Electric Music For The Mind And Body

I wasn’t a huge fan of this. All the songs sort of run together. Moments in here shine. Those moments grabbed me by my ear and lead the way for me. Otherwise fairly forgettable.

I reckon I owned this vinyl for 40 years until somebody made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Thankfully I burned a copy onto disc before I sold it. It wasn’t an album I was mad about but when I played it today it actually sounded better than I remember. I always loved Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine. It sure sounds like the period that it came from. And a nice time it was.

Nice, easy sounding album. Guitar playing is fine but not outstanding. In all I think it merits more hearings to really get into it. Nice, but not sure I'll devote the time it needs to grow on the ear.

too many solos

Descends into weirdness and stays there for long long time

3/5. A fun political album, with some jamming vibes. I can tell they are having fun but not necessarily great musicianship.

Weird, not very good. But I didn't hate it.

It's fine. Nothing remarkable but nothing offensive. Just... fine.

Idk fine typical sixties psychedelic

I had never heard of these guys. Based on album cover and 1967 - i figured jazz infused drug rock. I was correct. Not my typical jam but hit a groove. Very Janis + Doors + Grateful Dead.

Psychedelic rock.

Lite psykadeliskt. Lite blues. Lite folk. Helt okej.

the Doors -vibat tuli. Positiivinen yllätys kun en ollu ikinä kuullukkaan koko bändistä. Olihan tossa vähän sekavampaakin settiä välissä mut hyvää musisointiahan tää oli. Paras biisi: Flying high Huonoin biisi: Section 43

70s hippie

this could have been written by absolutely anyone form that era as it pretty much all sounded like this. nothing to write home about.

Nothing particularly notable, but not objectively bad. 3.5

Solid psychedelic rock. The highlight of the album is Barry Melton's guitar playing. I'm surprised I've never heard of him (or the band as a whole). Gets a littler weirder than I'd prefer at times, but that's par for the course with psychedelic stuff.

Pretty chill trippy album, will probably need to give it a couple more listens

ganske nice

6/10. Fairly enjoyable, not what I would have expected from the title, but about what I'd expect from the artist's name and the year.

Pretty boring considering how much of this late 60s psych rock is on the list. 5/10

Not the biggest fan of this type of rock

I was not in the mood for this when listening, so that probably didnt help, but I get it. I just feel like I've heard it better in other bands.

Very, very 1967. Some nice moments here and there, but nothing that really stuck out for me. Mostly, it felt very much of its time and that can be fun. This was good background.

I’ve listened to this album before and found it generally fun to listen to.

Not too bad. Enjoyed some parts of it, some were too long for my taste.

Some Beatles esque type stuff with some bluesy shredding. Lots of synths sound like something out of a ninja turtle movie and beeping noises

The only country Joe song I knew was the classic Feel I’m Fixing to Die on the Woodstock album. There is a lot of good playing here. Decent psychedelic and some jamming that sounds like it could be The Doors sans Ray.

Though I knew he played at Woodstock, I couldn't have told you much about the sound of Country Joe and the Fish. It sounds like they discovered psychedelic after they'd already recorded half of a blues rock album. The psychedelic songs like Bass Strings and Grace are interesting, especially for 1967, like something I would have played at 4 in the morning at CKCU.

I liked him but they were never the most talented band from that era. Loved their politics, so so on their music.

For the first album I missed while at ragbrai, this was exactly what I expected it to be based off the title, band name, and year it was released. Pure psychedelic rock and the trippy instrumental tracks are almost always better than the vocals, except for love

Found this a bit meh. Just sounded like Dylan.

Acceptable Psych Rock of the era. There are pretty fun moments, but Psych rock just isn't often great for me. Weird, considering how much it helped spwan some of my favorite genres today.

kinda neat

Didn’t fully concentrate on it but I enjoyed what I heard. 3*

Enjoyed this. Didn't find it too psychedelic and more rockabilly. No more than that though.

60s

Started out a bit boring, twelve bar blues heavy, but kicked up the psychedelia in the back half for some interesting takes.

Intéressant mais pas très plaisant

le début était sympa après c’est malheureusement pas à la hauteur de son titre

Good psychedelic sounds

"One, two, three, what are we fightin' for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. The next stop is Vietnam." I grew up singing those words from Country Joe all the time, but strangely enough it's the only song I had ever heard by this band until today. This had some nice moments, but a lot of the late 60's psychedelia hasn't aged that well. 3 stars.

05/18/2022 Fun & funky blues. Not bad.

yea would probably be better fucking high on shrooms or weed. Otherwise it's aight

Eh, ok psychedelia I guess. Gave it a couple of listens and it didn't grab me super hard, although neither was it all that objectionable. Fave track - "Section 43" - I like a bit of psychedelic noodling...

I listened to it, didn't think it was anything amazing, but it wasn't too bad either. I think if I were more familiar with it I would like it. I'd add this one to my list of albums to hear again. I've heard of the band but never heard any of the music. 3/5

