Electric Music For The Mind And Body

I found this boring. While part of the groundbreakers in psychedelic/acid rock, I prefer to get my sampling from this genre from King Crimson, Pink Floyd, the Doors, and even Iron Butterfly.

I’m sure this was an important album for the time, but to me it was pretty boring. A few songs stood out, but overall just some snooze psychedelia. There were much better bands performing in this genre back then.

It’s ok. Look, this is why I’m always whining for half stars. I rated my last two albums three stars, and I liked both of those LOADS better than I liked this milqutoast, paint-by-numbers, psychedelic 60s rock template - but I didn’t *dislike* this. It’s not my kind of music, and I don’t really want to listen to it again, but do I want to give it a 2? I mean…kind of. But even at 2 stars, I’d rather listen to this than the Bruce Springsteen album I got a few days ago. 2.5 stars.

This one's a headscratcher for me... not sure what makes this a Top 1001 album I have to listen to before I die. I think I'd do just fine never hearing this one. Sounds like a weaker Grateful Dead jam band from the 60's. Zero hits, everything sounds pretty much the same, dated and doesn't hold up super well today, no standout tracks that I could see though "Flying High" has 5M listens over 57 years. Maybe it's a stoner anthem? I honestly didn't enjoy a single song. Not my thing, and not thinking they created the jam band genre cause the Dead were doing it first, so no bonus for influence. This one's a mystery, folks! Not worthy, 2 stars for being ok background music.

I grew up in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, blessedly at least a generation removed from this. But I heard plenty of this kind of music anyway. Didn’t like it then, don’t care for it now. Was this album groundbreaking at the time? I dunno. I will say this: I’ve never heard of Country Joe & the Fish, but I’ve heard of plenty other contemporaneous bands out of San Francisco, so that’s telling me something.

I preferred the parts where he wasn't singing

Boring a hell a few good songs tho

On the outro of one song, I think it was “Bass Strings”, the guy is not-so-subtly whispering “LSD” into the mic. Yeah, we get it. Every stereotype of psychedelic rock is present on this album, and while I have to assume this was at some point novel and exciting, to me in the present day it just feels masturbatory and incredibly lame. Pass.

Starts as a mostly country album with some blues guitar solos, then gets a more psychedelic as it goes on. There are some decent guitar parts in the album - Death Sound and Super Bird weren't bad, but Credence Clearwater Revival did 60s protest music much better

This music has no soul, it sounds like they are just playing the notes on a page. Think painting by numbers but music form.

this is nothing to me

not for me

Really not bad for what it is, early psychedelia coming out of San Francisco in the middle/ late ‘60s. It’s just not music I really want to hear.

Good album from a historical perspective. But 60 years removed from the psychedelic era this is just run'o'the'mill psych rock and blues. Cool shit, but 3 million better examples of this.

Not as terrible as I was expecting. But still not something I enjoyed. It has its place.

More 60 s music which wasn’t great

Meh. Something I've realized about myself, going through this project - while music that's too smooth, like quiet storm, gets low ratings for bouncing right off of my ADHD brain, the twangy sound of "country" grabs hold a little too well, and ends up annoying me so much I automatically deduct a star. Even the finest Johnny Cash album can't squeak past four stars with me. And this is... okay, I hear the bits that influenced a lot of later acts, but I wouldn't necessarily call it good music. What do I like? Skillful use of electric instruments, like guitars and synth. I also react more favorably to eccentricity than to mainstream pandering. I'm currently listening to the Django Django album that I know is somewhere in the generator, wishing I was reviewing something I vibe with today. 🤷🏻‍♀️

From the first note you know this is going to be psychedelic music and it certainly is. In a way that is about 200 percent to strange for me. While some parts of certain songs were good they quickly turned in to strange notes, strange singing and things I don't really know how to describe. Its always fun listening to the album of the day but I can't say this was something I will ever listen to again.

This record has all you'd expect of late 1960s San Francisco psychedelia—swirling organ, trippy guitar, and loose performances—but it's not a total disaster. When they lock into a structured yet fuzzy groove, it’s passable. But like many albums of its era, it is high on its own atmosphere. Everything goes on too long — the organ drones, the guitar recycles tired electric blues licks, and the smug hippie vocals ramble pseudo-profundities over plodding progressions. If this is Electric Music for the Mind and Body, then my mind and body says, Nope.

