Country Joe & Fish,LP,Electric Music For T Mind & Body,Fontana TFL6081,UK67 1stP
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Country Joe And The Fish
Title and label: Electric Music For The Mind And Body, Fontana TFL 6081 UK 1st Press 1967, Mono with Textured Labels. Rare and what a fantastic album!!!
Condition of vinyl: VG+ Due to a couple of very light paper scuffs. Please Note; all plays EX with no crackle or clicks - a really nice clean mono copy.
Matrix Side 1: 6081 1L▼ 1420 117
Matrix Side 2: TFL 6091 2L▼ 1420 117
Condition of sleeve: EX With a little edge-wear on this un-laminated tri-flipback sleeve
Electric Music for the Mind and Body Review by Richie Unterberger
Their full-length debut is their most joyous and cohesive statement and one of the most important and enduring documents of the psychedelic era, the band's swirl of distorted guitar and organ at its most inventive.
In contrast to Jefferson Airplane, who were at their best working within conventional song structures, and the Grateful Dead, who hadn't quite yet figured out how to transpose their music to the recording studio, Country Joe & the Fish delivered a fully formed, uncompromising, and yet utterly accessible -- in fact, often delightfully witty -- body of psychedelic music the first time out.
Ranging in mood from good-timey to downright apocalyptic, it embraced all of the facets of the band's music, which were startling in their diversity: soaring guitar and keyboard excursions ("Flying High," "Section 43," "Bass Strings," "The Masked Marauder"), the group's folk roots ("Sad and Lonely Times"), McDonald's personal ode to Grace Slick ("Grace"), and their in-your-face politics ("Superbird").
Hardly any band since the Beatles had ever come up with such a perfect and perfectly bold introduction to who and what they were, and the results -- given the prodigious talents and wide-ranging orientation of this group -- might've scared off most major record labels.
Additionally, this is one of the best-performed records of its period, most of it so bracing and exciting that one gets some of the intensity of a live performance.
Side 1:
Flying High
Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
Death Sound
Porpoise Mouth
Section 43
Side 2:
Super Bird
Sad And Lonely Times
Love
Bass Strings
The Masked Marauder
Grace
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