Electric Music For The Mind And Body

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.

I wanted to like it but it just bores me and passed me by

I don’t feel this has aged very well.

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

My feeling is that the music of Joe and his fish have aged as well as fish in a hot marketplace. I was bored. Some portions of songs provided a glimpse into what may have been appealing 50 years ago, but I don't use drugs at that level, so this remained disappointing.

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….🤔

I heard this band name inspired Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album title. Sadly this is not a Sgt. Pepper’s. The jam band songs were pretty good. I did take note of the LBJ bashing song “Super Bird”. I also liked the first two tracks: “Flying High” and “Lorraine” but the psychedelic stuff just was blah.

2.5

One of the better psychedelic blues albums I've heard. Very Doorsy

3 stars

Really classic folk/psychadelic.

Edgy bro music for the hippie set.

Psychedelic rock.

One of the best psychedelic rock record that really worked with what the genre wanted to do.

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

a snapshot in time. . . feels like a message from a different world now. Late-60's California was something else.

Not as Psychedelic as I'd hoped

I peaked at the global reviews before listening to this one and so, maybe it's because I had lower expectations, but I enjoyed this album quite a bit. The Super Bird song is pretty cool with its Marvel references from a time way before it became mainstream. Other than that, I really liked Porpoise Mouth, The Masked Maurader, and especially Grace. Pretty cool album for pysch rock.

One of the best albums to capture. The times

Scrappy hippies are my kind of wannabee cowboys.

🦶

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.

This album took me completely by surprise! Never heard of this band before and now I’m in love!

Psychedelic hippie blues. Not bad but nothing amazing

On the whole, I liked it. Good, old-school, jazz-infused psychedelic rock.

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.

Sitä tylsää 60-lukua. Onko tällä ollut joku iso vaikutus vai miksi on tällä listalla? Sinänsä pätevää kamaa, keskiaikaviittaukset löytyy, ei mitään mieleenpainuvan omaperäistä.

Hyvä ensimmäinen kappale. Sen jälkeen levy degeneroituu ei-paskaksi ja lopulta melko lähelle turhuutta. Miinusta pop-historian yököttävimmästä lainista: "I hunger for your porpoise mouth."

Hippie music

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 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Just quite dull really

3-

3.5

This is admittedly a genre that I have trouble truly enjoying. Psychedelic 60s rock can contain elements I will enjoy, particularly the bluesy, fuzzed-out guitars and warbly organ sounds that were just beginning to come into popularity in rock music in the late 60s. There's a bit too much going on randomly across this album for me, personally. It feels uneven and like songs from 2-3 different EPs were sort of slapped together into one. But hey, I guess that's this genre for you. The tracks that I liked most were the bluesy ones, particularly "Flying High" and "Super Bird." I think the singer repeatedly whispering "LSD..." at the end of the song "Bass Strings" effectively sums up the themes of this album. "I hunger for your porpoise mouth and stand erect for love" is certainly one of the more uncanny sets of lyrics I've heard in a while. Thanks for the nightmare fuel, Country Joe & The Fish. 2 stars: I get it, but not for me. Interesting Factoid from Wikipedia: *(Electric Music for the Mind and Body) was one of the first psychedelic albums to come out of San Francisco. Standout Tracks: Flying High, Super Bird, Bass Strings

# Playlist Track - Flying hight # Notes - Starts out as an interesting "experimental country" but loses itself along the way. - Last few tracks are just GRATING and make up 1/4 of the album play time.

Cutting edge psychedelic country, which isn't a genre that has gone on to be a big deal. I can kinda hear why. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Love Date listened: 06/04/24

Country Joe & The Fish were one of the great bands of 60's psychedelia that didn't become very famous. A politically-motivated, Bay area group that combined folk, blues, The band was best known for their anti-Vietnam war anthem, "I feel like I'm Fixing to Die Rag," but it was left off of this album. Electric Music for The Mind and Body is their debut, and may be their best work. Country Joe is an excellent example of late 60's blues/rock, just not a particularly famous one.

Some alright sounds, but a lot of the playing is really sloppy, which isn't my cup of tea.

Good songs with some unique sounds and effects that add to the experience.