Psychedelic rock

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Country Joe and his Fish need to practice. The music is almost nonexistent and the vocals are boring. The album cover is the best part of this one.

The first couple of tracks were pretty decent, then it devolved into a psychedelic, hippie, nonsense trip I didn't care to go on.

Real meandery, most of it? I can tell that some of it is good but it still did nothing for me.

Pretty average album. Nothing too notable, yet nothing really bad either. 2.5/5 Probably won’t listen again

5/10 Another mixed bag, didn’t really work for me. Bluesy rock music that morphed into acid/psych rock Some of it was nice, some boring, some quite interesting Liked all the organ stuff the best Best: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine

Maybe you had to be there (and on drugs)

Enjoyed the twangy guitar licks. Every slow song sucked, and any songs that had the organ in it wete no bueno. I don't feel bad rating it poorly because almost nobody listens to this artist.

Not a big fan of psychedelic music so this wasn't my thing. It was ok to listen to once, but not something I desire to hear ever again. 2/5

Favorite track: Love other picks: flying high, death sound

Just a forgettable psychedelic bleh album. I have no idea why it’s on here

Started off hopeful but never really got going.

it's a no for me dawg. I'm flagging.

Pretty great in the 60s, pretty shit now

Meh. Even when I was a youngster on my psychedelic quest I didn't really dig them. How creepy was it when they whispered LSD at the end of one of those tracks? Favorite tune is "Section 43"; their song "Love" made me immediately turn to the Beatles' "The Word" because I believe Country Joe stole the rhythm from that.

Made me appreciate The Doors even more. Something just didn't work for me - maybe it was the vocals (annoying), the lyrics (mainly bad: sweet LOrraine'), oh, and the music ... like a dentist's drill a lot of the time. I enjoyed the silence at the end of the last track very much indeed. An extra star because it's not Adele.

Found that this was pretty plain, non-remarkable Beatles era stuff. Nowhere near interesting enough for this list IMO

Bland, generic 60s psychedelic rock. I was close to giving this 1 star to be honest but the first half of the album was okay.

I love a lot of music and albums from the 60’s. Unfortunately this is not one of them, found it a little bit boring…

I don't have much to say about this

This album sounds like they wrote it in the key of who cares, they used the heaviest pick the play the worst solo I’ve ever heard. 18 year old me would’ve smoked a ton of weed and thought this album was incredible. 33 year old me knows better.

Ok 2/5

Fine but unexceptional in any way, including weirdness. A wasted spot on the list.

As others have said, other bands have done this better. I recoiled hard when the ending of a song was a whispered "L...S...D..." NICE WORK MAN. So edgy. I guess trying too hard had been around longer than we thought.

If the aliens land and ask "what did late 60s psychedelic rock sound like?" you can just play this album for them. Did "Leaving on a Jet Plane" steal from "Sad and Lonely Times" or vice versa? Is "Bass Strings" really not a Jefferson Airplane song?

The name is better than the music

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# 395 : I don't love it, I don't hate it. A couple of things stood out but I thought it was very ordinary quiet forgettable and I doubt I'll ever go back to this. It started off alright, but the music is benign, and the vocals are easily ignored. Drugs and drug music have gotten much better since this album was released.

Basic blues style guitar pickings and psychedelic organ vibes, is this enough? I mean, it's all perfectly serviceable, but nothing rises above the mid feeling. I feel like its only here because its the spearhead of the San Francisco scene. Its also another album that takes stereoscopic sound to its extremes, gotta love the 60s for that, but I, for one, am glad it died down...

First couple of tracks were good but the rest was hard work to get through.

Mediocre at best very alike the door but not that great. Easy listening thou good flow

Psykedelisk rock, lidt blues’et, ikke overvældende

257/1001 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑

Liked this as much as I expected I would like a 60s psychedelic album which is very little.

Not special.

Not atrocious but suffers from a monotonous, boring, sameness from beginning to end.

