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  • Audio CD (23 Oct 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Vanguard
  • ASIN: B000025VSS
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,076 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Flying High
2. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
3. Death Sound Blues
4. Porpoise Mouth
5. Section 43
6. Super Bird
7. Sad And Lonely Times
8. Love
9. Bass Strings
10. Masked Marauder
11. Grace

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Given their origins, both geographically (San Francisco) and stylistically (founder Joe McDonald and lead guitarist Barry Melton first hooked up in a jug band), it wasn't surprising that the ragtag Fish sounded like an acid-soaked, plugged-in folk band when they debuted in '67. Simultaneously the most political and funniest of all the Northern California bands, the Fish's yippie-hippie philosophy was reflected in songs like "Superbird" (about Lyndon Johnson), "Flying High" (about getting you-know-what), and the bluesy free love saga, "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine." That they could periodically wax serious as well (the wide-angled instrumental "Section Forty Three" and the moody "Bass Strings") only added more bite to their satiric pungency. --Billy Altman

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A linchpin release in 1967, this album defined the genre known as acid-rock. Led by former folk musician Joe McDonald, the quintet combines engaging melodies with sharp, satiricallyrics encompassing different facets of the counterculture--drugs ("Bass Strings"), sex ("Porpoise Mouth"), and politics ("Superbird")--while the group contributes exquisite, subtle support. Guitarist Barry Melton brings shimmering majestyto the instrument, cutting through the verse with mercurialinsight and soloing to perfection. The quiet power of this album continues to enthrall those willing to enter its strange but friendly world.

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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Barrier Bending..., 6 Jun 2003
By nicjaytee (London) - See all my reviews
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True to its cleverly pretentious title, "Electric Music for the Mind and Body" ranks up there as one of the most influential debut albums ever released. Remarkable at the time (early 1967) for its innovative use of swirling instrumentation, odd chord sequences, abrupt switches in tempo & strange, image-laden lyrics, and remarkable to this day in that several of its best tracks (in particular the deeply atmospheric "Bass Strings", the wonderfully eerie "Section 43", the bizarrely structured "Masked Marauder" and the even weirder "Grace") remain quite unlike anything heard before or since. And... with only a couple of exceptions, even those that follow a more standard mid 60's format (such as the tightly metered political satire of "Superbird", the rolling jug band blues of "Flying High", the lyrically evocative country-rock of "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" and the awesome, almost frightening, straight blues of "Death Sound") still stand out as highly distinctive examples of their time.

Others, most notably Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd, were working on the same plot but Country Joe & the Fish were right in there - at the beginning and already out on the edge - incorporating country, folk, blues, psychedelia, eastern raga and elements of free form jazz into their ingenious musical mix and pushing the previously accepted barriers of popular music onto a very different, much richer plane. Brave and effective it remains an essential record: not only because of its impact on the music scene but, more importantly, because of the enduring power of most of its songs.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hippy and Trippy, 5 April 2001
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The strongest of the Fish's albums this is San Francisco at it's hippie heights. The band is often loose and ragged and the vocals delivered in a dreamlike fashion. But what would you expect from a band in 1967/68 working out of a city whose Haight Ashbury extravagance was inextricably linked to the Hippie movement. A trip, in more senses than one, into late 60s culture.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Guitarman, 1 Jan 2007
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Nearly 40 years on this is perhaps one of the most distinctive original sounding West coast album of the late 60's. Worth buying just for the wonderful liquid guitar sound that permeates throughout all the tracks.Terrific example of this is the scintilating lead guitar exchanges on Death Sound Blues climaxing in a dual guitar finale that is simply awesome. Definitely one of the best guitar albums ever made. Subsequent albums were not of the same calibre. Buy this - you will not be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Darker Side of 1967
In the deepest depths of 1967 you will find this 'fish' scouring around the bottom. Not an album for those who want that light west coast psychedelic sound. Oh no. Read more
Published 14 months ago by G. A. Readman

5.0 out of 5 stars It really is that good!
Yep, this is a fab CD. I wasn't going to bother writing a review because most of what needs to be praised about this album has already been mentioned in the other reviews... Read more
Published 16 months ago by M. Mcaleese

4.0 out of 5 stars Still keeps ageing hippies happy!
The sound is dated; the production (never a great feature of electric Vanguard recordings versus their Joan Baez acoustic efforts) sounds poor and some of the lyrics e. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2006 by Siriam

5.0 out of 5 stars TransGenre BluesyFolkRock Hippy-trippy Blissful Psychedelia!
'Flying High' is a reasonable Bluesy rock number, though, as the sole 'weak' point (relatively speaking) in the album, perhaps not the best to begin with. Read more
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