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

Hard for me to grasp that this was someone’s G Jones. I appreciate it for what it was at its time, but I’m so far removed from music like this now

These guys don’t really have a plan for creating music, which is fine if you’re in the band. However, when you subject other people to listen to the creation, you become a self-pretentious prick. This was not enjoyable, but maybe that was the idea. This is not one of the albums I needed to listen to.

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

i actually hate psychedelic rock and every time i force myself to listen to it for more than a minute i become suicidal NNN

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

The organ was to the 60s what the turntable was to the 90's. Get that shit out of here.

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.

Teška hipija a. Drugi antivijetnamski je još i veća

I really enjoyed this album, maybe the electric stuff got a little too loud but when they go folksy, yum, I liked it so much I easily listened twice

Mon dieu que c'est sans intérêt... Combien d'albums de psychédéliqueries on a dû se taper à cause de toi Robert ? Le seul élément sympathique est la présence du poisson qui va tenter par tout moyen de perturber Country Joe pendant l'enregistrement de son disque. Le générateur s'arrêtera pour eltrapeze et moi dans deux jours mais l'aventure continuera bien évidemment via l'adresse électronique robertestleperedemikeladd@gmx.com que je vous conseille de noter sur un bout de papier pour ne pas l'oublier.

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

Woodstock vibes

Country Joe and the Fish. About all I know of them is their appearance in the Woodstock movie, where they were NOT a high point. And there’s nothing in this listen to change. Nothing especially memorable or meaningful. Just generic mid 60’s music. This was released in mid-1966, take a look at other albums released that year: Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, Beatles - Revolver, Dave Brubeck - Take 5, Cream - Fresh Cream, Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde, The Monkees first album, Rolling Stones - Aftermath, Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence… This isn’t close to any of those, in quality, importance, popularity…. anything. I could probably come up with 2 dozen albums from 1965-1967 that are WAY better than this. Heck, I’d rather listen to Strawberry Alarm Clock or the Troggs. Vocals are OK, songwriting is meh, even for the time. Musicianship / recording is meh. It’s not horrible, but it ain’t great. I’d probably go 3, except I just don’t know why anybody felt it was essential. So 2

Eclectic sounds of the 60s but not many shining moments.

I'll take it at face value that this album is historically significant. Other than that I can't really find anything to recommend this. "Electric Music..." starts off with the middling blues rock of "Flying High" and gets progressively more boring from there until hitting bottom with the unlistenable "Masked Marauder" and "Grace."

Re-listening now, will need to listen again but it's good stuff.

What a fun album

Didnt know what to expect, but given this released in the 2000s I assumed it would be decent. It was not. This is old timey music with no material modern flares/additions and I did not enjoy this album.

Nice album.

The sounds hurt my brain.

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.

Boring, overrated Woodstock-era music.

I quite like this sound :-)

This album isn't special and not particularly worth listening to. Standard 60s content.

The songs are good, I just wish they had practiced a bit more before they recorded, it would've been much better if the recordings were tighter together.

A big reason for me wanting to go on this journey is because I known my musical knowledge and acceptance is extremely limited. I've always liked what I like, and many friends have teased me for my limited scope in the musical vernacular. That being said, there are just some sounds, like Country Joe, that just don't do it for me. I always go in with an open mind, but sometimes I know after the first song, that's it''s not for me.

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.

Such an interesting album to listen to. There are several parts that lose my interest because it feels like they're searching for the strangest sound they can make rather than anything of musical value. But on the whole, this treatment of blues will always get me out of my seat. Favorite track: Death Sound

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

didn’t feel it

Frekar mikil ládeyða.

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

2.5

It was all over the place, hard guitar riffs then “Monkee” style bops and then a slew of other styles.

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.

I only know Country Joe from Woodstock so didn’t know what to expect. I really liked the blend of psychedelic rock with country/americana sounds. If I didn’t know what I was listening to I would have thought the instrumental was by the Doors with Ray Maranzak playing organ. Also, modern enough that Porpoise Mouth could have just been released by the Decemberists.

Very 60s but a lot of fun. Really reminded me of the Jefferson Airplane album we heard and David Crosby’s big solo album. I don’t think I’d honestly relisten but I didn’t hate it.