Electric Music For the Mind and Body starts much as expected really, some super generic 60s stylings, not much of it memorable, although it does strike the right notes on occasion with more bluesy stuff; Death Sound is a great little tune. Unfortunately they indulge in some bad choices soon after, Section 43 is an almost impossible listen, and then it just loses all sense of theme with some rubbish country and a mish-mash of genres where none are done well. Not the worst of this stuff, nowhere near the best, 2 again.

No thanks. Nothing memorable, another psychedelic folky country mess that doesn't say much or go anywhere interesting. 2/5.

Some decent stoner hippie stuff. Some good grooves and nice blues licks, but it's like they let a 13 year old set up their guitar effects pedals. It eventually gets pretty annoying.

I really wanted to like this. I had to throw my phone at one point because I was trying to do something and this in the background was so annoying and distracting that I just couldn't do both at once.

It's not all terrible. There's some solid guitar work here. The drums are typical of the 60s: mixed badly and rawly, not overly complex, fitting the music pretty well. Porpoise Mouth is one of those charming folksy songs that critics love to lump in with the rest of the psychedelia genre but should really be considered part of a whole separate, endearing beast. Flying High's swung rhythm is great, making the song stand out from the pack. I'm a fan of the twangy vocals and weaving, interjecting guitar lines in Super Bird. And of course, you know I dig a mean organ – as heard in the track Love. And if I'd encountered this album earlier in the list, I'd give it a 3 or higher, no question. But this "late-60s rock psychedelia" genre is so darn oversaturated – especially on this list – that it's become a bit arduous to sit through 40 minutes of this every other week. The two seven-minute tracks here – Grace and Section 43 – are the lowlights of the album. They flounder in circles without gaining any legitimate traction. They could maybe pass as proto-prog rock, but as a genre predecessor they're pretty terrible (and primitive). Other than psychedelia being fairly new in 1967, there isn't anything particularly fresh or daring here. Really, should it be considered creative when literally every other rock band is doing the exact same thing at the same time? Is this what you wanted, Dimery? For us to suffer? 2/5 Key tracks: Flying High, Super Bird, Love

uninspiring 60s psychedelic stuff 2.5 stars

Not my jam.

More 60s psychedelic crap. Couldn't wait for the back half to end, just felt like people fucking around in a studio.

There is a reason why this album has been lost in time. Nothing really sticks out to me as brilliant or incredible. There are plenty of early pioneers that have had their sounds improved upon but are still remembered.

chAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAto

I couldn’t get past the high pitches constantly throughout.

Other than having fond flashbacks to Woodstock, I don't know why this album should be in the book. I reserve the "1" grade for music I don't like and is just bad music, so I can't quite go that far. I want to go that far to prove the point that this is irrelevant and not needing to be heard. It's 60's acid rock and there are better albums to hear that sound. The musicianship is good and the lyrics are typically acid-created. It's all just so groovy sounding. The cover of the album, the name of the band, the album name, the lyrics and the sound of the album are all so cliched that it would fit in perfectly with a parody of 60's hippie groups. If someone told me this was a Frank Zappa-like project then I would probably accept this conclusion. I have dreaded listening to albums like this because I know the music is not bad but I need to be open-minded about it all before I judge. I accomplished that here but still came to the conclusion it's not for me and shouldn't be required listening.

Not sure if this was unique at the time but this is like textbook psych rock in retrospect. Good for them if they pioneered any/all of this. Bet deadheads / Doors fans love this shit. Love the marvel references in "Super Bird". Fav Track: Section 43

I know that I listened to this, but it completely escapes my mind what I even thought about it. Must not have been memorable.

Never heard this before. Another meh 60s album. Another 60s band doing country songs (poorly) and blues songs (even worse). Flower Power!

Ugh. I found no redeeming qualities - not something that I could not listen to, but no something that I enjoyed.

Underwhelming.

