Electric Music for the Mind and Body

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Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Country Joe and the Fish studio album

Publication
(s)

1967

Label (s) Vanguard Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Psychedelic rock

Title (number)

11

running time

43:30

production

Samuel Charters

Studio (s)

Sierra Sound Laboratories, Berkeley, California

chronology
- Electric Music for the Mind and Body I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die

Electric Music for the Mind and Body is Country Joe and the Fish's debut album from 1967. It is still one of the pioneers of American psychedelic rock .

The mood ranges from happy to apocalyptic; the dominant instruments are Cohen's electronic organ and the electric guitars by Melton, McDonald and Cohen.

Politically, the album was at the limit of what Vanguard could tolerate. Vanguard accepted the title Superbird , a "slap-in-the-face" satire for the then US President Lyndon B. Johnson , with great reservations ; on the other hand, Maynard Solomon, the president of Vanguard, insisted on not including the already popular track I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag , but rather to reserve it for a later album in order to avoid the American radio stations completely to scare away. The album reached the US Top 40 and was played by many US radio stations. This encouraged the release of the album I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die , which followed that same year.

The title Grace is dedicated to the then lead singer of Jefferson Airplane Grace Slick .

Track list

  1. Flying High (McDonald) - 2:38
  2. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine (McDonald) - 4:21
  3. Death Sound Blues (McDonald) - 4:23
  4. Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth (McDonald) - 2:48
  5. Section 43 (McDonald) - 7:23
  6. Superbird (McDonald) - 2:04
  7. Sad and Lonely Times (McDonald) - 2:23
  8. Love (McDonald, Melton, Cohen, Barthol, Gunning, Hirsh) - 2:19
  9. Bass Strings (McDonald) - 4:58
  10. The Masked Marauder (McDonald) - 3:10
  11. Grace (McDonald) - 7:03

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