Rock psicodélico

Tendencja do dlugich tytulow sie utrzymuje, ale tym razem cos nowego do posluchania, pierwszy studyjny krazek od Country Joe & The Fish czyli bande rokowo folkowa tworzaca w nurcie psychodelicznym, jak przystalo na album z 67, wiec po albumach byrdsow, beatlesow czy beach bojow doszlo do wysypu psychodeliki, lepszej lub gorszej, ale z pewnoscia goracej, bo albumy ukazywaly sie jak grzyby po deszczu i electric music for the mind and body jest jednym z nich, nagrany w przeciagu tygodnia na zachodnim wybrzezu stanow, w kalifornii, sama banda to pieciosobowy sklad, wiec nie ma tutaj zbyt wiekich eksperymentow instrumentalnych, ale nie zabraklo harmonijki, dzwonkow czy tamburyna, jak przystalo na psychodeliczne melodnie, pojawiaja sie takze modne w tamtym czasie efekciarskie zabiegi zawijania czy fazerowania dzwieku klawiszy czy gitarek, slychac takze ze bylo to nagrywane na spidrunie, bo material jest dosc szorstki od strony technicznej, moze to tez byc kwestia remasatera, bo jakies byly problemy z tasmami na wydanie cd, a slucham akurat spotifajowej wersji, wiec pewnie to co ostatnio sie pojawilo tam bedzie, lirycznie rowniez ciezko o cos odkrywczego, bo sporo o lataniu wysoko, kochaniu nisko i niecodziennej codziennosci psychodelicznej, ale koniec koncow nie sluchalo sie tego zle, 44 minuty i 11 trakow z czego 9 wokaluje Country Joe McDonald i dwa Barry Melton, zdecydowanie ten pierwszy bardziej pasuje do psychodelicznego grania w ktorym jednak sporo folkowych lub country influencji mozna sie doszukac, na plejke leci otwierajacy flying high i jeden z najdziwniejszych tytulow jakie ostatnio widzialem, wiec porpoise mouth, bo takiego okreslenia zwiazengo z seksem oralnym i morswinami jeszcze nie widzialem jak zyje

Experimental and a less cliche side of this time and place that isn't often heard in pop culture. Good listening.

When one of the features of the album cover is "Stereo", you know it's gonna be a throwback. And what a trippy throwback this album is! But I gotta say it isn't bad. Heavy and deep. But it's as advertised. Electric Music for the Mind and Body, with a little bit of blues for the Soul to boot.

Only thing I knew about this band is that they were at Woodstock. Decently enjoyed this album.

Raucous and fun, I enjoyed this!

I really enjoyed it to start but it lost me in the 2nd half. I think other substances would dramatically change my enjoyment of the entire album.

This album is fine. Not bad, not great. Some great guitar licks though.

Pretty solid, especially under certain circumstances

4th January 2021 Listened in the morning when I first got up on first day back at work. Seb and justo came round, Laura made fish and we played ticket to ride. Pure 60s psychedelia, but I liked the bluesy heavy tracks.

Dafür fehlt mir dann doch die Dröhnung. Aber an sich ganz gut, wenn auch manchmal die elektrischen Sounds zu präsent waren

it was alright

Great for the background, was over before I noticed

I like psychedelia but this one gets kinda boring during some of the instrumental passages.

Pretty good psych-rock. I am wavering between a 3 and a 4, but since nothing specifically grabbed me I'll go down to a 3.

Not for me at all

It was okay, nothing particularly distinguishing about it. There were a lot of more innovative groups around the same time.

Just okay

Props for this being a pioneering psychedelic album. I confess to not hearing much of this band outside of "Feel like I'm Fixin to Die". It is an *important* record that wasn't really something I'm into at the moment. It might be worth another listen to digest, but it didn't strike me as something I'll have on rotation.

Another one I have no preconceived idea of. It's kind of sloppy and bluesy. Sounds like it would've been cool at the time? Not so sweet Martha Lorraine is better. Genuinely odd, and a bit less of a bluesy trudge. Odd fairground organ and some texture to it. When this is good, it sounds like a less up its own bumhole Doors. Which is great. All the psychedelic fun, none of the 'The ancient snake, woo incest' crap. It's great. The album goes between being maybe a bit much, and great and direct. It's ultimately enjoyable though, and I quite like the politics of the album, the fun 2.5 minute fun songs mixed with 7 minute psych/proto-prog stuff, and that it definitely sounds ahead of its time.

Well, it's fine. One track that was jusssst hippie style instrumental was getting on my nerves, but tracks with vocals were fine.

Sicher einflussreich, aber auch anstrengend!

I enjoyed the twangyness of this album. 0RS

Overall this would get a 2.5 if Super Bird wasn't such a great song. That knocked it up at least 1/2 point to 3 stars.

Strangely enough the vocals sound terrific on hear, but the mixing and production are awful. The guitars and drums are way too sharp, and some sounds are strangely isolated throughout the entire record. Why am I only hearing the drums through my right earcup, and the vocals only through my left? It ruins what could be very nice record with a perfect balance between more dark and spiritual psychedelic tunes and noisy folsky tracks. Such a shame, still a 3/5 for the music besides the obvious prioduction flaws.

Meh

Psychedelic rock. Agradable.

Acid/Psych rock bands of the day tend to be meandering or simple in a lot of their music, preferring to play with the guitars and see what cool sounds they could pull up rather than focusing on songwriting. It's fine. I don't mind too much because the music isn't bad but it also isn't memorable. Giving it credit for being a cornerstone of the genre, but that's about it.

A-typical of its time and a testament to the death of modern music. These lads are obvisouly top of their game musically, but lost in a sea of talent for them to stand out to me. Dozens of bands like this have been a by product of the era so for me, my lack of knowledge and experience creates an ambiguous blur of 8 minute tracks and gratuitous organ solos. A fun album however nothing overly original from the wider genre of psyche rock. A fun listen, nice grooves and solos. Fun social nods especially in “Super Bird”.

An interesting psychedelic album. Some fun tracks to listen to but unfortunately some meh ones that just don't really strike a chord as well.

Not bad, not great.

