My Mind Goes High: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino/Wea UK
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227470821
EAN: 0081227470821
ASIN: B000803PPO
Release Date: November 14, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Hallucinations - Baker Knight, Baker Knight | | • | It's Love - Misty Wizards | | • | Break Away - Next Exit | | • | Looking at a Baby - Collectors | | • | Her Name Is Melody - Adrian Pride | | • | Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies - The Association | | • | Lantern Gospel - World Column | | • | Who Planted Thorns in Miss Alice's Garden - Tom Northcott | | • | Man of Straw - John Wonderling | | • | White Pony - Ellen Margulies | | • | Straight Aero - Jeff Thomas | | • | My Mind Goes High | | • | Hell Will Take Care of Her - Brass Buttons | | • | Lucifer | | • | Strangers from the Sky - Kim Fowley | | • | Antique Doll - The Electric Prunes | | • | Astrologically Incompatible - The Bonniwell Music Machine | | • | How Nice? - The Tokens | | • | Sign of the Queen - Noel Harrison | | • | That's the Way Its Gonna Be - Lee Mallory | | • | House of Glass - Glass Family | | • | Wildflowers - The Holy Mackerel | | • | Porpoise Song - The Monkees | | • | 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.
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Excellent volume of psych-pop from WEA vaults December 26, 2005
redtunictroll (Earth, USA)
39 out of 39 found this review helpful
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 discotheque 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.
'60s folk fans will want to check out the Curt Boettcher-produced cover of Bob Gibson and Phil Ochs' "That's the Way It's Gonna Be," complete with a variable-speed guitar and backward koto instrumental break. Songwriter Paul Williams' debuts as a performer on The Holy Mackerel's "Wildflowers," complete with Leslie-fied lead vocals, and the original mono single mix of The Monkees' "Porpoise Song" makes it's CD debut. Producer Sandoval lovingly documents each side with details on the band and the circumstances of the track's creation. The insert booklet also includes many photos and label reproductions, and the purpose-built tri-fold digipack features a neat pop-art color wheel. Originally issued by Rhino Handmade as "Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults," this has been reissued with a minor track change under the title, "My Mind Goes High." [ 2005 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]
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