Once again, we have a band that has never popped onto my radar. I’m not sure exactly what to expect here. The album art looks psychedelic, but the guy is called Country Joe. I guess there is also The Fish, so that’s kinda trippy. Let’s listen and hope for the best! Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Porpoise Mouth, Grace There was nothing particularly bad about this album, but I write this the day after listening and feel like I’ve already forgotten most of it. I remember liking the weirdness of Porpoise Mouth, and I liked the slowness and melancholy of Grace, but I can’t remember how they actually sounded. This was the kind of album where you have it on and can enjoy it, but without really listening to it. Not bad, but nothing better than simply fine.

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

Jam band, trippy

p102. 1967. 2 stars. Pointless hippy-trippy noodling with no redeeming features.

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."

I listened to this and it went by so fast without anything standing out to me. I feel like there were songs that sounded nice and nothing stood out as bad to me, but the album finished and I couldn't recall much. Now I'm writing this review a day later and I'm playing back random moments and it's like I didn't listen to the album. During these replays I'm noticing the guitar being cool but not really unique, and a similar sentiment towards the singer. It's just OK to me. I don't think it needs to be on this list.

Stupid name. Stupid songs.

Woulda been better if I was baked and living in the 70s

"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.

Guess I am too sober for this kind of music.

I don't know, it's alright I guess. I don't believe this is something I needed to hear before I died, but at least I've heard another album by somebody who played at Woodstock. Whatever that's worth. It was nice of them to whisper "LSD" directly at me towards the end of the record. The influence had been unclear. Highlight: Love

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

Oh nice, a surprising and fun record right aligned with the musical mood I’m in today.

Rock psicodélico sesentero. Está bien. Venga, un 4.

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

I didn't hate it, but not for me. 1/5

Cool psych music

Not abrasively bad but left my brain two seconds after I listened to it

Cactus San Pedro

Ok

Fine, not too memorable

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.

Look, we get so many of these '60s psych rock type projects, it's hard to keep them straight. And this one came immediately after Trout Mask Replica, so the bar for unique is pretty high. That said, this is a solid album. The one thing that really set this one apart for me was the guitar work, there are some excellent guitar solos peppered throughout this thing, not just some drugged out hippies messing around. I dig it. Favorite tracks: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine, Death Sound, Love, Bass Strings, Grace. Album art: Actually a great one, we've got a quadrant of band photos I believe, framed in this very old-school folk/psych style. A lot going on here, but it's goes together well. 4/5

Doesn't do much for me. Not a desert island disc

It was aok

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

Not as bad as I was expecting. But not for me. First half is better than the second.

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

Not my favorite

Enjoyed the two listens. Some really good blues tracks. 4/5!

fucking love this album. i love psychedelic rock and this set of tracks encapsulates it perfectly.

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.

Already had this album in my favorites. More great psychedelic music. I can see why many don't like this but it's one of my favorite genres.

Tough listen. There wasn't anything that drew me in, and all of the songs reminded me of The Doors and/or early Bowie who did this baroque pop/psychedelia style a touch better.

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.

Nice! Liked that it had some folk vibes. Easy listen

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.

Definitely a 60's psychedlic blues rock record for sure.

Just quality. Goof liked it as well. Dork enjoys Porpoise Mouth ("even though it's rude and has the word erect in it") and Flying High.

One of the first psychedelic albums to come out of the San Francisco scene. The album is informed mostly by blues and folk which is played through highly distorted guitars. It is also influenced by eastern music. This album stands above overtly commercial albums of the era (like Paul Revere and the Raiders) and is interesting to listen to. This band gets overshadowed by later San Francisco based bands like the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Jefferson Airplane, but Country Joe and the Fish deserve their place as a pioneering psychadelic rock band. This album does date itself especially with references to LBJ and the whispered "L.S.D." at the end of 'Bass Strings.'

Not very electric

7.3/10

meh

Electric psychedelic blues based rock.