Etwas fad

Solidan acid/psiholedijski album. Jednostavno ovakvi albumi ne pašu toliko kada je vrijeme depresivno. Više paše na lijepo vrijeme time je odmah i pozitivniji mindstate i za takvo vrijeme ovakvi albumi bolje pokazuju svoju sliku. Nisam imao puno vremena za preslušavanje albuma pa vjerujem da nije u potpunosti opravdana ocijena, ali tako je kako je. 3.3/5

I don't know what I expected, but this is

Are there any 1960s psychedelia albums that didn't make this list?? This one has quite a clean, robust sound, somewhere on the rockier end of the psychedelia spectrum of this period. Some blues and r&b influences sneaking in. But there are also some space-age moments and a little psych whimsy here and there. I can respect the quality of this, even though it's not to my tastes. 3*

My favourite sort of 60's music, a bit of psychedelia

Yeah this is okay. Between 2 and 3 for me.

Àlbum interessant però alhora un xic dispers. Barreja molts elements, rock, blues, psicodèlia, i tot i que l'inici és molt potent la segona meitat no acaba de fer-li justícia. Malgrat tot, un disc interessant, un descobriment. I una confirmació més de la bona collita del finals dels 60.

137. Electric Music For The Mind And Body - Country Joe & The Fish (1967) 7.9.26 Variety: 2 Adequacy: 2 Listenability: 2 Uniqueness: 1 Emotionality: 1 = 1.6 rounded up to a 2 "I hunger for your porpoise mouth/ And stand erect for love" I really want to give these guys the benefit of the doubt, but they have existed for so long in my head as the stereotypical "dirty hippy" band that I might find it hard to overcome my prejudices against that whole movement. And this is admittedly without ever hearing a lick of their music ( I think? Maybe a bit in the Woodstock documentary that bored me to tears so much that I turned it off very quickly. They were there, right?). My other concern going in is that if they are such an important act, then surely I might be familiar with at least one of their songs? Has any of their stuff had a shelf life of more than a year or two? I think at one point I assumed that the annoying "Going Up the Country" by Canned Heat was this band. Not looking forward to this, but fingers crossed they prove me wrong. THE TRACKS "Flying High" - We start things off with a messy, bluesy sort of drug narrative ( I'm sure this will be a recurring motif). Country Joe's voice is a bit feeble for this type of material, but the rhythm section does an admirable job at the shuffling, fake-live sound. This was a pretty boring start. "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" - This was their big hit? Different times I guess, but this is pretty damning of a segment of the public's taste that they were willing to swallow this kind of dashed off sounding stuff when they'd been primed by MUCH MUCH better stuff. I guess despite being their biggest hit, it still didn't make too much of a splash. The only memorable part of this was the organ and bass playing during the Doorsy breakdowns, brief as they were. The guitar tone on this was pretty grating and can this guy do anything except a some poor "make it talk!" blues noodling after each turn of phrase? Find myself starting to sour very quickly on Country Joe's voice. It lacks any sort of power or charm, and I feel like he's just reading a lyric sheet. "Death Sound Blues" - A much more successful attempt at a blues rock sound, and Joe seems to dig down and bring out what little emotive capability he possesses. I can't quite escape the Doors comparisons, especially when they're in their Roadhouse mode. The tremolo here was so distractingly stuttered I had to stop the track and verify that my laptop wasn't suffering some sort of catastrophic lag. Man that got old fast. This might have had a chance at the highlights apart from that. "Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth" - An interesting turn. We get a very Euro-folk sound on this one, with some interesting instrumentation and an oopmah beat. There's also a Doors influence going on here with the Hammond organ and the darker lyrical content. Did this guy just compare his lady love to a dolphin? Ok. Sure. Donovan handled this sort of thing much better. Points for atmosphere though. "Section 43" - What a mellow freakout, man. This is the sort of thing you might be expected to hear over a montage in a bad movie about the sixties when the protagonist is first introduced to the horrors of *GASP* mari-ja-wanna! and then descends into harder and harder drugs until we close with them shooting up in a filthy den full of spaced out human detritus. This compares very unfavorably with anything similar by the Doors ( sorry but I can't help the comparisons). And that goofy ass bit about 2/3 way through was just terrible stuff. "Superbird" - This was too groovy by half. I had flashes of the Laugh In interstitials of the sickening zoom in and out on the go-go dancers intermittently while this pretty embarrassing "takedown" of LBJ. At least it was mercifully short. "Sad and Lonely Times" - This is more or less the sound I had always imagined. Shambling, weakly delivered, sub-Grateful Dead country-tinged folk. Open mic night at the Fillmore. "Love" - Barry "The Fish" Melton takes over lead vocals here, and I have to ask... other than the difficulty involved, why was this guy not singing EVERY OTHER SONG. Dude is not the best at it by any means, but injects some actual life into things. The song itself is more Laugh-In go-go stuff, but felt 1000x more electric than anything thus far. "Bass Strings" No Canned Heat, faux-Americana whimsy here. This track seems to have a bit more in common maybe with the Cream album we recently listened to, being much more in the acid rock vein, but less musically adventurous. This is very languorous and gets across the sluggish drug trip narrative pretty well. The tremelo guitar effect was nice used as an accent, and I appreciated there was no endless noodling. The guys are maybe a bit too pleased with themselves at the end though and the conspiratorially whispered "L... S... D" got an audible groan from me. I could almost hear Country Joe winking through my headphones. Not an amazing start, but not awful. "The Masked Marauder" - This was an ok, noodly bit of bluesy organ stuff, and then the guitar section kicked in and it legit sounded like the dude got distracted mid riff, and THEN we get the weirdly perky waltz and "la la la" vocals, followed by some terrible harmonica stylings. Then back to the go-go club. This was a trainwreck. "Grace" - We end on a slightly sinister guided trip with some water drip, and bottle chime effects and a sizzling bit of cymbal work that, along with the doubled, mis-overlayed vocals on the chorus, actually legit engenders a decently trippy atmosphere. By FAR the best thing on this album. And they stuck the goddamn landing. *furious applause at them not fucking up* HIGHLIGHTS - "Grace" MIDLIGHTS - "Bass Strings" - "Death Sound Blues" - "Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth" - "Love" LOWLIGHTS - "Flying High" - "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" - "Sad and Lonely Times" - "Section 43" - "Superbird" - "Sad and Lonely Times" - "The Masked Marauder" FINAL THOUGHTS Very little about this was memorable in any way, and the whole thing suffered in comparison with the Doors, who did almost all of this better, and the Grateful Dead in the few more low-key country folk numbers ( of which there were surprisingly few!). Overall, this was at least a surprise, content-wise. I had always assumed these guys were bunch of crunchy granoloa farm hippies who played sub-Grateful Dead type stuff, but their psych and acid rock bonafides are ( while still suspect) more or less intact here. But there are just too many knocks against it, including Country Joe's unconvincing vocals, the ofttimes muddy and production, and the bizarre choices made by what seems like an otherwise competent set of players. I can't imagine ever wanting to revisit any of this, and I'll likely stay far away from any more of their material. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - You can keep all of it, thanks, though "Grace" I might not skip if it ever came up. FURTHER LISTENING - The United States of America by The United States of America - Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Strange Days by the Doors - Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service - Santana by Santana

