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Country Joe & the Fish's second album, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die", is quite similar to their first in its organ-heavy psychedelia with Eastern-influenced melodic lines, but markedly inferior to the debut, and much more of a period piece. There's more spaciness and less comic energy here, and while the bandmembers were undoubtedly serious in their explorations, some of these songs are simply silly in their cosmic naïveté. To be crueler, there is no other album that exemplifies so strongly the kind of San Francisco psychedelia that Frank Zappa skewered on his classic We're Only in It for the Money. The weeping, minor-key melodies, liquid guitar lines, and earnestly self-absorbed quests to explore the inner psyche -- it's almost as if they put themselves up as a dartboard for the Mothers to savage. For all that, the best songs are good; "Who Am I" and "Thursday" are touching psychedelic ballads. But more notably, the title cut -- whose brash energy is atypical of the album -- was a classic antiwar satire that became one of the decade's most famous protest songs, and the group's most famous track.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Joe McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Joe McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Joe McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Joe McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Joe McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Joe McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Joe McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
David Cohen, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer - Gary Hirsh, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
David Cohen, ComposerLyricist - Barry Melton, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Bruce Barthol, ComposerLyricist - Samuel Charters, Producer - Gary Hirsh, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Joe McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Country Joe & The Fish, MainArtist - Samuel Charters, Producer
(C) 2006 Vanguard ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Album Description
Country Joe & the Fish's second album, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die", is quite similar to their first in its organ-heavy psychedelia with Eastern-influenced melodic lines, but markedly inferior to the debut, and much more of a period piece. There's more spaciness and less comic energy here, and while the bandmembers were undoubtedly serious in their explorations, some of these songs are simply silly in their cosmic naïveté. To be crueler, there is no other album that exemplifies so strongly the kind of San Francisco psychedelia that Frank Zappa skewered on his classic We're Only in It for the Money. The weeping, minor-key melodies, liquid guitar lines, and earnestly self-absorbed quests to explore the inner psyche -- it's almost as if they put themselves up as a dartboard for the Mothers to savage. For all that, the best songs are good; "Who Am I" and "Thursday" are touching psychedelic ballads. But more notably, the title cut -- whose brash energy is atypical of the album -- was a classic antiwar satire that became one of the decade's most famous protest songs, and the group's most famous track.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:44:55
- Main artists: Country Joe & The Fish
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Vanguard Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
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16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
© 2006 Vanguard Records, a division of Concord Music Group Inc. ℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a division of Concord Music Group Inc.
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