Country Joe & the Fish

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Country Joe and the Fish was a rock music/folk music band known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1965 to 1970.

The lead singer was “Country” Joe McDonald. The lead guitarist was Barry “The Fish” Melton. Co-founders McDonald and Melton added musicians as needed over the life of the band.

The band was an early example of Psychedelic music. The LP “Electric Music for the Mind and Body” was very influential on early FM Radio in 1967. Long sets of psychedelic tunes like “Section 43”, “Bass Strings”, “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine”, “Janis” (for and about Janis Joplin) and “Grace” (all released on Vanguard Records) were often played back to back on KSAN and KMPX in San Francisco and progressive rock stations around the country. Country Joe and The Fish were regulars at Fillmore West and East and the Family Dog at the Avalon. They were billed with such groups as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Led Zeppelin, and Iron Butterfly. They played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. In 1971 the band appeared in a Western film starring Don Johnson as an outlaw gang called the Crackers. The film, entitled Zachariah, was written by the Firesign Theater and was billed as “The First Electric Western”. They also appeared in the George Lucas film More American Graffiti.

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1	Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine full track	428
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3	Sad And Lonely Times full track	322
4	Flying High full track	162
5	Death Sound Blues full track	158
6	Love full track	132
7	Porpoise Mouth full track	127
8	Bass Strings full track	124
9	Not So Sweet Martha Loraine	107
10	The Masked Marauder full track	89
11	Who Am I full track	84
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13	Death Sound full track	72
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Jimbobbins wrote:
last month

Am I alone in prefering C J Fish to Electrique music for the mind and body? Not disputing the fact that the latter is also a great album though.

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Inci90 wrote:
last month

if this band is underrated and unknown then the buggles must be obscure musical geniusi

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jhendrix86 wrote:
last month

This band is incredibly underrated AND unknown..Electric Music for the Mind and Body is awesome

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dalegrett wrote:
last month

Underrated? Unknown? Just backdated, yeah.

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Scentlesss wrote:
last month

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE !!!!!!!!!!!

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iknowdintoo wrote:
December 2009

We're goin' to Vietnam, and its One-two-three:

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Skaterkirchi wrote:
October 2009

what are we fighting for don't ask me I don't give a Damn

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sarumkerad wrote:
September 2009

smokin...

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Dejan_Srbac wrote:
August 2009

They are AWESOME! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwEHJ0K_yw&feature=related can't be better :) What's that spell?! :D

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lordinfamous wrote:
August 2009

This band kicks ass

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nicoinfurs wrote:
August 2009

where has this been all my life

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CptSpaulding88 wrote:
July 2009

Thats my fav album of all time too, no better album is made, anywhere!

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Pedro_fts wrote:
June 2009

if someone pointed a gun at me and force me to tell my fav. music album of all time, otherwise i'd be shot, i think i'd probably say cj and the fish's electrique music for the mind and body...

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distillate wrote:
May 2009

groovy man

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Lucifer-Sam wrote:
May 2009

http://www.last.fm/group/1967

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yoursvivek wrote:
March 2009

Country Joe and the Fish" is used at musicbrainz and even on CD cover. last.fm will never catch up with bad tags.

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Phryx wrote:
March 2009

http://www.last.fm/group/Free+music+for+free+people!

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mito_urbano wrote:
March 2009

They're not underrated, they're just unknown... I really like them. I found them watching the Monterey '67 movie and with some search (and other things) I managed to get some records of them. Of course Electric Music... is their best.

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Commodorette wrote:
December 2008

NOT SO SWEET MARTHA LORRAINE ♥

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Tyrano wrote:
November 2008

bad tags ruin listener count they are almost always credits with "and" though so not sure about the tagging on this one

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