It was fine. Kind of a facsimile of many other bands and albums of the time.

What a crock of shit

Okay. Maybe needs more listens.

I like 60s psychedelic music A LOT, but this didn't quite cut it for me. Sometimes it sounded like the worst of The Doors. Some interesting sounds, but thats about it

#389/1001. Yet another band from the late 60's which sounds like they were important at the time but perhaps not so important anymore.

There’s a lot of poorly performed rock out there in the world. I didn’t really need to hear more of it. The last track was really tempting me to give a 1

not my electric body music but not too bad. weird.

i listened to this last week and already i can remember 0 things about this album

ehhhhhh

At first, I was pretty excited by the opening track, but my enthusiasm slowly faded. The psychedelic side of the album and the singer’s voice just aren’t really my thing. It’s not terrible, but it never fully clicks for me. Maybe it’s because it’s an early example of the genre, but compared to The Doors, it feels a lot less compelling and memorable. Definitely not The Doors.

It’s just a bit annoying. It’s the sort of music you hear at some point in a movie set in 1967, but it’s also the sort of music that you think nothing of as you’re watching said movie. It’s establishing music, not listening music. It’s perfectly fine, and perfectly whatever, and perfectly pointless.

Every few days I get given an album titled something like ‘Grum Fingers by Mr Pilchard’s Crackerjack Box’ Anyway, this was too bluesy and not psychedelic enough. Some of it was fine and trippy, but a lot was boring.

Quickly became background noise. Quite liked Super Bird tho.

Another round of psych rock-meh

Not my type of music tbh wasn’t awful tho I just don’t have much to say about it

This list has really soured me on '60s psychedelic rock. I love a couple of classica that belong in the sphere, but most of the albums I have generated so far were just an exhausting listen.

I like that fuzzy 60s psychedelic guitar, but this was mostly unmemorable. Liked Songs Added: Death Sound

Wouldn't listen to this one again

2.5 - ok

I liked the middle lalala part of the masked marauder. Everything else just kind of faded into boring 60's pop rock.

Stereotypically 60s

01) Flying High - 6,5 02) Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - 6,5 03) Death Sound Blues - 6,0 04) Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth - 6,5 05) Section 43 - 5,5 06) Superbird - 6,0 07) Sad and Lonely Times - 5,5 08) Love - 6,5 09) Bass Strings - 5,5 10) The Masked Marauder - 5,0 11) Grace - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,86 (59/100) Current ranking: 754/935

"Boy, they're really sticking it to this Spiro Agnew guy"- Homer Simpson reading a vintage Mad magazine, and me listening to these sick burns on LBJ.

I agree with one of the comments: "It was probably big or important in its time (67, right at the beginning of the whole psychedelic pop-rocknsummer of love..." There's other psychedelic music I like more, also other protest music from the same period.

Napoleon Dynamite music

Passable country rock, if that's your thing.

Country Joe was one of the major pioneers of the California hippie music scene. Their performance at Woodstock is legendary.

I had never listened to Country Joe and the Fish before. And now I can unequivocally say that I have. And one thing I can definitely say about this album after having listened to it is that I heard it. And that I can no longer say I don’t know what this band sounds like. And that is all true. And I guess that’s about it.

Nej, tråkigt. Inget som stack ut för mig. Jag vet att bandet blev hyllade för sin spelning på Woodstock men det kan inte vara på grund av detta album. Kommer inte ihåg en enda låt fast jag lyssnade alldeles nyss.

Not my “jam.”

Horrifically meh.

2.5.

2.5

Jingly jangly gibberish

(51/100)

2/5 very 60s stuff for better or for worse

Just not for me

Gear: ZMF Auteur Classic LTD Shedua Artwork: 🪩🌀🖌️ Production: 🔊😵‍💫🔊 Music: 🌲⛺🌿 Rating: 🐠🐠(🐠)/5

An important cultural artifact, but I can’t help thinking: how much did the organist pay the producers to get his part mixed that loud?

A pretty underwhelming psychedelic rock album. 2.5/5

Høres bare ut som dårlig The Doors

I sighed as soon as this album came up. I’ve heard enough psychedelic rock on this list already (59% through) to never hear any ever again. It’s no different than anything else from the genre and offers nothing of interest.

Trodde alltid att jag gillade psykadelisk rock men herregud vad mycket generisk skit det kom ut på 60talet

Too psychedelic for my tastes.

