik er eens een album van in zijn geheel beluister. Het ging er wel in, zoals de meeste 60's psychedelica met de nodige weirdness en typische orgelriedeltjes, maar er is niks dat mij gaat bijblijven achteraf. Er zijn andere bands die hetzelfde beter doen of gedaan hebben.

Started better than if finished

It was fine, idk some of the 60s and 70s rock start to blend together for me. Cool band and album name tho!

Haven’t ever really listened to these guys other than a couple of songs from their Woodstock set. Pretty good stuff. Really dig the dark and moody Bass Strings.

pretty cool sometimes

Super Bird was my favorite, the rest felt strong enough to enjoy listening to. I'm sure it I was smoking while listening, it would have been even better.

Highly recommend taking an edible and listening to this by a campfire. That’s how I enjoyed it.

Funky stoner music, a little more on the chill side than the doors. Liked a few of the songs plenty.

Crazy 60s psych which was fun, but I won't be going back to

goed oldschool scheurende gitaren

Didn’t she very well. Maybe it was influential back then but to me it’s not that interesting. But it had some good tunes !

Some good songs but it was alright

Decent psychedelic music, I would give it a 3.5 if I could. The LBJ song was one of the best.

снова старьё которое я в каверах встречала! норм но не увлекло

Really I haven't listened to any Country Joe apart from the Woodstock film with the bouncing ball over the lyrics to his Vietnam song he was performing. Thought he was interesting, but listening to an entire album was a challenge. Kinda psych, kinda bluesy and folky, the songs and lyrics were okay, but underwhelming with some songs a bit too long. So, I'm surprised to read he's recorded 33 albums and had a career spanning 60 years! Impressive, good for him.

Nett, bisschen durcheinander

Pretty decent psych music. A bit rudimentary but not bad.

There are better versions of this style of music than this album by Country Joe & The Fish - heck there's even better versions by Country Joe!

It’s mediocre psychedelia—which this list has an excess of. It’s worse than its influences (old school rock and roll, folk, Hindustani classical music)—all of which this list has a lack of. There are solid moments, and their use of synths feels a little fresh. “It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a man insane, it’s my president LBJ” is a hilariously bad line.

Interesting. I was half expecting more dull midpaced 70s rock, but this was a charming combination of jug band instruments and cod eastern psychedelia. I loved that they were trying to make something different, even if some of the coded humour is a little too obvious. Would have been a 4, but the stereo mix of "drums in one ear, organ in the other" was just a bit too off putting.

Decent psych, hadn’t heard of it before. I like the song ”Super Bird”

something tells me this album might be from the 60s idk

AJ: cool jams. Psycho dellic nonsense. Had me till porpoise mouth. Too. Much. Acid.

Much copied and mostly bettered.

Psychedelic rock/jam band. Pretty fun

It was OK - document of its time I suppose

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Good country blues I feel

Needs another listen

Just an average classic rock album

mmm

I know that Country Joe & The Fish played at Woodstock, but I'm not sure if I've ever heard a complete track from the band. I didn't find anythign obviously objectionable on Electric Music For the Mind and Body, but nothing really drew me in either. The music rests just outside of psychodelia, and not quite something that you'd call Rock and Roll either. The lyrics and vocals aren't particularly endearing either. My favorite track from the album was "Section 43", which had some experimentation to it. I was left wondering how this album and the artist fit in to the overall context of rock and popular music. I couldn't place the music. I guess the album was okay, but I'll soon forget what I heard.

Always been intrigued by these since I read Paul Doggett's epic book about the counter culture from the 60s and beyond There's a Riot Going On. A cracking and thorough read. Country Joe and Joan Baez seem to have played every benefit going to support the cause against Vietnam. I know Maoism (who called revolutionaries "the fish who swim among the sea of the people") had a big boom around this time but seems mad to me to also name yourself after Stalin, particularly as a leftie - perhaps too much history between us and that decision. The music, I've heard bits of over the years but it's never stuck particularly. There's Doorsy keyboards (is that a Hammond?) particularly on the long instrumental Section 43 which I enjoyed, probably the strongest thing here. Reminds me of Inspiral Carpets as well. Apparently Clint used a Farfisa Compact which sounded like a Hammond. When the vocals kick back in the next songs though I'm dropped back down to earth as it's fairly sub standard psych rock, there's better examples in the period. But definitely an interesting band. Go listen to fixin to die rag though, you shouldn't move on from this band without hearing that mad hoedown. Also fun fact, the fish cheer was sampled by Death in Vegas for 'Dirt'.

There is nothing overtly negative to say about this album, but it does wear its time and place on its sleeve in a way that indicates a dearth of truly spaced out freak-outs with truly colorful images to grab a hold of the psyche. Maybe these guys need a bigger platform, and a bigger crowd, to espouse their issues with the country they live in. They've already got a song about, maybe they can craft one more. But this'll do. Favorites: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine, Death Sound, Section 43, Super Bird, Bass String.

Reminds me what i think grateful dead must sound like. 3 stars is generous.

kinda average psych rock

Scrapes a 3 but I'm not happy about it.

Enjoyable overall. Some quite bluesy moments. Some songs sound like the Beatles, some sound like the Doors. And other weird interesting psychedelic things.

This wasn't terrible at all and I guess it was quite interesting to listen to something like this - something I've never heard of before. The use of such extreme stereo was irritating though - I guess this is in the quite early days of stereo recording being standard so I can understand why people were experimenting with it, but I imagine that these days this would be better listened to via a mono speaker. For me at least. It's OK but I'm not going to seek it out to play very frequently. So it's a 3.

