Mad River - Mad River
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Artist: Mad RiverEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-03-27
Music Label: Edsel Records UK
Soundtracks:
- Merciful Monks
- High All The Time
- Amphetamine Gazelle
- Eastern Light
- Wind Chimes
- War Goes On
- Hush Julian
Free Music Notes for Mad River
Free Music Review: It Has Its Moments
Hit: 3 Stars
I remember seeing this album cover in the record stores and at first though the band was called "Mad Rive." For some reason, I always tended to drop the R because of the psychedelic font. But anyway, my friend Dennis had this album and used to play it once in a while. The only song I remembered was Amphetamine Gazelle because that was his favorite song off the album.
Jump forward to 2006 and I finally got a copy on CD. Well... I can see why the album never got very far. The biggest turn-off to me is the vocals. There is just something about them I don't like. However, after several listens, I've got past that. The music is quirky, dark, and full of surprises. To me, the first two songs pretty much suck but once you get to Amphetamine Gazelle, things start to pick up. They get into some extended psychedelic jams that at times remind me of Country Joe and the Fish yet they are totally different in feel. They also remind me a little of Quicksilver during their Happy Trails era. There is a definite blur when it comes to figuring out the timing and rhythm in some spots and it almost sounds like the musicians are playing different songs in different time signatures. That being said, it is adventurous music and not exactly something you'll ever hear in an elevator, a definite plus!
For those of you that are looking for something different in the psychedelic world, this could just be your album. Recommended.
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By far the most ominous-sounding of the Bay Area's 1960s psychedelic bands, the music of Berkeley's Mad River comes across like a spiraling, acid-spiked descent into hell. With a raw, garagey style marked by Lawrence Hammond's quavering vocals and the inter-locking exchanges of guitarists David Robinson and Rick Bockner, Mad River's sound conjures a darker, more menacing version of Quicksilver Messenger Service or early Country Joe and The Fish. No wonder the quintet's self-titled 1968 debut has long been at the top of many collector's want lists.Mad River's tabs of tortured soul--cuts like the lysergic opening rush of "Merciful Monks," the lengthy, labyrinthine "The War Goes On," and the truly demented "Amphetamine Gazelle"--add up to one cathartic ride, a ride that psych-heads will be tripping all over themselves to take again and again. Sundazed's exact reproduction of this lost classic is sourced directly from the original Capitol Records stereo masters.
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