Pretty annoying often enough, but not miserable overall. Don't see why I would ever listen to it

Country Joe = Joe McDonald, now 82. Lead vocalist, former US Navy, named after Joseph Stalin by two communist party members. The Fish = Barry Melton, now 77. Lead guitarist, distant descendant of George Washington, later a law school graduate and public defender in Yolo County, California. The pair of them formed Country Joe and the Fish in 1965, becoming wildly associated with the psychedelic rock movement as part of the first wave rising up out of San Francisco in the late sixties. "Electric Music for the Mind and Body" is their first album, with a stupid title that feels more like a tagline than an actual name. The music has all the hallmarks of early psychedelic rock: there's lengthy extended organ solos on "Section 43", a disarming waltz in "The Masked Marauder", a tribute to Grace Slick in the final track, and whispers of LSD in "Bass Strings." As if we need more confirmation to place it in a 1967 setting, Lyndon B. Johnson gets a shout out for being a war-hungry maniac in "Super Bird", with the promise that the Fantastic Four and Doctor Strange will help see him off. There are harmless, passable tracks here, like the "hit" "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine", the meaty-ish blues of "Death Sound" and "Love", and the softly-softly-catchy-country of "Sad and Lonely Times". The delicate and smokey "Bass Strings", which has aged the least to my ears, is the most effective at conjuring that hazy, stoned atmosphere (made only slightly hokey by the "L... S... D" lyric at the very end). It's trip-hop thirty years early, and Portishead would have been proud. Otherwise, The Fish's guitar work might be nifty and dexterous, but on closer inspection it's masking a surplus of fairly disappointing, run of the mill blues. It's strong to the point of overshadowing Country Joe's vocals, becoming the lead presence in each song even though it mostly recycles the same technique and ideas. Overall, then, I'm disappointed to report that there's nothing particularly otherworldly about "Electric Music for the Mind and Body": no visionary songwriting, interesting production choices or mind-expanding instrumentation. The most cynical part of me wants to call it pretty standard content, dressed up in a flashy new style for a flashy new generation.

There are 100 albums in this book from 1967 that all sound exactly like this

Doors-y and fun for the first half, but dragged on a bit in the back half for me.

This an album of its time, and the time is firmly in the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Whilst the Beatles made a token effort to hide their drug references, Country Joe & the Fish are openly passing round the reefers and whispering LSD over the outro. They’re not shy about sex either and the politics are far to the left. The highlight is the cheeky Superbird where he calls on the Fantastic Four and Doctor Strange to take out LBJ. Hippytastic!

Yet another folk-psych album. A couple of songs were not that bad, but as a whole it is far from being memorable. I feel like we already ran into a couple of those albums in the list, and I don't really see the point of multiplying this kind of entries.

Solid 2

Nothing stood out here. Just another psychedelic album

This project has featured a lot of psychedelic rock, some of it good, and some of it bad. I don't know why it has featured quite so much psychedelic rock, but here we are. For all the psychedelic rock that is featured on this project, the bar is set pretty high that each additional inclusion better be "well worth it". In my opinion, this album definitely doesn't live up to that. It's okay, but it is nothing new and nothing groundbreaking. Let me correct that statement: it probably was groundbreaking when it came out in 1967, but once again, looking at something like this retrospectively, many others have done it better since then.

Damn I’m in the middle of a run of mediocre classic rock right now. I’m sure this was good and important music in the late 60’s but it’s just not doing it for me.

Passive activist?

Don't like the guy's voice

Some albums are just a mystery to me as to why they made it into the list.

Pretty chill vibes

Bem datado, começo psicodélico interessante que se perde nos teclados excessivos.

Pretty far-out, man. Some interesting tracks, and a nice glimpse into 60s counter-culture. Drifts off towards the end, possibly because they were too stoned by that point...

Very generic. Nothing special.

Interesting listen from the Woodstock era

An evil villain once said, "What a bunch of hippy dippy baloney." Lord Business was talking about a comical prophecy in an animated movie about a highly sophisticated interlocking brick system, but he could have been talking about country Joe and his partner, the Fish. That said, there's some likeable songs here, that have clearly influenced what came after, from psychedelic rock of the late 60s to trippy 90s alternative music or more recent acoustic indie tunes. Still won't come back to it. Two pioneering but essentially forgettable stars.

Wanted to like this one more, but didn't!