I found how they say “Lorraine” quite funny - entertaining/playful lyrics and a psychedelic sound to it emphasised the reverb and overdrive in the electric instruments (afterall, it’s electric music for the mind & body). Liked the use of the organ too. Solid album but misses on the 5, some weak tracks including the instrumental one imo

This band never crossed my path before, the psychedelic sound is interesting but in my opinion does not meet e.g. the Doors. I am a fan of country so for sure not a bad album

Just another hippy country record

I really liked this honestly. Very unpolished, but that's half the charm of these types of albums. I'll come back to this one.

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

Great at Woodstock. Debut album before equally great. Psychedelic rock.

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.

Positively surprised by this one: good combination of compact songs and elongated psychedelica.

не е лош, ама не е кой знае какво

Very nice. I like vietnam war era music

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.

Not for me..

This is their best album-yes, it's dated, but that doesn't take away from the sounds they created at the time. So different from anything being put out today.

Yet another underwhelming 60s record.

Pretty groovy, baby. Bit like The Doors

4.0

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 actually benefited from being played three times today. I enjoyed it more as the day went on, and got into the psychedelic stoner groove.

Totally psychedelic, man.

Why do I feel like dropping acid all of a sudden? This was a fun and fine trip of a listen today.

One surprise in this project is how much I like psychedelic music. Certainly wasn’t much of a thing for me when I was younger. Through this project, though, the psychedelic-laced albums more often than not appeal. This album is no exception. I listened to it three times today and each time enjoyed it more! I dig it not just as a historic album but also as a groovy listen.

Interesting to hear this album was one of the first to bring on the psychedelic rock genre. Unfortunately, this album didn't read to me as anything other than another psychedelic rock album, which I don't tend to like much.

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

Way ahead of its' time, cracking!

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.

Is half the list psychedelia?

All I knew about this band was that they performed at Woodstock and had a dumb name. This album isn’t bad, but seems to really only be worthwhile in the context of its time. I’m glad to have been exposed to it for the first time through this list, but can hear nothing essential about it.

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

i dont know if maybe i am giving this more credit than i should for my own musical taste but the last song on this album was really good and i did like a couple of the other tracks but nothing amazing i usually would put this at a 2.5 but i really did like grace and all the songs i didnt think about that much were fine i was really thinking about this a lot i had a brief look at my other ratings and this album is a 2 star despite any other reasoning i gave earlier on shouting out grace as a very good track and the rest is like ... fine thats what a two star is i think maybe im trying to justify 3 stars but i cant

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.

could not vibe with it. (tho might revisit it because i had a killer of a headache) it had some moments. like super bird killed.

An album and artist very much "of its time". Nothing here sets this above any of the other bands of the day. This would be fine background music for a VH1 documentary about The Summer of Love.

I can’t imagine the amount of acid I would have to take to enjoy this album.

Weird psychedelic music

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

General culture

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

goed oldschool scheurende gitaren

This was great - will definitely give it another spin

Amazing listen all the way through

Had never heard of them before but loved it. All the sounds, the twang, the catchiness of the lyrics, I probably saved half the album to my music. This is why I'm doing this project, to find things like this. And also, what a name!

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 !

interesting as a historical document, a snapshot of its time, but not all that fun to listen to. there are plenty of other examples of psychedelia from this period that are more worthwhile and which have stood the test of time better than this.

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.

Kinda lame

swampy psychedelia? sign me the fuck up — 10/10

meh

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Right up my alley! Psychedelic, funky, cool. Will add this to my rotation!

Really like the organ on Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine -- feels really amateur in a good way. LIked this much more than I expected to.

cooooool vibe

Stupid generic music. With such great songs as your silvyourer silvstreakyourer or some crap in ‘Grace’, ‘what if there was a comic book about Lyndon B Johnson being stupid?’ in ‘Super Bird’, and more songs which I didn’t care to pay attention. Hippy dippy bullshit.

I've never heard anything from this album, never even heard of Country Joe & The Fish. I was certainly worried that this would end up being a country album but I was pleasantly surprised. This is just some fun 60s psych rock. It's groovy and bluesy and just fun to sit back and chill with. Considering it's 60s psych rock I imagine it was made to be enjoyed on acid, but I can confirm it's a pleasant listen while sober too. Some of the American politics in the lyricism is lost on me though. Generally it feels like a darker and more melancholy take on the genre but it's pretty great. Favourite: Death Sound

They were tired of the man back then too!

