Electric Music For The Mind And Body

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

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?

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

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

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

Scrappy hippies are my kind of wannabee cowboys.

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
⭐️⭐️⭐️

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

HL: "Death Sound", "Section 43", "Masked Marauder”, "Porpoise Mouth"

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

February 7, 2023

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

ah my old nemisis, the blues. still pretty boring. yep.

Found this a bit meh. Just sounded like Dylan.

Great psych!