Well, I listened to it. Sounded like novelty 60s psychedelia. Were they originators or just formulaic imitators? Really don't care to find out.

Not sure if I’m really feeling this one. It’s ok, but there was heaps better examples of this prog/psychadelic rock around at the time.

No thanks.

Every time this record started to grab me with something — got me thinking that, yeah, this is pretty good, I can give it 3 stars — a subsequent track would be so annoying, dated, or just ridiculously silly and bad that I just couldn’t say I like the album that much. There’s a lot of fun stuff here, but it’s a real mixed bag from one track to the next; the sophomoric and childish crap just brings the rest down. I’m glad it’s the birth of psychedelia, but I’ll take the stuff it spawned over this every day of the week. 2.4 stars

Meh. Album was ok and probably fun to listening to in the late 60 with some illegal substances but it seemed like the songs went on forever and I got a little bored with the album.

I got pretty bored with this one after a while. Acid rock just does not excite me. Very funny to hear a song dissing LBJ though lol.

4/10

Jus boring again

It's not electronic, it's more rock with a twang.

Thin and not-the-most-engaging psychedelic rock, could do without it but it's okay at least, if you wanna catch all the psych rock that you can

Meh

Psychedelic rock. The sound is right, but the music is just meh. Too much usage of substances?

That was not great. Headed to one-star status, but redeemed somewhat by some good guitar work at the back.

Pretty forgettable 1960’s progressive rock, does not warrant the time expenditure for any additional commentary.

Start was ok, but got weird and experimental really fast

Not sure this was for my mind or body.

For an album with such a cosmic title, Electric Music for the Mind and Body mostly delivers a long, wandering shrug. Country Joe & The Fish clearly aimed for psychedelic transcendence, but what they ended up with feels more like being cornered by someone’s overly enthusiastic friend at a 1967 house party. The organ swirls are less “mind‑expanding” and more “motion sickness,” and the band’s political edge dulls quickly under the weight of meandering jams that mistake length for depth. There are flashes of charm, but they vanish almost as soon as they appear, swallowed by the album’s tendency to noodle itself into oblivion. Historically important? Sure. Enjoyable? Only if you’re grading on a very generous curve. Final Verdict: 2 out of 5 stars — a psychedelic time capsule that’s more dust than magic.

I think I've heard all I want to hear from Country Joe.

Extra point for the name

This is my first time listening to this album. It's also about a week and a half since Country Joe just passed away. This is an album. I listened to it. I even read the blurb in the book about this album. I still don't understand why this album is included in a list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It seems like the most special thing about this album is its inclusion on the list.

Really struggle to find anything to like in this tbh, after 2 tracks I was already bored out my mind listening to a sound I’ve heard done better in albums released before 1967 even. Maybe you just had to be there.

Give me an F! Give me a U! Give me “fixing to die rag” is a killer song and i wish it were on here!

Started interesting and slightly subversive, but ultimately ran too long…

Boring music for the mind and body

It sounds nice enough but psychedelic rock is just not my thing at all. You can tell they used to be a folk jug band too, which is REALLY not my thing.

Is this just an early electric guitar album? Why not add more Hendrix instead? This album is obviously dated and has rough production.

Saai psychedelic rock album. Zal mogelijk invloed op iets of iemand gehad hebben, en dat is top, maar het klinkt voor mij allemaal heel generic. De gefluisterde "LSD" adlib is erg komisch en tegelijkertijd écht heel kut "kijk ons eens LSD doen en een album maken hihi".

Fijn dat formulaic kopiegedrag van alle tijden is. Dit klinkt als elke psychedelische rockband ooit, maar dan iets saaier.

60s counterculture music is not my taste. I liked Sad and Lonely Times, but nothing else on the album really stuck with me.

I think I'm finding that 60s proto-jam psychadelia just isn't my thing. Probably a little better and more immediately accessible than Quicksilver or the Live/Dead album but this mostly just doesn't land with me. Some alright blues-y type soloing but also some of the guitar tones are just thin and sort of annoying to listen to. A bit of aimless organ noodling in the middle. It's not horrible by any stretch, but just not my "jam".

..

I'm getting real sick of these 60s albums where they all sound like a worse version of The Doors and The Kinks. This band definitely has good musicians but the songs are just boring.

An album that was probably one to turn heads in 1967. Now it just sounds unfinished like some dudes hanging out smoking a bunch of weed.

Pretty ok album loo nothing to write home about

2/24/26. Couldn't get into this one much. Decent, but thought it was a tad bland and boring for a psychedelic release. I get that this served as a pioneer for the genre.

They were just doing whatever in the studio

Not what I was expecting. But not in the best way. This is more psychedelic and parts they reminded me of The Doors. Not my cup of tea. It was an interesting listen but I wouldn’t care to revisit.

Some decent songs on here nothing crazy special but they have a good little vibe to them. I didn’t really care for the instrumental tracks, and I sometimes found the high-pitched synth sounds a bit ear splitting. This kind of feels like another fairly forgettable psychedelic rock 60s band I’m afraid though. The songs that I liked seemed to mainly just have more classical and acoustic sounds, the tracks that stood out to me were ‘Flying high’, ‘Death sound’ and ‘Super bird’.

Just background music, couldn’t get into the lyrics even after second play. Not for me this one

Why is no one talking about the song where they call Lyndon B. Johnson Superman then they get kryptonite to defeat him and force him to take acid? 4/10

No offense, but, what is the meaning of this? I'm going to turn to the book for some insight on what the editors were thinking, because I don't get it. ---- Ok, so the critic's argument is, this represents the gateway into psychedelia in the late 60s. Bruh, we're 60 years on. We can't hear that this was one of the first tripped-up records to market, just that it's one drop in the sea of that bygone era. On the topic of LSD, allow me to once again underscore that no record by Tool made the list. If you really cared to exemplify what psychedelics could bring to music, you'd have included literally anything from their catalog. Pound sand.