It’s solid not great though, section 43 in particular is a very odd duck. But it’s not horrible 3/5

Had its moments. Could have done with slightly less of that organ.

Similar to countless other 60s albums. Cool guitar work though.

Ultimately a rather uneventful and plain album

Not entirely sure what to make of this. Really bluesy in some parts, obviously really psychedelic in others. Meanwhile, ‘Porpoise Mouth’ is a just a shit song and its omission along with the two instrumentals (which add nothing in my opinion), would have made this a tighter and probably more enjoyable listen.

Tres quarts d'hora d'exercici psicodèlic, lisèrgic, experimental per moments. Molt del moment i molt per experimentar en el correcte estat d'alteració mental

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Definitely of the era.

Great psychedelic album.

Nice jams with some mid cuts mixed in

Psychedelic baby! Horrible band name, but Country Joe and the Fish were actually quite cool. Electric Music For The Mind is obviously very much a product of it's time, and specifically San Francisco at a certain time, but there really is something liberating about the sound.

A quite psychedelic album from a man called Country Joe. Country Joe and The Fish and their band coincidentally named Country Joe and The Fish delivers some nice tunes and while I’m never over the top, I’m never bored.

Takes more time to get into, but definitely worth it. Solid. 3.5

If you told me these guys never actually recorded an album but just spontaneously formed to play that Fish Cheer and Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die and then vanished Id have probably believed you until today. This is an acceptable late 60s bluesy, psychedelic album by a band from San Francisco. Fun fact apropos of nothing really: "Country" Joe McDonald was named after Joe Stalin

San Francisco psychers produced about what one would expect, with similarities - but strong! - to the Doors. LBJ lines aren't groundbreaking but clever enough to giggle at, and the ending gives the record a good bit of weight.

Eh

This is like jam band music for the 60s. And what’s with every jam band having some sort of fish involved with them. This was okay. It had some good 60s rock sounds and continued into different paths of psychedelic and harder rock. The biggest problem was how long some of the songs were where there wasn’t much substance. It seems like a good precursor to a lot of music but not something I’d revisit a ton. 6.1/10

What an eclectic mix of sounds and styles. Somehow it all gels together into a fantastic melange. A psychedelic, heady mix of politics and drugs so redolent of 1967, and its summer of Love. I was also reminded of the Doors and a bit of Jefferson Airplane. The homage to Grace Slick was quite appropriate, since Joe’s, at times, androgynous voice actually sounded like Grace Slick. I would feel quite happy to come back and explore more of this. It’s more of a 3.5 for me….

I enjoyed this more than expected. My affinity for jam bands is limited, and I had in mind that these guys were something of a San Fran psychedelic noodle fest. Well, the 3-star rating undersells my impression of the album — there's more to the band than I thought. I appreciated the overt political criticisms and a number of the songs, particularly in the first half of the album. Things trailed off into noodle-land a bit as the album played on, which notched this back a little from the promise of the opening. But I liked Country Joe plenty good, and I won't shy away from listening if this ever gets teed up again.

Some good stuff here, some maybe not as good experimental stuff here.

I've never listened to this before and it's not bad. I will revisit this to see if it clicks with me.

Awesome acid rock with some real trippy songs. Not sure about the tone of the album but hey, it was recorded in 1967.

Yup, I was a fan but listening now I wish the vocals were stronger. The music and mix of hippie, anti war, get high and free spirit kind of music with some country and soulful stuff is still holding up. Just not the vocal performances. My teenage self would have given them a 5.

Not really good, not really bad. Not worth it, though.

I can hear this albums influence in other albums to come out of California soon after. Not bad.

Just ok. Got a little repetitive toward the end.

Made zero impression

Enjoyed my first listen of these guys.

Generally pretty good. Pretty clearly second tier San Francisco psychedelia. Which is ok. Country Joe.

This is fine

Un bon album de Psychedelic rock, je reconnais un son qui a été utilisé mainte et mainte fois après cet album. Je comprend son iclusion dans la liste. 3.5

HL: "Death Sound", "Section 43", "Masked Marauder”, "Porpoise Mouth" Something about the organ tone irritated me, but that might be a production/digital master issue. As in, it was too loud and too treble-y. I did like this (woo, 60s psychedelia) but I didn’t love it, and it’s valuable to me more for filling in the gaps of that 67-70 rock era, than as an album I want to put on repeat. Ya dig? February 7, 2023

Good

Exact wat ik van dit album verwachtte. Niet slecht, maar ook niet zo goed

I liked this wayyyyyyy more than I thought I was going to. Definitely going into my "things to explore more" list.

Écoute très agréable, j'aime les accents de blues, le mariage des synthétiseurs et de l'harmonica, comme une façon d'explorer la modernité sans perdre la tradition. Belles mélodies, belle atmosphère.

Very chill album. I enjoyed listening to it even though this isn't really my type of music.

Pretty good

like the Stones, but less terrible

This is pretty good, very much of its time. Loose, bluesy, jammy, druggy late 60s psychedelia. Shades of better bands like the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. The quality of the songs picks up as the album progresses. There are threads of some interesting stuff in here and it's probably a notable album of that genre, but I can't imagine coming back to it. Fave Songs: Bass Strings, Sad and Lonely Times, Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine, Superbird