Reminded me of the Doors at some points, but overall it wasn't great

Just looking at the cover I was expecting to hate this. It's not great but it's better than I expected. I enjoyed "Super Bird" which is just shitting on LBJ, and I can always respect and laugh at dumping on a politician. The first two tracks are pretty catchy as well, and they have that whole jam band/psychadelic aspect down easily. It's not a genre I ever really want to listen to, though. The rest of it is largely forgettable. There's nothing particularly standout for me on the majority of the album. It's an American record from the 60's, and it sure as hell sounds like one. That's really it.

Sure. Whatever. This could be literally any band from the 60s. It’s like you hit every generic topic and plugged it into a machine and this is the result. This is frustrating because like…who cares?

It’s an era. Many others did it better.

Meh. Boring, Could Be Worse

The type of influential album that I'm grateful for (as it inspired all sorts of music that I'm into) without ever wanting to listen to it. Just not into it.

Another one of these old hippie albums that lives right next to the Flying Burrito Brothers. Haven't we hear enough of this entire genre? It's hard to deny that it was probably fueling a lot energy at the time, but now all the results look like false promises. So too was this album.

“Ridin' on a groovy wave of love Going for a cosmic ride Set the freaky purple vibes of love The marshmallow cat is inside” In the final season of “The Good Place,” Michael spent many Jeremy Bearimys trying to write a song. Those lyrics he came up with really aren’t too far from Country Joe & The Fish’s “Electric Music for the Mind and Body.” (The above lyrics are Michael’s, not Joe’s.)

Cast off songs from HAIR?

I remain flummoxed by the lead guitarists. The licks are constantly off beat and usually late. It was distracting, and combined with the psychedelia, made me glad when this album was over.

Just because it is old does not mean it is good

I know of Country Joe & The Fish from reading about "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" in Dorain Lynskey's 33 Revolutions per minute. Heading into this project, I assumed that I loved psychedelica, but that hasn't been the case with the albums that I've reviewed, so I don't have high hopes that I'll enjoy this album. As I feared, I was pretty underwhelmed by this album. The music itself was fine, but there wasn't anything on this album that I thought was new or surprising. I enjoyed some of the organ playing, and I caught myself really getting into the groove of "Section 43," but that song was really the only time I felt that way. The stripped down and raw sound gave the album an authentic feel musically, but the lyrics detracted from that authenticity. Lyrically, this album felt like it was full of self-serving hippie-isms, being preached from people who think they know best. There's no anger or emotion in anything, and I felt like the radical ideas that were sung about only served the purpose of propelling the egos of the band members (conversely, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" feels very authentic to me, in the way that it oozes angry sarcasm, so I know these guys are capable of authenticity to some degree). When I listen to Bob Marley, I can hear the conviction and emotion in his voice, and that was missing here. To top it off, I just felt that this album was pretty boring. Country Joe & The Fish may have been an integral part of the late sixties, but like The Summer of Love, they're a one-and-done with me.

Psychedelic mish mash. Not really doing it for me.

✅✅ this was fun, but not something I'm likely to revisit.

A disappointing and muddled effort that fails to deliver on its promising title. The songwriting is generic, the beats forgettable, and the synths cluttered. While a few tracks show flashes of creativity, they're not enough to salvage this tedious, unrewarding listening experience. Electric Music For The Mind And Body is a lackluster release that left me disengaged and unmoved.

it’s fine i guess i wish the author of the list would have put more interesting albums in here and not the same classic rock album over and over

Very meh as an album, presumably better as an experience

Not good, but some of it not _quite_ as bad as I feared it might be. Still hippy shite though. Why is he whispering "LSD" during Bass Strings?

Genre issues

wow can you believe that a guy whispered L S D on one of these songs music: hated. (⌐☯_☮)

Ok boomer.

It's something... 2.4

Good late 60s sound, didn't sound clean but mostly enjoyable

Some good

Terribly forgettable psych rock. Not a note worth revisiting. Didn't hate it, but not a thing about it did I like.

Definitely some talented musicians, but I was unimpressed with this album

Not for me.

Not bad at all, but I think this is one of the albums that has to be taken off the list eventually. Somewhere between the Doors and the Byrds, but not as good. Leave it on for now. Favorite song: the masked marauder

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

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.

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

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

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

Hippie music

Just quite dull really

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

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

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.

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

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 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."

Boring, overrated Woodstock-era music.