Was hoping for more but got less. Musically this would probably be 1 star but I’ll give it 2 since they kept it relatively short.

loads of hippy noodling.

This album was definitely a time capsule piece. While I didn't mind it, I wouldn't listen to it again or recommend it to anyone. 2/5 for the 60's vibes.

I found this at a record shop for about five cents, maybe twenty years ago. My friend thought it had a funny name, so we bought it and put it on. I remember thinking it was better than I expected, being some bargain bin garbage, but I never felt the urge, ever, to put it on again. Now, I know a little more about the psychedelic California scene, and know these guys were a player. You’ll see their names on the set lists with Jefferson Airplane, and they played Woodstock, etc. I came into this listen with more focus and respect. And, it’s pretty good for what it is. It definitely documents the times. I appreciated the message to LBJ, telling him to go back to his ranch. I imagine this album was important to quite a bit of kids in the hippie generation. The final track, Grace, I found to contain the most depth, and I added this to my playlist. Apparently, it was written to honor the singer of Jefferson Airplane. Otherwise, on a music enjoyment level, will I feel the desire to spin this record again anytime soon? Country No.

5/10 Favourite: Death Sound Least Favourite: Bass Strings

2.5

Didn’t care for this Country Joe and The Blowfish record. I said something like this a few days ago but it’s even more relevant this time… shoulda gimme’n me another Doors record. Strange Days is from this year and way more essential than this!

I’m not feeling this, man. The organ grates on me after a while. The songs are kind of boring too.

No private session used for Spotify. Never heard of Country Joe with or without The Fish, but taking in all the info I was given: the name of the band, tupled with the psychedelicness of the cover and the album name and the year, it's about what I imagined. Rock a step away from country and towards the psychedelic. Never really cared for this type of music, happy that it wasn't some meandering jam band 20 minute tunes, but still not for me.

The most shit hippie music on the list so far.

Unfortunately, Country Joe & The Fish (and most other San Francisco psychedelic bands) sounded dated to me when they came out in the 60s. Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag was (is) a great anti-war anthem, the rest of their music is lackluster.

I love a lot of these bands’ names more than I love their music. This is an example of that.

A couple nice Eastern-influenced guitar licks. I'm not real sure why it's on the list.

I enjoyed the raw production but the vocals and lyrics were tedious. Maybe this hit different in its time, but it hasn't aged well to my ears.

I know there is some deep sophistication in this album but it’s way over my head. I like psychedelic rock but I didn’t like this

Generic 60’s rock.

Another meh...it started okay, but then it was like they got too high to keep making the music and just faded into strumming along with no particular place to go. It wasn't unpleasant but just really not interesting

Fumazo

Such a frustrating album. It's almost good but, and this is a massive but, the godawful production makes it practically unlistenable. Someone made a decision of 'Let's turn the guitar up to be louder than anything else, but at the same time make it sound tinny and fucking nasty so that at points only dogs can hear it.' and it's horrendous. I'm cringing and wincing because some of it is genuinely hurting my senses. With a better overall sound I think I'd really like it, but nope, it's hurting me.

Huh Now I finally know what those people complaining about the "damn hippy music" feel when they listen to psychedelic. Middle-of-the-road instrumentation meets lyrics that kind of feel like a parody of the time. I feel like I'm more critical of this music because I know I like so much psychedelic that I can be confident in saying this is very just-below mid to me. What was radical politically and sonically at the time simply isn't anymore so what we're left with is some weak prose and a feeling of "maybe you just had to be there". One of the songs is a reference to Jefferson Airplane, and I wish I was listening to them instead.

looooong

This aint nothing

Quite a psycadelic album indeed. Overall I was not impressed with this. Left no lasting impression on me despite listening to it on 3 different occasions. It just felt too meandering and without purpose somehow, hard to explain exactly what wasn't interesting. Didn't enjoy the arrangements or the singing really, and no song stood out as particularly interesting. Definitely not worth more time than this.

Another psychedelic rock album. I feel like we’ve had our fill of those, and while this one isn’t bad, it isn’t particularly good either. I thought for a while that maybe this was super early, but then I realized that The Doors debut album was released the same year and that is just so much better in every way. 2 star.

Oof. First half was maybe a 2 at best, second half was … also bad. This is a little too out there for me, not much else to say.

This is like a time-capsule, but not in a good way. Doesn't hold up, for me at least.

Now that's a blast from the past. Fun. No need to hear it again.

Struggled a little with this one. Opened strong, had a bit of a weird/weak middle and then grew stronger toward the end. I appreciate that the album is diverse. Some blues-y sounding stuff, some psychedelic, avant-garde abstract/experimental vibes too.

rien ne me marque

it was ok. not sure it adds to the list.

I like the instrumentals more than the majority of the songs which contain singing. The guitar player is in particular a standout. The gibberish lyrics take away from the album but this is still ok.

Thought I would this, hated parts of it but it wasn't completely unlistenable which says a lot for this list!

Just another dated 60s psych album that hasn't aged well.

Terrible mixing.

Lett forglemmelig gubbepop.

I think these guys may have been on drugs. Good vibes and fun sounds, but weak songs and crap lyrics.

