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Free Music Review: 60's rock fish cheer
Hit: 5 Stars
country Joe was quite the character and the fish cheer is what most remember but give this a listen WHO AM I is my favorite...shipped right away and in excellent condition, thanks amazonFree Music Review: Right on Target
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this on vinyl the day it was released in my home town. I had played the grooves out of the first Fish album and this one was no different. I recently decided that I wanted to hear this one again after so long a time. I really was surprised at the way that this captures the feel and mood of that era. For a while I was back in time and I really didn't want to return to 2007. A great experience. Forget about being analytical or critical of the level of guitar work or instrumental expertise and realize that it was all about painting pictures and creating a feeling and a mood and sometimes relating a message.Free Music Review: Time travel to the fall of 67...
Hit: 5 Stars
...was the title of the review-via-reminiscense I originally started writing, but it inexorably turned into a personal re-living of a particular year when Country Joe (along with Spirit, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, the Dead, HP Lovecraft and a lot of other SF-sound bands) was the theme music for my own off-kilter real-life summer movie about being a Teenage Hippy In Love. That review ended up as something else entirely, its relevance best summed up by saying that this album, along with their first, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, captures, for me, the spirit of psychedelia, the essence of the Summer of Love, the sense, in that Era, that somehow the potential for greater and freer self-invention than had ever been possible before was being unleashed, and that this would change the world.
More fools, we. The Old Hippy's Lament.
Anyway, give this a listen. It may require some parameter-realignment for younger folks, or people steeped in modern music that is seldom as spare or as gloriously unconstrained by musical precedent or expectation as this. If, as some intimate, these albums by CJ and the Fish sometimes show underwhelming instrumental technique and musical sophistication, I say they benefit thereby, as the musical "innocence" displayed seems to have facilitated the creation of music that is wonderfully inventive and somehow, pure. And if, as some others intimate, the music sometimes brazenly displays another kind of creativity, facilitated by powerful psychedelic drugs, I say "So what?" Music is written to accomodate people celebrating the humors of Venus, Mars and Bacchus, why not Morpheus as well?
And that's what this music is. A blissful, mystic, stoned-out pean to possibility, to shared moonlight, kisses at the edge of consciousnees, ecstatic dance at noon and always, always, this newborn thing, Love. I keep coming back to that, about 1967. When you listen to Porpoise Mouth, or Pat's Song, or Janis, you hear love songs for first loves, searingly sincere. Compositions like Grace or Magoo, or Colors for Susan show a willingness to pare the music down to a perfect, no-thing-more-than-necessary, purity and pace, as needed to convey a mood or color or emotion.
As conceded, this music surprised me with how powerfully it summoned up memory of that experience, of that time...so powerfully it must surely overwhelm any modest critical facilities I might otherwise apply to it. So the only recommendation I can honestly make is to observe that for myself, and others, Country Joe and the Fish ARE The Sixties. Which recommendation might get the curious to listen, and maybe hear an echo, bounced off Mars perhaps, of the tremendous, naive, and always-doomed yawp of Love still resonating from those years.
Free Music Review: Country Joe Now
Hit: 4 Stars
We need Country Joe now more than ever. This is a good collection of some of the classics that Country Joe and the Fish made in the 1960s, and the title song is as relevant in this wartime period as it was during Vietnam. These songs span a wide range from the sharp satire in the title song to surprisingly tender songs. Although the sound quality could be somewhat better, the quality of the singing and instrumentals is quite good. These are songs that people should be listening to--and singing--now.Free Music Review: Collection Piece
Hit: 4 Stars
I am creating a 60's CD collection and this is one I needed.