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.

Frekar mikil ládeyða.

2.5

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.

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

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.

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

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

Ok

Fine, not too memorable

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

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

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.

meh

Electric psychedelic blues based rock.

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

Yet another underwhelming 60s record.

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.

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.

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

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.

General culture

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.

Kinda lame

meh

They were tired of the man back then too!

Psychedelic junk and borrowed soul music

Too eclectic. Brilliance mixed with total garbage

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

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.

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

shocking

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Psychedelic rock

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

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

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”.

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.

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

Aluks säikähdin nimestä, mut ei ollukaan pilipalikantrii. Ihan ok

I was on board in the beginning but lost interest after the song about the porpoise.

this did nothing for me, nor do i see why it's on here. an easy one to kick off the list for the next revision.

This album made me feel weird. The sound and the vibe was everything to me when I first started to get serious about spreading my music wings beyond The Beatles and Dylan. I was enamored with the 60s and Country Joe & The Fish just reek hippiedom. Yesterday's listen didn't do much for me except make me wonder if I really "hear" music at all or just get lost in a vibe. Maybe from a historical perspective this album is one to listen to before you die? Mostly I'm just meh about this.

It’s kinda hard to judge, on the one hand, kinda meh, on the other, it’s a raw, blue-ish rock album from 67. I bet it sounded sick when it came out then

Very just meh. Was there not already enough 60's psychadelic rock on this list when they threw this in? 4/10

It’s like the Doors took the wrong drugs, or no drugs at all. Too many instrumental interludes. Doesn’t mesh well.

Cool album, not what I was expecting based on the title. Loses a star solely because it’s not on Spotify.

El lsd de finales de los 60 se nota... Pero tiene su punto esta psicodelia (LNB ) No está mal,igual mejora si vas de ácido (PSP)

Rating: 5/10

Some proper psychedelic absurdist shit that would probably sound great if you were up to your teeth in mushrooms. Sadly I wasn't.

Found this quite boring to be honest. Run of the mill Progressive Rocj mixed with some Folk, nothing too remarkable. Musically pretty good, but vocally a bit jarring. 4 out of 10

Aldrig hört förr - blev lite glad av den här musiken

Meh. Liked the bluesy vibe of Flying High, worth the listen for the song about LBJ, the Fantastic Four, and Doctor Strange. WTF.

Thanks, I hate it. 2 out of 5 stars.

Not so much for either.

Thought when I first seen this was so I need to listen to another 60’s psychedelic rock album, enjoyed this in parts, hard to say if it deserves to be on the list. Won’t be rushing back.

Reminds me of the stuff my high school band made when we discovered the synth setting on an 80 key yamaha

Such an aggressive sound it becomes grating too often. The guitar is too often like a nagging mosquito, constantly telling you it’s right there like you would have easily forgotten about it otherwise. It’s much too much and much too often. Cool ideas but the instrumentation gets in its own way. Faves: Super Bird, Sad And Lonely Times

I liked the first half but lost me in the second

It was just ok. Nothing extraordinary here. Move along.

Niet mijn ding

This didn't really do it for me - there are plenty of other 60s West Coast groups that just have a bit more about them. I like the band name though.

[crickets]

If this is an essential psychedelic rock album (as opppsed to other bands dabbling in or influenced by psychedelia) I don’t think I missed much. 2.5 stars.

This album is the epitome of San Francisco 1967 psychedelia, but without any features that raise it above the level of a caricature of SF psychedelia. Not a single song sticks in my memory; all I can hear is that dreadful farfisa organ.

Starts off sounding typically late 60s guitar rock, then becomes psychedelic and, to my ears, less precise and focused and more messy. Slightly lower than 3 (average)

Very weird, not always in a good way. Done better by many other bands, not sure why this is on the list

I just can't do acid jams like this - it's why I could never do the Grateful Dead or Dead-descendant bands. "We're a folky-jazzy-bluegrass and country band with a wah pedal that makes our guitar sound like a sitar!" Fuck off.

Not my thing

No thank you

I think this is a classic case of an album's relevance getting lost in antiquity. Didn't excite me one bit and doesn't stand out compared to anything else from that era.