Måske det mindst sykadeliske i dén kategori. Var lidt tam, og glemt dagen efter.

love the title. immediate impression of the first song is that the album doesn't deliver on it. fine tunes but discordant, ugly sound.

ilk şarkıların mix mastering faciası şaka mıydı sol kulaklık bozuldu sandım

It was ok just not my style of music. It was just too slow

Maybe … MAYBE if it was 1967 and I was really stoned. It's okay, definitely a relic of its time. Proto-jamband stuff. If the late 60's country-rock psych era never happened, I think we'd all be better off (except for Jefferson Airplane, who rule). I'm being facetious, of course. You will like this if you enjoy the Dead, Phish etc. Not really well executed, nothing very novel in the songwriting or instrumentation, a bit sloppy.

Ah, the classic bluesy psychedelic rock band of 1967. A style and period that spawned a lot of classics. I’ve never heard of this one, which doesn’t bode well. And well would you look at that, it sounds like the others, only more rudimentary and ear-hurting.

Cover 4 Watered-down jazz, funk, soul. If you're into that stuff...

I wanted to like this more than I did. There are flashes of something real — clever lyrics, interesting keyboard ideas, and that unmistakable sense of 1967 energy — but the whole thing never quite gels. The mix is rough, the tambourine and organ dominate everything, and the songs often sound more like good demos than finished work. I can see how this would’ve felt revolutionary at the time, but compared to other San Francisco records of the era — especially Jefferson Airplane — the contrast is stark. It’s a fascinating listen historically, just not one I’ll come back to. ⭐️⭐️

Dated. Maybe I would have liked this more if I was alive in 1967.

Con lo bien que empieza este álbum y qué pronto se desinfla. A partir de la tercera canción te das cuenta de que todo suena igual y que las guitarras son un pretexto para cantar corny lyrics No es que esté mal, pero siento que he escuchado este mismo sonido calcado en cuatro o cinco álbumes de lo que va de challenge Favs: las dos primeras

Harmless enough but I won't be buying their Greatest Hits album. Think this probably should have been no. 1002 😐

Some fun stuff but the extended instrumentals were exhausting.

The music is okay, but I'm annoyed by the sound in my left ear. It seems louder than anything else. I don't like how this album is mixed and/or recorded. I was bored by the end of the album.

Taas on tatteja vedetty. ⭐️⭐️

Jefferson airplane at its best, just not as good.

1 stern

There are three distinct songs on this album and every other one sounds like a remix of the other

No

I like this - quite a lot. But I'm not sure if that makes it good. Really turned me around this album. Led to existential questions. Do I matter? Who am I? Etc etc. Two stars owing to stress.

Eh, I don’t really agree this should be on the list. There is better psych and rock from this era. I’ts not a bad or annoying listen just pretty meh. 4/10 Favorite tracks- “Super Bird” “Love”

What psychedelic music do I like?

Håpte på nåke litt anna

Just very average

Standards 60s pyschrock album. No notes

Album started out a bit stronger, but pattered out by the end. I liked the bluesy sound mostly, but as it started to get a bit away from that, I became less and less interested.

The vocals suck and the mix is horrible. I have heard way better psychedelic stuff.

Nice background music but boring. I can see the influence it had on a lot of music to follow.

Ugh. Just ugh. Bad blues based rock that’s been done a lot better before & since.

This genre plays such a big part of the taste of the lists author. It’s ridiculous. We do not need to hear every obscure 60s psyche band ffs

eh, not really for me.

Boring

It's fine, I'm glad they had their political say, there's a place for that today, but there's also a place for a lot of today's well rehersed final cuts to be on this old album. Glad our modern psych rock is much better.

2.5

Just meh

I didnt feel electrified

1. Flying High - 7 Solid sound with great guitars on it. Lyrically it's enjoyable. Overall a solid track with a lot to enjoy. 2. Not So Sweet Martha Loraine - 5 Sounds like a budget Beatles. Instrumentally in the verses the song is too simple. Makes the track grow very stale very quickly. 3. Death Sound Blues - 10 Brilliant blues track. Guitar sounds brilliant on it. The maracas on the track also add so much flavour to it. Vocally and lyrically fantastic. Super listen. 4. Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth - 3 Aside from the albeit extremely brief guitar solo in the middle of the track, it is way too monotonous to enjoy. The song is under three minutes but still moves at way too strained a pace to really get into it. 5. Section 43 - 5 Not a bad track but a bit dry. Sounds like the theme tune to a country-styled town in a Final Fantasy game. Not that memorable. 6. Super Bird - 9 Brilliant track. Really fun lyrics and instrumentally it's just as fun. Just a superb listen. 7. Sad And Lonely Times - 2 It's just a boring track. Lyrically it's not inspiring and the instruments return to the type of country/bluegrass sound on the album that isn't as enjoyable as the rock and roll that is. 8. Love - 4 More like a James Brown track than anything else. It's not bad but it's very cookie cutter in terms of its composition. 9. Bass Strings - 5 Decent slow track with good vocals. Lyrically it's a bit too... a bit too odd for my liking but still a decent sounding track. 10. The Masked Marauder - 0 Awful track. The lyrics are literally just "la la la" for three minutes without any good guitar solos or anything to make up for it. 11. Grace - 3 Bit of a lullaby. Slow, long, and can put you to sleep. Average Rating: 4.81 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.41 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

This sounded very much as the title suggests. A mish-mash of sixties musical styles (rock, psychedelia, Americana, folk), fuelled by a mish-mash of substances, I suspect. Nothing really stood out.

Maybe unfair to this album, but it is the third prog rock album in three days and I am done with this genre.

Perfectly decent, but not too memorable.

I listened to this album on a road trip and about 3 hours later promptly forgot everything this album had to offer. 2/5.