Psychedelic junk and borrowed soul music

Too eclectic. Brilliance mixed with total garbage

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.

Perfect psychedelia, authentic hippie shit!

Nett, bisschen durcheinander

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

Must have been groundbreaking in the late 60s; but to my ears this is just boring psychedelic noodling with some of THE BLUES (tm) thrown in for good measure. 2/5

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.

eh. i wasn’t hooked, and struggled to get through this. it’s technically fine, but doesn’t seem to have anything going for it, and i’m really not sure why it was included in this list.

This sounds like a mix of early Dead and Velvet Underground. While the musicianship isn’t quite on the level of other early psychedelia I was deeply impressed by the lyricism

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”

Sloppadelica

Knew very little about them including style of music. I knew they played Woodstock but that’s about it. Early psychedelic stuff. Quite interesting and worth a listen.

Late 60's San Francisco sound from Joe and the Fish. It's full of peace and love and a touch of the brown acid. Very good stuff. The music, I mean...not necessarily the acid. But, hey man, it's your trip.

So boring. Why do these 60s bands have so much lead guitar and why is it so loud, bad,and noodley? Sounds like a guitar center.

This might be the worst album of all time

Ooh I thought this was boring and then he whispered LSD in my ear and I got creeped out. Keep your drugs to yourself. The Masked Marauder?! No.

Classic bay area psychadelia - more bluesy and less poppy than its UK counterpart (think Buffalo Springfield/Jefferson Airplane rather than 1960s Pink Floyd). The signature sound here is the combination of the swirling whirling organ with the overdriven pentatonic guitar spasms. The bass alternates between a solid motown-inspried bass that keeps a groove going under it all on some songs and on others a more melodic arpegiated textural thing higher up the fret board. The vocals are the staple blues-rock delivery and they sometime edges into a Pig Pen-style RnB rave-up. Songs are mostly conventionally structured. Just the organ, lyrics, and the aesthetics convey psychadelia. Mostly pretty upbeat/uptempo and busy, without the spacier darker sounds other bands were developing. A good album example of the original 'Nuggets'-era style that's always been a pretty limited sound to me - I like the stuff that went more garage rock or more exploratory/improvisational and this is neither nor. This album is mostly interesting as an artifact of a time and place in rock history more than something I want to put on. Favorites: Death Sound, Sad and Lonely

To bluesy for my taste. Sound good parts but for the most it just doesent appeal to me

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.

I really like their sound. The songwriting isn't that great, and maybe that's why they're not really remembered all that well compared to their colleagues. Best track: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine

Much copied and mostly bettered.

shocking

Psychedelic rock/jam band. Pretty fun

Take me home, Country Joe. I can really respect this album as one of the first American psych records. That said, I hear a bigger focus on the guitar effects being used than the song structures. Seems like everyone was happy with the first or second takes of each song and moved on. Overall it just sort of feels…there? Pretty inoffensive, probably groundbreaking for the time, but would be quickly outshined by basically every other San Francisco band that came after.

I’d require several tabs in my body for this electric music to blow my mind.

Lots of good tracks, interesting 60s vibe. Probably not the best album in this style I've listened to, but knowing they were one of the first to do it gets an extra star

It was OK - document of its time I suppose

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Fantastic bluesy album with some psychedelic influences

Well, I approach this with a great deal of nervousness. Country? Ew. Is it actually country? No, thank the lord it isn't. It's psychedelic rock, which is on every measure better than country. Speaking of "country", I absolutely love the filth of "Not so sweet Martha Lorraine". Clearly a reference to Shakespeare's "Country Matters", this is a song about sex. A bookish woman has learnt about sex from books and by rote. She doesn't take pleasure in it, but uses it. She wants him "to die" is obviously, glaringly la petit mort, the little death. Wiping the tears "from his friend's eye" is sordidly descriptive. She's using sex, using it to bring him to climax even - but she's never learnt "the country ways" - she doesn't know how to take any of that pleasure for herself. And he's lamenting that. What a cracking little track and what a story it tells!