Kinda boring Album Cover: Ok 2/5

It's your standard psychedelic rock, Woodstock album. This was probably influential at the time it came out, but 55 years later it's a lot less to write home about. There are some good tracks still, like Love and Bass Strings, but the bands that came after these guys did a better job of perfecting the genre.

It was psychedelic rock album. Big whoop.

Fuzzy psych blues. Been done a million times since. If it was a footballer, it'd be Kieron Dyer - decent enough, but nobody really remembers.

This whole genre of folk rock can take a hike

This was an interesting psychedelic/early electric album. Really reminded me of the doors earlier this week. I really liked the first 4 or 5 songs. Section 43 was a cool ass song. They totally lost me in the 2nd half. The last two songs are BAD. Meh 3/10

Tous les bands qui vont ailleurs semblent aller à la même place...

Bof. Pas rien de mémorable ici. Mettons que l'intérêt peut être dans entendre un band psychédélique obscur, mais aucune révolution ici. Le mix est même parfois agaçant (je pense à la tambourine et au maracas). Par contre j'ai trouvé l'ambiance générale des 3 dernières pièces très bien.

2.5

Not my thing. Some songs very tough to listen to.

This was not my thing. But didn't cause physical pain.

When you hear someone whispering "L-S-D" that's a pretty good sign that I'm about to check out from your album. Wasn't as bad as I was expecting though, but I will maintain that this is one of the worst band names of all time.

I can hear the roots of psychedelic prog here, but most of this is too folksy for me. I enjoyed the instrumental pieces more eg Section 43, and I can see the Doors being influenced by this. But the very 60's style hippie vocals were a turn off for me.

It was pretty good, would like to explore these guys a little more.

Not my bag.

Passed me by a bit. Not as annoying as I thought it would be, but nothing standing out.

Meh 2

not ,my jam

Eeehhhhh. Absolutely run-of-the-mill psych rock. I don't remember a single thing about it.

So 60's. I love a bit of psychadelic rock me but this doesn't hit me. I think I need to play this a few more times with some incense and bourbon and maybe I'll dig it.

Could only find terrible stereo mix and it is just lazy production in general. I kinda like some of the far out bits but for the most part it was just lazy take on blues.

Weird and forgettable

Lo- Grace This is some bluesy/psychedelic/swampy-rock, or at least that's what it presents itself as. "Electric Music" in that it's mainly guitar/organ...Nothing really sticks out as exceptional, just mainly average, except for the last track "Grace", which meanders and is kind of pointless...pretty much like the rest of the album.

Hasn't really stood the test of time. Too much 60's organ sound and fuzzy guitars. Porpoise Mouth is interesting and it is more enjoyable the more folk rock it is. Lyrics are pretty interesting in general... though Love may not qualify for that.

Placed in the time of the Summer of Love, I can see the influence of this record on the West Coast (San Francisco) scene and suspect that is why it is on this list, not for it's lasting impact on music. Whether it influenced bands like the Doors, Canned Heat, CSN, Buffalo Springfield, JA, Grateful Dead or the other way around you can hear some elements of the Psych Rock (Acid Rock) influence in all of these bands. It is an album that represents the counterculture of its time and an intro to Acid Rock and I suspect was enjoyed by most, including the artist, live, while on drugs. It doesn't translate well on record. The organ is straight up Question Mark and the Mysterians and is overused. There are some threads that influence music beyond 67/68 but not much that I can see. So it was an interesting time and had some influence on music but I think what the scene tried to represent had more of a cultural impact than most of the music. The bands that had more of an impact from that scene continued on, CJ and the Fish impact didn't last beyond those few years. Favorite Song: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine Rated 2 out of 5

I'll admit that I enjoyed some of the political messaging of Joe Fish here, preaching anti-Vietnam/anti-imperialists messaging from a psych-rock pulpit (aka 1960s folk festivals). However, the music felt very middle of the road, and hasn't stood up well over time. 1.5/5 Fav Track: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine

Oh man, they bought off-brand Grateful Dead! I ultimately felt like this was a bit of a middling piece of hippie ephemera. The production is pleasantly ramshackle, and it sounds like they're having fun, but there's not much for me to grab onto. There's nothing unique or compelling enough to justify its inclusion on this list. Nothing particularly unpleasant either, aside from the unnecessarily long jam tracks peppered throughout. It was just a little boring. Favourite tracks: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine, Sad and Lonely Times

After the first few songs, I was really leaning towards a high score on this but then it lost its way. Ultimately ended up too much on the psychedelic side.