Generic hippie pop which as I get older I have very little patience for. 2/5

This felt like a deep cut from a genre that has been swallowed up by the paragons that moved in a hundred different directions (Hendrix, Pink Floyd, etc) and the bands that mined every ounce of psychedelia until it was stripped clean of meaning (looking at you, Grateful Dead.) There were moments here or there where I perked up ("Death Sound" chief among them) but mostly it failed to hold my attention. I imagine a completist of the genre -- or maybe someone who grew up with this -- would find more to like here.

4.5/10

I didn't really like this. I think I could smell the band through my phone. It was just too much hippie.

I don’t remember what this sounded like

Rammer ikke rigtig for mig selvom det var et sjovt lyt som er ret distinkt fra resten af de 60er psych plader vi har hørt. Jeg tror bare ikke helt jeg synes lyden passer til det blues de spiller.

Meh

Not for me - too much clicking, dinging, and rambling along. 2/5

im sure they were all having a lovely time

One of the albums of all time

I know their Woodstock performance well but have never heard an album. Apparently I wasn’t missing much

Inte min grej, för mycket drog-vibes, fick typ ångest

If I say “psychedelic blues rock from 1967”, this is what should come to mind. It sounds exactly like the description, and does a solid job of being just that. There are very strong moments in this album, and some that are borderline annoying.

Endured rather than enjoyed.

To give this album the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was so influential, everyone else ripped it off and that’s why it sounds like generic psychedelic rock today. If that is the case though, the people copying them had better tunes.

Le désintéressement total du chanteur rend la chose vraiment moins intéressante, un peu pénible. Je pense que ça pourrait être infiniment meilleur sans son chant pathétique qui rend le tout très plat.

Not bad, but not noteworthy at all

Late 60's Psychedelic Rock. Whatever you imagined in your head when you read that is exactly how this album sounds. I'm not a fan of the genre, so it didn't do much for me. It wasn't unpleasant I guess. 2 Stars.

LMAO they didn't like LBJ I guess

Not my thing. I'm sure it was important, but it doesn't hold up for me.

I tried. Never been a fan. Still not a fan.

Groovy. But not really my thing.

This one feels like one you need to be on acid to get. I was not.

just dead plain Jane middle of the road sounds very generic and fine as background music but could not see wanting to actively listening to it.

Haven't heard of them before. Can't say I was very excited listening to the album but it had some interesting moments and it definitely wasn't your "yet another copy of the Beatles" album. The guys really tried to be a bit edgy 2/5

zzzzzzZZZZZZZ

Sick psychedelic

eh

Could listen to it again.

this missed the mark for me. not much stands out

Could've been louder. Nothing really stood out to me.

I usually love psych rock, but this one just annoyed me tbh

Correcto

It's interesting as proto psychadelia but I just can't jive with the folksy sensibility of this one.

I only made it half way through

Pleasant enough sixties psychedelic rock. Very thin guitar sound. Wouldn’t go back to it.

First track Bass Strings was uninteresting Doors-esque psychedelia, the whispered "LSD..." at the end was almost comedic. Yeah, I got that was what the track was about already, thanks. Second track Sad and Lonely Times was a jaunty country pop song, strange tonal shift. Then the third track is back to nursery rhyme psychedelia. Fourth track Grace is maybe very slightly heavy metal, with its chanted, heavy lyrics. So is this varied or unfocused? It's all over the place, to be honest. What does this band want to be? I suppose they can do whatever they want, but it's a bit of a jarring listening experience. Some of the albums on this list are forgotten, some are forgettable, this is both. When I hear albums like this I think that it's interesting to hear something from this time and genre, but as for personal enjoyment, it's not all that.

DNF Nothing groundbreaking for me

Fine but not enjoyable

A hippie mate of my Dad's loved Country Joe and The Fish but never really shared his penchant for psychedelia. The instrumental track sounded like (Listen to the} Flower a people with it's sitar excess. Also in the first track, Joe tells the story of being picked up by some dudes who took him to LA Airport and gave him $20 to take a flight back home. The average price of a domestic flight in the US when this song came out in 1967 was $37 so this story seems somewhat -pardon the pun- fishy. I thought about giving this a 1, but it's a 2 because I didn't hate it, just found it to be boring in a way only someone who was massively stoned could enjoy.

I dunno, I don't think I'm the target audience for psych-folk albums from the 60s and/or 70s. It's all just too meandering and trippy for me, but I know this stuff has a place in the history of popular music.

Oh hey, I remember these guys as the boring interlude between The Who and Otis Redding in “Monterey Pop”. These too much psychedelic crap on this list

holy shit bro shut uP!!!!!!!!!!! this wasn't even Bad, it was just so forgettable, meandering, and irritating that i wanted to sling it into the river. why is this on here. leav eme alone

this honestly does not hold up in 2025. i'm not even sure it would've in 1980. this is rough and sloppy and boring. the short songs are easily the best ones on here, because hearing these guys bumble through what sounds like their first and only take of multiple 7+ minute songs is a torture i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. favorites: flying high, super bird

when I read Psychedelic Rock I was already alarmed, then the album started better than expected but after Song 4 it got quite boring for me

This is what happens when you let men do whatever they want. Especially back in the 60s like girl go take care of your wife yoi beat

I wanted to like this. Unfortunately it felt like it swapped genres every couple of songs and I just found myself confused listening to it. None of it was necessarily bad but I wouldn't listen again.

2/5 Early psych rock that just doesn't do it for me. The only two real "standouts" (if you can call them that) are "Sad and Lonely Times" and "Love", the rest is middling and sometimes downright obnoxious to listen to.

Gimme an F! Gimme a U! Gimme a C! Gimme a K! What’s that spell? FUCK (this shit)!

sleep

3/10

Pretty bland, but I can see how this was a pretty monumental change in music when this album was released.

Funky folk

Not for me even slightly