My Mind Goes High: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults

My Mind Goes High: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults Artist: Various Artists
Label: Wea International
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 081227470821
EAN: 0081227470821
ASIN: B000803PPO


Release Date: 2005-11-10

My Mind Goes High: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults


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Tracks:

  1. Hallucinations - Baker Knight,
  2. It's Love - Misty Wizards
  3. Break Away - Next Exit
  4. Looking at a Baby - Collectors
  5. Her Name Is Melody - Adrian Pride
  6. Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies - The Association
  7. Lantern Gospel
  8. Who Planted Thorns in Miss Alice's Garden - Tom Northcott
  9. Man of Straw - John Wonderling
  10. White Pony - Ellen Margulies
  11. Straight Aero
  12. My Mind Goes High
  13. Hell Will Take Care of Her
  14. Lucifer
  15. Strangers from the Sky - Kim Fowley
  16. Antique Doll - The Electric Prunes
  17. Astrologically Incompatible - The Bonniwell Music Machine
  18. How Nice? - The Tokens
  19. Sign of the Queen - Noel Harrison
  20. That's the Way Its Gonna Be - Lee Mallory
  21. House of Glass
  22. Wildflowers - The Holy Mackerel
  23. Porpoise Song - The Monkees
  24. Smell of Incense - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

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Album Description

Psychedelic Pop from the WEA vaults. Warner (Rhino). 2005.

Album Details

This Particular Collection is a Cache of Major-label Psychedelic-pop Gems. Obviously, These Aren't Your Average French-bootleg/Mumbling-about-jesus/Fuzz-drenched/Private-press Psych Tracks. However, Just Because These Artists were Going for Mainstream Acceptance Doesn't Mean They Weren't also Trying to Achieve "Heavyocity" in their Own, Artistic, Way. Just Remember, It's a Nugget If You Dug It. So, Let's Go! 'my Mind Goes High' Gathers 24 Psych Pop Treasures Released Between 1966 and 1969 -- None of them Available on Rhino's Nuggets Boxed Sets. Ultra-groovy Packaging Includes a 22-page Booklet with Colour Photos and Detailed Track Notes by Writer/Compiler Andrew Sandoval.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent volume of psych-pop from WEA vaults.......2005-12-26

Producer Andrew Sandoval has pulled together twenty-four superb psych-pop tracks from the WEA vaults, including sides culled from master tapes of Warner, Reprise, Loma, Atco, Valiant, and Cotillion. The focus is on singles, with a few album tracks mixed in, and primarily from artists who were either unknown, or were stepping outside their regular domain for an experimental run down the psychedelic highway. Some of the best known names here are those of the session producers, including Lenny Waronker, Jerry Yester, Don & Phil Everly, Don Adrissi, Jimmy Bowen, Joey Levine, Curt Boettcher, and Richard Perry.

Better known artists, like The Tokens, are represented by sides that step away from their familiar hits, and the one-off singles and rare album tracks explore lesser known sides of the commercial psych boom. Though recorded in proper studios for major labels, these tracks still temper their hit-seeking with a healthy dollop of experimental. The key years of 1966 through 1968 yield an entire program of psych-tinged folk and sunshine rock, heavy on the harmonies and studio craft.

Highlights include the trippy vocals, space sounds and discothèque beat of Baker Knight's "Hallucinations," the raga jangle of Adrian Pride's "Her Name is Melody," the funky "Straight Aero" by Jeff Thomas, the jugband-styled harmonies of MC^2's "My Mind Goes High," the Sgt. Pepper-esque "Lucifer" from future Ohio Express mastermind Joey Levine, and the droning "Hell Will Take Care of Her" from Brass Buttons. Fans of the mid-80s paisley underground, particularly The Rain Parade, early Bangles and Three O'Clock, will find this volume familiar and compelling.

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