Not jazzed about this at all. Bland 60's rock. It hasn't moved the needle in any meaningful way musically for me. Should be called Meh music for Meh minds and bodies. This crap needs to be bumped from the list to make room for Weezer's Blue album, which I just learned is NOT on the list and that's a goddamned travesty.

Underwhelming psychedelic rock album, neither getting you up to move nor spacing you out, man. Lacking any real panache, pretty lazy production (hippies), very much of a product of its time. Dull.

Another one I'd never heard of before. It's is a bit up and down, got some very good tracks on it, but on the whole probably best left in the 60s.

2.5 idk

You've heard this one before - a ho-hum, Doors-esque rock LP complete with gratuitous noodling, meandering song structures, and not much of a point. A few tinges of psychedelia aren't enough to save this one from mediocrity.

By now this is long forgotten music, and as sad as that may be, I can understand why.

2.5

Psychedelic nonsense. They should've just stuck to ingesting brown acid and avoided making albums. Best Tracks: Flying High; Super Bird; Bass Strings

Mwha

Country Joe mag in dat country blijven waar ie vandaan kwam.

Gezellig en leuk voor een keer, maar verder boeide het te weinig.

Tja, ook hier gaat mijn hart niet bepaald harder van kloppen. Je had er waarschijnlijk destijds bij moeten zijn toen dit als iets baanbrekends gezien werd.

Ik vond country joe niet zo country, eerder bluesy.

Ohne Pilze oder synthetische Hilfsmittel kein Zugang zu finden

I have very mixed feelings about “Electric Music for the Mind and Body.” The guitar is phenomenal, as are the vocals and singing. But the melodies and instrumentation (minus guitar) fail to live up to those standard. As such, there are only about three good songs.

The name of the band is the most interesting thing about this album. It's pretty average and feel like I could have done without hearing this particular album before I died

A little too 60's for me, I still like classic rock though just not my type.

Quite dated but a good album, not something I would have listened to on my own. "2 - not for me but doesn't hurt my ears"

The way it started, I'd thought it would be really good. There was a song or two I liked but other than that, nothing appealed to me.

Meh

I guess it's ok. Psychedelic country. Very of it's time.

Did not enjoy

A ono, ko da sam sve to čuo već dost puta

nice kinda

More hippie nonsense. Don't know why people would listen to this today

A psychedelic rock band that does little to separate themselves from their contemporaries. This effort is fine, but has little staying power or impact beyond the initial listen.

A bit rough. One of the less enjoyable 60s psych albums we've had

2/5 not my cup of tea...

I'm afraid I'm not in the mood for this.

So I didn’t mind the beginning of this album, but I’m finding the last couple of songs to be really annoying. I’m ready for it to be over now.

Just kinda boring

Bleh

Ehhhhhhh probably won't listen to this again.

1967, stupid "psychedelic" looking album cover..... ugh they're really just keeping it to a few key themes in this list. and yeah it sounds exactly as the cover looks. I guess it gets a point for authenticity there. and another point because it doesn't make me actively sick. but after enough albums from this late-60s period they all start to sound the same, even if some were considered wildly counterculture and others not. and to this album's credit, I'm sure all these fucking cliches were fresh in 1967. but there's this timestamp on almost everything from this ~3 year period in the late 60s, and I am bored of that timestamp filling this list. 2/5.

Super Bird may legitimately be one of the dumbest songs I have ever listened to in my life, and it's no surprise it came from the absolute worst genre of music to ever exist. "During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high." - Kurt Vonnegut

No more 60’s earlier psychedelic please

Two tries but no impression

Awful. This list is so Boomer coded.

Meh

Really poor sound/production on this record. Also a largely forgettable mishmash of late 60s styles. Not essential at all.

Cool. Just what this list needs.

this album didn’t stand the test of time i don’t think……. also that last song can fuck off

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