Good country blues I feel

What an awesome surprise of an album. Guess they didn’t like LBJ much?

Needs another listen

San Francisco in the late 60's might actually have been quite boring. I can understand now why they all took a shit ton of acid.

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Я не понял... кто испортил мне впечатление от 60-х??? Блин, ну как-то оно всё и ни о чём. Гармошки нет, но есть какие-то около-психоделические приемчики на синтах, которые как-то вообще не из этой оперы (Section 43, к тебе обращаюсь). Причём не могу сказать, что это как-то лишино совсем музыкальности, но это прям приближается уже к моему пониманию оценки 1.

Only knew their Woodstock ' 1 2 3 4 what are we fighting for' anti Vietnam war song, hoped for more like that. But nope, psychedelic music which I normally hate. Heard worst psychodelic music, so 2 stars and not 1.

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'.

I feel like I didn't pay much attention but eh

I was really not in the mood for another 60s psych album but it ended up enjoyable enough. A bit sloppy at times but occasionally funky as well. I’m just not on enough psychotropic drugs for this right now.

It was pretty good. I'd listen to it again. Wasn't my absolute favorite, but it had some tracks to listen to again.

4.0 - Considering some other 1967 releases ("Sgt. Pepper's", "Velvet Underground And Nico", Doors' debut, "Surrealistic Pillow", "Are You Experienced") it's no wonder this records feels like a footnote. Still, it certainly outshines other albums within the psychedelic canon (see "The 13th Floor Elevators"). This feels like a complete and cohesive artifact of the Haight-Ashbury sound and there are genuinely trippy, LSD-laden jams. Particularly, "Porpoise Mouth" and "Section 43" create a swirly, colorful atmosphere in the middle. "Bass Strings" is also a highlight.

I dug most of this. It was Animals-esque at times. But, still not the Animals.

Spoiler päivä albumi muistan spoiler saatana miksi pit sppiler.. en tienny edes.. Paskaahan tåmä 40 min oli silloinkin... I hunger for your porpoise mouth And stand erect for love. The sun burns up the winter sky And all the earth is love. Sanoen tosissaan tämän laulu-puhumisääni völimuoto heh hra. 1 star shit ass album.. Love kappale heh c'mon huutaja funny ass mf... Naistenhurmaaja.. WTFF BASS STRUNGS OMG SONG REFERENCE

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.

Awful, just awful. Hippie music is dreadfully bad. This should not be celebrated. This shit should be wiped from history.

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

Experimental with no statement. Ambient with no mood. Music with no reason.

Very good, I liked it quite a bit

What a fantastic record.

I heard of this band back in my college days in the late 80s when I was exploring late 60s music, but I never got that hooked on them. I don't think I've heard any of their music since then, so I was glad to give this album a full listen. I'm afraid it didn't do much for me as a listener. I can appreciate its place in music history and it's a good artifact to hear the sound and style that was bursting onto and out of the Bay Area and hippie vibe, but musically it doesn't grab me.

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.

Psychedelic rock

Had never listened to this before. Will give it another go at some point. But, didn’t really grab me.

laaaaame fave : none least fave : all

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.

This record started out strong but kinda lost me towards the end. I can see how this record is influential but even as a fairly enfranchised music fan, I've never heard of it and the streaming stats kind of reflect its obscurity. Overall I'm ok with the genre but find it kind of boring at times. Standouts: Flying High, Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine, Sad And Lonely Times

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

one of those 'you had to be there albums' to appreciate. I wasn't so don't appreciate this at all

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

Great psychedelic album.

It’s a no from me dog. Just not very good. Much better music from this genre and time out there. Not sure why I needed to listen, although I did literally laugh out loud when he slowly whispered “L S D”.

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.

Me ha recordado a los Doors pero en sus momentos más aburridos. No suena mal y la grabación tiene calidad. Lo escuché pero no creo que esto sea imprescindible aunque malo no es.

I liked the instrumentation a little bit for this album but not really anything else.

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

Poukkoileva kokonaisuus uneliaasta menevään ja jotain siitä väliltä. Ei jatkoon.

Aluks säikähdin nimestä, mut ei ollukaan pilipalikantrii. Ihan ok

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